In this episode of America First, host Nicholas J. Fuentes talks about the government's decision to disclose that they have biological material of a non-human origin from an unidentified flying object from a UFO, and why it may have been recovered by the U.S. Defense Department. He also discusses the DeSantis campaign and why he should win the primary, and what it means for the chances of defeating Donald Trump in the 2020 election. And finally, he explains why he doesn't think it's a good idea for the government to fake an alien invasion to get more money for defense and other programs. America First is a show about American First, the future, and the future of the country. Subscribe to America First to get immediate access to all the latest episodes, and to stay up to date on what's going on in the world of politics, economics, and pop culture. You can also join our FB group, and join the conversation by using the hashtag on that hashtag , and find out who's winning and who's losing in the upcoming primary election, and how to get a FREE FALLING DESANTUS VETTING VOTING PROFESSIONAL BONUS EPISODE! Subscribe, rate, and review the show on Apple Podcasts, and share it with your friends! Subscribe on iTunes, and leave us your thoughts on whatever you're listening to this week's episode! and other social media platforms! We'll be posting polls, polls, stories, and thoughts on the latest news, and much more! in the coming weeks, including your thoughts and posts! Thanks for listening to the podcast! - Nicky's thoughts on all things America First! - Nick's thoughts, opinions, and your thoughts about the latest in podcasting - NICKY FUENTES - nicholas j. - nicksi.jf@avc@avoice.co.ee/avc_avc first, nikos@avco.co/avco/tavco_avcoavco & nikolajr@avocodavcavc , n_szn_t=3&t=1&q&q=3s=3a&qid=2s_s=1s&q_t&qx&qb=3
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00:01:03.000And that is the day when the federal government will disclose to the general public that they have known that there is extraterrestrial civilizations for decades.
00:01:16.000And it's not a matter of getting the evidence, they already have it.
00:01:21.000And they've perhaps been in contact with extraterrestrials for generations.
00:01:27.000It's a matter of disclosing this in a timely manner and with some discretion to the public.
00:01:37.000And so today there was a big hearing about this in the United States Congress and this comes on the heels of years of talk about aliens.
00:01:48.000And if you've been paying close attention, this is something actually that was pioneered by Harry Reid, the former Democrat House Majority Leader.
00:01:58.000If you remember, Harry Reid from the state of Nevada was the one who, on his departure as the outgoing leader of the Democrats in the Senate, insisted on more House or I should say Congressional oversight
00:02:28.000And now, it's been a long time, but we've seen this crescendo of public and open discussion from defense officials and from government officials on UFOs and on aliens.
00:02:42.000Now, for the record, I don't believe any of it.
00:03:21.000It's not any longer UFO It's now UAP Which I don't even know what that stands for but they say that they've recovered biological material that is non-human
00:04:07.000I mean, maybe you could be forgiven for thinking that in the 80s or the 60s.
00:04:13.000But are people seriously, in this year?
00:04:16.000I mean, think about what's just happened in the last 18 months.
00:04:20.000We've given Ukraine 200 billion dollars.
00:04:23.000And people think we need an excuse, and then they lose it.
00:04:27.000Then, there's all kinds of money that they don't even have any accounting for.
00:04:34.000They double the money supply, they're spending trillions of dollars, and people are like, well, they have to fake an alien invasion to get a bigger defense budget.
00:04:42.000They get a bigger defense budget every year for no reason at all.
00:04:47.000We're in fewer wars, but it's more money.
00:04:51.000Ukraine's not a NATO member, but we're giving them a quarter of a trillion dollars worth of material.
00:05:00.000It's like you think we need to fake extraterrestrial civilization to appropriate a few more bucks?
00:06:02.000It is Trump versus everyone that isn't Trump.
00:06:06.000And so in that way, it's really about for Trump or against Trump.
00:06:09.000And it's a meaningful distinction because Trump has just shy of half
00:06:16.000But those that are not Trump are divided between like six or seven candidates that all have significant support, significant enough that not one of them is even coming close.
00:06:28.000And particularly the big story today is that Ron DeSantis had to cancel a string of fundraisers in the Hamptons in New York because there was no interest.
00:06:46.000Who is one of the biggest Republican donors and he really represents Wall Street.
00:06:51.000He represents a major financial institution.
00:06:54.000And there was much to say one or two years ago about Ken Griffin switching allegiances from Trump basically out of necessity in 2020 to DeSantis in his prospective 2024 run.
00:07:08.000And this was supposed to signify a complete shift in Republican attitudes about who they wanted their nominee to be in 24.
00:07:18.000Not even Ken Griffin would show up to the DeSantis fundraiser.
00:08:31.000I think I'm gonna take a vacation in August because It's just been non-stop.
00:08:36.000It's just been going going from Basically since Mar-a-Lago, it's like Mar-a-Lago to Alex Jones to Back in the Lab with Ye, back to LA, Fuentes Rally 1, Fuentes Rally 2 And I just need a little
00:09:11.000You know, it's going to be a big year so I'd like to take a little bit of time off.
00:09:14.000Just slow it down a little bit towards the end of the year here.
00:09:19.000But anyway, before we get into the news, I want to remind you to smash the follow button here on Cozy, get a push notification whenever I go live.
00:11:44.000I order McDonald's and I just like inhaled this thing.
00:11:48.000I just I had a quarter pounder with cheese meal and cookies and and Coke and everything and I just inhaled it and now I feel a little like sugar high I guess or something.
00:15:36.000But back then, there was all this fanfare about Trump-backed, election-denying candidates suffering.
00:15:43.000DeSantis, well, DeSantis himself performing well, and DeSantis-type candidates performing well.
00:15:51.000And there was so much talk about a post-Trump movement from a lot of pundits and from a lot of Republicans.
00:16:00.000They said it was going to take the form.
00:16:02.000The Virginia governor whose name I always forget it was going to follow suit with the Critical race theory critics and these parents that go to the school board meetings.
00:16:14.000It was going to be like a daily wire flavor of conservatism and they were the ones heavily promoting it and it would be led by DeSantis and there was all this talk about Trump is
00:16:26.000Not competent, he's a bad governor, meaning not governing the state properly, the state of the United States, and so on, and so we need somebody who can take the levers of power and effectively wield them, and that is DeSantis.
00:16:42.000And I remember at that time hearing all this and saying, absolutely not.
00:16:46.000Like, Trump is in a dominant position, no Republican has ever had a higher approval rating than him, at his highest or at his lowest.
00:18:21.000And he was more, as far as I could see from where I'm sitting, he was more talked about then than he is basically every day since he announced.
00:18:35.000And the fundraising has suffered, and basically everything has suffered.
00:18:40.000And the latest story today is that he can't even get his donors to show up to a fundraiser, which he was scheduled to hold three of them in the Hamptons this week.
00:18:50.000He had to cancel every single one of them after discounting the prices by half.
00:18:58.000Ron DeSantis grabbed two Hampton fundraisers last weekend due to a lack of interest.
00:19:04.000Meanwhile, rival Donald Trump and upstart candidate Robert Kennedy Jr.
00:19:08.000raked in massive piles of cash, according to sources from On The Money.
00:19:14.000The tale of the three fundraisers shows DeSantis' hopes for snaring the Republican nomination are quickly fading as Trump dominates the GOP field and RFK Jr.
00:19:27.000This weekend broke DeSantis' campaign, said one political fundraiser.
00:19:31.000I don't know anyone who went, said a long-time fundraiser, Carolyn Wren.
00:19:38.000She said George Santos could have pulled off a better fundraising swing in the Hamptons than Ron DeSantis did in the last weekend.
00:19:46.000As on the money previously reported, DeSantis had cut in half from $6,000 per person down to $3,300 per person, the price to attend the July 20th fundraiser in Southampton.
00:20:00.000But despite being discounted and heavily promoted, and with New York Republican groups sending email blasts the day before the event, attendance was underwhelming, said a source with knowledge of the campaign.
00:20:12.000Big money backers like Ken Griffin and Stephen Schwarzman stayed away altogether.
00:20:17.000Worse yet, the campaign canceled plans for two other events because they just could not find people to host them.
00:20:25.000The DeSantis experiment is dead, said one source.
00:20:28.000Donors aren't coming to his events because they don't see any return on investment.
00:20:33.000The DeSantis campaign did not reveal how much the Florida governor's foray into the Empire State raised, and representatives for the campaign did not return a request for comment.
00:20:45.000So we held one fundraiser and no big money people showed up.
00:20:49.000Attendance was underwhelming and it was so bad they had to cancel the remaining two fundraisers.
00:20:54.000Again, that's even after they cut the ticket prices in half.
00:21:40.000They're saying, well, basically we recognize it isn't working, we recognize we're failing, so we're cutting all our spending, we're running an insurgent campaign, which means low budget, and we're going to do much, much smaller events and media.
00:21:57.000And, like, I'm not a political person, but to me, that's a white flag.
00:22:02.000That says, like, we can't get a crowd.
00:22:04.000We can't get a crowd, we can't get donors, so we're gonna cut all our spending because we're not bringing in any money, and we're gonna shrink our events because we can't get any crowds.
00:22:17.000And so this campaign is basically, like, over before it even started.
00:22:21.000I don't know, because a lot of them, I read what they're saying,
00:22:26.000And they're saying things like, well it's still very early, we're not going to cast a single ballot until January, February next year in the Iowa caucus, that's seven months away, that's an eternity in political time, and blah blah blah.
00:22:41.000It's like, but what is going to happen between now and the Iowa caucus, which
00:22:48.000Is fundamentally different than what happened between his announcement and today that is going to change the state of the race.
00:22:55.000I don't understand what tricks can they pull out of their sleeve at this point.
00:23:01.000Donald Trump might not even show up to the first or any Republican debate.
00:23:08.000What is it precisely that they're going to do?
00:23:10.000Because basically every single thing they're doing isn't working.
00:23:15.000They tried this big announcement, this big eclectic new announcement on Twitter with Elon Musk, and as you remember it was an absolute flop.
00:23:28.000The website launch was a flop, campaign video, the Twitter space was a flop.
00:23:35.000He's been doing media appearances and basically everything that you can cut, it's all bad.
00:24:17.000He says, okay, and then goes to somebody else.
00:24:19.000Like, everything the guy does, he fails at.
00:24:26.000Every single thing, whether it's with the press, friendly or unfriendly, whether it's these kinds of folksy
00:24:35.000Meet and greet type things, the small rallies, basically everything he's done just hasn't worked.
00:24:43.000And I don't understand what, as I said, what will happen in August or October or whenever between now and the Iowa caucus is going to change that.
00:24:57.000Because that, I mean the that there, is that this candidate sucks, like he's not a good candidate.
00:25:46.000Without the mean tweets, without the polarizing rhetoric, without the drama of the legal problems and
00:25:54.000The White House, which was turned into knives out, everybody fighting each other and writing their tell-all books and testifying and things like that.
00:26:04.000So the appeal was something like reaching out to Republicans that were disaffected by Trump.
00:26:10.000The problem is, though, there aren't enough of those people.
00:26:22.000But his support could be as high as 80 or 90 percent within the party.
00:26:28.000So Ron DeSantis, the only appeal that he has is to people that are not on the Trump train, which is a majority of the Republican Party.
00:26:36.000So he's in this position where at once he has to appeal to the anti-Trump moderates.
00:26:43.000Basically a lot of center, center-left type people.
00:26:46.000People that specifically don't like Trump because he's too right.
00:26:51.000But at the same time, the only way that DeSantis can win is by peeling off Trump's base, and the only way to peel off Trump's base is to appear further to the right than Trump.
00:27:01.000And so I think I was one of the only people to clock this early on.
00:27:10.000Where at once, DeSantis has to appeal to the never-Trumpers, the anti-Trumpers that don't like Trump because he's too far right.
00:27:19.000At the same time, he has to appeal to die-hard Trump supporters by saying that Trump is too far left.
00:27:26.000So, and we've seen this in the campaign.
00:27:28.000On the one hand, he's going out there and doing this above-it-all civility bullshit.
00:27:34.000To appeal to a Bill Kristol or one of these other faggots like George Will, who is the scourge of the planet Earth.
00:27:44.000At the same time, he's pushing an advertisement that says that Trump is too pro-gay.
00:27:49.000And that Trump isn't a culture warrior.
00:27:51.000He's not a conservative or a right-wing enough in the culture war.
00:27:57.000And these things are diametrically opposed.
00:28:00.000On the one hand, he's looking for the pretty small percentage of Trump's base that is so far right, they're criticizing Trump from the right.
00:29:39.000If you looked at the favorability, if you looked at even the head-to-head polling months ago, on a national level, people don't even know who DeSantis is.
00:29:53.000So, back then, people were saying, well, voters are going to have to pick between Trump and DeSantis.
00:30:00.000But there's no pitch to say we want a DeSantis vision for the country or a DeSantis this or that.
00:30:06.000It was always DeSantis as being the avatar of anti-Trump grievance or anti-Trump criticism.
00:30:15.000But it wasn't so much positive for DeSantis so much as it was negative, a negation of Trump.
00:30:21.000There were Trump people, pro-Trump people that are going to vote for Trump no matter what, and then there was a sizable number of people who were never going to go for Trump and then some who could be swayed, maybe some who could be persuaded.
00:30:37.000But it was all, don't kid yourself, it was all orbiting around the idea of Trump.
00:30:54.000Just like it's a one-man general, like in 2020.
00:30:58.0002020, in the same way, was not Trump versus Biden.
00:31:01.000There are very few Democrats that really believe in Biden.
00:31:05.000That's why people thought, one of the reasons why people were so assured that there was voter fraud,
00:31:11.000Because according to the numbers, Biden is supposed to be the most popular president ever in American history because he got more votes than any president ever.
00:31:21.000He's the highest vote-getter in the history of presidential politics.
00:32:11.000And although they don't have enough support to be competitive, they have just enough support between all of them to significantly subtract from the not-Trump vote.
00:32:22.000Because if it was Trump versus, if it was literally a two-man race, it would be maybe like 55 to 45, or maybe it would be 60 to 40.
00:32:37.000And voters had to pick, and there were no other options, or maybe one other option, if they had to pick at the Iowa caucus, and the New Hampshire primary, and the Nevada caucus, between Trump or DeSantis, you know, DeSantis would pose a real threat.
00:32:51.000He would amass delegates, and he would have leverage at the convention, and he might be able to deny Trump the nomination.
00:33:01.000But when Vivek has 7, and Haley has 5, and Pence has 5, and Tim Scott has 5, and Asa Hutchinson has 3, and so-and-so has 2, that all adds up to like 20 very quickly.
00:34:32.000I would imagine at the minimum 3 out of the 4 of them will make it to Iowa with between 5 and 10% support.
00:34:40.000So at the minimum they're going into Iowa with 15% that they're taking from DeSantis that would never vote for Trump, but yet are not voting for the only one that could be competitive against Trump.
00:35:09.000And I'm sure in his mind he thinks that getting into the gutter with Trump is going to turn off the people that support him over Trump.
00:35:18.000Or maybe it would alienate would-be DeSantis supporters that could be scraped from Trump, but would be alienated from him if he directly attacked their number one choice or someone they like very much.
00:35:34.000But unless he makes the bold and audacious move of making his campaign about Trump, he's not going to get the press he needs.
00:35:43.000And what's more, he is never going to formulate a true argument for himself
00:35:49.000A positive argument for himself as a candidate.
00:37:13.000So the only way that he could really get in that conversation and pitch himself is to address the elephant in the room and say, it can't be Trump.
00:37:28.000He has to attack Trump from now until... and I don't want him to do this because I want him to lose but if he wanted to win that is what he would have to do is attack Trump every day because then the press would cover it and he would be able to make the case and break off support from the Trump supporters and that kind of thing and it would be it would be risky it would be very bold like there's no guarantee that that would work
00:37:56.000But if he's going to win, that's the only way he's going to win.
00:38:43.000He was leading in the polls in June 2015.
00:38:46.000He was leading the polls for the entire first half of that year, until Trump came in and dragged him out by his hair.
00:38:56.000And it was similarly true of Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin, and it was true to a certain extent of Rubio, the senator from Florida, even I would say Ted Cruz, the senator from Texas.
00:39:22.000And anyone who watched Trump defeat one after the other, from Jeb, to Rubio, to Kasich, to Cruz, to basically just gun down and defeat every single one, with nothing other than pure political instinct, anyone could have seen this coming.
00:39:40.000I mean, people out there, again, they learned nothing from 16.
00:39:44.000There were these political idiots out there
00:39:48.000Who really, in their heart of hearts, believed that, like, DeSantis was going to be on the debate stage with Trump and be like, erm, actually, you didn't do that, sir.
00:40:00.000You didn't do that when you were the president.
00:40:02.000And Trump was going to be like, oh, I just, I don't know.
00:40:05.000I mean, they really thought that was going to happen.
00:40:08.000And I don't know how anyone who had seen footage of DeSantis
00:40:13.000Before in their life and then seeing footage of Trump.
00:40:17.000I don't know how anyone could have Realistically thought that was gonna happen.
00:40:21.000But yet these political people are so fucking stupid and and completely out of touch That they actually thought that is how the race would play out in 24 they really thought that DeSantis was there was gonna be this big momentum and swell of support and
00:40:44.000That all these voters that constitute the base were gonna say, Erm, thanks but no thanks, Trump.
00:41:10.000Instead of supporting a 6'3 fucking billionaire with his name on a plane who is brash and was the president and everything, instead of supporting him, they were gonna say, erm, no thanks.
00:42:55.000And people thought that instead of, like, an icon, television, Fox News star, they're gonna side with a fucking gay nerd who is gonna teach them about policy.
00:43:12.000Only Republican leadership could be so naive and so stupid that they would believe the Republican base would vote for that over a television star.
00:43:25.000I mean literally vote for a guy who played a business executive on a reality show and on Fox News.
00:44:45.000I'm a mama for what the fu- You know, so that's one campaign, and then you have Trump go up there at a fascist rally and says, THE DEATH PENALTY FOR EVERYBODY!
00:44:56.000You know, and like the crowd in a stadium cheers.
00:45:01.000And people ask me why I support Trump.
00:45:05.000You have DeSantis' wife going out there, Mamas for DeSantis, ooh, oh my gosh, are you a mama?
00:46:01.000The big story today is that they held a hearing in Congress about these UFOs.
00:46:08.000I think it's the first time they've held a real congressional hearing on this where the DOD presented all their evidence and people are under oath testifying.
00:46:38.000For a long time they never addressed it or they swept this under the rug.
00:46:43.000And just like in the last three or four years the UFO talk has been
00:46:48.000Legitimized for some reason by the government and by the media and so this is part of this trend today They did a hearing and this is from the New York Times.
00:46:57.000It says quote The House of Representatives convened a landmark panel on unidentified anomalous phenomenon or UAPs known more colloquially as UFOs on Wednesday
00:47:11.000In the most serious acknowledgement yet that mysterious sightings deserve scrutiny at the highest levels of government.
00:47:18.000lawmakers were not bringing little green men or flying saucers into the hearing.
00:47:22.000We're just going to get to the facts, said Republican Tim Burchett.
00:47:26.000Over the course of two hours, three witnesses shared their encounters with objects that defied physics and told of pilots afraid to speak up, biological material recovered from crafts, and alleged retaliation against whistleblowers.
00:47:40.000All acknowledged that anomalous phenomena were a potential national security threat.
00:47:46.000The hearing produced no serious bombshells, nor a confirmation of alien life, but the fact that the witnesses received a major hearing before Congress was notable in and of itself.
00:47:56.000Lawmakers and witnesses alike used the panel to demand greater transparency around UAPs from the military.
00:48:03.000At one notable exchange, Nancy Mays, a South Carolina Republican, asked Mr. Grush to elaborate on what he knew about non-terrestrial bodies.
00:48:13.000She asked him if biologics were recovered from any crafts retrieved by the government.
00:48:18.000Referencing his previous media interviews, he responded that biologics came with some of these recoveries.
00:49:16.000There have been these kinds of reports coming out, trickling out for years.
00:49:21.000And when you scrutinize the source, it always comes from the intelligence community.
00:49:28.000It invariably comes from intelligence or defense.
00:49:32.000Now, you might say that that is to be expected, because those with knowledge of classified national security secrets, well, they would come from that world.
00:49:47.000By the same token, if they came from intelligence and from defense, that means they're working for the government.
00:49:57.000And so, just the same that you could say intelligence and defense officials
00:50:03.000know what they're saying they know what they're talking about they would be in the know just as easily you could say they are the ones that would be lying to us they would be the ones that if if there was uh some sort of effort to misdirect the public and for whatever reason convince them that aliens exist for some other purpose it would come from
00:50:27.000Defense and intelligence officials on the payroll of the government.
00:50:30.000So, to me, that's always been very suspect.
00:50:34.000Beyond that, there's obvious problems with this, which is that if there is evidence of aliens out there, then why is it only, and people have said this before, why is it only these grainy videos from the government?
00:51:10.000So, at this point in time, 20 years into this technological revolution, wouldn't there be some clear footage of something anomalous happening?
00:51:19.000It wouldn't be a grainy or ambiguous footage.
00:51:22.000It wouldn't have to come from a classified government worker.
00:51:27.000And then what's more, why is it just the United States that's conducting these hearings?
00:51:31.000Where are the hearings on extraterrestrial life from Russia, from China, from Europe, from any other country other than us?
00:51:40.000If there is extraterrestrial life, why does it only come around the United States?
00:51:44.000And why is it only the United States government that ever sees it?
00:52:12.000You know, I wouldn't rule it out necessarily.
00:52:15.000But as far as evidence of an alien civilization contacting us or visiting us, I mean, to me, there's far more compelling evidence when you look at the Great Pyramids or when you look at ancient civilizations.
00:52:28.000To me, that's more compelling evidence that there was an advanced civilization from here or on this planet or maybe from somewhere else but a long time ago.
00:52:40.000Then to say that there was that there's some sort of Advanced civilization visiting us from somewhere else today based on the level the little evidence that we have With all that being said you have to ask yourself if this is something that's being pushed Clearly by our government and it's something that when scrutinized the logic doesn't make sense You have to ask yourself why they're doing this like what's the point?
00:53:06.000Why is the government pushing this alien hoax?
00:53:10.000And I know that some people have said it's to get more funding for the Pentagon, but that has never made much sense to me because the Pentagon always secures more funding every year.
00:53:22.000For decades, they've secured more and more funding.
00:53:25.000I don't know if there was every year when defense spending went down since the beginning of the Cold War.
00:53:31.000And if there was, it recovered very quickly.
00:53:35.000We're close to $900 billion per year on military after we've wound down the war in Afghanistan, after we've wound down the war in Iraq.
00:53:44.000And it's nearly a $900 billion defense budget this year.
00:53:50.000And this is notwithstanding the $200 billion in aid we're giving to Ukraine, and it's also notwithstanding all the money we spent on COVID stimulus, all this other deficit spending which isn't military but is nevertheless government appropriations.
00:54:05.000And so, the government doesn't need an alien invasion to justify more spending.
00:54:36.000Maybe the military really believes that.
00:54:39.000And maybe Congress really wants to get to the bottom of it.
00:54:43.000I tend to think that that's not the case, but that's always possible.
00:54:47.000And then so if it is being pushed, and if it's not for something like money, then clearly it's gotta be something deeper.
00:54:53.000I think if they wanted more money, they could just fake terrorism.
00:54:56.000It'd be easier to fake another ISIS, or fake a cartel war, or fake a cyber attack, or something more tangible than it is to fake alien disclosure.
00:55:10.000Which would lead me to believe that this alien disclosure talk is about something deeper than raising money.
00:57:13.000It's a much more out there threat, which would suggest then that the ask, the Patriot Act, the 9-11, the stimulus to the COVID pandemic, what is the emergency measure which would be analogous to an alien disclosure?
00:58:04.000I want to get out of here as quickly as possible because my balls are sweating because it's 100 degrees in here and my hair is messed up, so I'm just like extremely pissed off right now.
00:58:13.000For both of those reasons, but let's take a look.
01:04:31.000Sometimes I wish that I could go and get drunk and just be carefree and have a good time.
01:04:42.000I'm mature enough to recognize that I have a duty, I have obligations.
01:04:47.000You know and I would never I don't have any um that doesn't have any draw on me it doesn't tempt me I'm not like one of these people that you're gonna see in 10 years that's like oh you know I was so um
01:05:04.000I was so repressed and so uptight and everything, and now that I'm having a midlife crisis, now I'm gonna go and be a wild man or something.
01:05:18.000I have no temptation to do those things.
01:05:23.000But sometimes I do think about, it would be nice
01:05:28.000to be able to have a night you know and just kind of let loose you know and and get drunk and and get lost somewhere whatever uh and i think if if you can do that i think you should if you have the luxury of doing that if the stakes aren't very high for you why not you know life is hard
01:05:51.000If it's your 21st birthday, you know, go out with your friends, be responsible, but have a good time.
01:05:58.000I feel like that lately, but in general I'm very against alcohol, and I'm very against any kind of drug use or cigarettes, and I don't know if I'll ever engage in any of that, but... And I generally encourage people to stay away from that stuff, but as I get older, I'm like, you know,
01:07:02.000Literally pushing it in my fucking face.
01:07:05.000To the point where I'd be like, I'm gonna knock that out of your fucking hand.
01:07:08.000You know, he was always pushing alcohol, wanted me to drink.
01:07:10.000He would drink alone in his apartment by himself.
01:07:13.000He would get drunk by himself and fucking cry about how he's lonely.
01:07:17.000And he'd always be pushing that on me, like, we have to drink together, you gotta drink with me, we gotta go to bars, like, you gotta try alcohol, whatever.
01:07:25.000And that was the only time where the peer pressure kinda got to me.
01:07:28.000I was like, well, everybody's doing it, maybe.
01:10:52.000Sorry, but like, I knew that was coming when I was gonna do this show.
01:10:57.000I just hate when people obviously steal something and then try to pass it off like, you know, like they know what they're talking about or something.
01:11:30.000You think it's, uh, you know, you're shopping around for these hot takes like they're, like they're rare pepes, like it's a fucking, uh, Yu-Gi-Oh card.
01:12:45.000And then the other thing about confessing sins, this is in the gospel, this is biblical, that the apostles have the ability to bind and loose sins.
01:12:55.000And of course, it is up to God to forgive the sins, which you have to confess them to a priest.
01:13:02.000And on behalf of God, a priest absolves you, but the forgiveness comes from God, ultimately.
01:13:13.000You know, the problem with this, I only confess my sins to God.
01:13:19.000I mean, in some sense, that is what we're doing when we confess to a priest.
01:13:26.000Without the sacraments, however, which Protestants like to deny, you know, they don't like, they don't believe in the transubstantiation, they don't really believe in baptism, they don't really believe in any of these things.
01:14:11.000If you don't have to go, because for Catholics, it really makes you conscientious of your sins, because you go to Mass, and in order to get the Eucharist, which is something we have to do at least once a year, in order to receive the body and blood of Jesus, which is how we're saved, we have to be in a state of grace.
01:14:31.000In order to be in a state of grace, we have to go to confession.
01:14:34.000We have to go to confession at least once a year.
01:14:37.000And so when you're a Catholic and you commit a mortal sin and you have to go, like not, hey, did you like say a quick prayer?
01:14:46.000But like you have to go and you have to sit down and face a priest and say, hey, I did this this many times.
01:14:53.000You have to examine your conscience and think about every single sin.
01:14:59.000And go to a priest and say, I did this, I did this, I did this, I did it this many times, I did it this many times, I'm sorry.
01:15:06.000You know, like, it focuses the mind on repentance.
01:15:14.000You're given a penance, you're given a real penance that you have to deliver, real spiritual counseling, you have basically an accounting of all your sins, and in the sacrament of confession,
01:15:29.000They're wiped away, and it's definitive, and it's explicit, and it's clear, as opposed to, I believe you begin to have real problems if you're a Protestant, this like, hey God, like, sorry, is that good enough?
01:15:45.000You know, because I know that, I know that in my life,
01:15:49.000I don't have a true conscientiousness of my sins until I go to confession.
01:15:56.000It's not to say that I'm not aware of it, it's not to say that I don't think about it, but until you have to go into the confessional and read through systematically the Ten Commandments and all of the
01:16:10.000And you extrapolate from those all the different kinds of sins a person is committing on a regular basis, you're really just not fully aware of it.
01:16:17.000And that way you're really, in my view, you're not fully confessing.
01:16:23.000And therefore you're not fully repenting.
01:16:28.000Because if it's just like, you know, you and God, and it's not, I don't mean to put that in square quotes like prayer isn't legitimate,
01:16:35.000But prayer is something that is internal and it's really on you.
01:16:42.000And are you going to be as hard on yourself as a priest?
01:16:46.000Are you going to, do you go to God and say in the same way the things that you would say to a priest?
01:16:56.000But I think that the history of Protestantism shows that that's not happening.
01:17:01.000I think that the history of Protestantism, when you lose the authority that comes from Christ, which proceeds from Peter through the succession of bishops of Rome through to the Pope, which then proceeds through the church and the magisterium, without that authority, without the sacraments and the tradition, you're without any kind of grounding.
01:18:13.000When the Pope has been questioned, when the Church has been questioned, when people start to rely on the Bible and their own understanding of it, or they talk about, you know, well, I just talked to God.
01:19:43.000I think anybody realizes it's it's just Accountability, it's just basic human nature if you have to go to somebody and tell them your sins We all know that's a different experience than telling it to the mirror it is a fundamentally different experience to sit down and face somebody and
01:19:59.000And tell that confess your sins Than it is to you know to roll out of bed and look up at the sky and say, you know, sorry Not to knock it, you know, you should pray and you should pray For forgiveness and you should repent and ask for mercy in your prayers But we have the sacraments for a reason we have confession for a reason So there's a reason that the priest mediates
01:20:30.000You know, God... Jesus gave us a church.
01:20:33.000He didn't give us a Bible, He gave us a church.
01:20:35.000Now, the Gospel's part of it, but Jesus left us with a church for a reason, which is to administer, basically, the faith.
01:25:16.000doing this winking the whole time breaking the fourth wall like you know the the writers didn't even attempt to make characters or attempt to to even make a story or attempt to make this fantasy world even make sense um and it wasn't even fun or anything like i said the character stand-ins for
01:26:52.000I think that, like, a pre-Flood advanced civilization makes way more sense than aliens.
01:26:58.000Like, a pre-Flood, when you talk about giants and Nephilim and angels mating with human beings and creating these, like, intermediary species, to me, that makes so much more sense than aliens.
01:29:42.000It's like, okay, so are there sightings of extraterrestrials, or are they not?
01:29:47.000You know, because if you say that aliens are demons, you're saying that all this footage of aliens is real, but they're just not aliens or demons.
01:29:53.000I don't think there's any real footage out there.
01:31:10.000I hear what you are saying about confession.
01:31:14.000It is just kind of scary thinking of everybody telling the priest their dirty little secrets when the priest is a corruptible man just like anyone else and could use that dirt for exploitation.
01:31:25.000Like, a priest cannot break confidentiality.
01:31:29.000And if you're worried about that in the confessional, there's a veil.
01:31:32.000Like, you can go and do a face-to-face confession, or you can do a confession behind a screen.
01:31:40.000So... And honestly, they don't care that much.
01:31:42.000Like, that's really kind of like a... You have to let go of that a little bit.
01:31:48.000Do you think your priest really cares?
01:31:50.000You know, if you're just some Joe Schmo and you go in there and you're like, uh, you know, hey, like, uh, I jerked off last week or something, do you think your priest is like, oh boy, you know, Joe Schmo who works at Walgreens, I just learned!
01:32:03.000Now, I know that everyone has their sins and everything, but, um, you know, I don't even think that's really a problem for most people.
01:32:42.000I mean people go and tell their therapist these like think about this people go and tell their therapist their deepest darkest secrets Or even a best friend for that matter But the thought of telling a priest oh, you know suddenly people get very uncomfortable, and it's like well You know if you could tell your lawyer
01:33:01.000Secret if you could tell a therapist a secret if you could tell your doctor a secret I mean we because when you think about it, we tell people embarrassing things about ourselves all the time now Probably my audience doesn't go to therapy But how many people do you know that a thing that a wicked therapist holds your secrets against you?
01:33:17.000I've never heard of such a thing, you know or a doctor, you know, you have an embarrassing medical condition How many times have you heard of a doctor?
01:33:25.000spilling the beans on somebody or something or
01:33:30.000Or a lawyer breaking confidentiality about law breaking.
01:37:22.000And so, I mean, we're taking steps to avoid an all-out war, an all-out civil war between the Sussy Squad, which really wields so much influence, and, you know, the America First Kruipers.
01:37:39.000I think there's a war breaking out here, so... It is a shame that the Barbie movement has caused these tensions, but, you know, that's how it goes sometimes, I guess.