Jack Posobiec, host of Human Events Daily and Turning Point USA contributor, joins me in a virtual Q&A with the kids at OSU to discuss generational theory and the 4th Turning. We talk about how the 4 generations are molded by the events that they were exposed to in their early childhood.
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00:01:10.000Well, thank you so much for having me, OSU. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard to a very special evening with Jack Posobiec, the host of Human Events Daily and a Turning Point USA contributor.
00:01:24.560I apologize for not being able to be there with you in person, just with everything going on this week.
00:01:30.500And schedule got changed around and things got moved around. And though I will note, I will note that I am here with you tonight and not down at Mar-a-Lago.
00:01:38.260So take that for what you will. But I am here tonight and I'm here to speak with you because I wanted to keep this commitment with you.
00:01:46.400And when you make a commitment, you really do have to keep a commitment because we live in a world of a lot of chaos, a lot of tumult, a lot of crisis.
00:01:59.020And one of the things that we talk about on the show very often is this thing called the fourth turning.
00:02:04.260And, you know, the way they have the camera set up, I can't see the audience, but if you guys have heard of the fourth turning, it's essentially this theory that goes back to Strauss and how they wrote this book in the 1990s, two books, actually.
00:02:16.440One book called generations and one book called the fourth turning. And they believe in this idea called generation theory and generation theory was that every generation through essentially 20 year cycles is going through and putting society through the same 80 year cycles that they've been able to extrapolate from history.
00:02:38.660And what they call these cycles are turnings and that it usually happens pretty much with around every 20 years.
00:02:46.840So, of course, you might be familiar with, you know, the four generations that are, you know, that are around.
00:02:53.160So, you know, you will say like, well, OK, there's the baby boomers, there's Gen X, there's millennials, and then there's Zoomers. Right.
00:02:59.780So everyone's talking about those four generations all the time. Well, what's interesting is that generational theory fits perfectly within Strauss-How generational theory, that nomenclature that we use all the time about the four types of generations.
00:03:12.720And then the interesting piece of generations, and then the interesting piece of this, though, is how those generations were molded by the events that affected them in their early childhood.
00:03:23.080This is what Strauss-How believed, that those events then lead them to when they become into positions of power themselves, when they go on to become leaders of society, business, culture, thought leaders, et cetera, what have you, music.
00:03:39.500That those same beliefs and those same pressures then have an effect on the way that they wield whatever type of political, cultural, and economic power that they have when they're older.
00:03:53.820So one of the ones that you'll hear about a lot is people say, well, baby boomers have all this money, and baby boomers are used to the world being totally prosperous.
00:04:01.680And because when they were born, the world was prosperous, and everything was great, and America was, everyone was making so much money, and you could get a job.
00:04:09.540And it was this idea of you would get your job right out of college, you would stay at that job for 30 to 35 years, you'd work there until you were 65, you would retire, you'd get your Social Security, boom, you got Social Security.
00:04:20.100And if you're lucky, Social Security and a pension, and then you would get out and pop off.
00:04:24.600Myself, I'm a prior Navy intelligence officer, and in the military, there was this idea that you could stay, and this is actually changing, but there had been, and that kind of ties into what we're talking about tonight, that that ties into you would stay for 20 years, 20 years, you get your pension, boom, you're out.
00:04:40.920So what a lot of people would do is they would graduate high school, 18 years old, join the military immediately, boom, 20 years, now you're 38, 38 years old, getting a pension, then you can go and work for the government another 10 years, now you're 48, you're getting two pensions, or you're working for some company, you do another 20 years or so, you're only 58.
00:05:00.300So you're still under that general retirement age, but you're essentially making enough money to live for the rest of your life.
00:05:06.360And this was the economy that baby boomers were born into.
00:05:10.320And so to bring it back to Strauss Howe, there are four cycles, right?
00:05:14.600There are these four cycles that seem to play out over and over throughout American history in 80-year cycles, four periods.
00:05:23.380So here are the four turnings, as they call it, to use their nomenclature.
00:06:01.420They then start attacking those institutions that were created during the high period.
00:06:05.500So this incoming generation, and you can see this with the sexual revolution in the 1960s going into the 1970s.
00:06:13.220You can see this with attacks on essentially, quote unquote, the government itself, the institution of law enforcement, the ability of Western society in a whole.
00:06:23.640And you're seeing, by the way, the fruits of people who grew up with those beliefs now currently being in power.
00:07:14.780It's an era that has always been outlined and underpinned by bloodshed.
00:07:21.000And if you go back throughout United States history, in their book, by the way, if you go purchase the book, Strauss Howe, it goes all the way back to the 1400s.
00:07:30.680It goes back to essentially to the dawn of the Renaissance or even pre-Renaissance medieval Europe.
00:07:36.500And so if you just go back in U.S. history, though, 80-year cycles, right?
00:07:42.200Well, 80 years before was World War II.
00:07:45.38080 years before World War II is the Civil War.
00:07:48.60080 years before the Civil War is the American Revolution.
00:07:53.040And so World War II was almost exactly 80 years ago.
00:07:57.240And so the contention is, are we rife?
00:08:01.880Are we rife for another conflict right now?
00:08:06.140Well, I hear a lot of people talking about a new American Civil War, a second American Civil War.
00:08:10.820Some people even talk about national divorce, blue states, red states.
00:08:41.420Ukraine's fighting back with assistance from NATO, massive assistance through weapons, through money.
00:08:48.600Some of that money is being laundered through groups like FTX, this path-through organization, which to me looks like it clearly had some kind of intelligence ties.
00:08:57.440Obviously had money laundering ties going on there.
00:08:59.760The guy is essentially going, hopefully going to jail for that at some point when the investigation has continued, this sandbanked and freed.
00:09:06.800But the larger point is what he represents and what that entity of FTX truly was.
00:09:12.120Because we've seen banks in the past be involved with covert operations all the way back to Iran-Contra, back to the cartels, the Medellin cartels, Pablo Escobar.
00:09:23.960I mean, these types of things have been going on throughout the United States intelligence agencies for generations now.
00:09:29.700And so when you look at something like FTX and the fact that it's tied to so many of these top players like Tony Blair, like Bill Clinton,
00:09:37.800it really makes you open the question and beg the question of who exactly was benefiting from this by allowing it to go forward.
00:09:45.520And keep in mind that we only know about the collapse of FTX because apparently this guy was not only skimming funds, which of course, you know, banks do that.
00:09:55.880But he was using it to prop up his girlfriend's hedge fund and the whole thing went completely under.
00:10:03.400If your outflows do not match your inflows at some point and people start to call you on that, you are going to get caught.
00:10:11.080Which I do laugh because, you know, I say if you, you know, if you think what FTX did was bad, wait till you find out what your bank's doing, right?
00:10:18.140Wait till you find out what Wall Street's doing.
00:10:19.680But at the same time, because of the international ties here, specifically with the ties to Ukraine at the beginning of the war,
00:10:25.720that it was chosen as this anointed financial institution for the purposes of investing and bringing these FTT coins into Ukraine, be able to donate them.
00:10:41.320You know, it really opens up this whole black box, which probably goes into a number of coins beyond FTX.
00:10:48.500I mean, I would look at some of the stable coins, for example, but just crypto in general as a huge, huge, absolute playground for the intelligence services from not only just the U.S.,
00:11:00.560but across NATO, across the Five Eyes and even other countries to be able to launder money in a way that you don't even need a bank anymore.
00:11:08.180You don't even need, you know, the money guy flying the planes back and forth like Barry Seale used to do for the Medellin cartel and the CIA.
00:11:16.340You can just run it through crypto and then you just need some guy to be the front of your operation.
00:11:20.760So, sure, this guy, Sam Bankman-Fried, if this indeed is true, well, sure, he probably had no idea, right?
00:11:29.500He was set up to fall and now fall he shall.
00:11:32.260And we're seeing the outcomes of that play out, but the people and the players that were above all of this, well, they'll never be caught and they'll never be brought to justice.
00:11:39.960But going back to that idea of the fourth turning, because we're in a situation now with Russia that, you know, look, you've got a couple of rockets that have struck Poland and Poland is NATO territory.
00:11:55.020Now, for me, being someone who is from a Polish family, that's close to home, right?
00:12:01.680I've got family that lives in that border region between Poland and Ukraine.
00:12:05.680And in fact, when we visited Ukraine over the summer, I actually stayed in my family village.
00:12:14.180And our village is very close to Lezysk, which is really, really close.
00:12:19.300I mean, we stayed in their village the night before we went to the train station and then took the train further on into Lviv and then on to Odessa.
00:12:28.180And then we actually took a car to Nikolaev.
00:12:30.940But the situation is very close, is very caustic, and the tension is very high.
00:12:37.680Now, it seems as though that some of the initial shock and response to this has come down.
00:13:10.520It opens up this question of the fourth turning, a bloody crisis.
00:13:18.620We've all been talking about World War III so much lately, and it's gotten to the point where it's been completely normalized.
00:13:26.180During the Cold War, by the way, go ask your parents or if you remember back then, people talked about World War III all the time.
00:13:34.660People have been talking about World War III since the end of World War II, since 1945.
00:13:39.340And I don't think that after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, if you had told someone, well, it's going to be 80 years and we'll go 80 years without someone using a nuclear weapon,
00:13:50.240We're not going to go eight months without someone using a nuclear weapon because once this technology gets out, it's going to proliferate.
00:13:56.100But what was interesting about nuclear weapons is that when various world powers were able to receive this technology,
00:14:03.920they actually had sort of an inverse effect that we haven't seen before in the world of warfare,
00:14:09.900where a new technology that is capable of great and global destruction, widespread destruction,
00:14:18.140actually creates the conditions for peace more so than more war because if, and if you notice,
00:14:27.060the permanent members of the Security Council are all the nuclear nations, that if the United States uses nukes, then Russia can respond.
00:14:34.720If the Russia uses nukes, then the United States can respond.
00:14:38.280Even if Washington has taken out our long-range strategic nuclear missile submarines,
00:14:43.580the boomers that are always out there from Kings Bay, Georgia, or Bremerton, Washington,
00:14:47.300are always available and exist for that express purpose of second strike capability.
00:14:54.840So second strike capability is always on the table.