Speaker 1: In a world of deceit, telling the truth is a
Speaker 1: revolutionary act. It's the David Knight Show.
Speaker 2: As the clock strikes thirteen is Thursday, the ninth of January.
Speaker 2: You're of our Lord twenty twenty five. Well, we're going
Speaker 2: to take a look today. We're going to begin by
Speaker 2: the La fires. There is so much to see here
Speaker 2: at the juncture between government and competence, over regulation, corporate greed,
Speaker 2: you name it. It is all at play there, and
Speaker 2: we're going to look at the disaster and what do
Speaker 2: the people do moving forward there. We're also going to
Speaker 2: take a look I think as some interesting things have
Speaker 2: happened here with them that this has not really been
Speaker 2: picked up by the media. We got an Arizona tattoo shop.
Speaker 2: People are outraged that he would tattoo a nine year
Speaker 2: old girl. Yeah, we'll talk about that. We need to
Speaker 2: extend this out and get people to think about what
Speaker 2: is going on with it. And we've got more details
Speaker 2: about the occult practices being funded by the federal government
Speaker 2: through North Carolina as we look at the mania to
Speaker 2: support depopulation that is across the board. We'll be right back.
Speaker 3: Stay with us. Thank you, Agents State.
Speaker 4: Farm take a good neighbor.
Speaker 2: State cut Hey, Arnold, I'm hearing neighbor. It's neighbor, That's
Speaker 2: what I said, neighbor neighbor.
Speaker 5: Neighbor agent Brent Whitlocke talks about family insurance.
Speaker 6: You have an obligation to that individual when he buys
Speaker 6: an insurance policy from you, to back up what you're telling.
Speaker 3: You're selling him a service. It's an intangible.
Speaker 6: The only way you can prove that you're you're worth
Speaker 6: what you say you are, or your company is as
Speaker 6: good as you say it is, is to be there
Speaker 6: when he needs you and provide.
Speaker 7: The service that he deserves.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know that Arnold Schwarzenegger commercial very interesting, isn't it?
Speaker 2: Fire in Hollywood? Hollywood stars all the rest of this stuff.
Speaker 2: And that was last year's Super Bowl commercial. Now State
Speaker 2: Farm is saying that they had to pull out. I
Speaker 2: got a lot of people who and I understand what
Speaker 2: is happening. Perhaps they see with more clarity because they're
Speaker 2: now analyzing the risks as they see that, you know,
Speaker 2: there's not any water for fires. They got people who
Speaker 2: don't care about working on improving firefighting. As a matter
Speaker 2: of fact, as one listener pointed out, he said, we
Speaker 2: can spend billions on planes, but we can't do anything
Speaker 2: to have some new technology or better technology to fight
Speaker 2: these fires. He said, China's got firefighting tanks. Why don't
Speaker 2: we do that? Oh no, it's all got to go
Speaker 2: to Ukraine. And as a matter of fact, they were
Speaker 2: sending firefighting equipment from LA to Ukraine. So you think
Speaker 2: that maybe State Farm knew that. Did the people in
Speaker 2: California know it? Even if they knew it, they can't
Speaker 2: really do anything about it, but State Farm can get
Speaker 2: out of there. I'm guessing that that's perhaps what was
Speaker 2: going on there. A lot of people are saying, wow,
Speaker 2: this is just setting them up for a smart city
Speaker 2: type of thing, and clearly that is what I think
Speaker 2: is happening on the government side. The government doesn't want
Speaker 2: people living there. They've made it very clear. They're indications
Speaker 2: that there's lithium deposits there, whatever, another one of these
Speaker 2: types of things. But the government, you can find that
Speaker 2: pretty much natural resources to as an excuse to get
Speaker 2: people up. But it's really about the smart city approach
Speaker 2: as well. That is also there. By twenty twenty eight,
Speaker 2: LA wants the place to be a smart city. They
Speaker 2: don't want people living in neighborhoods, not even the wealthy.
Speaker 2: Let's burn them out. But of course they will be
Speaker 2: living in whatever they wish. These Hollywood stars and so
Speaker 2: many of them went through neighborhoods like that, but it
Speaker 2: went through other neighborhoods where the people don't have multimillion
Speaker 2: dollar homes and don't have several of them. Hollywood stars
Speaker 2: are now staying in Beverly Hills hotels and then they
Speaker 2: will move to their other multimillion dollar homes somewhere else.
Speaker 2: They're not going to be affected by that. They're not
Speaker 2: going to be affected by the smart city stuff. There's
Speaker 2: so much to see here. Quite frankly, don't obscure this
Speaker 2: by just getting lost on the conspiracy theory aspect of it. Yes,
Speaker 2: there is an aspect of that there with the smart cities. Absolutely,
Speaker 2: they don't want people to have single family homes. And
Speaker 2: one of the people even said that they're at the
Speaker 2: University of California. Well maybe nobody should be living in
Speaker 2: these areas. That's always a response to a natural disaster.
Speaker 2: And so State Farm pulled out. You had a lot
Speaker 2: of people who hundreds of Pacific palisades homeowners policies were
Speaker 2: taken away, and like I said, a lot of them
Speaker 2: are not multimillionaire Hollywood stars. They find themselves grappling with
Speaker 2: an unbearable reality their homes are burning in their insurance
Speaker 2: policies once their safety net were canceled just months ago
Speaker 2: by State Farm. It is a devastating thing, regardless of
Speaker 2: your economic situation, to lose your home. We had Karen's
Speaker 2: brother who went to Travis's wedding in Texas. They live
Speaker 2: in Virginia, and they got a call. They thought it
Speaker 2: was a prank that their home had burned down while
Speaker 2: they were at Travis's wedding, hit by lightning. And that
Speaker 2: was a couple of years ago. Now I won't go
Speaker 2: was that, I don't know, maybe almost coming up to
Speaker 2: almost three years. They just now got back into a
Speaker 2: replacement home. Now, their insurance policy was there like a
Speaker 2: good neighbor. I don't know who their insuran was. But
Speaker 2: everything was rebuilt and got all new stuff and they
Speaker 2: paid for them to live somewhere on this an incredible bill.
Speaker 2: And when I look at how much money was involved
Speaker 2: there for them to rebuild and replace the house, for
Speaker 2: them to replace their clothing, and everything. You lose everything,
Speaker 2: and that's the key thing. You're losing pictures that are
Speaker 2: irreplaceable of your family and other things like that, so
Speaker 2: many irreplaceable memories. But the financial cost was astronomical, and
Speaker 2: of course they don't want to do that for tens
Speaker 2: of thousands of homes. As a matter of fact, State
Speaker 2: Farm canceled over seventy two thousand homeowner policies statewide. They
Speaker 2: must be popping champagne corks now at the money that
Speaker 2: they saved. So it is a sad story. As one
Speaker 2: person said, my parents are ninety years old. It's not
Speaker 2: all movie stars. Yeah. I took out James Woods's home
Speaker 2: and he talked about that. He said, one of the
Speaker 2: major insurance companies canceled all the policies in our neighborhood
Speaker 2: about four months ago. Four months ago. So they've got
Speaker 2: enough money that they can advertise in a Super Bowl
Speaker 2: commercial and hire Arnold schwartzeneggerty that. But they just can't
Speaker 2: keep up these insurance policies. There's corporate greed involved in that,
Speaker 2: for sure. My parents are ninety years old. They've lived
Speaker 2: in this house for seventy five years and they've had
Speaker 2: the same insurance policy the entire time. Then State Farm
Speaker 2: decided to cancel it. They're now left with nothing. Thank you,
Speaker 2: California insurance companies for abandoning tax paying residents who love
Speaker 2: this state. And they wonder why people are leaving California
Speaker 2: in droves. Well, no blame here for the government, and
Speaker 2: of course the government are the ones that were really
Speaker 2: increasing the risks. Some of these people say, wow, you
Speaker 2: know climate change. No, no, no, Look if you're in Florida,
Speaker 2: I grew up in Florida. If you're in Florida, hurricanes
Speaker 2: are part of the climate, always have been. If you're
Speaker 2: in the Midwest, it's tornadoes, always part of the climate.
Speaker 2: If you're in California, fires are always a part of
Speaker 2: the climate. It gets very dry there. It never rains
Speaker 2: in California, but when it does, it pours. Right as
Speaker 2: the song goes, countless reports of mass fire coverage cancelations
Speaker 2: my insurance companies. Just weeks before the La fires. The
Speaker 2: one woman blasted the California government for their mismanagement, explained
Speaker 2: that fire coverage on her childhood home was just was
Speaker 2: canceled after decades. Now again, when you look at it,
Speaker 2: if you're going to have this cozy relationship, a public
Speaker 2: private partnership to make money for the corporations, and they
Speaker 2: can kick it back to the politicians. If they're going
Speaker 2: to require you to buy car insurance, for example, you
Speaker 2: don't have the option for that, you're going to be
Speaker 2: forced to buy it, and the government comes in then
Speaker 2: it says, well, we're going to set the rates for that,
Speaker 2: and you hope they do that. Honestly, don't believe that.
Speaker 2: But nevertheless, you know, with great largesse comes great responsibility,
Speaker 2: And so wouldn't you think that since a lot of
Speaker 2: these insurance companies will tie your car insurance and your
Speaker 2: home insurance together, wouldn't you think that maybe the government
Speaker 2: would do that as well. You want to make all
Speaker 2: this money from the automobile insurance, well you're going to
Speaker 2: have to do something on the home insurance side. And
Speaker 2: perhaps if they forced them to do something about it,
Speaker 2: maybe the insurance companies would raise a big outcry as
Speaker 2: to the incompetence of what is being done by the
Speaker 2: government to fight these fires. And it is many different
Speaker 2: aspects of that. So again you look at this and
Speaker 2: it's like, well, where did the people go? It got
Speaker 2: canceled right before this for many people just a couple
Speaker 2: of months earlier did they know about it? Because you know,
Speaker 2: you've got a situation like this where if somebody has
Speaker 2: lived there for a very long time, so lived there
Speaker 2: for seventy five years, they've got their mortgage paid off.
Speaker 2: I'm sure a mortgage company would do something about it,
Speaker 2: but a lot of these homeowners wouldn't. And so beginning
Speaker 2: in March, right after that Super Bowl commercial, they started
Speaker 2: canceling insurance policies left and right. About sixteen hundred insured
Speaker 2: homes and the Pacific Policades lost coverage due to that decision,
Speaker 2: but you know, seventy two thousand, I think it was
Speaker 2: across the state. Combining these policies represent just over two
Speaker 2: percent of State Farms general policy count in California. So
Speaker 2: it's focused on LA and there's a tremendous amount of
Speaker 2: incompetence in LA that is even worse than the general
Speaker 2: incompetence in California's government. We will continue to work constructively,
Speaker 2: said State Farm with the California Department of Insurance and
Speaker 2: the Governor's office. They're all tied together, and it isn't
Speaker 2: like you got some free market corporation out here that's
Speaker 2: doing his own thing and just trying to make money
Speaker 2: out here and competing with other people. Now they're in
Speaker 2: bed with the government. It's just like everything else. This
Speaker 2: whole idea of a free market, when you start talking
Speaker 2: about big business, is not a free market at all.
Speaker 2: It's crony capitalism, it's corruption, it's public private partnerships, it's
Speaker 2: all that kind of stuff together. And so you know,
Speaker 2: they're both to blame in this. Policy makers when to
Speaker 2: actively pursue these reforms in order to establish an environment
Speaker 2: in which insurance rates are better aligned with risk. So
Speaker 2: from their perspective, you know, California has made it impossible
Speaker 2: to do business there because California was not allowing the
Speaker 2: policies to reflect what they thought with higher risks. And
Speaker 2: the high risks are because of what the government is doing.
Speaker 2: The government wants to ignore any infrastructure that is necessary
Speaker 2: to fight fires, and then when the risk goes up
Speaker 2: and they want to do nothing in order to control
Speaker 2: areas that are going to catch fire and burn. We've
Speaker 2: seen this over and over again. It doesn't have to
Speaker 2: be a rural area. But I've talked about this many
Speaker 2: many times. You've heard this in this program. Briefly, my
Speaker 2: uncle fifty years ago, probably more than that now, was
Speaker 2: head of the forestry department of the University Missouri in Columbia,
Speaker 2: and he talked to me about what he saw happening
Speaker 2: at that point in time. So nobody's interested in stewardship anymore.
Speaker 2: They got this environmentalism. It's like a religion to them.
Speaker 2: Don't touch the forest, leave everything alone. He said, if
Speaker 2: you don't clear out the dead wood, the forest are
Speaker 2: going to burn down. And this is happening in rural areas.
Speaker 2: We saw this happening with mismanagement and Hawaii. It happened
Speaker 2: with mismanagement here in the Smoky Mountains with the National
Speaker 2: Forestry the Forestry Department not doing that, and so it
Speaker 2: spills over into other areas. When we went up to
Speaker 2: move up to Oregon, we talked to Travis and I
Speaker 2: filmed report with the guy who was a logger, worked
Speaker 2: all his life in logging, and his retirement plan was
Speaker 2: that he'd had taken his money and he'd bought property.
Speaker 2: He was going to gradually log that property after he retired.
Speaker 2: But because the government didn't take care of the public lands,
Speaker 2: had a wi fire that got out of control and
Speaker 2: burned everything of his and basically that was his retirement
Speaker 2: and he was in a very bad situation and it
Speaker 2: was terrific. What had happened with the corporate retreat echoed
Speaker 2: my other private insurers, not just State Farm, has forced
Speaker 2: countless homeowners and the state run Fair Plan, a last
Speaker 2: resort insurance program that has seen its enrollment more than
Speaker 2: double since twenty twenty, and so there is a backup
Speaker 2: state run plan. My question is, with the cancelations happening
Speaker 2: so shortly before this, did these people know did they
Speaker 2: get over into that plan? I don't know. I will
Speaker 2: tell most insurers who have limited their offer in the
Speaker 2: state mentioned risking wildfire risk as well as the state's
Speaker 2: regulations as the main reasons behind their decision. Unable to
Speaker 2: increase their premiums to a level that will match the
Speaker 2: growing risk, the growing risk from the government, and competence
Speaker 2: and disinterest right companies have decided instead to cut coverage,
Speaker 2: to cut and run. As a matter of fact, this
Speaker 2: is another State Farm commercial that didn't have that like
Speaker 2: a good neighbor State Farm is there that was a
Speaker 2: Barry man Low song, But this one, I guess really applies.
Speaker 2: They tell you to get to a better state.
Speaker 7: Get to a better state.
Speaker 2: Farm as their business plan, We're going to get to
Speaker 2: a better state, a better state than California to do business. Then,
Speaker 2: so far last night, as this is going through, sadly
Speaker 2: five people have died so far last night in La
Speaker 2: County firestorms, and there have been more than eleven hundred
Speaker 2: homes that have been destroyed. This is some video from
Speaker 2: neighbors of James Woods and it is absolutely amazing, a
Speaker 2: complete inferno that's there on both sides of the road.
Speaker 2: It's like, you know, I wonder if you're going to
Speaker 2: get trapped in there, but it is a horrific scene.
Speaker 2: And it's just everywhere that had one hundred mile an
Speaker 2: hour winds, And of course we've seen that happen in
Speaker 2: many different cases, especially around here, even when there's a
Speaker 2: forest fire. A lot of times the forest fires happened
Speaker 2: because there's a high wind, and then the massive fires
Speaker 2: because there's so much deadwood fuel on the ground, the
Speaker 2: massive fires will will accelerate the wind, so they're getting
Speaker 2: one hundred mile an hour winds. But the biggest problem
Speaker 2: is that they didn't have any water to fight the
Speaker 2: fire with because you know, the local government is concerned
Speaker 2: that they've got people in charge who are contemplating their navel.
Speaker 2: You know, they can't be bob to look at nuclear
Speaker 2: waste or to look at fighting fires, because they're all
Speaker 2: about their sex games, their gender. What gender am I
Speaker 2: going to be today? You know that type of stuff.
Speaker 2: And let's hire more people like me who don't care
Speaker 2: about what they're doing. They're just so obsessed with sex.
Speaker 2: That's all we can think about. Is there sexual cosplay?
Speaker 3: Fire?
Speaker 2: Hydrants, wren Dry and Southern California just twin needed the
Speaker 2: most to swirl a criticism on social media against the
Speaker 2: LA Mayor Karen Bass and Governor Gavin Nuisance and their
Speaker 2: water management policies. You've got thousands of homes destroyed, families destroyed,
Speaker 2: businesses destroyed. Yeah. I mean this is mismanagement, it's environmentalism,
Speaker 2: it's activism and neglect. Certainly the insurance companies see that
Speaker 2: and get out of dodge. I think you can figure
Speaker 2: out a way to get more water in the hydrants.
Speaker 2: I don't think there's any room for excuses, said Rick Caruso,
Speaker 2: a real estate developer and a former commissioner with the
Speaker 2: LA Department of Water. And power, who was defeated by
Speaker 2: this woman of color who was supported by Obama. And
Speaker 2: she can't be bothered because she's on a boondogg old
Speaker 2: junket in Ghana right now. And guess who is leading
Speaker 2: the junket. Somebody from the Federal Office of Management and Budget. Now,
Speaker 2: how's that for irony. You know, we're going to do
Speaker 2: a boondogg ole junket here and the omb under the
Speaker 2: Biden cartel is going to be the one running that junket.
Speaker 2: And that's where this woman is, the one who won
Speaker 2: the mayor's race. Trump seized on the moment. In a
Speaker 2: podcast on Truth social media network Wednesday, he renewed criticism
Speaker 2: of the state's approach to balancing the distribution of water
Speaker 2: to farms and cities with the need to protect endangered species,
Speaker 2: including the delta smelt. I mean, we've heard about the
Speaker 2: snail darter. I just saw a headline of an article.
Speaker 2: I decided not to go into the headline newswifs the
Speaker 2: snail darter that's held up doesn't exist. And so you've
Speaker 2: got the radical environmentalists who don't want to have any infrastructure.
Speaker 2: And that's the conspiracy, you see, that's causer you see
Speaker 2: that's been there for a very long time. That is
Speaker 2: to shut down our infrastructure. That's what these people are about.
Speaker 2: Shutdown our infrastructure, shutdown our manufacturing, shutdown our energy, prohibit
Speaker 2: and ban anything that we have. These people want us
Speaker 2: to go back into neo feudalism and they want population control.
Speaker 2: That's what this is really about. And you know it's
Speaker 2: all tied together with the smart cities. We've seen that
Speaker 2: over and over again. There's no new conspiracy here. It's
Speaker 2: just manifested itself yet again. A senior fellow at the
Speaker 2: Pacific Institute said leaving more water and rivers for endangered
Speaker 2: fish is one thing, but water availability in La is another.
Speaker 2: He said those fights have been going on for a
Speaker 2: long time. They haven't affected in any way the water
Speaker 2: supply for firefighting in southern California. But he said about
Speaker 2: forty percent of La City water comes from state controlled
Speaker 2: projects connected to northern California, and the state has limited
Speaker 2: the water that it allows to be taken out this year.
Speaker 2: It's a state that it is totally political. No, no, no,
Speaker 2: you can't have that water. Then, he says, it's not
Speaker 2: even about the fight between the farmers and the cities
Speaker 2: needing water and the water that they want to leave
Speaker 2: there for the Delta smelt, he says, not even that.
Speaker 2: He said, the southern California reservoirs, these canals that help
Speaker 2: feed them, he said, they're above average level for this
Speaker 2: time of the year. There's so many different levels of incompetence.
Speaker 2: So they're saying, well, okay, well the reservoirs have got
Speaker 2: water in it, and yet there's no water in the
Speaker 2: fire hydrants. What's going on with that? And then you
Speaker 2: have this A professor of urban environmental policy at the
Speaker 2: University of California, he says, I think the conversation has
Speaker 2: to be more about whether or not these areas are
Speaker 2: habitable or not. Yeah, they want to have a smart city.
Speaker 2: They want turn La into a smart city twenty twenty
Speaker 2: eight and so forth. They don't want people to have
Speaker 2: individual homes. They have come at it from a number
Speaker 2: of angles. Andrew Yang who was pushing universal basic income,
Speaker 2: which is universal welfare. After they've taken everything from us,
Speaker 2: after they've killed our jobs, they've killed our businesses, they've
Speaker 2: killed the farms, you know, all the small stuff, and
Speaker 2: only the big guys are left, right, We've got the
Speaker 2: big box retailers, we've got Amazon, we got the big
Speaker 2: agricultural concerns, but no small farmers, no small businesses, no
Speaker 2: main street because they're not essential. Member Trump, he's fully
Speaker 2: on board with us stuff. Folks don't pretend otherwise. He
Speaker 2: called people non essential. Still don't want to think about that.
Speaker 2: Who support him. So the plan has always been to
Speaker 2: take everything from us, and they do not want us
Speaker 2: to have these individual homes. So they got a lot
Speaker 2: of different ways to do At Andrew Yang, who is
Speaker 2: pushing the universal basic income, one of the things that
Speaker 2: he wanted to do is have the federal government decide
Speaker 2: that they're going to destroy all zoning laws or whatever.
Speaker 2: That'd be one way to destroy people's equity and their homes.
Speaker 2: I don't like zoning laws, but once they're there, when
Speaker 2: you start changing the stuff, it seems like it's always
Speaker 2: the small guys who get hammered. Like I said, I
Speaker 2: don't like zoning laws. I've chosen not to live in
Speaker 2: areas where their zoning laws. I've chosen especially not to
Speaker 2: live in areas where there's homeowners' associations. I made that
Speaker 2: mistake once, never again. But you know, live and learn.
Speaker 2: But they come after it with zoning laws, or they
Speaker 2: come after it with regulations, or they come after it
Speaker 2: without control fire. They have so many different ways that
Speaker 2: they can do that vital La firefighting equipment was handed
Speaker 2: to Ukraine. Reports show several local headlines and prior years
Speaker 2: make it clear that area firefighters this is from zero hedge,
Speaker 2: could have had more resources to draw from if significant
Speaker 2: emergency response applies and items were not sent to Zelenski
Speaker 2: to make money in an arms bazaar. Whoever he is
Speaker 2: selling this stuff to La County fire crews are sending
Speaker 2: some of their extra equipment to firefighters in Ukraine, was
Speaker 2: a local March twenty twenty two story. He said, the
Speaker 2: plane carrying that much needed surplus equipment such as hoses, nozzles, turnouts, helmets,
Speaker 2: body armor, other personal protective gear is expected to take
Speaker 2: off on Friday, So they just have such a surplus
Speaker 2: of gear that they can send it to Ukraine and
Speaker 2: let La burn. So many different aspects of incompetent or
Speaker 2: subversion putting America no, putting Ukraine first. Is the Biden
Speaker 2: bad foreign policy that keeps on giving and taking away
Speaker 2: from American citizens caught in the throes of emergency and disaster.
Speaker 2: Except that wasn't it Mike Johnson and the GOP who
Speaker 2: said We're going to send money to Ukraine instead of
Speaker 2: helping the people with Hurricane Helene and western North Carolina. Yeah, see,
Speaker 2: this is what has happened to zero Hedge. Breitbart passed
Speaker 2: that point a long time ago, along with Info Wars. Now,
Speaker 2: even zero hedge will not say anything negative about Trump
Speaker 2: with all the nonsense about you know, creating a region
Speaker 2: one North America. We're gonna we're gonna take Canada, We're
Speaker 2: gonna take Greenland. We're gonna do this and that. As
Speaker 2: people are talking about it, there was an interesting article
Speaker 2: that said the Conservative leader who would be the prime
Speaker 2: minister of the Conservatives get the majority, Pierre Polyev. They
Speaker 2: said he's walking a fine line between pushing back Trump's
Speaker 2: talk of taking over Canada and actually criticizing Trump. Gotta
Speaker 2: be careful, got a tiptoe around that. Even if you
Speaker 2: are a Conservative member of the Canadian Parliament, you can't
Speaker 2: criticize Trump. And I tell you what you know, I
Speaker 2: know I've seen what's happened to this broadcast. It has
Speaker 2: been eviscerating for me to criticize Trump. Guess what, I
Speaker 2: would rather this show go down the tubes than to
Speaker 2: stop telling people what is going on, honestly, because I
Speaker 2: got a tiptoe around this guy, this meglomaniac who has
Speaker 2: no respect for us, who actually works for the globalists.
Speaker 2: He's done everything that they want. He has ticked all
Speaker 2: the boxes. He's done them in sync with people like Trudeau,
Speaker 2: Boris Johnson, Macron, everyone, you name it. They all did
Speaker 2: the same thing to us at the same time. And
Speaker 2: he did even more than that. He organized the kill shot,
Speaker 2: the actual bio weapon, while these people covered for him.
Speaker 2: I will never cover for him, and I will not
Speaker 2: cover for Mike Johnson or the GOP, or for Pierre
Speaker 2: Polliev or whatever. These people who want to suck up
Speaker 2: to Trump. We got Jeff Bezos. Look at that Jeff
Speaker 2: Bezos forty million dollar documentary for the Life of Milania Trump,
Speaker 2: and Michael Tracy says, maybe they can throw in an
Speaker 2: Amazon printed for sale sign to hang on the White House. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's got to get in there with all these He's
Speaker 2: just it's amazing how everybody is throwing all this stuff
Speaker 2: at his feet and kissing his ring and every other
Speaker 2: part of his anatomy. It's just amazing to me. It
Speaker 2: disgusts me to see this. So anyway, they sent sent
Speaker 2: a lot of firefighting equipment to Ukraine because they're more important.
Speaker 2: And even as we had these people suffering in western
Speaker 2: North Carolina, Johnson couldn't be bothered to interrupt his campaigning
Speaker 2: or anybody else's campaigning. But they could still send more
Speaker 2: billions more to Ukraine. Never forget this bipartisan betrayal that
Speaker 2: is out there, absolutely bipartisan, and it disgusts me to
Speaker 2: see people like zero hedge look the other way. Oh
Speaker 2: it's just Biden people, Yeah, it's Biden. Blame Biden, fine,
Speaker 2: but blame Mike Johnson. Blame the GOP as well. Supporters
Speaker 2: of such programs argue that it was all just surplus
Speaker 2: and it was required. Well, if it was any use
Speaker 2: to Ukraine, it would have been any It would have
Speaker 2: been of use yesterday, wouldn't it. But one person said,
Speaker 2: this is like a third world country. There is no
Speaker 2: water coming out of the fire hydrants, and La Mayor
Speaker 2: Karen bass is on a foreign trip to Ghana. Well again,
Speaker 2: you know, as I said, listener Adam said, you know
Speaker 2: they spend billions on warplanes, but their pockets are empty
Speaker 2: when it comes to saving lives or property here, why
Speaker 2: aren't we seeing robots being used right? Why aren't we seeing,
Speaker 2: as he points out, China's got firefighting robots. We can't
Speaker 2: do any of that. As a matter of fact, I've
Speaker 2: seen video of them with firefighting drones to help with
Speaker 2: high rise fires. You know, it's a very difficult thing.
Speaker 2: If you've got a high rise and you've got a fire,
Speaker 2: it's a difficult thing to get the water up there. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so they got drones that they're using to deliver firefighting equipment.
Speaker 2: We're not going to do any of that. All we
Speaker 2: can do is we can spend all of our time
Speaker 2: and money on efforts to build machines to kill people.
Speaker 2: We can spend time money on efforts to build technology
Speaker 2: to read our minds, or to control our thoughts, or
Speaker 2: to control and look at our speech, AI, to propagandize US, AI,
Speaker 2: to lie to us. All of our money is channeled
Speaker 2: in the most evil devices, and our government never does
Speaker 2: anything to help us. Never, not even when you got
Speaker 2: an area that is wiped out by a hurricane. They
Speaker 2: will never spend a dime or develop any technology that
Speaker 2: can be of any use to us. It's all about
Speaker 2: weapons that they use against us. Everything they do is weaponized.
Speaker 2: It's exactly what Eisenhower warned about the military industrial complex,
Speaker 2: and it has been completely taken over by these dark forces.
Speaker 2: I call them dark forces because they are Satanic, the Pentagram,
Speaker 2: the Department of Defense dark. But the rest of these people,
Speaker 2: they're heavily into the occult, just like I was showing
Speaker 2: you yesterday. Oh and Navy Seal CIA guy, So you
Speaker 2: did remote viewing and all the you know, yes, let's
Speaker 2: talk about that. Did you see anything about Jesus or
Speaker 2: the Cross or anything? As it's real quiet, I'm going
Speaker 2: to say anything, and it's like, oh you met some man.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, let's talk about aliens. Yeah yeah. And I
Speaker 2: tell you, these people are so far into the occult
Speaker 2: and that's one of the reasons why they let the
Speaker 2: rest of us die. But we don't have firefighting robots
Speaker 2: or drones or anything like that. But we do have
Speaker 2: a lesbian dei virtue signaling never enough diversity. She said.
Speaker 2: The LA Fire Department spent years pushing super woke policies.
Speaker 2: The LA Fire Departments implemented an internal quote, racial equity
Speaker 2: plan subjective employees to diversity training currently is led by
Speaker 2: Chief Kristin Crowley, the first female and LGBTQ fire chief
Speaker 2: at the LA Fire Department. The department's racial equity Plan,
Speaker 2: adopted in twenty twenty one, asserts that the LA Fire
Speaker 2: Department is a better firefighting organization for focusing on the
Speaker 2: demographic characteristics of its personnel. You think so, the fire
Speaker 2: doesn't really care about your sexual preferences, or your fantasies,
Speaker 2: or if you think you're in the wrong body or
Speaker 2: any of that other kind of stuff. Really doesn't care
Speaker 2: about your skin either. You ought to be merit based.
Speaker 2: Shortly after taking over the top job at the LA
Speaker 2: Fire Department in twenty twenty two, Crowley made it clear
Speaker 2: in local news segment that one of her top priorities
Speaker 2: will be increasing the department's diversity. In the interview, she
Speaker 2: suggested that she does not look to meet specific demographic
Speaker 2: quotas in the fire department because there's never enough diversity
Speaker 2: that's right.
Speaker 3: Jela's Fire Department is launching its first ever diversity, Equity
Speaker 3: and Inclusion Bureau.
Speaker 8: It is dedicated to ensuring a fair and equal workplace environment.
Speaker 2: I wait to see a putter.
Speaker 7: Now there, Daryl is live and.
Speaker 2: These newspeople are nodding their head and smiling. This is great.
Speaker 9: It's necessary, Christian, It's necessary, Colleen. The discrepancies are start,
Speaker 9: even just on paper. The laft this year hired its
Speaker 9: first ever female chief, and it says so far this year,
Speaker 9: eight percent of its applicants have been women. That might
Speaker 9: sound like a small number, but it's actually twice the
Speaker 9: percentage of female firefighters currently in the department. Every day,
Speaker 9: the LAFD is called upon to respond to crises, and
Speaker 9: today it is taking a step to resolve one of
Speaker 9: its own, the department's first ever diversity Eh.
Speaker 2: The crisis will because we don't have enough of this
Speaker 2: type of person, of that type of person. These people
Speaker 2: are racist and sexist and useless.
Speaker 8: Creating this new bureau are diversity equan inclusion bureau.
Speaker 2: Now we actually have the staff to do the work.
Speaker 2: When it comes to doing why does she dress like
Speaker 2: a man? Regardless if she wants to be a take
Speaker 2: care the EI woman.
Speaker 8: The fire stations and in our work environment, the plan
Speaker 8: is to do so by adding training and enforcing it.
Speaker 8: She's a lesbian calls for accountability have echoed for years.
Speaker 8: In twenty twenty one, women's advocacy groups, including one representing
Speaker 8: female firefighters, pushed for changes at the highest level, saying
Speaker 8: a system within the department exposes them to abuse, bullying,
Speaker 8: and a culture of intimidation and retaliation.
Speaker 2: Well, there, there, you have a report from the matriarchy.
Speaker 2: You know, two women and the in the newsroom as
Speaker 2: anchors and women reporter out there talking about how wonderful
Speaker 2: is that they're going to have women firefighters. And I
Speaker 2: wonder if any of those women doing that report two
Speaker 2: years ago. I wonder if they lost their homes and
Speaker 2: how they feel about it now? You like the fact
Speaker 2: that they got more women firefighters and they didn't invest
Speaker 2: in any equipment. They're still playing these gender games. You
Speaker 2: like that? How do you like losing your home? LA
Speaker 2: County also posted on October twenty fourth video touting a
Speaker 2: one day DEI planning event hosted by the Anti Racism,
Speaker 2: Diversity and Inclusion Initiative. So before being confirmed, Crowley vowed
Speaker 2: to quote fully commit to fostering a diverse, equitable, and
Speaker 2: inclusive culture within the LA Fire Department. No, you've got
Speaker 2: one job. Make sure that you can put out fires
Speaker 2: instead of what she wants to do is burn society now,
Speaker 2: So again, regardless of qualifications, they're going to be by
Speaker 2: hiring people who have checked the boxes. People ask me, well,
Speaker 2: what number are you looking for? Crowley said, I'm not
Speaker 2: looking for a number. It's never enough. Addicted to it,
Speaker 2: like these rich people, the richest man in the world.
Speaker 2: How much is enough? Just a little bit more. Only
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifteen of the city's three and thirty
Speaker 2: firefighters are women. The station observed, I wonder can those
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifteen women can they carry somebody out
Speaker 2: of a burning building? Has strength to do that? It's
Speaker 2: not an easy job. As the report, a twenty five
Speaker 2: year old female firefighter has sustained serious head injury battling
Speaker 2: this Palisades fire. Well, the response of some of the
Speaker 2: people as they talk about this is a person said, well,
Speaker 2: I wonder if people will start respecting climate science. Now
Speaker 2: that's California. That's a response a lot of these people.
Speaker 2: If we had only listened to Michael Mann and Al Gore,
Speaker 2: we'd be fine. Now. Uh yeah, gotta respect climate science now.
Speaker 2: Now you gotta stop worrying about climate change. And start
Speaker 2: thinking about government change. You know, forget about changing the climate,
Speaker 2: think about changing your government. As I said before, hurricanes
Speaker 2: in Florida, tornadoes in the Midwest, fires in California. So
Speaker 2: this is this is not a change. This has always
Speaker 2: been going on, and the change has been in the
Speaker 2: response to these things. The change is that our response
Speaker 2: is getting increasingly. I guess deadwood is the best way
Speaker 2: to describe it, because what is one of the biggest
Speaker 2: problems with these with the fire, but it's deadwood in
Speaker 2: the government, and it's people who are dead between their ears.
Speaker 2: Like this person comment and said, well, we're going to
Speaker 2: respect climate change. Now it's California wildfire's rage. Some questioned
Speaker 2: Biden's ban on controlled burns and also the DEI fire chief. Look,
Speaker 2: it's really you got getting the dead wood out of there.
Speaker 2: These control burns can get out of control. If you've
Speaker 2: got a lot of fuel on the ground, that may
Speaker 2: not be a good thing to do. Do you remember
Speaker 2: the Hammonds up in Oregon? Remember how you know there
Speaker 2: was the they did a backburn to protect their property
Speaker 2: and because it didn't burn, it didn't burn any trees
Speaker 2: out there where they were. It's just open prairie. So
Speaker 2: it burned some weeds and shrubs, and it was a
Speaker 2: small area, just a couple of acres, and they came
Speaker 2: after them with terrorist charges. And so wait a minute.
Speaker 2: The government does backburns all the time, and they've had
Speaker 2: backburns that have gotten out of control. But again, you know,
Speaker 2: they came after them, you know, with terrorist charges because
Speaker 2: they wanted their property bottom line. And you can put
Speaker 2: them out of business with the fines and take the
Speaker 2: father and the grandfather and you put them in jail.
Speaker 2: So control burns are not necessarily the solution. James Wood
Speaker 2: talking about the loss of his home again, I showed
Speaker 2: you the pictures of his neighbor sent to him driving
Speaker 2: through the neighborhood. And they did a great job of
Speaker 2: evacuating people out. And he said, to all the wonderful
Speaker 2: people who've reached out to us, just letting you know
Speaker 2: that we were able to evacuate successfully. I do not
Speaker 2: know at the moment if our home is still standing
Speaker 2: with sadly houses on our little street or not. We
Speaker 2: were blessed to have LA fire and police departments doing
Speaker 2: their jobs so well we were safe and out. There
Speaker 2: were several elementary schools in our neighborhood. There was an
Speaker 2: enormous community effort to evacuate the children safely. Cannot speak
Speaker 2: more highly of the LA Fire and LA Police Department.
Speaker 2: An ext user then said the irony of James Woods,
Speaker 2: known for his skepticism about climate change, losing his home
Speaker 2: to the very wildfires linked to climate change impacts in
Speaker 2: California is striking. James Woods responded, he said, the fire
Speaker 2: is not from climate change. You ignorant a whole It's
Speaker 2: because liberal idiots like you elect liberal idiots like Newsome
Speaker 2: and Karen Bass. One doesn't understand the first thing about
Speaker 2: fire management, and the other one can't fill a water reservoir.
Speaker 2: He also posted a photo of the LA Fire Chief
Speaker 2: Kristen Crowley, who and this is the photo that he
Speaker 2: puts up. This is her profile, he said. Her policies
Speaker 2: are stated in her bio. She says, creating and supporting
Speaker 2: and promoting a culture that values diversity, inclusion, and equity
Speaker 2: while striving to meet and to exceed expectations of the
Speaker 2: communities are Chief Crowley's priorities, and she is grateful for
Speaker 2: the opportunity to serve the city of La. She's fiddling
Speaker 2: around with gender games. Will the city burns? He said.
Speaker 2: Refilling the water reservoirs would have been a welcome priority too,
Speaker 2: but I guess she had too much on her plate
Speaker 2: and promoting diversity. And later on he said, well, now
Speaker 2: all the fire alarms are going off at once, remotely,
Speaker 2: he said. It tests your soul, losing everything at once,
Speaker 2: I must say, he said, And I feel sorry for him.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's I don't know him. I don't know
Speaker 2: what his financial situation is. He hasn't worked for a
Speaker 2: long time because he's been banned in Hollywood, but he's
Speaker 2: probably pretty wealthy. And you know, the people who are
Speaker 2: ninety years old and lost their home. It is a
Speaker 2: difficult thing, is as I said, you know, whenever you
Speaker 2: lose everything. And when I look at that, I look
Speaker 2: at the toe devastation of a fire where nothing is saved.
Speaker 2: As I said, your Karen's brother, and they lost their
Speaker 2: home and nothing was saved because they were gone. It
Speaker 2: lightning hit it in the middle of the night, and
Speaker 2: nobody really noticed that it was on fire until it
Speaker 2: was a raging inferno and then the neighbors. The neighbors
Speaker 2: woke up, but it was in the wee hours of
Speaker 2: the morning, and so it had to be you know,
Speaker 2: it was going on for quite some time before anybody noticed,
Speaker 2: before anybody called the fire department. But you know, isn't
Speaker 2: that really what everything in this world is ultimately about.
Speaker 2: We're told that everything is going to burn. It doesn't
Speaker 2: matter what things that you have done. I mean, when
Speaker 2: you die, everything is going to be left behind. But
Speaker 2: a lot of people assuage that by saying, wow, yeah,
Speaker 2: but I you know, the people who have done very
Speaker 2: famous you know that maybe their movie star, maybe they're
Speaker 2: a politician, maybe they did something like make Queenland a
Speaker 2: part of the United States. The bottom line is all
Speaker 2: of your accomplishments, things that you've left behind. Maybe you're
Speaker 2: going to build a building and this is a masterpiece
Speaker 2: of a building and it's going to stay well. You know,
Speaker 2: we've had some buildings that have staved up for a
Speaker 2: thousand years in the UK and other places like that
Speaker 2: that are still pretty impressive. But everything is going to
Speaker 2: burn one day. Nothing is going to remain. That's something
Speaker 2: to think about. La Mayor Karen Bass again, as I said,
Speaker 2: she was on a trip with a boondoggle. The Office
Speaker 2: of Management and Budget, they don't care at all about
Speaker 2: saving money, none whatsoever. So Karen Bass cut the fire
Speaker 2: department budget by four hundred and eighteen million dollars. Yeah,
Speaker 2: who would think that you would have a fire in
Speaker 2: la Let's uh, we don't have to prepare for the
Speaker 2: common natural disaster here. Now she's asking for volunteers to
Speaker 2: fight a fire, all while she is on vacation in Ghana. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think this really kind of sums up California. Here's
Speaker 2: a clip I played for you before. You know, the
Speaker 2: jingle that we all know like a good neighbor State
Speaker 2: Farm is there? Well, here is Barry Manilow who wrote
Speaker 2: that jingle, singing with Rosie o'donald, singing together. They had
Speaker 2: a thing where they got together and they sang a
Speaker 2: bunch of the commercials they write. It's amazing how many
Speaker 2: commercial jingles very Manilow wrote. But here's the two of them.
Speaker 2: And this really kind of sums it up, doesn't You
Speaker 2: got all three of them. You got the California, you
Speaker 2: got the radical leftists, the Hollywood stars, and you've even
Speaker 2: got state Farm all thrown in.
Speaker 4: Have we got grinding wherever you are?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I still play it? Well, No, actually, a state
Speaker 2: farm has gotten to a better state. That's the new jingle,
Speaker 2: We're going to get to a better state. Oh look,
Speaker 2: Karen Bassa's budget call for the elimination of LA's Emergency
Speaker 2: Management Department's positions, the department that is running this show.
Speaker 2: This is after she cut the fire department. First of all,
Speaker 2: she cut the fire department by four hundred and eighteen million,
Speaker 2: Then she did another seventeen million. Then she ran the
Speaker 2: Emergency Management department. Cut them. She called for the elimination
Speaker 2: of them, but she didn't get that done. Those are
Speaker 2: the people are actually organizing the response. Maybe they should
Speaker 2: be fired. I don't know. We're going to take a
Speaker 2: quick break and we will be right.
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Speaker 4: David Knight Show.
Speaker 2: Well, we've got a lot of comments here Brandon's revenge
Speaker 2: For a minute, and I thought I had awakened to
Speaker 2: the terminator. Yeah. Began the show with a clip from
Speaker 2: If You were Just joining with a clip from last
Speaker 2: year's State Farm Super Bowl commercial. I know, Schwarzeniga, Brian
Speaker 2: Dev McCartney. They want LA as a smart start for
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty eight Olympic o Zimpic games. Yeah, they
Speaker 2: wanted as a kind of get a little early start
Speaker 2: on the smart cities that they want to push in
Speaker 2: on us. On twenty thirty Denver Ataway. I'm telling you,
Speaker 2: PG and E has been fined tens of millions. One
Speaker 2: ruling held them liable for over one billion because of
Speaker 2: the fires that they continue to cause to the awful
Speaker 2: infrastructure that's there. Yeah, we don't nobody's talked about the
Speaker 2: cause of this yet. I mean late last night they
Speaker 2: had zero percent containment of the fire and it was
Speaker 2: just all about you, what is going on. They haven't
Speaker 2: even gotten to the point where they try to figure
Speaker 2: out what started it, and many times it has been
Speaker 2: started by electric companies, faulty equipment. Let's see speatrow six
Speaker 2: to six insurance began about one hundred years ago, farmers
Speaker 2: backing each other against natural disasters or crop failure. Hence
Speaker 2: state farm Well, you know that might be the thing
Speaker 2: the way to go. We're going to have to folks,
Speaker 2: we've got to rebuild our siss and it's going to
Speaker 2: only be rebuilt from the bottom up. It's not going
Speaker 2: to be done from the top down. The rot, the
Speaker 2: stench is from the top down. Don't look to these
Speaker 2: people in Washington. Don't even look to your government to
Speaker 2: fix this stuff. It's going to have to be done
Speaker 2: by us if it's going to be done. That's the
Speaker 2: kind of spirit they used to be around America. That's
Speaker 2: what made America work. But now everything has been taken
Speaker 2: over by corporations, and the corporations have been taken over
Speaker 2: by the Marxists who have marched through the institution. Just
Speaker 2: as Antonio Gramsey had said, the guy that Pete Boudier's
Speaker 2: father loved and trained him to be, like we do
Speaker 2: seven New York State Institute in law that requires new homes,
Speaker 2: no matter this number of stories, to be earthquake proof.
Speaker 2: Is that an issue in the New York? Are they
Speaker 2: just trying to make it so expensive that nobody can
Speaker 2: own a home? The foundation wall has be eighteen inches
Speaker 2: as opposed to eight inches. Well, here's the thing, you know,
Speaker 2: I subscribe to the three Little pigs philosophy of home building.
Speaker 2: You should be able to if you want build your
Speaker 2: home out of straw or out of sticks or out
Speaker 2: of bricks and suffer the consequences. It's not necessary because
Speaker 2: the alternative is, you know, certainly people can be informed
Speaker 2: that you know, when the big bad wolf comes around,
Speaker 2: he's going to blow your house down. Maybe you need
Speaker 2: to build it out of bricks, but not everybody can
Speaker 2: afford to build their house out of bricks, and some
Speaker 2: people would. They're not going to have a home if
Speaker 2: they can't build it out of straw or sticks. And
Speaker 2: so if you have a situation where people can are
Speaker 2: allowed to build the homes that they can afford, then
Speaker 2: if there is damage or destruction to their homes, they
Speaker 2: can rebuild it. You know, they can rebuild that stick home.
Speaker 2: They can rebuild that straw home. And yet what we're
Speaker 2: seeing in in North Carolina, and so when you had
Speaker 2: volunteers come in, you had the Amish come in. Mennonites
Speaker 2: are doing it as well, building homes for people. No, No,
Speaker 2: you can't have that here. No, we're going to tear
Speaker 2: that down. You don't have water and electricity to this home,
Speaker 2: so we're going to tear your home down. It's like
Speaker 2: you tear my home down. I don't have water and
Speaker 2: electricity either, Right, can't I build what can be done
Speaker 2: in the moment or what I can afford at the moment. No,
Speaker 2: you're going to build it to our standards, or you'll
Speaker 2: have nothing. It's going to be what we consider to
Speaker 2: be perfect, or it'll be nothing. I really don't like that.
Speaker 2: I prefer the three Little pigs model. I think people
Speaker 2: need to if somebody if they have if a flood
Speaker 2: is wiped out there, No, you can't have. Now we've
Speaker 2: declared this a flood area, so you cannot have a
Speaker 2: mobile home. And yet FEMA goes in and lives in
Speaker 2: very very nice mobile homes that they have set up,
Speaker 2: manufactured houses that they put in. They're allowed to stay there.
Speaker 2: FEMA allows itself to stay there and stay in these
Speaker 2: types of homes. But not you, not you. Blowton says
Speaker 2: there were fifteen trucks lined up in a lot in
Speaker 2: Pacific Palisades area waiting for instructions. Oh oh, they following
Speaker 2: him must have been trained by FEMA where they have
Speaker 2: people go collect eight thousand dollars a week. Handity, Henny Handy, Sorry,
Speaker 2: don't mean to compare you to that guy. Handy said, yeah,
Speaker 2: we saw this stuff because he does the MS. He said,
Speaker 2: we saw they were going to pay them eight thousand
Speaker 2: dollars a week. And he said, for weeks they've been
Speaker 2: setting in hotel rooms as well doing nothing. Say more,
Speaker 2: I watch fireman spend two or three hours putting out
Speaker 2: of fire on a single home under ordinary conditions. There
Speaker 2: reports of five hundred homes destroyed and five hours. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and they don't have any control over this. Now, I
Speaker 2: mean it's a massive disaster. But again they were caught unprepared,
Speaker 2: uninterested in doing anything to alleviate that, not at all interested.
Speaker 2: Not a Southern Bell Rights state farm will not replace
Speaker 2: your roof due to hail damage. WHOA, it's important to know.
Speaker 2: All my neighbors had their roofs replaced. I had to
Speaker 2: sue them, so it cost me ten thousand dollars instead
Speaker 2: of my one thousand dollars deductible. I live in South Mississippi.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 2: Wow, this is why people are talking about the fact
Speaker 2: that this guy, Luigi Mangioni might get off with dury
Speaker 2: qualification because people hate these insurance companies so much they
Speaker 2: might let him get away with murder. Because evidently these
Speaker 2: insurance companies, like the pharmaceutical companies, are getting away with
Speaker 2: murder in one form or the other. AUDI Modern retro
Speaker 2: radio get to see who says we're witnessing Phase one
Speaker 2: build back better from the North Carolina hurricane to the
Speaker 2: California fires of the East Palestine, Ohio train wreck and
Speaker 2: toxics billing, on and on. Yeah, I know there's not
Speaker 2: You look at it and it's the combination of government
Speaker 2: and competence, and you have to say, at what point
Speaker 2: do you separate that from malice in design? And at
Speaker 2: what point does it really matter if they're that incompetent.
Speaker 2: So this is let's cover a little bit of news
Speaker 2: here of other topics, miscellaneous topics. Here we've got Well
Speaker 2: Street journal. I thought it's kind of interesting. They finally
Speaker 2: got around about a month after Brian Schulhave at Health
Speaker 2: Impact News talked about Elon Musk being one of the
Speaker 2: top twenty globally in a very widely played video game,
Speaker 2: competing against people who make millions doing this, and yet
Speaker 2: he's in the top twenty and you don't get that
Speaker 2: level unless you play it all day and all night
Speaker 2: type of thing. I mean, you've got to be dedicated
Speaker 2: to this kind of stuff. And so Brian shall Hobby said, so,
Speaker 2: what does this tell us about him? Tells us that
Speaker 2: he's not the one running the companies. What is it
Speaker 2: that he's doing? What is his job. This job is
Speaker 2: to buy the politicians, as you see him doing with
Speaker 2: Elon with Donald Trump. This is a Wall Street Journal headline.
Speaker 2: Now again, about a month after Brian Shall Hobby pointed
Speaker 2: this out, Musk vaulted to the top of a popular
Speaker 2: video game and everyone is asking where he found the time.
Speaker 2: He's head of six companies, but he recently became one
Speaker 2: of the world's top Diablo four players. A milestone gamer
Speaker 2: say would have required playing all day every day, said,
Speaker 2: the Blockbuster video game is set in a dark fantasy
Speaker 2: realm that involves making elixirs and slaying demons. But there
Speaker 2: is nothing about any video game that's going to be
Speaker 2: a darker fantasy than what Elon Musk wants to do
Speaker 2: to us in real life. This is a guy who
Speaker 2: wants to put, you know, brain computer interface chips in
Speaker 2: our heads. This is a guy who wants us to
Speaker 2: become transhumanist cyborgs. This is a guy who says unless
Speaker 2: we do that we're all going to die, and that
Speaker 2: he's summoning the demons with his artificial intelligence. This is
Speaker 2: a guy that is worshiped by the right from Babylon
Speaker 2: B to the Maga cult. He saved free speech. Look
Speaker 2: at this, he's our free speech. Where No, he paid
Speaker 2: forty five billion dollars or whatever it was he paid
Speaker 2: that said he could pick your brain and feed it
Speaker 2: into his AI and so that he could manipulate public
Speaker 2: opinion to support him. There's no altruism here, none whatsoever.
Speaker 2: You know, government uses this AI to survey them to
Speaker 2: control us. You know, you might use it for other things,
Speaker 2: just like a computer. You I had somebody yesterday saying, oh, yes,
Speaker 2: David Knight says that AI is demonic and is evil,
Speaker 2: and yet he uses it for his graphics. It's like,
Speaker 2: you're right, I do. It's the very same thing as computers.
Speaker 2: You know, computers can be used to launch nuclear war,
Speaker 2: or computers can be used to surveil and control us.
Speaker 2: Or I can use a computer for good purposes, but
Speaker 2: the government will use it for that. And that's the point.
Speaker 2: When I talk about AI, talked about how the government
Speaker 2: is using it as a weapon against us, and when
Speaker 2: I talk about it being demonic, I said, don't be
Speaker 2: taken in by it, don't rely on it for information.
Speaker 2: It will lie to you. It's trained to lie to you. Well,
Speaker 2: hostsale a prices as We had a listener yesterday saying,
Speaker 2: I live in a rural area for the first time,
Speaker 2: is no eggs at any price on the shelves, So
Speaker 2: this is zero edge hostsale. Egg prices hit record shortages
Speaker 2: reported at supermarkets. Said, this is the ongoing devastating impact
Speaker 2: of the highly pathogenic avian influenza. No, it's not bird flu.
Speaker 2: Isn't doing this to us. The government is doing it
Speaker 2: to us, supposedly to save us from bird fu just
Speaker 2: like COVID didn't do anything. Everybody said, well, COVID did this,
Speaker 2: and COVID did that, COVID locked us down, COVID put
Speaker 2: masks on our face. No, that was Trump and it
Speaker 2: was Biden. It wasn't COVID. And this is not being
Speaker 2: done to us by bird flu. It would be their response.
Speaker 2: Even if this was real, and it's not real. It's
Speaker 2: not a real issue, you know, even if the PCR
Speaker 2: was returning legitimate results, the response wouldn't make any sense.
Speaker 2: It's like the climate change for guffn right, even if
Speaker 2: climate change were real, does the Parish climate accord in
Speaker 2: response to that? Does that make any Are you going
Speaker 2: to allow China to add two coal power plants per week. Well,
Speaker 2: you tell everybody else in the world that coal is
Speaker 2: not allowed, not even if you put scrubbers on it. No,
Speaker 2: there's another agenda going on here with that. You know,
Speaker 2: even if their paradigm, even if their mcguffin were true,
Speaker 2: their solution doesn't make any sense. And even if their
Speaker 2: PCR able to identify and not give us false positives,
Speaker 2: which is what it does, they've magnified it so much.
Speaker 2: But even if it was able to identify disease. Not
Speaker 2: all birds die if they get bird flu, but if
Speaker 2: one bird tests positive, they don't even have to have
Speaker 2: any sick birds. They kill all the birds. Now, how
Speaker 2: does that make any sense? It doesn't. There's another agenda
Speaker 2: going on here, and you can see the agenda in
Speaker 2: the hotel food prices. As they point out, they said
Speaker 2: that food prices have gone up by about seventy percent
Speaker 2: in the last two months compared to November. In California,
Speaker 2: Lone USDA data showed the price of a dozen large
Speaker 2: white eggs spiked as high as eight dollars nine seven
Speaker 2: cents last week from five dollars and twenty three cents
Speaker 2: in late November, a seventy percent increase from Thanksgiving to today.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's not even two months, right, it maybe
Speaker 2: six weeks seventy percent increase. So never underestimate, or to say,
Speaker 2: to quote George W. Bush, never misunderestimate the power of
Speaker 2: the government to destroy and it took quickly. They said.
Speaker 2: Seventeen million egg laying hens and younger birds known as pullets,
Speaker 2: had been called since mid October one of the worst
Speaker 2: stretches in the current bird flew outbreak since the virus
Speaker 2: first emerged in Natia and national flocks in February twenty
Speaker 2: twenty two. That's the way they reported. That's absolute nonsense,
Speaker 2: and that's Bloomberg and the Zero Hedges paraphrasing what they
Speaker 2: had to say. Again, it's not the virus it's killing him.
Speaker 2: It's the government. It's their tactic that is causing seventeen
Speaker 2: million egg laying hens to die. They wouldn't lose all
Speaker 2: of Look in worst case scenario, you have a case
Speaker 2: fatality rate of one hundred percent, it wouldn't be all
Speaker 2: of them, and the ones who survived would be ones
Speaker 2: who had better immune systems or whatever. If this were real.
Speaker 2: It's not real. They're going in getting a PCR test
Speaker 2: and just killing every last bird. The PCR test magnifies
Speaker 2: whatever it sees in the old version. They've got a
Speaker 2: more sensitive digital version now the old version they're running
Speaker 2: it for forty cycles, would magnify whatever they're looking for.
Speaker 2: To find anything, they could find anything, said carry mellis
Speaker 2: that developer of it. So they magnify both one point
Speaker 2: one trillion times, and then you have this. You know,
Speaker 2: they kill all the birds case fatality rate of one
Speaker 2: hundred percent. We don't have anything that's that bad, nothing
Speaker 2: that is that bad. How in the world could they
Speaker 2: possibly even justify that Google search trend of egg shortage
Speaker 2: has erupted to the highest levels since late twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2: This is all happening as predicted, all happening as planned
Speaker 2: eggshells in northern California. What's going on here? In all
Speaker 2: my life, I've never seen food shortages like this. Unacceptable,
Speaker 2: said one person on Twitter. Another one says, seems like
Speaker 2: there is an egg scam yearly now, a so called
Speaker 2: to shortage and then prices skyrocket. Well, it is a
Speaker 2: real shortage, but I understand that it's not affecting the
Speaker 2: big companies like it is the small ones. The purpose
Speaker 2: of this is to put out small farms out of business,
Speaker 2: and then they will come for your backyard chickens. One
Speaker 2: person says, get backyard chickens for a steady supply of
Speaker 2: your own eggs. That's that's where they're going to go. Though,
Speaker 2: after they put the small farms out of business, consider
Speaker 2: building a chicken coop, planning a garden of steps towards
Speaker 2: becoming ungovernable. Yes, that's right, we need to do that.
Speaker 2: And you know that's the sad reality of what is
Speaker 2: happening in DC. We have Lauren Bobert has introduced a
Speaker 2: bill to abolish the ATF. Now, we could all cheer
Speaker 2: for that, except there's some problems here in the details.
Speaker 2: I'm one hundred percent for this, one hundred percent for
Speaker 2: it's a great thing. The problem is that the Republicans,
Speaker 2: even when they do the right thing, they'll frequently frequently
Speaker 2: do it for the wrong reason, which keeps them from
Speaker 2: actually getting the right thing done. So you know, I'm
Speaker 2: one hundred percent for abolishing the alcohol to back on firearms,
Speaker 2: and I'm also one hundred percent for getting rid of
Speaker 2: the EPA, one hundred percent for getting rid of both
Speaker 2: of the dees the Department of Education, the Department of Energy.
Speaker 2: Let's get rid of all of these things and just
Speaker 2: keep going all these alphabet agencies for which there is
Speaker 2: no constitutional support, these things that are not allowed in
Speaker 2: the Constitution. If you read the Constitution, the ninth and
Speaker 2: tenth Amendment, they were not given explicit power to get
Speaker 2: into these different areas. As a matter of fact, the
Speaker 2: very existence of the ATF is repudiation of the Second Amendment.
Speaker 2: Second Amendment says, shall not infringe. Every regulation that the
Speaker 2: ATF does is an infringement on our God given right
Speaker 2: of self defense. Every single thing they do is an infringement.
Speaker 2: And the founders didn't say you're not going to prohibit guns.
Speaker 2: They said you're not going to infringe on them. They
Speaker 2: knew how this stuff works. It's nothing new for fautu
Speaker 2: to say, how do we get this done? Well, we
Speaker 2: do it with disruption and chaos, and we do it
Speaker 2: from the inside, and we do it iteratively. That's what
Speaker 2: infringement is about. And so we have in the first Amendment,
Speaker 2: Congress shall make no law abridging free speech and for
Speaker 2: exercise or religion and all that kind of stuff. They
Speaker 2: could do that with a law but they're not going
Speaker 2: to take the guns all at once. They have to
Speaker 2: do it a series of infringements. And that's what these
Speaker 2: regulations all are. Its very existence is a repudiation of
Speaker 2: the Second Amendment. In November twenty twenty four, Representative Eric
Speaker 2: Burlison a Republican call for the agency to be abolished
Speaker 2: as well. On November the twenty fifth, he said in
Speaker 2: an interview, he said, for several decades, we've been a disaster.
Speaker 2: They've been a disaster agency which has been violating the
Speaker 2: Second Amendment. ADF issued numerous now here's where Breitbart covers
Speaker 2: for Trump, you know, because I've talked about it multiple times,
Speaker 2: how Trump set the precedent for gun control by executive
Speaker 2: order and that Biden followed it, and that La La
Speaker 2: Harris said immediately after he did it, Oh, I'm going
Speaker 2: to give Congress hundre days and if they don't enact
Speaker 2: my gun control agenda, I'll do it by executive order.
Speaker 2: She said that right after Trump said I can do
Speaker 2: the bump stock. I can take the bump stock out.
Speaker 2: And then in twenty nineteen, he decided that he was
Speaker 2: going to do pistol braces next, and he prohibited pistol braces.
Speaker 2: The ATF under him, and it is his responsibility. When
Speaker 2: they talk about what the ATF is doing, they put it,
Speaker 2: they lay it at the feet of Biden, and they're
Speaker 2: absolutely right to do that, but they won't lay it
Speaker 2: at the feet of Trump when he's president, you see.
Speaker 2: And so he put in the pistol brace in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2: He took it out in December of twenty twenty when
Speaker 2: he was fighting to stay in office, and because he
Speaker 2: had opposition on that one from the NRA, the NRA
Speaker 2: just laid down and said, no, you can do the
Speaker 2: bump stock stuff. We don't care. Others saw it the
Speaker 2: principle that was being established, but the NRA didn't care.
Speaker 2: The NRA did care about the pistol brace, and so
Speaker 2: Trump removed it in December of twenty twenty, and then Biden,
Speaker 2: on taking office, picked it up again. And Bribar just
Speaker 2: ignores all of that and points to it being one
Speaker 2: hundred percent Biden. But Trump set the precedent, and Trump
Speaker 2: even put in pistol brace. This is what Breitbart says.
Speaker 2: The ATF issued numerous rules during the Biden and Harris administration.
Speaker 2: See always making about partisan politics. Aren't they criminalized owners
Speaker 2: of legally purchased ar pistol stabilizers. That's the pistol brace.
Speaker 2: Another one of the ATFS rules declared that eighty percent
Speaker 2: firearm frames are firearms. And yet another ATF rule circumvented
Speaker 2: Congress via new regulations against private gun sales. Okay, so
Speaker 2: Trump does a precedent. He does the first two, the
Speaker 2: bump stock and the pistol brace, and then under Biden
Speaker 2: you have three of them, and one of them is
Speaker 2: the pistol brace. Again, but it's all Biden. Trump didn't
Speaker 2: have anything to do with it. The first president to
Speaker 2: say that I can do gun control. I don't need
Speaker 2: to have Congress violate the Constitution. I can do that myself. Fortunately,
Speaker 2: so Bobert has rallied against the ATF and the last Congress,
Speaker 2: saying that the agency goes way too far in rule
Speaker 2: making authorities. Wait a minute, if you read the Constitution,
Speaker 2: they don't have any rule making authorities. They I'm having
Speaker 2: the authority to infringe on anything, none whatsoever. So they
Speaker 2: still don't address Congress still doesn't address the problem. She
Speaker 2: said in February of last year, there's been a lot
Speaker 2: of talk about defunding the ATF, even abolishing the agency altogether.
Speaker 2: And I'm still waiting to hear a good reason why
Speaker 2: the ATF should remain an agency at all. Instead of
Speaker 2: regulations that keep our communities safe, what instead of providing
Speaker 2: regulations that keep our community safe, this agency has made
Speaker 2: our communities more dangerous by wandering weapons. Wondering, I think
Speaker 2: she means it's supposed to be laundering weapons to the cartels,
Speaker 2: you know, the fast and furious is what she refers to,
Speaker 2: that type of thing. What even a Republican congressman who
Speaker 2: puts in a bill to get rid of the ATF
Speaker 2: thinks that they have a legitimate purpose in providing regulations
Speaker 2: to keep us safe? Are you kidding me? You got
Speaker 2: a choice here. You can have safety or you can
Speaker 2: have liberty in the constitution. Which one are you going
Speaker 2: to do here? We've already sworn obedience to the constitution,
Speaker 2: So you violated your oath. If you're saying that the
Speaker 2: regulations on the ATF are there to keep people safe,
Speaker 2: that's what their job is. No, they don't have a job.
Speaker 2: They don't have a job. They don't have a legitimate
Speaker 2: reason to exist at all. And then they said, the
Speaker 2: ATF has been accused of regulatory overreach. Every regulation that
Speaker 2: they have is overreach because of every regulation that they've
Speaker 2: got infringes. Well, I hope they do something about it.
Speaker 2: We'll see. But they still do not understand what the
Speaker 2: issue is. They don't understand the issue. They don't understand,
Speaker 2: and they won't address the fact that Congress has abdicated
Speaker 2: its law making to the bureaucrats who do rules. And
Speaker 2: what's even worse because they have no accountability, they're not elected.
Speaker 2: What's even worse is that they claim, and this is
Speaker 2: not true, they claim that a regulation is not a law.
Speaker 2: It's the same thing you and I know that. But
Speaker 2: they say, well, because it's a regulation and not a law,
Speaker 2: none of the protections of the Bill of Rights apply.
Speaker 2: So if you're going to go with that, then why
Speaker 2: would you If they're going to just wipe out the
Speaker 2: Bill of Rights by saying we're going to let laws
Speaker 2: be made by bureaucrats and then we're going to say
Speaker 2: that Bill RICE doesn't apply, well, why wouldn't they do
Speaker 2: gun control by executive order in the executive branch and
Speaker 2: the bureaucracies. It's a given emulate did emulated voids that
Speaker 2: he doesn't play. I saw a new video where pro
Speaker 2: players say that he doesn't know what he's doing a
Speaker 2: path of exile too. Well, it's interesting. I don't know
Speaker 2: how he gets that there. Maybe maybe he's got Ai
Speaker 2: playing it for him. Maybe he's got grock Is actually
Speaker 2: should be the name that is in the top twenty
Speaker 2: that's there. Who knows. He certainly has taken a lot
Speaker 2: of time off to hang around with Trump and to
Speaker 2: travel and mar A Lago, and so has Mike Johnson.
Speaker 2: Mike Johnson's always you know, when they pose for pictures,
Speaker 2: he's always photo bombing them, sticking his head in the frame.
Speaker 2: What somebody said, Pierre Polyev and Canada is another Mike
Speaker 2: Johnson certainly as that was like it. If he's got
Speaker 2: to walk the line, figure out how he's not going
Speaker 2: to offend President Trump. Wow, Atomic Dog. The week of Christmas,
Speaker 2: A dozens of large eggs. We're nine to ninety five
Speaker 2: at my grocery store. They are six dollars now. Oh,
Speaker 2: that's good that they've gone down. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 2: I've got your I got your email, Atomicdog about the shooting.
Speaker 2: I haven't had time to go through it yet because
Speaker 2: it's fire stuff and everything, but I'm going to get
Speaker 2: to it. Little Ford Schoolhouse. Good to see you there.
Speaker 2: I hope things are going well in your home. They
Speaker 2: lost a family lost lost their mother just before the holidays,
Speaker 2: so keep their family in your prayers. Eggs I get
Speaker 2: here are now twenty two twenty two. Twenty two dollars
Speaker 2: per five dozen. Used to be eleven dollars at the
Speaker 2: beginning of twenty four, and they've kept creeping up. Well
Speaker 2: then they're here in Tennessee. I have no idea how
Speaker 2: much our eggs cost us. We paid dearly in terms
Speaker 2: of trying to keep these things alive. I'm surprised that
Speaker 2: they've made it this far. We've got some Rhode Island reds,
Speaker 2: the biggest birds I've ever seen, and they've got some
Speaker 2: other ones in the barn, and their water was freezing up,
Speaker 2: and so we're out there with all this freezing weather.
Speaker 2: We're trying to get the water unfrozen. Spent a couple
Speaker 2: of hours on this stuff yesterday. It's the heat lamp
Speaker 2: didn't work and to keep the water from freezing anyway.
Speaker 2: Maverick Pilgrim, thank you for the tip. He says, at
Speaker 2: least in my area, there's an increased demand for free
Speaker 2: range eggs. If your chickens experienced winter. They don't lay
Speaker 2: all year round, so in some cases it's not a shortage.
Speaker 2: It's not egg season. Yeah, ours has still been laying
Speaker 2: for some reason, not in the same quantity that they've
Speaker 2: been doing in the past, but a lot of people
Speaker 2: have said that their chickens stopped laying eggs. Of course,
Speaker 2: ours are young, they're not even a year old, but
Speaker 2: that may be part of it. Stealth Patriot, the New
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Speaker 2: shut down their Daily show. Well, that's sad to see.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's a lot of good information that I've
Speaker 2: gotten from New American. I always liked their stuff. Lately
Speaker 2: though they've been afraid to criticize Trump. But that's not
Speaker 2: what's doing it to them. It's just it's tough. It's
Speaker 2: tough in the news business right now. Germany. Germany's got
Speaker 2: a gun grab going and they are focusing on the
Speaker 2: AfD on their political opposition. It is weaponized and the
Speaker 2: gun control is weaponized against their opponents. They have deemed
Speaker 2: the alternative for deutsch Linn members because they're about stopping
Speaker 2: open immigration and other things as a populist conservative party.
Speaker 2: And I think they I don't know what their situation
Speaker 2: is on climate stuff. But the German government that's there
Speaker 2: right now, they don't care what happens to the people.
Speaker 2: They're going to follow the World Economic Forum climate change,
Speaker 2: the UN climate change stuff. But they say that the
Speaker 2: AfD is quote a danger to public safety. No, actually,
Speaker 2: the AfD is a danger to the establishment, a danger
Speaker 2: to them losing their seats in parliament. That's what's going
Speaker 2: to happen. So far, five AfD members have received to
Speaker 2: notice that their gun license would be revoked. They have
Speaker 2: to have a license there. If they have to have
Speaker 2: a license, it's not a right. Licenses are government privileges
Speaker 2: that can if they're going to give you the privilege,
Speaker 2: they can revoke it. Another member voluntarily returned his license
Speaker 2: after a revocation procedures were initiated. Another fifty one cases
Speaker 2: are currently being examined by authorities. In total, there are
Speaker 2: seventy four members of the AfD just in one region
Speaker 2: of Germany. Saxony on Halt. They hold a firearms license,
Speaker 2: forty nine registered sport shooters and twenty five as hunters,
Speaker 2: and evidently you know you're not allowed, I guess in
Speaker 2: Germany have a gun for self defense. Interesting because you know,
Speaker 2: one of the first places that we had modern gun
Speaker 2: control laws was in Nazi Germany. Got to turn them
Speaker 2: all in, gott to turn them all in. And when
Speaker 2: I was with the Libertarian Party and I would talk
Speaker 2: to the press and I ran for office as well,
Speaker 2: you want to get rid of the ATF. And it's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, certainly,
Speaker 2: well you can't do that. And you can't. I said,
Speaker 2: it's a check on government power. It's not a check
Speaker 2: on government power. So do you understand what happened in Germany?
Speaker 2: And do you understand what happened in the Warsaw ghetto?
Speaker 2: As you had people there who had no firearms, but
Speaker 2: they took out a German soldier, took his gun, used
Speaker 2: his gun to get more guns. And as they started
Speaker 2: arming themselves with the guns of leftover soldiers, leftover guns
Speaker 2: of soldiers who are no longer with them, they tied
Speaker 2: down a couple of Panzer divisions. I think for quite
Speaker 2: some time until they and it was they couldn't conquer
Speaker 2: these people with all of their modern equipment. They couldn't
Speaker 2: conquer people who had firearms, handguns, that type of thing.
Speaker 2: So what they wound up doing on April nineteenth, the
Speaker 2: same day that the ATF burned down the Branch Davidians,
Speaker 2: they just burned down the Warsaw Ghetto. But yeah, guns
Speaker 2: in the hens of a population can be very very effective.
Speaker 2: Just ask the US military how things went in Iraq
Speaker 2: and other places where they had asymmetric warfare. Is what
Speaker 2: it's called the revocation, and it is a mutually assured destruction.
Speaker 2: You know, it's a bad thing. It's a bad thing,
Speaker 2: but nobody wants that should not want it. But you know,
Speaker 2: we have an armed we have the Second Amendment, and
Speaker 2: we have an armed populace for the same reason that
Speaker 2: you have nuclear weapons. You hope you don't use them,
Speaker 2: but you have them as a deterrent to other people
Speaker 2: using them against you. The revocation of gun license comes
Speaker 2: after the Office for the Protection of the Constitution. That's
Speaker 2: what they call their CIA or their FBI or whatever
Speaker 2: I mean is they call it the BfV V. It's
Speaker 2: not a BFD as a big deal. Germany's powerful domestic
Speaker 2: intelligence agency, that's the BfV, classified the AfD as certainly
Speaker 2: right wing extremists quote unquote. The BfV is a highly
Speaker 2: politicized intelligence agency targeting domestic threats to the constitutional order,
Speaker 2: while critics contend that it is designed to snuff out
Speaker 2: political opposition. H it is just like the FBI and
Speaker 2: the CIA. I wonder if they were trained by the
Speaker 2: CIA after World War Two. I mean, you know, we
Speaker 2: we trained after we overthrew the Iranian government that was
Speaker 2: elected and put in the Shaw. We trained his secret police,
Speaker 2: the Savak. The CIA did. In twenty twenty three, the
Speaker 2: Jira Administrative Court ruled that the Thuringian Ministry of the
Speaker 2: Interior cannot revoke firearm licenses of AfD members in a
Speaker 2: blanket measure. In other words, they were just going to say,
Speaker 2: if you are a member of the AfD, you can
Speaker 2: own a firearm. But they left it open for individual cases.
Speaker 2: And so that's what they're doing. They're coming after them
Speaker 2: on a one by one basis. So this is one
Speaker 2: last story here, which I thought was kind of funny.
Speaker 2: Apple Computer fired one hundred and forty five of their
Speaker 2: H one B Apple employees. These are people who came
Speaker 2: from one region of India. It is kind of a
Speaker 2: region of India where they have a particular language that
Speaker 2: they speak, and that's the name that they have for
Speaker 2: the region, the Telugu. Telugu is the name of the
Speaker 2: that's what they call their tongue and it's also what
Speaker 2: they call their region. Well, these are one hundred and
Speaker 2: forty five people. They realized Apple does matching funds to charities,
Speaker 2: so they set up a charity that with them. They
Speaker 2: would put money in the charity and then they would
Speaker 2: tell Apple and Apple would match that. They got hoisted
Speaker 2: by their own h one b petard, didn't they So yeah,
Speaker 2: it's uh. They fired them in mass and so people
Speaker 2: started looking at this and saying, you know, what's going
Speaker 2: on with this? Why'd they fire one hundred and forty
Speaker 2: five Indians. We'll be right back.
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Speaker 2: All right. Red Beard John says that safe way where
Speaker 2: I live. Five dozen eggs if you can find them,
Speaker 2: are thirty nine ninety dollars or five dozen eggs. Wow,
Speaker 2: that's amazing. And a tip and a tip, a couple
Speaker 2: of tips, a dollar tip, as well as a suggestion
Speaker 2: tip from troubling. Thank you very much, says David. Buy
Speaker 2: submersible heaters on Amazon. They're cheap and a life saver.
Speaker 2: There we go. I have to do that. Actually, there's
Speaker 2: a farm co op here. If I can find it there,
Speaker 2: we'll get it from them. If not, I'll have to
Speaker 2: go to Amazon's resort. But thank you for the tip
Speaker 2: I had. I thought about it. There were newbies in
Speaker 2: terms of chickens. Like I said, we've we've tried them.
Speaker 2: This is our third try and in Texas they never
Speaker 2: made it this far. Just too many critters out there,
Speaker 2: you know, the coyotes and everything else are getting them
Speaker 2: even though we had cages and we thought we had
Speaker 2: these things set up. They get in there one way
Speaker 2: or the other. Anyway, let's talk about what is happening
Speaker 2: in Manhattan. At the beginning of the year, they started
Speaker 2: doing congestion tolls. And that's something that we've seen in
Speaker 2: the UK. It's basically communist rationing. You know, you got
Speaker 2: one job the government does. Many people say, well, you know,
Speaker 2: you got to have government who's going to do the roads?
Speaker 2: And we would always say, well, maybe the government is
Speaker 2: doing such a bad job, maybe we want to have
Speaker 2: somebody else through the roads. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 2: the Consumer Electronics Show, it's kind of interesting to see
Speaker 2: the kind of stuff that is coming up at the
Speaker 2: Consumer Electronics Show. Somebody came up with a hypercar. And
Speaker 2: you know, if you're rich enough and you want to
Speaker 2: drive a car, you want to drive it fast. This
Speaker 2: is a hypercar that actually jumps over potholes and massive
Speaker 2: problems on the road. Look at this. Watch this thing now.
Speaker 2: Of course it's even self driving here, but it's determining
Speaker 2: where the pothole is. I had to remember where they were.
Speaker 2: On my way to work. I would drive kind of
Speaker 2: like this, but I would swerve rather than then jump
Speaker 2: over the potholes. So it's kind of like a cross
Speaker 2: between a Lamborghini and the General League. It should be
Speaker 2: playing Dixie when it goes over these there's a bunch
Speaker 2: of Wow, that's a bunch of spikes to take out
Speaker 2: the tires and look at that jumps over it. Wow.
Speaker 2: What if they make that a little bit wider, would
Speaker 2: it still jump over it? That's my question? And how
Speaker 2: does it do the jumping? Here? It is going over
Speaker 2: an LGPT display, but it did kick up some dust
Speaker 2: on that, so it didn't make it all the way through. Well,
Speaker 2: you know, the government's got one job to build infrastructure.
Speaker 2: It doesn't seem to want to do that either, does it.
Speaker 2: You know, put out the fires build infrastructure. They don't
Speaker 2: care and said they think that the one job is
Speaker 2: to tax us. And that's right, and that's what this is.
Speaker 2: It's congestion pricing done in the name of the environment.
Speaker 2: Really is where this all began with City Kahn in
Speaker 2: London and New York is right there. So it's pretty expensive.
Speaker 2: It's going to cost you like nine dollars to enter
Speaker 2: Manhattan weekdays during the day. During off time, you can
Speaker 2: get in there for the low low rate of two
Speaker 2: dollars and twenty five cents just to go into Manhattan.
Speaker 2: I would pay ten times that much, one hundred times
Speaker 2: that much not to have to go to Manhattan. Last
Speaker 2: time we were in Manhattan was when the un was
Speaker 2: trying to push through the arms trade treaty, right a
Speaker 2: week after they had staged the Aroar, Colorado shooting. I'm
Speaker 2: absolutely certain those two things were tied together because they
Speaker 2: had gotten so much pushback for this fast and furious
Speaker 2: stuff and running guns across the border, and even the
Speaker 2: New York Times said that was a false flag to
Speaker 2: make a case for gun control domestically, we're gonna have
Speaker 2: to register guns and all the rest of the stuff
Speaker 2: so that when it goes across the border we can
Speaker 2: trace it back to where they got this thing from.
Speaker 2: And so that blew up in their face when a
Speaker 2: government agent got killed with some of these trafficked firearms,
Speaker 2: and so that really put a wrinkle in their arms
Speaker 2: trade treaty because it was all about controlling small arms.
Speaker 2: It was not about controlling tanks and things like that,
Speaker 2: which they're not gonna do anything about that. They just
Speaker 2: wanted firearms and so a week before you had this
Speaker 2: very very suspicious shooting in War of Colorado. But anyway,
Speaker 2: we were there to cover it and to do interviews
Speaker 2: with gun manufacturers who were there to speak against it
Speaker 2: and things like that, and it didn't pass, which is
Speaker 2: good news. But the problem was it was such a mess.
Speaker 2: I mean, Karen dropped me and my two sons off
Speaker 2: who were helping me set up interviews and cameras and
Speaker 2: lights and stuff like that on the street for the
Speaker 2: in front of the un and Karen just had to
Speaker 2: keep circling in manhatt couldn't find a place to park anywhere.
Speaker 2: You know, what a mess that place is. I paid
Speaker 2: to stay out of there. Trump has vowed to kill
Speaker 2: the program when he takes office, but it's unclear whether
Speaker 2: he'll follow through. It's unclear whether they will fall through
Speaker 2: with anything. Quite frankly, that's I'm skeptical about anything that
Speaker 2: he promises here. The question is does he have jurisdiction.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, you know, look at when
Speaker 2: they give federal money, as you know they did to
Speaker 2: build the Interstates. Then after that's done in the fifties
Speaker 2: by Eisenhower Nixon, his vice president becomes president, and twenty
Speaker 2: years later he says, no, you're going to have to
Speaker 2: drive fifty five miles an hour now because I say so,
Speaker 2: and because I'm going to take the money away from
Speaker 2: you if you don't do that. And of course they
Speaker 2: were happy to comply because they could get traffic fines
Speaker 2: and tickets for people as well. Not only is this
Speaker 2: a massive tax for people coming in, it's extremely convenient
Speaker 2: from both driving and personal bookkeeping standards. It'll be virtually
Speaker 2: impossible for New York City to come back as long
Speaker 2: as this congestion tax is in effect. The toll was
Speaker 2: supposed to go into effect last year with a fifteen
Speaker 2: dollars change, but because last year was an election year,
Speaker 2: they decided they would wait to stick it to the
Speaker 2: people the next year. And they even say that David,
Speaker 2: so it is. You know, there's some lawsuits that are
Speaker 2: going on. New Jersey obviously is not very happy about this.
Speaker 2: For the people who are going to be commuting. I
Speaker 2: can't even imagine commuting by car from New Jersey in
Speaker 2: New York. But anyway, the funds that they collect are
Speaker 2: not going to go to fixing potholes. You have to
Speaker 2: buy a supercar hypercar in order to jump the potholes.
Speaker 2: The money will not go to fixing or even maintaining
Speaker 2: the roads, and certainly they can't make them any wider.
Speaker 2: They could make them higher. You know, Musk even got
Speaker 2: that right. You know, we start talking about his boring project,
Speaker 2: he said, we're building the you know, the cities are
Speaker 2: getting more and more congested, and they're going vertically, so
Speaker 2: we got to go vertically with the road. His solution
Speaker 2: was to tunnel. Whereas everybody always knew this and all
Speaker 2: of the movies that you would have to have a
Speaker 2: higher you'd have to have multiple layers of roads if
Speaker 2: you're going to keep up with the population. But they
Speaker 2: don't want you driving at all in their cities, and
Speaker 2: so the money is going to go to the New
Speaker 2: York mass transit system that they control because they want
Speaker 2: you dependent on them. So it's going to be a
Speaker 2: big mess there. Meanwhile, and Ottawa. Ottawa has outlawed remote
Speaker 2: car starters. You know, I talked to the last couple
Speaker 2: of days about the fact that Biden is out there
Speaker 2: banning electric water heaters. Well, Ottawa is banning remote car
Speaker 2: starters to try to heat up people's cars. You know,
Speaker 2: a very cold area there, and the City of Otawa
Speaker 2: says we've got to do this in order to help
Speaker 2: reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Do they doesn't really make a difference.
Speaker 2: Listen to the temperatures that they've got in Ottawa, the
Speaker 2: Canadian capital, where average temperatures range from fifteen degrees fahrenheit
Speaker 2: in December and then in January and February it's nineteen
Speaker 2: degrees fahrenheit is the average temperature, and then in I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: six degrees six degrees fahrenheit and January and February is
Speaker 2: the average temperature. It's nineteen degrees in March, and in
Speaker 2: these unbelievably cold conditions, you know, six degrees fahrenheit throughout
Speaker 2: January and February minus fourteen degrees centigrade. They have put
Speaker 2: new time limits on preheating your car. They will allow
Speaker 2: you one minute of idle time per hour for unoccupied
Speaker 2: vehicles if your car. Do a remote start on your car.
Speaker 2: People start up their remote car, start up the car remotely,
Speaker 2: so the heater the engine block can warm up, start
Speaker 2: to heated up on the inside. But also they can
Speaker 2: get started on defrosting the windows. But no, not now
Speaker 2: you're going to go out there in six degree weather
Speaker 2: and you're going to dece it by hand. This means
Speaker 2: using a remote started to melt the ice off and
Speaker 2: warm the car up. Is now going to be forbidden.
Speaker 2: You have to get out there in six degree weather
Speaker 2: and do it yourself. And we had to do it,
Speaker 2: as I said, because we've got a lower greenhouse gas emissions. Well,
Speaker 2: as this article on zero Hedge says, the entire nation
Speaker 2: of Canada it is responsible for only one point six
Speaker 2: percent of CO two emissions. You can eliminate the entire
Speaker 2: energy footprint of every Canadian and still not make a difference.
Speaker 2: It's like, as we talk about their paradigms, you know,
Speaker 2: regardless of why their paradigms are, are we broadcasting I
Speaker 2: see that the pictures gone Okay, we're working on it.
Speaker 2: So they didn't turn off our lights, so we even
Speaker 2: though if you're watching this broadcast, it has gone blank,
Speaker 2: so do not adjust your TV set. The problem is
Speaker 2: on our end somehow. It was something we're working on
Speaker 2: getting that done. But meanwhile, if we got audio, and
Speaker 2: I guess that is still going out all right, I'll
Speaker 2: continue with this. All of Canada by their own weird
Speaker 2: fantasy by their own paradigm, by their own mcguffin. All
Speaker 2: of Canada is only one point six percent of CO
Speaker 2: two emissions globally. And again, you know CO two emissions.
Speaker 2: CO two is only zero point zero four percent of
Speaker 2: the atmosphere. So CO two is not warming the atmosphere,
Speaker 2: and Canada is not warming the atmosphere. But again, China
Speaker 2: is going to build two new coal power plants every week.
Speaker 2: This is the Paris Climate Accord. The Paris Accord is
Speaker 2: looking more and more like some kind of a Jacobin
Speaker 2: Marxist scheme, isn't it, Because that's what it is. So
Speaker 2: they also have another problem, they said. One person said,
Speaker 2: for all the truckers who are listening, I know, we've
Speaker 2: got a lot of truckers who listen to program on
Speaker 2: a regular basis. When your DPF system on your diesel
Speaker 2: truck forces you to do a parked region cycle regeneration cycle,
Speaker 2: are you going to get a ticket from by law
Speaker 2: enforcement because you're stationary with the engine running for half
Speaker 2: an hour? And they explain what the DPF is. It's
Speaker 2: a diesel particulate filter. It's a system that diesel trucks
Speaker 2: use in order to reduce emissions, and they require periodic
Speaker 2: regeneration cycles where the engine has to run to burn
Speaker 2: off the accumulates suit. There we are, we're back. Okay, good,
Speaker 2: we've got our visual back. So we're back to burn
Speaker 2: off accumulated soot, which can take it thirty minutes to
Speaker 2: burn that off. And of course you don't want to
Speaker 2: be trying to start your diesel engines those in a
Speaker 2: six degree fahrenheit. You want to keep it running most
Speaker 2: of the time. Anyway, The city is also recommending that
Speaker 2: people call them to rat out their neighbors and their
Speaker 2: friends who might be ignoring the new by law. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it really is about communism. This is like the Stazi society.
Speaker 2: I've told the story before about the woman who an
Speaker 2: American who loved communism, really loved it. She wanted to
Speaker 2: move to East Germany. These German people were suspicious of her,
Speaker 2: the Stazi, the police, and so you know, as we
Speaker 2: all found out, they've got like half of East Germans
Speaker 2: were snitching on the other half of East Germans all
Speaker 2: the time. And she found out after everything collapsed and
Speaker 2: they started getting the diary, she found out that all
Speaker 2: of her friends and neighbors who were so kind to her,
Speaker 2: were spying on her for the Stazi. This is what
Speaker 2: they're doing. You know, it's not a coincidence that the
Speaker 2: Greens and the Reds, the Communists are all working together.
Speaker 2: I've said many times that all this environmentalism is nothing
Speaker 2: more than just a watermelon philosophy where they have a
Speaker 2: thin Veniera green on the outside and they're thoroughly red
Speaker 2: Communist on the inside. Well, I see that we've now
Speaker 2: got our video back and we have Tony Ardabin ready.
Speaker 2: We're going to talk to Tony. We also have another
Speaker 2: guest that's coming up in the last half hour of
Speaker 2: the show. It's going to talk about something that is
Speaker 2: happening that is insane in Washington State. But we're going
Speaker 2: to take a quick break and we're going to connect
Speaker 2: with Tony and we'll be right back to talk about
Speaker 2: what's happening with economics.
Speaker 11: Stay with us, we'll be right back. Liberty, it's your
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Speaker 2: Yug, Well, let's get in touch with wise Wolf Tony
Speaker 2: Rdeman himself, who happens to be on the line. And
Speaker 2: welcome Tony.
Speaker 3: Good to have you one, always good to see you, David.
Speaker 3: I just looked out my front door here and it's
Speaker 3: it's snowing in North Texas has got a snowstorm coming,
Speaker 3: and wow, it makes you makes you wonder how those
Speaker 3: warm waters down in the Gulf of America are right now,
Speaker 3: you know. I wonder if you get down there and
Speaker 3: just be on vacation. My dog is my dog Beans
Speaker 3: jumped up in my lap because it's actually pretty windy,
Speaker 3: and there's supposed to supposed to be a lot of
Speaker 3: snowfall and more than we usually get in the winter
Speaker 3: time here in the next day or so.
Speaker 2: Well, hopefully your power grade's going to hang in there
Speaker 2: this time. I remember when that happened and we were
Speaker 2: in Texas who wound up doing a show by candlelight.
Speaker 2: I remember that and cell phone and I remember the
Speaker 2: second day we did it. As it warmed up, we
Speaker 2: realized that a pipe had burst in our kitchen and
Speaker 2: so we had Whistler holding the camera there and Travis
Speaker 2: and Karen were mopping and I'm trying to do this
Speaker 2: and it was it was pretty crazy. But hopefully that
Speaker 2: won't happen this time. But we got a lot of
Speaker 2: things to talk about. I mean, we just had the
Speaker 2: Federal Federal Reserves Open Market Committee and headline says that
Speaker 2: almost all quote almost all Federal Fed members see higher
Speaker 2: inflation coming. What about that? And they think it's because
Speaker 2: of Trump?
Speaker 3: What's that? Rend me to the Carson to the Karnak
Speaker 3: trip in trick where you hold the envelope up to
Speaker 3: his forehead, because it's funny, like, are we we're going
Speaker 3: to see some inflation? They're like, by the way, we're
Speaker 3: going to cut rates, you know, like of course, And
Speaker 3: they're talking about this in the around June or so
Speaker 3: of twenty twenty five here in cutting rates, and I mean,
Speaker 3: this is again transitory. It was transitory. Both Janet Yell
Speaker 3: and Rome pal said that inflation was transitory, and then
Speaker 3: they said, no, we have to We're going to do something.
Speaker 3: We're very hawkish we're going to do We're going to
Speaker 3: roll it back. It's going to be tamed. And then
Speaker 3: they just figured out they couldn't do it anyway, even
Speaker 3: with raising interest rates faster than any time in history,
Speaker 3: any other fed shair did Jerome Powell, and we saw
Speaker 3: the effects on that economy started to stall. What do
Speaker 3: they do because we're built on debt, we're built on
Speaker 3: cheap fiat currency, and there's no way out. They're gonna
Speaker 3: have to inflate their way out of every issue. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's why it's so silly. The you know, the mainstream
Speaker 3: headlines soon talking about earnings and other things. Until we
Speaker 3: get a grip on, you know, what causes inflation and
Speaker 3: the devaluation of our currency, then none of these economic
Speaker 3: issues are going to be solved.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, well we know and they know, but they're
Speaker 2: not going to do anything about it. You know. And
Speaker 2: you talk about how fast you raise interest rates, I'll
Speaker 2: never forget. You know, back at the beginning of this
Speaker 2: fourth turning two thousand and seven, two thousand and eight,
Speaker 2: you know, he starts that had really low rates for
Speaker 2: a very long time, and then they start raising them
Speaker 2: a quarter like every month, you know, and just like
Speaker 2: a stairstep until they got high enough that they helped
Speaker 2: cause the bubble to burst. And then this time around,
Speaker 2: he doesn't do it a quarter each time, he's doing
Speaker 2: it three quarters each time, three quarters of a point
Speaker 2: each time, so seventy five bases points. Yeah. Who would
Speaker 2: have thought that this type of thing would happen. And
Speaker 2: yet as they're looking forward, they're also saying that they're
Speaker 2: talking about inflation. You know, as we look at these
Speaker 2: interest rates, though, it's interesting how as they keep dropping
Speaker 2: the interest rates, the long term bond market believes that
Speaker 2: there's going to be a lot of inflation, and so
Speaker 2: they keep raising the rates. And that's one of the
Speaker 2: reasons why the home mortgage rates are going up even
Speaker 2: as these guys are cutting the rates. It's because in
Speaker 2: the marketplace where people are buying the bonds, that's where
Speaker 2: they're bidding the stuff up, because they're not buying it either.
Speaker 2: You know, it's just a lie, and so the interests.
Speaker 2: As they keep pretending that inflation is not a problem,
Speaker 2: the market says otherwise, and that's why you keep seeing
Speaker 2: the home mortgage rates go up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it may be cheaper for the banks to
Speaker 3: borrow and go directly to the FED, but they don't
Speaker 3: want to pass that on to consumers because they don't
Speaker 3: believe in the strength of the economy. That's exactly what
Speaker 3: they're signaling. They don't believe in the strength of the
Speaker 3: borrowers to pay back those loans. And they're gonna make money.
Speaker 3: That's what they're gonna do. They're gonna put they have,
Speaker 3: they have the cash, they have the funds. They're going
Speaker 3: to hoard it, just like they did after two thousand
Speaker 3: and nine, you know, the darp bailouts and Hank Paulson
Speaker 3: begging Nancy Pelosi for the It seems quaint now, but
Speaker 3: it was supposed to be like the seven hundred billion
Speaker 3: that they needed to cover the shortfall through the treasury.
Speaker 3: And now we just look at that. And I'm telling
Speaker 3: you off air that Jednet Yelling is saying that she
Speaker 3: thinks that the COVID stimulus may have had an impact
Speaker 3: on inflation. Only the best minds David and era. Where
Speaker 3: when we look when we make two thousand and nine
Speaker 3: look tame and a bygone era. You know, when they
Speaker 3: bailed out for the Great Recession. Now we just do
Speaker 3: that again. It's it's a trillion in debt every hundred days,
Speaker 3: and I think you and I even calculated the one
Speaker 3: of the last quarter of twenty twenty four, it was
Speaker 3: like every ninety days, there's like two point three trillion
Speaker 3: or something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it's accelerating, it's accelerating, it's you know, it's
Speaker 2: going up exponentially. So yeah, maybe as when we're talking
Speaker 2: about that, I joked and said, well, maybe she had
Speaker 2: some revelation when she was on mushrooms famously doing that
Speaker 2: in China and then coming out and bowing incessantly. You know, yeah,
Speaker 2: we got what is it? The term was not kleptocracy,
Speaker 2: which is ruled by thieves, but we have a cacistocracy,
Speaker 2: which is the rules by the rule by the worst
Speaker 2: people that you could possibly have. And that Janet Yellen
Speaker 2: has to have her picture right there in the dictionary
Speaker 2: next to cacistocracy and Biden the best mind.
Speaker 3: People like Janet yelling and really show you that they're
Speaker 3: not in charge. You know that there's no way that
Speaker 3: they could run something as complicated as the US Treasury
Speaker 3: or it's an it's like a plant. To make sure
Speaker 3: that she runs it the way like kind of like
Speaker 3: a mobster would pick a real estate agent or something
Speaker 3: to run the casino.
Speaker 2: Trump did trying to figure out how he managed to
Speaker 2: bankrupt so many different casinos. One of these almost got
Speaker 2: a license to print money, you know, but maybe he
Speaker 2: hired a real estate agent to run it. I know
Speaker 2: he hired a real estate agent to try to get
Speaker 2: that uh that house that he wanted a parking lot for.
Speaker 2: It was it was straight out of up you know.
Speaker 2: He had some widow who had a home and he
Speaker 2: wanted to buy. She didn't want to sell it, and
Speaker 2: so he went to the local government and got them
Speaker 2: to condemn it, take her home and everything, and then
Speaker 2: he declared bankruptcy and shut his casino down. Anyway, but
Speaker 2: let's talk about gold because we see that China's demand
Speaker 2: is going up and gold and the headline is gold
Speaker 2: gains on technical buying as well as China demand, and
Speaker 2: of course it nicle buying is going to be things
Speaker 2: that are be looking at what's going to happen with
Speaker 2: inflation and other issues like that.
Speaker 3: Right well, absolutely, And you know there's something interesting about China.
Speaker 3: They bought the dip whatever they're running their calculations, these
Speaker 3: are long term. It's something China's been doing since the
Speaker 3: beginning of this century and buying off the books, and
Speaker 3: you had to wonder about that. They're not open about
Speaker 3: their goal buying. I remember stories that would pop up
Speaker 3: in the last thirty six months where you know, there'd
Speaker 3: be some giant goal purchase and then somebody would sleuth
Speaker 3: and find that, you know, it's a subsidiary of the
Speaker 3: Chinese government that's buying this gold. So they didn't want
Speaker 3: the world to know what they were doing. I think
Speaker 3: there will be a big reveal eventually and they'll just
Speaker 3: say we have more gold in the US. I think
Speaker 3: that they actually do. I mean, I've seen research from
Speaker 3: you know, a journalist over at Kiko speculating that China
Speaker 3: has close to sixteen thousand tons of gold because they've
Speaker 3: been buying literally since really just calculating where the trade
Speaker 3: deficits were going and was happening with the US manufacturing base,
Speaker 3: and they slipped in at the end of the twentieth century.
Speaker 3: They got that deal from George W. Bush with most
Speaker 3: Favored Trading Status with a WTO on December eleventh, two
Speaker 3: thousand and one, ninety days after nine to eleven. And
Speaker 3: since then, you know, it's fifty five thousand factories were
Speaker 3: gone within five years. You know, one in three manufacturing
Speaker 3: jobs those were gone. So they that again they had
Speaker 3: to go somewhere. People were funny about trade deficits. Well
Speaker 3: there's you know, it's not in a vacuum. It has
Speaker 3: to go somewhere if there's a deficit, and the surplus
Speaker 3: went to China. So in my estimation, I think at
Speaker 3: least these articles are going to continue to come out
Speaker 3: where you see China as the leader in the gold business,
Speaker 3: in gold buying. They have sixty thousand gold mines. This
Speaker 3: is worth examining. And what happens if the US, you know,
Speaker 3: starts to try to be ham fisted about its trade policies,
Speaker 3: like with Trump talking about you know, one hundred percent
Speaker 3: tariffs on countries that don't use King dollars, or what
Speaker 3: happens when the Chinese say, well, actually we have you know,
Speaker 3: when gold remonetizes, we have the the gold reserves you know,
Speaker 3: used to be the US with eight thousand and a
Speaker 3: half tons or whatever it is. I don't I don't
Speaker 3: necessarily believe it anymore. I don't. We haven't had an
Speaker 3: audit since the fifties so that is an open question.
Speaker 2: I think I think Goldfinger got at all. Goldfinger. That
Speaker 2: was when everybody talked about all the gold being in
Speaker 2: Fort Knox and you know, but is there any gold
Speaker 2: in Fort Knox? Who knows?
Speaker 3: Definitely we have you know, we have bond villains, Davos,
Speaker 3: for sure, one of them's.
Speaker 2: Got that's right. Well, you know you said that China
Speaker 2: buys the dips. They bought ten tons of gold in
Speaker 2: December because you know, everybody else is so excited about Trump.
Speaker 2: That's why we put that in that commercial ukon Cornelius.
Speaker 2: You know, well, trump euphoria has got everybody saying, well,
Speaker 2: we're gonna get crypto, We're not gonna get gold. Well,
Speaker 2: China went to the gold bought that dip.
Speaker 3: Well absolutely I did too. You know, we bought it
Speaker 3: for a wolf pack and I see that again. The
Speaker 3: fundamentals are all still there. What drove the price of
Speaker 3: gold to record highs? I mean, we forget gold broke
Speaker 3: it's all time high, like was it like thirty times
Speaker 3: or something in two and twenty four, and before that
Speaker 3: it was gaps of years and years. I mean in
Speaker 3: twenty eleven to twenty and twenty there was no ath,
Speaker 3: no all time high for gold. But in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 3: like thirty something times, and it was happening weekly. I
Speaker 3: could come on the show here and we talk about it.
Speaker 3: So we already knew that that was going to continue.
Speaker 3: The fundamentals, and nothing really changes with the election except
Speaker 3: for some proposed you know, crypto deregulation or being crypto
Speaker 3: friendly for bitcoin, which is driven the price of bitcoin,
Speaker 3: and we'll see what happens there. I mean, we were
Speaker 3: talking off air about the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve maybe not
Speaker 3: going forward or losing momentum or steam. Is Trump going
Speaker 3: to back out on that, That's an open question. He
Speaker 3: was really supported by the bitcoin community and those in
Speaker 3: the crypto space, so we'll see. I mean, I've lived
Speaker 3: through the Trump presidency. I remember things. I know. I'm
Speaker 3: not supposed to gorvedal the United States of Amnesia. I
Speaker 3: try not to join that crowd, but I remember, you know,
Speaker 3: twenty seventeen to twenty twenty one and what policies came
Speaker 3: out of that. So I'm skeptical. I'm just going to
Speaker 3: continue to do what I do regardless of the politics,
Speaker 3: because I know, when we live in a world of
Speaker 3: fiat and fake and debt. The world is completely over leveraged.
Speaker 3: I mean, the corporate bankruptcies are up, I mean massively
Speaker 3: this year. The debt, the corporate debt is staggering, and
Speaker 3: then of course the government debt is absolutely out of control.
Speaker 3: So none of those things are going to be fixed.
Speaker 3: And I know that, and that means that commodities and
Speaker 3: things with finite resources will will win the day.
Speaker 2: And it's not just America. It's countries all over the
Speaker 2: world that are getting huge leverage of debt. It's corporations,
Speaker 2: it's consumers, everybody's going into debt. But yeah, I like that.
Speaker 2: We should talk about MAGA being make Amnesia great again.
Speaker 2: That's the whole secret of success for Trump is to
Speaker 2: make am Nietzsche great and they're gonna do it again.
Speaker 2: And that's where we are right now. You know, The
Speaker 2: Atlantic had an article talking about the Great crypto Crash,
Speaker 2: and they said Trump is going to usher in a
Speaker 2: speculative frenzy. And that's the thing, you know, regardless of
Speaker 2: the fundamentals of gold or bitcoin, or the economy or
Speaker 2: anything else like that, I get concerned when I see frenzies.
Speaker 2: When I you know, because frenzies always wind up creating bubbles,
Speaker 2: and bubbles always burst at some point the other. And
Speaker 2: that's the key thing. You know, when even when you
Speaker 2: look at AI and the stocks around that, AI was
Speaker 2: AI stocks were driving the stock market this last year.
Speaker 2: You get ahead of expectations in a frenzy, and sooner
Speaker 2: or later somebody says, wait a minute, this can't possibly
Speaker 2: work out with this kind of optimism, and a few
Speaker 2: people start to leave the exits. And then again, because
Speaker 2: you know, we're talking about a mass psychology, everybody starts
Speaker 2: running for the exits then, you know, and we saw
Speaker 2: that with a dot com first. I mean, certainly the
Speaker 2: Internet was a real thing and it was going to
Speaker 2: be there, So we could see that with AI. We
Speaker 2: could see that with the crypto optimism. There's a lot
Speaker 2: of deregulation that's going to happen. They've done a very
Speaker 2: quick whiplash from Biden, who was doing everything he could
Speaker 2: to either outright prohibit it or regulate it into oblivion.
Speaker 2: And you go from that to somebody who is talking
Speaker 2: about maybe even making it part of the reserve. Don't
Speaker 2: think that's going to happen, but you know, this kind
Speaker 2: of whips whiplash that is there has really created a
Speaker 2: lot of market frenzy, hasn't it.
Speaker 3: It has? And that is concerning I like steady, the
Speaker 3: bubbles and the frenzy and the euphoria of all that.
Speaker 3: And there's a lot of hype and that's where you
Speaker 3: get the pump and dump and we know the economy
Speaker 3: everything's fake. I mean, it stems back from our currency.
Speaker 3: And that's the argument I have every week from about
Speaker 3: every every time I come on my show, and I'm
Speaker 3: just gonna be talking about that. You look at the
Speaker 3: metrics of they have fart coin.
Speaker 2: Baby, it's like the ultronate bubble, right, it's.
Speaker 3: The ultimate I mean this is and what does that
Speaker 3: even mean? Like what these mean coins and other things
Speaker 3: and what it leads to in my estimation, and this
Speaker 3: could be the way that I look at the world
Speaker 3: is probably very similar to you. I look at these banksters.
Speaker 3: They want ultimate control, they want CBDC. They've got this
Speaker 3: competing thing like bitcoin, they've got decentralization in the market. Well,
Speaker 3: you know, do you invite it to the party, do
Speaker 3: you you know, throw it off the balcony as I was,
Speaker 3: you know, that's what I think this is happening with crypto,
Speaker 3: is that they're going to inflate this thing so massive,
Speaker 3: get everybody involved, and then crash it. And then that
Speaker 3: would call for regulation. And see what that wouldn't have
Speaker 3: happened if we had a centrally. We like digital currency,
Speaker 3: we love the convenience of that, but you just need
Speaker 3: to give your biometrics over and it needs to be
Speaker 3: state controlled. And you know, the centralization is the key,
Speaker 3: and regulation is the key, and not these things that
Speaker 3: led to so many bankruptcies and failures and other things.
Speaker 3: That's what I get concerned with. And the number, that's
Speaker 3: what in the crypto space you always hear about, you know,
Speaker 3: number go up, And I don't think that's always the
Speaker 3: best outcome, you know. I think steady as she goes
Speaker 3: and building equity and building networks, and that's I think
Speaker 3: a lot of people in the bitcoin space want to
Speaker 3: build the bitcoin network. And that's certainly me. You know,
Speaker 3: I'm bitcoin centered, Like we're building and we should have
Speaker 3: the site live here within the next month for Wisewolf
Speaker 3: Bitcoin and it's going to be bitcoin only. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's just you can use bitcoin to buy and sell
Speaker 3: with us, or you can buy precious metals with us,
Speaker 3: will be able to It's very symbiotic what we're building,
Speaker 3: and that's based off the Bitcoin network. But I get
Speaker 3: really concerned, like I don't own these mean coins and
Speaker 3: I'm not pushing if you see if you see me
Speaker 3: pushing a mean coin of folks, I've been hided to
Speaker 3: something's wrong, Like it's not Tony, So like I'm not
Speaker 3: going to be doing that.
Speaker 2: Somebody hijacked it.
Speaker 3: Be be cautious. It's not me because it's irresponsible. And
Speaker 3: you see what happens because I don't see any value
Speaker 3: in it. You can make it by the way, you
Speaker 3: can make a fortune in it, but you got to
Speaker 3: ride the wave and then But that's not business to me.
Speaker 2: That's yeah, that's gambling. That's the stock market. Like a
Speaker 2: lot of the stock market it is. It really is
Speaker 2: just speculation. It's a casino. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I'm very skeptical of things like that, and
Speaker 3: especially in this area, but that's where we are. There's
Speaker 3: so much fake floating around and things that the pain
Speaker 3: really hasn't hit. But I believe that we're just around
Speaker 3: the corner for just it just takes a little push
Speaker 3: into some uncertainty, and you'll start seeing that what's going
Speaker 3: to win the day again, it's who hold the keys
Speaker 3: of the commodities. I saw an article earlier today doing
Speaker 3: some research, and there's a lot of analysts that are
Speaker 3: concerned about if Trump goes through with some of these tariffs,
Speaker 3: what it's going to do to the price of metals
Speaker 3: and especially things like silver. They're clearing out the vaults
Speaker 3: right now around the world, and a lot of these
Speaker 3: companies and large holders of silver and gold are bringing
Speaker 3: them home to the United States and housing them because
Speaker 3: if if gold and silver are treated as a commodity
Speaker 3: and not money by these tariffs, it throws off everything
Speaker 3: and it creates a like a devaulting where all over
Speaker 3: the world they started clearing out these balls. There's going
Speaker 3: to be so much unintended consequences from just I mean again, nobody,
Speaker 3: nobody's ever done that where we've punished their countries for
Speaker 3: not using our currency outright with tariffs like that, even
Speaker 3: that would not be And I'm somebody who's a proponent
Speaker 3: of tariffs because of economic nationalism me too. Now what
Speaker 3: this is.
Speaker 2: What he's opposing, Yeah, it's very much. You know, he's
Speaker 2: weaponizing our financial system against other people. It's what he's doing,
Speaker 2: same thing that Biden did, except that you know, they
Speaker 2: basically have both. They're going to destroy our financial system
Speaker 2: by weaponizing it, but they have different ways of doing it.
Speaker 2: You know, Biden's going to do it with sanctions, punitive sanctions.
Speaker 2: He's going to do it with punitive tariffs. Same thing.
Speaker 2: And when you take a situation as shaky as the
Speaker 2: world economy is, regardless of where you look at, I mean,
Speaker 2: China is not solid either. I played a clip last
Speaker 2: week a lot of individual Chinese and I don't know
Speaker 2: what happened to their social credit score when they posted
Speaker 2: this stuff up, but they were showing pictures of empty trains,
Speaker 2: pictures of empty cities, pictures of empty shopping malls. And
Speaker 2: of course I've seen pictures of these MC mansions that
Speaker 2: that the Chinese built, these entire, very elaborate, expensive homes,
Speaker 2: never occupied. And so it is kind of a Potempkin
Speaker 2: economy in many regards. And if Trump throws in these
Speaker 2: kind of punitive tariffs, it's going to be like throwing
Speaker 2: a bomb into a crowded theater. Here, who knows what's
Speaker 2: going to happen and who's going to get killed with
Speaker 2: this kind of stuff. But I think he's really going
Speaker 2: to do it. He's an agent of chaos and and boy,
Speaker 2: he puts in massive tariffs. And even if he doesn't
Speaker 2: do it, even if he just uses it as a threat,
Speaker 2: that's not going to be good for our economy because
Speaker 2: people are tired of being threatened by the US government.
Speaker 2: We've done that, you know, Biden does it, Trump does it.
Speaker 2: They all do it. You know, they're they're the bad
Speaker 2: boy in town. And you know, we we can use
Speaker 2: military force to take Panama off we want, and you know,
Speaker 2: there's nothing that you can do or say about it.
Speaker 2: That's that's what we've seen these eyes operated for the
Speaker 2: longest time. Arthur Hayes was saying that unexpected decisions from Trump,
Speaker 2: or from the Bank of Japan or China's economic policies,
Speaker 2: any of this kind of stuff. He says, any of
Speaker 2: these things could trigger this. Anything's in addition to that,
Speaker 2: tax deadlines that are coming up in April, a lot
Speaker 2: of people perhaps are going to you know, we've seen
Speaker 2: the kind of headwinds that the tax season has on crypto,
Speaker 2: so he's thinking that it's going to hit the crypto
Speaker 2: just in general, not just a bitcoin, but all of
Speaker 2: them hit their peak in March of twenty twenty five,
Speaker 2: so he's pretty specific in terms of his bearishness.
Speaker 3: I think that will most likely turn out to be true.
Speaker 3: Is based off of my own analysis, because again I'm
Speaker 3: buying bitcoin and I'm for inventory, but I expect the
Speaker 3: price to draw back, don't. I think we probably will
Speaker 3: end twenty twenty five over where we are right now.
Speaker 3: I think it'll be a decent year. But these were zealous.
Speaker 3: I think they're just way out of front of what
Speaker 3: bitcoin price is going to be. And again, if you
Speaker 3: look at the other markets, they follow bitcoin. So if
Speaker 3: Bitcoin's not really moving, these other things are going to
Speaker 3: go stagnant, and the mean coin space and all the
Speaker 3: stuff that doesn't serve a function will start to implode.
Speaker 3: It's like the dot com era, you know that the
Speaker 3: same thing dot Com overbuilt and there was so many
Speaker 3: everything was going to be you know, one hundred x
Speaker 3: and all times earnings and all this stuff, and it
Speaker 3: was crazy. I remember my dad talk to me about it.
Speaker 3: I was a kid, you know, but right before I
Speaker 3: went to the military, were just discussing what the stock
Speaker 3: market was and why he didn't own stocks, but he had,
Speaker 3: you know, multiple businesses. He's like, this is they're they're overvalued,
Speaker 3: and certainly that's true today.
Speaker 2: On even companies like Cisco and Intel went down. It
Speaker 2: wasn't just pet dot com, you know, it wasn't just
Speaker 2: some retail you know all pretty much most of these
Speaker 2: retail dot com things that people have bet so much money.
Speaker 2: It's kind of like meme coins today. And about the
Speaker 2: only one that really survived was Amazon.
Speaker 3: And the earth Link, you know, like, what's the latest
Speaker 3: from Amazon, I mean, or not Amazon, but AOL you know,
Speaker 3: I mean a Toime Warner, they you know, Worldcon. They
Speaker 3: had all these things that refused together at that time
Speaker 3: and they're just not household names anymore. And I lost
Speaker 3: the massive market share. They just you know, they had
Speaker 3: their time, and it wasn't what fit. I think that
Speaker 3: will that will be what's sorted out here with the crypto.
Speaker 3: I still believe in the space, but I think, you know,
Speaker 3: so many things are about number go up, and it's
Speaker 3: not about fundamentals or about what makes the coin usable valuable.
Speaker 3: And I think the only thing that really serves any
Speaker 3: purpose right now, aside from possibly x RP or or ethereum,
Speaker 3: which I still I don't own any of it is bitcoin.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you mentioned Earthlink. I was so disappointed to lose
Speaker 2: my email address that I had at Earthlink. I put
Speaker 2: in DK at Earthlink, but I spelled it out dec
Speaker 2: why at Earthlink comment that went away? I get a
Speaker 2: question for you from Kowalama, says Tony talking about insurance
Speaker 2: in California today, white companies insure gold and silver bullion
Speaker 2: at home bank deposit box or at a private deposit box.
Speaker 2: Are these policies worth it?
Speaker 3: Well, I use the Hartford as what I use for insurance.
Speaker 3: You can look into that. But if you're storing your
Speaker 3: gold and silver, I mean, look at some reputable places.
Speaker 3: I know Andy Sheckman over at Myles Franklin, I've you know,
Speaker 3: I've talked to him and he's he's got a really
Speaker 3: good storage program with Brinks. So you got to have
Speaker 3: a you got to have a strong name whenever you're
Speaker 3: you're putting it anywhere. And of course we'd have a
Speaker 3: through the trading floor in Dallas for through dyl Engage.
Speaker 3: We have our storage with I d s and others
Speaker 3: for your I ras, and those are insured massively. So,
Speaker 3: but if you're in private hands again, you want to
Speaker 3: just really be cautious about that. They'll they'll probably have
Speaker 3: some suggestions at the wherever you're storing it on the insurance.
Speaker 3: But I use I use the hard Ford. They've been
Speaker 3: decently transparent.
Speaker 2: And that's as like an extra writer that you put
Speaker 2: on your homeowner policy.
Speaker 3: We talked, yes, yeah, I use that for business and
Speaker 3: you know, I've I've got to land in Arkansas and
Speaker 3: my house here in Texas. So it's kind of a
Speaker 3: universal policy that covers businesses and inventory and things, and
Speaker 3: they know they're very aware of, like, you know what
Speaker 3: I hold. So that's what I use, is the hart.
Speaker 2: For Yeah, And that's the kind of thing that you know,
Speaker 2: if you've got anything that's got a lot of concentrated value,
Speaker 2: you need to have that. Make sure the insurance company
Speaker 2: is aware of that, and that is you know, you
Speaker 2: declare that and make sure that they have ensured that
Speaker 2: as well anytime you got something of value. So what's
Speaker 2: going on at at Wiswolf You said you've got the
Speaker 2: bitcoin exchange that you're working on is coming up soon? Right?
Speaker 2: What else?
Speaker 3: As fast as I can working on that and we
Speaker 3: should and we should be like by the time we
Speaker 3: do our show next week, David, I should be live
Speaker 3: where you can use bitcoin to buy gold and silver
Speaker 3: through me online and with no fee, and we're the
Speaker 3: only broker in America that does that. It will be
Speaker 3: no transactional fee whatsoever. You just pay for the price
Speaker 3: of the metals. It'd be like cash wow, and that
Speaker 3: if you're doing that, if you have a if you
Speaker 3: have a credit card, you have to pay a fee
Speaker 3: because we have to absorb that. But I've made it
Speaker 3: to where bitcoin is pretty symbiotic with us, and we'll
Speaker 3: be doing some press releases, so we're really excited about that.
Speaker 3: There's that's been a network I had to build in
Speaker 3: and it's not as easy as it looks. So the
Speaker 3: shopping cart will all be set up for Wolfpack. You'll
Speaker 3: be able to do one time purchases, and then we're
Speaker 3: going to add some other aspects to that site so
Speaker 3: you can just you know, if you want to do
Speaker 3: a blanket amount or something of gold and silver and
Speaker 3: we buy it for you or whatever. We'll have We
Speaker 3: have so many programs rolling out, but it's going to
Speaker 3: be a symbiotic relationship between bitcoin and gold and silver
Speaker 3: with no fee, So we're looking forward to that.
Speaker 2: So you can move back of mean bitcoin and goal
Speaker 2: without a fee. That's cool.
Speaker 3: Yes, Yeah, you can get into precious metals no fee
Speaker 3: when you shop through us, which will be again nobody
Speaker 3: else does that, and we're glad that we're the first.
Speaker 2: Well that's really good. So yeah, people are concerned about
Speaker 2: something crashing, it's a way for them to switch it
Speaker 2: into something else coming up. So that's great and we
Speaker 2: can talk about the details of that and more about
Speaker 2: that next week when you come back on anything else
Speaker 2: going on at wisewelf. That's a big deal and I
Speaker 2: know that's a lot of work to get all that
Speaker 2: stuff together, and especially because all those regulations are still there.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's still that. I brought on my little brother,
Speaker 3: little he's I call him a little brother. I brought
Speaker 3: my brother in to help me, and he ran a
Speaker 3: fairly large bitcoin ATM business that we started together. But
Speaker 3: he took it and ran with it for many years
Speaker 3: and sold it within the last couple of years. So
Speaker 3: he knows all everywhere. You know, where everybody is and
Speaker 3: who to talk with on regulation and banking. Brought him
Speaker 3: in and we're going to fuse the two things together,
Speaker 3: which I think, you know, even with what we discussed
Speaker 3: with the crypto space, I think it's going to be volatile.
Speaker 3: But I'm betting that, you know, again, the free market
Speaker 3: or innovation and the entrepreneurs still drive civilization. So I'm
Speaker 3: still still optimistic there that those things will go together.
Speaker 3: And then of course the precious metals, David, I mean,
Speaker 3: I still think we're massively undervalued. Most analysts are looking
Speaker 3: at rising gold and silver prices, and I know that
Speaker 3: they will because you have the FED meeting and they're
Speaker 3: talking about inflation and they don't know why. It's just
Speaker 3: they don't know where it's coming from. But they're going
Speaker 3: to lower rates. And I'm just thinking, okay, And you know,
Speaker 3: Janet Yelling is thinking maybe that the COVID stimulus had
Speaker 3: something to do with it. So I'm still betting on
Speaker 3: precious metals and finite Well, even when you look at.
Speaker 2: Some of the big banks and their analysts are saying, well,
Speaker 2: maybe not. You know, a lot of them were saying
Speaker 2: three thousand by January whatever for gold. Now they're saying, well,
Speaker 2: maybe by the end of the year or whatever. But
Speaker 2: that's still a pretty big increase, you know, going from
Speaker 2: what is it now, about twenty six hundred something to
Speaker 2: three thousand. That's a you're not going to make anything
Speaker 2: at all like that. In the savings account, they don't.
Speaker 2: They play zero, like zero point one percent interest or
Speaker 2: something like that.
Speaker 3: But we'll start moving something after January twentieth, after the
Speaker 3: inaugurate I think you'll just start seeing rising precious metals prices.
Speaker 3: And the reason is is because there's going to be
Speaker 3: a massive amount of spending. You and I both know this.
Speaker 3: It's going to be a suspending spree the likes of
Speaker 3: which we probably never seen before. There's going to be
Speaker 3: a lot of it because that's what the previous Trump
Speaker 3: administration was all about, the stock market, and you know,
Speaker 3: just inflating that. And if we recall Venezuela, they had
Speaker 3: a you know, booming stock market too while the currency
Speaker 3: was dying. And it won't be like that necessarily in
Speaker 3: the US. But the King Trump loves a weaker dollars.
Speaker 3: He wants that, and it's it can be good to
Speaker 3: fuel a lot of things in the short term. But
Speaker 3: we both know what that does to the price of commodities.
Speaker 3: It's going to drive that and that's that's what those
Speaker 3: analysts are predicting.
Speaker 2: I think they're right, yeah, oh yeah, I think people
Speaker 2: are going to be It's going to whether or not
Speaker 2: the make Amnes your greater kind of crowd gets it
Speaker 2: or not the other people are going to get it,
Speaker 2: and it's going to have real effect when the rosy
Speaker 2: scenario that people are expecting from Trump doesn't happen, and
Speaker 2: I seriously don't think it is. But it's great the
Speaker 2: entrepreneurism that you do in terms of not just what
Speaker 2: you're planning on doing with bitcoin and gold and going
Speaker 2: back and forth, but also with wolf Pack and so
Speaker 2: again that's something unique that nobody else does that you've
Speaker 2: done and kept that up for quite some time. So
Speaker 2: it's great. And you've got a program that is coming
Speaker 2: up right after this. Tell them where they can find
Speaker 2: that at noon Eastern time or eleven Central time.
Speaker 3: Where noon in the eastern eleventh Central Artoburn Radio transmission week.
Speaker 3: This is episode four hundred and ninety five, So join
Speaker 3: us today. I'm on the Quest for five hundred. We're
Speaker 3: broadcasting over WWCR. I just got that contract renewed. I
Speaker 3: got I'm off all traditional talk radio now, David, I
Speaker 3: just decided I'd outgrown and it's not for me anymore.
Speaker 3: It seemed like a game, like a lot of the
Speaker 3: content is just silly to me. At this point, we've
Speaker 3: moved past that and I put away childish things, so
Speaker 3: I'm not doing that anymore. But you can find me
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Speaker 3: America un Plug channel and on Rumble. So join us
Speaker 3: over there. What's a solid hour. I see what I
Speaker 3: can come up with. We got some stuff to talk about.
Speaker 2: That's great, and people can always get to Tony. You're
Speaker 2: easy to remember. If you're a watcher of this program,
Speaker 2: David Knight dot gold, Tony set that up. Take you
Speaker 2: to him, let him know that you came through us,
Speaker 2: and he can help you get set up with wolf Pack.
Speaker 2: It's a great way to accumulate gradually, to accumulate gold
Speaker 2: and silver as kind of a savings program. I remember
Speaker 2: when Americans used to Well you can still do that.
Speaker 2: That's still up to you. Thank you so much for
Speaker 2: joining us, Tony. Always great talking to you. Thank you
Speaker 2: for supporting this program. Appreciate it, thank you, appreciate you.
Speaker 2: All Right, folks are going to be right back, stay
Speaker 2: with us.
Speaker 4: You're listening to the David Night Show.
Speaker 2: Well, we've got some emails here that was actually sent
Speaker 2: to me before Christmas, and you know, when Christmas hit,
Speaker 2: we were trying to catch up and then we just
Speaker 2: things are so busy around here. We just turned everything
Speaker 2: off and just relaxed and took a break. And so
Speaker 2: I want to get back to some of these. This
Speaker 2: is from Dusty. I thought this is very unusual selling
Speaker 2: you sunlight. This is a company called reflect Orbitable Orbital
Speaker 2: and they're talking about putting mirrors in space and they
Speaker 2: will sell you sunlight at night so you can keep
Speaker 2: your solar power going around the clock. Well, of course
Speaker 2: that's not really going to be targeted I guess to
Speaker 2: an individual. But it will be targeted, I think to
Speaker 2: these solar farms. Something they're going to do. I guess
Speaker 2: that's something we can all look forward to, and that
Speaker 2: is going to be looking up into the sky and
Speaker 2: seeing nothing but tens of thousands of Elon Musk's starlinks.
Speaker 2: And now we're going to have these things reflecting light
Speaker 2: all around the clock. It'd be like we all live
Speaker 2: at the poll or something, you know, except you don't
Speaker 2: get six months of darkness. You never get any darkness
Speaker 2: that's there. And then I wanted to think, and he
Speaker 2: just put his name there as Kay, and I haven't
Speaker 2: responded to yet. I just wanted to thank you for
Speaker 2: all the great ideas that he had about social networking,
Speaker 2: about how we could do customer relations better, different organizations
Speaker 2: or programs or websites that are out there that help
Speaker 2: you with customer relations, because we're just totally subscribed to
Speaker 2: this show and it's taking up all my time and
Speaker 2: it's one thing I feel really bad about is not
Speaker 2: connecting more with customers. So maybe we can do a
Speaker 2: better job of that coming up, And I just want
Speaker 2: to say, you know, he took it on himself to
Speaker 2: send this here, and we're looking at how we can
Speaker 2: fix the website and get into some other social media platforms.
Speaker 2: For the love of the road has gotten us on
Speaker 2: to Telegram, but we need to do more with substack
Speaker 2: and other things like that. But if you've got some
Speaker 2: ideas for some of these things, and he gave us
Speaker 2: some great ideas of how to save money, you know,
Speaker 2: free alternatives to zoom and some other things like that,
Speaker 2: If you've got any ideas, please pass them on to us.
Speaker 2: What he said at the end of it, he said,
Speaker 2: it's been interesting to see how you get banned on
Speaker 2: so many different platforms. Makes me dig deeper to find
Speaker 2: real solutions for you and your families. I appreciate that
Speaker 2: it say it's time to pull in all your favors
Speaker 2: and your supporter's knowledge to get up and going in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, time to build your own Noah's arc
Speaker 2: in terms of the medium, He's absolutely right. So we're
Speaker 2: going to hope that we can get this done and
Speaker 2: we certainly would appreciate any suggestions that you've got. And
Speaker 2: as I said, we struggle with the customer relations if
Speaker 2: we don't get back to you here. This was an
Speaker 2: email that he sent December to twenty second, so it's
Speaker 2: taken us a while to address that. This is also
Speaker 2: something that was sent at that point in time I
Speaker 2: thought was very interesting. This is sent by Gary and
Speaker 2: he said, a longtime listener since about twenty sixteen. He said,
Speaker 2: I'm writing to you about a company called Sharkfin that
Speaker 2: may be tied to DARPA. And he said, maybe you
Speaker 2: can do some more research on this, but he did
Speaker 2: quite a bit of research on it. He said. The
Speaker 2: US company shark Finn was a startup in twenty twenty
Speaker 2: that manufactures dog collars and harnesses with a focus on
Speaker 2: animal to human to AI robot interface. Now that's interesting.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm not about to put a brain computer
Speaker 2: interface into my body, but if I were ever to
Speaker 2: do something like that, it would be so that I
Speaker 2: could figure out what was on my border Collie's mind.
Speaker 2: The smartest dogs I've ever had, and I would really
Speaker 2: like to know what he's thinking sometimes, although I think
Speaker 2: I got a pretty good clue from body language that
Speaker 2: he's doing. I mean, he gets obsessed whenever it's raining,
Speaker 2: he gets obsessed with the rain drops. He can stay
Speaker 2: outside all day chasing rain drops that are dripping off
Speaker 2: the corner of the roof. But this is and we
Speaker 2: know that DARPA has been heavily focused on the brain. Obama,
Speaker 2: going back into the middle of his administration, he had
Speaker 2: the br ai N project, which I forget what the
Speaker 2: acronym was, but they spent a couple hundred million dollars
Speaker 2: on it in just one year. I mean a huge
Speaker 2: amount of money being put into brain computer interfaces, but
Speaker 2: also how they can read our minds and how dark,
Speaker 2: you know, because it's defense supposedly defense, it's not really
Speaker 2: DARPA is at war with us. But DARPA said, well,
Speaker 2: we've got troops who have PTSD, so we would like
Speaker 2: to be able to selectively erase troublesome memories or things
Speaker 2: like that replace them, you know, like total recall that
Speaker 2: type of thing. And I said, yeah, right, that's kind
Speaker 2: of like saying we need these autonomous killer robots to
Speaker 2: help the little ladies go across the street. It's patently absurd,
Speaker 2: but that's where they have been. They've been in that
Speaker 2: space for quite some time. And it's not just Elon
Speaker 2: Musk doing the brain computer interface. There's a lot of
Speaker 2: different companies unfortunately, that are working on that all the time.
Speaker 2: They can always make a great case and say, well,
Speaker 2: we've got people who are paralyzed and we want to Yes, certainly,
Speaker 2: but we know that just like artificial intelligence, you know,
Speaker 2: it's not going to be fundamentally about that. That's the
Speaker 2: way that they're going to sell it to people. That's
Speaker 2: going to be their excuse. But he as part of
Speaker 2: his researcher, he's got shark fins vision statement. Listen to
Speaker 2: this we envision of future where the connection between animals
Speaker 2: and humans is strengthened with the integration of AI and
Speaker 2: hardware technology. This entails equipping animals with specialized gear and
Speaker 2: utilizing sentient being communication devices. That's trademarked sentient being communication devices,
Speaker 2: a trademark for that term. And so they said that
Speaker 2: they'll establish a communication bridge between animals and humans, leveraging
Speaker 2: the capabilities of cloud computing as well as direct connections
Speaker 2: through Bluetooth and Wi Fi. Additionally, both humans and animals
Speaker 2: will engage in communication with humanoid robots facilitated by these
Speaker 2: diverse devices. You know, something like this dog just say
Speaker 2: hi there.
Speaker 13: Oh yes, my name is Doug.
Speaker 7: I have just met you, and I loved you.
Speaker 4: My master made me his collar.
Speaker 14: He is a good smart master, and he made me
Speaker 14: his collar so that I may talk squirrel.
Speaker 2: That was swarm up. While the immediate the immediate focus
Speaker 2: centers on dogs and cats, the envision expanding their impact
Speaker 2: to encompass a broader spectrum of creatures and the times ahead.
Speaker 2: They're going to go full doctor Dolittle. It's DARPA do little.
Speaker 2: If I could talk to talk to the animals, right
Speaker 2: speaking chimpanzee. The sharkfin collar has a sharkfin shape to
Speaker 2: it that houses the electronics. From the sound of their
Speaker 2: mission statement, it's gary and the vision that they want
Speaker 2: to use animals for surveillance and control of people and
Speaker 2: who knows what else sounds very much like DARP and
Speaker 2: their brain Gate stuff. That's everything the government does about
Speaker 2: spying on us, lying to us, controlling us. We know
Speaker 2: where all of these things are going to go, and
Speaker 2: it is really concerning how this is all expanding and
Speaker 2: how they're using our money to set up systems of enslavement,
Speaker 2: open air prisons and that type of thing. But again,
Speaker 2: if you are a Christian, you don't need to fear that.
Speaker 2: You know we can transcend, that we have other weapons
Speaker 2: that are mighty, and God is going to be the
Speaker 2: one who has a last say on all of this stuff.
Speaker 2: Maybe he says, at some point, you can look further
Speaker 2: into this, and I will look into this. But yet
Speaker 2: another one of these things that never ends, absolutely never ends.
Speaker 2: We're going to have a guest who's going to join
Speaker 2: us and talk about some of the crazy environmental things
Speaker 2: that are happening in Washington State. It's going to be
Speaker 2: a shorter interview. It's going to join us in about
Speaker 2: another fifteen minutes or so. Gonna take a quick break
Speaker 2: and then we're gonna come come back. I want to
Speaker 2: give you a little bit of information about what I
Speaker 2: think is really up in Greenland. Uh, some of the
Speaker 2: alternative ulterior motives that Trump may have there. It was
Speaker 2: something that was sent to me by Goat Tree, and
Speaker 2: I thought he was a spot on.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 2: So we're gonna take a quick break and we'll be
Speaker 2: right back.
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Speaker 4: You're listening to the David Knight Show.
Speaker 2: Well, you know we've laughed about Trump and his Gulf
Speaker 2: of America. Maybe it should be the Gulf of Amnesia now,
Speaker 2: because maybe he just wants people to forget about the
Speaker 2: other stuff that he's doing. But Marjorie Taylor Green has
Speaker 2: now pinned a bill to rename the Gulf of Mexico
Speaker 2: the Gulf of America. Now we all have to figure
Speaker 2: out how we're going to get everybody else to use
Speaker 2: that term. So this is his top priority, and it's
Speaker 2: her top priority. Of course, everybody everybody in politics, whether
Speaker 2: they're in Washington or whether they're in Ottawa, the Canadian Capitol,
Speaker 2: they've all got to suck up to Donald Trump. It's amazing,
Speaker 2: and so this is, I think a distraction from real problems.
Speaker 2: Listen to the way that she introduces us. She says,
Speaker 2: Mexican cartels currently used the Golf of Mexico for trafficking humans, drugs,
Speaker 2: and weapons and who knows what else. Well, the Mexican
Speaker 2: government allows them to do it. The American people are
Speaker 2: fitting the bill to Protect and Secure of the maritime.
Speaker 2: So we need to change the name to the Gulf
Speaker 2: of America and that should fix it. All right, How
Speaker 2: is that going to change any of this stuff? It's
Speaker 2: not going to change anything to call it the Gulf
Speaker 2: of America. But as I said, Goatree sent this to me.
Speaker 2: He said, you know, everybody's talking about what Trump is
Speaker 2: up to in Greenland, and of course we have, oh
Speaker 2: it's national security. We've got a military basis there, and
Speaker 2: you know we can have arrangements to buy minerals that
Speaker 2: are there and other things like that as well. But
Speaker 2: you know, why why do we have to take them over?
Speaker 2: Had another friend who contacted me. He said, you know,
Speaker 2: if you if you would bring in Canada, for example,
Speaker 2: you look at the population and you know what is
Speaker 2: going to happen with Canada, which is mostly left wing,
Speaker 2: and be like adding another California or a couple of
Speaker 2: Californias to the electoral college thing. That's not going to
Speaker 2: happen bringing in California. But we look at Greenland, they
Speaker 2: could easily bribe the people there to an election to
Speaker 2: want to be part of America. Gotree wrote this. He says,
Speaker 2: as the glaciers are pulling back, or even I guess,
Speaker 2: as they're even doing more explanation and exploration and looking.
Speaker 2: He said, they're finding insane amounts of oil, of rare earth,
Speaker 2: minerals of gold and silver, of uranium, and of gymstones
Speaker 2: kind of laying around, unmolested, undisturbed right there for the taking.
Speaker 2: He says. We're talking multi trillions of dollars of assets
Speaker 2: there for the taking. He goes, here's a YouTube clip,
Speaker 2: he says, of some guys walking around and they're finding
Speaker 2: use and this just a little bit of this. I mean,
Speaker 2: it goes on. They find other things too, but here
Speaker 2: they are are finding rubies in Greenland.
Speaker 10: With the team back intact, they continue their hunt for rubies.
Speaker 10: It's not long before Josh spot's something they haven't seen
Speaker 10: before in Greenland.
Speaker 13: I see in the wall on the canyon this huge
Speaker 13: area that looks to me like it's a mineralized zone.
Speaker 2: Eric, Okay, here you look at this.
Speaker 13: Look at that as the green's in there, Copper Boh,
Speaker 13: that is beautiful. Now we found a zone that is mineralized.
Speaker 13: It's the correct stone for rubies. It's pretty exciting, definitely
Speaker 13: the first time we've seen it.
Speaker 10: This simple rock could be a turning point for the team.
Speaker 3: They know that this is the.
Speaker 10: Same type of mineral that the priceless four hundred and
Speaker 10: forty car at Katar Ruby was founded.
Speaker 3: So they're hopeful that now is their chance to strike
Speaker 3: it rich.
Speaker 13: And that's a little more al leister for everybody at all.
Speaker 2: On this is the stuff we want right here, Gator, Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's the stuff they want right there. Well, you know
Speaker 2: when I was talking about the history of the military
Speaker 2: base there, you know Germany, Nazi Germany wanted cryolite, which
Speaker 2: was a key thing for aluminum smelting at the time.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's still a thing or not,
Speaker 2: but the only known source of it at that point
Speaker 2: in time was in Greenland. They have a vast area
Speaker 2: and there's going to be a lot of stuff that
Speaker 2: is up there, and maybe that's why there's so much
Speaker 2: talk about making Canada the fifty first state. This article
Speaker 2: from The Daily Mail, Trump hashes out a plan to
Speaker 2: make Canada the fifty first state. With other Republicans, we
Speaker 2: talked a lot about Canada becoming the fifty first date,
Speaker 2: said Senator Mark Wayne Mullen, a Republican of Oklahoma, told
Speaker 2: reporters after they came out of the meeting, there's absolutely
Speaker 2: no way. Like I said before, most especially with Trump
Speaker 2: as president, most of the people in Canada are liberal.
Speaker 2: They don't like Trump. There's absolutely no way they're going
Speaker 2: to do that. And you know, you can't. You can't
Speaker 2: force that.
Speaker 14: Now.
Speaker 2: He could invade and we have done that before Panama
Speaker 2: and go to war with Panama. He's not going to
Speaker 2: invade Canada, and I don't see any way that they're
Speaker 2: going to entice him. He could, he could militarily invade Panama.
Speaker 2: He could bribe the fifty six thousand people that live
Speaker 2: in Greenland to have a referendum, but there's no way
Speaker 2: that Canada's going to be a part of the United States.
Speaker 2: And of course Doug Ford, who is a premier of
Speaker 2: the Canadian province of Ontario, left wing guy. He says, well,
Speaker 2: how about we buy Alaska. So you think you're going
Speaker 2: to buy Canada, Well, we'll buy a that type of thing.
Speaker 2: Is it is really crazy? What is going back and forth?
Speaker 2: And as I said earlier, you know, the Canadian Conservative
Speaker 2: Party leader Pierre Polyiev said this headline here from Breitbart
Speaker 2: Polyev walks a tightrope to be Canada first and yet
Speaker 2: still not lose Trump. Well, you talk about being boxed
Speaker 2: in when you've got to always please Trump. You can't
Speaker 2: say anything negative about Trump, even if it's true. That's
Speaker 2: not allowed. And as we talked about, a lot of
Speaker 2: people are saying, well, is this Trump pursuing the technocrats
Speaker 2: dreams to create a technique? You know, the region one
Speaker 2: of the ten different regions. Who knows what is going
Speaker 2: on here? Because really they could get any of these
Speaker 2: mineral assets if they wanted to from Greenland. You know,
Speaker 2: they would be open to doing that. And we have
Speaker 2: a military base that is there and have had that
Speaker 2: for quite some time. That hasn't really been a problem.
Speaker 2: So unless you're looking at some kind of a massive
Speaker 2: natural resources exploitation and perhaps that is what they're trying
Speaker 2: to do with Greenland, and maybe that's what they're trying
Speaker 2: to do with all the talk about Canada, is to
Speaker 2: play crazy and hope that people will go along with it.
Speaker 2: Who knows exactly what they're up to. Before our guest
Speaker 2: joins us, though, I wanted to cover this story, which
Speaker 2: I think is an analogy that I've made before. I said,
Speaker 2: you know, we don't allow children to drink alcohol, We
Speaker 2: don't allow children to smoke, or to drive cars, or
Speaker 2: to own firearms, all the rest of this stuff, and
Speaker 2: even tattoos. And a tattoo shop in Arizona tattooed a
Speaker 2: girl who's nine years old, and it got a lot
Speaker 2: of push back on this. Now she wanted a picture
Speaker 2: of Trump on her neck, and he talks about how
Speaker 2: he talked her out of it, talked her parents out
Speaker 2: of it. But as they point out in this article,
Speaker 2: all fifty states have prohibitions of young children getting tattoos.
Speaker 2: You can't get a tattoo under the age of eighteen
Speaker 2: in any state. Some states will allow miners to get
Speaker 2: a tattoo if their parents approve. But when you look
Speaker 2: at this and again it was part of this was
Speaker 2: that she wanted to get a Trump tattoo. So some
Speaker 2: of this pushback is going to be from people who
Speaker 2: are Trump haters and they're angry about that. But a
Speaker 2: lot of people made the case that, you know, why
Speaker 2: would this guy even do it? He said, well, I
Speaker 2: redirected her away from a Trump tattoo, which she might
Speaker 2: very well regret. I said, well, want you do something patriotic,
Speaker 2: So he tattooed an American flag o her. But people
Speaker 2: are rightfully saying that's not something you should be doing
Speaker 2: to a minor, even if the parents are along with that.
Speaker 2: The same thing applies, doesn't it to mutilization and sterilization,
Speaker 2: because those are permanent. A tattoo can be removed. I
Speaker 2: don't see anybody making that comparison. You know, you can
Speaker 2: get a tattoo taken off, but you cannot undo mutilization, sterilization,
Speaker 2: those types of things. She had traveled to Arizona with
Speaker 2: her parents to get a Trump tattoo, but the artist
Speaker 2: who shared a video of him putting the tattoo on
Speaker 2: her said he convinced her to do a more patriotic
Speaker 2: tattoo in an American flag. It's told her in a year.
Speaker 2: If she still wants Trump, then to get it, but
Speaker 2: to think about it, said the artist. She came back
Speaker 2: one year later she said, I'm ten, now, can you
Speaker 2: do this? He said. She also changed her mind on
Speaker 2: the Trump portrait one year later. He said he even
Speaker 2: tried to scare her parents away by telling them that
Speaker 2: this tattoo, which you would normally charge eighty dollars for,
Speaker 2: he said, it'll be five hundred dollars. That didn't scare
Speaker 2: them away. The parents were okay with that, he said.
Speaker 2: They jumped on the price instead, He said, so I tried,
Speaker 2: and he puts it up on social media. Now people
Speaker 2: jump in and said the story is sparked debate online
Speaker 2: about where the children should be tattooed and if the
Speaker 2: artist should decline their request even if it's not illegal,
Speaker 2: and even if the parents want it now, doesn't that
Speaker 2: apply to the trendsgender nonsense? He said, These are the
Speaker 2: same people crying over giving puberty blockers to kids. And
Speaker 2: I say no to both of them, said one person,
Speaker 2: and I agree. Another person says, as an artist, be
Speaker 2: the bigger person and don't do this to a nine
Speaker 2: year old and then call child services about these parents
Speaker 2: I would certainly say that's the appropriate response, absolutely the
Speaker 2: response over the gender mutilation and sterilization. Instead of the
Speaker 2: government taking the side of these people. That would be
Speaker 2: one place where there would be a legitimate investigation by
Speaker 2: the government. Although Child Protective Services is so abusive and
Speaker 2: involved in trafficking, I would be reluctant to call them
Speaker 2: over anything, quite frankly, but if it's going to be
Speaker 2: over anything, not going to be over some kind of
Speaker 2: sexual mutilation. The Alliance of Professional Tattooists jumped in on
Speaker 2: this as well. They said, if you see a ten
Speaker 2: year old child with a professional tattoo and they say
Speaker 2: that they got it at a tattoo shop, that degrades
Speaker 2: all of us who are tattoo artists. So we're going
Speaker 2: to leave it at that, and we're going to talk
Speaker 2: about what's going on in climate in Washington. We're going
Speaker 2: to take a Washington state I should say, we know
Speaker 2: what's going on in Washington, d C. They're all about
Speaker 2: all this stuff. We're going to take a quick break,
Speaker 2: come back with Todd Myers, who's the vice president for
Speaker 2: research at the Washington Policy Center. So stay with us.
Speaker 2: We'll be right back analyzing the globalist Next move and
Speaker 2: now the Deep and Nut Show. Welcome back to joining
Speaker 2: us now is Todd Myers. We've talked to Todd before.
Speaker 2: He's with a think tank policy institute in Washington State.
Speaker 2: He's vice president for research at the Washington Policy Center
Speaker 2: and this is in Washington State. Thank you for joining us, sir.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's always nice at job with you.
Speaker 2: Great to have you on. I saw your press release
Speaker 2: about what is happening in Washington State with CO two emissions.
Speaker 2: Tell us a little bit about what is happening there
Speaker 2: in terms of their emissions actually going up. And I
Speaker 2: don't think that everything is melting there in Washington yet, is.
Speaker 7: It what's going outside my window right now?
Speaker 2: So even though even though the CO two emissions went up,
Speaker 2: so tell us what's happening in Washington with Washington State
Speaker 2: with their measuring of emissions, they've gone up over a
Speaker 2: ten year period, I guess a nine year period twenty
Speaker 2: twelve to twenty twenty one.
Speaker 14: So for those not in Washington State are probably wondering,
Speaker 14: why do I care about Washington State CO two emissions?
Speaker 7: And the answer is is.
Speaker 14: That Washington in the West Coast has seen itself as
Speaker 14: a leader on climate change, you know, say, oh, here
Speaker 14: are the policies that we need to implement to reduce
Speaker 14: the risk from CO two emissions and climate change. Our governor,
Speaker 14: Governor Insley, actually ran for president, albeit briefly, in twenty nineteen,
Speaker 14: on the platform of addressing climate change. And his whole
Speaker 14: argument was that he was going to bring the policies
Speaker 14: that we've had in Washington State to the federal level
Speaker 14: to fight climate change.
Speaker 7: And we constantly call ourselves a leader so across the country.
Speaker 14: These are the kinds of policies that are in Washington
Speaker 14: State that you know, many particularly on the left, want
Speaker 14: to implement. And what is notable is is that they
Speaker 14: simply have failed to achieve their goal. A lot of
Speaker 14: focuses on, you know, the cost of the CO two.
Speaker 7: Policies and climate change and things like that, but the
Speaker 7: simple fact is they don't work.
Speaker 14: And so Washington State this week released CO two data
Speaker 14: through twenty twenty one. And so when you look at
Speaker 14: twenty twelve, which was just before Governor Ansley took office,
Speaker 14: through twenty twenty one, the ninth year of his administration,
Speaker 14: CO two emissions actually increased five percent over that period
Speaker 14: of time and that's after COVID, So you know, considering
Speaker 14: that even COVID couldn't have.
Speaker 7: Caused the emissions to go down, it's pretty remarkable.
Speaker 14: During at that same time, the United States CO two
Speaker 14: emissions went down. And so the message for people who
Speaker 14: aren't in Washington State is these policies simply don't work.
Speaker 7: And if you care about CO two.
Speaker 14: Emissions, if you care about the risk from climate change,
Speaker 14: don't do what Washington State has done. Look for more
Speaker 14: innovative ways that put people, not politicians in charge.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and when we look at all this stuff in
Speaker 2: terms of CO two, we got the Paris Climate Accord,
Speaker 2: which is hanging over everybody's head. China is putting in
Speaker 2: two power plants cold power plants a week, and supposedly
Speaker 2: it's not a problem the stuff comes from China, But
Speaker 2: the same as CO two if it's emitted in the
Speaker 2: United States or in Europe or other places like that,
Speaker 2: or it's going to kill us all that to me,
Speaker 2: that is the key thing about this. And it's kind
Speaker 2: of interesting that even in some of the places where
Speaker 2: they have scrupulously tried to reduce, CO two has actually
Speaker 2: gone up and it hasn't been a catastrophe either as
Speaker 2: it yeah, And.
Speaker 14: I think that the challenges is that the exaggeration and
Speaker 14: sort of dishonesty has made it so that people simply
Speaker 14: write off climate change as an issue.
Speaker 7: You know, there have been so much exaggeration about the.
Speaker 14: Impact, about the harm and that sort of thing that
Speaker 14: people get very tired of it. We do know that
Speaker 14: CO two does trap heat to some extent and there
Speaker 14: is some risk, but the problem is the exaggeration makes
Speaker 14: people to sort of roll their eyes. And then when
Speaker 14: you see the policies that cost a lot, raise energy prices,
Speaker 14: make things more expensive, and then don't work, the natural
Speaker 14: reaction of people is to say, this whole thing is
Speaker 14: a farce, This whole thing is about ideology, and you know,
Speaker 14: it's hard to disagree in a lot of cases because
Speaker 14: you know, even Al Gore, when he won the Nobel
Speaker 14: Prize for his work on climate change, said that climate
Speaker 14: change is an excuse to do things we should be
Speaker 14: doing anyway. Right, So he said, you know, it's a
Speaker 14: good way to to implement our ideology, and that's what
Speaker 14: you see in Washington State.
Speaker 7: But I think that for those.
Speaker 14: On the center right, like myself, we do need to
Speaker 14: recognize that there are things that we're doing to impact
Speaker 14: ecosystems to wildlife and things like that.
Speaker 7: And if you look, and what I always.
Speaker 14: Point out to people is look at a map, look
Speaker 14: at where nature is, and look at where conservative voters are.
Speaker 7: They are overlapped. Conservatives live surrounded.
Speaker 14: By the environment because they love it and they want
Speaker 14: to be good stewards. But what the failure of Washington
Speaker 14: State shows is that top down political policies fail, and
Speaker 14: bottom up efforts to save energy, to save money too,
Speaker 14: are much better way to be good stewards of the planet.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, absolutely. I talked to this week about the
Speaker 2: classic case at the turn of the century. We're in
Speaker 2: big cities, like in New York or Seattle or London,
Speaker 2: they had so much horse manure and horse urine that
Speaker 2: were accumulating in the streets, and it's like, and what
Speaker 2: save that? Was it a government does program that dictated
Speaker 2: solutions to people or was it a free market where
Speaker 2: people got to try things? And of course you're talking
Speaker 2: about this from the standpoint of Washington State, and you said,
Speaker 2: how does this affect everybody else? You know, it's the
Speaker 2: federalism that we have the fact that different states can
Speaker 2: try different things, and the beauty of that is that
Speaker 2: we can see what works. But the beauty of it
Speaker 2: is we can see what also see what does not work.
Speaker 2: And I guess watching the state has falls into the
Speaker 2: latter category. Tell us a little bit about some of
Speaker 2: these regulations. What have they done in Washington State, that
Speaker 2: is in terms of, you know, forcing people to do
Speaker 2: this or that that hasn't really even accomplished their metric
Speaker 2: by their own paradigm. What kind of regulations have you
Speaker 2: been seeing there in Washington State over this ten year period.
Speaker 7: Well, there's a few things, and I'll give you two examples.
Speaker 14: One, we have lots of building regulations that force buildings
Speaker 14: to be where called green buildings. In fact, years ago
Speaker 14: we put it, we implemented a law required all school
Speaker 14: buildings to meet what are called green building standards.
Speaker 7: And so I started looking.
Speaker 14: At these green buildings and these green schools to see
Speaker 14: if they were in fact saving money. And what I
Speaker 14: found was is that green schools that meet these standards
Speaker 14: actually used more energy per square foot than the non
Speaker 14: green schools in those same school districts for a variety
Speaker 14: of reasons. And you see this with buildings there has
Speaker 14: been research that in Seattle green buildings actually do worse
Speaker 14: than almost anywhere else. So one of the things was
Speaker 14: is that these very restrictive building standards about what you
Speaker 14: had to build. Seattle and King County, where Seattle is
Speaker 14: is one of the most expensive places to live in
Speaker 14: the United States.
Speaker 7: We have a housing shortage, we.
Speaker 14: Have very high prices, and it's because we've added a
Speaker 14: lot of these regulations, so called green regulations, that have.
Speaker 7: Ended up failing. Let me give you one more example.
Speaker 14: The number one source of two emissions in Washington State
Speaker 14: is transportation. So the governor and others have said, oh, well,
Speaker 14: what we need to do is to build a lot
Speaker 14: of electric vehicle charging stations, but that many of those
Speaker 14: charging stations sit unused because where people tend to charge up.
Speaker 7: Is at home, and if they are out.
Speaker 14: And they see a charging station, they will plug in,
Speaker 14: but they're not very useful in terms of actually keeping
Speaker 14: your vehicle charged. And you know, if you're in the store,
Speaker 14: you don't get much of a charge while you're there.
Speaker 7: So it doesn't help.
Speaker 14: It doesn't do much to actually help reduce CO two
Speaker 14: emissions or help you know, people who have electric vehicles
Speaker 14: and the result is we spend millions, tens of millions
Speaker 14: of dollars on you know, electric vehicle charging stations that
Speaker 14: sit there and do nothing.
Speaker 7: That's just the waste of money.
Speaker 14: And so people you know, focus on that as a
Speaker 14: waste of tax payer dollars, which it certainly is, but
Speaker 14: it's also a waste of opportunity to do good things
Speaker 14: for the planet. There are lots of projects that we
Speaker 14: actually could do to you know, make it energy more efficient.
Speaker 14: We're finding, you know, I used to work with salmon recovery.
Speaker 14: We have very low populations of salmon. There's things we
Speaker 14: can do there. So if you waste money on useless
Speaker 14: EV charging stations rather than doing projects that help salmon,
Speaker 14: you are harming the environment by misallocating resources in addition
Speaker 14: to wasting tax parial.
Speaker 2: And of course, what we're seeing with all this stuff
Speaker 2: is that they will come up with one solution, like
Speaker 2: an electric battery car, right, and they will you know not,
Speaker 2: and they will subsidize that heavily. They will shut down
Speaker 2: any other competition. And even if it is something like
Speaker 2: another form of an electric car, let's say, a fuel
Speaker 2: cell car or a hydrogen car. Even if it's something
Speaker 2: that is could also be zero mission. No, no, no, we've
Speaker 2: got this one solution and you're going to do that.
Speaker 2: That's something that we see from the government all the time.
Speaker 2: But I want to step back and when we talk
Speaker 2: about the schools and how the ones that were green
Speaker 2: schools and they gave them regulations about how they want
Speaker 2: to build them and that type of thing, what was
Speaker 2: it that caused what types of things were they have
Speaker 2: in these schools? Do that caused them to use more
Speaker 2: energy than other schools that didn't follow this this green
Speaker 2: building regulation scheme.
Speaker 14: Yeah, people are always when I mentioned that, they're always
Speaker 14: flabbergasted that you could make a green building and make
Speaker 14: it actually worse.
Speaker 7: Than the existing buildings exactly several things that they did.
Speaker 14: One is I never understood this, but they repeated it
Speaker 14: again and again, which is they said, well, we're going
Speaker 14: to have big windows because big windows allow in more light,
Speaker 14: and therefore you have you need fewer lighting.
Speaker 7: Fixtures than that will save electricity.
Speaker 14: Well, led light bulbs are extremely efficient, very low energy,
Speaker 14: put out a lot of light, and so there's just
Speaker 14: not very much energy to be saved by reducing that
Speaker 14: amount of light. However, windows are not very efficient. Right,
Speaker 14: they let a lot of heat in. They allowed a
Speaker 14: lot of you know cold in as well, right when
Speaker 14: during the summer it's hot or in the winter it's cold,
Speaker 14: and so you have to constantly run the HVAC to
Speaker 14: keep that room the normal temperature.
Speaker 7: The other thing, and that more than offsets any you know,
Speaker 7: energy savings.
Speaker 4: You get from one.
Speaker 14: The other thing that they do is they say, well,
Speaker 14: we want clean air, we want fresh air. So what
Speaker 14: they do is they have requirements to have to recirculate
Speaker 14: the air to pull the old air out, put a
Speaker 14: new area. And what you got to do, You've got
Speaker 14: to heat that, you've got to cool that, whatever. And
Speaker 14: so they're constantly running the hvacs. And so I talked
Speaker 14: with several facilities directors, not just in Washington State but
Speaker 14: across the country where these were, and they just said,
Speaker 14: in order to build a green school, we would actually
Speaker 14: have to increase the size of the HVAC system to
Speaker 14: meet these new requirements.
Speaker 7: But I want to address your point about the one
Speaker 7: size fits all.
Speaker 14: That's the fundamental problem with government programs.
Speaker 7: Right, you can say the fundamental a fundamental.
Speaker 14: Problem, which is is that there is one size and
Speaker 14: if it doesn't work, then you've lost time. We need
Speaker 14: a diversity of efforts. So, you know, I would be
Speaker 14: a horrible book author if I didn't mention my book
Speaker 14: Time to Think Small, which focuses on exactly this issue,
Speaker 14: which is lots of small efforts and a diversity of
Speaker 14: efforts are better ways to find not only solutions that work,
Speaker 14: but solutions that fit people's lives. Rather than have government
Speaker 14: impose restrictions on people that make their lives more difficult.
Speaker 14: A diversity of solutions, especially with technology, allows them to
Speaker 14: find ways to save energy, save money, do things that
Speaker 14: fit their lifestyle, make their life better while also making
Speaker 14: the planet better. And so I think that's the real
Speaker 14: key is is that.
Speaker 7: We need a diversity of things.
Speaker 14: What I'm hoping is is that, you know, during the
Speaker 14: upcoming Trump administration, rather than just simply saying all of
Speaker 14: these environmental you know, this focus is ridiculous, to say
Speaker 14: we need a new approach, We need to diversified approach, federalism,
Speaker 14: local power rather than top down government power, to show
Speaker 14: that this way works better than the one size fit.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, absolutely, when we're talking about federalism and the
Speaker 2: fact that you know, we can see what works and
Speaker 2: what doesn't work based on different states and everything. And unfortunately,
Speaker 2: there's this idea that is taken hold in America across
Speaker 2: a political spectrum. Doesn't seem to me no matter whether
Speaker 2: people on the left or the right, Republican Democrat, everybody
Speaker 2: thinks that a solution needs to come from Washington. And
Speaker 2: one of the results of that is that we get
Speaker 2: this one size fits all. We're going to have a
Speaker 2: dictated solution, and that's the way this is going to work.
Speaker 2: And we need to be able to experiment to find
Speaker 2: out what works and what doesn't work. That's the key thing.
Speaker 14: You know.
Speaker 2: It's kind of interesting, and you address this in your
Speaker 2: press release. The fact that the most recent data that
Speaker 2: they just released is twenty twenty one. Why is that
Speaker 2: If this is something that is such a high priority
Speaker 2: for them, why aren't they Maybe it's because it's not working.
Speaker 2: They don't want people took at Why are they three
Speaker 2: years behind and all this stuff?
Speaker 14: So another problem with I mean more evidence this is
Speaker 14: I think more evidence that bureaucracy is not up to
Speaker 14: the task, certainly of addressing environmental issues as well as
Speaker 14: other issues. And the fact that here we are in
Speaker 14: twenty twenty five, and the most recent data we have
Speaker 14: for Washington State C two missions is twenty twenty one.
Speaker 7: Interestingly, that is actually in violation of state law. State
Speaker 7: law says that.
Speaker 14: By the end of even numbered years, like twenty twenty four,
Speaker 14: they are to release emissions data for the preceding two years,
Speaker 14: which would have been twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three.
Speaker 14: So I pointed this out and said that the state
Speaker 14: is actually in violation of its own law and being
Speaker 14: two years behind.
Speaker 7: And the problem with that is that twenty twenty one data.
Speaker 14: Is useless if you are a policy maker and trying
Speaker 14: to figure out what works and what doesn't, because you
Speaker 14: can say, oh, and what they do say is, oh, yes,
Speaker 14: we didn't meet those targets, but the policies we adopted
Speaker 14: after that are working.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 14: It's like, well, how do you know, you don't have
Speaker 14: any data, You're just making it up. And so when
Speaker 14: I pointed this out that they were in violation of
Speaker 14: their law of the governor's press secretary sent out a
Speaker 14: snarky email saying, you know what Todd doesn't understand is
Speaker 14: how difficult it is to gather this information. Well, exactly,
Speaker 14: the government doesn't have the capacity to get the information
Speaker 14: and to do the job in a way that will work.
Speaker 14: That's what they are admitting is it's like, look, we
Speaker 14: can't do this. The other irony is is that we
Speaker 14: actually have very onerous restrictions in Washington State about electric vehicles.
Speaker 14: You can't basically sell a recreational vehicle or a semi
Speaker 14: in Washington State because there aren't enough electric vehicles to
Speaker 14: sell because you have to sell a certain percentage of that.
Speaker 14: So we stopped. So the argument has been to the
Speaker 14: same agency who put these numbers out, look, we would
Speaker 14: like to comply.
Speaker 7: We can't.
Speaker 14: It's physically not possible to comply. And the response to
Speaker 14: the agency is sorry, that's the law. So you know,
Speaker 14: when it's other people, it's the law that you have
Speaker 14: to follow. When it's them, they whine about the fact
Speaker 14: that it's not possible.
Speaker 7: For them to actually comply with the law.
Speaker 14: And I think that just shows you that, you know,
Speaker 14: how incapable bureaucracy is of addressing these serious challenges, but
Speaker 14: also how an image, their own image is more important
Speaker 14: than actually reducing CO two emissions. As much as they
Speaker 14: talk about it's an existential crisis, when the choice is
Speaker 14: between admitting failure and saying yes, we need to do better,
Speaker 14: or making excuses.
Speaker 7: They make excuses to say their own image.
Speaker 2: And that's something that we see all the time. You know.
Speaker 2: I talk about the fact that you know, when you
Speaker 2: look at let's say a command control economies, socialism, you know,
Speaker 2: look at East Germany versus West Germany, or North Korea
Speaker 2: versus South Korea. Why is it that they don't have
Speaker 2: any goods in the story. So they don't really because
Speaker 2: they don't have a market system. Even if you had
Speaker 2: the smartest people in control, and we know that's not
Speaker 2: what happens. Even if you had the smartest people in control,
Speaker 2: they don't have sufficient information to be able to make
Speaker 2: decisions about what is going to work the best. That's
Speaker 2: what a marketplace does. And so as you point out,
Speaker 2: they're making this confession that yeah, it's not possible for
Speaker 2: us to get all this information together. It's not possible
Speaker 2: for them to get enough information together to make an
Speaker 2: intelligent decision. That's what the whole free market is about, everybody.
Speaker 2: And that's what your book is about as well, you know,
Speaker 2: thinking getting small and pulling back instead of having central
Speaker 2: planning and dictates and mandates and vans that are being
Speaker 2: put on all kinds of things. And I imagine you
Speaker 2: probably have that as well. I mean, we're looking at
Speaker 2: Biden going out the door banning hot water heaters and
Speaker 2: other things like that. I'm sure you guys were way
Speaker 2: ahead of that right at state level. Yes.
Speaker 14: In fact, we just in Washington State, the state tried
Speaker 14: to ban natural gas hookups, not just the heaters, not
Speaker 14: just the stoves or anything like that, but actually running
Speaker 14: natural gas to new homes.
Speaker 7: They tried to ban it.
Speaker 14: The voters overturned that and lend this last election because
Speaker 14: they recog it was so excuse me, extreme.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And we're seeing that in the UK as well.
Speaker 2: You know, they've done the same thing there. They want
Speaker 2: to ban natural gas and stuff. And you know, heat
Speaker 2: pump in a really cold climate like you've got in
Speaker 2: Washington State, only they've got in the UK heat pumps
Speaker 2: just don't make it handle it very well during the
Speaker 2: winter and so but they don't care, and they want
Speaker 2: to In the UK, they even want to remove the
Speaker 2: existing infrastructure. I mean, they want to rewild is one
Speaker 2: of the terms that they used. They want to rewild
Speaker 2: the infrastructure that's been built. In other words, you know,
Speaker 2: just just take everything back down to nothing, that's what
Speaker 2: you're saying everywhere.
Speaker 14: Yeah, well, in fact, you mentioned heat pumps. So I
Speaker 14: live in the mountains and we have a heat pump. Well,
Speaker 14: last January it was negative ten where I was. Fortunately,
Speaker 14: I have a propane backup, and so I have a
Speaker 14: propane tank that when it gets that low that we
Speaker 14: can heat our house. Because the heat pump, when it
Speaker 14: gets you know, in the teens and certainly negative temperatures,
Speaker 14: it doesn't work. I also have a smart thermostatum. My
Speaker 14: smart thermostat would come up and say we think that
Speaker 14: your heat pump is broken because it's just turning and
Speaker 14: not generating the heats, and I was like that, yes,
Speaker 14: because it's a negative ten. And so that I think
Speaker 14: is the challenge of these one size fits all approaches.
Speaker 14: But you made a really good point about local control,
Speaker 14: and I think there's two things. One is that you
Speaker 14: need to have the information. Distant bureaucrats simply don't have
Speaker 14: the information necessary to make those good decisions because it's
Speaker 14: not in front of them, and everybody's circumstances are a
Speaker 14: little bit different. The second thing is is that you
Speaker 14: need accountability so that when something goes wrong or when
Speaker 14: it goes right.
Speaker 7: You get that feedback. When you fail, you say, okay,
Speaker 7: we got to change.
Speaker 14: Where mights don't have that feedback, they don't have that accountability.
Speaker 14: There's a fantastic example here at Washington State.
Speaker 7: So the Quinault tribe, which is out on the.
Speaker 14: Coast, had been has these beautiful forests, but the Bureau
Speaker 14: of Indian Affairs had been doing all of the timber
Speaker 14: harvesting on the land on behalf of the tribe.
Speaker 7: And what did they do.
Speaker 14: They cut clear cut massive areas and then left slash
Speaker 14: on the ground. They said, don't worry, it will decompose
Speaker 14: and trees will regrow between them. But what they didn't
Speaker 14: realize was that cedar has a chemical in it that
Speaker 14: slows decomposition. So what was left was these massive areas
Speaker 14: where there was just all of this timber slash and
Speaker 14: no regrowth at all for decades, literally for decades.
Speaker 7: So the tribe said, look, why.
Speaker 14: Don't we take over the forestry on our own land,
Speaker 14: because they were the ones who are paying the price.
Speaker 14: They lived there, not the BIA. Right, the BIA was
Speaker 14: making decisions from Washington d c. So they took it
Speaker 14: over and what was the first thing they did. They forested,
Speaker 14: They removed the slash, and they started a harvest rotations
Speaker 14: that were sustainable that would bring back those forests.
Speaker 7: Now, critically, they harvested for revenue.
Speaker 14: They want that money because they recognize that it's a
Speaker 14: valuable resource and they use it to fund part of
Speaker 14: the tribe's budget. So they didn't just you know, leave
Speaker 14: the trees. But they were better stewards because they had
Speaker 14: the information about how cedar worked as opposed to other trees.
Speaker 14: And then they also have the accountability. And my favorite
Speaker 14: part of the story was is that when the tribe
Speaker 14: took over forestry in the early two thousands completely from
Speaker 14: the Bia, the BIA said the Bia had been harvesting
Speaker 14: without any.
Speaker 7: Environmental assessments at all. They said, well, we.
Speaker 14: Have a general plan, go harvest, and the tribe took over,
Speaker 14: the BIA said you have to do environmental assessments. You
Speaker 14: can imagine the tribe's reaction when they said, you haven't
Speaker 14: been doing it, but we have to.
Speaker 7: And the BIA said yes.
Speaker 14: I think that's the arrogance sometimes of government overseeing and
Speaker 14: in this case, I mean really treating the tribe badly,
Speaker 14: who had been doing a better job than the BIA.
Speaker 7: Is just so much better for the environment.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I guess my question is do they have
Speaker 2: some special status that we don't have that they could
Speaker 2: take back control from this bureaucracy, Because that's the biggest problem.
Speaker 2: We can't get control back from these bureaucracies that are
Speaker 2: doing a bad job. How did they get it back?
Speaker 2: Was it because of their status as Indians there?
Speaker 7: Yeah, it was because they have sovereignty.
Speaker 14: Now that's you know, what sovereignty means on tribal lands
Speaker 14: is sort of interesting because the BIA is supposed to
Speaker 14: hold the land and trust and manage it for the
Speaker 14: benefit of the tribes. It's an incredibly paternalistic system, I think.
Speaker 14: But as the point that you make is is that
Speaker 14: in the tribes they have the opportunity to do that.
Speaker 14: They can at least make an argument that they are
Speaker 14: sovereign and can do that. You and I we can't say, hey,
Speaker 14: we would rather have control led us figure a way
Speaker 14: to be better steward. You know, the federal and state
Speaker 14: agencies don't do that for us.
Speaker 7: So I think it's funny.
Speaker 14: It's because I've started studying tribal stewardship of natural resources
Speaker 14: for this very reason, which is.
Speaker 7: That they have more control.
Speaker 14: And I think that in many ways they provide a
Speaker 14: really good model for how we should care for natural
Speaker 14: resources because they have that local control, local knowledge, and
Speaker 14: the accountability.
Speaker 7: And when it comes.
Speaker 14: From forests, fisheries, wildlife habitat, wildlife management, they do a
Speaker 14: better job. I'll give you one more fun example, which
Speaker 14: is in Washington State, the wolf is considered a threatened species,
Speaker 14: but on the Callville Reservation, which is right in the
Speaker 14: area where the wolves are, they consider the wolf recovered
Speaker 14: because the populations are very high and they actually hand
Speaker 14: out hunting permits.
Speaker 7: That's the tribe.
Speaker 14: So when they have authority and when it affects them,
Speaker 14: they can say, look, we're using the information, we have
Speaker 14: the accountability, we have the control to do a better
Speaker 14: job than the sort of bureaucratic systems.
Speaker 3: From the government.
Speaker 2: Well that's interesting, you know, and but you know, part
Speaker 2: of it is and again it is the status of
Speaker 2: the Indians. But regular Americans have sovereignty that they're not
Speaker 2: using as well. And I think that they need to
Speaker 2: start using the Tenth Amendment and some of these other
Speaker 2: things because federal policy, especially when you talk about forests,
Speaker 2: and we were talking about that earlier in the program
Speaker 2: with the fires that are happening in La seen it
Speaker 2: over and over again, poor forestry management because they're not
Speaker 2: doing stewardship anymore. They're doing environmentalism, and it's kind of just,
Speaker 2: you know, don't touch anything type of thing rather than
Speaker 2: actually doing stewardship. And it has been disastrous for the
Speaker 2: last fifty years, and it's getting worse all the time.
Speaker 2: And so I think everybody needs to start getting together
Speaker 2: and seeing how we're going to increase our sovereignty so
Speaker 2: that we can start addressing some of these problems ourselves.
Speaker 2: And of course that's what your book is focus, not
Speaker 2: the political aspect of it, but the beauty of having
Speaker 2: smaller local decisions. Tell us a little bit about your
Speaker 2: book again, I know we talked about last time you
Speaker 2: were on and the title of it.
Speaker 14: Is Time to Think Small, How nim environmental How nimble
Speaker 14: environmental technology.
Speaker 7: Can solve the plant's biggest problems.
Speaker 14: And there are a lot of folks on the center
Speaker 14: right who care about the environment, but very skeptical about
Speaker 14: environmental issues because they feel that it's a trojan horse
Speaker 14: for policies that they don't like, and in many cases,
Speaker 14: as we discussed, it is but they want to find
Speaker 14: an alternative that they can support to be to protect
Speaker 14: the natural resources.
Speaker 7: Like I said, conservatives live around that.
Speaker 14: The other sources that I've had a lot of people say,
Speaker 14: is my college age son or daughter comes back and
Speaker 14: lectures me about the environment and why don't we care
Speaker 14: about the environment. And so I said, We'll give them
Speaker 14: my book. It'll explain a better way to help the environment.
Speaker 14: But what it shows is is that in the nineteen
Speaker 14: seventies when we created the EPA, you didn't have the technology,
Speaker 14: you didn't have the control for individuals to make a
Speaker 14: big difference in environmental stewardship. That's just simply not true anymore.
Speaker 14: We now have the technology. We now have the ability
Speaker 14: to do really remarkable things to be good stewards of
Speaker 14: the environment in ways that bureaucracies fail.
Speaker 7: And so what we.
Speaker 14: Recognize, what we need to recognize, is that we need
Speaker 14: to change the way that we do environmental stewardship.
Speaker 7: Put the power in the.
Speaker 14: Hands of individuals, people's innovative companies, and less in the
Speaker 14: hands of politicians and bureaucrats. Who tend to focus on
Speaker 14: their own interests rather than the interests.
Speaker 7: Of the planet. And Washington State's failure on reducing CO
Speaker 7: two emissions that we saw this week is really just.
Speaker 14: The perfect example of where an issue that the politicians
Speaker 14: say is critical and existential crisis and yet even they
Speaker 14: fail and then make excuses for that fail rather than
Speaker 14: saying we need to find a better way for them,
Speaker 14: it's about political image. It should be about for the planet,
Speaker 14: or conservatives and those in the center right who live near.
Speaker 7: Nature every day.
Speaker 14: That's what thinking small, That's what these new technologies, that's
Speaker 14: what my.
Speaker 7: Book is about.
Speaker 14: It's about ways to do that actually live, that help
Speaker 14: us live the lives the way we want while being
Speaker 14: good stewards of the planet.
Speaker 2: That's really well said. And again the book is Time
Speaker 2: to Think Small by Todd Myers. And I guess I
Speaker 2: can find that Amazon and where books are sold, right, Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 2: that's great. Yeah, I've seen that same type of thing.
Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, I worked with a guy
Speaker 2: at a think tank who had been with the EPA
Speaker 2: at the time, he had just retired. He was with
Speaker 2: him for about thirty years right after their creation, and
Speaker 2: to see that it had kind of changed his whole
Speaker 2: mission statement, you know, and the EPA has not really
Speaker 2: been about pollution anymore. It's all about the environmentalism. And
Speaker 2: so that's what we see with the bureaucracies. And it's
Speaker 2: really by design because it allows these people who have
Speaker 2: to stand for election to not have any accountability either,
Speaker 2: because they can always push it on to the bureaucracy.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for joining us at Todd Myers
Speaker 2: and again the book is Time to Think Small by
Speaker 2: Todd Myers, and he works there at the Washington Policy Center.
Speaker 2: Thank you all of you, and thank you Sandy Hayes.
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