Blood Satellite - April 15, 2023


Limbo Bizkit the Iron Age Puritan [“Snailmaxxing on the cusp of the ETH ecosystem.”]


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3 hours and 52 minutes

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41,138

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291

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12

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377

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Transcript

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00:00:00.000 as far back as i can remember i always wanted to be a
00:00:07.840 blood satellite this is you know what i came in with a real negative energy last time
00:00:22.240 completely flipped this time and there was no reason to because it was a fantastic episode
00:00:27.140 one of our best i would say was it great i was really insecure about that one i'm going to be
00:00:32.640 honest with you between you between us girls frankly i was on the fence i don't i don't
00:00:38.540 remember them from one week to the next but i did like uh i did like the z-man interview that was
00:00:44.520 fantastic yeah he's he's a cool kind of older guy with a bunch of wisdom i like the idea
00:00:50.140 and why i don't know why it wouldn't be the case but why wouldn't people who are kind of higher up
00:00:57.360 in the upper strata of politics listen to just some of these these podcasts or whatever you know
00:01:03.100 i mean because i was thinking about that the other day like even with celebrities and you know big
00:01:07.260 names it's like okay what would bradley cooper what would these people do well they're not watching
00:01:12.160 steven colbert they're not watching late night that's a colleague like why would you watch a
00:01:16.780 co-worker for entertainment right like you would be you they're probably gaming but they're gaming 0.98
00:01:22.740 under assumed names of course but i'm like they're probably listening to fucking the right stuff 0.90
00:01:29.420 is like you can't tell me that there's not a few people listening to devon stack and blackpilled 0.78
00:01:36.320 i think bradley cooper specifically is probably just really into like women's college basketball
00:01:41.180 or something women's college basketball podcast yeah i could see that yeah yeah i could see 0.99
00:01:47.500 robert de niro listening to like gay badminton podcasts yeah he's a faggot so that does make 0.98
00:01:54.760 sense you see them wearing their headphones some like annoyingly stylized headphones in a 1.00
00:02:00.340 cafe and you put your head between their head because you can you know listen it's just the 0.96
00:02:06.280 eyes wide shut soundtrack it's like oh man you guys do just suck but i'm feeling good this week 0.97
00:02:16.980 uh we were talking about this before the show where we reached a plateau raising dimes child 0.97
00:02:23.740 and this is probably a short-lived plateau this is a bit of calm where we we leveled up
00:02:30.720 there's a tipping point where we were kind of in flux and everything was confusing i was losing
00:02:35.820 my mind and then we we figured a few things out and we got a good rhythm going until the next 0.99
00:02:41.060 catastrophe and the next developmental milestone throws a monkey wrench in the gears of my shit 0.97
00:02:47.180 life but for this week we're good i feel calm i'm sipping and i i got i got a good electricity 0.97
00:02:57.220 throughout my spine but you learn a lot about yourself and you know i have to speak about this
00:03:03.500 from a father's perspective i can't really speak to the mother's perspective but it became clear
00:03:08.520 to me that fatherhood and becoming a father is like the number one entry point to obscure 0.80
00:03:16.580 historical bullshit like i found that when i'm a father you start reciting these facts uh that 0.97
00:03:24.540 would otherwise sound insane like you know you get a kid and you're saying like you know in the bronze 0.99
00:03:29.180 age the man didn't even have to deal with the child until he was 15 you know you start
00:03:35.180 saying things to your wife that you're digging through history to figure out oh you know guys
00:03:40.580 a thousand years ago they actually didn't have to do anything yeah uh you know i was uh reading a
00:03:46.020 bit into rome and it turns out that the guy could have as many wives as you want and many women and
00:03:52.200 he actually didn't need to raise them until they were cool and they could like listen to you and 0.97
00:03:56.980 if they didn't listen to you you're allowed to punch them in the skull and then but but you come
00:04:02.240 with references i've got 27 references so if people are wondering why guys are so into you know 0.70
00:04:09.020 history that's probably the main reason yeah you get nothing i don't like we said i don't know if
00:04:14.840 it's different with sons than daughters but uh you know there's there's so many variations between
00:04:19.800 sons and daughters that i i never would have expected but hearing it from you and then hearing
00:04:23.340 it from some of my other friends that have sons and like people say it's like they can't be that
00:04:26.700 different i mean i know sexes are different but like jesus christ they are like two totally
00:04:30.460 different animals when they're infants so my son is already violent so violent he just punches uh
00:04:38.060 punches my wife in her chest in in her nips you know uh which is and i looked i see him do it too
00:04:46.460 he looks at me look he's not very early he's looking at me in the eyes he looks at me in the 0.97
00:04:50.940 eyes punches her right in the titty and i'm saying that is a good bit like he he's already riffing
00:04:58.900 and i really appreciate that he is my son yeah but uh you know there's certain things that occur
00:05:05.240 especially during the early days the newborn phase what you uh intelligently call the fourth
00:05:11.420 trimester um and a lot of things become different when if you're breastfeeding um and a lot of women
00:05:18.960 can't breastfeed some choose not to some can't and or some uh can breastfeed and they choose to
00:05:24.860 bottle feed whatever but if you're doing it the good old-fashioned way the good old-fashioned way
00:05:30.320 is a lot more difficult a lot more difficult in ways that some people might have heard about with
00:05:34.800 clogged ducts and stuff but then again the nip punching uh from from the boys boys being boys
00:05:42.680 right but uh you know there's little things that my wife does you know i'm in the room i'm helping 1.00
00:05:48.260 out right so if it's a midnight feeding i try and and be uh i'm you know feminist dimes trans 1.00
00:05:55.360 feminist dimes of course here we go um and when she's getting ready to breastfeed she's gotta 1.00
00:06:00.440 you know kind of work a bit of the milk out right so she's got her titty out uh spraying milk and 1.00
00:06:08.520 the milk's hitting me it's going half halfway across the dang room hitting my leg hitting my
00:06:15.220 shirt hit my neck but how big is how big is the room though are you underneath the table are you
00:06:21.100 in a small box it's a standard regulation room okay it's fresh right off the rack room it's to
00:06:29.280 code it is to code okay it's if if you're thinking of a room it's a bedroom it's that size and that
00:06:36.140 you know i'm telling her i'm like you better thank your lucky stars that i'm not a pervert
00:06:40.500 you should be thank god i am inconsiderate in bed you may notice i am flaccid right now and
00:06:49.520 that's why you married me just just imagine you're doing this i'm walking around the house 0.99
00:06:54.680 all boned up causing a ruckus that's the last thing either of us need all this fucking milk 1.00
00:07:01.900 sprained everywhere you better you thank god that i am dead down there 1.00
00:07:07.540 thank god that there's a dark death a dearth inside of me 0.63
00:07:13.780 and i'm saying this i'm i'm i'm joking about it little do you know 10 minutes before the show
00:07:22.040 aired i'm going to my wife with my flat newsboy cap in hand saying can can i talk about the milk
00:07:29.380 riff can i do the milk bit please i'm talking like i'm trying to treat me with dignity but i
00:07:37.280 have to get the go-ahead on this stuff because i am a good husband yeah i know i know there's a
00:07:42.360 lot of guys listening and it probably is disheartening to hear that i am husband of
00:07:46.060 the year i am father of the year yeah he's got the mug i've seen it get this it's hard to find
00:07:52.200 one of those mugs a quality mug yeah see they don't want dads being you know venerated they
00:07:59.360 They want them venereal-lated is what they want.
00:08:03.000 They want them venereal-lated. 0.96
00:08:05.540 Yeah, they want you to get syphilis is what I meant.
00:08:07.820 I got, I was seething the other day.
00:08:10.780 I was shopping for a mug.
00:08:11.700 I got by myself a mug.
00:08:13.460 The West has fallen, by the way.
00:08:15.620 So I'm trying to buy myself World's Greatest Dad mug. 1.00
00:08:17.940 I see this fucking rinky-dink, fly-by-night, seat of your pants, fuck you, have a nice day, eat shit mug. 1.00
00:08:26.620 and talk about dads like what what dad stands for do anything for your kids something like that 1.00
00:08:34.540 right and i'm like i don't want to be appreciated because i'm just a slave for my kid i want to be
00:08:42.440 an a priori best dad i'm not the best dad because i would fall on the floor and let my children walk
00:08:50.180 over me i am the best dad and then they exist because of that in my orbit you know i'm the
00:08:57.000 best dad outside of the context of my children can i get an amen amen i it can't just be us i
00:09:06.000 hope some other people did amen okay everyone put the little put the ding in there or is that for 0.58
00:09:10.240 preach i'm getting dick i'm gonna put a ding i'm gonna put a preach but i'm gonna give people a
00:09:14.720 shot at home all right can i get an amen okay oh man so how are things with you how's everything 0.92
00:09:25.120 over there you got a couple of kids how are they doing they're like two and three right
00:09:29.120 over here girls are fine all three of them it was 25 degrees when i got out to the parking lot
00:09:35.700 today it's been like this for like three four days i don't know where it is or how it is where
00:09:39.400 you are it's just beautiful hey what hot enough for you 0.98
00:09:42.460 yeah i mean it's fucking and the thing is there's like a there's a paddock full of horses 0.98
00:09:50.900 at the back of our the parking lot where i work so the whole it's beautiful beautiful 0.99
00:09:56.400 mares but it smells like horse shit so it's like hot hot horse shit uh in the parking lot 0.97
00:10:02.580 but anyways no a lot of gardening i've been doing a lot of gardening because it's that season we're 0.99
00:10:06.400 not supposed to have speaking of bullshit and paddock okay oh give your respect i know where 0.65
00:10:14.620 this is going how good was that can we take a minute that was beautiful that was not planned 0.98
00:10:19.960 i don't even know how you did that i'm destroying all the goodwill i've built up in the audience by
00:10:25.600 calling attention to it i'm passing around magnifying glasses as we speak everyone
00:10:29.900 look under your chairs they're magnifying glasses and binoculars put them to tape them together
00:10:36.100 look at what i just did what we're going to talk about is the las vegas shooting steven paddocks
00:10:41.980 the grand old opry oh we were talking about this the other day and i just wanted to talk about 0.54
00:10:48.340 this article um this episode is kind of a hodgepodge um but the piggies need their slop
00:10:56.160 that's what we're gonna give them and i came across this article um and i want to get your
00:11:02.020 thoughts on it so this was published in cnn this month april 8th 2023 and a lot of people have
00:11:11.520 forgot about the infamous las vegas shooting as far as i know the the highest kill count mass
00:11:19.720 shooting in american history and it's a stiff competition for that one in our scene we've
00:11:26.200 talked about it over over the years everyone still talks about it mainly preceded with whatever
00:11:32.460 happened with that you know i mean even yeah after it happened people were surprised it was it seemed
00:11:39.240 to be ushered out of the news cycle pretty quickly that's pretty accurate isn't it yeah no absolutely
00:11:46.340 it was weird actually like and a lot of the theories that we talk about came through our
00:11:51.720 grapevine they were never even on the news so like we we think of it now almost like anyway i do it's
00:11:58.080 almost like jfk where there's all of these weird theories about what happened but the thing is
00:12:02.580 we got those theories or at least i did from like bad history channel shows but the thing with
00:12:08.260 steven paddock and the vegas shooting is there's really only one story ever in the media which is
00:12:15.160 he was just a lunatic that's it and like case closed conversation over because someone brought
00:12:21.520 it up the other day and said, whatever happened to that? And I started discussing what I thought 0.96
00:12:26.440 was the prevailing theory on our side of things in this thing of ours. And maybe there's another
00:12:32.520 one, but the one I had heard that a lot of people seemed to settle on was that the Steven Paddock
00:12:39.960 guy, this Enigma was some kind of fed, he was either a gun runner or a fed or both. He was
00:12:48.740 doing some kind of gun deal that went wrong in that las vegas hotel and it was perhaps a botched
00:12:56.940 assassination attempt on this saudi prince that was there in that casino that night and who was
00:13:03.660 engineering some kind of reformist agenda in saudi arabia so there are forces at work that
00:13:10.580 might have wanted him killed that would be very much like a tom clancy espionage sort of thing
00:13:15.880 that people like to hear not to say that stuff doesn't happen but it sounds very cinematic and
00:13:21.180 so it was attractive to us and um but then my problem with that theory is that they would say
00:13:30.800 why the shooting then so did he do the shooting and what would his reason be and they say well
00:13:35.400 no he didn't do the shooting he was killed and then some the saudi assassins who were there
00:13:41.780 just opened fire on the crowd and the reason they opened fire on the crowd was because
00:13:46.000 i guess they hate americans they hate or it was to cause a distraction but to me uh the reason
00:13:52.660 that explanation always rang a bit flimsy to me was because it still requires that someone would
00:13:58.980 randomly shoot into a crowd right because with steven paddock they would say no one would just
00:14:04.180 randomly do this but the crazy conspiracy explanation still requires that we still
00:14:09.600 haven't answered why the shooting happened we're just saying it was another psycho but in that
00:14:15.360 case it could have been him why couldn't have been it right you know but so that's where i kind of
00:14:20.300 settled it was a frustrating deadlock and a lot of people hit that deadlock and couldn't make it
00:14:25.740 past that even though everyone will admit there's a lot of suspicious stuff going on however uh one
00:14:31.280 one thing people would say that somewhat bothered me was some of the things people were saying
00:14:38.620 seemed to be informed by people who never left their house i'm not calling them basement dwellers
00:14:44.180 but they are dwellers of some kind so they would say something like no one was suspicious that this
00:14:50.800 one guy who had the suite at the top he was bringing in all these mysterious bags and i would
00:14:57.440 say a have you never been to vegas b have you never been to a hotel no one yeah it's not like 0.99
00:15:03.160 they would call the cops if they noticed a guest taking in a bunch of fucking bags 0.98
00:15:08.360 everyone who runs a hotel kind of knows they're doing they're probably doing it for shady shit 1.00
00:15:13.760 i'll tell you what half of the staff who see a fat weird white guy with way too many bags 0.94
00:15:20.320 are intentionally going the other way because they don't want to help him carry it yeah yes
00:15:26.440 yes if you're a guy who looks like it's like if you looked at steven paddock he looked like a guy
00:15:32.340 who would ask someone to help him he's in their flip-flops and shorts he's asking for directions
00:15:37.560 he's saying what he's asking some random person it doesn't even matter what the uniform is anyone
00:15:43.700 in a uniform he's going to them and asking where's a good place to eat in town yep that's a loaded
00:15:49.400 question no one wants to get asked that question so the idea that they would get suspicious that
00:15:54.100 he was taking a bunch of bags up to his room like that that means you never stayed in a hotel and
00:15:58.500 also you don't know what vegas is vegas is a den of satanic sin that for some reason people bring 0.99
00:16:07.120 their families to i've been to vegas and i don't know why there's kids in vegas it's fucking 0.98
00:16:12.160 ridiculous everyone's drunk all the time you have to and if you haven't been to vegas just walking 0.96
00:16:18.220 down the strip everyone's openly drinking and drunk i i got like blackout drunk in vegas and 0.98
00:16:25.360 was causing a ruckus and anything short of pulling a knife on someone the cops will just let you get
00:16:30.880 away with because that's what it's for anyway so that's the city he's he's in so like that the
00:16:36.780 suspicion thing didn't that didn't have a whole lot of water for me so we just kind of left it
00:16:42.000 there and then i come across this article that just reignites it because it just seems so
00:16:47.860 fucking random and fake and i'll just read the headline here apropos of nothing this comes out 0.63
00:16:55.060 before las vegas mass shooting a friend of the gunman implored him not to quote 0.99
00:17:01.740 shoot or kill innocent people newspaper reports so it turns out like six years later i guess um
00:17:11.020 so six years later this is just oh by the way uh his friend told him not to do it that's a weird
00:17:16.420 thing to say right now here's the first paragraph a friend of stephen paddock who carried out the
00:17:22.680 deadliest mass shooting in modern u.s history said in letters he was concerned about paddock
00:17:28.100 committing a shooting and asked him not to shoot or kill innocent people according to writings
00:17:33.340 obtained by the las vegas review journal okay that's a weird thing to just write you know i
00:17:39.060 mean like you're like you wouldn't just say that to somebody i'm gonna write you a letter saying
00:17:44.260 i hope you don't do a mass shooting you know what i mean like that that doesn't seem like a normal
00:17:49.880 thing to do no it's pretty weird here's where and even then i'm like okay maybe this paragraph is
00:17:55.720 what stood out to me 10 letters which were attained through a public records request
00:18:00.900 were found in late november 2017 by the new owners of an abandoned office building
00:18:07.080 in mesquite texas according to the fbi okay like right there so let's unpack that right i want to
00:18:16.440 unspool this on the floor so there was some letters written by this guy i guess he didn't
00:18:24.200 send them right he would have filed them away in his own filing cabinet they were not in the
00:18:31.520 possession of steven paddock they were left in a filing cabinet in an abandoned the building was
00:18:38.040 abandoned and so it sat in an abandoned building someone took over the building saw this random
00:18:45.480 filing cabinet full of files that's probably been sitting there for i don't know months maybe
00:18:49.940 decided we better save these i don't know if anyone's ever moved into an office building or
00:18:57.320 moved it it would just been in this sort of situation it would never occur to you to submit
00:19:03.020 them to the government in if they ever needed to do a freedom of information act request because
00:19:08.800 that's what happened for some reason these like how there's a lot of steps here that don't make
00:19:14.720 sense to me they found these random files the new owners took it upon themselves to not only save
00:19:20.780 these random files but then file them away so they could be searched up later by a freedom
00:19:27.360 of information act request and then also someone would be searching that up like where where would
00:19:32.900 this be collated there's five points of this story where it makes no sense that these letters were
00:19:39.460 saved right am i it seems like a bureaucratic miracle if there's one thing about bureaucracies
00:19:47.880 is miracles don't exist well it also put that up against the fact that in most cases where it
00:19:54.020 matters the files miraculously disappear not it's not like files we didn't know existed suddenly
00:20:01.580 appear years later it's like no the files that we like the waco door you know what i mean yeah
00:20:06.360 where did it go somebody lost it yeah uh this guy who said the letters nixon nixon told cnn he never
00:20:14.220 conveyed his concerns about paddock to authorities because he didn't know paddock was going to do
00:20:18.840 anything and couldn't read paddock's mind well also you sent him a bunch of letters imploring
00:20:24.680 him not to like you know what i mean like it's stuff like this that reignites it in me like why
00:20:31.440 are you doing this it was dead this this makes it so suspicious there's not one aspect of this 0.91
00:20:38.840 story that isn't suspicious and fucked up yeah yeah and they just decided to remind me it's like 0.92
00:20:43.960 oh look at this stuff we found no you didn't that's not what happened i don't know what happened 0.85
00:20:49.960 but it wasn't that and then the fact that they're pulling this bring you know dredges it all back up
00:20:56.340 and now we can be even more certain that the original story is false right because there's
00:21:01.400 there's no way we found all we do know the one thing we found in this bureaucratic miracle is
00:21:07.740 that he definitely did this thing i just wanted to remind you just just just to bring it up again
00:21:14.060 i don't know that that really stuck and i'm reading the art i'm scrolling down now gunman
00:21:19.500 was prolific video poker player can you be a prolific video poker player you can be prolific
00:21:26.220 i don't think you can be like you know they're not saying he's famous they're just saying he
00:21:30.000 did it a lot well can you be a prolific crackhead yes yeah absolutely absolutely there's probably
00:21:37.620 more there's a larger proliferation of prolific crackheads than any other type of prolific person
00:21:44.740 i would think yeah how often did gambling addicts shoot up a casino you know what you think that
00:21:51.040 would happen more right it's funny because you just said it he's a gambling addict usually we
00:21:55.020 don't say we don't say prolific crack smoker we say crack addict like most crack smokers are
00:22:02.880 prolific because they have an addiction so i mean yeah the real question is how many online video
00:22:08.800 poker players are there who aren't prolific yeah you're not allowed to be prolific if the thing 0.91
00:22:14.280 you're doing is retarded like i rain man doesn't work if he's rain man playing slots yeah it only 0.92
00:22:23.540 works if it's blackjack it only works if it's poker you can't be prolific if it's lottery tickets 0.98
00:22:29.860 yeah exactly that would be a pretty good movie just like an autistic retard and he's into the 0.99
00:22:36.400 types of stuff that autistic retards are into which is collecting funko pops 0.99
00:22:40.480 right the updated rayman it's like a black guy is dragon ball z figurines 0.99
00:22:47.380 the gummy with some sunday with some sunday
00:22:53.540 we get that uh who's that black guy who everyone's trying to uh
00:23:00.480 make happen mark washington mark david washington he's the guy who's playing
00:23:06.020 kang jonathan majors you seen this guy no okay jonathan major then i'm there's nothing to talk
00:23:15.860 about that but he's just like the new black guy that everyone's supposed to fawn over that's
00:23:21.780 something that i always that that still bothers me when the media just got together and elected
00:23:27.840 this is going to be the new black guy everyone needs to say he's gorgeous they use that word
00:23:32.380 gorgeous the last guy they did that for was idris elba it's like they're talking about a horse yes 0.95
00:23:37.500 he's gorgeous look at his mane look at look at the way his skin gleans the last one they did 0.80
00:23:43.660 this for is idris elba and idris elba looks fucked up for years they were trying to sell me that 0.93
00:23:49.620 idris elba was this like smoking hot like stallion of a man and i felt like i was taking 0.99
00:23:55.960 fucking crazy pills like this guy's stupid he's not a good actor and i've been seeing him in shit 1.00
00:24:01.620 since the wire he was not good in the wire don't fucking lie to me don't look at me don't look me 1.00
00:24:07.420 in the eyes look at the floor you know what not to go too deep in movie corner but i've kind of 0.98
00:24:12.660 and i'm not a you know i'm not a big movie guy but i've kind of noticed that there don't seem
00:24:17.340 to be a whole lot of actor actors left like most actors now are in the category of idris elba or
00:24:23.760 like we're making fun of um aubrey plaza we're like yeah the only reason you're there is because
00:24:29.580 a they like the shape of your head and then b the normal thing that you do like when you're at
00:24:36.280 wendy's is a thing that we think is neat so just keep doing that like don't act just read these
00:24:42.120 lines and just don't do it just read the lines and like that seems to be all actors now like
00:24:47.300 i haven't seen i haven't seen a quote-unquote performance in a long time well this is like
00:24:51.360 can you just talk about john wick like yeah canada reeves is not an actor so i don't know yeah no 0.82
00:24:56.980 that's he he's a fucking chimera of some yeah but the funny thing is that um if you think about 0.73
00:25:04.140 sort of the golden age of cinema and the auteur era of like the 60s and 70s here's stories about 0.99
00:25:10.920 these actors you're michael canes and whatnot where most of the actors they didn't go to acting
00:25:16.880 school and you hear these stories about like marlon brando and i'm just picking that name out
00:25:21.440 of a hat i don't remember a story but it's always a story like you know the director discovered
00:25:26.320 michael kane because he was garrotting a guy behind a car and then he said i want you yeah i
00:25:33.480 like that you want to be in a movie like harrison ford had that the rumor was like harrison ford
00:25:38.240 was like a carpet on set or something yeah and they just like the look of him and then there
00:25:42.500 was all these stories like that de niro is like that so some of the best actors did start off as 0.95
00:25:48.200 actors um fuck who's the guy i'm gonna feel so fucking uh christopher lee christopher like guys 0.93
00:25:56.440 like christopher lee where it's it's like yeah before he got into acting he was literally a spy 0.99
00:26:02.080 he was a lot of these actors like they might have killed five people or they were they were found
00:26:07.920 they plucked them out of some scene and they're interesting people and then now you have them and 0.83
00:26:13.780 this used to be academics too like you're an act sort of a renegade academic that's a gay way to 0.53
00:26:18.680 say it not sure why i said that i'll be paying for that one later but you know like academic 0.97
00:26:23.280 academia used to be full like misfits and rogues and these these crazy minds that will be plucked
00:26:29.540 from the population and now it's just like a finishing school for the most boring rich kids 1.00
00:26:35.580 you can imagine most boring rich kids and then just like black retard side by side and that's 1.00
00:26:41.960 what it is so the future you're saying the future of cinema is is curtis yarvin and nick land yes 0.99
00:26:46.960 nick land as john as as caesar opposite napoleon it's gonna be a great movie
00:26:53.760 mitch's mole book as john wick um um um
00:27:00.320 Um, but yeah, so, but the idea was that you, you would have like Jack Nicholson.
00:27:07.140 These guys have a bit of a, an edge to them, but the thing is those actors still exist.
00:27:10.980 They're just old.
00:27:12.560 Um, and this might actually lead into movie court.
00:27:15.680 I have one I could talk about.
00:27:18.200 Are you interested?
00:27:20.860 Give it to me. 1.00
00:27:21.700 Oh, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up. 1.00
00:27:30.320 Okay. I wasn't coming ready for this, but I just finished it before we started. So it's kind of fresh in my mind. And you just reminded me of it because we're talking about these people who seem like actors, but they're just old and they, I don't see new versions of them coming up. Maybe like an Adam Driver, but then do I like Adam Driver just because he's weird looking? That could be it too. 1.00
00:27:51.740 but uh willem defoe is who i'm talking about like willem defoe seems like a guy you know if you told
00:27:58.540 me he lived in a shanty in a swamp i'd believe it if you told me like he they they found him 0.93
00:28:04.160 shooting dice or jason statham was like that too jason statham was found like doing a fucking 0.97
00:28:09.600 you know one of those card games on the street fucking over tourists right but willem defoe 0.90
00:28:14.480 seems like a guy who's just like a weird stuck out of time guy but i saw this movie he was in 0.71
00:28:20.620 a one-man performance and it just came out this movie it's called inside oh right where he's
00:28:27.800 trapped in the apartment yeah so you saw the trailer for this i probably yeah i really want
00:28:32.100 to see it actually i was gonna click it on my tv and then the tv told me i had to pay for it and i 0.52
00:28:36.540 said no fuck that okay you got seven minutes stay focused the art in here is worth millions 0.76
00:28:42.720 proceed to step two 0.99
00:28:46.100 What's happening?
00:28:51.060 Come in! Come in!
00:28:54.060 It won't open!
00:28:55.580 Sorry, man. You're on your own.
00:29:00.000 Help me!
00:29:01.280 Get me out of here!
00:29:06.220 When I was a kid, my teacher asked
00:29:08.560 what I would save for my house
00:29:11.040 if it were on fire.
00:29:13.280 They answered.
00:29:14.240 my sketchbook my acdc album and my cat groucho i didn't mention my parents or my sister
00:29:22.660 does that make me a bad person
00:29:25.980 cats die music fades
00:29:31.740 but art is for keeps i'm not sure i would recommend it though really and i'll tell you why um because 0.97
00:29:43.340 i liked the trailer and it looked like it was right up my alley just a bunch of weird shit
00:29:48.560 going on and it alluded to things that occur in the story that i thought it might be leading 0.94
00:29:54.500 somewhere and it just didn't so for people who are wondering what the fuck we're talking about
00:29:58.580 inside movie starring willem dafoe he's the only actor in it there's one actor who's kind of in a
00:30:05.700 voiceover sort of thing but it's just him and guys like him love these roles and i would equate it
00:30:13.300 to know if acting was stand-up comedy this would be your one-man show so i get why actors like
00:30:20.420 doing stuff like this it just seems extremely pretentious to me and i say this as a fan of
00:30:25.920 willem defoe he's probably one of the few actors i really like where i'll go see a movie because
00:30:31.060 he's in it that's how we saw this movie he's got a really good energy he's the hot whatever movie's 0.97
00:30:35.860 in he's the highlight of it like gary oldman he's the highlight of where the fuck he's in 0.92
00:30:40.020 um these these presences but this one i'm like okay you like this because you can show your 0.89
00:30:46.120 entire range you can show what a good actor you are and that's good for you and that's good for
00:30:52.040 guys who want to get into film because they can dissect it and see but as just a movie or
00:30:58.360 performance there's not a lot there there's not a lot to chew on so the premise of the movie is that
00:31:03.880 he is an art thief and he broke into this high rise condo you know um executive level top of
00:31:12.620 the building to steal some art uh you don't know really much about whose it is you don't really
00:31:18.920 know much about the art that's immaterial to the movie he's in there alarm goes off he's trapped
00:31:24.180 in there and the movie follows him trying to get out and it's uh this sub-genre of movie i didn't
00:31:32.540 know that this was entire subgenre but there is an entire suite of movies that's just willem
00:31:38.260 defoe losing his mind there's a lot of movies like that and he's good at it he's one of our
00:31:45.000 top guys for losing your mind on film yeah what is it the lighthouse that was great that's good
00:31:50.760 he did this one i believe it's not called valhalla but it's it's another one where again he's like
00:31:56.500 trekking into the mountains and it's just it's this type of movie that i don't really like
00:32:00.540 because some people will say like there's these types of stories there's man against man or man
00:32:05.500 against nature or man against self but he does it's these movies where it's man against nature
00:32:12.700 as self and it's like there's nothing really to grab onto there you know and i as i get older i
00:32:19.960 don't really have patience for psychological thrillers and that's what this is if you look
00:32:24.440 up the genre they'll say psychological thriller i said oh no because that means you're it's gonna
00:32:30.320 be like oh is this a hallucination is this in his mind what does he's seeing things and what do they
00:32:36.620 represent about his character the problem is he doesn't have much of a character to speak of
00:32:42.900 um there's a few things i didn't like about this off the jump so i'm going to say them to you that 0.81
00:32:48.080 i didn't like so when they go into the building he kind of drops into it like a fucking black ops 0.85
00:32:54.840 guy so he flies in with a helicopter and they drop him into the building and i'm like right away 0.77
00:33:00.660 that's a weird way to do a heist that's a because every single helicopter and it's in new york it's
00:33:07.520 in this like it doesn't say it's new york but it's a huge metropolis so every single helicopter that
00:33:13.540 flies through new york is tracked in catalog you can't just like fly through new york over that
00:33:19.520 skyline without announcing who you are and why you're there so the idea that you could sneak a 0.95
00:33:24.960 helicopter into this fucking building and then later on it just so happens there was a heist in 0.97
00:33:29.660 the building like that that doesn't make sense to me you know and then he comes in just by himself 0.99
00:33:35.820 that doesn't make sense to me like why would it just be him and not a couple guys because there's
00:33:42.200 a timer on it it's like you only have seven minutes to get in get out before the alarm goes 0.95
00:33:46.180 off so why why just him that's kind of stupid too have someone get it and then have someone else do 0.84
00:33:52.400 the the code to get the security system going and that's the other thing so he gets in find some art 0.97
00:33:57.780 and goes to the security system does it but something's wrong boom done he's abandoned there
00:34:04.260 he's talking to the guy on his walkie-talkie number three number three he's like i gotta go
00:34:08.840 man you're on your own i don't like he was called number three like it sounds like a poorly thought
00:34:13.860 out heist you know yeah and then he's also wearing like a cleaner's uniform as sort of an alias but 0.96
00:34:22.060 again if you're sneaking in through a fucking helicopter why do you need to have like a 0.95
00:34:26.500 cleaner's uniform on right yeah just be dressed in i don't know black or something right just 0.98
00:34:34.080 things like that like that's a strange decision that was not explained at all another thing that
00:34:40.300 kind of annoyed me was he seems to lose his mind very quickly like he's only there for a few days 0.80
00:34:48.400 and he's already like fucking building effigies and scrawling crazy notes on the walls i'm like 0.89
00:34:54.960 it's been like you haven't been every guy knows what's like to just be dicking around for three 0.98
00:35:00.160 days by yourself yeah for sure i'd love that i do that right now for three days yeah i could do 0.70
00:35:05.600 three fucking days standing on my head like like there's one thing where okay i'll skip ahead but 0.89
00:35:11.900 there's one thing where like he figures out the only way he can get out he's gonna try getting 0.99
00:35:14.960 out through the ceiling as he tries to get out through the front door the front door is too
00:35:19.400 thick and there's like a metal thing there and he bangs on the walls no one can hear him and then
00:35:23.780 there's bulletproof glass so it's truly uh prison there so you can only get out through maybe this
00:35:29.000 ceiling light and then like he's kind of it's interesting because he there's there's bolts
00:35:34.900 there so he has to fashion this like a makeshift wooden ratchet to get the bolts out but like as 0.70
00:35:40.620 he's losing his mind as he gets the bolts out he makes this fucking a shrine to them of like all 0.90
00:35:47.720 this junk and puts like a purple pillow there because it's like a rich guy's house so he's 0.98
00:35:51.640 gathering up all this rich stuff he's like putting the bolts there as like a sacrifice i'm like why
00:35:57.900 i don't understand what like i get visually cinematographically that's a cool scene it
00:36:05.860 looks good on the camera it just makes no sense why he would do that if he's been there for like
00:36:10.420 two days sounds like maybe he was already insane i don't really address that but there's like one
00:36:16.280 line of dialogue where he's like in scene of the trailer where he's like when i was a kid
00:36:21.980 and school i was asked what i would save in the my house is on fire i chose my acdc album
00:36:29.040 my sketchbook and my cat it never occurred to me to say my sister and parents maybe i'm a bad guy
00:36:35.220 they never revisit that there's no character study there's there's nothing else there's no
00:36:41.540 like there's no real admission that he's a bad guy either it's weird and like there's they don't
00:36:46.540 they just leave that there and expect that to be something you just don't get it you just don't
00:36:53.960 get it man and there's a lot of things that look cool but like there's like an injured pigeon on 0.91
00:37:01.000 the balcony he's talking to the pigeon like a fucking tom hanks talking to wilson but tom hanks 0.90
00:37:07.680 in castaway was on that island for like years again willem defoe has been there for two days 0.99
00:37:13.880 he's talking to a fucking pigeon and like scratching his face and ah which again like 0.97
00:37:20.200 if you're an actor the losing your mind scene is great because you can just do the whole spectrum 0.99
00:37:25.960 of human existence in that you know you're laughing you're crying it's like you're doing
00:37:30.700 it's like you're just like he's juicing right but as it occurred as i was watching this it
00:37:36.180 occurred to me um for the people listening if you're inclined to writing not even screenwriting
00:37:41.260 but writing generally if you don't know what to write or you don't know how to write write
00:37:48.760 insanity and i realized watching this like if you just decide to write a psychological some guy
00:37:54.400 losing his mind it's carte blanche to do just a bunch of random shit not have to explain yourself 0.64
00:38:00.720 but have that automatic reception of that's deep but you know you know what it's like as i was 0.93
00:38:07.820 watching i'm like this would be like watching the shining the movie the great movie jack nicholson
00:38:13.540 and shelly duvall everyone knows the shining but imagine watching the shining and jack torrance
00:38:18.940 doesn't have his family there it's just a guy being weird alone in a hotel and i'm like it
00:38:26.800 doesn't it doesn't work because and maybe i'm reaching with this one you you tell me if this
00:38:32.040 works i think to depict insanity on screen or in literature it needs the context of other people
00:38:40.000 you need if a guy is to lose his mind he must be losing his mind in in relation to his family
00:38:47.000 and friends or society but if you're just telling a story where a guy is by himself and going insane
00:38:53.000 it just doesn't work there's another great movie that some people might like because there's a lot
00:38:58.780 of very stark jewish overtones but uh darren aronofsky's first film pi um for people who've 0.69
00:39:06.640 seen that's black and white it's it's very like high energy kinetic really trippy fucked up movie 0.56
00:39:12.440 but a guy losing his mind but that movie works because he's i won't explain the movie just watch 0.90
00:39:19.100 it pi pi go watch it fantastic movie but it works because he's losing his mind and he's being
00:39:25.440 contacted by other people other groups and so but if it was just him and his his apartment
00:39:30.900 going crazy like there's nothing for me to latch on to with that right like what's the story and
00:39:36.780 when you watch these movies um there's a great book on screenwriting let me just look it up here
00:39:43.920 yeah there's this famous book on screenwriting i recommend anyone who's into storytelling or
00:39:49.440 creative writing generally read this it's a book just called story by the author robert mckee
00:39:55.240 the full title is story style structure substance and the principles of screenwriting
00:40:00.040 but one thing he says in that book that's always stuck with me and it applies to screenwriting but
00:40:06.280 i think it applies to stories generally or anything that has scenes he says that every scene
00:40:12.660 needs to essentially be a self-contained movie it's like a fractal version of the story
00:40:18.740 so every scene needs to have a beginning middle and end and a director who actually really gets
00:40:25.480 this is quentin tarantino a lot of people don't like quentin tarantino but if you look at his
00:40:29.540 scripts he's a dynamite writer for that reason where if you separate the scenes they're almost
00:40:35.360 like self-contained movies or self-contained plays in a sense so where you go wrong in movies and
00:40:41.840 marvel movies do this all the time obviously but even other independent movies do this where it's
00:40:47.120 like you have scenes where there's nothing really happening it needs to be like a mini conflict a
00:40:52.360 mini conflict that's resolved and you need to tie these mini conflicts together but if you have a
00:40:57.880 movie where it's just you know an exposition scene and then another exposition scene and then a scene
00:41:04.840 where it's like well i need this scene for character development but it's like but what is
00:41:08.820 happening and so you watch a movie like this and there's a lot of and it's not just a marvel thing
00:41:14.060 a dc thing a disney thing independent movies are rotten with this problem where it's like you have
00:41:21.040 scenes where i don't know what's happening i don't know what this movie is about i don't know where
00:41:25.540 this is going and i don't know why i'm supposed to be watching this and you'll get that feeling
00:41:30.640 within the first 20 minutes of a movie and even you can tell a movie that's really stylistic and
00:41:36.780 confusing that still captures like memento is a great movie where as as weird and trippy and
00:41:44.520 mind-bending as it is the scenes make sense there's conflicts that lead to the next thing
00:41:49.460 and then there's a problem that's resolved but movies like this that are too stylized and too
00:41:54.820 kind of up their own ass and pretentious if you watch them and you notice that you're not having
00:42:00.180 a good time watching it and you're just not interested that's why and a lot of hacks will 0.99
00:42:06.580 try and do that and they think if they just write insanity or a man losing his mind then they that's
00:42:12.720 just again an easy golden ticket to be taken seriously and i just reject that and i've been 0.99
00:42:18.740 sick of that for the longest time and i don't just people don't be fooled by this shit especially if 0.98
00:42:23.720 you're just a god-fearing white man like me it's very easy to get sucked into moody movies that 0.99
00:42:30.300 like look like they're deep and they look like they got a strange visual style to them but it
00:42:36.540 just doesn't work but you know who gets it actually is wes anderson a wes anderson movie
00:42:41.220 is even though you think it's over stylized a lot of people will be a lot of people criticize
00:42:48.040 as wes anderson and say he insists upon himself and that is true i get it it's wes anderson movies
00:42:55.900 are a lot of wes anderson the darjeeling limited life aquatic you know you know what you're getting
00:43:03.160 however and more so as time goes on like the last five years of them have been like off the rails
00:43:10.340 but but if you watch these movies you will be engaged you will be it will it'll fly by because
00:43:17.600 he actually knows very very well how to construct a scene and construct an exchange of dialogue
00:43:24.520 and another guy like woody allen knows how to do this i'm not a huge woody allen fan but
00:43:28.600 you know martin scorsese all the great guys they get that and it does and you they they can take
00:43:33.440 that and make a movie for five thousand dollars and it would still engage you and that's why i
00:43:38.400 didn't like this movie and the other thing i didn't like about inside was okay so the whole
00:43:43.720 premise of the the crux of it is that the alarm system goes off and then as he's there the heat
00:43:50.440 starts to rise right so it's getting hotter and hotter and hotter in there and then it switches
00:43:55.340 over it starts getting colder and colder and colder and it's just breaking his mind and in
00:44:01.320 the trailer you're watching and you're thinking is this a cat and mouse game like is this whole
00:44:05.680 thing a prison set up by the owner of the apartment right and then it becomes clear that
00:44:12.920 it's not it's literally just he he broke it's it's a random thing it's a glitch and so the movie
00:44:20.000 isn't that this is sort of a game that a sadistic art owner is playing some billionaires playing 0.73
00:44:27.180 with a criminal then it's it's just random bullshit and then if that's the case then who 0.96
00:44:32.640 cares because it's not building to anything yeah he just kind of gets out of the conflict yeah 0.94
00:44:38.060 unless like because it's not man versus man it's not really man versus self it could be like man
00:44:45.920 versus machine man versus society but it sounds like they're not building that at all like it's
00:44:52.760 just like it it it it it wants to be subversive by playing it up as one thing and then pulling
00:44:58.360 the rug out saying aha no it's just a computer glitch so wait is this an anti is it anti bill
00:45:03.260 gates like what's going on and it's it's not a character because as you're watching this if you
00:45:07.660 do have the if you're a person who likes to write or craft stories you'll notice a dozen places where
00:45:13.280 this could have been a really interesting movie because this is a guy who's obsessed with art
00:45:18.100 and he's essentially trapped in an art museum so maybe there's a story in there where he like
00:45:23.080 tries to utilize his knowledge of art to get out his guy's obsessed with art with painting with
00:45:29.580 canvas and things like that so maybe i don't know what it would be but using that obsession
00:45:33.860 to try and get out of his situation but he realizes that his knowledge of art has no practical use
00:45:41.260 and that he just ends up destroying the art in the process that could be something that's that's
00:45:47.240 a story that's something i just made up now but at least i think you could spin that up into
00:45:51.840 something interesting or if it turns out that it is just sort of a cat and mouse thing and that
00:45:56.960 this is like a it's a man trying to uh the uh here's one a guy a billionaire a man where money
00:46:07.000 is no object all he engineers a situation where he entices a guy to steal the art and forces the
00:46:15.300 guy to go insane and destroy the art so in a sense it's a a grand gesture for this this billionaire
00:46:23.040 to destroy watch his art be destroyed and then there's cameras everywhere right maybe that's the
00:46:27.420 story it's a com there's so many commentaries you can make on the appreciation of art and the art
00:46:33.800 world it did none of that and also dumb things would occur like um for example like the alarm
00:46:43.640 goes off and then it stops but then there's no no one checking in on the apartment there's no
00:46:50.380 cameras in the apartment either like that that's that's insane that i have an alarm in my house
00:46:55.720 i get a notice every time the alarm goes off even for a second um so the fact that he wouldn't have
00:47:02.180 that doesn't make sense there's a point where when he's losing his mind he like sets off the
00:47:07.360 uh sprinkler system he makes a torch like a caveman he's becoming like a caveman as it goes
00:47:13.720 so we'll get to that in a second but um he lights a torch and sets off the fire alarm for no reason
00:47:19.840 it's not really explained why he does that and then the place floods right and then he's just
00:47:25.160 walking he's wading around in water and then after he sets off the alarm he's banging on the door
00:47:30.900 begging for help i'm like i don't know i don't know why those things follow but then also the
00:47:35.840 fact that the fire department wouldn't show up doesn't make sense to me right yeah like if you
00:47:41.540 set off a fire alarm but there's going to be people who show up it's the building will be 0.84
00:47:45.920 alert and he can see through the cameras that there's like a front desk guy and shit so it's 0.95
00:47:50.960 like i don't understand what like you need to exist in the not real world for you so why write 0.70
00:47:58.620 it that way also like this is just kind of a nitpick but like even a very fancy condo you
00:48:05.320 can't have like two feet of water on the floor and not get leaks on the floor below i'm sorry
00:48:09.160 yeah so so the neighbors are gonna know that the neighbors are gonna know that that happened
00:48:13.880 That happened to my wife's aunts recently where they left the sink running and it was just like an inch or two centimeters of water throughout the thing. 0.91
00:48:24.420 And it ruined two floors beneath them.
00:48:29.120 And they had to bring people in to rip it up.
00:48:31.780 And now the insurance is involved in everything.
00:48:33.460 And again, people are saying, oh, you need to turn your brain off. 1.00
00:48:37.240 That's what fucking morons will tell you. 1.00
00:48:39.660 They'll say, turn your brain off. 1.00
00:48:40.680 Well, I don't want to make myself retarded to enjoy something. 0.97
00:48:43.880 I can enjoy simple things. 0.92
00:48:46.000 There could be simple, elegant, intelligently crafted things.
00:48:50.680 There's simple movies and simple premises that are executed very, very well.
00:48:55.100 Again, you know, Bullet Train. 0.99
00:48:56.620 It's a silly, dumb movie, but it knows what it is, 0.99
00:48:59.960 and it makes sense within the framework it sets up. 0.99
00:49:04.580 And I guess this is what I was trying to get at,
00:49:07.180 if we want to take this to serious town,
00:49:10.140 is that I don't like how people try and depict madness.
00:49:13.880 like if you there's this idea that if you're locked away and you you're left your own devices
00:49:21.380 and you just go insane the first thing you do is you become a neanderthal and you like build a
00:49:28.920 shrine like i've seen so many movies where the the symbolism they use is like this guy lost his
00:49:36.220 mind so he's just gonna start worshiping stuff in like a shamanistic way it doesn't follow that
00:49:41.980 that would happen right no no not at all like if i if i'm locked away for like a year it's not
00:49:49.860 obvious to me that i would like just make up a new god and i would just like and with this movie
00:49:56.100 within four days he's built a shrine that he's placing bolts on he's he's drawing all over the
00:50:02.460 walls this esoteric symbolism he's kneeling before it and crying i'm like that people just
00:50:08.740 the first thing you do when you lose your mind isn't just to invent your own religion
00:50:12.760 on day two on day two or even on day a thousand like i don't think people do that but that that's 0.91
00:50:20.600 the top of every screenwriter's mind where it's it's it's like a much more retarded version of 1.00
00:50:26.160 like lord of the flies like right away you become a savage and smear shit on yourself 0.98
00:50:30.420 i don't think you do that but that's just bad writing that to me that's not a bad plot that's 0.99
00:50:37.660 maybe it's maybe it's the another case of like gay jewish writers assuming that everybody else 0.91
00:50:43.700 is like them it's like i don't know about you but the minute anybody turns the lights off my house 1.00
00:50:47.380 i immediately start smearing shit all over my body and masturbating out the window his projection 0.99
00:50:53.040 right yeah but then it's a willem dafoe movie because now he can walk around without his shirt 0.99
00:50:58.400 on and he can lose a bunch of weight for the role and so other actors look at that like wow look at
00:51:03.520 his commitments here's a guy who can like make his face look pained and wretched finally found
00:51:09.440 a justification for all his aids yes oh man anyway that's my review of insight like i would
00:51:18.420 skip it i was i was very frustrated all throughout it uh that's a shame because i was really looking 0.84
00:51:26.960 forward to that but that it sounds like a retarded film actually so yeah so i got another thing to 0.73
00:51:34.680 show you here and this i just saw this before we started and um i'm gonna read it to you and i want 0.78
00:51:42.880 to get your take on it as i'm reading it we have not reviewed this beforehand so this might not
00:51:47.880 work at all but we're gonna go through this so this is in scientific american the title it's
00:51:56.240 it's under the category of mathematics.
00:51:58.500 The title is a number system invented by Inuit school children will make
00:52:04.260 its Silicon Valley debut.
00:52:08.660 Like there's a lot in that title that give you pause.
00:52:13.060 So a new number system invented by kids will make its Silicon Valley debut.
00:52:20.380 That just like,
00:52:21.800 if it was a new number system,
00:52:22.880 why would it make its debut in startups?
00:52:25.080 Whatever.
00:52:25.220 subheading here is math is called the universal language but a unique dialect but a unique
00:52:33.040 dialect is being reborn how does that make sense did they invent it or was it
00:52:41.000 so because that's now it's being reborn it's it's a universal language but here's a new unique
00:52:47.680 dialect well that could only make it worse like we i'm not trying to do a tower of babble thing 0.98
00:52:53.580 here but if we're starting with a perfect universal language a new patois cannot do anything but fuck 0.77
00:53:02.800 with it right yeah it can only make things more confusing and less effective okay so let's just 0.86
00:53:09.940 read this maybe we're wrong right here in the remote arctic almost 30 years ago a group of
00:53:19.400 inuit middle school students and their teacher invented the western hemisphere's first new number
00:53:25.460 system in more than a century why right um the kaktovic numerals named after the alaskan village
00:53:36.900 where they were created sure looked utterly different from the decimal system numerals
00:53:44.020 and functioned differently too.
00:53:46.400 But they were uniquely suited
00:53:48.060 for quick visual arithmetic
00:53:49.700 using the traditional Inuit oral counting system
00:53:52.680 and they swiftly spread throughout the region.
00:53:54.900 So it's worse math, right?
00:53:58.480 It's basically, we have this thing called math.
00:54:01.000 We're actually going to step down
00:54:03.040 and do maybe elevate counting on your fingers, right?
00:54:07.940 That's what this is.
00:54:08.900 uh in you uh now with support from silicon valley they will soon be available on smartphones and
00:54:17.940 computers why creating a bridge for the cactovic numerals to cross into the digital realm this is
00:54:25.540 so dumb it's and it's like it's a base 20 number system which is like fundamentally i get it like
00:54:33.060 if you're inuit and you're effectively illiterate and you're used to counting on your fingers and 0.98
00:54:37.220 toes it'd be easy to start with a base 20 number system but like and i'm not saying i think a base
00:54:43.400 eight number system is probably better than base 10 we use base 10 but like what makes more sense
00:54:48.920 is if you want to i don't know like use a keyboard right use a base 10 number system why because the
00:54:54.740 entire world uses it and the point to number systems like you said earlier is it's a language
00:54:59.640 it's communication so unless you only ever intend to communicate with other illiterate seal hunters
00:55:05.840 then why would this matter and if you do only intend to communicate with other illiterate seal 0.86
00:55:11.160 hunters why the fuck would it need to be on wikipedia because you apparently don't even 0.71
00:55:15.600 have the internet like this doesn't make any it makes no sense it's like it's like it's like it's 0.90
00:55:21.340 like a boutique interest article blown up onto the global scale and it just it's this is embarrassing
00:55:27.500 for scientific america it's it's this is for the scientific american now you're very passionate
00:55:34.520 about this you're a man of numbers you're also a man of letters i got all kinds of letters i'm 1.00
00:55:39.380 fucking loaded over here with letters and those letters are g a y fuck fuck you fuck you god damn 1.00
00:55:48.880 it and hold on i'm looking at the bottom here sorry i missed a bit a i d s okay but but the 1.00
00:55:56.980 numbers are six nine four two zero in uh 0.5 inches
00:56:04.700 those are the numbers i got numbers letters and units i'm a man of numbers and letters
00:56:14.020 and they are 0.5 inches
00:56:16.720 all right so you're gonna love this part okay the alaska and this just if you if you wanted
00:56:26.960 more evidence how prescient you are this basically locks in everything you just said
00:56:31.760 the alaskan inuit language known as inukpiak boo uses an oral counting system built around the
00:56:39.940 human body called it because it's because they didn't even invent that i've read about this
00:56:45.480 before like a base 20 number systems were common in antiquity because it's essentially you counting 0.99
00:56:49.500 your fingers and toes like this is this is some fucking babylonian shit built around the human 0.99
00:56:54.240 body is such a nicely elevated way of saying what we all know they mean yeah which is you're 0.99
00:57:00.300 counting on your fingers quantities are first described in groups of 5 10 and 15 and then it
00:57:07.220 sets a 20 the system quote is really is really the count on your hands and then count on your toes 0.98
00:57:14.260 says new luck took maggie pollock who taught with the kaktovic numerals in some fucking city a city 0.65
00:57:21.760 300 miles northwest of where the numerals were invented and then they go into just describing 0.85
00:57:26.300 i'm not going to read the whole thing but they basically say uh oh here's a quote when my mother
00:57:31.940 made me a parka she used her thumb and her middle finger to measure how many times she would be able
00:57:37.000 to cut the material pollock said before yardsticks or rulers our people use their hands and fingers
00:57:43.360 to calculate or measure what what do you mean before yardsticks and rulers like pause there
00:57:49.660 like before like like these were invented in the 1980s that's like saying before antibiotics we
00:57:56.540 usually just died how long have we in the west had rulers right how long like even if we didn't
00:58:04.060 have a consistent measure we had a a system of measure that might have been unique regionally 0.97
00:58:09.600 but we had such a thing as a system of measure and they didn't do it until what um 30 fucking
00:58:17.040 years ago well like the foot is kind of i guess based on a foot but that doesn't mean you can't
00:58:24.880 then put that on a stick and mark the stick with charcoal and then use the stick that's a ruler 0.62
00:58:29.920 there's systems of measurement and then there's such a thing as a fucking ruler so the fact that 0.99
00:58:34.320 you i mean you had your system of measurement you could have made a ruler out of a fucking 0.98
00:58:38.180 seal bone or whatever like there's such a thing as a foot and then there is measuring everything 0.97
00:58:42.700 with your feed and everyone has different size feed so your entire civilization if you want to 0.97
00:58:48.380 call it that is fucked up and doesn't work yeah it's like you know not having a measure of time 0.99
00:58:54.100 like everyone just having a different definition of hour it doesn't fucking work also i noticed 0.99
00:59:00.280 this was posted on april 10th and actually in the first week of april i measured a garden plot 0.82
00:59:06.020 by taking long steps and so this is actually cultural appropriation because i invented this
00:59:12.120 this was my invention you know it got me thinking though too and uh this will probably segue into
00:59:17.600 our book talk but it got me thinking that unless a development or an innovation is organically
00:59:25.480 generated within the society or civilization or people itself they they kind of lose right so
00:59:32.220 like the idea that there's lots of societies and civilizations throughout the world that kind of
00:59:37.280 came up with numbers the greeks we use of an arabic hindu system that's what's known as like
00:59:43.660 the indians got numbers they didn't need to be taught numbers they didn't copy the numbers like 0.70
00:59:49.360 it made sense they innovated it and they developed it and then but then you have people like this
00:59:54.860 where it's like they they never came up with numbers themselves or they never used it it never
01:00:01.540 generated up through them in a sense so they're only copying but that means that they can never
01:00:07.120 advanced they could only copy and you know we talked about this before with the industrial
01:00:10.860 revolution that the industrial revolution seemed to generate organically within the european
01:00:17.620 specifically sort of like the anglo and there's a few others too but like automation and the
01:00:23.640 industrial revolution is an outgrowth of this idea of systematizing things right you want to
01:00:29.380 systematize you want to standardize and then you want to multiply and you always want to improve
01:00:33.920 how can we make things faster and that led to this thing that kind of came up through our soul
01:00:38.980 that generated over hundreds of thousands of years into this thing called the industrial revolution
01:00:43.780 but then for the people who didn't do that they're just kind of copying it but that means they can
01:00:49.260 only do it wrong that's kind of what like india did you know i mean like they didn't come up
01:00:53.780 through them so they're just trying to keep up the space race is another example like why did
01:00:57.640 we want to go to the moon well i mean there's geopolitical reasons but it's like the only 0.99
01:01:02.760 reason indian wants to go to the moon is to keep up with everyone else so they're always going to 0.99
01:01:07.460 do it for fucked up stupid reasons they're never going to be good at it it's going to be like a 1.00
01:01:11.680 parody of development and so just like this inuit thing is like a parody of a civilization it's like 0.99
01:01:17.740 oh you do numbers well we kind of did our own numbers what do you think about that i'm like well
01:01:21.620 well you can't actually do it and every time you do it it's going to be a a dumb useless version
01:01:27.540 of it and you might even end up hurting yourself your idea that we need to have our own to kind of 0.81
01:01:32.820 prove ourselves that's going to hurt you in the long run because now you have uh keeping up with 0.95
01:01:37.880 the jones's number system that fucks you that's what i was gonna say keeping up with the jones's
01:01:43.420 it's almost kind of petty or naive treating a number system as a cultural possession in the 0.98
01:01:51.260 same way like it's your like the white white people don't spice season they meet type thing 0.56
01:01:56.160 right and it's like first of all your seasoning is some weird orange chemical in a plastic jug 0.66
01:02:02.180 so it's worse but also you didn't even invent it um but i mean who cares right because it's just
01:02:09.800 seasoning but again the importance of a number system to your society and your your society's
01:02:16.180 interaction with other societies and civilizations it's so fucking critical it's like i mean we always
01:02:21.260 joke about this that i mean they didn't have a written language and we essentially had to help 0.56
01:02:25.240 them make their own written language which they're now very proud of but they didn't have a written
01:02:29.220 language and it's like at some point you have to just say you don't get a written language you get
01:02:34.300 english here it is take it and then please shut up and the same thing with the number system like
01:02:39.300 i'm not we're not saying base 10 is the best but it's the network effect you have to use base 10 0.84
01:02:45.060 everybody shut the fuck up earth uses a base 10 number system i'm sorry you don't like it
01:02:50.600 that's what we use okay because we have to do online bank transactions like 0.98
01:02:56.460 it's like i was trying to make a case that if you are a people or a civilization in the 21st
01:03:04.860 century and you're you still haven't got on the bandwagon with math and language even if you have 0.98
01:03:11.900 your kind of own twist to it if you're still like holding the flame for some old bullshit like 1.00
01:03:17.780 just die like i don't say i want to kill you but like you have there has to be some 1.00
01:03:24.740 eugenic phenomena that just says like you're a failure you fail to the people like it's our 1.00
01:03:31.320 fault in a previous age we when we had our balls we would be conquering and wiping these people 0.98
01:03:36.640 out one or the other or both but now we just let them well we fucking encourage them you know like 1.00
01:03:43.340 this is in scientific american do you think these literal inuit children would have their dumb 1.00
01:03:48.560 bullshit broadcast to the world if it weren't for the fucking nominally white american owners of 1.00
01:03:54.560 scientific american like it's just that's why i said at the beginning it's just embarrassing 1.00
01:03:58.820 that this is what they've been this is how low they have been brought to publish this
01:04:03.400 it's hard in our scene uh in what we might call the distant right because we're so friendly towards
01:04:10.400 tradition in history especially the stuff we've been talking about in our previous series on world
01:04:15.920 history and sort of barbarians especially the um middle eastern one we did about the disappearing
01:04:22.320 religions and cults of the middle east and i think we feel that we're the torchbearers for
01:04:29.120 tradition and antiquity and as we should but i've always kind of grappled with this because i don't
01:04:36.600 believe everything old is good you know i mean like i do believe that there's a lot of ancient
01:04:41.700 traditions and like shamanistic stuff and i got nothing against paganism on the whole but there's 0.99
01:04:47.760 a lot of pagan shit that's just fucking stupid and useless and yeah there's a yeah and i was 0.98
01:04:53.260 saying about the huns like i'm i'm glad that they're gone and i wish they had been gone sooner 1.00
01:04:56.620 like most of these barbarians were barbarians most of them you know were called savages for 1.00
01:05:01.040 a reason and it was justified and and likewise with a lot of the stuff in antiquity like we can 0.95
01:05:06.080 say we're the we're the you know carrying the torch but we're carrying the torch to the extent
01:05:10.840 that a thousand years ago we've synthesized it into something superior and now we have this little 0.92
01:05:15.520 this little um uh uh fuck i've lost my train of thought you bring it you bring it forward with 0.93
01:05:22.860 you this tiny little piece but the rest of it is gone and that's actually good that it's gone 0.98
01:05:26.480 well also i'll give you an example of there's all kinds of traditional things that
01:05:30.460 we i think are just useless for example in japan you know the geishas binding their feet 0.99
01:05:36.780 that's fucking stupid there's no reason to do this it's weird and it's sexual in a way 0.99
01:05:43.120 that my western anglo mind can't even comprehend i it seems like this is something that turns people 1.00
01:05:49.100 on and i think you're rationalizing yeah you're rationalizing it right and it's like from their
01:05:53.420 perspective that's you would never get on their side and you're you never will right because from
01:05:58.700 perspective of an edo period japanese person foot binding has cultural and sentimental significance
01:06:03.840 and the rationality is completely irrelevant and we have our own you know our own sacred cows in
01:06:09.140 our society but the point is is we are saying you are inferior and you're saying we're inferior
01:06:15.880 and now we're gonna fight and we won and now you are a colony of our society that's why you wear
01:06:22.640 uh button-up shirts and shoes with laces okay because we won the war so and that's why you
01:06:29.860 use a base 10 number system and that's why global trade is conducted in u.s dollars like
01:06:34.420 we won this is why i always try and add the dimension of evolutionary biology to this like
01:06:41.500 i think and this is something i always name drop this guy but this is something i liked about
01:06:45.700 edward dutton when he was making the case we discussed this in his book spiteful mutants
01:06:50.240 where he said religion if you look at it from a non-spiritual perspective religion itself
01:06:56.680 it can be seen as a collection of superior adaptive behaviors that christianity specifically
01:07:05.440 like if you look at the way it tells you to live your life and be fruitful and multiply and be
01:07:12.020 community focused like there's a lot of tenets in christianity that would actually be just
01:07:16.660 evolutionarily beneficial that that would make the group survive longer and so i think there
01:07:24.100 is a way to view this up there's a way to view tradition as something that makes the people the
01:07:29.980 group the race the whatever more able to withstand entropy i think christianity and we've covered this
01:07:36.420 on the show before despite what people might like or dislike about it i think on a very baseline
01:07:41.160 level it allowed people to adapt to a very hostile changing world and survive in a way
01:07:46.560 that other like shamanistic religions could not and the idea what we were trying to express by
01:07:52.300 discussing even the mongols that a lot of these groups abandoned shamanism because it just had
01:07:58.740 no utility anymore is basically appealing to the gods for luck and the only people still doing that 0.96
01:08:04.380 are the fucking chinese the only people who are like everything we do is luck red's lucky how about 1.00
01:08:10.440 everything's red do you feel lucky when that live leaked logo shows up over your fucking life 0.99
01:08:16.980 i don't think so so i guess red didn't help you i guess having another paw waving on that 0.99
01:08:23.620 fucking cat didn't save you from that machine specifically designed to chew up chinese people 0.99
01:08:29.720 why do you have that machine sitting around and why are you standing by it 1.00
01:08:34.160 it's not even for my benefit anymore i've seen it too much i'm dead sexually because i've seen 0.98
01:08:40.220 too many chinese people ripped limb from limb in an empty room how many fucking lively videos have 0.97
01:08:47.260 you seen where a guy dies and no one else is around what a weird way to live your life anyway 0.98
01:08:52.220 i digress that's how all the lucky stuff works it doesn't make you lucky it just puts all the
01:08:58.560 bad luck on somebody else yeah and they still like it and they still love it yeah but like i'm i'm
01:09:05.740 kind of groping in the dark here but i don't have the exact answer i don't have the schematic here
01:09:11.780 but i do think there's a way for us to look at what traditions should be brought forward by what
01:09:18.240 makes our community more strong more coherent there there's traditions that do not materialistically
01:09:26.960 it could be spiritually to increase your appreciation of your ancestors of you know
01:09:32.880 your children your group dynamic i think there's things like that like i don't i'm not making a
01:09:37.960 rationalist case i'm making i see spirituality but it's like it benefits the group and you as
01:09:44.120 an individual as well evolutionarily i do think it's definitely useful for a lot of um a lot of
01:09:51.160 traditions and things that we would do especially things that we still do that we can analyze them
01:09:56.620 and say this is the utility even down like second third order this is how it affects society in the
01:10:01.900 long run totally helpful to do that we start looking at the past and try to bring things
01:10:06.560 forward and then we start to lose context where you know maybe i've never experienced a society
01:10:11.400 where that tradition was common and then you want to judge other people's traditions from the same
01:10:15.920 period and it starts to get hazy i'm saying at that point you have to look at all of those
01:10:21.780 traditions over centuries as like a web or like a like a historical organism and you're a member
01:10:28.860 of one organism and even if some of your traditions are fucked up you still have to pull the whole 0.87
01:10:34.980 organism forward and the problem with white people is we tend to want to we tend to want to grab other 0.93
01:10:39.800 people's traditions and integrate them and synthesize them with ours instead of protecting 0.98
01:10:43.060 our own yeah so like this this exact bullshit like look how wonderful this base 20 number system is 0.99
01:10:49.140 from these dumb kids like no it's not wonderful at all look how wonderful western science and math 1.00
01:10:54.020 are for fuck's sake like yeah and even that the idea of like reaching out and trying to grab 0.99
01:10:59.180 things and incorporate them that is like a western european thing that we've always liked to do and 0.92
01:11:05.720 our problem is we need to figure out how to do that and not lose ourselves in the process yeah
01:11:11.120 like to some extent that nature is is it has assisted us it hasn't been that i mean historically
01:11:18.000 i think it wasn't that much of a detriment i think there was a period probably for centuries where
01:11:22.680 that was a driving factor that was pushing us ahead of the rest of the planet but right now
01:11:28.060 it has it's been a corrupting force so yeah that's why i think you know people think this
01:11:33.120 is a silly thing to say but i'm like that's why i i look at space colonization i'm like well that
01:11:38.700 seems to be the obvious thing just that that speaks to my spirit and that would not speak to
01:11:44.780 the traditionalist part of me or the spiritual part of me but it just it makes sense in my soul
01:11:51.580 that of course we'll have some a butlerian jihad like it makes it makes sense to me like well of 0.81
01:11:57.240 course we would go to fucking mars and and take this thing that this project that we've got the 0.85
01:12:02.900 civilizational project and transplant it there and see what happens and make it work but i don't know 0.96
01:12:08.600 like some people disagree i get why they would disagree especially the more religiously inclined
01:12:12.960 people they think that's satanic uh i i know it's it's pro i know it's probably going to be a
01:12:18.720 disaster i know it's not going to be easy i know we might lose our souls there but like
01:12:23.080 it just seems obvious that that's that's what we're destined to do and it seems obvious to me
01:12:30.560 that other races like black people don't feel that way it doesn't make sense to them that we
01:12:36.080 would even be interested in space even neil degrasse tyson i think doesn't get it 0.99
01:12:41.480 neil degrasse tyson who thinks space is stupid i've talked to him neil degrasse tyson who makes 0.86
01:12:49.840 more money than anyone in his family historically and just wants to keep his job so he's feigning 1.00
01:12:54.280 interest in space he actually does not care at all neil degrasse tyson just wants big bitches 0.99
01:13:00.860 and everyone in his family wants big bitches and he rolled the dice and i mean that literally 0.99
01:13:08.340 Neil deGrasse Tyson was in a dice game 0.99
01:13:10.500 and they're
01:13:11.460 with Jason Statham
01:13:13.100 and they're deciding
01:13:14.540 and he picked space
01:13:16.480 he picked astronomy 1.00
01:13:17.440 to get the big bitches 1.00
01:13:19.600 and he's the only one that's worked for 1.00
01:13:21.560 they tried 0.99
01:13:23.100 his fucking cousin was Bastiat 1.00
01:13:26.060 they thought maybe you can paint your way to pussy 1.00
01:13:27.980 can't do it 1.00
01:13:29.560 greater and worse men have tried
01:13:32.380 the worst get away with it
01:13:33.700 but it's not because of the painting
01:13:35.040 it's because of the rape
01:13:36.800 but a lot of people don't know that they think if you if you're walking out of the paintbrush
01:13:41.400 that's carte blanche to rape in ohio in ohio in florida in the district of columbia those are
01:13:52.180 the as the as the west collapses the number of states on that list will expand yeah read the
01:13:57.900 legislation that's being pushed through look at what bernie sanders is really bundling in with 0.91
01:14:04.940 that fucking highways bill you got like a 300 page omnibus and about two kilo of it is just 0.99
01:14:11.240 rape rape rape all caps no spaces 1.00
01:14:15.320 it'd be funny if bernie sanders tried remember that fucking that manifesto that black guy wrote 1.00
01:14:22.380 that schizophrenic where he just said the word nigger 20 000 times yeah i love that that was 0.99
01:14:28.660 one of my favorites imagine bernie sanders tries to slip that into like an epa bill 0.99
01:14:32.900 people don't know what's going on in there i can't wait for demented bernie hour in 0.61
01:14:43.600 2027 you know everyone talks about the boomers dying off and they're hoping that you know the 0.58
01:14:49.760 everything can do a hard reset um i think that might not turn out very well but we're in the 0.83
01:14:55.580 peak era of watching like boomers with alzheimer's try to make decisions we know they're not giving
01:15:01.800 up the good seats a lot of them aren't retiring they're hanging on to the bitter end you're gonna
01:15:06.320 have a lot of 95 guys making decisions yep you see that somebody posted um here or np or somebody
01:15:14.080 about um that this year just in 2023 so far uh purchases by boomers home purchases by boomers
01:15:22.760 have outstripped purchases by millennials how the fuck they're actually buying they're buying 0.99
01:15:26.980 more homes than us that is fuck fuck you buddy a new report says baby boomers are the big movers 1.00
01:15:35.220 in today's housing market the national association of realtors says people aged 58 to 76 now make up 1.00
01:15:41.220 the highest share of buyers and sellers talking so for a while it was millennials were the driving
01:15:45.940 force behind the housing market that's all we talked about from 2014 to 2022 and that was because
01:15:51.620 millennials in their 20s and 30s at that perfect age to buy their first home but with softening
01:15:57.060 shift with the changing market and now chances are if you're a little bit older you might already
01:16:03.380 have a house and can tap into some nice equity to navigate the current market in fact nar says
01:16:09.860 that right now baby boomers make up 39 of all buyers right now millennials are at 28 gen xers
01:16:18.340 We haven't forgotten about you, 24%.
01:16:20.880 And in fact, according to the study, Gen Xers had the highest household income of just over $114,000. 0.83
01:16:28.600 But it is the baby boomers who are on the move right now in this current market. 0.97
01:16:33.460 That's preposterous. 1.00
01:16:35.900 Like, I don't know what to do when I hear that stuff.
01:16:39.040 Everyone says the same thing. 1.00
01:16:40.400 They said, that's fucking ridiculous. 1.00
01:16:42.420 But I don't know. 1.00
01:16:43.440 What do we do?
01:16:44.280 How do we get out of that?
01:16:45.700 Are they going to pass it off to their children? 0.70
01:16:47.460 probably not i don't get why if that was the case if boomers are buying up the property 0.59
01:16:52.300 to grant it to their families i'm like well that that might just wash right out that might be
01:16:59.380 exactly what we want because then you'll end up with a bunch of young homeowners
01:17:02.540 and then the boomers will have rode off into the sunset it as heroes right i don't i'm i don't know
01:17:10.880 if that's happening because if that's not happening then it's preposterous yeah because
01:17:16.180 and i think it might be that because knowing what i do about boomers they'll make a big purchase and 0.51
01:17:21.520 then blow it up well i was gonna say like oh well you know my my family's not doing that my my mom 0.77
01:17:28.160 sold her house i'm like oh yeah she sold her house and then uses the money to now go on a new
01:17:33.540 vacation every three weeks and she sold the house to a nigerian immigrant family jesus christ so
01:17:40.940 and that's there goes the neighborhood there goes the neighborhood you're the first one to sell it 0.75
01:17:48.020 and then you also tanked everyone else's real estate value because who wants to live next to 0.99
01:17:53.320 the family who's like beheading chickens in the fucking backyard go to markham sometime 0.98
01:17:58.100 go go to any of these terror rotten jurisdictions outside of toronto they call it the gta because 0.99
01:18:06.420 it does mean grand theft auto you go into mississauga you go into north york everyone's 0.97
01:18:11.960 arab and there's fucking corpses on the ground that being said i'm actively involved in city 0.98
01:18:16.840 council petitioning to allow us to slaughter chickens in the backyard because i want to do 0.99
01:18:21.760 that when i went to your house i said there goes the neighborhood yes everybody thought everybody 0.99
01:18:27.620 thinks that people people drive by on the highway and see me naked in the garden pulling up fucking 0.97
01:18:33.300 dandelions and say we got to get out of here he's playing a game of how many outhouses can he build 0.97
01:18:38.320 by this the curb because he lives out in the country he lives out by a highway he's trying 0.99
01:18:42.800 to line it so you got to walk up to the street to take a shit that's a bad experience for the 0.99
01:18:47.800 shitter that's a bad experience for the commuter that's a bad experience for the lord jesus christ 0.99
01:18:52.900 i was trying to get that bullet out of that stump and i was just i had the stump at the end of the 0.64
01:18:58.340 driveway and i'm just chopping very slowly staring directly at drivers as they pass
01:19:03.260 and you see the same like they're coming to see you now now now what's this relationship 1.00
01:19:08.540 what's this fucking parasocial horse shit that you've birthed into the world it's been so we're 0.96
01:19:15.940 gonna use that as a jumping off point to discuss this book um this is a book that i really really 0.99
01:19:22.400 enjoyed um and we're continuing in our uh series on world history and we're going back further and
01:19:30.140 further and further if people have kind of noticed we've been inching back further and further in
01:19:34.580 time we started with the american revolution in a sense um so this one we're going all the way
01:19:40.720 back to the stone age and i wasn't sure about this because i found it interesting i wanted to go as
01:19:46.780 far back as we could to weave a more vibrant tapestry of human history but i wasn't sure
01:19:53.440 if i could make it relatable because that's one thing we want to do with this series like why are 0.96
01:19:58.460 people why am i talking to this am i just reciting facts about stone age art no one gives a shit
01:20:02.920 about but i found a few through lines here that i think are very relevant to what we were talking
01:20:08.780 about previously so the book is titled the lost civilizations of the stone age by richard
01:20:15.820 rudge leave um i got this my favorite used bookstore too i just grabbed it off the shelf
01:20:20.820 i did no research into this it just i saw it on the shelf it spoke to me i grabbed it it could
01:20:26.740 have been awful i took a chance and i really really liked it and what he's going to do in
01:20:32.280 this book is we're going deep in history we're talking about our prehistoric artifacts and
01:20:38.080 we'll get into this a bit when uh next episode i speak to a philosopher cat in the interview
01:20:46.140 section but we kind of discussed this with the huns that the further you go back in time
01:20:51.260 into the bronze age even a lot of the history is speculative you're piecing together a lot of
01:20:57.600 disjointed things and trying to craft a narrative through that there's a lot of
01:21:01.600 big mysteries that we just don't have any answers to um but what this story with this book rather
01:21:07.880 did was it recontextualized a lot of things and um it's a fairly recent book and it was
01:21:13.940 like the one we talked about the huns uh in the last episode it's saying that you know we had
01:21:18.780 one idea about this group of people and historians have been clinging to this wrong idea for
01:21:25.960 generations and that they're to to recontextualize history takes a lot um and we're going to talk
01:21:34.080 with this next episode
01:21:35.340 when we talk about Atlantis,
01:21:36.900 so everyone stay tuned for that.
01:21:39.000 But a good example would be,
01:21:42.820 we discussed Graham Hancock before
01:21:44.880 and Gobekli Tepe.
01:21:50.640 The construction of Gobekli Tepe
01:21:52.760 raises many questions.
01:21:55.080 We have a 14,000-year-old structure
01:21:57.180 that is considered
01:21:57.940 the oldest archaeological monument
01:21:59.880 ever discovered,
01:22:01.340 indicating an advanced civilization.
01:22:04.080 The complex was not damaged by earthquake or abandoned, but was buried in near perfect condition.
01:22:11.620 This is very unusual compared to other archaeological finds, since most comparable ancient runes have suffered considerable damage.
01:22:19.860 And this idea that's gaining traction in the historical community, and this is what I'm going to get into here, this is why I bring it up,
01:22:26.460 which is that human civilization reached far further back in time than we previously thought.
01:22:32.540 we thought human civilization happened at a certain point turns out it might have been tens
01:22:37.000 or hundreds of thousands or maybe even a million years before that and that that means that humans
01:22:42.740 were far more advanced in history and that is extremely relevant that changes how we look at
01:22:49.300 human history and and how we develop over time but for some reason the historical community has 0.94
01:22:55.900 its cold dead fucking hands locked on this one historical narrative and they're opposing the 0.91
01:23:01.700 people who are coming to the table with evidence they're coming here hat in hand and saying look 0.99
01:23:07.140 we found these prehistoric sites and we've carbon dated them and this looks like art it looks like
01:23:13.520 people were making art 50 000 years before they should have been making art which means that
01:23:19.600 humans were more intelligent way earlier than we thought and that changes our understanding of how
01:23:24.840 humans develop and which civilizations existed and maybe as credence to things we thought
01:23:30.720 were just mythology and just the invented whimsy of a few philosophers but i'm astounded that
01:23:39.240 academics and inquisitive minds just dismiss that out of hand well he doesn't say he of course he
01:23:46.760 doesn't say he has no evidence he has a 900 page book full of evidence it's the quality of the
01:23:52.420 evidence what about the quality of that evidence it's okay okay if it was that good you know we're
01:23:58.020 not geologists sitting here if it's that good why don't geologists look at it go he's right but
01:24:01.500 they do that's the point they do they all do no they don't all do some geologists who some
01:24:07.520 geologists who work with egyptologists say that shock is wrong we have a geologist on the line
01:24:12.120 why don't we ask him mark well we can have one guy's opinion we could also have other guys opinions
01:24:17.540 that we can get i mean this matter has been in the public domain since 1992 and i'm not a huge
01:24:23.640 grab hancock guy you know i think sometimes he's reaching because and we'll get to this in a second
01:24:28.880 a lot of these historians they like they like this idea of like a patient zero for civilization
01:24:34.300 they like that sort of like a tower of babel thing like there was this one great civilization
01:24:38.800 that fractured i don't believe that at all for the same reason i'm not a huge fan of the out of
01:24:44.620 africa theory i i am more friendly to the idea that our current human races let's call them
01:24:52.420 might have occurred simultaneously it doesn't necessarily need to be that there was one like
01:24:58.020 one single ancient human ancestor that fractured and spread out and that came from africa maybe
01:25:04.580 they another race of you know homo sapiens evolved on its own in the northern climates that would
01:25:12.020 align with the sort of hyperborean i'm not i'm getting into esoteric stuff here but i'm more
01:25:16.900 friendly to that this is what we'll get to in a second so the book the central theme that he
01:25:24.020 establishes very very early on is that we need to be more honest about our ancestors and be aware of
01:25:31.760 how what they did and how what they did still remains with us so the idea that you know the
01:25:39.060 things that our stone age and our neolithic and prehistoric ancestors did we when we imagine them
01:25:46.840 we have this sort of line of demarcation which is everything before this line they were savages 0.95
01:25:53.160 they were self-interested assholes and then some lightning struck and then civilization and society 0.95
01:25:59.720 started to develop but he's sort he's painting a different picture of history that no no during 1.00
01:26:06.340 these times we thought they were savages and they were just running around raping and clubbing each
01:26:11.060 other open clubbing each other's heads open in fact they were they were building a society they
01:26:17.400 were engaging in written language and um you know these things these cave paintings that we thought
01:26:23.360 were just you know the random right we thought they were just them trying to paint make mythology
01:26:30.580 no actually these might have been prehistoric what would eventually lead to hieroglyphics and
01:26:35.860 language and that these things that we're finding that our prehistoric ancestors did
01:26:40.460 weren't purposeless you know i mean and if they were doing things because they actually held
01:26:45.540 values and they held spirituality that means that you know this thing called civilization
01:26:52.060 reaches far far further back which is historically relevant so um and what's interesting is that
01:26:58.900 i'll read it right here he makes a case that i think a lot of our audience would be very very
01:27:03.520 friendly too he's making a case that people think that in the bronze age that there was ancient
01:27:10.820 egypt and we covered the bronze age in our series you know there's the bronze age there was egypt
01:27:15.780 there was all these uh civilizations in that mediterranean region and everything else was 0.96
01:27:21.060 fucking corrupt and savage especially europe they love telling stories that europe was full of 1.00
01:27:25.760 fucking loincloth rapists he's making a case that no actually if you look at old europe there's a 1.00
01:27:32.040 lot of evidence of more advanced civilization than you would think not only that it wasn't 1.00
01:27:39.380 civilizational uh aspects that they borrowed from somewhere else because that's the other thing they
01:27:44.120 say about ancient europeans that they had nothing going on until maybe some egyptian showed up and
01:27:50.540 they kind of stole that that flame of intelligence they're saying no no no these paleo paleolithic
01:27:56.760 europeans actually were make generating things up through themselves and that that throws a monkey
01:28:04.580 wrench into their entire worldview because they have to think that there's like this one invention
01:28:09.460 that spreads throughout the world but if if different races can come up with things independently
01:28:14.940 that kind of hurts i i think that hurts the out of africa theory in my opinion but
01:28:19.480 so he's got this line here it says it says tens of thousands of figurines and other representations
01:28:26.220 of the goddess along with highly ornate pottery have been unearthed from the archaeological sites
01:28:32.000 of old europe thus giving us a very detailed picture of the artistic and religious traditions
01:28:37.460 of these communities the holistic ideology of old europe was challenged and eventually overrun
01:28:42.640 by the forefathers of the indo-europeans the late neolithic kurgan culture that originated
01:28:48.020 on the steppes of russia um says i reject the assumption that civilization refers only to the
01:28:56.860 androcratic warrior societies the generative basis of any civilization lies in this degree
01:29:03.000 of artistic creation aesthetic achievements non-material values and freedom which make
01:29:08.940 life meaningful and enjoyable for all the citizens as well as a balance of powers between the six
01:29:14.640 between the sexes neolithic europe was a true civilization in the best meaning of the word
01:29:20.800 so he's painting a story here that it wasn't just you know outside of europe that they were
01:29:26.920 capable of having their own values and traditions which again shouldn't be that you know hostile to
01:29:35.300 historians but you'll see historians fight this idea tooth and nail and we'll get into why in a
01:29:40.560 second um there is an idea that's put forward in the book and i need to get this out of the way
01:29:46.200 because i was reading it and it sounded interesting and i brought it to the winner's trust in our chat
01:29:52.300 and it got some pushback by uh 40 because he's very knowledgeable about these you know these
01:29:59.180 ancient societies and the idea put forward in the book that in in these paleolithic times
01:30:07.300 they were very matriarchal that based on a lot of the uh findings that we've uncovered that they
01:30:14.980 worship the female body that they worship the female the divine feminine and the female form
01:30:21.520 and that women and the female form held a very very high place in society and this has been
01:30:29.600 re you know reworked i i think correctly by guys like 40 but also survive the jive who's a great
01:30:37.080 content creator who pushes back on this popular narrative that prehistoric europe was matriarchal
01:30:43.200 uh they they come to the table with evidence that no actually it was also obsessed with 0.62
01:30:48.180 you know phallic things and patriarchal ideas it wasn't just about the vagina it was the pain is
01:30:55.900 too right so i'm not trying to say that it was like a female dominated society and then the
01:31:02.920 indo-europeans showed up because that's the story being told in the book and it was put forward
01:31:07.420 by this um woman named uh gimboudis i guess i don't have to say it's maria gimboudis's new book
01:31:15.760 this monumental work is a wealth of information on the spirit of the people and their accomplishments
01:31:22.380 a civilization maria's called old europe they did not fight wars they did not murder or enslave
01:31:29.420 people or poison nature that is not her definition of a civilization
01:31:33.700 now i'd like to ask ruth barrett of circle of erati on stage who's going to sing an invocation
01:31:42.400 for us so this was was popular in the 70s and 80s he even makes a note in the book where he says
01:31:48.580 this proved very popular with feminists so i don't even think he was endorsing it he was just
01:31:53.240 saying this is kind of what they're talking about and and it was feminine until the evil
01:31:57.580 indo-europeans showed up these warriors and made it patriarchal so i don't believe that
01:32:02.980 but i do think uh their society was reproduction oriented that they were uh obsessed with sex and
01:32:12.380 reproduction um not just the feminine and maybe not just the male either because there is evidence
01:32:17.360 of them obsessed with the female form um like one example is that uh like they found these like
01:32:25.440 ancient neolithic villages where the graves weren't necessarily graves as we know them they
01:32:30.840 would put the corpses in like a giant egg and they think that the the purpose behind that and
01:32:36.120 the meaning behind that was to kind of put them back into something to emerge from later as sort
01:32:41.100 of this cyclical nature of life and death but they put the idea of corporeal reproduction at the
01:32:47.240 center of their society. So I think that's a fair way to look at it. You know, one example of the
01:32:52.260 advances of this age, it gives examples of how we know that we're we were more advanced than we
01:32:57.600 think. So one example was this, this village named Katal Hiyuk. They said that's one of the most
01:33:04.600 impressive cities of the Neolithic age, which had a population of around 7,000. Not too far from the
01:33:12.620 Turkish city of Konya lies one of the world's oldest known settlements. It's actually a
01:33:17.940 relatively recent discovery, a Neolithic town that in Turkish is known as Çatal Hayük.
01:33:25.240 What the original name of the settlement was is anybody's guess, as it was quite long
01:33:29.180 ago, 10,000 years ago, and no writing that may be able to describe the settlement has
01:33:34.780 to this day been found there. It's just so old, but also quite sophisticated. In fact,
01:33:42.420 many until its discovery didn't think that humans could have lived in such an organized way
01:33:46.700 so many thousands of years ago. And with a population of 7,000 going back thousands of
01:33:52.860 years they have evidence that even within this city they had this thing called specialization
01:33:57.560 so they had jobs they had people who just did one thing which flies in the face of this idea that
01:34:04.080 go back to ancient Europe and it was just hunter-gatherers. So and that also recontextualizes
01:34:11.040 our understanding of civilizations right now who pretty much are still hunter gatherers you know 0.99
01:34:17.500 what i mean yeah so there's this idea that oh they just haven't advanced enough motherfucker go back 0.92
01:34:22.880 like 3 000 years and in europe they still had you know advanced civilizations they just didn't have 0.86
01:34:28.100 the technology yet but they had this organization orientation that kind of came up within them that 0.99
01:34:34.940 they still could make societies different than like aboriginals in modern day north america
01:34:42.400 so i guess that was kind of what he was saying that you know these things that we think are
01:34:47.120 sort of modern innovations or modern orientations or collectivizations might go back to the ancient
01:34:54.100 world and i think if people have that in mind that's very very interesting and that means that
01:34:59.080 our behavior and that's again what he's making the book like the behavior of our ancestors
01:35:03.920 has a direct influence on what we are now and there wasn't this like sudden lightning strike
01:35:10.240 line of demarcation where we became a more advanced or different species entirely which
01:35:15.840 is what a lot of historians think you know another example just to give some some examples
01:35:21.840 pulled from history is that uh there's this old european city uh in a megalithic structure in
01:35:29.040 malta that goes back to 4500 dc this is the hal safliani hypogeum built by the mysterious temple
01:35:39.040 people over 5 000 years ago this ancient hand-cut labyrinth descends more than 30 feet below ground
01:35:48.400 and they're only using stone and bone tools at the time so it wouldn't have been easy to
01:35:55.180 carve out such intricate spaces and they found evidence there this is where again there's hard
01:36:01.660 evidence that they were in a sense worshiping uh the female form because they found uh links to
01:36:08.840 animals and animals representing seasons and animals merging with like the female form so
01:36:15.120 there's almost this like shamanistic pre-pagan that's one commonality i always found with like
01:36:21.340 pre-pagan religions and even maybe even pre-shamanistic which is like even before you
01:36:26.620 get into the shamans and the magic and like the luck magic and stuff like that it's like this
01:36:31.740 merging of animals and women i don't know what to make of that you don't see that anymore you know
01:36:37.500 that's one of those things we didn't really carry forward except with witches and that's sort of
01:36:42.500 what we were talking about before that and furries yeah and furries but true right there if you were
01:36:49.900 to tell me that oh this has always been with us in the prehistoric world we used to worship the
01:36:55.520 idea of the divine feminine giving birth to bulls which is a common thing women giving birth to
01:37:01.420 bulls you see that everywhere you see that in china too but i'm like that's not something i
01:37:06.120 think we need to carry forward right yeah not really yeah and oh and the egg cemetery that was
01:37:13.860 a um just to give the exact uh location here it's a cemetery in slovakia in a place called
01:37:20.680 nitra or nitra it's a 7 000 year old cemetery where the eggs are the graves are egg-shaped
01:37:28.280 rather and and there's another cemetery they uncovered in ukraine a cemetery 8 000 years old
01:37:34.720 where they have figurines of goddesses and snakes and the reason this is relevant is because
01:37:39.760 if you can prove that these paleolithic or ancient humans actually buried their dead and
01:37:46.580 had rituals that implies values whereas a lot of historians would rather you believe like oh they 0.93
01:37:52.540 just left them where they died and also what's more interesting is the again 8 000 fucking years
01:37:59.260 ago eight more than 8 000 years ago 8 000 bc that they had hierarchies that they might not bury 0.77
01:38:06.600 adults but they would bury children they find a lot of children's graves not a bunch a lot of
01:38:11.780 adult graves why is that well because within their societies they decided that children
01:38:16.220 were more important there was more value put on children and again that would imply
01:38:21.480 a social hierarchy that does not fit with their model of just base hunter gatherers and one thing
01:38:28.640 he talks about here is language because throughout the book he breaks civilization down into
01:38:33.660 components he's got a chapter on art he's got a chapter on language and he talks about uh language
01:38:39.460 macro groups and the macro group is you know a collection of languages that have enough overlap
01:38:47.700 even though they're different languages they have such an overlap with syntax that you can say oh
01:38:54.080 these are connected somehow like you'll notice that english and german and spanish and a lot of
01:39:01.500 these languages have similar syntax french as well whereas a lot of the uh you know cyrillic
01:39:07.540 languages have a completely different syntax and of course you know the uh the chinese languages
01:39:11.980 and things like that and they can be grouped together and he's making these macro groups
01:39:18.060 they can only rise in complexity so much because a lot of historians will say like look okay
01:39:23.580 we have these small these regional languages we can actually group them in commonality with
01:39:28.760 kind of broader languages but there is a ceiling on top of that so he's trying to push back the
01:39:34.280 idea that some people think there's like one root language that there's one root language that
01:39:39.400 fractured some time ago and became all this other stuff um based on you know regional development
01:39:45.480 he's saying no he's saying that the indo-european language is a macro group and it can't be grouped
01:39:53.000 with anything else and the reason he said was pretty interesting to me and it never occurred
01:39:57.920 to me that um there's certain words and languages that are so fundamental they're like root words
01:40:04.300 that are so different that it's almost like they they had to come up with them themselves like for
01:40:10.120 example like the two top language groups are the um indo-european and the afro-asiatic those are
01:40:18.700 like the two top ones with the most uh language speakers um there's certain words like um he
01:40:26.300 calls them generative words like man and water so with a lot of south american languages like agua
01:40:32.160 would be the water there's little deviations of that word but you'll notice that the chinese have
01:40:36.960 a word for water that is so far and away different than any other language it implies that nothing
01:40:44.540 about it was borrowed from something else that these were completely generated from within that
01:40:49.720 region so and you have to go down if you look at like the fundamental words like what are the most
01:40:54.480 essential words to like there's the word for man there's the word for water there's the word for
01:40:59.540 like space and things like that and what you find with these macro groups is like those basic words
01:41:04.960 are so different from each other there's like no there's no way you could have any overlap between
01:41:10.940 them and any current overlap is just incidental but the way he described that was very very
01:41:15.760 interesting to me and and if we if we like grow or evolve based on our environment into a type of
01:41:22.680 people who can come up with these things like be the genesis of it we close the door behind us
01:41:28.920 because then we create a new global environment where that will never happen again right yeah 0.84
01:41:34.400 Like you will never have no other race unless there's like a dark age will ever have the same bare necessity for language or agriculture that we had when we invented it because it's already there.
01:41:47.500 So everything can only ever be like a shadow of what it, you know, everything can only ever be a copy at this point. 0.88
01:41:55.680 Yeah. I'll give you another example I'm talking about.
01:41:57.860 So for a long time, historians believe that pictograms and hieroglyphics were the precursor to written language.
01:42:06.640 Now, we started with that, then more complicated language came later.
01:42:10.040 But they found this Sumerian text called a cuneiform text that was, they think, the first example of an abstracted language.
01:42:21.440 So this would have been like they have a clay tablet and they would have sort of like a wedge.
01:42:25.800 they would make a mark into it right they'd stamp it in there and they found that this is to such
01:42:31.920 an abstracted way it wasn't just like counting because they they would look at that and say oh
01:42:36.580 there's just like a marker like one two three like uh like roman numerals or something like that like
01:42:41.620 no no it's it's far more abstract than that um and they found a city called susa where they found
01:42:47.680 over 700 of these like clay tablets that like here's a language made for recording something
01:42:54.500 from real life that isn't just a drawing and this was this predated hieroglyphics so we've got
01:42:59.860 you know a functional utilitarian language being done way earlier than we thought um and then there
01:43:07.580 was also in the near east around this time there was the they have evidence of the utilization of
01:43:12.640 clay tokens and these tokens were like different shapes right um and they'd be like a shape of a
01:43:18.860 bull or the shape of a man or the shape of like a house and they found and they were pretty widely
01:43:23.840 used they found thousands of these so they're thinking like oh are these just like relics
01:43:27.960 they're toys right oh they're savages they made oh you just made a clay figurine of a bull but
01:43:35.440 then they started realizing like no these are these are standardized these are all the exact
01:43:40.100 same size and around the exact same shape then they notice oh this is for accounting these are
01:43:45.760 representations of like livestock again in an age where they shouldn't be doing accounting of
01:43:52.140 livestock and that they're just like oh does one mean actually 10 bulls or one bull they don't
01:43:56.880 know but it's it's an abstracted representation of something from the real life that represented
01:44:02.300 a conceptual leap in recording data and they say that the emergence of tokens as data collection
01:44:10.180 evolved in that Sumerian society so you have a society that's more built on trade and what they
01:44:15.520 noticed was that around the same time old europeans were doing something similar they were
01:44:22.280 developing a language um and it was an abstracted language however it was less economic in origin
01:44:31.220 it was more spiritual in origin um i got a part here that i found really fascinating
01:44:35.980 he says there are other instances of the development of writing for magical purposes
01:44:41.700 Although the origins of writing in China are still rather mysterious,
01:44:46.660 what is beyond dispute is that the oracle bones inscriptions from the Shang dynasty
01:44:53.020 dating back to the second millennium are examples of writing concerned not with economics,
01:44:58.440 but with the practice of divination.
01:45:01.200 Before returning to the debate concerning the old European script,
01:45:04.440 it is noteworthy that some Chinese scholars have sought precursors of these inscriptions
01:45:07.980 on prehistoric pottery.
01:45:09.620 as was made clear in the an earlier chapter the economic nature of the sumerian script was an
01:45:16.700 outgrowth of a long tradition of accounting stretching back to the beginning of the neolithic
01:45:21.860 in the region in old europe the main concern that seems to have led to the use of script
01:45:26.860 was religious rather than material suggesting a discontinuity of cultural emphasis at least in
01:45:33.640 terms of communicating through a system of signs. It must not be presumed that the old European
01:45:40.580 script can be dismissed on the grounds that it does not follow the Sumerian pattern emerging out
01:45:45.880 of economic requirements. So he's basically saying that just because the language was developed for
01:45:50.620 spiritual purposes does not make it less impressive than this other abstract language
01:45:56.620 that was designed for data collection and and so really the the main arc of this book that he's
01:46:03.740 trying to fight and this is the arc that i like the most is that he's fighting this idea that
01:46:08.960 earlier equals simpler see what i'm saying and he says you know while the technology and the
01:46:15.220 concepts might not have been there the human mind was still functioning in more or less the same way
01:46:21.780 You know, of course, over thousands and thousands of years, our brains shift and our conceptualizations of the world shift.
01:46:29.860 But he says, you know, a lot of the driving forces that caused us to like try and invent these things are still there.
01:46:36.280 And this idea that we shouldn't treat our Neanderthal ancestors as a different species is really kind of crazy.
01:46:45.500 and i think modern historians are liberals and i think they they have to adhere to this idea that
01:46:54.260 something in the past was essentially simpler you know what i mean simpler to the point of 0.99
01:46:59.960 it being stupid and useless and him trying to make the argument that no no no you know 0.96
01:47:04.020 our ancestors were actually really really impressive and had a lot of things to say 1.00
01:47:08.300 and accomplished way more than you would think to the point of um creating cities and there's
01:47:14.280 evidence in the paleolithic era of having these mines because one of the most important materials
01:47:23.040 to them was obsidian and obsidian is mined from like volcanoes it's fine from mine from deep in
01:47:30.380 the earth and they found these sites that looked like they were excavating on a large systematic
01:47:37.440 scale as much as they could at the time obviously but having like advanced technological
01:47:43.720 conceptualizations of here's here's we're going to build a mind we're going to dig here and we're
01:47:48.440 going to make scaffolding we're going to make it so we can extract these resources in shifts and
01:47:54.300 then that's what that type of thinking is what leads you to the bronze age and that runs counter
01:48:00.260 to the i don't know why they like thinking this way but they like thinking that developments in
01:48:05.620 human history were just lightning strikes from above which sounds very you know religious but
01:48:11.360 they also hate religion so like i don't get why they don't like that anyway but that is like an 0.77
01:48:16.380 astounding idea like fucking 40 000 years ago having like a crew going into a mine it's such 0.90
01:48:23.780 a fucking crazy thing to imagine though yeah yeah but that also explains things like stonehenge 0.83
01:48:28.960 see there's even if you talk to a lot of people now they'll look at stonehenge or the look at 0.94
01:48:33.480 the easter island heads and they'll say why did they make this it must be completely random but
01:48:39.120 it you have to leave it up to the esotericists and more of the experimental historians to think
01:48:43.860 like no like the reason they made these things is because they actually had that same sort of
01:48:49.480 scientific drive inside of them because one thing they can prove with these paleolithic societies
01:48:54.520 they were obsessed with the stars they're obsessed with constellations and the stars themselves
01:48:59.940 inspired us to come up with all kinds of crazy ideas they might not have known what it meant
01:49:05.420 they might not have known what stars were but they had essentially a scientific relationship
01:49:11.480 with the stars so you have things like stonehenge like okay these megalithic structures appear to
01:49:18.120 correspond to the constellations and can correspond to the seasons and within that
01:49:24.880 savagery you have the germ of scientific thought whereas again modern historians would like to say
01:49:31.980 scientific thought only emerged in you know the 1700s it's a rationalist experiment that came to
01:49:39.180 us through reason no no in this sense the scientific thought is almost a spiritual endeavor
01:49:45.580 it's something that drives you to try and come up with conclusions and come up and test ideas and 0.94
01:49:51.900 correspond mathematically with nature around you even if you don't fucking understand it
01:49:57.880 and i think that that's that's almost spiritual like science as spirit is such a concept i'd 0.68
01:50:05.420 never even experienced you know encountered before before reading this i just i thought
01:50:11.100 it's worth people knowing that um he says in the course of this book the human story has
01:50:19.120 been traced from the cusp of history back to the inscrutable nature of the earliest known artifacts
01:50:24.440 which in the final analysis are barely distinguishable from the works of nature
01:50:29.800 this journey back to our cultural origins has unearthed some surprising results that cultural
01:50:35.420 activities such as the making of oriental rugs the use of the dreaded dentist drill and the equally
01:50:41.560 dreaded practice of accountancy have all been shown to be part of neolithic life is remarkable
01:50:46.880 enough such early say the equally dreaded practice of accounting yeah yeah yeah it's kind of a joke
01:50:53.340 yeah but he's like yeah we did accounting because there's also parts in the book i didn't go into
01:50:56.960 this now but they were showing you know there is evidence in these early eras of them like
01:51:02.040 doing dental work because they had to and of course their materials but honestly if you've
01:51:07.720 been to the dentist recently i don't think the tools of dentistry have really evolved that much 0.99
01:51:12.520 since like 3 000 bc it's a lot of sharp sticks it's a sharp sticks poking your fucking gums 0.99
01:51:18.640 and sadists doing it show me a dentist i'll show you a fucking neanderthal how about that 0.99
01:51:25.680 but yeah they're saying like these ideas stretch back there and um 0.97
01:51:31.100 such early days for these activities are not simply precocious oddities but part of a whole
01:51:38.480 host of innovations and inventions of the stone age period in the light of this vast body of
01:51:44.340 evidence collected in this book is now clear that a fundamental reassessment of the prehistoric
01:51:50.020 contributions to civilization is necessary um so yeah that's the idea and you know challenging this
01:51:57.600 this this dogmatic idea that early especially early europe and i have a note here that um
01:52:06.940 And I won't go too much in this, but in the book, a lot of the pushback for like ancient European languages comes from, in my opinion, Jews, because one of the big mega language groups is sort of Hebrew. 0.60
01:52:25.540 Hebrew is like its own language and I think they they don't like the idea that uh Indo-European
01:52:32.960 language can stretch back further as far or further than ancient Hebrew that's my you know
01:52:40.060 biased interpretation of it but like there's been a lot of like Jewish scholars who like the idea of 0.97
01:52:45.380 Europe being a bunch of fucking loincloth savages oh also another thing here they that I just found 0.95
01:52:51.500 This is kind of an oddity, but it's to show again how advanced they were. 0.98
01:52:57.960 One thing he mentions on page 189 is that not only do they have evidence of art representing values, they have art representing what could be perceived as double entendres, especially in erotic art.
01:53:10.520 and they found this one sculpture that looked like a double entendre it's two figures kind of having 0.70
01:53:17.220 sex facing each other but the figure the people themselves look like penises so it's like going 0.99
01:53:25.920 back like 7 000 years you still have the fellas riffing on gay sex 0.99
01:53:31.820 it is the thread that ties all arians together for 10 000 years it's survived this long 0.99
01:53:42.180 at some point your ancient ancestors said these guys love gay sex so much they are gay sex 0.99
01:53:50.520 oh no yeah i'm just gonna just one last thing i'm gonna read about the mining thing because i 0.99
01:53:58.940 I want to return to that.
01:53:59.840 I just thought that was so cool when I read it.
01:54:03.000 It says,
01:54:03.420 The Flint Mines of Spines, S-P-I-E-N-E-S,
01:54:07.960 just outside the city of Mons in Belgium,
01:54:10.100 were first revealed at about the same time as Grimes Graves.
01:54:14.980 Grimes Graves is a collection of mine shafts
01:54:18.240 dating back almost 5,000 years.
01:54:21.200 Over a 90-acre area here,
01:54:23.680 there are over 400 shafts dug into the chalk bedrock,
01:54:27.600 reaching down into seams of flint.
01:54:31.280 The shafts were dug to a depth of 40 feet,
01:54:34.660 an incredible depth when you consider the tools available at the time.
01:54:39.020 In 1860, it was recognized that the site was rich with Neolithic flint artifacts,
01:54:44.900 and some six years later, it was realized that it was in fact a mining complex.
01:54:49.980 Subsequent excavations revealed the full extent of the industrial activity
01:54:55.460 that had taken place in prehistory the mining industry at spines flourished between 5 000
01:55:02.020 and 4 000 years ago and thus was earlier than the grimes graves the central motivation of the
01:55:09.420 miners was of course to get access to seams of superior flint so again like 4 000 years ago the
01:55:17.000 idea that they had like mass excavations in these european areas it was just kind of mind-blowing to
01:55:22.900 me and also um one other thing just to show back how far this goes and again some people might know
01:55:29.640 this but it blew my mind when i heard it um there's the idea of fire as manufacturing so again
01:55:37.080 modern historians and pop historians maybe i should say pop historians not all modern historians
01:55:42.060 but pop historians have this idea of fire as just like a tool for heat and not not a or just a heat
01:55:50.160 source but not actually a tool and there's a couple of things that he mentions in the book
01:55:54.160 that really show how we use tools um use fire rather so they uncovered these cave systems
01:56:01.640 that went back like hundreds and hundreds of feet into the darkness and through these crevices and
01:56:09.100 through these like like really difficult pathways they found bones in there they found like uh you
01:56:15.040 homo sapien bones which implied that oh the only reason they could have gone this far into a cave
01:56:21.620 is if they're using a torch and that completely changes our understanding of their relationship
01:56:27.060 with fire like there's fire for heat we found fire in caves so for a long time historians thought oh
01:56:33.140 they just used fire in caves for heat at night but the idea that these same people were using
01:56:37.580 fire not only as a light source but a light source that they could control and and go into
01:56:43.140 excavations and explore caves was a kind of mind-blowing but then they found was up to like
01:56:49.280 47 000 years ago they have evidence of them using fire as heat treatment for uh making their spears
01:56:58.420 and the fire setting of quarries so these quarries we're talking about where they go excavating they
01:57:03.080 were using fire as a way to kind of stabilize the walls so they could go deeper and deeper and 0.53
01:57:09.080 deeper which is again fucking mind-blowing but that's 47 000 years ago there's evidence within
01:57:16.160 europe and elsewhere of them using fire the same way a modern manufacturer would use fire so even 0.87
01:57:22.980 devoid of the advanced tools there is like something in that spirit of them to be like i
01:57:29.360 could use this for something approximating mass manufacture which is pretty cool i think what do
01:57:36.220 think about that yeah yeah it is pretty cool yeah and so that and using them in crafting techniques 0.82
01:57:42.280 to make the heat treat their fucking spears anyway um that's basically what i wanted to to get at and
01:57:49.180 i thought that was just it changes it completely changed my relationship with the stone age you 0.98
01:57:56.920 know a lot of people would learn from the media or learn from modern academia that you know pre-humans
01:58:03.000 were just savages but i really do think it's important for people to consider and we talk
01:58:08.460 about this in our political sphere all the time the important things in our cultures are generated
01:58:12.640 from within and i think it's damaging to the mainstream i don't even want to call it liberal
01:58:19.460 that's a bit too you know left versus right but this idea that everything back then was automatically 0.91
01:58:25.940 simpler and therefore stupider and therefore useless get rid of that but then also that
01:58:31.620 there's certain like i could only call them spiritual like drives to employ science and 0.97
01:58:41.220 employ you know urbanization in a prehistoric way that when compared even to modern tribes
01:58:50.460 like the aboriginals like we were more advanced 40 000 years ago that a lot of aboriginal tribes
01:58:57.260 or African tribes or South American tribes
01:59:00.480 were up to like a hundred years ago.
01:59:03.640 And I think once you understand that,
01:59:05.640 that changes so much about how humans relate to each other.
01:59:10.800 And again, I think this really challenges
01:59:12.420 the modern conceptualization of like out of Africa theory.
01:59:15.440 Like maybe this lends to the idea
01:59:17.140 that if human development reaches back
01:59:20.020 way, way further than we thought,
01:59:22.380 maybe we actually don't have that much in common
01:59:25.480 between these sort of mega groups anyway that's just what i wanted to end on and any thoughts on
01:59:32.560 that no it's cool i kind of was aware vaguely of it but to hear some of the details is very
01:59:38.280 interesting yeah it's uh i like this book the lost civilizations of the stone age uh can't
01:59:43.480 recommend it enough and there's there's a lot to go into we only gave it a surface scratching this
01:59:49.900 time but i think there's a lot there and that's really where the dangerous research is being done
01:59:55.760 the date the research that they don't want people to do is the stuff that goes way deep into almost
02:00:02.040 the mythological and esoteric eras of humanity because that reveals a lot about ourselves that
02:00:09.260 i think you know what they want is a modernist retelling of human history and they don't want
02:00:14.260 you to challenge that and that's where you get into stuff like you know atlantis which we'll get
02:00:18.520 into next episode anyway that that's all i had today i'll let you go now we've been going for a
02:00:23.280 while no worries man that was a good one all right all right talk to you soon see you
02:00:27.380 yeah i'd imagine it's a little different when it's a newborn rather than you know
02:00:48.340 people in the comment section or shit like that although aa told he messaged us in this group
02:00:53.680 chat letting us know about the uh new youtube terms of services so i guarantee you the account 0.60
02:00:59.340 evasion was probably what they got blood satellite clips for they must have been yeah also i wasn't
02:01:05.800 terribly surprised considering how you know everyone has to edit their videos to take out
02:01:10.520 cursing now i don't know if you've noticed that so really yeah the big ones who want to i guess
02:01:16.460 maybe monetize their videos but i noticed a lot of creators get in trouble if they just have you
02:01:21.520 know shit or fucked basic stuff not slurs even they just they just eased up on the swearing rules 0.50
02:01:27.680 so you have to just hold off for eight seconds before you can start swearing and they don't even 1.00
02:01:33.140 they don't even care if you say things like damn or hell or shit or fuck just don't just don't be 0.99
02:01:39.900 dropping hard r's on youtube basically the first eight seconds and you're good to go yeah and that's 1.00
02:01:45.080 why because um there's some interviews like i did one with a character by the name of zoltanus
02:01:50.500 um who some people might be aware of and i know he dropped one so i didn't even put his on youtube
02:01:56.600 because this will be an odyssey one because we were talking about deep fascist lore and things
02:02:02.140 like that i'm like i'm not even gonna risk that oh yeah this will probably be an odyssey exclusive
02:02:07.160 well that's what i'm gonna talk to you about i was gonna say like i can play it very safe
02:02:11.180 i can you know be very i'm not gonna i wasn't intending to go out see and be like this is the
02:02:17.500 problem with the jews or anything like that even though it's very hard not to take that line when
02:02:23.140 you read this book oh this is the most unironic red pilling book i've read in a long time yeah
02:02:29.420 yeah and there's a few like central pillars to what we'll talk about but you know i thought the
02:02:35.260 stuff with mlk later is pretty well because mlk does not come out of this book looking very good
02:02:39.820 no he does not uh you know you'd almost confuse some parts of the mlk chapters as if this was a
02:02:46.160 a sam francis essay about his behavior and his character but uh i found those parts to be the
02:02:53.000 least interesting yeah yeah it got less interesting as it went and by the end of it it was kind of
02:02:58.660 repeating itself i found um it got because and also my thing is if you want to get into like
02:03:05.580 the stuff in the 60s and 70s there's other books that might do it even better and if you want to
02:03:10.620 go into like the real black nationalist movements that's almost a episode in itself if you want to
02:03:17.000 do it right you know what i mean oh yeah um this book was it covered a little bit of everything
02:03:22.500 i mean in terms of what to expect um i did not know some of the things that were mentioned in
02:03:29.280 here i felt like oh these are like baby's first red pills that i should have known but i had no
02:03:34.100 idea about. But before we get too far into it, I should let everyone know what we're actually
02:03:40.420 reviewing. So I'm going to just share it up on screen. So we are reviewing What Went Wrong,
02:03:46.740 the Creation and Collapse of the Black Jewish Alliance by Murray Friedman. Now, Murray Friedman 0.51
02:03:53.820 is the former vice chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in Washington, D.C., and was the
02:04:00.140 mid-atlantic regional director of the american jewish committee he also was the head of the
02:04:04.860 center for american jewish history at temple university in philadelphia not a half bad
02:04:10.500 looking guy according to his picture on the uh beginning of the book or the jacket there i should
02:04:16.240 say you know he's the guy on the right there right yeah yeah well no no not the guy on the cover i
02:04:23.020 meant the guy in the back sleeve of the jacket but you know the guy who actually kind of looks like
02:04:26.840 kanye west right yeah distance at least um but this book is printed in 1995 so for all you old
02:04:34.180 heads out here this book is as old as me um but yeah this is what we're covering and i am joined
02:04:39.680 today by dimes from blood satellite how are you dimes oh i'm loving it i'm full no i'm gonna let
02:04:46.240 you know ahead of time we were talking about this just before i did recently have a baby boy brought
02:04:51.840 in this world i say that not as a flex but as a if you hear a baby crying in the distance
02:04:58.360 um i'm gonna i might mute around that uh it's upstairs with my wife right now
02:05:03.420 but uh it's it's completely it's upstairs with my wife it's a normal baby crying
02:05:09.620 are there previous streams of the blood satellite show where there's not normal baby crying in the
02:05:16.440 background because i i like to use a lot of sound effects in the background so people might be
02:05:20.380 forgiven i think oh this is um a goof but this is not an episode for goofing you know i'm coming
02:05:26.400 in i'm coming in hot this is a no horseplay episode for me i guess the horseplay will be
02:05:33.200 left for me um hey i'm frying pan it into the venn diagram a prude
02:05:38.140 uh well i guess i should say mazel tov and for having your kid in the spirit of what we're
02:05:44.580 talking about many years to you and your son um so yeah what the so what's what wanted what
02:05:52.660 wanted or what was the reason why i wanted to do this and we talked about doing this months ago
02:05:57.300 before the new year had even started so it's been a hot minute due to our schedules and life events
02:06:02.040 but um i wanted to cover this book because of the whole kanye west thing i i looked at this book
02:06:08.980 and i was reading it and then of course the whole kanye west thing happened and i thought to myself 0.96
02:06:14.180 oh this shit isn't new at all you know this whole little uh meltdown against uh jewish 0.99
02:06:19.680 individuals in hollywood the media and government is nothing new from black activists musicians 1.00
02:06:25.680 um academics and so on it's a tale as old as time in america and so i thought well why not
02:06:32.120 go to somebody who already reviews books and does it pretty well so i decided to reach out to dimes
02:06:38.480 um i've been rereading it over the last couple of days and prep for this what do you what do you
02:06:44.160 what are your general impressions of this book because like i think i said earlier this is like
02:06:47.440 an unironically red pilling text even though it's not meant to be yeah it was uh like you said
02:06:52.540 written in the 90s so i i wonder if it could even be written today and it's not really talked about
02:06:58.120 a lot although for those who want an unvarnished history about this sort of thing this is as good
02:07:04.140 is a book as i could recommend and let me also just say i know this probably won't be going up
02:07:09.980 on youtube but i just wanted to preface this entire talk by reminding people that this is a
02:07:15.820 book written by a jewish man about jewish people so the things we may end up saying on this episode
02:07:24.080 might come across as pretty edgy dare i say even anti-semitic but i promise you we're literally
02:07:30.600 just quoting the book most of the time in this and so that having been said my feelings of the
02:07:37.300 book is it's first of all it starts off stronger than it ends and it goes back deep it goes deep
02:07:43.780 into the past about like the jewish relationship with black americans during slavery you know um
02:07:51.020 but i think because of the time it was written there are a lot of like you had said red pills
02:07:58.300 in this that i think were unintentional and i know you you take copious notes like i do
02:08:04.080 this is one of those books where every single page i had several notes because of it was either
02:08:11.680 a wild claim or a wild truth or some audacious trying to like wall page or sometimes a contradiction
02:08:19.200 when it came to certain things but it is from the mind of someone who i believe i believe the
02:08:24.880 through line of this entire book is a guy saying how dare you not thank us for all we did for you
02:08:31.560 that's kind of the headline of the book would you agree with that yeah the well it's not even that
02:08:36.720 it's the headline but it's the subtext of the entire book the murray friedman writes this book
02:08:43.140 and the history is rather unique and we'll get into it in just a little bit here but the subtext
02:08:48.560 of the book is how dare you how how dare you break from us after all that we've done for you
02:08:53.440 Which is very funny, considering that the major through line of the book is that this alliance, right, for political purposes, for, you know, black liberation, you know, enfranchisement, sort of combining America's already built in race problem with the ongoing issues of, say, how Jews might view themselves compared to the rest of the world and sort of this, well, we have to stop anti-Semitism type deal.
02:09:20.800 and it's the same problem i think we're still seeing today when it comes to like wokeness and
02:09:26.560 asians you know like asians are all aboard the wokeness train until it comes for them and i
02:09:32.200 think that that was the major through line of this book was detailing the history of how this
02:09:35.640 relationship started and then once the civil rights regime kicks off the gibbs and the defenses
02:09:41.120 between jewish self-interest and black self-interest really breaks this alliance apart
02:09:46.400 and it's still been really uncomfortable even though this book was written in 1995 it's still
02:09:51.300 really uncomfortable today and i mean if the recent kanye west story is any indication
02:09:56.160 it's not going away anytime soon but this is the most scholarly work like there's so there's like
02:10:02.620 40 pages of end notes for you all to read through the sources they're interesting
02:10:06.000 and yeah i mean but it is written with the tone of how dare you um yeah and superior superiority
02:10:14.640 borderlining on condescension yeah and he cannot stop editorializing and i don't you know more
02:10:20.720 about the author than i do i'm coming into this blind but you know for example uh you had mentioned
02:10:25.300 kanye west and uh for those you're not i'm a 30 year old boomer right i remember a lot of the
02:10:30.520 stuff from the 90s that you might not have lived through and uh there's this sentiment that's
02:10:36.600 popular especially on the you know center right where they say everything was better in the 90s
02:10:42.520 all the bad race stuff was almost caused by 9-11. That's the implication. But there was a lot of
02:10:48.800 ethnic strife going on in America in the 90s. And one example was in this book, introduction,
02:10:56.540 page one, he calls Luis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, just this lunatic who goes 0.79
02:11:03.360 on, quote, bitter tirades. Now, if you know anything about the Black community, and a lot 0.93
02:11:08.780 of people in our scene do because you know they they study black people for various reasons but
02:11:15.160 you gotta know nation of islam is the leading black supremacist slash nationalist organization
02:11:20.920 in the u.s and you probably find i'd say like 80 percent of the blacks in entertainment would 0.99
02:11:27.880 revere louise farrakhan that's a number i pulled out of my ass but it tastes good when i said it 0.99
02:11:32.820 But like we so to call Luis Farrakhan, just this lunatic fool shows complete disregard for what what's actually going on in that community. 0.99
02:11:45.300 And and we'll get to this later in the book. You'll see them say, you know, our chosen guy was Martin Luther King Jr. 0.95
02:11:51.500 That's a whole angle to it, too. But you can tell, like the editorialization from the start is where the hell did all these black radicals come from? 0.98
02:11:58.900 why'd they show up they they what they're you know they're that's the wrong kind of communism 0.97
02:12:03.580 that's another you know subtext oh that's the whole chapter on it basically yeah but it's a 0.94
02:12:08.920 lot of this book is and then one day the black radicals showed up and i think he doesn't pay
02:12:17.340 enough mind to he kind of mentions it later but really the the forces at play and all and to be
02:12:22.640 honest if one wanted to take a magnifying glass to the black nationalist movement in america that
02:12:28.680 could be its own episode there's a lot of depth to that even if you want to read the book uh days
02:12:33.580 of rage about you know the black separatist terrorists in the uh 60s and 70s like that's
02:12:39.400 its own thing too but i think just the the what the the editorialization is the story here sorry
02:12:46.180 that was a bit of a ramble well i mean no it's a good rant to have because this book is not going
02:12:50.880 to cover the rise of these movements or organizations although it inadvertently
02:12:56.640 references them in ways that make it sound like this relationship between these two groups was
02:13:02.800 seminal no pun intended for those organizations to give rise and the early part of the book really
02:13:10.060 delves into that but yeah the introduction literally complains about louis farrakhan
02:13:14.580 um spike lee and mobeta blues you know you ever seen that great times yeah and he mentions like
02:13:21.200 in that example it was the caricature he's citing was like two jewish nightclub owners and i'm like
02:13:28.080 okay what what part of that is that are you mad it's a lie or he didn't like the actors like what
02:13:33.300 you say no jewish people owned clubs that black singers frequent i mean that's you gotta tell me
02:13:39.120 what the problem is there you know anyway sorry well yeah and then i guess as we'll dive into it
02:13:44.040 we'll go chapter by chapter i guess but like the early history i thought was the most important
02:13:49.280 part of the book because it establishes how this cause came to be and it's not it's a rather
02:13:55.540 interesting circumstance because the book will tell you based upon the studies from the u.s
02:14:01.940 government and the bureau of the census bureau that like by 1850 there's only like 50 000 jews
02:14:08.280 in the united states um i mean still a ridiculously small number considering that the u.s population
02:14:14.680 at the time was, let's see here, I'm going to look it up here, 1850, was about 23 million people.
02:14:24.640 So, you know, like a 35% increase from 1840. But anyways, but yeah, it's the cause of slavery that
02:14:31.480 really gets them to start paying attention. And what's interesting is that many of the people
02:14:35.640 that come over from Europe, you know, many Jewish immigrants in the 19th century, this spirit,
02:14:41.340 And he mentions this quite frequently with a lot of these characters, the spirit of the 1848 progressive, liberal and socialist movements inside of Europe in the age of revolution, you know, revolution against the Ancian regime, that spirit is still alive with them.
02:14:56.660 And they sort of use abolition and anti-slavery as their cause to sort of promote that.
02:15:03.140 Yeah. And if I made there's just to bolster that point, I actually have a quote from the book if people are interested.
02:15:09.200 i found it summarizes it pretty well um he's talking about the jews who lived in the north
02:15:14.480 in the u.s around this time says for a long time few jews the north followed their example but
02:15:19.500 the 1840s brought jews of a different outlook to america the ashkenazism from central and eastern
02:15:26.400 europe poor and lacking significant business interests they sought social and economic
02:15:31.760 opportunities that had been denied them at home most had no taste for slavery and no stake in
02:15:37.460 the system. A smaller group of immigrants were refugees from revolutionary movements in Prussia
02:15:43.560 and Austria-Hungary, who had fought for equal rights there and would continue to do so in their
02:15:49.460 adopted country. It was they who set the precedent for all Jewish civil rights activity that had been
02:15:56.480 continued to the present day. That's from, I think, page 23 there. But there's little
02:16:01.580 quotes for that, just to prove people that were not bullshitting them.
02:16:07.460 Yeah, and I mean, to also get a clue of, I think it's literally on page 22, right? But this is from talking about the issues of the Civil War, right? You also get individuals like Solomon Cohen get mentioned, as well as Judah P. Benjamin of the Confederacy, who was basically President Jefferson Davis's right-hand man and basically ran the Confederacy while Jefferson was sick on multiple occasions.
02:16:30.000 Mr. Davis was not known to have good health but shortly after Appomattox Cohen declared quote
02:16:36.040 I believe the institution of slavery was refining and civilizing to the whites giving them an
02:16:41.240 elevation of sentiment and ease and dignity of manners only attainable in societies under the 0.83
02:16:46.780 restraining influence of a privileged class and at the same time the only human institution that 1.00
02:16:52.720 could elevate the negro from the barbarism and develop a small amount of intellect with which
02:16:57.020 he is endowed end quote um this is in 1865 but that tone there is equally condescending from 0.58
02:17:04.720 both looking upon whites and blacks but it's just this is the kind of language you're going to be
02:17:09.660 listening to folks this is not because we're raging anti-semites or anything like that but
02:17:14.960 mainly because i don't i haven't decided where this is going to go when i finish recording
02:17:19.100 but you know but it's funny though to look at this history because even then right before this like
02:17:23.260 smaller class of people you did have people like judah p benjamin and he does cite numerous sources
02:17:29.980 throughout the the early chapters and the first chapter is called early black jewish relations
02:17:35.240 that sort of tries to do a preemptive like debunking of like the popular black nationalist
02:17:40.880 black separatist nation of islam type things that all the slave markets were closed on jewish
02:17:46.620 holidays and jews owned all the slave ships he's he makes it very clear and i mean at least he
02:17:51.300 brings up literature to back it up which is nice through the purposes of this book and my own 0.76
02:17:56.040 reading of it about uh that the fact that no actually um there weren't that many jewish
02:18:02.480 owners yeah the slave trade well what he says is is actually pretty funny he says uh i'm going to
02:18:07.060 summarize i won't quote from the book but the summary essentially is like we were kicked out
02:18:10.520 of spain we were kicked out of portugal all these places so we went to uh the netherlands we we went
02:18:16.960 to holland and that's where the commercial markets were centralized at the time a lot of people
02:18:21.580 familiar with that and so he'll say it's like well yes we were involved in the slave trade but we're
02:18:25.820 never more than 10 of it which i'm not i'm not looking at the demographic hard numbers on this
02:18:32.560 but that might be a lot um and then it's like oh you know but then you know everyone else was
02:18:37.460 involved in it too and then the second thing and i was surprised at this because i've never really
02:18:42.560 looked into the hard numbers on this but he's like the myth or the the comment made on our side is
02:18:48.880 like oh they owned all the slave ships and part of me thought that's probably not true according
02:18:53.280 to this guy it was but his sort of co-phrase was oh but yeah it was ships everyone was doing it man
02:19:00.040 oh it's like they're like oh we used it for other stuff too so like yeah we had slaves and dreidels
02:19:04.800 yeah however by the 18th century or hold on here but here it is um many jews settled in holland
02:19:11.380 which then was the peak of commercial expanse and throughout the 17th century the dutch were
02:19:15.280 predominant in the slave trade jews participated in the trade to some extent the numbers of jewish
02:19:19.740 traders in holland reaching a high of perhaps six to ten percent at the time um but you know
02:19:24.700 it mainly went into the hands of those protestants guys don't look at us although that seems like a
02:19:29.300 really large over-representation there's one thing i'm going to kind of lead with and this i'm really
02:19:36.240 try not to sound too hostile to one specific ethno-religious group but it i'm commenting on
02:19:42.760 something in the book and one thing he does repeatedly in the book that frustrated me
02:19:46.980 was on one hand he'll often say that he'll say outright that jews will adhere to the rules and
02:19:53.520 the values of wherever they are so he'll say this to jews in the south why were jews in the south
02:19:58.680 so anti-semitic well because all these anti-semitic whites same with racism um and same with the
02:20:05.040 slave trade everyone was doing it what are we supposed to do stand out but then one page later
02:20:10.180 they'll say of course but in the north you know we had to follow the our jewish spirit which is
02:20:15.360 always to fight for the freedom of the lessers wherever we might land so i'm like you can't be
02:20:21.840 both you know and i he doesn't really reconcile that throughout the book at various times when
02:20:27.280 he's trying to wallpaper over the jews who actually did own slaves it's never their fault
02:20:32.700 and for the jews who fought on the side of freedom and liberation it was almost exclusively them who
02:20:39.700 did it for uniquely jewish reasons almost to imply that anyone who any of the uh catholics or the
02:20:47.020 prostitutes who sided with them were doing it for jewish reasons and that might be me reading too
02:20:51.440 much into it but that's pretty much what he says in the book which frustrates me i think it'll be
02:20:55.860 safe to say it's going to be hard for us to we'll have to delineate often i think to say all right
02:21:01.860 we may be reading too much into this you know we may yes we may have come into this with too many
02:21:06.080 but i mean at the same time right like you know in the north jews were freer to express their
02:21:11.160 abolitionist views they were some of the earliest members of the nation's first anti-slavery
02:21:14.640 organization in 1774 um but yeah i mean well it is interesting to see the colonial but also the
02:21:23.240 interesting history that i think still exists today in in politics is because there is this
02:21:28.740 ongoing political internal struggle over how to approach American politics between
02:21:35.380 the orthodox side of Judaism and the reformed side of Judaism. And they say this very clearly
02:21:43.280 in the, in, in the civil wars, because it really was the debate between, you know, more orthodox
02:21:50.580 Jews that were arguing that actually, no, you know, the Torah tells us that slavery is an
02:21:55.900 ordained institution compared to the reformed Jews of the time that were saying, no, like, 0.79
02:22:01.360 you know, abolitionism is good. It's not blasphemy. And that kind of stuff still happens to this day 0.63
02:22:06.400 where we saw, you know, with Donald Trump, for example, you know, like the Orthodox Jews went
02:22:11.580 out of their way to vote for him and they, you know, have their portion in New York City where
02:22:15.380 they are, but most secular Jews or reformed Jews didn't vote for him. And it's funny to see that 0.56
02:22:21.520 that even as far back as the antebellum south that that was an ongoing factor yeah and that's
02:22:27.620 a great point you just made um about how from my perspective that unique intra-jewish conflict has
02:22:35.240 not changed at all and that one example of um there was a couple of rabbis noted in the book
02:22:41.000 i think it was uh who is a jewish leader like shaballo morais you know he obviously said you
02:22:47.180 know it's it's justified in the bible you know and you'll still hear those arguments in the book
02:22:52.860 they were making these arguments up until the 1970s and 1980s that you know these like how many
02:22:59.560 of course if they're old school rabbis why would they ever evolve are there still old school rabbis
02:23:03.940 around yes they are their job is to not really change that much so as far as i know these debates
02:23:10.740 are still happening right now and i think like to bring it back to kanye west because that's still
02:23:15.700 fresh in people's minds. I think you saw a lot of, if you were paying attention to Jewish spaces,
02:23:21.220 you saw these exact same discussions occurring at that time. Yeah, absolutely. And I mean,
02:23:28.320 and from sort of, and again, this book is written by a Jewish man who has worked, I mean, he's,
02:23:33.380 he's been deceased since 2005, but you know, he worked for, it was a civil rights attorney.
02:23:38.580 He's worked for various Jewish causes. He was on the, I think the American Jewish Congress,
02:23:42.100 as I mentioned earlier, the American Jewish Committee, excuse me. And I mean, so you're
02:23:47.040 getting a profoundly Jewish perspective. And again, that's going to come with some contradictions
02:23:52.420 because, you know, he'll say on one hand, you know, there were, you know, they had no problem
02:23:57.900 working in coordination with, you know, Protestants, Quakers, Unitarians, Deists, you know, secular
02:24:04.300 free thinkers, but they were always treated with, you know, a cocked eyebrow, you know, and he'll
02:24:11.080 criticize like you know protestant christians for saying like you know they'll they'll cite you'll
02:24:15.660 have biblical condemnations of slavery but in the next breath you know denouncing jews for 0.72
02:24:20.320 craftiness hypocrisy and deceit um so you're gonna get the full spectrum in this book like this is
02:24:26.600 actually a really good historical text albeit biased because it's partly an ethnography but
02:24:32.320 it's still worth your read yeah and i would encourage people if there's a lot of your
02:24:37.400 listeners, I'm sure, who find this simply interesting, just from an American history
02:24:41.820 point of view, a book to pair with this, you might have been talking about before, is
02:24:46.960 Tri-Faith America. The author's name escapes me, but that deals with the civil rights movement as
02:24:54.400 well. I will say it takes a sharper focus on the Catholic angle to that and sort of casts the
02:25:01.540 Catholics as the real bad guys in all of this. But if people want a fuller picture, there is
02:25:07.400 is a case we made that there are the jews but then the catholics were working in concert with them 0.89
02:25:12.780 more or less to just bully the protestants who were just weren't ready for this sort of fight 0.56
02:25:18.820 really um there might be something to the point you know not not to dismiss like anything in this
02:25:23.920 book but there is a truth to the fact that you know jews and catholics but mainly jews were
02:25:28.440 spearheading this and the protestants probably were not terribly concerned and were kind of
02:25:34.920 forced into this through various direct actions um and i guess what's interesting to me also if
02:25:42.660 people are looking for another subheading like the big takeaway from this book at least from my
02:25:47.720 perspective was you kind of touched on it just there which is there really was never a black
02:25:54.000 jewish alliance that's it that's really the story like if there was it was very very momentary
02:26:00.360 and with a few key leaders but you know just to go back to the main thing we were talking about
02:26:05.060 going back to slavery the relationship between blacks and jews pre you know abolition he's
02:26:12.120 talking about how blacks idolized jews um because of everyone knows the jewish history of oppression
02:26:19.640 i'm like are you sure black american slaves did i'm not sure but maybe but he says they idolized 0.52
02:26:26.200 Jews, but hated Jews, according to him, because they were taught Christianity. But they, you know,
02:26:31.700 from the very beginning, the story was blacks look up to Jews because of their global minority
02:26:37.740 status and their ability to rise up, but we're always suspicious of them. And to me, that's
02:26:43.580 essentially the story of the entire book. Would that sound correct to you? Yeah, absolutely. I
02:26:48.460 mean, I think you get the shaping of a black Jewish relationship really more thoroughly in
02:26:54.760 the 1920s and 30s and it falls apart very quickly by world war ii um in the post-war sort of jewish
02:27:03.020 narrative of we of never again you know stands at sharp odds with sort of the black experience of
02:27:11.580 we understand but you know bondage and lynching in our own struggles you know they're two separate
02:27:19.580 things. And I think that post-war, the relationship really falters and falls apart. Although much of
02:27:28.440 the Black infrastructure, so for instance, we'll get into it in a little bit, but the National
02:27:33.620 Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the NAACP, is more or less spearheaded by Jews.
02:27:41.500 And much to the anger of Black academics and Black thought leaders and activists at the time
02:27:47.720 that would often very much complain that there were more, quote unquote, white people or Jews 0.71
02:27:53.020 in these offices than there were Blacks. That's true. And the NAACP is a great example because 1.00
02:28:00.340 you almost had to pry the NAACP from their cold, dead hands. They fought having a Black leader of 0.99
02:28:08.100 that organization for a long time. And the excuse was like, well, there's just no qualified people.
02:28:13.660 you know but it's it's nearly every this will sound like a big claim because i'm gonna miss
02:28:19.660 a few but i'd say most of the advocacy organizations for the liberation of black
02:28:25.260 americans were like you said spearheaded by jews and only would welcome in black leadership and
02:28:31.620 almost like in a sidekick position and it's things like would you say that these spearheaded
02:28:38.300 jewish organizations were tokenizing the very people they were trying to help liberate absolutely
02:28:43.160 And because, you know, this will sound like a line you've probably heard from the alt
02:28:48.060 light from, you know, the center right people, but it's the racism of low expectations that
02:28:53.660 they, that what the conservatives say about the bigotry of low expectations, soft bigotry
02:28:58.740 of low expectations, George W. Bush famously said.
02:29:02.600 Absolutely.
02:29:02.940 And that's what it is.
02:29:03.740 You do see it though, where it's like, we're trying to help them because they can't help
02:29:07.120 themselves.
02:29:07.760 They're not equipped for anything.
02:29:09.520 um and we we're we'll tokenize them to kind of quiet them which is why once they become radical 0.59
02:29:16.640 later on this is actually something uh black leaders cite uh the farrakhan's of the world
02:29:21.460 the malcolm x's of the world by saying like you just don't want us you it seems like you're using
02:29:26.880 us is what they'll say and it's that sounds pretty accurate to me yeah and it's very funny and i'm
02:29:33.940 to make this observation now, and I might get some flack for it, but your Louis Farrakhan's,
02:29:41.280 your Marcus Garvey's of the world, even the Booker T. Washingtons and W.E.B. Dubois,
02:29:46.820 you know, as things start to really move in an area to fight things like lynching,
02:29:50.980 the second Ku Klux Klan, trying to get federal anti-lynching legislation passed,
02:29:56.640 there was a lot of pressure on Black leaders to look at the Jews as an example in regards to
02:30:03.860 uh pride in their race their rather inter-ethnic you know relationships to bolster and uplift each
02:30:12.520 other and to develop the means to you know if we all work together we can all get capital we can
02:30:17.500 all organize effectively and you know stand out as an effective minority in a white anglo-saxon
02:30:23.560 protestant majority country um and it's funny because that led to things like you know back
02:30:29.820 to africa movement and sort of copying the you know international form of zionism to you know
02:30:35.120 make palestine jewish again and it's funny because you'll hear and i remember this from an interview
02:30:42.660 from dave rubin and candace owens so we're going back a few years but candace owens says we've all
02:30:50.920 got some skeletons in our closet oh of course of course um but uh you know it's some i think
02:30:58.420 something at some one of the one of them either candace or or dave rubin um who's graduated from 0.98
02:31:04.180 conservative pundit to child trafficker now that you can buy children if you're gay but 0.94
02:31:08.440 i have to say that i'm sorry it's child trafficking this is gonna be an odyssey exclusive oh yeah 0.96
02:31:14.800 buddy oh yeah it's an odyssey exclusive now um but he had said something like well you know like
02:31:21.800 the jews have a form of like you know they have pride in their race they have pride in who they
02:31:24.820 are and you know and it's just funny because now i think you see a lot of people alt-white
02:31:31.100 um especially will say well we need to like mirror that kind of thing as well and that causes more
02:31:37.440 antagonism as we've seen with the history of the blacks and so it's just like you know maybe evola
02:31:42.660 was right on like the the negrification of america but i think maybe he was thinking like
02:31:47.020 me if only he'd live far enough to see the where you see some like pro-white advocates saying like
02:31:51.340 we need to have the same kind of like ethnic ties relations and infrastructure as the jews do and
02:31:56.880 it's just like we're kind of getting a history of what that would look like in this book um and i 0.99
02:32:03.120 know i'm gonna piss off a lot of people by saying that but it's just like you know they have a system
02:32:08.420 that works and clearly those that want to advocate for their own ethnic interests are going to look
02:32:13.980 to the ones that have managed to do it the best for better or for worse yeah it's true i think the
02:32:19.780 most anti-israel people that i know currently are in the progressive side of things you know a lot
02:32:26.640 of like those democratic socialist types who are really being that drum whereas a lot of people on
02:32:31.800 what we call the dissident right are looking towards israel as we want that but for us and
02:32:37.820 let's emulate um and people you know that's not a value judgment it's just a a fun pivot that i've
02:32:44.120 noticed it's an observation it's a prudent observation when i heard the name i clapped
02:32:52.400 he said the thing um but yeah i mean like and you see it here and like again back detailing the early
02:33:02.700 you know black jewish relationship you know booker t washington became more heavily influenced by the
02:33:07.700 jewish example quote ever since i can remember he wrote i have had a special and peculiar interest
02:33:12.980 in the history and progress of the Jewish race.
02:33:15.120 As I learned in slavery to compare the condition of the Negro
02:33:17.840 with that of the Jews and bondage in Egypt,
02:33:20.380 so have I frequently, since freedom,
02:33:22.120 been compelled to compare the prejudice and even persecution
02:33:24.820 which the Jewish people have to face and overcome
02:33:27.440 in different parts of the world
02:33:28.680 with the disadvantages of the Negro in the United States and elsewhere.
02:33:34.520 And so, although this does come with a fun footnote on the book,
02:33:37.820 a little, you know, at risk here saying,
02:33:40.480 the new york times once asked washington to name his favorite passage from shakespeare
02:33:44.040 he selected shylock's hath not a jew eyes speech in the merchant of venice to washington shylock's
02:33:51.240 plea on behalf of jews and brotherhood had an echo in the appeal blacks treated as men and brothers
02:33:56.620 uh i can't get away from the merchant of venice that's a little wink and a nod to people in the
02:34:04.680 future he knew what he was doing um you raised an interesting point there um and there's this
02:34:10.740 becomes clear as you read the history of this element uh this this event i mean um it's
02:34:17.160 interesting that in the jewish leaders of these organizations they had an affinity for i think
02:34:24.120 what they saw as black intellectuals so you'd have a book d washington your w.e dubois um your
02:34:29.620 marcus garvey's these were seen as guys who were uh you know they wouldn't say higher iq but they're
02:34:35.280 more erudite they're more equipped and there was i believe uh the hidden story of this was sort of
02:34:41.320 the bifurcation of the black community between this intelligentsia that was being actively
02:34:46.340 courted by these organizations and then the rest of the black population and what becomes clear
02:34:54.080 midway through the book is that bifurcation is what leads to the Black nationalist movement as
02:35:00.100 we know it. Because most of that comes from the ghettos, that comes from the streets, that doesn't 0.82
02:35:05.260 come from the people graduating Howard University. And for people who don't know, the listeners who 0.84
02:35:10.280 don't know, Howard University, prestigious school, well-known school, Black school. A lot of the
02:35:15.480 people in this book will come up through Howard University, and those are the preferred mouthpieces
02:35:20.860 for these groups, while ignoring the material conditions on the ground, which never actually
02:35:27.900 improve, really, despite most, you know, the laws are changed. A lot of the legislation is put
02:35:34.260 before Congress and passes, but a lot of the black people notice nothing's really gotten better. And
02:35:39.960 that essentially leads where we are today with the modern day black nationalist movement, in my
02:35:45.600 opinion. Yeah, I would agree. And the same thing that will emerge out of this intelligentsia 1.00
02:35:51.880 is also something that, you know, you can still find in major American cities in Chicago and New
02:35:58.100 York City are ethnic newspapers, whether it's like the Jewish Daily Forward, or very like the
02:36:05.080 Freeman, right, like, especially after the South, and these, they will fight each other in the press,
02:36:09.960 despite sort of with a cocked eyebrow and crossed fingers when they shake hands to work together on
02:36:15.580 some issues. And you see this a lot towards the turn of the century when you're starting to see
02:36:21.020 all of the like anti-Jewish pogroms out of Eastern Europe, and especially in czarist Russia,
02:36:27.400 there's this, you know, wave of pogroms. There's also the Dreyfus affair in France, which, you
02:36:33.800 know, very famously, Alfred Dreyfus was a French officer in the French military who was accused of
02:36:39.600 leaking out, you know, intelligence and classified information, I think, to the Germans and
02:36:45.580 You know, there was a big accusation that this was done solely because he was Jewish. This is not, I don't know enough about that to give you any more details than that. But, you know, at the same time, you know, you see all of these Jewish newspapers focusing on the international persecution of Jews.
02:37:04.360 and at the same time you know at blacks that have been recently freed getting themselves 0.99
02:37:08.840 established they're looking at this thinking well we have shit at home that we need to worry about 0.99
02:37:13.880 like why are you guys carrying carrying so much about these issues if you're here in america you 0.99
02:37:18.280 should focus on the racism at home um precisely yeah kind of still happens today yeah well um and
02:37:26.020 i'm gonna quote from the book here just one little line this ain't coming from me it's coming from
02:37:30.680 him you raised a good point there about the newspapers in the book he mentions the jewish
02:37:34.760 owned new york times hey it's from the book i didn't say that but that was one newspaper that
02:37:42.020 had a lot of uh vitriol aimed at it from the black community because just like you said because
02:37:46.620 imagine this you have these jewish owned newspapers that are advocating for black
02:37:52.460 issues and and the news of the day and then uh like you said a pogrom happens in europe and it's 0.92
02:37:58.660 pulling the emergency brake and no one's talking about black people anymore so then black people 0.92
02:38:02.780 kind of take notice and this is encourages them to do their own thing but it also makes them
02:38:07.220 wonder oh is this are we just a jewish interest and they start asking themselves that again and
02:38:13.260 again over time some people might say unfairly the author of this book would say it's unfair to
02:38:18.040 ask that question but you know another case later on is something like um the six day war in israel
02:38:24.660 like that really sent shockwaves throughout every jewish publication out there and what you saw was
02:38:30.920 them once something happens to jews in europe it almost recontextualizes and alters how they
02:38:37.840 use the black liberation movement you know what i mean it's a it's a strange thing to say but you
02:38:43.180 know it lends to the idea that and this is said by many of the black leaders later on it's like
02:38:50.040 You're just using us as a vector for some larger thing that benefits you.
02:38:54.660 You don't really care about us.
02:38:55.580 You don't even want to involve us, which I said, you know, given the data here, it seems
02:39:00.360 to be accurate.
02:39:02.360 Yeah.
02:39:02.800 And I mean, again, we're just reading from the book, but, you know, the Jews, through 0.97
02:39:07.940 their instrument, the New York Times influenced foreign policy, but hurt Negroes in America, 0.93
02:39:13.180 end quote.
02:39:14.260 And this was in, you know, 1891.
02:39:16.660 That was Donald Trump, 1991.
02:39:20.040 no wonder why they arrested him. Um, but yeah. And I mean, anytime that something happens
02:39:27.980 internationally as well, um, again, a lot of the black thinkers and black, you know,
02:39:33.800 ethnic advocates will compare international events to things going on at home. Right. So like you had 0.68
02:39:40.400 the 1903, uh, pogrom in Kishinev where 49 Jews were killed, 500 were injured. Um, you know,
02:39:48.000 Booker T. Washington spoke out on this, but at the same time, other black advocates were not so much in favor of this, especially because lynchings were still happening in the United States.
02:39:56.740 And so one of the black newspapers said, Negroes are fleeing from the American Kishinev in Evansville, Indiana.
02:40:05.080 The Freeman wrote bitterly on July 25th, 1903.
02:40:08.400 Shall the Negroes go to the Tsar of Russia for protection, since neither the president of the United States nor the mayor of Evansville seems interested in protecting them?
02:40:18.000 and you kind of and this is where again and the book also highlights this too especially during
02:40:22.400 the cold war is the sort of ethnic third worldism bits that we still see being used by like the
02:40:30.200 governments of russia and china today where they'll the soviet union famously pressured the
02:40:34.780 united states on the international stage over the issues of blacks and later um also with israel as
02:40:40.640 well it's very interesting to know that you know quite a few number of jews were killed by the
02:40:45.180 Soviets as well. And during World War II and after the war that, you know, both of these issues would
02:40:51.400 be used quite flagrantly by both sides on the world stage. Yeah. You know, it's interesting.
02:40:57.680 This will, we might not get to this later on because there's a lot of notes here, but you
02:41:02.520 kind of touched on one interesting thing there, which was throughout most of this time, at least
02:41:07.280 until maybe the seventies, the sort of internationalist concern of these Jewish groups was
02:41:12.440 not uh of the black uh people in the u.s that sounds like the black people but um one example
02:41:20.440 from pulled later from the book was about and we're jumping ahead a bit here but this is just
02:41:25.920 for that's okay this this con i don't think we're going to cover the entire book in two hours but i
02:41:30.280 mean yeah you know that's okay there's certain things that jump out like one uh was the vietnam
02:41:34.840 war so jewish groups largely communist groups were agitating against the vietnam war or in many
02:41:42.360 cases coming out in favor of the North Vietnamese and advocating for the Viet Cong. But they found
02:41:48.720 when they polled Black Americans, only 18% of Black Americans wanted a withdrawal from the
02:41:56.180 Vietnam War. And that's just one example of despite what kind of became later, because
02:42:02.640 third worldism did hit Black nationalism in the 70s. But from a lot of the time, Blacks were,
02:42:09.160 they liked being american they didn't want this international thing they didn't understand 0.98
02:42:13.740 why you're giving a shit about things happening in europe this should be about america and it was 0.97
02:42:18.880 very difficult for a long time to drag black americans into this globalist position to care 0.99
02:42:24.980 about like the freedoms of the rest of the world they really just had immediate materialist concerns 0.70
02:42:30.620 most of the time and a lot of the issues that blacks were bringing to the table was just 0.92
02:42:36.060 segregation segregation up until like that was pretty much the main thing that jews are trying 0.82
02:42:41.780 to kind of get them off of and we'll get into martin luther king later but it was always just
02:42:45.980 about desegregation but they couldn't elevate them past that for most of the time and that
02:42:50.980 frustrated them i think well speaking of elevation i guess this sort of leads into one of the biggest
02:42:56.400 parts that just i felt like i should have known this given the spaces or the circles i travel
02:43:03.880 around but um i didn't and maybe shame on me or maybe youthful ignorance but you know the chapter
02:43:11.800 two the origins of the black jewish alliance spends most of the time as we mentioned earlier
02:43:16.560 on the naacp in 1909 the participants of this project were mainly from a group of upper class
02:43:23.160 german jews and wasp performers inspired by the philanthropic and political ideals of the
02:43:28.020 progressive era and a black group led by w.e.b. de Waugh this became the most important vehicle
02:43:33.320 for racial progress in the next 50 years and it was the direct result of jews and blacks working
02:43:37.520 together for common ends and i feel like the most important figure although murray friedman points
02:43:43.040 him out to sort of be this footnote in history although he does not make that case in this book
02:43:47.680 is the gentleman by the name of um and in fact they still have a medal named after after him
02:43:55.040 in the is it is are we doing it yeah let's do it let's do it uh joel sprigham right that's his name
02:44:01.120 yeah sping spingarn there we go oh i thought we're gonna do leo frank oh we could do that too
02:44:06.240 but i mean um i i felt like you know joel spingarn being the guy that they had to pry 0.89
02:44:13.340 from his cold dead jewish hands the chairman of the naacp on multiple occasions 0.57
02:44:20.700 holding that position for decades yeah it was something i just didn't know 0.80
02:44:25.900 there were two groups at the time like there was one called the urban league
02:44:30.340 which was a bit more integrated but the NAACP was notorious for not really being integrated at all
02:44:36.560 like it was majority Jewish and that's like you know I'm kind of like you because I thought oh
02:44:42.100 there's it might have been started by a Jewish individual at one point but like though it was
02:44:47.000 like majority Jew the the for the advancement of colored people it was all Jews for like the
02:44:53.540 longest time and that just I don't know like that still maybe people are used to that but that still 0.87
02:44:58.900 sounds kind of crazy to me yeah i mean i would have had no idea either and what's even more 0.99
02:45:04.660 interesting is that in the backdrop of these german jews that are really leading the charge
02:45:11.480 on the naacp is that you have again inter-jewish fighting about well why are these high-minded
02:45:18.000 wealthier german jews doing this when there are bigger jewish issues to focus on like let's look
02:45:24.100 look at what's happening in eastern europe and you have all these different camps that's probably 0.52
02:45:29.840 the wrong word to use all these different groups of jews that are like arguing based upon their
02:45:34.200 ethnic um and reformed versus orthodox ties all at the same time overheated issue you know yeah
02:45:41.680 yeah sorry that might have been too subtle of like a camp riff
02:45:47.740 odyssey odyssey yeah this might stay behind the paywall for a little bit before i release it
02:45:57.080 yeah but i really do think the naacp the reason i think if there's one group to focus on it'll
02:46:02.580 be that because what you'll notice is there's a plethora of other groups like this that spring up
02:46:08.600 over the course of the decades uh but they all follow essentially the same model um they are
02:46:14.820 at their heart jewish organizations and this is remarked upon by all these other black leaders
02:46:20.140 who gained a sort of sovereignty as you get into the 70s and 80s um and it really at the time
02:46:27.080 this is something okay i'm just going to say this before i forget because i found this so
02:46:32.540 interesting and again jumping ahead whatever but there were absent any jewish involvement
02:46:39.760 there were civil rights events happening throughout america so everyone probably knows
02:46:46.760 about the rosa parks uh bus what would you call that protest whatever direct action crisis actor
02:46:53.980 crisis actor yeah except everyone everyone knows that was a farce because it had happened before
02:47:01.300 there were other cases where people had done it in fact um in some people might say baton rouge
02:47:07.600 but i'm canadian so let's go baton rouge there is a similar protest going on on buses and what
02:47:16.880 had happened was this was absent any jewish involvement it was just happening and black
02:47:20.920 people were protesting that they were kept on the back of the bus that's racist segregationist
02:47:25.340 and so over the course of various sit-ins i think they originated the sit-in if i i think the baton
02:47:33.040 protests originated a sit-in that was copied by the other groups anyway but they had succeeded
02:47:39.280 to a point where they had come to terms with the white establishment by saying okay all we're
02:47:46.060 going to have is a couple seats at the front that are just for white people then the rest is a free
02:47:50.880 for all essentially desegregating the buses with that one little caveat that you would have needed
02:47:56.140 to get this through the southern aristocracy down there now that was interesting because like you
02:48:02.620 know what that might not have been to modernize the perfect outcome but i'm like you know what
02:48:07.500 that is an actual compromise that seems adequate and what had happened um as the the northern
02:48:14.360 jewish groups came down they would step in and say not good enough not extreme enough so i just
02:48:20.580 found that a striking example of you know blacks and whites in these areas were coming to terms 0.51
02:48:26.260 amongst themselves on the topic of desegregation but oftentimes it was these this intelligentsia
02:48:34.300 coming from outside literally bussing people in to shake things up even more and to do more change
02:48:40.460 and make more extreme change because and this third subheading of the book is that this like
02:48:47.280 we said before blacks are just a vector for a larger social justice struggle it's about total
02:48:53.940 equality and oftentimes it's about economic factors too so they're willing to like you know 0.96
02:49:00.140 play around in this black segregationist thing but they almost don't care if once they leave 0.67
02:49:06.740 blacks are better off like maybe they would have been better off if these protests were succeeded 0.96
02:49:11.940 more slowly across time and we wouldn't have these jarring changes that i think 0.94
02:49:17.600 giving people essentially social ptsd sense yeah absolutely and i mean you you also see
02:49:24.900 there's a self-awareness as we mentioned earlier from blacks realizing that they are used for a
02:49:30.840 much larger project of social egalitarianism as well as to like disrupt i mean they basically
02:49:38.440 and again this is a vast generalization but murray seems to make the case in the book so
02:49:43.460 don't go hearken after me here that more or less that jews took the issues of segregation lynching
02:49:50.660 the clan etc as a springboard to tackle the issues of self-perceived you know imminent direct harm
02:49:59.400 to jews in the united states so i mean under underpinning say like you know covenant rules
02:50:05.860 inside of the law as well as appealing to like the supreme court over various issues which includes
02:50:11.800 leo frank uh which i guess we can get into next but the thing like you know you see marcus garvey
02:50:17.080 look at look at you know he you know the jews would you know defend themselves i guess or like
02:50:22.340 spengarn himself he would say you know i really hope more blacks participate you know um i am
02:50:28.760 tired of the philanthropy of rich white men towards your race he declared in one of his 0.85
02:50:32.640 early speeches to blacks i do not i want to see you fight your own battles with your own leaders 0.68
02:50:36.900 and your own money in 1914 he told the black audience we white men fellow whites um of whatever 0.79
02:50:43.020 creed or faith cannot fight your battles for you we will stand shoulder to shoulder with you until
02:50:46.540 you can fight as generals all by yourselves um just interesting stuff but you know it is interesting
02:50:52.840 and also like we had said before i think the real one of the real stories here is that once given 0.92
02:50:59.400 that power blacks do not fight the battles as generals that the jews want and yet and so they
02:51:05.780 must re-enter into that you know what i mean like that's oh yeah frustration of the book is that why 0.88
02:51:11.440 are these black these aren't the battles they're supposed to fight they're supposed to be fighting
02:51:14.560 for you know like they christ as early back as the 60s like there was these jewish communist groups 1.00
02:51:21.680 agitating for universal basic income through martin luther king it's the same shit that's 0.84
02:51:28.120 been going on for decades yeah again that's why i wanted to review this book with you after seeing
02:51:33.420 the whole Kanye West thing I was like hey I've seen this episode before you know um whether it's
02:51:39.160 Marlon Brando or Marcus Garvey you know like someone has you know started noticing things
02:51:44.360 and gotten in trouble for it well and also I think an episode like this is so crucial because
02:51:49.940 those examples just gave where there were generations past where this went without saying
02:51:56.760 to uh the year the ears of millennials or zoomers you know this sounds like jarring shocking
02:52:03.240 information but you would find boomers even a lot older gen x are like oh yeah obviously this went
02:52:09.300 without saying this wouldn't get you in trouble saying this uh but now it sounds like almost a
02:52:15.220 parallel reality where people are allowed to like talk openly about this yeah and again you know
02:52:22.000 just this stuff you again like this book is written in 1995 i get that this is more of a jewish
02:52:28.040 sort of ethnographic expression of their relationship to black america and but at the
02:52:35.120 same time right like this was sort of like an openly said thing like yeah we we knew that jews
02:52:40.220 were in xyz positions it just hasn't really been until i think rather recently at least in my
02:52:46.660 limited time on this earth where that it's been really clamped down yeah and if i can't recommend
02:52:53.700 people who are interested in this stuff i might be showing my hand here that i know so many of
02:52:57.780 these books but um there's this great book by j.j goldberg titled jewish power inside the american
02:53:05.760 jewish establishment again uh written by a jewish guy new york times bestseller glowing reviews from
02:53:12.860 the former prime minister of israel you know it's it's a accepted book written in 1997 so it's very
02:53:18.820 similar to this where they could speak openly the purpose of that book was essentially bolstering
02:53:24.100 what we're talking about here which is that yes we have like there's something to the tune of 250
02:53:30.120 jewish advocacy groups in the u.s i might be being conservative on that number too um but there's he
02:53:36.460 will openly say yes we have these many advocacy groups the reason we have this is because uh the
02:53:43.420 world is so hostile towards us for no reason like it's done i'm not trying to get off this book but
02:53:48.020 just to give people the context here within this book jewish power he'll say yes we own the media
02:53:53.880 yes we we took we hijacked the political infrastructure to for our own purposes but
02:54:00.300 the reason is that everyone bullies us for no reason so they kind of he still manages to and
02:54:06.280 as long as you blame it on the protestants you can kind of get away with saying stuff like that
02:54:10.760 yeah as long as you blame it on the stock of the wasp bigots you're good to go but but that
02:54:16.380 illuminates why this was happening to begin with because people will ask why are they even doing
02:54:20.600 this why are they using blacks as a vector of this larger fight well it is because of you know
02:54:25.800 ethno-religious self-interest you know it's because they feel as if they're a global minority
02:54:30.480 they feel that they have a unique attunement to that identity and they almost want to drag other
02:54:39.340 groups into that orbit that might have previously not seen themselves that way so there is a story 0.90
02:54:44.620 to be said here of you know the jews teaching radicalism to blacks through through communists
02:54:50.900 and we'll get into this in a second but you know one of the red pills in this book is i think we 0.89
02:54:55.480 said this before but he essentially admits that i gotta stop saying essentially sorry but he
02:55:00.100 basically says that all jew all communist groups in america were run by jews that and the uh there's
02:55:09.620 a whole chapter on the black and jewish domination of the social sciences where we get to break down
02:55:16.020 people like frank boaz and others so yeah just the point that the from the start people say is 0.51
02:55:22.860 this just an outgrowth of what their religion their ethnicity well no kind from the very beginning
02:55:28.340 they're saying we are leftist and they use that word in this book leftist so there is a leftist
02:55:33.720 political angle to this sorry i cut you off i would i will admit though that he is not as explicitly
02:55:41.860 the author marie friedman despite this being editorialized in some places despite there
02:55:47.700 being a ton of speculation i am surprised at how non-trashy he is towards wasp people yeah i mean
02:56:00.600 like he obviously right like he's got the whole you know these quote-unquote like the secret jews
02:56:05.780 right like you know people who were forced to convert to christianity in spain and so on but 0.96
02:56:09.500 like he's never he never goes out of his way to be like you know really shitting on jesus christ 0.98
02:56:16.500 which i was pleasantly surprised by although he does acknowledge that christianity of black 0.93
02:56:22.360 america would be an issue to a point where you know for most of post-civil war south in america 0.93
02:56:29.220 especially southern blacks you know jews were the nice carpetbaggers that would loan you credit but 0.98
02:56:36.400 you know they were also christ killers uh it was a weird bit of contradiction to exist and i mean 0.99
02:56:41.360 still exists today he's got a line in the book later on um in like the last third of the book
02:56:48.000 and it is the only time i've heard him kind of do what you're saying but not really where he says
02:56:52.480 that he was trying to excuse away black anti-semitism which was on the rise at the time
02:56:57.640 in mid to late 60s and he was saying that most jewish leaders could explain that away due to
02:57:04.500 what they felt were justified criticisms of the merchant relationship blacks of the economic
02:57:11.040 relationship blacks had and he says and that's far different than you know the wasp anti-semitism
02:57:16.280 he just leaves that there he just slaps that on the table and walks away and never yeah never goes
02:57:22.180 back to it he says which is to say he thought black anti-semitism was just materialistic and
02:57:27.260 justified and everyone else's was like in their dna yeah ethno religio reasons although it's
02:57:33.280 interesting because in this and throughout the book like you see this as like an undertone right
02:57:38.060 This is that this is where you begin to see the emergence, this leftist communist emergence of trying to use classic Marxist focus on economic dependency, economic determinism, the material conditions as a way to let some steam off as a pressure release valve on issues between blacks and Jews, especially in New York City.
02:58:03.940 absolutely and and that really comes that comes in a sharper relief as you get in the 60s because
02:58:11.340 like we said early early on it was really all segregation and then once things are desegregated
02:58:15.920 they said well things still suck you know just like now it's like everything is has been legislated
02:58:22.140 away and yet we still have ghettos and yet we still have projects that are built from bullet 0.53
02:58:26.880 holes uh so what what do we do with that so then they have to keep saying well maybe 0.91
02:58:31.260 maybe we need universal basic income maybe we need wealth redistribution and really like i said
02:58:37.980 before the story of martin luther king and there's a lot to the martin luther king story we could get
02:58:42.920 into i think all type has got a good video about that but yeah you know one of the things that
02:58:48.600 becomes clear in the book is that um martin luther king essentially was a jewish puppet
02:58:54.880 and that was a criticism levied against him by other people but he had these two
02:58:59.920 like jewish almost handlers guys who pretty much wrote his autobiography they write they say that
02:59:05.820 in the book that he didn't write his he didn't write really much of what he's he's you know we
02:59:10.120 don't get into that he didn't write nothing martin luther king jr but um it was he was kind of this
02:59:15.880 puppet of these two jewish individuals and as his career went on everyone thinks of martin luther
02:59:20.500 king the i have a dream speech but a lot of people forget the tail end of his career when he was
02:59:25.640 getting into essentially communist rhetoric and they were forcing martin luther king to abandon
02:59:32.820 the race angle if you can believe that and go hard on economics and they had to really grind 0.72
02:59:39.120 him away to do that but a lot of these jewish intellectuals were getting black leaders 0.61
02:59:43.980 intellectuals to abandon race and go just for economics and anti-capitalism and that happened
02:59:50.800 of the 60s yeah and at the same time right the um you also see like we talk about sort of like
02:59:57.760 the reformed orthodox but you also begin to see the like light-skinned dark-skinned uh angle in
03:00:03.200 here as well it's being played by both sides right like um you know joel spinger and hires
03:00:09.200 walter white not breaking bad fame but who was rather a um uh you know a black but he was light
03:00:18.460 skinned he was an attorney who could visit the scenes of lynchings and secure as much data as
03:00:24.100 possible for publication um and he was just part of you know again sort of that interesting
03:00:30.100 interracial inter you know reformed orthodox bit of judaism it's all at fight here there's
03:00:36.200 i really recommend that you get a hold of this book you can find this on the archive 0.99
03:00:39.720 you can get a copy for relatively cheap for like 20 bucks or less on amazon um because we're not
03:00:46.240 it's really worth your time actually reading this yeah and there's a couple other things
03:00:52.420 like that stand out and i want to kind of get to them now because there's enough to talk about
03:00:56.940 oh yeah but um one we may do a part two i don't know yeah there's one aspect that really stood
03:01:03.220 out to me which was um again the the jewish groups involved in something that was going on already
03:01:09.660 uh one would have been you know brown versus the board of education um and you know i'm not a keen
03:01:16.440 legal mind in any sense of the phrase but i think a lot of people know about that it's about
03:01:21.520 desegregating the schools but one comment he had made in the book was that you know the this this
03:01:29.240 case was really pursued by these jewish groups to the point that a lot of black individuals
03:01:35.780 residents of the area were hesitant to pursue such a radical thing and one thing that never
03:01:42.340 occurred to me at the time but they said you know we don't want to have different schools we want to
03:01:46.160 have integrated schools and a lot of black teachers didn't like that because they would be out of a
03:01:50.400 job which makes it never occurred to me that how how often did integration have black teachers lose
03:01:58.600 their jobs or how many you know what were the ramifications of that that meant worse material
03:02:04.600 conditions on the ground for the black residents and like again another through line of this book
03:02:10.140 is the african-american hesitancy to really embrace the radicalism until much much later 0.52
03:02:17.920 but early early on like you had these black people like saying okay we want change like we don't need 0.60
03:02:21.940 to go to war with america we don't want it we're still american like black people back then they 0.63
03:02:27.660 still liked america and wanted to be american and i think that was radicalized out of them over the
03:02:34.080 decades. Yeah, I would agree with that wholeheartedly. And the book really does,
03:02:39.520 you know, hit that really hard. I mean, you see this, especially in the relationship with
03:02:45.840 union organization and other labor movements that were primely targeted by, you know,
03:02:52.360 they had a strong coalition between blacks, but, you know, the few Jewish unions that already
03:02:57.180 existed were the only ones willing to take them on. And then later, as blacks became more prominent
03:03:01.760 and other labor movements in the country you saw a significant rise of the issues of like communism
03:03:07.360 and like the federal government especially the fbi getting really concerned that there's something 0.52
03:03:11.840 going on there yeah also just uh side note this is just a little nugget of me being retarded but 0.54
03:03:19.620 i did laugh like there were so many unions back then it seems strange to you but i'm reading this 0.71
03:03:24.820 i'm like the carpetbaggers union what the what you know but there if you wanted to be like in
03:03:31.420 charge of the unions there was unions for literally every vocation so that when people
03:03:37.100 talk about you know fighting for unions like that was such a huge section of society and for like
03:03:43.720 jewish interests to kind of be leading the charge for unions at that time like it's hard it's
03:03:49.700 difficult to describe how much power that would have wielded um and i think early on this is why
03:03:55.700 blacks could point to just say oh they're helping us they're helping us with our jobs with our
03:04:00.460 employment and then they kind of moved on from that as time went on though oh yeah and i mean
03:04:06.020 you also see a little bit of the paternalism that comes out of that in this text i mean consider
03:04:10.560 some of the like we consider the link you know langston hughes of the harlem renaissance or more
03:04:15.360 famously um you know james baldwin right where um like this is about um in the chapter about
03:04:23.780 jews and blacks as allies in the arts and social sciences so if i i should have prefaced this at
03:04:30.900 the very beginning but i'm going to say this this book is an unintentional red pill for those that
03:04:36.400 are curious about a certain question on the other hand this book is also a really informative
03:04:42.320 auto-ethnography more or less as to the jewish perspective of the civil rights movement and
03:04:48.000 black liberation in the united states and it's incredibly well documented but for instance he
03:04:52.480 talked about James Baldwin, the most, and you know, the efforts to make him the most widely read
03:04:56.420 black author. Baldwin had moved beyond Jewish tutelage and the little magazines edited by Jews.
03:05:03.340 In some respects, the experiences of black writers like Baldwin paralleled with that of blacks in the
03:05:07.840 civil rights movement. Needing Jews as intermediaries with a broader culture, they initially 0.59
03:05:13.240 welcomed assistance, but once blacks had achieved leadership positions, Jews could be safely charged 0.73
03:05:18.220 with paternalism um and that is a charge that i think still exists very much today although it's 0.94
03:05:24.500 probably not paternalism anymore it's just like you don't you're going to keep the black man down
03:05:28.940 yeah well because paternalism wouldn't really be taken as an insult you know if i can see them
03:05:35.840 saying oh well it appears my superiority has caused some consciousness because really it's
03:05:42.760 oh, so you're just trying to be too great
03:05:44.800 and they go, oh, guilty.
03:05:48.360 But, you know, that is the truth.
03:05:50.600 And that was dogging them from the very beginning.
03:05:54.720 Like, even going back to, you know,
03:05:58.000 it really did start with the relationship
03:06:00.000 between Blacks and Jews in the field of merchants.
03:06:04.480 So, you know, a lot of the stereotypes
03:06:06.160 of Jews being merchants, 1.00
03:06:07.940 those were wholeheartedly believed by Black Americans
03:06:11.000 because jews went out of their way to open up their stores in black neighborhoods um and open
03:06:17.940 you know be landlords and open these buildings and you know it's difficult you know here's the 0.86
03:06:23.820 thing where i don't know where i land on this one where on one hand black people will say 0.99
03:06:29.280 that oh you run these these tenement buildings that are run down and then the jews will say 1.00
03:06:35.320 well they weren't run down until you got there i don't know who's right for that it's just jews 0.95
03:06:40.520 own buildings well a lot of that has to do with the white flight and especially is a lot of like
03:06:45.720 i mean this is something that i think is important for a non-american audience to understand but
03:06:51.700 after the civil war right you could you could almost argue and some have jokingly said this
03:06:55.820 tongue-in-cheek that the confederacy won because you had such a substantial amount of former slaves
03:07:02.400 move northward into cities like chicago like baltimore like new york city and every time
03:07:09.940 that that happened. Traditionally, of course, what does occur is that there's white flight 0.52
03:07:14.040 and in those places, you know, the prices skyrocket. There are special allocations made 0.98
03:07:18.860 in certain neighborhoods to take care of them or, you know, the people that have recently moved
03:07:22.420 there. And then, of course, blacks don't have access to lines of credit. And the few that do 1.00
03:07:28.200 offer them lines of credit are traditionally, and as the book notes, historically Jewish bankers
03:07:33.440 and Jewish, you know, convenience store owners to a point that it got so concerning for blacks
03:07:39.260 living in new york city which there was a point in time that there were actually more jews in new
03:07:43.340 york city than there were um blacks until it reached roughly a parody i think in the early
03:07:48.300 1930s and it was just talking about the desire to like have blacks boycott places like you know
03:07:54.100 blumsteins and things like that like they were upset that they were only maybe 10 of the market
03:07:59.820 you know black store owners and shopkeepers compared to 90 and they again it's that i'm
03:08:05.600 afraid my superiority has caused some problems because murray sort of waves this away as saying
03:08:09.680 like well jews historically have always had like a financial merchant you know background they were
03:08:14.680 always better at managing money they were always better at you know keeping the stores you know 1.00
03:08:18.460 shelved and stocked and could pay their employers better of course these blacks were naturally going 1.00
03:08:23.720 to fail every so often they go and what of it you know every yeah it's like there were so many 1.00
03:08:30.660 there were more jews in new york than stars in the eyes of a rabbi that sees a penny who said that 0.97
03:08:39.660 you can't just say that unless you're one of them it's the baby upstairs he's he's riffing 0.99
03:08:47.480 yeah he's dropping red pills at an early age uh yeah like you had the harlem colored merchants
03:08:52.920 association which if in 2023 if you told me that there was such thing as the harlem colored
03:08:59.040 merchants association i tell you what alt-right fan fiction are you reading um but these were
03:09:04.220 real things folks um but at the same time right you know but again um they were they were encouraged
03:09:11.100 by prominent jews but no effect and in fact a man by the name of julius rosenwald urged president
03:09:16.860 herbert hoover to hold a national conference on strengthening black entrepreneurship but nothing
03:09:21.280 came out of the proposal either times were also difficult for black run businesses to say nothing
03:09:26.580 of minority-run shops and stores.
03:09:29.520 And this is during the Great Depression,
03:09:30.960 but it was just really interesting.
03:09:33.080 Yeah.
03:09:33.600 One thing that I noted when reading this,
03:09:36.920 especially during these early relationships,
03:09:39.180 and correct me if I'm wrong here,
03:09:41.100 because I might be wading off into the weeds on this,
03:09:43.980 but it seemed to me that the Jewish relationship
03:09:47.480 with Black Americans was never lateral.
03:09:50.880 It was never equal. 1.00
03:09:52.300 So what we had just discussed was,
03:09:54.360 a there's the paternalism from the intelligentsia sure but then there is the uh the merchants and
03:10:00.720 when we say that we mean that oh uh it was funny that i was reading this and it said that uh jews
03:10:07.020 were famous for opening department stores in the ghettos where no white businesses would open them
03:10:11.180 and the blacks called them jew stores which is i don't just kind of funny to me that oh i'm going
03:10:16.700 to the jew store to buy some gum you know uh can't do that these days uh but but there's always
03:10:23.200 there's always from this like from the top down you're always a merchant you are a landlord and
03:10:29.200 uh there's a very striking part later in the book and it's buried in my notes here because i'd be
03:10:34.420 jumping ahead but i'm going to go for it i'm going to summarize it it's um i believe it was mlk and
03:10:40.480 there was a protest going on in the south and it was a sharecroppers protest and um they were it
03:10:47.360 something about wages something about unionization and i think it was one of the jewish organizations
03:10:53.540 had advised them to not incorporate whites because in the sharecropping at that time
03:11:00.120 you had whites working alongside blacks sharecropping you were working you were working 0.98
03:11:04.720 the field and so if that were generated from within from that area you might very well
03:11:10.620 have had whites standing alongside blacks as sharecroppers, as workers, and then going out
03:11:17.340 from that angle, but that's not good enough. That's not radical enough. We don't want these 0.61
03:11:22.100 whites involved. We want this to be a black story. And it's just another case of, in that instance, 1.00
03:11:28.600 that could have been a lateral partnership of sharecroppers, but you can't have that. You can't,
03:11:34.540 you can only have this reaching down from above. And I guess I'm making the point that I think
03:11:39.680 there might have been in certain instances more black white unity that happened organically and
03:11:45.760 i think that was snuffed out to america's detriment yeah i probably and maybe i'm
03:11:53.760 reaching on that but you know maybe i'm just well i don't know if you and this so this is going to
03:11:58.660 pull from outside the book but i can't help but think of bertrand de juvenel wherein you have
03:12:05.140 a new group which is successful financial well organized what you would call perhaps the
03:12:10.800 aristocracy or just the the landed gentry that doesn't obey the king right they play by the 0.98
03:12:16.800 king's rules but they are the threat into juveniles model that the top the high the king always has to 1.00
03:12:23.020 look out for because if you can squeeze them out you squeeze out any opportunity for power
03:12:28.480 because in times of revolution or in times of social change the middle or these other
03:12:34.080 aristocratic groups are potential for your to succeed you and to overthrow you and so you do
03:12:41.320 normally get a high low versus middle here where uh to prevent that from happening but in this
03:12:47.060 instance it seems like the middle the sort of like tightly knit effectively run ethnic group
03:12:54.540 you know utilized the ongoing problems of the lower classes primarily incoming eastern european
03:13:00.400 immigrants of roman catholics and jews alongside blacks in america uh to sort of like establish
03:13:06.440 themselves with their own needs to make sure that they're never taken out by the king or there's
03:13:10.660 never a pogrom in the united states and they make those comparisons a lot and they also do the same
03:13:16.380 thing during the up to the lead up of the second world war but also during it because one of the
03:13:21.920 things that really sought me as interesting was that a lot of the black anti-jewish sentiment
03:13:26.040 You know, they look towards the Axis powers for potential opportunities to govern and to rise up. I mean, there was a point in time where black leaders were calling Japan one of the places of a darker race. You know, they were calling them dark, you know, saying that they were allowed to have a proud, shining existence.
03:13:47.060 it was just very interesting to see these like racial undertones in the backdrop of what
03:13:52.120 oftentimes just gets labeled as a um you know is primarily like a jewish you know genocide
03:14:00.400 in the face of like gentile white european forces while at the same time there's also this interplay
03:14:06.240 about blacks going to war and that they they echoed a lot of the similar things about like 0.77
03:14:13.120 oh well don't participate in this war it's a jewish war and things like it's just the same 0.55
03:14:17.380 things that you hear today on twitter um in certain spaces you know we're being said out
03:14:21.620 of the mouths of blacks like yeah 70 years ago exactly and to your previous point i've long said
03:14:27.800 that the connection between blacks and anime has its roots in selma
03:14:32.880 but yeah it's like and it's almost it wasn't blacks against america like we were saying before
03:14:42.460 until much later it wasn't that you know why are we getting involved now there is it's almost
03:14:48.240 impossible to separate the american black identity from third worldism and if i can say uh you know
03:14:55.100 some credit to the author because i don't think he's a bad guy i don't think he's wrong on most
03:14:59.340 stuff he mentions that i guess the third worldification of black identity politics
03:15:06.500 occurred you know maybe this late 60s it certainly happened with jesse jackson he said but you know
03:15:12.960 the the identification of black americans with minorities around the world against white
03:15:20.200 individuals in america that didn't come until much later but i think once you do that like you
03:15:25.460 i don't think you could find a black intellectual now that would make i mean somewhere on the way
03:15:31.820 who's the guy uh who's the economist guy you know the one talking about basic economics the guy that
03:15:37.860 thomas soul yeah thomas soul like you probably find like a thomas soul who not thomas sewell
03:15:43.220 everyone thomas soul um you can tell because he's the one who's got soul uh but you know he would
03:15:49.400 be probably a pro-american guy but you know i i it's hard to look at this story and not see like
03:15:56.640 a complete separation from America period around this time as well yeah and I mean again there
03:16:04.260 were just I took some pictures because I was just like huh that's interesting um like this one you
03:16:09.620 know in pre-civil war America the views you know however a number of them especially veterans of
03:16:14.860 revolutionary again that leftist undertone you know August August Bondi was one of the three
03:16:19.760 Jews who assisted John Brown during one of his raids and it's funny because at the time of this
03:16:24.800 recording i wrote an article called uh bleeding transes where i was referencing sort of the the
03:16:33.100 violence of bleeding kansas and i think the irregular warfare that emerged from that and
03:16:37.400 how i think the transgender question might lead to more irregular warfare with groups like rainbow
03:16:41.480 reload and things like that and john brown is famous for not only the raid you know prior to
03:16:46.680 the civil war trying to start a slave revolt but also that he was part of bleeding kansas as a
03:16:52.960 radical abolitionist you know posse and little did i know that there was a connection there and
03:16:58.740 i thought oh that's really interesting had no idea yeah should we get into leo frank briefly
03:17:05.680 because i know yeah yeah a lot of people are familiar with this case but um i think the leo
03:17:12.300 frank case is right around the birth of the naacp i think the leo frank case birthed the
03:17:19.580 anti-defamation league if my history serves but the naacp was also deeply involved with that and
03:17:27.100 i had a note here that leadership of the naacp was primarily white and protestant and jewish
03:17:32.560 and their involvement in things was pretty minimal until the leo frank murder in 1915
03:17:39.540 then jews became involved when they felt under threat um and then i think the leo frank case is
03:17:46.740 really i don't know if it's ground zero for a lot of this but i a lot of people would point to
03:17:51.160 that case specifically as birthing a cornucopia of jewish advocacy organizations and did you want
03:17:58.760 to tell people what that was about because he actually he glazes over it in this book i'm not
03:18:05.260 surprised that he glazed over it although i will say the interesting part that did come
03:18:10.260 in his very it's like maybe three or five pages long he does not talk about this case
03:18:16.160 very much what he does talk about that i found was particularly interesting was that again we
03:18:22.680 talk about these quote-unquote jewish newspapers especially black papers that were calling out
03:18:27.040 things like the new york times um and that during the leo frank case you know they hired a hundred 0.90
03:18:35.180 thousand dollars for a private investigator and try and clear frank's name but all these black
03:18:40.320 papers were astounded that these mainly jewish-owned newspapers or white newspapers
03:18:45.220 were pushing they didn't even name the black gentleman in question whose testimony was 0.98
03:18:51.060 necessary to get frank sort of you know arrested but they just said he was a heinous monster black 0.69
03:18:56.800 guy you know they never mentioned him by name but they denigrated him on like the national stage
03:19:00.800 and international stage and it's just really interesting to see you know again when push
03:19:05.240 comes to shove right my interest over your self-interest i'm picking me every time f you
03:19:09.300 i've got mine yeah you know and for people who aren't familiar the leo frank case leo frank was
03:19:13.940 the uh proprietor of a department store i believe in new york but someone could fact check me on
03:19:19.280 that um and he was accused of murdering strangling i believe raping as well a young woman by the name
03:19:25.700 of mary fagan um they found her in the basement of the department store and they they figured a
03:19:31.840 black guy who did it like the janitor so a real green mile situation even though i don't really
03:19:38.820 know what the moral of that movie is but then and he glazes over that in the book doesn't even
03:19:43.560 really mention the black guy at all um but they also glazed over the fact that they were planting 0.93
03:19:48.540 evidence in this black guy's like garbage and they proved it and all the crazy behavior of this guy 0.97
03:19:54.220 but it's like every jew in the city united behind leo frank and that was a great division between 0.99
03:20:01.720 blacks and jews and eventually eventually leo frank was was james conley was the janitor's name
03:20:07.500 yes and uh and this is someone made a point i'm probably stealing this from someone but someone
03:20:13.300 made a point it's like and this happened in a very racist time so to get to get all these whites to
03:20:19.000 be on the side of the black guy you must have been a real murdering rapist and he was lynched 0.93
03:20:26.520 afterwards because but this was it wasn't in new york it was in atlanta georgia yes okay so you're 0.99
03:20:31.900 in the you're in the heart of the south you're in the heart of one of the blackest and still is 0.53
03:20:35.780 the blackest city in the united states um and the whites were like i'm not buying it yes so that 0.89
03:20:43.000 also says that white people hey we're not so bad but this this was the case that to this day
03:20:48.360 they still rally around they rally around the image of leo frank as unjustly killed because i
03:20:54.640 forget where how did i think he was on parole or he wasn't accused or something or some miscarriage
03:20:59.920 of justice and people decided to take maybe it was a black mob i didn't really say anyway the
03:21:05.620 book really like i said glazes over that and it's like oh yeah well this of course they would
03:21:10.000 every jew would feel it in their bones that they're under threat i'm like this this ain't the 0.87
03:21:15.220 guy this ain't the guy white people were okay with throwing a bad white under the bus you got 0.95
03:21:21.100 to be able to do that if you can't do that and pack it up and go home yeah i mean like to take
03:21:28.300 a look at here like the black owned chicago defender in a manner reminiscent of the amsterdam
03:21:32.300 news headline many blacks no jews arrested in crown heights almost 80 years later declared 0.66
03:21:37.120 jews raise millions to free frank and put blame on innocent man more restrained the naacp's crisis
03:21:43.380 and executive secretary james weldon johnson expressed resentment and what they saw as an
03:21:47.540 organized effort to implicate conley simply because he was black um you know at the same time
03:21:53.260 right just a pause for people yeah go for it the everyone just really appreciate this the naacp
03:21:58.840 the national for the advancement of color people going against the black guy like that that just
03:22:05.200 needs that's all you need to know about the leadership of this organization and i mean
03:22:10.640 again right you had uh this is again this is i'm going to read the short paragraph here
03:22:16.240 the trial was a mob scene as angry cries of death to the jew from white militants outside
03:22:21.040 the courthouse reverberated with an earshot of the judge and jury in this explosive atmosphere
03:22:25.000 Leo Frank's lawyers responded to the intemperate outbursts of Georgia's most powerful populist
03:22:29.840 leader, Tom Watson, who is in his weekly Jeffersonian magazine, repeatedly demanded 0.95
03:22:37.460 the execution of that filthy perverted Jew from New York with attacks of their own in the key 0.99
03:22:42.240 prosecution witness. Who is this man, James Conley? One of Frank's attorneys rhetorically asked. He 0.99
03:22:47.820 was a filthy, you know, dirty, black, drunken, lying inward. Frank also wondered how the testimony 1.00
03:22:54.540 of a southern white woman of an unteachable character who spoke on his behalf could be 1.00
03:22:58.860 disbelieved while the perjured vaporings of the black brute alone could be accepted as whole truth 0.93
03:23:04.240 so when push cams to shove right um you know racism is the defense yeah um and especially 0.98
03:23:12.420 with i'm trying to find the page here because there's a yeah just around that part you were
03:23:16.940 just quoting um the frank episode initially threatened the fledgling partnership between
03:23:22.360 blacks and jews the new york age was critical of frank supporters who thought who sought to place
03:23:27.040 the blame for mary fagan's murder on the black handyman and it goes into detail here about
03:23:33.340 just to establish this for people the scale that the jewish you know uh we're talking dejuvenelian
03:23:41.020 sort of stuff that entire middle section you had advertisers coming on leo frank's side you had
03:23:46.620 banks coming to leo frank's side politicians artists like the entire elite of the city coming
03:23:53.420 to leo frank's defense and pouring money into it and just the sight of that i really think
03:23:59.660 probably rubbed black people the wrong way because it's it's it really you know in a lot of ways like
03:24:05.360 covid like a lot of things like it shows what where the machinery of this thing actually is
03:24:10.720 and it revealed itself and people you know i don't think anyone forgot that i think i think you know 0.97
03:24:16.000 a lot of the jewish groups they do themselves a disservice by still putting leo frank's fucking 0.96
03:24:21.120 face on a coin yeah and i mean it what 69 years of silence you know where it said conley in the 0.98
03:24:30.340 body of mary fagan in his arms that day in april 1913 even though conley's claim was that you know
03:24:37.440 he was ordered to put the body away by leo frank but i don't want to relitigate this case i feel
03:24:42.460 like there are much better channels that have probably all you gotta do relitigated that go
03:24:47.280 look up leo frank look at his face you tell me that doesn't look like a murder and rapist case
03:24:51.960 closed next physiognomy check next um raper eyes but yeah and again after that trial though that's 0.51
03:25:01.300 what this is the key question that i think highlights the motivation which is ethnic
03:25:07.140 self-preservation in what i would argue is a rather schizophrenic but realistic idea that
03:25:13.840 the world is out to get you um would a european style persecution of jews now be imported into
03:25:20.380 american life out of these concerns arose renewed interest and involvement in racial conciliation
03:25:25.620 efforts in a footnote to the case indicative of its effects lewis marshall joined the board of
03:25:30.920 the naacp and served on its legal defense committee some years later in a letter to
03:25:34.920 the association's president he wrote that he was glad thereby to make amends for any previous 0.98
03:25:39.180 neglect to the black community i just again this is where you begin to see like oh shit we can be 0.96
03:25:44.520 targeted we might as well take advantage of existing infrastructure the naacp and also you 0.98
03:25:50.940 know eventually the adl just it's interesting for yeah purely historical reasons yes um i gotta
03:25:59.200 love notes here i'm trying to think if i want to get off the leo frank thing i think i got it
03:26:03.080 because um we're a little pressed for time yeah because i do need to get going shortly
03:26:11.700 because i do have a crying baby upstairs uh one day he'll listen to this and understand
03:26:18.780 that'll be weird one day to be like you know kid i was once a niche micro internet celebrity
03:26:27.000 and now i'm i named him kid now i'm a billionaire anti-semite um but but also one thing you had
03:26:36.220 mentioned there before was how much um these jewish intellectuals appealed to their own
03:26:42.760 biblical background like i have a note here of marvis garvey talking about um why he's so
03:26:48.180 interested in jews because of exodus you know the biblical exodus was was sitting at i think at the
03:26:54.900 heart of this relationship as well and um the book quotes very often from uh the the black
03:27:01.000 periodicals that we were mentioning earlier there's quite a few of them and you know it's
03:27:07.060 if you're viewing this in modern times you would think it was like a a psyop of some kind it's like 0.98
03:27:12.360 why are all these black guys talking about biblical exodus you know it just seemed like
03:27:16.620 that was the word on every you know black advocate's mouth at that time but you know i i think 0.68
03:27:21.960 that was kind of a sign that they're kind of just this is the line you go with you know don't you
03:27:26.600 want to exodus from america um and i don't think they early on recognize that that's kind of what
03:27:32.860 they're at like don't you want to separate from america and they just saw that as oh you're kind
03:27:38.220 of beings exercising self-determination you know yeah and i mean this is also where you get to begin
03:27:45.440 And what emerges is the natural sciences sort of emerge here.
03:27:52.460 Like, yeah, W.E. Dubois famously talk with German-Jewish anthropologist Frank Boas and the discussion of, you know, race science and anthropology and what that really means.
03:28:08.740 And this is where you begin to see, like, the deconstructions of race and the understanding of racial characteristics.
03:28:14.840 and this is you know years before right like genetics and iq and the bell curve memes get
03:28:19.660 posted but i mean this is at a time where they're trying to you know dissuade that actually no there
03:28:24.460 may be innate intel or mental differences between like whites blacks and jews and in fact we you
03:28:31.080 know we're all innate in this place we're all equal yeah there's speaking of science there's
03:28:37.460 i'm gonna scroll through my notes here but i read this not long ago so i'm gonna get the name
03:28:43.280 mistaken but uh like you said they were entering into science around this time and doing tests
03:28:48.640 and there's a lot of faulty science that was uh emerging during this time and one specific
03:28:53.800 experiment and this was used to argue for essentially white supremacy in america they
03:29:01.140 would do they would do tests on black people black children and you've probably seen this
03:29:06.400 in comics i think there's like some red pill comics that had this where it's like you give
03:29:10.380 a black child and a white child dolls of different races and they found according to the data that
03:29:17.840 when a black child was given a black doll they thought it was ugly or mean or evil or something 0.95
03:29:23.760 like that and they said oh my god this means that the entire education system is poisoning black 0.96
03:29:30.720 minds against themselves and this this was a big deal and this this was such a landmark study that
03:29:37.340 it influenced legislation but later on and the name of the gentleman it's a black guy who did 0.92
03:29:42.740 the study uh basically admitted later that was bullshit and that they said well we when we did 0.98
03:29:48.360 the study in the south and we gave black kids black dolls they liked them more than the white 0.97
03:29:53.420 one because why wouldn't they right if they have any sort of self awareness of self at that age
03:29:59.020 anyway but you know just as an example that there was bad science being done at this time 0.79
03:30:05.100 that was being latched upon by these jewish organizations and used to influence legislation 0.68
03:30:10.040 that was just completely not scientific at all it was wrong but i really do think a lot of the 0.51
03:30:17.100 current day arguments for white supremacy like brainwashing black people against themselves 0.96
03:30:22.840 can be traced back to this time with just junk science and just never goes away a lot of these 0.97
03:30:29.240 these studies people kind of parrot them but you know no one ever knows that it was just
03:30:33.980 a bad sample size you know yeah i mean this is also where you get the um sort of what i would
03:30:41.100 call like the stephen pinker sort of like there's one race the human race enlightenment now evolution
03:30:47.120 is good type of arguments because i mean in his most influential work the primitive man
03:30:51.600 published in 1911 boas lays out a central proposition we have found that the unproved
03:30:56.920 assumption of identity of cultural achievement and mental ability is founded on an error of
03:31:00.900 judgment that the variations in cultural development can as well be explained by a
03:31:04.980 consideration of the general course of historical events without recourse to the theory of material
03:31:09.600 differences of mental faculty in different races a similar error underlies the common assumption
03:31:16.040 that the white race represents physically the highest type of man anatomical and physiological
03:31:20.800 considerations do not support these views um end quote but he goes on later in saying in an article
03:31:27.280 titled what is race published in the nation in 1925 boas rejected the idea that race consciousness
03:31:32.900 and racial hatred reflected instinctual drives in the human nature each race contained so many 0.95
03:31:38.860 variations he argued that it was impossible to generalize them i'm gonna call bullshit 0.51
03:31:44.480 i i don't mean to be that guy but to me it really does seem like everyone's got an in-group bias
03:31:51.960 there's more than enough evidence that backs this up but imagine that being sort of like a dominant
03:31:56.460 political position for like almost a century you know um i mean it still kind of is echo today
03:32:03.080 like there aren't any differences that we're all kind of the same we can all just get along we just
03:32:06.860 have race racism manner it's all about my material conditions as classic marxists would say and it's 0.83
03:32:12.740 just a lot of this really does come down to these relationships between black jewish intellectuals 0.61
03:32:17.760 yeah once science becomes welded onto politics it's almost never removed another example people 0.98
03:32:25.520 might be familiar with would be you know sigmund freud gets a lot of shit sigmund freud did a lot 1.00
03:32:30.800 of good stuff but there there's still people out there who think oh everyone wants to fuck their 0.99
03:32:37.020 mom or their dad or something or you know the kinsey report and that was a famously bad bad 0.99
03:32:43.340 sort of report that purported to prove that everyone's secretly a huge pervert and he just
03:32:49.500 had a really really bad sample size for that but it seems that once the bad science makes its way
03:32:55.480 into the hands of a politician and gets mentioned like it never leaves the culture it's never
03:33:01.120 exiled later on and so we're still here because it got these bad studies were grabbed upon by
03:33:08.220 advocacy groups and put in front of some politician and said and now we're just still it's like in the
03:33:15.020 spirit of us and we can never get rid of these weird prejudices that's kind of metaphysical i'm
03:33:20.360 going into weird areas well i mean but it's very true i mean even to this day right we still echo
03:33:27.060 debunked or junk science that we still you know take as common fact and i mean i think that that's
03:33:34.640 also in the fact that we're in the wake of new atheism that was trying to reconcile this junk
03:33:39.020 science and it's sort of you know god not real dinosaur bone you know we can all get along
03:33:45.800 sentiments of the early aughts but i mean again it really does illustrate that this is where we
03:33:51.700 begin to see like black history like becoming a more firm political department that was supported
03:33:58.860 by like jewish intellectuals and that the bulk of sociology psychology psychoanalysis you know
03:34:07.900 in the 1930s these were all in anthropology were all finally being called out quote-unquote as jew
03:34:13.040 science um which is partially the reason why in the fall of 1933 frank boas like tries to team
03:34:21.040 up with like other black leaders and other jewish leaders how do we combat the nazis this is very
03:34:27.480 interesting tidbits of history that again like if you were to read like the jewish daily forward
03:34:33.320 or the jewish people's daily you're you're gonna look at these things like you mentioned earlier
03:34:37.700 like oh all these people in the banks and the media and hollywood and television and you know
03:34:42.360 and to someone who's kind of got questions that they want to ask um and this book treats it very
03:34:47.660 much is like no we did these things and we did it for our own benefit and here's why yeah and it's
03:34:54.000 like because they were gonna kill us that it always comes down to that in the book they'll say
03:34:58.140 well if we didn't do this of course they would try and kill us because everyone always tries to kill 0.99
03:35:01.900 us you know and then but it's mainly mainly the europeans who try to do that blacks can be 0.92
03:35:08.000 forgiven um and to this day like even with the kanye west thing you'll notice um and i hope that
03:35:13.840 that's not too dated by the time this airs but you will still see even from the most aggrieved 0.68
03:35:19.240 jewish voices that same paternalism where he doesn't know what he's saying he's just mentally
03:35:25.180 ill it seemed impossible for them to listen to connie west and believe that he was genuine 0.85
03:35:32.720 and believe that he actually knew a thing or two about he was talking about and i thought that
03:35:39.080 what i don't want for people is to lose that because you know with the kanye west you know
03:35:45.400 anti-semitism debacle it's easy to take one of many different sides on that like i always hated
03:35:51.660 him i always liked him he's right he was i'm not going to get into that but pay attention to
03:35:56.000 how he was treated um you know they tried to take everything away from him but i don't
03:36:00.880 think they ever really took him seriously what i think they were scared of was kanye west
03:36:07.840 invigorating white people um and that's so that is just to say that to this day i don't think and
03:36:15.320 some people don't care about that some people are listening like good yeah why would they but 0.95
03:36:18.420 you know to this day jews still see they still essentially see black people like animals in my 0.97
03:36:23.980 opinion or just dopes who they don't know what they're doing and they're just evolving their 1.00
03:36:28.680 ways to you know manipulate them in my opinion yeah i i would think that that maybe that was
03:36:34.380 the biggest takeaway out of the kanye west thing so i looked at it and as someone who knew a little
03:36:40.540 bit about you know like louis farrakhan and you know non-jewish actors and actresses and singers
03:36:47.920 in hollywood and even people like spike lee that had you know a not so easy relationship with jews 0.97
03:36:53.180 this is nothing new but in an age where it's easy because again this is something that i will i will 1.00
03:37:00.200 admit i'm on the record saying the liberals were right in 2016 2015 2017 when they said there was
03:37:07.840 a youtube to like alt-right pipeline that is true and there are a million of people that i can think
03:37:13.640 of and i'm exaggerating but there are dozens and hundreds of people i can think of that if you were
03:37:19.180 to ask them how they got started in this like political scene of theirs it's not because they
03:37:23.600 read like you know the the turner diaries it's because they they listened to jordan peterson or
03:37:28.820 carl benjamin and wanted more and you know at the time that was an option for them nowadays it's not
03:37:34.980 as a little more difficult but you can find them um and i think that that was their concern that
03:37:39.820 you know this popular guy who famously went from george bush doesn't care about black people to
03:37:44.420 you know christ is king and stuff like that i could imagine that that was the primary concern
03:37:50.460 like they don't want this as a social contagion coming out um but you know lo and behold probably
03:37:56.060 some threats some conditioning and a little bit of jonah hill was all that they needed to shut
03:38:00.660 it down but well you mentioned the christianity thing which is a part early in the book was him
03:38:07.080 outlining how jewish leaders thought that christianity was forced upon black america so
03:38:14.260 that was something they felt they needed to unwork that christianity was not natural to this group of
03:38:20.100 people and if there was any anti-jewish sentiment it must have come from this must have come from
03:38:25.260 as christians yeah basically that's what they were saying and so i think it was puzzling to them over
03:38:30.760 time why that stayed around and with connie west it must be said again that his criticisms are
03:38:36.800 nearly identical to the criticisms that were coming out of black entertainers in the 50s the
03:38:41.620 40s the 60s you know almost line for line you know um and maybe that's the an evidence that 0.76
03:38:47.680 they just haven't evolved their rhetoric but the fact of the matter is like they're complaining
03:38:51.960 about what jewish record label owners and that's you know most rappers now have something you know
03:38:58.440 a thing or two about that in their songs but you know a lot of it was you know this is their lived
03:39:04.360 experience that the relationship that i think a lot of black entertainers to this day none of this 0.98
03:39:10.780 has been resolved i guess that's a good summary of this is that you know what happens to the black
03:39:16.020 jewish alliance like it was a very short amount of time nothing has changed and and like you had
03:39:22.500 said about the youtube to outright pipeline the reason people like this stuff is because it
03:39:27.660 everything snaps into focus once you know this once you read like where do these arguments come
03:39:32.400 from where these positions come from oh they haven't changed since 1930 nothing's nothing's
03:39:39.340 changed and there there has been in i guess in in recent era there have been this sort of like
03:39:44.940 working class jewish lateral collaboration with blacks but i don't think so i think if you ask
03:39:51.420 your average you know black individual they will look at jews not as someone on their level and
03:39:57.020 especially if you go to the south and i think uh the book points out that the south was a very
03:40:02.780 important battleground to these jewish groups because they themselves were foreigners there
03:40:08.140 and they were interfacing with a relationship they didn't understand they didn't understand 0.95
03:40:13.340 the relationship between blacks and whites in the south and to this day i still don't think they do
03:40:19.020 and i think they're probably confused at because they they have this idea of the south the american
03:40:25.960 south as just this bigoted racist place and i'm sure it is to some respect but it's almost i think
03:40:33.740 your average black person would accept white bigotry over jewish paternalism and that's the 0.92
03:40:40.080 claim i'm gonna make and people can argue with me on that but i think a lot of people on our side
03:40:44.620 will know that's true if they've engaged with them before yeah and i mean this and the question
03:40:50.680 about these these these tropes and debates and relationships gets even more interesting as
03:40:58.500 you look at the post-1948 position over israel and i i'm skipping over the the civil rights
03:41:08.360 movement i think we i think there needs to be a part two uh if you're okay with that dime yeah
03:41:12.220 oh absolutely because i got so i got notes for days but i really wanted to focus on the issue
03:41:19.280 of of zionism and palestine real quick because this is something that i think it's really
03:41:23.760 overlooked because we do focus a lot on say people like i think this will be a good place to end on
03:41:27.960 because yeah this really kind of ties it all together yeah and so again there's a lot of focus
03:41:33.520 on, say, the early 30s, the NAACP, Leo Frank, ADL, Martin Luther King. And we'll definitely
03:41:40.540 get into the Civil Rights Movement. That's for part two. But I want to focus on, like,
03:41:44.480 chapter 16 is called Garvey's Ghosts, because, you know, Marcus Garvey is famous for instituting
03:41:50.880 the Back to Africa movement. You know, if the Jews have this idea of Zionism, and there's,
03:41:56.580 again, this book really iterates that Black advocacy groups were looking to the Jews as a
03:42:02.160 model well marcus garvey the sort of black separatist and nationalist who didn't think
03:42:06.560 that you could get along with whitey um and to some extent probably has been vindicated by that
03:42:10.840 i think in a large respect because into the when we get into the civil rights bit harold saltzman's
03:42:16.220 race war in high school is an excellent you know uh accompanying text but they were like okay well
03:42:22.540 if you know they can take over the middle east or have like a global you know jewish sentiment
03:42:27.540 why can't we have one for black african pan-african sentiments across the world as well
03:42:33.700 and you know there were some that were really adamant garvey being one of them about taking
03:42:38.380 a special interest in the fate of the palestinians and one of the biggest things that this book talks
03:42:44.680 about is the andrew young affair um so andrew young um for those who don't know was the 55th
03:42:53.080 mayor of Atlanta. He was the 14th ambassador of the United States, ambassador to the United
03:43:00.360 Nations. He was also a member of the House of Representatives in Georgia for some time before
03:43:06.260 being nominated for this position by Jimmy Carter. Now, famously at this time, you know,
03:43:16.080 this is during an issue about advancing a settlement deal with Robert Mugabe and Joshua
03:43:22.480 Nukomo, as well as the rebel leaders in the Rhodesian Bush War, which ended in 1979,
03:43:28.560 which would lead to the formation of the Republic of Zimbabwe. But the thing that got him in the
03:43:33.680 most trouble was, of course, dealing with Palestine. And this book does not offer a very
03:43:41.700 pretty picture and says that what they call the Andrew Young affair, and this is cited in the
03:43:47.800 book and it's cited by other Jews, particularly in Commentary Magazine, which used to be a very
03:43:52.160 jewish uh paper which again not my words murray friedman's not mine but he says that you know
03:44:00.380 no episode in contemporary american history has been marked by greater outpouring of animosity
03:44:04.860 against jews in the events which followed andrew young's resignation as the united states ambassadors
03:44:09.720 the united nations the black leaders who rallied a young side portrayed him as a victim of a
03:44:14.380 concerted jewish campaign to oust him from his post um as a result of meeting with zedi terzi
03:44:19.940 of the Palestinian Liberation Organization,
03:44:22.880 a meeting which violated the American agreement with Israel
03:44:25.540 not to deal with the PLO
03:44:26.900 until it recognized Israel's right to exist
03:44:29.520 and accepted Security Council Resolution 242.
03:44:33.620 And of course, he's famously photographed
03:44:35.660 and met with them, you know,
03:44:38.840 and he had, you know, the meeting had became public
03:44:42.520 when the Mossad illegally acquired transcript of the meeting.
03:44:47.280 and been controversial because of that.
03:44:51.700 So, I mean, you get this really awkward bit
03:44:53.980 and during the controversy,
03:44:57.640 John F. Kennedy Jr. tried to offer him a way out
03:45:01.520 to talk about apartheid instead,
03:45:03.340 focus on racial issues to take heat off the Jewish issue.
03:45:07.500 But they said this, and then later on,
03:45:11.160 the visiting with Yasser Arafat by Jesse Jackson,
03:45:15.040 who was going who ran for president in the 1980s um you know also really helped destroy the ties
03:45:22.140 between the two and it's really interesting because early on like towards the end of the book
03:45:27.440 they're talking about polling various jews and they were just like well we don't we wouldn't
03:45:32.700 vote for we would vote for democrats but we wouldn't vote for jesse jackson um even if you
03:45:38.900 know he won the nomination we'd probably vote for him but we wouldn't be happy about it it was just
03:45:42.820 really interesting to see how that relationship plays out because you know even to this day
03:45:48.760 there's a lot of black nationalists and black separatists that are really interested and murray
03:45:54.200 looks at this with a lot of depressing like oh you guys chose the wrong horse in this one
03:46:00.000 and you know laments the fact that the issue of israel and the palestinians is like
03:46:04.820 for some reason an international issue that divides blacks and jews in america
03:46:08.740 yeah and uh a lot of people hear the name jesse jackson and view from a modern perspective as
03:46:14.620 he's just the guy who runs the rainbow coalition he looks kind of strange he kind of looks like
03:46:20.540 what was her name the former mayor of chicago laurie light laurie lightfoot yeah he's got a
03:46:25.160 weird famine in face but it can't be understated it can't be overstated how important jesse jackson
03:46:30.760 was at this time um and we mentioned before in the episode about how he was leading a charge
03:46:35.780 of third worldism that he was almost teaching you know this this will sound paternalistic i don't
03:46:42.620 want to do that because but it's it's almost he was teaching american blacks about these
03:46:48.140 international causes and that jews being upset that black people didn't come out on the right
03:46:56.360 side of that and i think you know that might have been the last straw because you know the peak of
03:47:02.880 the black jewish alliance as outlined in this book would have been and correct me if i'm wrong
03:47:06.840 around like the civil rights martin luther king jr is essentially the peak of this relationship
03:47:13.340 and everything after that is downhill and i think as you correctly pointed out by the time we get
03:47:18.260 to jesse jackson there's almost no going back like there is no interest in any sort of you know
03:47:24.620 collaboration between black leaders and jewish leaders um and that and maybe we'll get in this
03:47:30.720 last time like the the the power politics that went on there to really introduce like the new
03:47:37.220 young radical blood both to blacks and jews by the way that's what i found was interesting that
03:47:41.920 on one hand you had like black radicals coming in and getting in martin luther king jr's ear
03:47:47.160 about how this is living in america's like neo-colonialism but then you had these like 0.90
03:47:54.160 extreme communist jews coming in and scaring a lot of these old establishment jews 0.58
03:48:00.620 who were to their their you know effort they were more uh peaceful they were more like let's let's 0.91
03:48:07.560 color within the lines let's have sit-ins let's have these protests and then you come these young 0.97
03:48:13.600 jews saying like why don't we burn down the white house and then and then they take over the old 0.97
03:48:19.520 guard's gone oh yeah he's gone and it's like these are the the last of the the aging elephants who 0.99
03:48:25.780 might have been able to come to terms in a conversation and after that you know you could
03:48:31.480 say oh it died with martin luther king no martin luther king's death was just the symptom of the
03:48:36.500 transition over towards you know we're becoming we are we are we can never reconcile and i and so the
03:48:44.240 idea is like in my and this might sound fatalist and i don't want to black bill people but you know
03:48:50.080 for black and white broad collaboration in america like i think you'd have to go back to
03:48:57.180 the 40s or the 30s like it's been so ingrained in the dna that there's you're like a it's like
03:49:05.480 two different nations within a nation you could have i think it could have been done actually as
03:49:09.920 late as the 1970s and i say this because jesse jackson who had a weird relationship with
03:49:17.060 everybody and still kind of does to this day but he was like meeting with the rnc and be like look
03:49:22.960 we need alternatives um and if you want to be competitive you're going to need an alternative
03:49:28.080 way to like get black people to to vote for you um of course that kind of falls apart because like
03:49:34.640 what is ronald reagan's election but sort of the 1980 campaign i should say really is sort of this
03:49:40.460 almost borderline
03:49:42.700 revanchist, sort of
03:49:44.540 like, uh-uh, baby, the white man is back
03:49:46.740 type deal when it comes to the issues
03:49:48.700 of states' rights and race.
03:49:51.060 And there was a really big thinking 0.99
03:49:52.520 like, oh shit, this white guy is really going to 1.00
03:49:54.600 change things around, which that never happened. 1.00
03:49:56.540 And you can look at Buchanan and San Francis
03:49:58.440 as to why the Reagan revolution was
03:50:00.400 betrayed.
03:50:01.720 But that's...
03:50:03.840 Buchanan wrote that book, but it's still really worth your
03:50:06.080 time.
03:50:08.060 Sorry, I might need to put
03:50:10.140 a terminus on this talk and oh that's no problem we can i apologize we've got cover a lot we still
03:50:15.200 have a lot to cover we will do a part two back to this yes please yes we will schedule that but
03:50:20.260 this is part one of covering um let's me make sure i kind of everything that i need here but 0.84
03:50:26.420 yeah this is a covering of what went wrong the uh creation and collapse of the the black jewish
03:50:32.940 alliance by uh marie friedman so yeah um dimes do you have anything that you would like to to
03:50:39.440 plug let us know uh sure uh my show is titled blood satellite um you can find it at blood
03:50:46.340 satellite.ca for some reason though the website is down as of five minutes before jumping on this
03:50:52.160 call uh but aside from that i also have a publishing outlet called the vanguardist journal
03:50:58.780 that's at vanguardist journal.com um and i recently uh released a book on our merchandise
03:51:06.520 store called good to suffer that's good suffer with a v instead of a u.com you can purchase it
03:51:13.300 there and a whole bunch of shirts and shit and i won't waste your time but sometimes i get too 0.74
03:51:18.060 long with the plugs and i'm cutting it there i'm not gonna plug anymore check it out check out the 0.60
03:51:22.300 show all right well by all means check out the show uh dimes and judas do a good work although
03:51:27.700 dagoth ur doesn't like judas as much but that's a or dimes as much i should say judas is fine
03:51:32.500 hmm i wonder why everyone's trying to i don't think you have a fandom until your your your
03:51:40.780 fans make dagoth or morrowind edits about you i don't think that's truly when you've reached
03:51:45.360 peak parasocial relationship yeah you're not truly a micro niche e-celeb until your greatest
03:51:51.420 followers use ai to call you gay oh well jimes we'll definitely schedule another one for part
03:51:58.780 two i don't know when i'm going to upload this this may stay behind the paywall for a bit until
03:52:02.120 we get a date down for the next one but thank you so much for coming on and help and for those
03:52:07.000 listening we're citing the book you know we're not as crazy as you think and prudential he's not
03:52:12.960 one of those guys he's not one of these you know mein kampf guys you know he's a he's erudite he's
03:52:19.160 an aristocratic soul he's not the guy you want to go after yeah by all means no you have um you
03:52:25.580 should be doing inter department intelligence community stuff like you should be going after
03:52:30.320 your other glowing psyop people like
03:52:32.220 Richard Spencer. Not me. I don't
03:52:34.420 glow. Go target the other guys from the
03:52:36.280 other department. But yeah,
03:52:38.360 we'll see you all next time, fellas. Take care.