My brother, Kevin Posobiec, the Human Events Florida Bureau Chief, joins me live from the south tip of St. Pete to talk about the storm and the damage it's wreaking on the streets of the area.
00:06:13.500Kevin Posobiec down there, our Florida Bureau Chief for Human Events, live in St. Petersburg, Florida.
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00:08:11.660Now I want to bring in, Kevin is going to move over to a different area as the tide is rolling in.
00:08:17.440He's got to get out of that specific latitude that he's in right now, but he's going to move over to potentially give us a different shot, different areas of the Tampa Bay area.
00:08:26.360But while Kevin is doing that, we're going to come back to him on the ground, kind of live switching here on the show.
00:08:31.660I want to bring in Natalie Winters of The War Room.
00:08:37.960Natalie, boy, you certainly moved out of Florida at the opportune time, huh?
00:08:41.340I am so happy to be the intermission for Kevin Posobiec and Jack Posobiec doing this show together.
00:08:49.600But yes, today I guess I am, although I was living in a part of Florida that is not, at least allegedly, in the reported path of the hurricane.
00:08:57.560But of course, my thoughts and prayers to the people who are going to be affected by this.
00:09:01.400But make no mistake, I think what the federal government in and around Washington, D.C. has planned for us the next couple of months, I don't know if it will be quite as bad as the impact of the hurricane.
00:09:11.840But something tells me that there's a chance, at least when it comes to COVID-19 and potentially the mask mandates and lockdowns that they might want to roll out, it very well could be.
00:09:20.840You, yeah, you stole my thunder there because I was literally just about to say, it seems as though Washington, D.C. is planning a storm for the rest of the country when it comes to 2024 or possibly going into 2023, when we're looking at the return of the mask mandates, the continuation of the COVID-19 election protocols.
00:09:39.340Walk us through your latest reporting.
00:09:41.560You've uncovered new government contracts related to COVID-19.
00:09:48.140Well, to put this story in context, I think it's important to really emphasize that the week that predated this basically, you know, mass rollout of the mask mandates and lockdowns, whether it was in California studios and various branches of the VA, even in some colleges, it showed the CDC data, which even though I'm skeptical of CDC data, that of the 324 COVID-19 cases countrywide, just 1% of them, 1% of the deaths were actually due to COVID.
00:10:17.540The rest were just deaths with COVID, which is an important distinction that, of course, we focused on a lot during the first iteration of the pandemic.
00:10:25.800But why this is so important, because there basically is no justifiably scientific evidence-backed pretext to be supporting these new mask mandates, these new potential lockdowns.
00:10:37.540And what's so weird, at least from, I would argue, even a more concrete aspect of what they're planning to do with COVID-19 is when you take a look at the federal expenditures, particularly in terms of government contracts and government grants.
00:10:52.640And the story that I published just a few days ago, dovetails with a story that I'd published about a week ago that had to do, shine the light on contracts that were coming specifically from the Department of Defense and the VA.
00:11:05.880Those were contracts for COVID-19 equipment, for test kits, and for COVID-19 safety protocols, enforcing those among different companies, sort of vague exactly what they meant by that.
00:11:17.440But this new story, now we're starting to see contracts pour out from the Department of Health and Human Services, in this case, going to firms who are focused on pandemic surveillance, emergency health response.
00:11:31.300And I think what the most concerning part is, Jack, to me with all of this, is that it's not even that the start dates on these contracts are, you know, right now or a month from now or two months from now.
00:11:42.220It's when the end dates are, because luckily, usaspending.gov, you can see the projections of how long these contracts are supposed to run for.
00:11:49.840And in a lot of cases, these contracts are scheduled to run through the year 2028.
00:11:54.580The ones coming from HHS are scheduled to run conveniently through 2025, just after Donald Trump, hopefully, have been sworn in again.
00:12:02.400But I think that level of planning, I think it really dovetails with what we've always said about COVID-19.
00:12:08.480In other words, it's never really been about public health or looking at the cases and how to best stop the spread.
00:12:13.920It's always been sort of exploiting the issue to achieve a greater social goal, a social agenda, which I think in this case is just broadening the power of the administrative state.
00:12:24.660I think they know they're under deep threat from, of course, Donald Trump.
00:12:28.580But it really is curious, I think, the years that they have planned out when it comes to these COVID contracts.
00:12:34.880And there's no way to explain yourself out of it.
00:12:37.760It's absolutely bizarre that Joe Biden is already purchasing COVID contracts through the year 2028.
00:12:43.920So, so walk me through this because we've been sitting here, look, look, Natalie, with my, my friends, my family, et cetera, network throughout the entire country, at least when it comes to this.
00:12:55.920I don't hear anybody coming to me and saying, oh, COVID-19 is on the rise.
00:13:00.120I don't hear anybody in my network and my sources.
00:14:12.840The evidence, the so-called facts, even if you take the CDC at its word and its data, like I said, the week preceding these mask mandates, people getting the impetus to start wearing masks again, 1% of people who died either with or from COVID, COVID was identified as the primary cause.
00:14:31.860So, again, the science has never really supported the conclusions of the experts.
00:14:35.380But in this case, it's all the more perplexing because at least during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, that death rate hovered around 30%, whereas now it's just 1%.
00:14:47.760But I think it goes to the bigger picture, Jack, which is, of course, what you're always spending your time talking about.
00:14:53.360And I think the last time I was on your show, we'd actually linked these two narratives together because in the same day that we started to see the mainstream media really press on, really, really start to vamp and flood the zone with the pro mask talking points, with the booster talking points, with all of that, you also started to see, I think, some interesting rhetoric coming from them about how elections are now superfluous.
00:15:16.020Democracy is, you know, democracy is dead.
00:15:18.920We should just select our officials through random lotteries that was, of course, coming from The Atlantic and The New York Times.
00:15:25.420But I think the other key point to make here, too, you know, as much as I think we really should focus on the absurdity of the CDC statistics when it comes to the death rate, the almost, I think, more important number in all of this, if you really want to get to the bottom of what you're starting to see, the masks and the lockdown talk sort of come back, it has to do with the profits, of course, of Big Pharma and Pfizer and Moderna.
00:15:47.280And if you look at the just free fall that their profits, their revenue has been in since really the decline of COVID-19, it's no secret that they would want to revamp these boosters.
00:15:58.760Well, and it's like you're seeing the program activation go on.
00:16:03.660And because I see people like this in the D.C. area, look, I do try, you know, we clip and I have the staff check out CNN, MSNBC on a regular basis, but we don't miss, we don't catch everything that's on there.
00:16:14.560But I'm seeing now more people on these networks that are talking about COVID-19, they're referring to COVID-19, they're bringing it up more, and suddenly you see the resonance with their audience.
00:16:31.200And that's what you and I are observing here in the D.C. area, the D.C. metro area, is the response is almost like the programming has been activated once again.
00:16:44.040I think that's precisely the point, although I think the silver lining is that I do think a lot of people are not going to comply again, they're not going to put up with it.
00:16:55.900But I think it's unfortunate that we even have to say those words, you know, do not comply, that that is the slogan, because I think that that slogan really is an indictment on, I think, the Republican Party, our Republican officials.
00:17:10.540In other words, there shouldn't be mandates, there shouldn't be lockdowns, there shouldn't be these policies that we don't even have to say we're not going to comply with.
00:17:20.160These agencies, these contracts should, first of all, not be funded.
00:17:24.200If you want to talk about weaponization of government, I think a great way to stop the weaponization of government would be to strip them of their power that will allow them to institute these mask mandates on federal contractors to strip them of their ability to mandate the vaccines, the boosters, which, of course, Joe Biden has sort of been hinting at.
00:17:40.980But I really just dislike that slogan. And of course, you know, the mindless people who watch the NBC, MSNBCs of the world and take their word as high church, of course, they're going to go along with what they're saying, although it is, I think, an interesting psychological experiment to see that the narrative, the fear tactics really are cutting through.
00:17:59.080But I really think this this time, this wave, we need to have House Republicans step up.
00:18:05.680And if they are actually committed to ending the weaponization of the federal government, well, right now is the time to actually not just put the money where the mouth is, but take the money away from where Joe Biden's mouth is, because I think what they're planning to do with COVID, they know they can't beat Donald Trump.
00:18:21.780That's why they've indicted him, impeached him, you name it. So they're going to have to beat him with lawfare. And that's what the mandates are.
00:18:28.020Republicans absolutely need to use the power of the purse strings. Folks, the maskies have been reactivated. It's been switched on. Stay tuned. Coming back with more with Natalie Winters. And then also we'll get another field update from Kevin Posobiec, our Florida Bureau Chief, down in the storm itself.
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00:20:28.980Now, folks, we need to understand something. You need to understand that you need to go out there and you need to be training. You need to be putting on masks. You need to be getting bigger. You need to be getting huge.
00:20:45.320These maskers will not quit. You will see them in the supermarkets. You'll see them in the churches. You'll see them in the airports. They will come after you when they see you not masking.
00:20:58.280They might come after you three, four, five at a time. You might have to fend off entire swarms of maskers. You can see them, the rage and insanity bleeding out the sides of their eyes.
00:21:11.160This is exactly what's going to happen. It shall come to pass. It's starting in D.C., but it's coming to a neighborhood near you.
00:21:19.480Natalie, walk us through. Why is it that when we talk about the maskies, why is it that you have these people, they say they follow the science, they say they pride themselves on being certain, many of them very highly educated.
00:21:33.100Why is it so easy for the media to essentially activate these people like this?
00:21:41.160Well, I think when it comes to the media and the propaganda that they spread, I think that there's a much bigger agenda at hand.
00:21:48.800And I think that, unfortunately, this agenda is often implemented in conjunction with, of course, all the Fortune 500 companies, all of Wall Street.
00:21:57.420But in these civil society organizations, too, of course, the Gates Foundations of the world, the Rockefeller Foundations, and it shouldn't be lost on anyone that just about a week ago, the WHO announced their new partnership, one of the most expansive ones they've ever done with civil society groups, you know, all of the Gates Foundation, those types.
00:22:15.700But if you think about, right, the United Nations and their sustainable development goals, right, they couch it in all these euphemistic terms.
00:22:23.900If you really go by point by point, you know, end poverty, you know, end sickness, people shouldn't not or should always have access to clean drinking water, you know, end hatred, stop the spread of misinformation.
00:22:37.240And it's these very basic things that you would think, you know, yeah, I guess I would support ending poverty, you know, but when you when you really get in, I think, to the nitty gritty, to the semantics of the agenda, you know, that's sort of the front man.
00:22:55.560Just like, you know, put on your mask or you're going to kill grandma, get your booster shot or you're a bad person.
00:23:01.560You know, I really think that they really game plan and war room, for lack of a better term, these slogans, these messaging, the sort of appeal, not just to logos, but really to ethos among Americans to really hone in on how to get these people to wear masks.
00:23:22.980And that brings me to my second point, which I think the bigger picture, it's not really even about them wearing the masks.
00:23:29.440As we know, the masks don't really even work.
00:23:33.260And frankly, if anything, they're probably more negative for your health and consuming the BPAs, the plastics, not being really able to breathe.
00:23:41.800I would argue they probably know that, too.
00:23:43.840But I think the point is just compliance, right?
00:23:47.180The World Economic Forum, the United Nations, they would love nothing more than a world where people are running around with masks, because, of course, that means you're going to be scared.
00:23:57.040You're more likely to get the vaccine.
00:23:58.620You're more likely to get the booster.
00:24:00.020But at the end of the day, I think these people are just power hungry tyrants.
00:24:03.620And I think they just enjoy, really, the concept that through one segment on MSNBC, which really is a consolidation of power, that I don't think we've seen since recent times.
00:24:18.220Even some of history's best dictators didn't have that reach, that ability to persuade people.
00:24:23.500But through the medium that is media, I really think they can hone in on the psychological warfare, on the information warfare, and really, Jack, too, to always bring it back, of course, to the CCP.
00:24:36.960I mean, we always talk, of course, about elite merger, the idea that our elites have really stolen the tactics in the toolbook from the Chinese Communist Party.
00:24:46.640And when you look at the three warfares doctrine, you know, lawfare is paramount in that, but so is media warfare, information warfare, and psychological warfare.
00:24:55.740And I think that COVID-19 is perhaps the best example of how that doctrine of, you know, non-traditional warfare, non-kinetic warfare, really was rolled out and deployed against the American people.
00:25:09.300The legal warfare, of course, coming on the side of the mandates, forcing you to get it, if, you know, you enter a job without a mask, you could be fined.
00:25:18.520And I was just going to say, to tie it in to the economic effects, the Wall Street Journal's out there with a piece today saying right now that China's economy is actually contracting.
00:25:29.060The 40-year massive expansion of the CCP, the People's Republic of China, under the CCP, has begun to slow down.
00:25:37.280All of this was presaged on COVID-19 because, remember, it was the CCP, it was Xi Jinping, that shut down domestic travel, internal travel inside China after COVID-19 was leaked from that lab.
00:25:58.440Then, once it leaked, it was the CCP that decided, all right, if we are going to take the economic hit, then we want everyone to take the hit with us.
00:26:08.420That's why they are going to want to see the rest of the world slow down the same way that even the Wall Street Journal is pointing out that with all the work that the CCP is able to do to manipulate the currency, work with stocks, outflows, etc., dealing with Russia, got it, because we've driven them together.
00:26:23.760Their slowdown will become our slowdown because, Natalie, it's as you just said.
00:26:31.140The elite merger came first, but then that co-joined the economic merger of the U.S. economy and the Chinese economy.
00:26:40.980This is why the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is so pro-China.
00:26:44.240And, unfortunately, I think there's a lot of Republicans out there, like Nikki Haley, who would love to demonize, you know, we need to go to war with Iran.
00:27:07.580Because they're all getting paid from.
00:27:09.720Nikki Haley, by the way, has become very, very wealthy since she's left office.
00:27:13.660Natalie, is it because of this relationship that we're seeing it reflected in our politicians?
00:27:20.940Yeah, I mean, that's the ecosystem that these establishment type Republicans and Democrats operate in.
00:27:27.080I would argue that the Chinese Communist Party and their various proxies, probably the largest financiers, if you're looking to get rich quick and you're a member of the establishment.
00:27:36.640So they know that they're not going to bite the hand that feeds them.
00:27:39.440I mean, just look at Hunter Biden as an example.
00:27:41.900If you have absolutely no skill or talent in the business world, look at all the money, the tens of millions of dollars that you and your family can rake in from the Chinese Communist Party just because of your last name and who your father is.
00:27:54.120And Nikki Haley is sort of another example of someone who is just part.
00:28:00.500It's just the status quo, really, of the ruling class in this country, where if you want to step out of line and dare to criticize the Chinese Communist Party in a truly meaningful way, not just saying, oh, the human rights abuses and what's going on in Xinjiang, you know, is a stain on our human rights record and on their human rights record as a country.
00:28:21.380But if you actually want to get into the real talking points, right, the Chinese Communist Party is not merely a competitor, certainly not an ally.
00:28:29.660They're an existential threat set hellbent on taking out the United States as the leading world power in the current world order.
00:28:38.260Of course, the World Economic Forum and the United Nations are taking shots to to reorient that world order, too.
00:28:44.240But people like Nikki Haley profit off of and benefit from the status quo.
00:28:48.960And I use the term profit quite literally.
00:28:51.040You're, of course, talking about the fact that she's earned so many cushy board positions and board seats on various defense contracting firms.
00:28:59.240Her husband just started a defense contracting consulting firm too conveniently.
00:29:03.580And now they seem to be living the highlights.
00:29:05.900But look no further than her track record when she was governor, because her administration not just did they welcome, I think it was in one year alone in 2015, over six hundred and sixty million dollars in foreign investment coming from the Chinese Communist Party into South Carolina, which, of course, they couch in euphemistic terms.
00:29:22.660Oh, it's great for the American economy. Well, it's also a very high national security risk.
00:29:27.600But she's also someone who was on record back in those days during her administration, praising Chinese Communist Party investment.
00:29:36.200And as someone who has honed in a lot of my research on the way that the Chinese Communist Party sets out to really influence and infiltrate politicians, a lot of her talking points, right, praising foreign direct investment coming from China into the United States.
00:29:48.620That's one of those talking points that is a telltale sign that someone is definitely way too cozy, if not close to the Chinese Communist Party.
00:29:58.840And if she I mean, we don't even really have to waste time trying to dunk on her because there's absolutely no way that she'd ever become the president of the United States.
00:30:07.020But I think people just need to remember that she is, for lack of a better word, a listless vessel carrying the talking points of the establishment with apparently a little bit of Chinese Communist Party cash thrown in there.
00:30:20.360You might even call it you might even want to go so far as calling her a listless vassal in that case with her mansion right off of the coast of Charleston on Kaiwa Island.
00:30:29.380I just came up with that just now. That's off the dome. Poso off the dome.
00:30:32.620Natalie Winters, where can people go to follow someone who is not a listless vassal such as yourself?
00:30:40.400Indeed. You can find me at Natalie G. Winters on all social media platforms.
00:30:44.580And of course, warm.org. I'll be hosting the show tonight at 5 p.m.
00:30:48.880Now, is it true? Can you confirm the rumors that you'll be posting more golf tutorials to social media?
00:30:54.720Have I seen there's been a lot of chatter in the comments, you know, can you put these rumors to best to rest?
00:31:01.300If that's what the people want, then I will give the people what they want.
00:31:05.060So, yeah, the voice of the people, Natalie Winters.
00:31:08.880God bless. Stay tuned, folks. Human Events.
00:31:11.180Next up, Rob Smith was an interesting take on Blacks for Trump. Stay tuned.
00:31:16.720My dear about the boring people at your office, I'm trying to listen to the new human events with Jack Posobiec.
00:31:24.720All right, Jack Posobiec, back live, Washington, D.C.
00:31:28.460I want to bring on now another individual from Florida, from the dry side of Florida.
00:31:34.020You guys know him. You love him. You follow him.
00:31:36.220Rob Smith, political commentator, joins us now at Human Events.
00:33:23.840And so when I see this narrative start to happen via social media, that because there's a Trump mugshot and a couple of black people put some Twitter videos out that all of a sudden there's going to be these pie in the sky, sort of like 30, 40 percent black vote for Trump.
00:33:37.180It strikes me as, number one, completely absurd and number two, fundamentally not understanding the infrastructure that is needed or what the numbers really were in 2020.
00:33:48.200So I thought that it was really just a bunch of a bubble that I think needed to be popped with reality.
00:33:55.520And I'm not saying this. I'm not some sort of surrogate for any other candidate.
00:33:59.260I'm not a surrogate for any candidate.
00:34:00.840I'm just somebody that is out here kind of speaking the truth.
00:34:03.820Right. So you cannot tell me that the blacks for Trump centers that were set up that were disbanded after the election, you know, all these people that were hired, they went God knows where.
00:34:14.360Right. So that infrastructure is gone.
00:34:16.640They didn't stay in the communities and do the outreach in between elections to make that happen.
00:34:21.000Right. So now you've got Trump dealing with all the legal stuff that he's dealing with, which led up to that mugshot.
00:34:27.560So you have all of these different things that are going on right now.
00:34:31.280And yet you're going to tell me that the black vote is going to be even three times more than what he got in 2020.
00:34:39.220And furthermore, just as a man, as a black man, as a human being in general, the idea that some sort of mugshot is going to make Donald Trump more relatable to black people, whether it's me or somebody from the hood or whatever, it is ridiculous to the point of being laughable.
00:34:55.800Right. I'm not offended by it because I don't get offended by much.
00:34:58.720It is just so silly, so ridiculous and so divorced from reality that I can't even believe that people are still seriously having the conversation.
00:35:08.560I will happily vote for Donald Trump if he becomes the party's nominee, because it is either a vote for Trump or a vote for communists.
00:35:16.480And I'm not a communist. OK, but this idea that he's going to get 30 to 40 percent of the black vote because of a mugshot is patently ridiculous.
00:35:24.980Well, and so you made a point as well, talking about the sources of where people get their information, the idea that liberalism is widespread within the community.
00:35:39.160And I think that a lot of people don't understand, particularly on our side of the aisle, because a lot of conservatives and Republicans tend to be divorced, not only from culture in general, but particularly from African-American culture.
00:35:50.400And the points that I made were this. So you have platforms like The Shade Room, platforms like Hollywood Unlocked, platforms like The Breakfast Club.
00:35:58.340These things are directly oriented towards African-Americans.
00:36:01.740They get tens of millions of followers, viewers every single day.
00:36:05.300And that is where black Americans go to get their information out there being propagandized by these sources.
00:36:12.220Absolutely. But that is where they are.
00:36:14.420They're not necessarily, you know, even I have a lot of followers, you know, there's black conservatives, Candace Owens, Larry Elder, Brandon Tatum, love all of them.
00:36:24.360We have, you know, these people have millions of followers, but we can't battle the infrastructure that is put in place by liberals and the left to literally propagandize African-Americans everywhere they go.
00:36:37.080And forget social media. Think about the D.L. Hughley show on the radio.
00:36:41.920Think about the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Think about all of these different places where they're going and getting propagandized on the radio.
00:36:49.760Think about local radio that is oriented to African-American communities, that is propagandizing them with lies of the left and lies of the Biden administration every single day.
00:37:01.320And so the idea that because a couple of black people put a video out for Trump on social media, that that is going to create some widespread change is really ignoring the outlets by which African-Americans in this country are propagandized every single day.
00:37:21.040For every one black voice that we have out there sort of advocating for conservatism in the African-American community, and there are many, they've got about 10,000 means to push the liberal message to black Americans.
00:37:37.820Look, and I'll just say this from a point of a guy who knows social media, you know, you know it as well.
00:37:44.100You can see who was sharing those videos, right?
00:37:46.460That was being shared by Trump supporters, by people who are, that's why they went viral.
00:37:50.900This wasn't something that was organically viral.
00:37:52.880And to your point with like Breakfast Club, it wasn't like you had Charlemagne coming out and saying like, oh, wow, that mugshot really changes things.
00:38:20.920And I got to tell you, Jack, that's an excellent point.
00:38:23.460And then the point that I made is this.
00:38:24.920Furthermore, with the monetization of Twitter X, whatever you want to call it, there's a lot of different ways to monetize social media right now.
00:38:32.740Ways that didn't exist, we'll say in 2018, kind of when I came into the game and started using my voices, right?
00:38:38.600So now I'm not pointing at anybody in particular or whatever, but what I'm saying is that the sort of carrot on the stick is there for people to say, oh, my God, I can build such a huge audience.
00:38:56.200I can make money from doing all of this stuff.
00:38:57.960And all I got to do is get out here and say this, and these people will love me.
00:39:00.920And look, let me be the example of the fact that, you know, people will love you until you start telling them things that they do not want to hear.
00:39:22.940And I made the decision myself sort of when I stepped back a little bit from this and sort of decided to reemerge, is that I got to tell the truth.
00:39:30.480You know, I got to keep it real with the people.
00:39:32.160And this is what I think my gamble has always been that if you respect the audience and if you tell these people the truth and do not actively lie to them, they will follow you wherever you go.
00:40:46.960Maybe it's a conversation starter, but it doesn't tie directly into the fundamentals and the logistics that you would need to create that much of a swing compared to the face of all the propaganda outlets already out there.
00:40:59.160Rob, where can people go to follow you?
00:41:00.580Where can they get more of your controversial spicy takes?
00:41:03.860Yeah, all the socials are at Rob Smith online, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and even TikTok.
00:44:41.600I was following up on DeSantis' interviews, and he has some, like, cut and collect or cut and release programs for, like, tree crews on standby, linemen on standby to restore electricity.
00:44:59.120You know, it's good to see him out there in the middle of it.
00:45:02.440I think he's reporting from Tallahassee.
00:45:07.720It's not the first time Florida's had a hurricane, so it's good to see everybody, like, you know, a well-oiled machine down here.
00:45:15.640But, also, it is good to note Hawaii and Lahaina and Maui because the storms, they are getting more tumultuous and unpredictable.
00:45:29.060Like, even last night when I was driving and today, it just randomly pings my phone.
00:45:34.020It says, oh, there's a tornado warning, and now there's also a hurricane warning.
00:45:37.940And so, it's good to have, you know, not to toot my own horn, but, like, people on the ground to actually show you what's going on.
00:45:49.220Well, to your point, though, is it also, do you think, Kevin, that some of these networks, CNN, MSNBC, that they're really – like you say, this isn't the first time Florida has had a hurricane, certainly in its history.
00:46:02.500Certainly, in the short history, it's only been about 100 years since South Florida has been inhabited, that they're pushing an agenda of climate change, climate propaganda, climate fear porn, as opposed to, as you say, people, you know, they're kind of used to living through it down there.
00:46:20.680Yes, that's what I'm getting at with the properties.
00:46:23.360They build it literally right next to sea level.
00:46:26.740I mean, I'm – you can see, I'm only a couple feet above the water right now, but, you know, it floods a little bit, and they're like, look at the pandemonium, you know.
00:46:35.160It's like, well, yeah, but you built your house right next to the sea level.
00:46:56.740Well, I'm glad that you haven't gone out.
00:46:58.820Now, are you – Kev, I know that you're not planning on doing any water sports out there, but what about just general – you know, I know, like, you're a pretty fit guy.
00:47:06.420Have you considered doing maybe burpees in the hurricane, push-up contests, anything like that?
00:47:11.000What's on your workout list for today?