00:00:29.000So get comfortable, buddy, because you're about to strap yourself in.
00:00:33.000Hold on to your diapies because we got hot content coming at you.
00:00:37.000But there's so much to talk about, so many things going on in the world today, so many things going on in this country, things going on with the Nick Nation, with the Vindication Nation.
00:00:48.000It's just an exciting time to be alive.
00:00:50.000We got to talk about the Italian elections this weekend, the results of them.
00:00:55.000The right wing is back, populism is ascendant, the Eurosceptics are there.
00:01:01.000We're deporting the illegal immigrants.
00:01:03.000Looks like we're going to have our guys in charge in parliament there.
00:02:04.000But I'm reading that some senator is in the Senate today talking about how the United States is losing its grip over Somalia, how our troops in Somalia.
00:02:15.000Are not doing a very good job at holding ground, but basically just keeping things stable.
00:02:20.000And I'm thinking to myself, wait a minute, back up, back up, back up for a minute.
00:02:58.000So I saw that, and that was pretty outrageous, pretty wild.
00:03:01.000And then the other thing I'm seeing today is we have Antifa all over the place.
00:03:06.000This is not just, I mean, the biggest example is Richard Spencer this afternoon, but you saw Antifa at a Christina Hoff Summers speech, which this is a feminist.
00:03:16.000This is a woman and a feminist nonetheless, who.
00:03:19.000You know, people like myself, people on the far right, people on the alt right would say she's not right wing at all.
00:03:59.000Antifa shows up and you hear the no, no Nazi, no KKK, no fascist USA, no matter where you go, no matter what you say, no matter how you try and spin it, no matter how you try and say, oh, no, I'm not that.
00:04:48.000I'm watching the Sargon event, the same thing.
00:04:50.000How are people not preventing this kind of stuff?
00:04:53.000And then you understand that just like at Charlottesville, the police often are in cahoots.
00:04:57.000They're working with the left wing to suppress right wing voices.
00:05:00.000And even if You know, I guess Christina Hoff Summers is ostensibly, she's relatively right wing compared to how far to the left these other people have gone.
00:05:07.000But some observations I've made about Antifa is this.
00:05:10.000The first is this I think they are a benefit to us.
00:05:16.000We maximize how much of a boon they are to us.
00:05:20.000The greater the dissonance is, the greater the disconnect is between what they say we are and what we actually are.
00:05:27.000And let me tell you what I mean by this.
00:05:29.000When they show up to Christina Hoff Summers' speech, And this is a feminist, this is a liberal.
00:05:35.000You know, you go back to 1995, she would be a liberal.
00:05:37.000This is a woman, obviously somebody who is not racist, who is not all these other things, who doesn't even associate with the fringe elements in the right wing.
00:05:46.000And they show up in their black masks and their black outfits, crazy and wild, calling her a fascist and a Nazi.
00:05:53.000And a normal person would say, here are these lunatic left wing people yelling about racism and Nazis and this and that.
00:06:02.000And most people can reasonably listen to a Christina Hoff Summers speech or a book or a lecture and say, okay, well, she's not any of those things.
00:06:12.000And the greater the disconnect between what is being said and what actually is, I think the more people are driven to the right, the more people are driven away from the far left because they say, well, here's somebody who we can all agree is not that, even when they show up to a Ben Shapiro speech, not in any capacity to defend Ben Shapiro, but they'll show up to his speech and call him a fascist and a Nazi.
00:06:49.000And maybe I'm thinking more to the right because the left is out of control.
00:06:53.000But when Antifa shows up to the Richard Spencer event in Michigan this afternoon, and who do they find?
00:06:59.000They find Matt Heimbach and the Traditionalist Workers' Party, and Matt Heimbach takes off of his national socialism or death tour.
00:07:08.000To serve as the protection squad for Richard Spencer, and they're out there with their, you know, in equally in their black costumes, yelling about Jews, yelling about their Nazi talk, like literal national socialist talking points.
00:07:23.000And you have the left wing coming up and saying, hey, get these Nazis out of our town.
00:07:27.000The normal observer is going to say, okay, both of these people are crazy.
00:07:31.000The fascists are crazy and the anti fascists are crazy.
00:07:36.000They actually are national socialists.
00:07:37.000That's what they say they are, at least in the case of.
00:07:40.000Matt Heimbach, but then here are these anarchists, and we don't like either of them.
00:07:44.000So I think, regardless of what you might think about either side, regardless of what you might think about Heimbach and traditionalist workers and all that stuff, in terms of appealing to the masses, in terms of getting people into our camp, maximizing the amount of damage that is done to the left by Antifa, it does us a lot of good for us to show up in a clean shirt and tie, like an American, waving the American flag, talking about families, talking about traditionalism,
00:08:12.000talking about You know, the things that we talk about in this show, putting America first and then calling us fascists and Nazis, then to show up and say, hey, we're the National Socialists.
00:08:29.000Regardless of what you think about any of them Cernovich, Summers, Akkad, Spencer, they all have a constitutional right to speak.
00:08:37.000Maybe not Sargon because he's in Britain and they don't have any rights.
00:08:40.000But in the United States, you have a constitutional right to assemble, you have a constitutional right to express yourself.
00:08:47.000And what the government and what the left wing protesters are doing is not only wrong, not only unethical, not only immoral, but it's not legal.
00:08:56.000It's unconstitutional for them to do this.
00:08:58.000You can have a protest outside the event, but when they storm the stage, when they go and they just start yelling, excuse me, in the middle of an event, or in many cases people pay to have that space, in many cases it's at a public university, so that qualifies as having to abide by the Constitution, it's just blatantly illegal.
00:09:16.000And you'll notice that when it's a left wing protest, it's a left wing speech, it's any that kind of stuff.
00:09:23.000There is a clear separation between counter protests and the speakers, and our counter protesters are nothing like the left.
00:09:28.000So that's just my observation on that.
00:09:30.000But to get into a little bit, we're going to get into the news, but first we have to get into the Styx debate because I really want to do a little bit of a recap.
00:09:38.000For those of you guys that missed it, me and Styx Hexenhammer, 666, who is a pagan, not a Satanist, we had to be very careful during the debate.
00:09:47.000He says, no, no, no, no, I'm not a Satanist, I am an apotheist, and he's Also believes in spirituality and he also believes in some occult pagan type stuff.
00:09:57.000Not a Satanist just worships diamonds and things of this nature, but we had our debate.
00:10:03.000And my first comment on it, well, my first comment is that I won.
00:10:06.000My first comment is that regardless of what the poll said, and the poll that was retweeted by both myself and Sticks said, I won 72 to 30 or 28% rather with the most votes out of any of the polls.
00:10:19.000But I don't even think that's important because it was a good discussion.
00:10:22.000It was a Really, a fantastic discussion between two very educated people on the subject.
00:10:27.000And admittedly, theology, religion is not my specialty.
00:10:32.000I don't pretend it's my area of expertise.
00:10:35.000But I do believe that I'm more familiar with a lot of the arguments than most.
00:10:39.000Sticks, Hex, and Hammer, same can be said about him.
00:10:42.000I think he's very learned about the occult and that kind of thing.
00:10:45.000Maybe not so much on the religious side, but I think he knows what he talks about in his show, which is the occult and the witchcraft and that kind of thing.
00:10:52.000And I thought, regardless of who won, who lost, this is neither here nor there.
00:10:59.000It was very civil in the sense that with the RC debate and the Halsey debate, it got pretty ugly at certain points with the name calling, the insults, the ad hominems.
00:11:07.000With me and Styx, it was totally about the issues.
00:11:10.000And friendly guy, I have to say, Styx, Hexenhammer, as much as I disagree with his worldview and I think it's degenerate and no good and hedonistic and doesn't work, I think he's a solid guy.
00:11:24.000But I will say about the debate, the reason why I don't think it's really important who won and who lost was because the scope of the debate was too large.
00:11:33.000In the sense that we did not come together to debate a single central claim of whether God exists, whether Jesus Christ existed, whether, you know, X, Y, or Z.
00:11:44.000It was this amalgamation of different topics.
00:11:47.000And in many ways, that made it interesting.
00:11:48.000In many ways, I think that made it lively and fun.
00:11:51.000And we covered a lot of ground and that made it a good discussion.
00:11:53.000But that's not really how a debate is supposed to function.
00:11:56.000It's supposed to be about a claim and prove it or disprove it.
00:12:00.000And we, over the course of that two hour debate, we touched on topics that you could spend.
00:12:05.000Hours debating in and of themselves on an individual basis.
00:12:08.000We covered the historicity of Jesus Christ and the authorship of the New Testament, which is a huge debate in itself.
00:12:21.000As much as I would have liked to, I would have loved to get into the cosmological arguments, the teleological, the ontological arguments for God's existence, but we covered that, didn't really get into that.
00:12:30.000We got into the viability or maybe the authority of the Catholic Church and the difference between Protestants and the Catholics.
00:12:38.000Why the rabbinical Jews are different than the Old Testament Jews, and just on and on and on between consequentialism and the deontological argument for religion.
00:12:48.000I mean, so many things that could have been an hour or two or three or four hour debate in themselves.
00:12:53.000So that's why I didn't really think it was totally that way, but the polls said otherwise.
00:12:57.000But I did want to bring out my reading list for that debate because a lot of things were brought into it, and a lot of people said, wow, I learned a lot from this debate, and where can I learn more?
00:13:07.000How can I learn more about these arguments?
00:13:09.000And so I brought some of my books here.
00:13:12.000Some of the books that I used to prepare for the debate, and I'll just give you a little bit of a reading list for Christianity for the things that were covered in that debate because these are important issues and they're not really covered.
00:13:26.000I don't think there are very many articulate or well known defenders of the faith.
00:13:31.000You can point to some of the intellectuals that are well known, maybe in the religious circles, but not really well known to others.
00:13:38.000I'd like to just show you some of the books, some of the materials here.
00:13:41.000I don't know if we'll get to all of them, but we'll get to some of them here.
00:13:44.000For starters, we've got to start with Ed Fieser, Aquinas.
00:13:48.000And this is just a beginner's guide to Thomas Aquinas and his theology.
00:13:52.000For people that know, Thomas Aquinas was the preeminent, he is basically the official philosopher of the Catholic Church and of Christianity.
00:14:02.000He was in the 13th century that he wrote his different texts on religion.
00:14:08.000And he was one of the most prolific writers of all time, one of the greatest philosophers, religious, but certainly other philosophers of all time.
00:14:16.000His masterwork, the Summa Theologica, Was a Herculean effort to prove the existence of God in one text.
00:14:23.000And this was an introduction for beginners, actually, but it's a 5,000 page document on how God is real through reason, through rationality.
00:14:31.000And so this is a great book to start on Aquinas and who he was and what he believed on ethics, on metaphysics, and all the rest.
00:14:43.000The next book would be a continuation on that theme, which would be A Shorter Summa by Peter Kreeft.
00:14:50.000And he actually wrote, Kreeft actually wrote, so the Summa Theologica, which is Aquinas' text on why God exists, Kreeft wrote a summary of that, which is 500 pages, and then he wrote a summary of a summary.
00:15:03.000So you have the Summa, which is 5,000 pages, you have the summary by Kreeft, which is 500 pages, and then you have a shorter Summa, which is a summary of that summary.
00:15:13.000It's some of the most important documents that are in the Summa, some of the best essays, basically gets you the gestalt without having to read a very dry.
00:15:21.000And long and dense philosophical text.
00:15:24.000This is a great starter for people that want to read what was actually in the text.
00:16:41.000I mean, even atheists like him, even atheists read him.
00:16:44.000He was the one who wrote Lion Witch and the Wardrobe, Screwed Tape Letters.
00:16:47.000A lot of great fiction, but also one of the greatest apologists of the 20th century.
00:16:52.000Another one who was Protestant came over to the Catholic Church, and this is a pretty good introduction for anybody that wants to get the essence of Christianity.
00:17:00.000It's not the most theologically or historically informative in the sense that he's not going to lay down.
00:17:06.000Like scholastic arguments for God's existence.
00:17:09.000But I mean, this will do the trick for you as a person.
00:17:11.000Maybe not to go into a debate, but for you personally.
00:17:18.000This establishes the historicity of Jesus Christ, the historiography, why he was a real person, what evidence we have that he existed, what evidence we have that he was crucified, that he rose from the dead, that his tomb was empty, and why that proves that he did rise from the dead, and so on and so forth.
00:17:36.000Here's another guy who was an atheist, lived a pretty rough life.
00:17:39.000But came around to it when he looked into the question, did Jesus exist?
00:17:43.000And there's a lot of great sources covered in here Josephus, Tacitus, a lot of the things we covered in the Styx debate are covered in here.
00:17:50.000For Catholicism in particular, I would say this is a great primer, which is Rediscover Catholicism by Peter Kelly or by Matthew Kelly.
00:17:59.000And this is a good one, really covers just about everything lifestyle, theology, history.
00:18:04.000This is a great starter for anybody that maybe they don't know that much about Catholicism.
00:18:08.000And I get people that genuinely ask me all the time.
00:18:28.000So, excuse me, Stix made some of these arguments during the debate, which are often made and not, I don't think, convincingly refuted enough in the mainstream.
00:18:36.000Claims like the Catholic Church introduced us to the Dark Ages.
00:18:40.000We were doing so well as the Roman Empire, and then Christianity came around.
00:18:44.000And it plunged Europe into the Dark Ages, and they discouraged learning, and they fought science, and they killed all these scientists.
00:18:51.000And this book basically proves that that's all BS, that the modern civilization you see today is as a result of the Catholic Church.
00:18:58.000And I brought some of these arguments up in the debate.
00:20:03.000And he brings up letters between the founding fathers, documents, historical facts about them, which proves that no, America is a result of Christianity.
00:21:40.000I think we talked about the Italian elections on Wednesday, made some predictions, but just generally took a look at what was happening in Italy, analyzed what was happening, what are the consequences of it, what's the broader significance, what's the context of these elections that were happening in Italy over the weekend.
00:21:57.000And we saw on Wednesday that going into the election, it was really not going to be a surprise the outcome.
00:22:02.000You had the five star movement, you had the right wing coalition, and you had the left wing coalition.
00:22:07.000And everybody predicted the left was going to take a dump, they were going to be really terrible.
00:22:12.000Right wing coalition would be ascendant, five star movement would be ascendant.
00:22:15.000And this essentially played out on Sunday.
00:22:17.000The final results of the election were that the right wing coalition won 37% of the vote, not a majority, but I mean, that's a pretty significant plurality of the vote.
00:22:27.000The leader of the five star movement, DeMaio, and the five star movement broadly won 32.6% of the vote, coming in second.
00:22:35.000And then the last of the major coalitions, there were other parties, there were 20 parties actually that were in the election.
00:22:42.000The last of the major coalitions, the left wing coalition headed by Matteo Renzi, came in last with 22.8%, last in terms of coalitions, not parties.
00:22:53.000And so now we will see what will happen.
00:22:55.000There'll have to be some kind of a coalition formed.
00:22:58.000And you can see that these really ate up a majority of the vote.
00:23:01.000This is about, what, 70, 90% of the vote came in for these major coalitions.
00:23:07.000And it's looking like, it's tough to say now because it is going to be a hung parliament for some time.
00:23:12.000It's pretty up in the air what kind of government will form.
00:23:15.000But it's looking like it could be a possibility that the right wing coalition, which will be headed by Matteo Salvini, who is the leader of the Lega party or the League party, will form a coalition with the Five Star Movement.
00:23:28.000And what is consequential about this is that both of these parties are anti elite, anti European Union.
00:23:35.000Or not anti European Union, but they're Euro skeptic.
00:23:37.000They both want, regardless of their takes on the economy or on immigration, they are both skeptical of the European Union.
00:23:44.000They're both for restoring sovereignty.
00:23:48.000Additionally, in the context of the right wing coalition, if you'll recall, we talked about on Wednesday how the two major leaders in the right wing coalition were going to be Berlusconi, who could not hold public office, but he was leader of Forza Italia, and Salvini, who is the leader of the League.
00:24:06.000And basically, the deal that they came to was whichever party gets more votes within the right wing coalition, if it came down to forming a government and they were in the plurality, whoever got more votes within the coalition.
00:24:20.000And that was between whoever would be for Forza Italia and the more establishment, or would it be the League and the Northern Separatists, which would be headed by Salvini?
00:24:28.000And Salvini ended up winning by far and away more votes than Forza Italia.
00:24:32.000And it looked like even though people were voting right wing in this election, and the right wing coalition obviously won the plurality of the votes, they didn't just break for any right wing parties.
00:24:41.000They broke for anti establishment right wing parties, which is very significant.
00:24:46.000And so now you have one of the three founders of the European Union, one of the three.
00:24:50.000One of the three founding member states of the European Union having a parliament, a majority in parliament, a government in parliament that is European skeptic, that is hostile to the European Union in many ways.
00:25:04.000And this is what we forecasted last week, essentially, but now you have the dominoes that are starting to fall.
00:25:10.000We saw this in the Netherlands with Geert Wilders.
00:25:12.000We saw this in France with Marine Le Pen.
00:25:15.000We saw this in the Brexit with the UK.
00:25:17.000We see this in Germany with Alternative for Deutschland, who is now polling at number two.
00:25:22.000In the country, I think the second biggest party in the country.
00:25:25.000We've already seen it in places like Austria with their new prime minister, in Poland and Hungary, which are now stridently ethnic nationalist and opposed to the European Union.
00:25:34.000And now we're seeing, and this is a major step, this is a serious departure from how things used to be.
00:25:40.000One of the founding member states of the European Union, one of the pillars, one of the three pillars, one of the biggest economies in the Eurozone.
00:25:48.000Not only did they have a candidate who came close, now they have a parliament which will be headed, have a majority that is Eurosceptic.
00:25:57.000And what's also a white pill, beside that fact, what's also a white pill is just in the policies.
00:26:02.000Because you look at the right wing coalition here, and their platform during the election was to deport illegal migrants.
00:26:07.000They said they wanted to deport 600,000 illegal migrants, which is pretty big because you consider that it was, what, 400 and some thousand that came here since 2013?
00:26:21.000So they're going to reverse, if this goes through, if they're able to do it, both fiscally and politically.
00:26:27.000They will be undoing something like five or six or seven years of mass immigration.
00:26:32.000They're going to take control of the border.
00:26:33.000They're going to stop these people from coming here.
00:26:35.000And the leader of the Five Star Movement and the Right Wing Coalition are opposed to the Dublin Regulation.
00:26:42.000And this was a big area of contention during the election.
00:26:44.000The Dublin Regulation says that if a migrant lands on your soil, he gets asylum in your country, essentially.
00:26:52.000And it's funny because if you look up the Dublin Regulation, they'll say, oh, well, this is a way to prevent migrants from applying for asylum in multiple countries.
00:27:01.000Is that whichever country plays a bigger part in the initial phases of an asylum getting into Europe?
00:27:07.000They have to register in that country.
00:27:09.000So, when these migrants are coming across the Mediterranean and they come to Italy because Italy is sticking out into the Mediterranean, well, all of them have to take up asylum in Italy, and they all stay in Italy.
00:27:20.000And so, these two parties, the right wing coalition, the five star movement, they want to revise the Dublin regulation.
00:27:25.000They want to distribute the asylum seekers to other countries in Europe, get the burden off of Italy, and they want to deport the illegal immigrants.
00:27:33.000And so, that's on immigration, on the European Union.
00:27:35.000They want to take back sovereignty from the European Union.
00:27:38.000They want to have Italians first economic policy, protect made in Italy projects or products.
00:27:45.000They want to reject a lot of European Union regulations.
00:27:48.000So it's a very big white pill for Italy.
00:27:50.000And this tells us, again, as we said last week, and not to spend too much time on it again, but this tells us something broadly about Europe and also about the Western world in general, which is that we can only be pushed so far.
00:28:03.000And hopefully this holds true not just for Italy, but for France and Germany and the UK and America as well.
00:28:09.000But at a certain point, the native people say enough is enough.
00:28:37.000At the very least, we had a country that made sense.
00:28:40.000We had a country that looked like our ancestors' country, and we would have a country to give to posterity that looked like that.
00:28:47.000And at a certain point, it looks like, without fail, from Poland to Hungary to Austria to Chechnya to Germany, France, Denmark, the UK, and now Italy, people say enough is enough.
00:28:59.000And hopefully, it's only a matter of time.
00:29:02.000I think what we'll see in this country is something very similar.
00:29:04.000I think Donald Trump was not a one and done.
00:29:09.000I think you'll actually see us grow stronger.
00:29:11.000Since then, because as people's communities, as people's cities, their schools, their neighborhoods transform, and they see what mass immigration and multiculturalism has wrought, they're going to stop caring.
00:29:23.000They will care a lot less about what they're called by these celebrities, by the media, by the bankers, by the businessmen and the politicians, because they're going to want their kids to go to school and be safe.
00:29:34.000They're going to want to go to a PTA meeting and be able to speak the same language as everybody there and have community involvement.
00:29:41.000They're going to want to see their neighborhoods safe where they're coming home from work or their kids are coming home from school.
00:29:46.000And they're not getting beaten up by low income people or other types of people.
00:29:51.000They're going to want to live in places that are coherent, that make sense, where they are comfortable, where they are similar in manners and customs like the founders intended.
00:29:59.000And so hopefully what we see in Italy abides to some kind of transitive property that what we see in Italy will happen to the rest of Europe and will happen here.
00:30:09.000And that should be a major white pill.
00:30:10.000People say demographics are not on our side.
00:30:13.000And in a way, they're right because the people that are coming here vote Democrat, right?
00:30:18.000They vote in a way that we don't like.
00:30:21.000And they're hostile to the kind of country that we want to have.
00:30:23.000They oppose the heritage and the ancestry and the culture of the country.
00:30:28.000But in another way, demographics are on our side, in the sense that the more they try to revise the current order, these revisionist actors that are coming into our country, the more that they try and change and transform and disrupt the coherent identity of this country, the more people will push back.
00:30:45.000The more people will say, enough is enough.
00:30:54.000Kind of this revolt, this revolution, this counter reformation that's brewing from the very bottom of the pyramid, from the we the people, the working class.
00:31:03.000You saw this at CPEC where you had Nigel Farage, Donald Trump, Marion Le Pen, and it really looked like the free traders, the open border zealots were on the way out.
00:31:12.000They were still there, but it looks like they were on the way out.
00:31:15.000They were in some kind of organized retreat.
00:31:53.000The last thing I want to talk about before we get into your super chats, and we'll leave a little bit more time because we have the super chats from tonight and we have the super chats from Friday, which I promised we'd get into.
00:32:04.000But we have to talk about the Oscars, which.
00:32:07.000I watched it so you wouldn't have to, all right?
00:32:09.000People say, Nick, why do you even watch the Oscars?
00:32:12.000Look, I go to the movies, I watch the Oscars, I bear this propaganda so you don't have to, so I can deliver the after game report, you know, whatever you want to call it, and spare you from the pain.
00:32:27.000But the reason, I will say, before we get into why we watch the Oscars, why we talk about the Oscars, here's why the Oscars are important.
00:32:36.000It's important what these celebrities say and whether or not you didn't watch it, whether or not you think it's propaganda or you think they're lost on the country.
00:32:45.000And they were down in big numbers in terms of audience, but this was still the third most watched television event of the year and will be the third most watched television event of the year.
00:32:56.000Biggest non sporting television event of the year.
00:33:00.000And so whether or not you like it, whether or not you agree with it, people are watching this and consider what it represents.
00:33:06.000This is not just people going to this award ceremony.
00:33:10.000These are the people making the big movies.
00:33:13.000So, this is an awards show that may be highly politicized.
00:33:16.000And you could say, I don't like that actor, and I don't like that director, and I don't like this general group of people who seems to control everything that comes out of Hollywood.
00:33:23.000But you have to consider this is the most watched television, non sporting event of the year.
00:33:28.000And who are the people presenting this highly politicized, highly popular affair?
00:33:32.000It's the people that are in the movies, that make the movies.
00:33:34.000And what are the movies but these big attractions that influence culture, that create culture in many ways?
00:33:41.000That millions of people go to see every year and they pay money to see every year.
00:33:45.000And these movies, whatever you talk about, whether it's short films or commercials or it's blockbusters or independent films, they shape people's political opinions and other opinions about the world.
00:33:57.000They shape how people understand the world outside of their experience.
00:34:02.000You see this with all the liberals who bring up the Harry Potter analogies after the election or the Star Wars analogies or the Stranger Things analogy.
00:34:54.000What they know about politics is confined to what they see on Twitter moments, what they see on their Snapchat story on the tab where you get to see all the news stuff.
00:35:05.000They'll say, well, we just have the popular opinion about Trump and the popular opinion about this, but they're not really engaging with it.
00:35:11.000And that's why movies, when they are politicized, even unconsciously or implicitly, they are important.
00:35:17.000So what we saw at the Oscars, I think first it's notable that the power of the movies and of the Oscars is waning.
00:35:25.000Since the Me Too stuff, since the Weinstein stuff, Hollywood's on the way out.
00:35:29.000And it was already on the way out, by the way.
00:35:31.000Not only did you have this major scandal this year or last year, but you had one of the worst box offices in decades over the summer, one of the worst memorial box offices in decades last year.
00:35:42.000And you look at any of the records from last year, it was brutal.
00:35:46.000Where many people are saying the studio system as it stands, where they make a couple of big blockbusters and that's how they make all their money to maybe finance more risky projects or more niche projects, not going to work anymore because people don't see the blockbusters.
00:36:00.000But Beside the point, they were already having a bad year, and they had this bad year with the Me Too stuff.
00:36:06.000And now you have at the Oscars, viewership was down 20% from last year.
00:36:11.000They were down something like 7.5 million viewers, down to 26.5 million viewers, which is still big.
00:36:17.000Still the biggest non sporting television event of the year.
00:36:20.000This was the first time in history, in recorded history, since they started keeping metrics of how many people watch these things in 1976 when the Nielsen rating started.
00:36:31.000That they were under 30 million views.
00:36:33.000So every year since '76, they got over 30 million views.
00:36:52.000But if you watched it, and I only caught some of it, I couldn't bear to watch the whole thing.
00:36:56.000I was basically tuning in and out of it.
00:36:59.000You could not escape the political aspect, though.
00:37:01.000For anybody that wanted to engage with this, not in a political way, who, you know, maybe they saw, and I don't know who even watched the movies that were up there for Best Picture.
00:37:46.000I don't even remember the names of the.
00:37:47.000I mean, see, so nobody watched any of the big movies that were out there.
00:37:50.000But regardless of that fact that nobody saw the movies, they were all very political movies, if you actually looked into the subtext of them, the implicit meanings of them.
00:37:58.000But then on top of that, the introductions, you had Jimmy Kimmel who went up there and said about the gay movie, the pedophile movie, that.
00:38:05.000The only reason we make these movies is to make Mike Pence mad.
00:38:08.000And then you had this big long montage about how you had that Indian guy who was in that movie, The Big Sick, saying how, well, it's good that now movies are being made without straight white dudes in it.
00:38:20.000And then you had this big song by this gorilla, by this whale of a woman.
00:38:25.000And she was singing out about, you know, God knows what behind this audience of like the most disturbing looking individuals.
00:38:33.000The one next to her was obviously like a man in a dress.
00:38:36.000The Syrian refugee girl, you know, whatever her name is, she was in there.
00:38:59.000And you got to wonder how this is going over with any real people in the country, how this is going over with any of the real people that are doing real things for a living, that are, you know, like, I don't know, building things with their hands, people doing the welding, people doing the plumbing.
00:39:15.000People doing the electric work, people that are building things on assembly lines, building your car, building the roads.
00:39:22.000You have to wonder how this goes over with those kinds of people.
00:39:25.000Where you're a white guy and you work really, really hard, you work so hard just so your family can be above water in terms of you can put a roof over the head of your family and you could put dinner on the table and you could buy them a cell phone and whatever else, you could have internet.
00:39:40.000And you work really hard for your money, you work five days a week, you come home so tired, you sit back on your reclining chair.
00:39:47.000And you got the family portrait on the wall of old grandpa who was in the, he fought in World War II.
00:39:53.000He fought in the Great World War II when he was called to defend.
00:39:58.000It's dubious if we should have even been in that war, if that war should have even happened.
00:40:01.000But he answered the call to go and serve his country.
00:40:24.000He's had a long day of machine noises ringing in his ear.
00:40:28.000Turns on the television, and you've got these two black actors, these two black women, get up saying, Man, shit, aren't white people so dumb?
00:40:38.000And how about how silly all those white people are?
00:40:40.000How about how stupid they are with their clipboards flipping through it?
00:40:44.000And then you got Fatty McFatface, woman, getting up there, belting it out, singing about, and she's, by the way, she's next to Common the Rapper.
00:40:53.000You know, she's belting it out about, Fat women rule and you know, don't judge women.
00:40:58.000We're breaking the glass ceiling, and the little Syrian girls in the background saying, Death to Assad, bring down another Middle Eastern dictator.
00:41:08.000And then he got common, the rapper comes in next, writes for the immigrants and statues for the feminists, and we all dreamers and eat shit, Whitey.
00:41:59.000They're doing this to appeal to an organic sentiment in the country, which favors things like race mixing and diversity and sexual degeneracy and greed and avarice and all the rest.
00:42:11.000And then you see something like this where it's failing.
00:42:37.000You could say, and again, just like those people who are telling me, just like this, this group of condescending people, I say, Nick, it's a reflection.
00:42:45.000Those same people say, Well, Nick, so what?
00:43:32.000So when they go and watch Star Wars, or they go and watch The Incredibles, and they go and watch Spider Man, and they go and watch, I could list off a number of blockbuster movies, and they see that gender roles are being redefined.
00:43:44.000And they go into school and they interact with their friends and, you know, friends that are girls or friends that are boys, and they grow up as teenagers, and their experience or their knowledge of the world outside of their experience is the movies.
00:43:55.000And they say, oh, well, maybe I'll stay home.
00:44:40.000Most people will default, and you really have to, it's a very conscious thing to be aware of this.
00:44:45.000You really have to think about how you make.
00:44:48.000Your assumptions and your presuppositions about the world, nine times out of ten, it's influenced by something you saw in a commercial, in a television show, in a movie.
00:44:58.000Not anyone, but the collection of it, which is the zeitgeist more broadly.
00:47:43.000You have to look at what the laws are.
00:47:45.000For example, my man, Joe the Boomer, sent me a knife, and it was longer than the legally mandated 2.5 inch limit on concealed carry knives.
00:48:12.000And this fella, whose name is a little bit explicit there, says, We need some goys up at APAC this week to expose the nature of these transnational elites.
00:48:22.000I don't know how effective that kind of thing is.
00:48:24.000Usually it just looks kind of crazy, but at APAC it might be effective.
00:48:27.000That might be something IE could do because they do their optics pretty well these days.
00:48:35.000Bruce Miller says, I only listen to shows on commutes.
00:48:39.000I haven't listened to any episodes of your show since the podcasts.
00:48:43.000Wondering if it could be brought back.
00:48:45.000Well, again, you can get the podcast format of the show, the audio only format of the show, by signing up for America First Premium, $5 a month on maker support.
00:48:54.000And we have some new podcasts in development, which you could also get.
00:48:58.000That'll be $10 a month to get access to those.
00:49:00.000Still hammering out what exactly you'll get.
00:49:03.000But right now, as it stands, $5 a month for the premium gets you the podcast format of the show on SoundCloud.
00:50:49.000Well, it's interesting how, you know, like on these very particular issues, everybody comes out with the same opinion, right?
00:50:57.000Republicans concerned about Trump's trade war.
00:51:00.000CNN concerned about Trump's trade war.
00:51:02.000You know, whether it's the mainstream media, the Republicans, Conservative Inc., The campus reform, all these different actors, they all come out and say, No, no, no, we like free trade.
00:51:17.000Free trade is there because people pay people to be in favor of free trade.
00:51:21.000That's where this zealotry comes from.
00:51:23.000You think it's a coincidence that, oh, on this issue, everyone in the college Republicans, everyone in Young Americans for Liberty, everyone in AEI and Cato and all the rest, they all agree with CNN and they all agree with Paul Ryan.
00:52:42.000I have been in pain all day today from leg day.
00:52:46.000My glutes hurt and my legs hurt, and it hurts to walk, and I don't like it.
00:52:52.000But we have, but folks, but we have to do it because we have to be strong for when Halsey's war comes, for when the war that Halsey was talking about finally comes to my doorstep.
00:53:47.000Well, Zionism is something that surfaced in the 19th century.
00:53:50.000One of the biggest leaders of it was Theodore Herzl.
00:53:54.000And the idea was essentially to create a Jewish homeland.
00:54:00.000And here's where the roots of it are the sense that since the second century AD, the Jews have been a people without a country, without a homeland, without territory to call their own.
00:54:10.000Since they were expelled and the diaspora happened, and they were in Africa and in Europe and eventually in America, there were even Jews in Asia.
00:54:19.000Not to the same extent as in Europe, but they're out there.
00:54:22.000And since the diaspora, they've had no homeland.
00:54:25.000The project in the 19th century was to say, okay, let's give them a country.
00:54:29.000And they debated where they should put it down.
00:54:41.000Eventually, they settled on Palestine.
00:54:43.000Eventually, they settled on the eternal homeland that they came out of, Judea and Samaria.
00:54:48.000And so, Zionism is not, I don't believe, so much religious.
00:54:51.000I think it was really motivated by secularists, just that we want our own country.
00:54:56.000And that was kind of an answer to what was called the Jewish question at the time, which is we have these people in Europe who don't assimilate, who are separate, who are alien.
00:55:05.000Who people have a problem with them sometimes.
00:58:19.000His alt right brand is now pretty isolated compared to Patrick Casey, who has separated himself from Spencer with IE, and the more extreme, the hard right, has separated themselves.
00:58:31.000And, you know, Cernovich, much, much longer ago, separated with the alt right.
00:58:37.000And so now Spencer has his own niche movement, and you know what?
01:00:34.000What is that, seven years we're talking about?
01:00:36.000So I really can't make an intelligent prediction that far out.
01:00:41.000But that said, there will never be another politician like Trump, never again.
01:00:46.000And that's why we got to appreciate him while he laughs, because every day really is a gift in the sense that we will never see anything quite like this in our lifetimes.
01:01:58.000ADL and UC Berkeley video advertisement on policing hate speech with AI is a full out, unapologetic promo for Big Brother style, monitoring people and their views.
01:02:22.000When the left says they want to kill Spencer, they want to kill Trump, they want to kill me, is that hate speech?
01:02:27.000When they say they hate the modern family, they hate Christianity, or they hate the traditional family, when they hate traditional family values, is that hate speech?
01:02:44.000If you don't want them in your country, if you think that them being in the country will not work, If you think they're different than us, that's hate speech.
01:02:51.000So you have to be very careful about what does hate speech even mean?
01:02:53.000It's a very pernicious, like really an Orwellian form of newspeak.
01:02:57.000That this hate thing that's pervaded every aspect of the dialogue these days is just a total farce.
01:04:39.000They bought the house that we grew up in and they took a big shit in the living room.
01:04:43.000I mean, this is the kind of personal assault on each and every one of them they have undertaken with these transformative social and immigration and other cultural policies.
01:04:54.000They have exhumed the corpses of our ancestors and they've dressed them up and humiliated them.
01:04:59.000They've taken our children from us and raped them, and literally in many cases raped them, but also in other ways raped them, taken their innocence, taken the future that they had in front of them, and they bought up our childhood home, the place where you grew up, the place where mom was making pancakes and where you played in the living room.
01:05:17.000They bought it and they sold it to refugees from Africa and from India, and they're taking a dump on the floor and they're pissing on the walls, and they're just.
01:05:26.000Not cutting the grass, and there's garbage everywhere, and this is what they're doing to our countries.
01:06:03.000And then on top of that, think about how World War II started.
01:06:06.000The Germans, whatever you think about Hitler, whatever you think about what went on there, what really started World War II?
01:06:12.000So, Hitler takes the Sudetenland, which is an ethnically German part of Czechoslovakia.
01:06:19.000He takes Austria and the Anschluss, and then he attempts to take Danzig, which was a German.
01:06:24.000So, after World War I, they reduced the size of Germany, and they made it so that Danzig, this key port, was like all the way over there in Poland, and they gave a lot of German land to Poland.
01:06:35.000And so, Hitler, all he said was, Hey, we want all the German people to be in Germany.
01:06:39.000We want to take back historically German lands, which sue him, right?
01:06:43.000Isn't that so unfortunate that the German Empire.
01:06:46.000Wanted to have all the historically German places in it with the German people.
01:06:52.000And also, you had the Rhineland and all that that went on with France.
01:06:55.000But what started the war was he tried to retake Danzig from Poland.
01:06:59.000And unbeknownst to him, Poland had made a defense alliance with the United Kingdom that if Germany attacked Poland, well, then Britain would go to war with Germany.
01:07:11.000And that's what triggered World War II.
01:07:15.000Was it worth it that millions and millions and millions of European young men, innocent young men, Were slaughtered, were killed, innocent civilians bombed, cities destroyed.
01:07:26.000The stock of young men that would have made this the 20th century, I think, have soared to even greater heights.
01:07:33.000Europe was at the height of its power, of its wealth.
01:07:36.000Was it worth it to throw that all away because Germany wanted this little port in Poland?
01:08:00.000Glad it was worth it over in the first case, some, as Bismarck said, some damn silly thing in the Balkans.
01:08:05.000And in the second case, because Germany wanted to be German.
01:08:08.000Yeah, really, really good judgment there, right?
01:08:12.000So don't even get me started on what a travesty that was.
01:08:15.000You know, people talk about genocides and bad things that happen.
01:08:18.000I look at all the millions of young people who died in that war who should have never died, but because of.
01:08:23.000War profiteers, because of people who were selling weapons to both sides of the war, who were the real profiteers and the real movers behind that war.
01:08:32.000You know, we talk so much about oh, oh my gosh, oh boy, oh boy.
01:08:38.000People might say in other ways, oh boy, so many people died in terrible things.
01:08:43.000But you never hear about the innocent young people who were on their way to college or they just wanted to, you know, you see all these old World War II movies where, oh, they just wanted to get married to that high school sweetheart or they just wanted to.
01:08:55.000Start their own business, or they just wanted to go into the family business.
01:08:57.000They wanted to live their lives, but they were picked up, scooped out, and thrown abroad, thrown into Europe, or thrown across the English Channel as cannon fodder, essentially.
01:09:57.000Well, it would change the balance of power.
01:09:59.000In the sense that for years, Japan was essentially just a satellite of the United States.
01:10:05.000And if Japan were to have some kind of independent military capacity, some more autonomous military capacity, this would be a real check on Chinese power.
01:10:14.000It would introduce freelancing to the Pacific, which is talked about by many IR scholars.
01:10:20.000Freelancing meaning nowadays it's like the U.S. basically calls the shots.
01:10:24.000And if South Korea is going to do something, if Japan does something, they do it with the U.S. and they talk to the U.S. first.
01:10:30.000Well, if Japan basically gets their autonomous.
01:10:33.000Military capacity, well, then they can go out and do their own adventures.
01:10:50.000And I think that would really shift the balance of power in the Pacific and in the world away from U.S. global hegemony to maybe more just U.S. influence and regional hegemony.
01:11:01.000Patrick Gordon, Heineck, great debate with Sticks the other day.
01:11:22.000Low interest rates, we've had those since the housing bust in 2006.
01:11:25.000High debt, which we talk about on the show pretty frequently, 20 some trillion dollars in debt, 115 trillion dollars in unfunded liabilities.
01:11:36.000Under the present system, with the systemic Flaws of our economy, you won't have a, there's no short term fix that will avert the collision course that we're on with economic reality in the sense that you can pass a tax cut, you can cut things here and there, you can have a sequester and cut a little from defense and cut a little from this and a little from that, you can do some cost savings with Medicare, never gonna fix it, never gonna fix it.
01:12:01.000There's no plan to balance the budget, there's no plan to pay off the debt, there is no plan to get interest rates to a healthy point.
01:12:08.000I mean, the stock market is overbought.
01:12:22.000That could be any time in the next 50 to 100 years, you'll see a complete or a total collapse, barring a dramatic restructuring of the economy.
01:12:30.000But at its present course, how are we going to pay for entitlements?
01:12:33.000You've got two people paying into the system for every one beneficiary.
01:12:37.000That number goes down to less than two in very short order.
01:12:40.000And very quickly, Medicare and Social Security will be insolvent.
01:14:22.000They think they want a global alliance of white people, and they want a nation defined strictly based on race and a new paradigm based on race.
01:14:31.000They're not very warm towards Christianity.
01:14:33.000I don't know if they're, I think some people can say they're hostile, but they're definitely not warm towards it.
01:14:45.000It's just we don't share the same views.
01:14:47.000And I'll defend Spencer's right to speak.
01:14:50.000You know, he has a constitutional right to assemble, he has a constitutional right to speak.
01:14:54.000But will I defend him recklessly putting young people in harm's way in a situation like that, where many of them are getting beat up and doxed and their careers ruined and their reputations ruined, and he called on them to self dox?
01:15:06.000And by the way, you know, people are going to say, Nick, you're counter signaling and this and that.
01:15:09.000But I mean, there's very quick counter signaling of IE and Patrick Casey this week.
01:15:13.000So the reason that I am not so much on board with Spencer is not about cucking.
01:15:19.000Not that I don't believe that ethnic nationalism is real, not that I don't believe in any of the criticisms, but we just don't share the same ideology.
01:15:25.000You know, people ask me all the time, what you say you're not alt right, what makes you different?
01:16:17.000He tried to get it appealed to the Supreme Court.
01:16:18.000The Supreme Court last week said, You got to go through an appeals court because the process is circuit court, appeals court, Supreme Court.
01:16:24.000So now he goes through the appeals court.
01:16:26.000If that doesn't work, he's got to go to the Supreme Court.
01:16:29.000I think inevitably DACA will be rescinded, but now we just got to wait on the judges.
01:16:34.000Young Lung 420 Trump takes credit for the booming market and low unemployment.
01:16:40.000Trump is cool, but this flip flop is extremely interesting.
01:16:43.000It's not really useful to say that kind of a thing.
01:16:45.000Only because, you know, why is the stock market booming now?
01:16:48.000Stock market is booming at a much faster pace than it was under Obama.
01:16:52.000Economy is growing at a much faster pace under Obama.
01:16:55.000Under Obama, the economy never surpassed more than 3% GDP growth at any point yearly.
01:17:02.000And Trump's first, second, and third quarter were all above 3%.
01:17:05.000The stock market gains that we saw in the last year were in expectation that there would be a tax cut, that there would be some kind of liberalization.
01:17:14.000You've seen President Trump cut more regulations in his first year than any president in their entire terms.
01:17:20.000And so there is real movement on the economy.
01:17:23.000Trump is, I think, contributing to economic growth.
01:17:25.000I'll give you, I'll grant you, that the unemployment numbers have been fudged, that the economic, you know, the stock market is inflated.
01:17:34.000But I do think, regardless of that fact, that you have seen real economic numbers that are doing better as a direct result of Trump.
01:17:42.000So I understand where you're coming from, but I do think there is a real improvement happening.
01:17:59.000I need to take a big quench when the show is concluded.
01:18:02.000But that's all we got for you tonight.
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