00:00:35.000At about what, 10 15 Central Standard Time, and we were left hanging with two precincts to go and about 3,100 absentee ballots, some overseas votes to be counted.
00:00:45.000And as of right now, still no official winner.
00:00:47.000We have an apparent winner, which is the Democrats, but still no official winner.
00:00:52.000We have a massive protest today, a massive walkout for gun control in the high schools, I think in other schools, but mainly just in high schools.
00:01:02.000At 10 a.m. this morning, we're going to get into that.
00:01:04.000Mrs. Hillary Clinton making some interesting comments that.
00:01:38.000We look at things going on in our movement.
00:01:40.000We look at things going on in our country with Donald Trump.
00:01:43.000And every day, people that support the show, people that agree with me, people who are nice to me, every day they wake up and they say, I'm not embarrassed today.
00:01:52.000I'm not embarrassed by what I said or what I believed or who I backed in the horse race.
00:01:59.000I'm not embarrassed to be a knicker because every day we wake up and we wake up in beautiful Vindication City.
00:02:06.00075 degrees, a cool ocean breeze, the sights, the smells, the sounds.
00:03:03.000And even then, I would contest because we said only in extraordinary circumstances would we take a loss, and circumstances were extraordinary.
00:03:11.000But anywho, we just have to do a little bit of a victory lap.
00:03:32.000High energy here on this Wednesday evening and an exciting week of America First ahead of us.
00:03:38.000On Monday, we debut the live stream on Facebook Live, Twitch, and Periscope all for free.
00:03:44.000So you can check me out on all the different platforms starting on Monday.
00:03:47.000And hopefully, starting next week, if not the week after, for our premium members, only for premium members, we'll be dropping two additional podcasts.
00:03:58.000We'll be doing America First World Report and America First 2018 Election HQ.
00:04:03.000So, if you liked what you saw last night, we're going to be doing a lot of that once a week, an hour on the 2018 elections, once a week on foreign affairs, the Middle East, the Pacific.
00:04:12.000Really in depth, really in depth, nitty gritty analysis.
00:04:29.000But, Now that that housekeeping stuff is out of the way, I got a new haircut, by the way, also.
00:04:34.000I know I said I was going to get one yesterday.
00:04:36.000I didn't make it out because they have weird hours where it's like some days they close at like 2 o'clock, some days they close at 5 o'clock, so it's very confusing to me.
00:04:45.000And so yesterday I was planning on getting it cut a little bit later, and then it was closed, so I had to go in today.
00:04:51.000But I think we got a pretty fresh looking cut here.
00:05:46.000We had some really solid production quality.
00:05:50.000No tech issues generally, except for my headpiece ran out of battery, but I mean, we had a backup, so we were okay.
00:05:55.000But we saw the Pennsylvania special election last night.
00:05:58.000It was in the 18th district of Pennsylvania.
00:06:00.000And the story of this district is this.
00:06:03.000You had a Republican representative in this district who got elected in 2002, and he was elected every year, every year since 2002, with margins of 15% or more.
00:06:15.000This district went 20% for McCain, it went 20% for Romney, it went 20% for Donald Trump.
00:06:23.000The person who ran since 2002, he never won the election by less than 15 points.
00:06:28.000This district skewed 20% compared to the general country to the right.
00:06:33.000So, 20% more right wing than the rest of the country.
00:06:36.000And we had been talking about this all week, or we talked about it on Monday.
00:06:39.000I think we talked a little bit about it in a Periscope over the weekend, how this district should not have been competitive.
00:06:46.000The story of this district is one that had been won by Republicans and won by Republicans convincingly for 15, 16, 14 years, a long time, and won convincingly.
00:06:58.000You know, it wasn't just slightly Republican.
00:07:03.000And a lot of districts in 2016, we saw them flip.
00:07:05.000We saw them going from Obama to Donald Trump, specifically in Pennsylvania, specifically in Ohio or Iowa or Michigan, states that Obama won a couple of times.
00:07:15.000And so a lot of districts, a lot of states, we saw them flip to Trump, and some of them went from Democrat to Republican.
00:07:21.000We saw in the case of Michigan, he won Michigan by a hair, he won Michigan by a thread.
00:07:26.000But in this district, we have won resoundingly, convincingly for almost two decades.
00:07:33.000And the reason the seat was vacated because.
00:07:35.000Was because you had this Republican representative who won eight terms.
00:07:39.000He was caught up in a sex scandal where he was cheating on his wife.
00:07:42.000And not only was he cheating on his wife, but he had an abortion with the person he was cheating with.
00:07:46.000And so you're a social conservative, you're a Republican, it's a very right wing district.
00:07:50.000And you're not only cheating on your wife, but you abort the baby.
00:08:05.000You know, people are saying, okay, it appears that the Democrat Joe Lamb, I keep calling him Joe Lamb, Connor Lamb, it appears that Connor Lamb won the vote last night in Pennsylvania.
00:08:16.000And it was Connor Lamb, 30 year old guy, young 30 year old guy, former Marine.
00:08:22.000So he was a Marine, he was a federal prosecutor, he ran.
00:08:26.000Basically, he is a blue dog Democrat, as McPheel said last night, an anachronism in many ways.
00:08:31.000Young, white, handsome, Marine, federal prosecutor, social conservative, Catholic.
00:08:38.000I mean, they don't make him like this anymore in terms of Democrats.
00:08:41.000You saw a lot of these kinds of characters bring over the Democrats and deliver the moderates and left leaning people for Ronald Reagan in the 80s or for George Bush later on.
00:08:50.000You saw a lot of them under Bill Clinton.
00:08:52.000Bill Clinton, by today's standards, was rather conservative when he ran in 1992.
00:08:56.000And so, this kind of blue dog Democrat, this social conservative, Catholic, But yet, a pro union, pro white working class kind of attitude.
00:09:31.000Mind to submit Romney, Paul Ryan, not so much Donald Trump, not so much new populist nationalist type politics.
00:09:38.000And so it looks like Conor Lamb pulled away towards the end.
00:09:42.000Like I said, they still haven't counted all the votes.
00:09:44.000You got two precincts, I think, which have been tallied at this point, but you still got absentee ballots, and there might be a challenge made to do a recount.
00:09:54.000I don't know if the recount would be enough to make up the difference, but it turned out that Lamb won by about 600 votes or so the last I checked this morning, and votes are still being counted.
00:10:04.000But that said, The election isn't consequential in that somebody will be seated and they'll be making decisions because whether or not Conor Lamb won, Republicans retain their majority until November.
00:10:15.000And whether or not they retain their majority, whoever won in the 18th district doesn't even serve for that long.
00:10:22.000And a few people were asking me what this means after the show, saying, What did you mean by that?
00:10:27.000Some people on Twitter, what did you mean when you said that whoever won the election wouldn't be seated?
00:10:32.000The person who won the election last night, whether it's Conor Lamb or Rick Sacone, they go into office for a couple of months and then they're gone.
00:10:40.000They're in the process in Pennsylvania of redistricting where they redraw the districts.
00:10:46.000So the 18th district, as it existed for the election last night, that everybody was analyzing, and you got Westmoreland and Green and Washington and Allegheny.
00:10:54.000You know, I know I pronounced it badly a couple of times.
00:10:57.000People really get on my case about that.
00:10:59.000But this district that included these counties, it doesn't exist in a couple of months because they're redrawing the map.
00:11:05.000The Republicans are in the process of redrawing it.
00:11:08.000Right now, it's gotten caught up in the courts.
00:11:10.000Because there's been some disputes as to whether the gerrymandering has gone too far, is the map really fair.
00:11:16.000But by the time they have that figured out in a couple of months, whoever takes office from the 18th district, they'll be coming home immediately.
00:11:23.000And they'll have to choose whether they're going to run in, I think, the 17th district or another district.
00:11:29.000And in either case, they'll be challenging incumbents.
00:11:31.000So they'll have to run again in November, whoever does end up being the winner.
00:11:35.000So it's not so much consequential in terms of voting, it's not consequential in terms of.
00:11:42.000Day to day legislation like it was with Alabama.
00:11:45.000Because you remember with Alabama in December, Doug Jones was a sitting senator.
00:11:50.000And I don't think he's up for election again until 2020, although I'm not totally sure about that one.
00:11:55.000And it's either 2018 or 2020, but he is in the Senate casting votes and casting, in some cases, hypothetically, deciding votes on important legislation.
00:12:07.000You know, you remember the Obamacare vote where John McCain came in and he gave it a thumbs down and he voted no, and that sunk it.
00:12:13.000Republicans have a very razor thin majority in the Senate.
00:12:16.000They have, I think, 51 votes with Doug Jones seated and Jeff Sessions not in the seat for Alabama.
00:12:23.000So they got 51 votes, not counting Mike Pence as a tiebreaker.
00:12:28.000You get a handful of Republican senators.
00:12:30.000Who don't want to vote for a Donald Trump piece of legislation, Marco Rubio, Susan Collins, John McCain, Rand Paul, you name it, you get a couple of these people who are in revolt and who are not convinced, and there it goes.
00:12:42.000With this House seat, you don't have that.
00:12:44.000The majority isn't compromised, the person's not even seated for that long.
00:12:49.000The reason it's important is it tells us something about the midterms, it tells us about the electorate.
00:12:54.000It says that if we're trying to forecast what kind of majorities the Republicans will have, if they're even able to retain them in both or even one chamber, In order to forecast that, we have to know how many people are going to turn out, how people are leaning, both in the middle, on the left, and on the right, to what margin they go for Trump or against Trump.
00:13:13.000And last night was a wake up call for Republicans because they ran this guy, Rick Sacone, who was a business as usual candidate.
00:13:19.000He wasn't exciting, he wasn't energizing, his message was not new or fresh.
00:13:26.000It bore no resemblance to Donald Trump's message, it bore greater resemblance to Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio or Jeb Bush.
00:13:34.000This was your standard Heritage Foundation Fox News platform, your standard Heritage Foundation Fox News candidate.
00:13:42.000And I don't say that totally as a pejorative, but I say that descriptively.
00:13:45.000This is the kind of conservative that you had running in this swing district in Pennsylvania one that is an industrial district, but also you have some rural, one that's right on the border with West Virginia.
00:13:56.000And they ran a traditional candidate where Trump was winning by 20%.
00:14:00.000And so they ran this guy who was a Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity type.
00:14:05.000Boring guy, couldn't fundraise, couldn't energize the base.
00:15:17.000CPAC did a straw poll for Republicans and conservatives.
00:15:20.000They said, How many of you support the president?
00:15:22.000Something like 96% say they support the president.
00:15:25.000You look at the president's approval rating among Republicans, and they're very high, very high marks, especially in these industrial states like Pennsylvania, higher than even in states like Texas or some of these southern states that people would think traditionally would go more right.
00:15:39.000These industrial states, and many of them, they have a higher approval rating of Trump among Republicans than the southern states.
00:15:47.000People may be on board with Trump, maybe have a 20% partisanship like you did in this district, where 20% they lean 20% to the right compared to the country.
00:15:56.000And yet, if they're not turning out the vote, if they're not showing up to the voting booths to cast their vote because they're not excited or they're not energized for whatever reason, if they're not motivated to go out and Pokemon go to the polls, they're not going to succeed in 2018.
00:16:13.000Because the Democrats, we saw this in Alabama, where they turned out to Numbers so high that people, such as myself, thought it was impossible.
00:16:23.000They turned out 95% of the voters that Hillary Clinton got in a presidential election in 2016.
00:16:30.000And you understand how abnormal that is.
00:16:32.000You understand how remarkable that is.
00:16:34.000That you would get the same turnout in a presidential election that you would in a special Senate election in December in the deep red South, in Alabama, the Republican state of Republican states.
00:17:41.000But if they can't turn out the vote in these swing states, in these battleground states, even in some safe Republican districts, and Democrats are running good candidates and they're focused and they're staying on message, and they see that Conor Lamb.
00:17:54.000And Doug Jones, that kind of politician works, we're going to be in for a real battle here.
00:17:59.000Now, that said, that's the problem, the enthusiasm gap.
00:18:05.000And you saw this in Alabama, you saw this in Pennsylvania.
00:18:08.000Here's kind of the good news these were local elections, these were not national elections.
00:18:14.000And people would say, well, of course, Alabama is not the nation, and this district is not the nation.
00:18:18.000But here's what I mean by that Alabama was not a reflection of the country, and it was not a referendum on Trump or on the Republicans because.
00:18:26.000You had outstanding circumstances where you had a sex scandal that was prolonged.
00:19:34.000He wasn't handpicked, but Doug Jones was another guy who wasn't this anti Trump far left zealot.
00:19:40.000He said he would vote for Trump, and the only trouble with him was abortion, but going up against Roy Moore, that didn't seem to be a big problem.
00:19:47.000So, these two elections, they represented an enthusiasm gap.
00:19:50.000But I think if you compare them to other elections that skew Republican in Utah, in South Carolina, in Montana, in Georgia, is it the end of the world?
00:20:00.000It's cause for concern, just like the Texas primary that we saw earlier in the week.
00:20:04.000This is definitely something we have to look at because I think there is complacency.
00:20:09.000And this is traditionally what happens with a sitting president, is that when a president gets into office in the immediate next midterm, he tends to not do so well.
00:20:17.000We saw this in the past three or four presidencies.
00:20:20.000And so it wouldn't be unusual if we saw this enthusiasm problem.
00:20:24.000It wouldn't be unusual if this was not just these districts and states, but it looks like in Alabama and Pennsylvania, these were peculiar.
00:20:31.000Because the Democrats will not be picking, I don't believe, through the primary process or in any other process, they're not going to be picking Connor Lambs.
00:20:40.000Connor Lambs are in very, very short supply in the Democratic Party after eight years of Barack Obama.
00:20:46.000They basically rooted out the white males, the toxic working class, masculine type people.
00:21:14.000But, you know, Republicans should be careful.
00:21:17.000What we have to do moving forward as Republicans, as conservatives, what Donald Trump should be doing is he needs to use this to leverage against the Republican Party.
00:21:25.000He has to say, and we talked about this at length last night.
00:23:01.000I mean, he's done about half of the promises that he's made in about a year, a little bit over a year.
00:23:07.000And we thought we were going in very strong.
00:23:10.000Not only that, but Democrats have been very weak since Donald Trump got into office, weak on messaging, haven't been able to offer a positive alternative to President Trump.
00:23:19.000And yet, it looks like they're kicking our butts all over the place.
00:23:23.000And according to 538, and it's not just these two states, but according to 538, Democrats have outperformed partisan lean in the country by 17%.
00:24:19.000You got another one on March 24th in Washington, D.C., and then you got another one on April 20th.
00:24:25.000So these professional gun control activists, you could call them actors, you could call them a number of things, the people that have stepped up since the Parkland shooting, these guys are professionals because they hit it really hard right out of the gate.
00:25:01.000And this is what I think even left wing type people think when they see they hung up on the president of the United States and they get out there and very snarky and very rude.
00:25:10.000And, you know, they think who the hell they are.
00:25:12.000But they've been doing, I think, a good job recovering from that.
00:25:15.000They followed up with a big demonstration today.
00:25:17.000They're following up with another one on March 24th, another one on April 20th.
00:25:28.000Because when you see these kinds of crises, when you see the potential these events have to mobilize public support, and there's a very short window where you have to capitalize, and you have to capitalize fast and strong.
00:25:46.000But politically, that's mechanistically how they function.
00:25:49.000They were very good at it with Sandy Hook.
00:25:51.000They're very good at it with the black killings, you know, whatever.
00:25:54.000Whenever a black person gets killed by a police officer, they're very quick to burn the city down to remind everybody that that kind of stuff is not acceptable.
00:26:02.000And with this, I've never seen anything like it.
00:26:05.000Right out of the gate, with the hand selected students who are photogenic, who are somewhat articulate, and they've got the talking points and they've got the television appearances lined up and they got the photo ops and the names and the slogans and the talking points and the rallies planned.
00:26:21.000And so this was really a professional effort.
00:26:23.000That was really striking how right out of the gate they had this Herculean effort.
00:26:28.000To turn out on television and to get these things going.
00:26:34.000And that's the key here how this is different than other previous crises or whatever is they're able to keep the public pressure up.
00:26:40.000If they're able to keep this in people's minds, in people's peripheral vision, as this is still an issue, this is still happening, this is still here, it's far away from the elections, but they're drawing it out longer and longer so it's going to make it harder for Republicans to push to the side, harder for them to ignore.
00:26:59.000And they're doing a good job at that, I think, with this kind of demonstration.
00:27:02.000This was so effective because they were telling high schoolers, don't go to school today.
00:27:08.000I wasn't actually what they told them, but they said at 10 a.m., you're supposed to leave for 17 minutes in honor of the 17 victims.
00:27:15.000And of course, this is not difficult to do to convince high school students who tend to be left wing and also who don't like school to leave class for 17 minutes in a big, dramatic, virtue signaling display of, I'm doing something and we demand enough is enough.
00:27:34.000This is something that does go viral for the young people.
00:27:36.000To have something similar for older people or for parents or moms or adults, people in the workforce, you would have to do so much more marketing, so much more organizing, so much more coordinating.
00:27:48.000You would need permits, you would need this, and you need that.
00:27:50.000With this kind of a demonstration, they fire out a tweet to their 3 million followers collectively between the different actors, between the different high school kids, and they get their publicity from the television shows and the news that they've been pushing, and this stuff goes viral.
00:28:05.000The kids that are on Twitter, I think it's something like.
00:28:07.00070 or 80% of Twitter users are under the age of 25.
00:28:11.000You get it on Twitter, you get it on Snapchat, you get it on Facebook.
00:28:14.000It goes viral, people share it, and all they have to do is say, Hey, look, Mr. Principal, Mr. Teacher, we're calling the shots now.
00:29:12.000I don't have numbers on how many schools and people participated, but a very visual thing.
00:29:17.000And this was important because they get out into the community.
00:29:20.000And at least by my school, by my former high school, what they were saying was they were getting out along one of the major thoroughfares in the city, and they were just going to stand there silently for 17 minutes.
00:29:31.000And they occupied this thoroughfare, not in the street, but on the sidewalks.
00:29:35.000And this was a visible demonstration to everybody in the community of Parkland, and a reminder.
00:29:41.000And that they're in support of gun control.
00:29:44.000But that is what the protest was essentially about.
00:29:47.000And you have it in these communities, and that's where the vote takes place.
00:29:50.000We talk about how all politics is local, and this was a local demonstration.
00:29:56.000With the kinds of mass demonstrations against Trump or the Women's March or the George Soros type stuff where they're bussing people in from other states and other cities, it's tough to say that that really has an effect because it's really astroturfed when you look at those kinds of, like the Women's March in particular, or the No Band, No Wall protest.
00:30:13.000You get people that are busting from out of town, and it's adults and some weirdos, very far left people.
00:30:19.000But with this, it's like, hey, that's Billy from down the street.
00:30:22.000Hey, that's Cindy from the science club, math club, or whatever.
00:30:49.000That said, I mean, we have to, at the same time, we have to offer up some real analysis on it and enough, you know, saying how good of a job they did.
00:31:21.000But people that are in high school, and high school is a big range, you're talking 14 to 18 years old.
00:31:26.000I'm the ripe age of 19, so I'm exempted from this.
00:31:29.000People that are 14 to 18 years old who are in school, who haven't been out into the world, and I've been out into the world, I was in school for a year.
00:31:36.000I'm an entrepreneur right now, I'm a small business owner.
00:31:39.000But people who have been in school all their lives and they don't look at these issues and they just get what they read on Snapchat or on Twitter, these are not the people that should even be taken seriously weighing in on these issues.
00:31:51.000Not voting, not weighing in on the issues, right?
00:31:54.000I mean, you imagine if you're just out of middle school, you're fresh out of middle school.
00:31:59.000And your life experience is playing on the kickball team or the baseball team.
00:32:03.000They don't really have kickball teams, but your life experience is playing travel sports and doing your homework.
00:32:09.000What kind of an intelligent thing do you have to say about school safety?
00:33:04.000We've gotten to a point in the country where.
00:33:07.000We seem to think, for some odd reason, we were convinced by television that everybody has a right to an opinion, everybody has a right to a vote, and everybody is equally entitled to say what they feel.
00:33:19.000And the more I talk to people, family and friends, the more I realize just the stark ignorance of most people on political affairs.
00:33:27.000But I can't tell you how many people I talked to that I was friends with in high school, people that were at college with me, even family members, where I talked to them about politics, and there's this weird thing that people are taught.
00:33:40.000If they can't answer, if they can't back up their position, if they can't argue their position, if they don't know why they believe what they believe, you'll always see this retreat into the dogma of egalitarian, mass enfranchised democracy, which is, well, I'm entitled to my opinion.
00:34:23.000If you were to say, well, I happen to think 2 plus 2 equals 5, and I have a right to my opinion, would any serious person say, yeah, you're right, and that's equally as good as somebody who says 2 plus 2 equals 4, or 2 plus 2 equals a million, or 2 plus 2 equals 1,000, you know?
00:34:39.000There's a right answer, there's a wrong answer, or even historical things.
00:34:43.000You know, you might talk about one specific incident that happened 70 years ago, but even in other cases, if somebody goes up to you and says, you know, I happen to believe that 9 11 was actually a bomb in the basement of the building, because if you look at the two World Trade Centers, they were actually built for collision with airplanes.
00:35:00.000It was actually said when they were constructed that they could sustain the impact of several airplanes.
00:35:05.000And this was the strongest kind of building that you could build because the exterior was made out of these beams, as opposed to where it's internal, where the structure is inside the building, it was outside the building.
00:35:15.000And the windows were so thin because it was so tightly packed together.
00:35:48.000And so we've gotten into this weird place.
00:35:50.000That was a little bit of a weird tangent, but a totally weird hypothetical tangent.
00:35:54.000But we've gotten into this weird place in the country where everybody, from the time they're born until the time they die, Whether they've been in the country for 50 years or a minute, whether they've got a 50 IQ or a 250 IQ, whether they have experience in government and they know what they're talking about or they have no experience and they're just a homeless, crazy person, we're all just equally entitled to our vote and equally entitled to our opinion, and nobody can take that away.
00:36:40.000It wasn't like everybody gets to vote, everybody gets to say, everybody pulls the levers.
00:36:45.000It was this select group of people who have an incentive to be forward thinking and to do what's in the greater good.
00:36:52.000These select people and who have the brain chemistry to look at these issues, these are the people that are going to put in our representatives.
00:36:58.000And the representatives have to have qualifications in themselves, have to be a certain age, have to have certain other requirements.
00:37:06.000So, that only people who probably were educated, probably had a vested interest in the success of the longer term of the country, would be making decisions about the country.
00:37:18.000And now we've gotten to a point where it's like, make 16 year olds vote, make felons vote, make illegal immigrants vote, make regular immigrants vote.
00:37:26.000And that was just never the way it was intended to be.
00:37:28.000And it was never intended to be that way for a reason because the founders understood that you cannot have a free society, you cannot have a well governed society.
00:37:38.000If you don't have smart people calling the shots, if you are subject to the whims, the passions of a transient majority.
00:37:46.000Those were the exact words of James Madison.
00:37:50.000We cannot allow for the tyranny of a transient majority.
00:37:54.000They understood what happened with the French Revolution in 1789, where you saw a real democracy, a real people's government, and the masses were out there calling the shots, and you had reigns of terrors and directories and police states and Cromwell and the Jack, or not Cromwell, who is the.
00:39:00.000Maybe there should be some basis in reality, some basis in logic.
00:39:03.000Emotion motivates people to go out there, and we have to do that to be effective organizers, but the organizers should be logical, and we shouldn't be taking kids' words for it.
00:39:13.000They don't know what they're talking about.
00:39:15.000You know, these are the kids eating Tide Pods, these are the kids.
00:39:26.000And so that was the gun control walkout.
00:39:27.000The last thing I want to talk about, I don't know, should we talk about Stephen Hawking or should we talk about Hillary Clinton?
00:39:33.000I guess we'll talk about Stephen Hawking just briefly.
00:39:37.000Stephen Hawking passed away last night.
00:39:39.000Astrophysicist, smart guy, tough guy, a very courageous guy.
00:39:44.000Obviously, there is a stark difference in worldview here between us and between the scientists or people who believe in scientism, people who believe in materialism, the idea that there is no.
00:40:30.000And even if maybe he didn't believe in the human spirit, I think he represented a triumph of the human spirit.
00:40:35.000But I do want to bring up a very interesting quote by Stephen Hawking, which I'm going through all these quotes, and people are pulling up some inspirational ones, some funny ones.
00:40:44.000But this really, I think, tells you all you need to know.
00:40:48.000He said, One can't prove that God doesn't exist, but science makes God unnecessary.
00:40:55.000The laws of physics can explain the universe without the need for a creator.
00:41:01.000This is such an important theme to touch on.
00:41:03.000Well, we're talking about Stephen Hawking and big ideas and Neil deGrasse Tyson and all these people who come out, and these are the public intellectuals.
00:41:11.000And the state religion now is materialism, it's scientism, it's rationalism.
00:41:17.000And this illustrates the problem with this thinking.
00:41:19.000This illustrates the problem with the current status quo, the current dogma, which is this idea that the scientific laws are enough that we don't need God anymore.
00:41:31.000Because we have the laws of physics, because we have gravity, we don't need an explanation beyond that.
00:41:36.000And I think what you're seeing across the country today, in the wealthiest country in the world, in the safest country in the world, in the most successful country in the world, where there's the most opportunities, the most stuff, the most entertainment, the most leisure, the reason people are killing themselves, the reason people are numbing themselves, doping themselves up, they're numbing themselves to the pain with alcohol and drugs and sex and all these other things, the reason that you.
00:42:04.000Have such a great country and we're doing so well, but yet you have terrible suffering and people that are misguided and sad and lonely and miserable is because it's not sufficient.
00:42:16.000And there's a repudiation of the idea that science was ever sufficient or could ever be sufficient.
00:42:21.000Yeah, we know why an apple falls from an apple tree.
00:42:24.000Yeah, we can kind of understand now about our rotation around the sun.
00:42:28.000And maybe you don't totally believe in that.
00:42:30.000Maybe you think something's going on in Antarctica.
00:42:39.000There's a rhyme and a reason out of the universe because of this mathematical function or this elegant formula, this rule laid out by a very clever person in the university.
00:42:49.000But at the end of the day, if you subtract the things that give individual people meaning in their lives, that is to say, maybe we can explain processes, but can we explain why we're here?
00:42:59.000Can we explain why we get up every day?
00:43:33.000And that is what has caused our present malaise we have not been fed in that longing for something greater, for a greater explanation.
00:43:44.000We have our logical brain, we have our rational brain.
00:43:47.000We have our material being, but we also have something that is immaterial, something that is irrational to an extent.
00:43:55.000We have appetites that cannot be fed by food or by water or by reading a good book under the tree.
00:44:03.000They have this real fetish for learning and academia, but we have an appetite for something greater than that.
00:44:09.000And Christ says in the Bible don't worry about feeding yourself with food if you're fed with my word, if you're fed with the truth, if you're fed with God.
00:44:29.000And they were happier because they were fed by God than people now who are fed by GMOs and hamburgers and McDonald's and television and all the rest.
00:45:39.000I guess we're competing with blood sports again.
00:45:42.000Let's see what our super chatters have to say.
00:45:44.000Reformed Bugman says, We took away the stimulus of community and its natural oxytocin, and we were shocked to find an artificial substance becomes much more compelling.
00:45:55.000I was reading about that in an article.
00:45:57.000I wonder if we were reading the same article because.
00:46:00.000Or the same video because I was looking at something over the weekend or sometime earlier in the week where it said that actually the kinds of chemicals that are produced by opioids are the same chemicals that are produced in a friendship, in a rewarding, in a fulfilling relationship with a loved one or with a friend or in a community event.
00:46:21.000It's oxytocin, the same pleasure chemicals that are released when you have a really close friend and you have maybe a cathartic experience with them versus when you're on opioids.
00:46:41.000That why opioids are so addictive, why it's a uniquely American problem and such a pervasive problem in the country, young and old, white people, middle aged, young people.
00:48:14.000That'll only do so much if the people that constitute the nation are not together, if they're not having their four most important needs met.
00:49:17.000Yeah, that's a little bit of a joking super chat, right?
00:49:23.000We would never be in favor of white pride on this show because, of course, every other people in history can have their own pride.
00:49:30.000You can have black pride, you can have gay pride, you can have Latinx pride, Muslim pride, Jewish pride, Jewish pride, white pride, Nazi hate group, SPLC, fire them from their jobs, right?
00:49:43.000And it was funny because remember when I met with that fella from Life After Hate?
00:50:24.000And I was like, yeah, but that really doesn't answer the question, which is you do see this double standard where everybody else gets to say it.
00:50:32.000Everybody else gets to be proud of their heritage, proud of who they are, and love themselves, except for us.
00:50:36.000You say you love being white, and you might as well, oh, really?
00:51:27.000Homosexuals are the kinds of people you see in the parades, they're the kind of people that you see in the advertisements, and they're all over each other.
00:52:54.000There's water dripping from the ceiling at the United Nations because every time they collect data on the knicker population, it keeps growing.
00:53:04.000I think the last projection, like you said, it's 3 billion by 2050.
00:53:08.000And they can't solve the problem fast enough.
00:53:11.000The UN, the IMF, The Department of Homeland Security, they are absolutely holding on to their diapers in anticipation of this population boom.
00:53:22.000They think it's going to be bad in Africa with the population boom.
00:53:26.000Just wait until you got 3 billion 250 IQ Nickers out there, followers of Nick, causing havoc.
00:54:12.000No matter what happens to you, you always get at 7 o'clock sharp, you turn it on, and you get some fresh, raw, uncut, hot.
00:54:20.000Content straight out of the oven, straight out of the oven, straight out of the steam chamber.
00:54:26.000You got some great content coming at you.
00:54:30.000And always, no matter what, whether you had a rough day, whether you had a great day, maybe somebody's passed away, maybe you just got diagnosed with a very bad illness, maybe you got laid off from your job, maybe your girlfriend dumped you, and now you're going your own way.
00:54:44.000Maybe you started making scrambled eggs and you threw the cheese in and there was mold on the cheese and you want to punch a hole through the wall.
00:54:51.000You always get to turn on America First and enjoy Nick, enjoy his humor, be with some friendly people or not so friendly people.
00:55:00.000Kilted Caboodle, I know it's not a good idea to listen to teens, but if you've been following Kashev, a very respectful young man, better optics than skinhead lesbian.
00:56:40.000I think he's inspirational in that regard.
00:56:43.000I mean, a guy, whether you like him or hate him, whether you thought he was a tyrant, a dictator, a socialist, a communist, he was loved in Louisiana.
00:56:54.000And there's so many anecdotes out there about how, what a stand up guy he was.
00:56:59.000And I think regardless of whether you think he was right or wrong, communist or not, whether you understood economics or not, He represented just a different class of politicians.
00:57:10.000He was better than the politicians we have today.
00:57:12.000It's kind of the expectation now that our politicians are corrupt and secretly hate us and don't represent us.
00:57:18.000And maybe they kill us unconstitutionally with drone strikes.
00:57:21.000But this guy was, he was one of us, a stand up guy.
00:57:25.000Matt said, I don't agree with his ideology.
00:57:27.000You know, I was watching that speech and I just had to cringe at this kind of stuff about, you know, Rockefeller can only wear so many clothes and all this stuff because, of course, it doesn't take into account investment and.
00:57:39.000Conspicuous consumption is a problem, but you have to have investment capital.
00:57:42.000You have to have incentives for people to innovate.
00:58:00.000People thought he was a hater, people thought he wasn't such a great guy, but he turned out to be very prescient.
00:58:07.000So I'm actually a big fan of Enoch Powell.
00:58:09.000Mike Healy, if you want to know how absent right wing activism is, just ask yourself, why isn't anybody holding a counter demonstration to march for our lives days later called March for Gun Rights?
00:59:02.000The protest is out there to say, look, we are in charge here and you suck.
00:59:07.000Charlottesville is a demonstration and that went terribly because we don't run the show.
00:59:11.000So I would say it's kind of because conservatives don't run anything in the country.
00:59:15.000I mean, we run the White House, but you see how ineffectual that tends to be compared to the deep state and the bureaucracy and the Congress and not ineffectual, but what we're up against with even the most powerful office in the world.
00:59:28.000So And Mr. Rye Guy says, What do you think of Trump's space force?
00:59:32.000It actually kind of goes against a lot of the international treaties on space.
00:59:37.000I believe we agreed at some point in the last 50 years to demilitarize space.
00:59:42.000That said, China would be militarizing space.
00:59:45.000Russia is going to be militarizing space.
00:59:47.000I don't know how long that can hold, right?
00:59:49.000I mean, if we're looking at limited resources in outer space and vying for them, whether it's the moon or Mars or, you know, these new weapons like the rail gun and things like we have, what do they call it, where they like direct.
01:00:09.000So I see that as an extension of the arms race between Russia and the United States.
01:00:16.000This came directly after Putin said in his State of the Nation speech that he had developed those three new nuclear technologies the cruise missile, the underwater drone, and the hypersonic missile.
01:00:28.000And I think you have to look at it in the context of weaponry, in the sense that there's this new arms race between Russia and the United States and nuclear and missile technology.
01:00:37.000And even with China, to some extent, they're increasing their defensive capabilities, their AI weaponry, and things like that.
01:00:43.000So I think that's an extension of that.
01:00:45.000It's like, you know, look, Russia, China, you want to play the arms race game?