00:01:36.000The conventional wisdom on depression is that it is a physiological problem, a psychiatric problem that's caused by a so called chemical imbalance in the brain due to depleted serotonin levels.
00:01:51.000And there's a new study out that says that that is not actually true.
00:01:55.000That depression is not caused by low serotonin levels, and therefore antidepressants, which are supposed to fix that, don't work.
00:02:04.000And so people that are taking antidepressants, All over the Western world, but particularly in the United States, they're essentially just getting drugged and ripped off.
00:02:14.000The drugs don't work, but they cost a lot of money, so everybody's paying all this money for antidepressants.
00:02:20.000It's drugging them up, drugging up their mind, but they don't actually cure depression.
00:02:28.000We'll also be talking tonight about this opinion piece in Bloomberg written by some liberal, which says that Joe Biden should make gas prices stay high indefinitely.
00:02:41.000Because the higher the gas prices are, the more that that will facilitate a transition to electric cars.
00:02:49.000Because, of course, the people driving the electric cars aren't paying for the gas.
00:02:53.000And so, the higher that the gas prices go, the more economical it will become for people to buy electric cars.
00:03:01.000And the more economical it will become for car manufacturers to make electric cars if that remains constant.
00:03:08.000And that may give us an inclination as to why gas prices are as high as they are now.
00:03:15.000Everybody says it's due to supply and demand, but of course, supply and demand is completely convoluted as far as the production of energy is concerned.
00:03:25.000You know, people say gas prices are high and that's due to forces outside of our control.
00:03:33.000Yes, the gas prices are determined by the price of oil and the supply and demand for oil, but the supply and demand for oil is tightly controlled.
00:03:42.000Production of oil is something that is somewhat elastic.
00:03:47.000It's not like we're producing as much oil as can be produced.
00:03:53.000We're producing as much oil as various governments allow in various ways.
00:03:59.000And since Joe Biden got in office, we reduced the energy production of the United States.
00:04:10.000And so, thinking about this logic, it kind of maybe gives us a clue as to why gas prices are so high, why the energy production in the United States is being suppressed.
00:04:22.000It's because, like this Bloomberg writer points out, the connection's not that hard to make.
00:04:27.000The higher the price of gas goes, the more people transition to so called green energy, which is what they want.
00:08:22.000So glad I wake up every day and I'm a handsome genius who's rich and not somebody else.
00:08:28.000But sometimes, you know, it's really difficult to be me, I have to say.
00:08:32.000Sometimes it's very nice, you know, and I'm eating steaks and I'm flying first class and I'm staying at the Trump and I'm famous and I'm handsome and I see things that, you know, stupid people never see.
00:08:44.000But then sometimes it's like people talk to me and they get banned on Facebook.
00:08:49.000People talk to me and they get fired from their job.
00:08:54.000Sometimes it's so hard being me, you know?
00:12:48.000Because as far as I've come, as entrenched as I am, With all these alliances and friends and partnerships and so on, I still need to be able to be a free man.
00:12:58.000I still need to be able to be a free, independent person.
00:13:02.000And some people maybe think that's a little bit convoluted, but it's true.
00:13:06.000Because this is what happens to everybody everybody goes into politics and they start out being a rabble rouser.
00:13:13.000And naturally, over the course of time, they meet people and they make friends and they get offers and they make deals.
00:13:19.000And eventually, people get so entrenched.
00:13:22.000That they're sort of like totally restricted in what they could do and say.
00:13:37.000And what they can say is narrowed down.
00:13:40.000And as long as people understand this is what they get is provocative, then it's like, hey, well, that's just Nick Flentis, you know, that's just what it is.
00:13:50.000Then people can accept me on that basis.
00:13:56.000That's how we can influence the direction of the conversation rather than the conversation influencing the direction of Nick Fluentes, because otherwise that's how it goes.
00:14:07.000Otherwise, the tail wags the dog, and it's like, well, this is where things are, and you got to come over here.
00:14:12.000And it's like, nope, this is where I am, and everyone's coming over here.
00:14:17.000Anyway, so he's like, yeah, you got to stop saying the N word.
00:16:10.000Some days I'll say, okay, the show's going to start at 9 tomorrow, and then it does for a week, and then it's like, and then it just sort of drifts away.
00:20:03.000Our first story is about this Bloomberg article.
00:20:07.000Now, the Bloomberg article itself is actually not so interesting, but I think it gives us an idea of what's going on with gas prices right now.
00:20:16.000This liberal writer at Bloomberg is suggesting, and Bloomberg, very influential financial paper, obviously, they're suggesting that Biden introduce a tax or fees on gas to create a minimum price for gas of $5 per gallon.
00:20:36.000And he says we need to do this because the higher the gas prices go, That is going to be the only thing that will facilitate a transition to electric cars and green energy.
00:20:47.000And in a sense, there's some truth in this.
00:20:50.000And so this is the article it says Bloomberg Opinion published a piece on Wednesday calling for President Biden to increase gas prices intentionally and forever in order to hasten a transition to alternate forms of energy.
00:21:04.000The op ed, written by columnist Eduardo Porter, called for a $5 per gallon floor on gasoline prices.
00:21:12.000Porter described the policy as, quote, one bold move that would put a real dent in the emission of heat trapping carbon dioxide that is causing such havoc with the weather.
00:21:23.000Although he admitted it was unlikely the president would make that.
00:21:27.000He writes, quote, as an economist, as any economist will tell him, the most efficient way to reduce fossil fuel consumption is to raise its price relative to alternatives, encouraging people and businesses to switch to cleaner sources and use less energy altogether.
00:21:45.000Biden faced backlash in June for suggesting that high energy prices are a chance to make a fundamental turn to so called clean energy.
00:21:53.000Porter wrote, The beauty of this moment for the president is that he wouldn't have to deploy any political capital for this to happen.
00:22:01.000Russia's invasion of Ukraine already did the trick, sending the average retail price of gasoline above $5 a gallon in June.
00:22:08.000All Biden must do is keep it from falling back.
00:22:14.000Porter argued that $5 That a $5 gas floor would reduce carbon emissions from cars and trucks.
00:22:21.000Despite these aspirations, Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry continues to fly on private jets, emitting over 300 metric tons of carbon since Biden became president.
00:22:33.000Further, Porter called for a gas tax to further decrease demand and says, While consistently high gas prices would encourage more drilling over the long term, not quite the desired outcome from a climate change perspective.
00:22:48.000Imposing a tax to boost the retail price at the pump would eat into consumer demand without incentivizing further supply.
00:22:55.000Higher energy prices will eat into consumers' pocketbooks and slow the economy.
00:23:00.000What's important for the president to understand is that we have no choice.
00:23:05.000Fossil fuels must become more expensive.
00:23:11.000You know, he's saying that we need to basically destroy the economy to force energy to become more green.
00:23:22.000That's a pretty twisted agenda, but at least he's being more honest than everybody else.
00:23:28.000The dirty secret about green energy and this energy transformation that they're talking about is that it necessarily entails that we reduce economic activity.
00:23:44.000To transition from cheap, abundant, reliable fossil fuels with the capital already built to intermittent, expensive renewables where the capital has not been built.
00:23:58.000Is that economic activity will have to be reduced.
00:24:01.000Energy consumption will have to be reduced overall.
00:24:05.000Energy consumption will not be as reliable as it used to be.
00:24:10.000And in order to build all this infrastructure, it's going to require a lot of investment from the government, which means we're going to have to take a lot of money out of the economy to build these things.
00:24:20.000We are not going to be able to, like they say, transition to green energy and keep everything the way that it is or grow the economy.
00:25:28.000But in the simplest form, People and animals are like cars and they're like factories in the sense that what we are all doing in order to stay alive is converting fuel into energy and then emitting things from that.
00:25:45.000That is what all abiotic and biotic sort of industry does factories of energy.
00:25:52.000And for energy to be created, there are emissions.
00:25:55.000If you want to reduce emissions, that can only be done to a certain extent and with certain things.
00:26:01.000At some point, reducing emissions requires a reduction of energy production, which means less human beings and it means less economic output, less production, and it means the people that are here will have less.
00:26:14.000Less space, less food, less water, less energy, less electricity, less everything.
00:26:25.000He's saying, well, the only way we're going to get people to transition to green energy, well, he's not quite saying this.
00:26:30.000He's saying something a little bit different about the economy of it.
00:26:33.000But that's the dirty secret about energy is that what we're talking about is a complete revolution.
00:26:39.000Do not take it lightly when they talk about sustainability, green, environmentalist.
00:26:44.000Whenever you hear that, that is a code word for we are going to make your standard of living worse to pursue this very convoluted global agenda, is what they're really saying.
00:26:56.000That there's this relationship between your quality of life and the level of the oceans and the catastrophic weather.
00:27:06.000They're saying that you have to give up your quality of life because it's causing tornadoes and hurricanes.
00:27:13.000Your high quality of life, which entails industry and emissions and so on, that's causing the oceans to rise and that's causing tornadoes.
00:27:25.000And that's how they're going to get everybody on board is with this ridiculous stuff.
00:27:30.000And at least this guy in Bloomberg is being honest.
00:27:32.000He's saying we're going to punish consumers.
00:27:35.000We're going to make poor people and working class people hurt the most by making it so economically painful for them to have a gas powered car that we're going to force them to buy an electric car or stop driving or stop using as much energy as they are.
00:27:54.000And, uh, Richer people be able to buy electric cars is the gist.
00:27:59.000And again, it's not so much what he's saying.
00:28:01.000That's broadly what's going on with the energy conversation, but it's not so much what he's saying about it, which is interesting.
00:28:08.000It's what he is suggesting, which kind of gives us a perspective on why gas prices are so high.
00:28:15.000Because think about what he's saying here.
00:28:17.000He says that the higher the gas prices go, the more that that will create, the more that that will catalyze and facilitate the transition to green energy.
00:28:27.000If gas prices are $5 a gallon, people will be more inclined to look into electric cars or not driving at all, and thereby reducing their emissions because of the economy of it, not because of the ethics of it or the politics of it.
00:28:45.000But if gas is $5 a gallon, some people say, well, I won't drive as much, which is what the environmentalists want.
00:28:53.000Or if I am going to drive, if I need to drive, I'll take public transit or I'll buy an electric car, which is what.
00:31:12.000And same thing with the stopping of the Keystone XL pipeline and restricting the ability to drill in America and restricting fracking.
00:31:23.000Once again, he didn't sign the bill that said, okay, gas prices can't go below $5.
00:31:27.000But is that not, in a sense, what he did by having policies that are against energy in America and by raising prices of energy overseas with sanctions against Russia?
00:31:39.000And so the question is then, you know, is this really deliberate?
00:31:45.000I don't think it's far fetched to say that $5 gas was deliberate from the beginning.
00:31:51.000It may be indirect, but no less intentional and no less deliberate to raise the price of gasoline to facilitate this transition to green energy.
00:32:02.000And the worst part, obviously, is that, of course, the rich people are always going to be fine.
00:32:07.000You know, that's what they're not going to tell you is that the green energy transition is going to be very costly, but not for any poor person, or rather, not for any rich person.
00:32:17.000Rich people still fly on private jets, and rich people can still emit as much as they want.
00:32:24.000And if rich people want the luxury of not emitting, then they can buy a very expensive electric car.
00:32:29.000They could buy a $40,000 electric car.
00:32:32.000But somebody that bought a Honda Civic or something, somebody that doesn't have the budget for a $40,000 electric vehicle, and I think they're even more expensive now because of how expensive used cars and new cars are becoming.
00:32:50.000But nevertheless, they're all very expensive.
00:32:52.000Poor people can't just go out there and buy an electric car because gas prices got high.
00:32:57.000And a lot of working people rely on car based transportation to get to work.
00:33:04.000And so, raising gas prices for some people, they just have to pay it.
00:33:09.000You know, they can't go out, gas is $5.
00:33:17.000Guess you'll have to figure something else out.
00:33:18.000Some people need to drive to work every day.
00:33:20.000All that that's doing is preventing them from driving.
00:33:23.000For places that are optional, which would be leisure, recreation, vacations, things like that.
00:33:31.000But this is the direction that everything is going in.
00:33:34.000We've got this, the people in power have this agenda, and the agenda is always being paid for by the working people, the middle class, the poor people.
00:33:45.000It's being paid for by diluting the purchasing power of their currency, paid for by high taxes, paid for by shrinkflation.
00:33:59.000That is what is subsidizing this entire globalist agenda.
00:34:02.000The rich are still going to eat meat and they're still going to have big houses and take long hot showers and they're still going to fly private jets.
00:34:11.000And it's poor people that are going to have to reduce their square footage of their apartment or their house, reduce their water consumption.
00:34:18.000They're the ones that are going to have to economize on meat and everything else.
00:36:32.000That's a cheap form of energy that people can eat.
00:36:35.000And so when they go out there and tell you you're not going to eat meat anymore, you're going to eat plant based alternatives or crickets, that is literally poverty.
00:36:43.000They're taking away meat, which is rich in protein and fat, animal fats.
00:36:49.000And everything else, you know, liver organs, which are very good for you, when they take that away and instead give you crickets or rice or vegetables, that's poverty.
00:37:03.000And when they tell you, oh, you're going to live in a smart city instead of a house, you know what they're telling you?
00:37:09.000They're saying you're going to go from one acre or a half acre or whatever.
00:37:13.000You're going to go from having privacy and a front lawn and a back lawn and your own home.
00:37:20.000You're going to go from becoming a landowner to a tenant.
00:37:23.000You're going to go from 2,000, 3,000 square feet to 1,000 square feet, and you're not going to have privacy, and you're not going to have a porch and a front lawn, a backyard, and a driveway.
00:37:36.000And when they tell you you're going to reduce your water consumption with time showers, again, poverty, reduce your consumption, they are selling you poverty.
00:38:29.000And they're selling you the opposite of all those things for various purposes, in various ways.
00:38:36.000And if they just came right out and say, well, the agenda under Trump is everybody is going to be a homeowner with a good paying job and own their house and have an education and have things that are made of quality materials and can drive where they want because energy is cheap, so they could fill up their car, take a plane somewhere.
00:38:58.000And if they said that the liberal agenda is you can't fly anywhere because it's too expensive because we made it too expensive, and you can't drive anywhere because it's too expensive because we made gas more expensive, and you can't have a house because we rezoned it and we're not building houses anymore, and so on and so on, it's like, what would people pick?
00:39:15.000Well, obviously, people would pick wealth, but it's being framed in every other way.
00:39:36.000But we want to have a high quality of life.
00:39:39.000We want to have a high standard of living for all of our people.
00:39:45.000It's not to say that everybody's going to become a millionaire, but it is to say that everybody, in the way that it once was, even people who worked in factories could have a cheap house, cheap land, a cheap car.
00:40:01.000And that used to be the American dream.
00:40:34.000And so, what they essentially did is by doubling the money supply, they're sort of like, not perfectly, but they're essentially halving the value of the money.
00:40:41.000And if you're a person that has no money and you just get paid every two weeks and your salary stays the same and the cost of living goes up, your consumption is being halved.
00:41:26.000If you're a poor person, you don't have savings, you don't have investments, you're just getting a paycheck every two weeks, and the paycheck stays the same.
00:41:34.000If you're getting paid, you know, whatever, five grand a month or whatever it is, and you're getting a, you know, I don't know exactly how that works.
00:41:41.000I never had like a full time job, but you know, you paid every two weeks, you get your paycheck, and then you go and you spend that on your rent or your mortgage, your car payment or whatever.
00:42:17.000And that way, I'm a little bit more of a libertarian.
00:42:19.000Once you see the government's role and how they're extracting value from the economy, the economy is very simple let people make things, let people keep what they make, and then let people spend and invest it.
00:42:32.000And the more that the government is involved in any of that, the more that they're just simply stopping people from engaging in productive activities, which is reducing.
00:42:43.000Production, which is reducing consumption.
00:42:47.000And the more that they tax and the more that they spend, the more that this economy is, or rather, the more that money and value is just being leached out of the economy.
00:42:58.000You know, so I mean, I'm not like a libertarian anymore, but they are right about the economy and the role that the government plays in it.
00:43:06.000And it's all very plain when you say it that way.
00:43:09.000They literally want to raise gas prices to make everybody be green because why?
00:43:52.000Pay very close attention to that because it wasn't such a huge issue in like 2008, but it was a very big deal in 2016, and it was a really big deal in 2020 as well.
00:44:04.000And I wouldn't be surprised if they're keeping gas prices artificially high for exactly the reason this guy is saying, because they want everybody on green.
00:44:22.000Like I said, I mean, I think we already understood this from the beginning.
00:44:26.000But they say now that antidepressants don't work.
00:44:29.000They say that depression doesn't work the way that everybody thought it did, and as a consequence, antidepressants don't work in the way that we thought they did either.
00:44:39.000And so the new study says that this theory about depression, which you've all heard, I'm sure, which is that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain, has been debunked.
00:44:54.000The chemical imbalance says that people's brains are not producing enough serotonin, and so depression is not a psychological issue, it's a psychiatric issue.
00:45:05.000It's not a matter of sort of mental well being, which stems from things that are happening in your life and things that are going on in your mind, but it's literally a chemical problem, and it's something wrong with your brain.
00:45:21.000It's not something wrong with your mind, it's something wrong with your brain.
00:45:24.000Not something wrong with the thoughts in your head and what you believe about yourself and your emotions and things like that.
00:45:33.000There's something wrong with your brain, and that the depressed brain is different than the non depressed brain, and it's a treatable illness like heart disease or diabetes or something like that.
00:45:44.000It's actually just a chronic physiological problem.
00:45:49.000And so then they prescribed antidepressants, which would alter those chemical imbalances.
00:46:03.000It says, quote, low serotonin levels do not cause depression, according to a major review.
00:46:08.000Today's landmark findings call into question society's ever growing reliance on antidepressants like Prozac.
00:46:16.000Millions of patients take selective serotonin re uptake inhibitors designed to boost levels of the feel good chemical, University of Of College London, researchers argue, however, that there is no convincing evidence that depression is caused by an imbalance of the chemical.
00:46:35.000Excuse me, one academic involved in the study described the findings as eye opening and that everything I thought I knew has just been flipped upside down.
00:46:45.000Lead author, Professor Joanna Minecraft, a psychiatrist, said, The popularity of the chemical imbalance theory has coincided with a huge increase in the use of antidepressants.
00:46:58.000Thousands suffer from side effects of antidepressants, including severe withdrawal effects that can occur when people try to stop them.
00:47:05.000Yet prescription rates continue to rise.
00:47:07.000We believe the situation has been driven partly by the false belief that depression is due to the chemical imbalance.
00:47:15.000It is high time to inform the public that this belief is not grounded in science.
00:47:19.000One in six British adults and roughly 13% of Americans take antidepressants.
00:47:25.000NHS data shows that there has been a surge in prescriptions doled out in England, with 8.3 million patients taking them in 2021, 6% more than the previous year.
00:47:37.000The most common are SSRIs such as Prozac, Ciprimil, and Lustral.
00:47:44.000Serotonin helps carry signals in the brain and is thought to have a positive influence on mood, emotion, and sleep.
00:47:50.000They are preferred to other types of antidepressants because they cause fewer side effects.
00:47:55.000Yet, they can still lead patients taking them to experience anxiety, diarrhea, dizziness, and blurred vision.
00:48:03.000Depressed patients can also be hit by crippling withdrawal symptoms when they try to come off the pills.
00:48:09.000At the same time, a raft of studies have suggested they don't work any better than a placebo.
00:48:14.000The UCL study published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry.
00:48:19.000Analyzed 17 previous reviews dating back to 2010 and consisting of dozens of individual trials.
00:48:27.000It does not prove SSRIs don't work, however, it does suggest that the drugs don't treat depression by fixing abnormally low serotonin levels.
00:48:39.000SSRIs have no other proven way of working.
00:48:42.000She added We can safely say that after a vast amount of research conducted over several decades, there is no convincing evidence that depression is caused by serotonin abnormalities.
00:48:53.000Particularly by low levels or reduced activity of serotonin.
00:48:58.000So they're saying that the antidepressants work at what they're supposed to do, but that that actually doesn't treat depression.
00:49:06.000They're saying that they're looking at people with depression, they take these antidepressants, Prozac, that the only way that they work, their only effect, is to raise serotonin levels, which they may do, but it doesn't treat the depression.
00:49:22.000It does not treat the underlying problem.
00:49:25.000And so they're saying then that it's not really an antidepressant.
00:49:29.000These drugs may make people feel better, but they're not curing depression.
00:49:33.000And what that tells us about depression is that depression is not a psychiatric issue.
00:49:39.000Psychiatric meaning relating to the brain's chemistry.
00:49:43.000That depression is not caused by a so called chemical imbalance.
00:49:46.000If it was, then these drugs that are supposed to correct the chemical imbalance and which successfully do would cure depression, but they don't.
00:49:55.000That's the only thing they can do, that's the only way that they can work.
00:50:00.000And if they're doing what they're supposed to, but they're not curing depression, that means that depression cannot be a chemical issue.
00:50:08.000It has got to be a psychological issue.
00:50:11.000And so, all these people that are taking these drugs, they are in a literal sense being drugged.
00:50:18.000Their depression isn't being cured by the pills they're taking, but they're taking happy pills that make them feel better.
00:50:26.000And this is what people like us have been saying for years about antidepressants and about drugs.
00:50:32.000Is that depression and the sort of crisis that's going on in the West is not a matter of brain chemistry, and it's not something that can be corrected with pills or other drugs for that matter, other adaptive, addictive behaviors.
00:50:49.000Because the underlying issue is dislocation.
00:51:16.000This is a particular effect of the society that we live in.
00:51:21.000It's something that's widespread, it's something that is being medicated by a large percentage of the population.
00:51:27.000And lots of other people are using adaptive behaviors to cope with this in other ways.
00:51:34.000You know, addiction is not just something that is about substance.
00:51:37.000Addictive is about habitual behaviors, adaptive, habitual behaviors.
00:51:43.000And so that could be people that are addicted to sex.
00:51:45.000That could be people that are addicted to video games, addicted to all kinds of things, all kinds of pathological behaviors that people engage in.
00:51:55.000And to the extent that people are on antidepressants, it's not curing that, it's sort of glossing over that and making people feel better while they're trudging through.
00:52:06.000These problems, which are not going away.
00:52:09.000And so the immediate takeaway, of course, is that people need to stop taking these pills.
00:52:14.000The immediate takeaway is that this entire industry has been built up of manufacturing and prescribing pills, which are very expensive and which Medicare is paying for, which the government is paying for, which people are paying a lot of money in some cases for health insurance to pay for to get their pills.
00:52:31.000And so you've got this perverse incentive structure which has people on addictive pills where they can't get off the pills.
00:52:42.000There's withdrawal symptoms if they go off the pills.
00:52:46.000And then there's also this problem of people thinking, of course, that they need, that there's something wrong with them and they need the pills to cure them.
00:52:55.000So there's sort of this sick problem going on where there's businesses built around this to continue the cycle.
00:53:01.000But then there's also the problem within people that rather than people looking at their lives and looking at their beliefs and looking at their society, And thinking about how things could be better for people to feel better.
00:53:15.000Instead, they're resorting to these every other solution.
00:53:20.000This is kind of part of the problem in life is that we experience pain for a reason.
00:53:46.000It's because pain alerts us to a problem which requires our attention.
00:53:52.000You know, we don't have physical pain in our lives because, you know, because life is just horrible.
00:54:00.000It's like that because sometimes bad things happen.
00:54:03.000If you didn't have pain, you wouldn't know what's wrong with you.
00:54:07.000And the same thing is true probably about the society that we have gotten to the point where people have gotten these sort of avoidant.
00:54:16.000They've got this avoidant mentality and avoidant behaviors about pain.
00:54:21.000And so, in the same way that people will want to do painkillers for a physical pain problem, they'll look at their lives and experience existential pain, emotional pain, all kinds of other negativity, and say, I want pills, I need distractions, I need drugs, I need feel good drugs, I need things that make me feel good, I need food, I need experiences, I need novelty, I need relationships, I need this so I can feel better.
00:54:49.000But of course, all these things only feel good temporarily.
00:54:54.000And they require sort of an escalation.
00:54:59.000You know, you can't do the same thing over and over and keep getting the same pleasurable feeling.
00:55:04.000You need more of it or more intense kind of that thing.
00:55:10.000And this is why we've got people that are living these extreme, hollow lives.
00:55:16.000It's because they're unable to face the real problems going on.
00:55:20.000And that is what the society is comprised of.
00:55:23.000When we say there's something wrong with society, we're saying there's something wrong with people.
00:55:27.000And there is something wrong with people.
00:55:28.000There's something wrong with most people, which is that everybody is sort of living with a dread.
00:55:35.000Not everybody, some people are living nice lives, but lots and a larger share of people, maybe than ever, are living with a dread that is not they're not angry because they're hungry, they're not angry because they're oppressed, they're sort of lost and disoriented and anxious and filled with these sort of neuroses.
00:56:00.000And this is leading them to do these kinds of things, whether it's pills or it's some other form of self medication.
00:56:07.000And that's really the deeper problem here.
00:56:10.000And Tucker Carlson, I know, just did a big show about how SSRIs are creating mass shooters.
00:56:15.000That's another issue, too, the SSRIs are particularly bad for people.
00:56:19.000I've never been on SSRIs, but you can read the literature on this.
00:56:24.000They literally cause people, if they weren't suicidal before, to become suicidal.
00:56:29.000If people weren't depressed or anxious before, they'll cause people to feel very negatively.
00:56:36.000And there's lots of anecdotal evidence, you know, what people say, testimonials about SSRIs that not only is it not curing depression, it's also sort of destroying people's minds.
00:56:49.000And so, altogether, this is a very disturbing study about where we are.
00:56:53.000And this is not a surprise, I don't think, to any of us.
00:56:56.000We look at the society and we diagnose something that's not having to do with public policy, and it's not having to do with people aren't happy because some external thing is happening.
00:57:08.000It's something that's a lot deeper than that.
00:57:10.000It's something that is unique, again, to our time and the kind of culture we have.
00:57:14.000And it's something that happened recently in the society.
00:57:17.000And I think all fingers point towards a destruction in the higher level needs of people.
00:57:23.000Chief among them is communion with God and a spiritual life.
00:57:30.000But there's also all kinds of other levels to it as well, which is the death of the family and the destruction of national identity, and it is the atomization of people.
00:57:40.000Which is to say that communities have disintegrated, and now you've got just individuals out there with these sort of smaller and smaller concentric circles where they derive meaning and how they relate to people.
00:57:55.000But those are the real problems in the society.
00:57:57.000We've got a depressed, anxious, antisocial country, and everybody said for decades that's because of chemical imbalances, that's because of pills, that's because of this or that.
00:58:09.000And now scientific evidence is pouring out all the time that.
00:58:14.000The antidepressants aren't treating it.
00:58:16.000Actually, the antidepressants are making it worse.
00:58:19.000And so, where are we left as a society?
00:58:22.000Well, we're going to have to confront within this or the next decade what's really going on here and why people are so unhappy and why things seem to be getting worse all the time and not better.
00:58:36.000And it's going to make people uncomfortable.
00:58:38.000They're going to find the answer in the one place they're avoiding.
00:58:42.000Everybody's looking for meaning, everybody's looking for answers, but they're not looking in the one place where they know they are.
00:59:02.000They're doing things they know they're not supposed to do, but they don't want to go there.
00:59:06.000Maybe if I change my diet, maybe if I do this, maybe if I just have a more sex positive attitude, maybe if I just look for relationships that, you know, you see all this convoluted shit on Instagram where women talk about, like, you know, I need to take care of me and I need to take care of my mental health and talk about abusers and gaslighting and all this crazy stuff.
00:59:27.000And they'll look in everything that's easy and everything that's comfortable and everything that is doable for them and not the thing which is going to be really taxing and really hard, which is to go back and reach down and get back in touch with their conscience and with their soul and with their family.
00:59:48.000When I say people are doing things that they know they're not supposed to be doing, I mean in every way, shape, and form.
00:59:54.000It's not just that people are being immoral.
00:59:56.000It's just that people are being indulgent.
01:00:43.000But society is going to go through some very ugly turmoil in the coming decades as a consequence of all this madness.
01:00:49.000And it's going to force people, it's going to force people, it's going to grab them by the back of the head, by their hair, and force them to look into the abyss and say, hey, what's going on?
01:01:00.000Force them to confront the things that people have been hiding for for decades, or hiding from, I should say, for decades.
01:02:15.000And it is through grief and it's through sadness that you will be able to confront yourself and make the kinds of changes or understand things that you need to.
01:02:26.000And maybe if everybody did that in the society, we would have a different way of living.
01:02:32.000But instead, everybody wants to make it go away and feel pleasant again.
01:02:35.000Well, sometimes a tremendous amount of unpleasantness is required in life.
01:03:08.000Because if we keep pushing it off and pushing it off, it's just going to turn into a, you know, all that negativity is going to turn into a nuclear bomb going off somewhere.
01:06:52.000I can create Cozy, I can't create a bank.
01:06:56.000So, that's one of the big things that's getting in the way with Super Chats.
01:07:00.000We're making some progress, you know, we're learning a lot about the credit card industry and we're working on some novel type solutions, but this is one of these things where there's not really a technical solution to it.
01:09:34.000I mean, I don't think that's a perfect argument because it's like, certainly you could say that Christ is the most influential, but if you're going to go on historical alone, it's like you could say Muhammad has had a big influence on history.
01:09:46.000You know, not as much, but if that's sort of the basis of the argument, it's like, But you're right.
01:09:55.000I mean, that is another argument in favor of it.
01:09:57.000I don't think that proves it by itself, but if you already believe that it's proof, I agree.
01:15:53.000I've been getting fan mail in my P.O. box lately from these liberals in California where they're like, you're a fucking racist and we hate you.
01:17:25.000So tired of these poor idiots using big words trying to sound smart.
01:17:28.000The reason Nick sounds smart, besides the fact that he is, is that he uses specific words off the top of his head to describe his ideas more accurately.
01:17:37.000He also uses those specific words when they are called for, not just for the sake of it, like Bab.
01:17:42.000True, yeah, I have a very rich vocabulary.
01:17:46.000I'm a genius, I read a lot, and, you know, when you're a genius, you just have all these words at your disposal.
01:20:36.000What a Jungus Appreciator tweet the other day.
01:20:38.000I was laughing all day about this tweet.
01:20:41.000He said, He tweeted, I really enjoyed Las Vegas.
01:20:46.000My only complaint was that it wasn't based and shrad and fashi and red pill with a bunch of blue pill degenerates that don't constantly talk about politics and Jews and N words in real life like a bunch of cringe normies.
01:22:09.000And, you know, because anyone could go out there and say, oh, black people, or whatever.
01:22:15.000Anyone could go out there and say anything that they think is edgy.
01:22:17.000It's another thing to really just say what you feel and not care what happens.
01:22:22.000Anyone could go out there and try to sound edgy or try to sound cool, but to go out there and really just say whatever and not actually care, even if it sounds.
01:25:41.000I heard from my friend who's friends with Lauren Southern's ex boyfriend's friend that she shit in diapers and got diarrhea of her whole WTF man.
01:26:42.000When I was in high school, I had to get out of this class because I was getting an F and I couldn't drop it because if I dropped it, it was so late in the semester that it would show up on my transcript and they'd send it to all my colleges.
01:26:56.000So, My counselor said, Well, if you got a note that said you had anxiety or something, then you could drop the class.
01:27:04.000So I did go to a therapist like once or twice to get him to write a letter that said, Oh, he's like, has anxiety, so he could drop.
01:29:11.000If a therapist could solve your problems, you know, everybody be a therapist, would be handing out money, and they'd be handing out hot babes, hot wives, and they'd be handing out, you know, expensive dinners and all that.
01:32:27.000But I think there's probably better ways they could.
01:32:30.000You know, if you're at the point where they could just start wildfires, it's like they could probably just get what they want without convincing the public.
01:34:10.000They're all sliding in my DMs and trying to flirt with me.
01:34:13.000And I don't answer the DMs because they're all gay and trans.
01:34:17.000But they're all into me, and they also all are becoming right wing extremists.
01:34:24.000So, I wouldn't be surprised if they're going to be the most radical Gripers out there eventually once we get them to convert to Christianity.
01:36:57.000You know, some people just are not going to be red pilled because they don't want to be.
01:37:03.000And so, if people are reasonable and if people are open to hearing other ideas, then you could just begin to suggest these things, which it couldn't be more obvious.
01:37:12.000Homosexuals are like 1% to 3% of the population.
01:37:36.000Homosexuals, you know, that is a very small percentage of the population.
01:37:42.000And it tends to correlate very strongly with mental illness, drug abuse, hypersexuality, all these kinds of things.
01:37:50.000And what it suggests, very obviously, to anybody with common sense, is that this is not something that you're either one thing or another thing, like there's any kind of equality between men that are into women and men that are exclusively into men.
01:38:06.000Because if that were the case, it would be like 50 50.
01:38:09.000If that were the case, you know, there would be some degree of similarity between the two.
01:38:16.000But when one thing is one way and one thing is 1% and a completely different way, it tells you that sort of thing, it's not something else.
01:38:55.000They're going out there and they're doing things that are completely different than what straight people are doing.
01:39:00.000Straight people don't have a thousand sexual partners like gay men do, they just don't.
01:39:06.000Straight people don't go out there and do all kinds of drugs in the club and have an orgy with 20 people.
01:39:14.000They don't, you know, some of them, but the vast majority do not, right?
01:39:20.000And the same goes with the mental illness, all these other things that correlate there.
01:39:24.000You know, like with the monkeypox epidemic, it's like the monkeypox, it's sort of like you remember when they had that toothpaste that came out and you brush your teeth with it and it turned your teeth blue where there was plaque?
01:39:42.000It's like, gee, why are all the gay people getting AIDS?
01:39:44.000Why are all the gay people getting monkeypox?
01:39:47.000It's like, oh, it's because those are the people that are having sex with so many partners and so many times.
01:39:54.000And without any regard for health, that they're getting STDs at an extremely high rate, even though they're a very small percentage of the population.
01:40:04.000So I keep making that point on the show.
01:40:05.000I feel like that's not really driving, I'm not driving it home enough, maybe with people, but it's something that's completely different.
01:40:13.000If it were valid like heterosexuality is, it would probably look more like heterosexuality, but it doesn't because it's different.
01:40:22.000It's fundamentally different, it's an abnormality.
01:40:25.000You know, when people talk about heteronormativity, that exists for a reason because heterosexual is normal.
01:40:39.000That's why they have a thousand sexual partners.
01:40:41.000That's why there's a history of abuse or divorce, or, you know, they were molested or raped as a kid and all the rest.
01:40:50.000So, that, I mean, to me, that's like the most, you don't even need to be religious to look at that and say from like a scientific perspective.
01:40:57.000Sociological point of view, this behavior is different.
01:41:03.000It's sort of like how exclamations are in a different category than other language.
01:41:07.000Like when you stub your toe and say, ah, fuck, you know, they say that's a different kind of language than if I'm talking to you right now.
01:45:24.000That shows you how positive things are because America First is always attracting the best and brightest young people.
01:45:32.000You know, like we do this thing in Vegas, and I meet Bass Brandt, and I meet Red Pill Jacob, and I meet all these new, all these young guys, all these new Zoomers.
01:45:42.000It's like that just goes to show the power of this movement.
01:45:45.000It's like, because it's not just the same people all the time.
01:45:49.000It's like we're always bringing in the best, the brightest, young faces, young voices in the movement.
01:45:56.000They're irresistibly drawn to it because it's the truth, you know?
01:46:00.000So, guys like Kai, Kai the Spy, And of course, Chungus Appreciator and Base Brand and Red Pill Jacob and all these guys, Arizona Chad and Michael Phelps Groyper, all these guys coming into the scene.
01:47:28.000And if there were more, if there were just more people like that, even to some extent with Destiny, that's true.
01:47:33.000Now, Destiny's tactics are a little bit weaselly.
01:47:36.000He's a little bit of a sophist in some cases.
01:47:38.000But now that me and Destiny are getting to know each other, unironically, he's a smart guy, I'm a smart guy, we have a good sense of humor, we talk.
01:47:47.000Sometimes it's heated, you know, but now we're like, okay, we're both bringing good faith to the table, we're both have different perspectives.
01:47:54.000And to me, that's where the best content is.
01:47:57.000I don't want to rehash the same arguments about, you know, guns don't kill people, people, you know, and all the other stupid partisan shit.
01:48:04.000And when you talk to these kinds of people, magic happens, you know, great content happens.
01:48:10.000So, anyway, so yeah, huge respect for Dave Rubin.
01:48:14.000Yeah, you know, I mean, I've been really criticized a lot this year after AFPAC 3 and the Russia stuff and recent drama.
01:48:23.000But I have to say, all the people that I respect respect me, you know, and that counts for something, you know.
01:48:32.000It's like, uh oh, we lost Medicare, but, you know, we got Kumia, we got Dave Smith, we got Alex Stein, we got the big man, Anglin.
01:48:43.000And everybody that's really sort of doing something, everybody that's based, everybody that's really out there working hard, respects what America First is doing.
01:48:51.000So that's a huge endorsement for what we do.
01:51:14.000So they're all out there and miserable, and so they're basically just these emotional basket cases doing all this damage.
01:51:22.000That's why women are such a problem now.
01:51:24.000It's because they're all fucking insane, and without husbands and a man to kind of treat them right, to put them down, they're out there and they're just sort of like crying and pissing vinegar and running around and making a mess of things.
01:53:02.000And you may, I think people sound like idiots when they say everything is demons, everything is witchcraft.
01:53:07.000Yeah, we're in a spiritual war, and the spirit world has an effect on our world, but, you know, we do at some point have to kind of define our terms here.
01:53:19.000So I don't think someone taking a pill is necessarily witchcraft.
01:54:01.000The first highly intelligent person I ever met, probably QAnon, which old heads will remember QAnon, a longtime friend of the show, who's actually a real person.
01:54:15.000And I don't want to get too much into who that is, but I met this guy, he was one of the first people I met in DC, and just like one of the smartest people I ever met.
01:54:28.000And I had never met anybody smarter than me before, actually, up until that point.
01:54:33.000Probably, I don't want to say, I don't want to dox the guy, but I was an adult at that point, and he was just brilliant.
01:54:41.000And the influence he had on me, I don't know, I guess he made me think about reading more and just gave me a lot of ideas just in general.
01:54:49.000And really, just a profound thinker, a profound person, and somebody that I look up to.