Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - April 17, 2025


WW3 Averted, The Shocking Karmelo Anthony Presser and King of Kings Dominates the Box Office


Episode Stats

Length

41 minutes

Words per Minute

158.65489

Word Count

6,558

Sentence Count

433

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

12


Summary

Jack Posobiec is a commentator, international social media sensation, and former Navy intelligence veteran. He is a regular contributor to CNN, Fox News, CBS, NBC, and the New York Times, and is a frequent guest on Fox News and CNN.


Transcript

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00:00:30.000 This is what happens when the fourth turning meets fifth generation warfare.
00:00:40.720 A commentator, international social media sensation, and former Navy intelligence veteran.
00:00:47.260 This is Human Events with your host, Jack Posobiec.
00:00:50.420 Christ is king.
00:00:52.280 So prices haven't gone up.
00:00:53.580 The only thing that's gone up actually is interest rates.
00:00:56.340 Because we have a federal reserve chairman that is playing politics.
00:01:01.920 Somebody that I've never been very fond of actually.
00:01:05.140 But he's playing politics.
00:01:07.700 Interest rates should be down now.
00:01:09.260 They should be coming down.
00:01:11.020 In Europe, as you know, they reduced them, I guess, seven times.
00:01:15.340 It looks like they're going to reduce them again and again and again.
00:01:18.440 But our guy wants to play cute.
00:01:20.000 But interest rates are pretty much even.
00:01:25.100 Maybe they went up just a slight bit.
00:01:26.680 But that's the only thing.
00:01:27.600 But that's because of the federal reserve.
00:01:30.140 Because they're not very smart people.
00:01:32.220 Do you regret nominating him?
00:01:33.780 Go ahead.
00:01:35.840 Yes, sir.
00:01:36.400 Please.
00:01:37.440 Go ahead.
00:01:38.080 Please.
00:01:38.220 Do you regret nominating him?
00:01:40.360 Throw him out?
00:01:40.820 Look, in the first four years, we had the greatest economy in the history of our country.
00:01:47.360 The stock market went up 88 points.
00:01:49.840 I think he's terrible.
00:01:51.600 But I can't complain because we had the most successful administration economically in the history of our country.
00:01:58.080 I think we're going to do even better this time.
00:02:00.360 Because you will see that the numbers that we're taking in are astronomical.
00:02:05.460 We're taking in tremendous amounts of money with the tariffs.
00:02:08.720 We were treated very unfairly on trade.
00:02:11.640 And countries are having a hard time getting used to the fact that they can't do that to us anymore because we have a real president.
00:02:19.040 We have a president that understands what it's all about.
00:02:22.740 We had presidents that, in some cases, were smart, but they didn't understand business or they didn't like business or, you know, it wasn't like a priority.
00:02:32.740 And then you had, like, the last administration.
00:02:34.700 The only thing they were good at was cheating in elections.
00:02:37.100 That's about all they could do.
00:02:38.180 They couldn't do anything.
00:02:39.020 They were useless.
00:02:39.680 They were incompetent.
00:02:40.420 I mean, worst administration in the history of our country.
00:02:43.980 Worse than Jimmy Carter.
00:02:45.140 Jimmy Carter died a happy man.
00:02:47.320 You know why?
00:02:48.800 Because he wasn't the worst president.
00:02:51.180 Joe Biden was.
00:02:52.180 So I think you're going to see some fantastic numbers where this all happens.
00:02:58.300 It's happening now.
00:02:59.220 I mean, everybody wants to make a deal.
00:03:01.020 And if they don't want to make a deal, we'll make the deal for them because that's what's going to happen.
00:03:05.580 We'll just say this is what it is.
00:03:07.860 But we want to listen to everybody.
00:03:09.140 And I think I can say for Scott and the other people that are working on it that we're listening and we're going to be very fair to people.
00:03:22.780 But, you know, we're the one that really sets the deal and that's what we'll be doing.
00:03:27.000 Go ahead, please.
00:03:30.140 Go ahead, please.
00:03:30.180 Go ahead, please.
00:03:31.840 A question to our prime minister.
00:03:34.840 Oh, you have a great prime minister.
00:03:36.460 You're so lucky.
00:03:37.500 Yes.
00:03:37.600 In italiano?
00:03:38.620 Oh, yes, that's right.
00:03:39.640 Okay.
00:03:40.360 I'm not sure if they do agree.
00:03:41.440 President Menoni, what do you think of the fact that President Trump is responsible for Zelensky
00:03:48.700 for the war in Ukraine?
00:03:50.160 And then, if you have talked about the spending of Italy, what are the limits of the mass you
00:03:54.620 have said that it will be in Italy, the percentual of the spending of the military?
00:03:58.320 We've talked about the limits of the mass you have in Italy, we've talked about the fact
00:04:02.040 that Italy is maintaining their goals, because it will arrive at the next level of the NATO
00:04:07.840 with the 2% that was already prevailed, that was written by the government before, because
00:04:13.180 we're a serious nation, but we haven't talked about how much this percentual is, even if
00:04:19.640 we're aware that the defense is a particularly important issue in this time.
00:04:24.680 For what about the war in Ukraine, I don't know what I think.
00:04:26.900 I think that there was an invasion and that the invasor, from that point of view, was Putin
00:04:36.320 and Russia, but it's not what, let's say, what we say today is the fact that we want to
00:04:41.660 work together and we're working to try to get in Ukraine a peace that can be right and
00:04:47.660 lasting.
00:04:48.660 I think that these are the efforts that we share our work, and we share our work today
00:04:54.660 that sounded absolutely, that was so beautiful, what the hell was that, what did she say, please?
00:05:07.000 No, I mean, it sounded great, it was beautifully presented, but maybe I could hear what she said,
00:05:15.160 what she thinks about the fact that President Trump holds Zelensky responsible for the war
00:05:25.160 in Ukraine, and Prime Minister Maloney answered, well, actually, we have a
00:05:32.160 nothing will stand in our way, and our golden age has just begun.
00:05:39.160 This is Human Events with Jack Posobiec.
00:05:40.160 Now it's time for everyone to understand what America First truly means.
00:05:41.160 Welcome to the Second American Revolution.
00:06:09.160 All right, Jack Posobiec, here we are live, Washington, D.C. here.
00:06:16.020 Today is April 17th, 2025, Anno Domini, and we've got a lot going on today.
00:06:22.520 There's a ton of breaking news stories to get to.
00:06:26.060 Of course, President Trump meeting with Prime Minister Maloney there in the White House just
00:06:31.080 now.
00:06:31.520 We also have the breaking news about the shooting, horrific shooting at FSU.
00:06:36.920 I've seen some of the videos coming out of it.
00:06:38.940 It's extremely gory.
00:06:40.560 We're tracking that, and we're going to get the information to you as soon as possible.
00:06:45.080 Also down in Frisco, Texas, the stabbing case of Austin Metcalf.
00:06:51.380 Well, Carmelo Anthony's family has just held a press conference, and we'll be discussing
00:06:56.460 all of this and more here on Human Events Daily.
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00:07:53.480 We have a very special guest, by the way, here in studio straight from Bucharest, Romania.
00:07:59.860 Now, we had him on the program last year when I was over in Bucharest with Tanya in Romania,
00:08:06.920 Tanya Teh.
00:08:07.560 We've had him here on the program recently as well regarding the situation of the presidential
00:08:12.900 candidate who originally won the election.
00:08:15.740 The election was overturned, and now a new election is taking place, and he is currently
00:08:21.080 number one in the polls.
00:08:23.680 Ladies and gentlemen, George Simeon.
00:08:26.420 Great to see you, my friend.
00:08:27.300 Jack, it's an honor for me being here.
00:08:30.900 A friend in need is a friend indeed, and I'm happy to have friends here in Washington,
00:08:37.300 D.C., and I'm honored that you are my friend.
00:08:41.080 Well, thank you very much.
00:08:41.960 Tell me about the situation that's going on in Romania.
00:08:45.660 We've been covering it from our perspective, but you are actually living it, and you've taken
00:08:51.120 the next step to actually declare your own candidacy, and the people seem to be really rallying behind
00:08:57.040 you.
00:08:57.280 I'm replacing Mr. Georgescu, who was banned illegally against our constitutional, against the electoral
00:09:04.820 laws.
00:09:05.940 We'll have elections in two weeks' time, and we are winning.
00:09:09.680 So I'm here in Washington, D.C. to assure all the Romanian citizens that we will have fair
00:09:19.160 and free elections, and we will remain part of the free world.
00:09:22.340 The unelected bureaucrats from Brussels meddled with our elections.
00:09:27.300 They were the ones meddling.
00:09:29.360 They were the ones that canceled the elections, and they were the ones that threw away and banned
00:09:37.260 the most voted Romanian, Colin Georgescu.
00:09:41.160 So I am here to restore democracy, and I am here among friends from the MAGA movement to
00:09:51.440 assure that all EU bureaucrats will lose big time all elections in the 27 states of European
00:09:59.760 Union.
00:10:00.260 Well, I certainly hope that is the case.
00:10:02.720 Tell me, what has the response been?
00:10:04.420 We can see the polls you're currently leading, but what are the issues?
00:10:07.280 Why is it that they overturned the elections, something that's so undemocratic?
00:10:13.220 I can't even think of anything like this.
00:10:15.480 And I was in Munich, Germany, when our own Vice President, J.D. Vance, traveled there as
00:10:20.740 well, who told them to their faces that you cannot say you stand for democracy when you're
00:10:26.180 overturning the will of the Romanian people.
00:10:29.220 So Romania is standing up against the same cultural and political decay.
00:10:34.320 Why American patriots like you are resisting?
00:10:40.100 Why is it they banned our elected president?
00:10:44.880 Because they do not like democracy, because they are tyrants, because if Colin Georgescu would
00:10:51.740 have won, he would have promoted peace.
00:10:54.240 They do not want peace, they want war, they do not want life, and they are not pro-life.
00:11:02.360 They are for death, for destruction.
00:11:05.060 This is the satanic ideology that is promoted across our beautiful nations.
00:11:13.120 And we will follow on the footsteps of Donald Trump, who is the leader of the free world.
00:11:19.500 My leader in Europe is Georgia Meloni.
00:11:21.860 She is currently now, as we speak, inside the White House.
00:11:27.840 So together with Georgia Meloni, with Slovakian Robert Fizzo, with other European leaders, with
00:11:36.880 Karol Nawrotzki, who will win the Polish elections, actually we have elections in Romania, in Poland,
00:11:42.100 in the same day, we will follow on the footsteps of MAGA and we will be MAGA, the victorious movement
00:11:52.100 across all the 27 countries, nations inside the European Union.
00:11:57.540 It's so true, because when we talk about the cause of humanity and the cause of life, this
00:12:03.880 is something where Romania has had to fight not very long ago for their own freedoms because
00:12:09.920 of the terrible history of the communist regime in Romania.
00:12:15.520 And it was the Romanian people themselves who rose up time and time again until eventually
00:12:21.160 they overthrew communism and took back their country from truly, and I believe it is,
00:12:27.540 satanic, this ideology and the things that were done in the name of equality and justice.
00:12:34.380 They always say it's done in the name of equality and justice.
00:12:37.500 And rule of law.
00:12:38.420 And the rule of law.
00:12:39.220 Always mentioning rule of law.
00:12:41.100 What happened with the rule of law now when the Romanian people went out and voted somebody
00:12:46.640 who was not part of the establishment and part of the deep state?
00:12:51.860 We will continue to battle.
00:12:53.380 We made big marches, demonstrations, tons of internal and external interviews.
00:13:01.100 And now it's time in two weeks that we will win in the first round and in the second round
00:13:06.140 on the 18th of May, when we will have a second round of elections in Romania and the elections
00:13:11.940 in Poland.
00:13:12.480 We will be on the eastern flank of NATO and of Europe, two presidents in Romania and Poland,
00:13:22.620 Georgi Simeon and Karol Navrotsky, that will stand for the MAGA ideology and with President Trump
00:13:30.460 and with the American people.
00:13:33.200 President Trump is a peacemaker.
00:13:36.300 He will manage to overthrow all the opponents here from the democratic neo-Marxist woke side.
00:13:45.960 And he will do this as a symbol also in Europe because it will be also the victory of Donald
00:13:52.380 Trump winning in the Romanian and Polish elections.
00:13:55.460 We're working every single day here.
00:13:58.240 We're fighting those people because they want war.
00:14:00.440 They don't care which war it is.
00:14:01.920 They want war in the Middle East.
00:14:03.220 They want war in Europe.
00:14:04.420 They want war all around the world.
00:14:06.160 This is part of their ideology.
00:14:07.880 And if you stand against it, if you say you are against them and if people even support
00:14:12.160 you, they will take away your election.
00:14:14.340 And you saw what happened here in Washington and here in America, I should say, where President
00:14:18.720 Trump faced not one but two assassination attempts.
00:14:22.180 But what did he do?
00:14:22.980 He stood for peace and prosperity.
00:14:24.880 He's the man of God.
00:14:25.760 We saw this only one second away and God saved him and God has a plan with him.
00:14:34.040 Now, across the free world, faith, family and rural traditions are under attack.
00:14:40.740 We must protect them.
00:14:41.960 And we are a young, driven, anti-corruption movement that is shaking the system in Romania.
00:14:52.760 And we will win this battle and we will protect NATO as a defensive, and I stress as a defensive
00:15:01.940 alliance led by the Trump administration.
00:15:04.800 And what better time to talk about rebellion and shaking off the chains of hell itself than
00:15:11.580 Easter time right here as it is Easter.
00:15:14.360 And for once, the Western Easter and Eastern Easter is the same.
00:15:19.240 So, I will say to you, Christos Vazquez.
00:15:21.780 Christos Anviat.
00:15:23.360 Adevarat Anviat.
00:15:24.600 Happy Easter.
00:15:25.120 Thank you, Happy Easter to everyone.
00:15:28.060 Happy Passover to our Jewish friends.
00:15:33.640 Indeed, Jesus has resurrected from the death and has stepped over the symbol of Satan, of
00:15:44.280 death, of evil itself.
00:15:47.840 The victory over death, the victory over evil.
00:15:50.860 George Simeon.
00:15:51.980 Today, you know, they talk about influences.
00:15:54.320 These are influences.
00:15:56.220 And they're friends of mine.
00:15:58.600 Jack Pesovic.
00:16:00.140 Where's Jack?
00:16:00.980 Jack.
00:16:02.060 He's done a great job.
00:16:04.200 Kilmar Abrego Garcia is an illegal alien, MS-13 gang member, and foreign terrorist who was
00:16:10.040 deported back to his home country.
00:16:12.180 Abrego Garcia was also arrested with two other well-known members of the vicious MS-13 gang.
00:16:17.640 And two separate judges found that Abrego Garcia was a member of MS-13, and that finding
00:16:22.800 has never been disputed.
00:16:24.440 And just this morning, it was revealed through Maryland court documents that Abrego Garcia's
00:16:28.900 wife petitioned for an order of protection against him for two instances of domestic violence
00:16:34.520 in May of 2021.
00:16:36.320 He is not a Maryland man.
00:16:37.760 He is not a Maryland anything.
00:16:39.620 He is an illegal alien from El Salvador with a deportation order from the United States.
00:16:45.520 I just want to meet with Mr. Abrego Garcia.
00:16:47.980 He said he was not able to make that happen.
00:16:50.600 Why are we not protecting our children?
00:16:52.440 And to have a senator from Maryland who didn't even acknowledge or barely acknowledge my daughter
00:17:02.700 and the brutal death that she endured, leaving her five children without a mother and now a
00:17:12.220 grandbaby without a grandmother, so that he can use my taxpayer money to fly to El Salvador
00:17:20.480 to bring back someone that's not even an American citizen.
00:17:25.680 You said that you were going to make a relationship with President Xi.
00:17:28.000 Why not pick up the phone and call him and make a deal?
00:17:29.960 Oh, we're going to make a deal.
00:17:31.220 We'll have a deal.
00:17:32.060 I think we have a...
00:17:32.780 Mr. President...
00:17:33.360 I think we're going to make a very good deal with China.
00:17:35.660 That's diplomatic envoy Steve Witkoff is in Russia with hopes of reaching a peace deal
00:17:40.580 in the war with Ukraine.
00:17:42.360 And then Witkoff jumps over to Oman tomorrow to talk about Iran's nuclear program.
00:17:47.480 All right, Jack Posobiec here.
00:17:48.560 We are live human events daily.
00:17:51.320 I want to welcome in the Salem Radio Network on hour three of the Charlie Kirk Show and his
00:17:56.760 audience.
00:17:57.960 We're in Washington, D.C.
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00:18:21.340 Imagine you go down to your bank and it's closed.
00:18:23.940 If that doesn't feel like deja vu from 2008, I don't know what does.
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00:19:31.920 All right, folks.
00:19:32.540 Here we are.
00:19:33.420 Human Events Daily, Washington, D.C.
00:19:36.080 Just a couple of minutes to mention this incredible story that broke in the New York
00:19:42.180 Times last night.
00:19:43.100 They had it out.
00:19:44.360 They've got some of the facts.
00:19:45.940 They don't have it completely right.
00:19:47.400 It is the New York Times after all.
00:19:49.420 But I've got some of my own reporting that I can confirm on this at all as well regarding
00:19:55.720 potential strikes on the nuclear facilities of Iran.
00:20:00.720 And President Trump was getting a lot of pressure from outside to unilaterally begin strikes on
00:20:09.600 Iran, specifically using the bombers of Diego Garcia, where they're currently located there
00:20:15.280 in the Indian Ocean, to fly up and use the refueling to be able to drop 30,000-pound
00:20:21.320 bunker-busting bombs on Iran's underground nuclear facilities.
00:20:25.380 Now, what I believe is actually going on is that President Trump has embarked on a grand
00:20:29.700 strategy.
00:20:30.840 He understands that the Iranians, or he wants that the Iranians, they're not just going
00:20:36.880 to give up their nukes.
00:20:38.420 So he needs leverage.
00:20:39.720 Part of that leverage is potentially the threat of strikes.
00:20:43.920 But the other part is working directly with them in negotiations with Whitcoff.
00:20:48.640 Whitcoff is going to be meeting with them in Rome this weekend after having met with
00:20:52.440 them in Oman.
00:20:54.240 He's also putting on pressure, back-channeling through who?
00:20:58.080 That's right, the Russians.
00:20:59.700 Because the Russians have leverage on Iran.
00:21:02.480 They're the ones who built their nuclear reactor in the first place.
00:21:06.780 All of this is coming together.
00:21:08.260 But understand, there are patriots inside the Trump administration that are being targeted
00:21:14.960 by the bureaucracy now.
00:21:18.260 Why?
00:21:18.800 Because they don't understand MAGA world peace.
00:21:22.480 They don't understand that this movement stands for peace around the world.
00:21:27.620 We are going to get it, whether you like it or not.
00:21:32.960 We'll be right back.
00:21:33.780 Human Events Daily.
00:21:34.580 Jack, this over.
00:21:35.080 And Jack, where is Jack?
00:21:48.540 Where's Jack?
00:21:50.680 Where is he?
00:21:51.940 Jack, I want to see you.
00:21:53.400 Great job, Jack.
00:21:57.060 Thank you.
00:21:57.560 What a job you do.
00:21:59.220 You know, we have an incredible thing.
00:22:00.620 We're always talking about the fake news and the bad, but we have guys, and these are the
00:22:05.080 guys who'll be getting Pulisic.
00:22:06.380 Friend, your sins are forgiven.
00:22:12.940 What did he just say?
00:22:15.240 I think he said that man's sins were forgiven.
00:22:18.200 After God forgave him, I assume.
00:22:21.180 He didn't say anything about God.
00:22:24.220 That's blasphemy.
00:22:25.760 Pure and simple.
00:22:26.840 Why are you thinking these things?
00:22:30.500 Tell me, which is easier?
00:22:32.460 To say to this paralyzed man, their sins are forgiven?
00:22:36.620 Or to say, stand up, take your stretcher, and walk home?
00:22:44.380 I want you to know, the Son of Man has authority on Earth to forgive sins.
00:22:53.400 Now stand up, take your stretcher, and walk home.
00:23:05.100 All right, folks, we're back.
00:23:07.100 Human Events Daily.
00:23:08.280 Jack Posobiec, what you just saw or heard was the clip.
00:23:14.780 A couple of clips from the great new film, The King of Kings.
00:23:19.500 Now this is, I mean, it's the passion of the Christ for children.
00:23:23.640 This is a way to really expand the Easter season into just everyone.
00:23:30.480 The whole family can go see this film.
00:23:33.760 You know, we were just talking in the last segment here with the Romanian presidential candidate.
00:23:38.260 Now, of course, Romania is an Eastern Orthodox country.
00:23:41.620 And so for the ortho bros out there, I always say that, you know, the Orthodox Easter is actually generally on a different date than on Western Christianity's Easter.
00:23:52.220 However, this year, coincidentally, or perhaps not a coincidence, they're actually one and the same for the first time in a long time.
00:24:01.520 And so, folks, folks who don't know, my wife, Tanya Tay, is also Orthodox.
00:24:07.500 And so, you know, I always joke we're mending the schism a little bit.
00:24:10.600 But this is a great Easter.
00:24:12.040 It's a big Easter is what I'm trying to say.
00:24:14.280 And this movie coming out at a time where we are in the culture is really an incredible moment.
00:24:21.360 We talked about how Snow White was this massive debacle for Disney because woke is a joke now.
00:24:29.120 Woke is over.
00:24:30.580 Peak woke is done.
00:24:32.220 We've passed through it.
00:24:33.460 And now what is blowing up at the box office?
00:24:37.200 Well, it's Jesus.
00:24:38.500 Between the chosen and now this King of Kings at the box office, we had to get Angel Studios back on.
00:24:45.920 And that's why we've got Jeffrey Harmon, the co-founder of Angel Studios, right here with us.
00:24:51.300 Jeffrey, congratulations, by the way, on all the success, King of Kings, and just everything else you guys have going on.
00:24:58.280 Thank you, Jack.
00:24:59.140 It's been a whirlwind of week.
00:25:00.960 I can imagine.
00:25:01.900 So you have to tell me that, you know, going into this when you said, you know, an animated Jesus film,
00:25:07.880 you know, people have seen this story before.
00:25:10.220 What was it that made you think this was the right time to go all in the way that you did?
00:25:16.340 We just have a totally different system than Hulk.
00:25:20.680 There was a recent article by Film Threat where they talked about how Angel Studios is doing something audaciously, radically different.
00:25:29.420 They're listening to their audience.
00:25:31.480 And what they mean by that is we have what we call the Angel Guild.
00:25:34.800 It's a million people, over a million people, that have come together as a community, and they're all guild members,
00:25:41.300 and they vote on all the movies that come into Angel Studios.
00:25:45.220 So I can't, as a co-founder, take a movie into Angel Studios unless it passes the Angel Guild.
00:25:50.220 Well, King of Kings has one of the highest scores we've ever seen in the Angel Guild.
00:25:54.800 And so we said, this movie has got everything it needs.
00:25:58.900 These filmmakers did an incredible job.
00:26:00.860 We're going to go all in on King of Kings for Easter, and it has proven out.
00:26:05.660 The Guild got it right.
00:26:06.720 This is one of the highest audience-scored movies in history.
00:26:10.620 It's got an A-plus cinema score, which only five animated films outside of Pixar have ever done.
00:26:15.760 It's also 97, 98 on Rotten Tomatoes.
00:26:19.200 It kind of switches back every day.
00:26:20.960 It's even doing okay with the critics at 65%.
00:26:23.960 But it's also blown up at the box office.
00:26:26.820 It just passed Prince of Egypt's record for the highest box office opening of any biblical animated film ever.
00:26:36.860 And it just keeps surging because it's loved.
00:26:42.140 This movie is, like you said, it's passion of the Christ for kids.
00:26:46.140 I took my four-year-old to it, and he watched the entire thing,
00:26:49.640 and he was asking questions about the gospel that made me realize I'm not a great teacher
00:26:54.100 because I thought I'd taught him these things before.
00:26:58.000 Hey, but that's part of it.
00:27:00.260 I've got a four-year-old and a six-year-old as well, and that's part of it.
00:27:04.800 There's a lot of questions, right?
00:27:06.620 There's always going to be a lot of questions, but what you're saying is it's engaging, right?
00:27:10.760 He's thinking about it.
00:27:12.200 He's working through it, and that's a perfect way.
00:27:14.900 Because, look, sometimes when you go to church service, we're sitting there, and we're reading,
00:27:21.160 and you've got a scripture reading, and you've got the sermon, you've got the homily,
00:27:24.820 but then people are saying, well, hold on.
00:27:26.260 There are a lot of questions that get raised, and by the way, this is what Christ teaches us.
00:27:31.760 He says, be like a child to enter the kingdom, and so that's exactly what he wants.
00:27:38.540 And this film, it's based on Charles Dickens' book that was published 65 years after Charles Dickens' death
00:27:46.260 that he read to his kids every year, and Charles Dickens wrote this book as a love letter to his children,
00:27:52.320 and so Charles Dickens is in the movie telling this book's story to his own son with his wife,
00:27:58.780 and Charles is played by Patrick Brahe, and Uma Thurman plays his wife,
00:28:03.260 and it's got this incredible cast.
00:28:05.760 It's got Pierce Brosnan, Oscar Isaac plays Jesus, Forrest Whitaker from Rogue One plays in it,
00:28:12.060 James Arnold Taylor, the voice of Obi-Wan Kenobi.
00:28:15.680 It's funny because there's a whole bunch of Star Wars names.
00:28:18.200 Jim Cummings, who plays in Star Wars, also plays Weenie the Pooh.
00:28:24.260 Jim Cummings is a legend in the voice acting community.
00:28:26.880 Yes, he's an absolute legend.
00:28:27.900 He's got Aladdin credits. He's got everything.
00:28:29.060 It's got Dee Bradley Baker from Clone Troopers.
00:28:34.720 Anyway, there is a, it turns out the filmmaker Jay, he's a guy from, this director is from South Korea,
00:28:42.960 and he makes a lot of movies, and he's a legend in South Korea,
00:28:46.480 and he decided 10 years ago he was going to make this movie,
00:28:50.400 and he pulled together the Star Wars cast because he loves Star Wars to the point that he actually named
00:28:56.480 one of his daughters, Princess Leia, and so he pulled together, it's like a Star Wars reunion
00:29:01.640 on this film of all these major characters, and film threat, or not film threat,
00:29:07.580 there's a, there's a, there's a blog post I read just the other day that went through,
00:29:11.460 and was like, I'm just in love with this because you have another epic movie,
00:29:14.860 but it's like a Star Wars reunion.
00:29:16.060 And, um, well, so I gotta ask you, I gotta ask, I'll bring it up,
00:29:20.300 because I, I get, whenever I talk about King of Kings, people say, especially my audience,
00:29:24.260 you know, I've got, we've got a lot of MAGA people in the audience,
00:29:26.340 they say, all right, Mark Hamill, right, because this guy, he's not very MAGA friendly,
00:29:31.040 he's pretty antagonistic towards, towards the MAGA side, so where, where does he come in in all this?
00:29:36.660 Yeah, so Mark Hamill plays King Herod, which I've seen a lot of comments say,
00:29:41.740 oh, that seems appropriate from people who are on the other political side of the spectrum,
00:29:45.500 but Mark Hamill's actually been out posting about this movie, and he's proud of it.
00:29:49.560 Mark Hamill's a very talented voice actor, and we're a merit-based company,
00:29:54.500 so when you go in the Angel Guild, you actually don't get to see who the names of the producers were,
00:30:00.020 or anything, you just vote on the storyline of the movie.
00:30:04.580 So as a guild member, when you go in and you vote, you don't get to see if Steven Spielberg made it,
00:30:09.420 you don't get to see who the director was, you just vote on the story.
00:30:13.120 And what the, what the guild voted on is that this story is biblically accurate,
00:30:17.180 and they went and got the best voice talent they could possibly find,
00:30:21.140 and that happens to have Mark Hamill as one of the voices, who lent his voice as King Herod.
00:30:27.500 But if you look at the reviews, you'll see that people are saying,
00:30:31.200 this is the most biblically accurate animated biblical show of all time.
00:30:35.300 Look, and that's what people want, you know, you want to, you want to be able to just
00:30:39.920 take the politics out of it for once, and say, you know what, it's about getting this story
00:30:45.480 in front of children, and as a way, not just getting in front of the kids,
00:30:50.520 you start that, you start that buzz, you start that good word of mouth.
00:30:53.640 And by the way, there is really great word of mouth for telling us.
00:30:56.600 I do, I do want to point out something.
00:30:58.760 Mark Hamill gets a lot of heat from the right for being in this movie,
00:31:02.900 or the movie gets some heat, but when he went and posted on,
00:31:05.880 I think it's called Blue Sky or Blue Ski, I don't know how to say the name of that,
00:31:10.140 that like Twitter competitor.
00:31:11.080 I don't know, because I don't think anyone really uses it.
00:31:13.620 He got eaten alive by his own followers saying, why are you in a Jesus movie?
00:31:18.860 And so he's losing, like, you have to hand it to him for coming out and saying,
00:31:26.100 I like this part, I liked playing King Herod,
00:31:29.380 and he doesn't care what either side thinks,
00:31:32.400 who are both hating him for taking the part.
00:31:35.600 Well, you know, we'll have to see how it is.
00:31:37.960 Even if you completely disagree with his politics, right?
00:31:40.420 Yeah, look, you know, and this is what it is, right?
00:31:42.860 You know, we all grew up, you know, kind of watching Star Wars, loving Star Wars.
00:31:46.420 He also played the Joker famously as a voice actor
00:31:49.500 in the original Batman animated series in the 1990s,
00:31:53.500 and people absolutely loved that.
00:31:56.500 So I don't think there's anything you can say about, you know, certainly about his talents.
00:32:00.620 But when it comes down to it, what I was saying is,
00:32:02.880 the word of mouth around this movie, it isn't even about the cast.
00:32:06.180 You do have an all-star cast.
00:32:07.300 By the way, Kenneth Branagh is just fantastic.
00:32:09.260 I love his Poirot movies.
00:32:11.640 I get the Christie ones.
00:32:12.500 My wife and I go see every single one of them.
00:32:14.940 That the word of mouth is good,
00:32:17.540 and I know this because the members of my family
00:32:19.700 that are, like, you know, kind of more in the normie camp,
00:32:22.600 they're just, you know, they're the cousins, the aunts, the uncles,
00:32:24.840 they're all talking about it.
00:32:26.140 When are you going?
00:32:27.100 Are you going to see the kids?
00:32:28.060 We plan to go see it this weekend, full disclosure.
00:32:30.440 Haven't seen it yet, but we're going to go get everyone together
00:32:33.220 and maybe do, like, a little video of, you know,
00:32:35.260 sort of our review and our experience going to see King of Kings.
00:32:40.220 And by the way, before I let you go,
00:32:42.980 and before we run out of time,
00:32:44.100 I want to also point out that there's a way
00:32:45.880 that Angel Guild is actually offering two free tickets to King of Kings.
00:32:51.640 Tell our audience about that.
00:32:54.840 Okay, so if you come join the Angel Guild,
00:32:56.820 you get two free movie tickets to the King of Kings.
00:32:58.960 So you go to angel.com, just join the Guild,
00:33:01.080 become a premium member, and you'll get two free movie tickets.
00:33:03.820 And on top of that, you get a vote on all future movies.
00:33:06.240 So if you were a member of the Angel Guild just a few months ago,
00:33:08.960 then you were able to vote on this movie, King of Kings.
00:33:11.600 You were able to vote on The Sound of Freedom.
00:33:13.780 You were able to vote on Cabrini.
00:33:15.280 You were able to vote on Homestead,
00:33:16.820 which was a big hit at Christmas.
00:33:18.380 You get to pick all the movies that come into this community.
00:33:21.500 So when you join the community, you have a voice,
00:33:24.340 and I can't take a movie unless you vote for it.
00:33:26.600 Then your membership helps pay for future movies
00:33:31.960 and TV series inside of the system.
00:33:34.600 Here's something I think is really interesting.
00:33:36.340 In my family, we say, I have six kids.
00:33:39.480 They're 13 down to two years old.
00:33:41.640 And we say when they're watching too much screen time,
00:33:44.040 Harman's live on the other side of the screen.
00:33:46.460 We live on the creator side,
00:33:47.940 not on the consumption side of the screen.
00:33:50.580 And what the Angel Guild does
00:33:52.160 is it takes that culture of living
00:33:53.900 on the other side of the screen to the masses.
00:33:57.520 You get a million people and growing of people
00:34:00.360 who are living on the other side of the screen.
00:34:02.180 They're voting on the movies.
00:34:03.640 Last year, they gave 51,000 plus comments to filmmakers,
00:34:07.660 and filmmakers changed their movies.
00:34:09.300 They did edits.
00:34:10.340 They made changes to their movies.
00:34:12.280 We had a movie that just recently got announced
00:34:14.540 that had a whole bunch of swearing
00:34:17.860 that took the Lord's name and vain a bunch.
00:34:19.280 We're just about out of time, man.
00:34:21.240 But I want people to urge everyone again,
00:34:23.280 go and join the Angel Guild.
00:34:25.220 And this weekend, take your kids,
00:34:26.740 go check it out.
00:34:27.820 The King of Kings.
00:34:30.140 Let's send a message to the culture.
00:34:32.760 Jack, we'll be right back.
00:34:33.620 Jack is a great guy.
00:34:43.800 He's written a fantastic book.
00:34:45.440 Everybody's talking about it.
00:34:46.700 Go get it.
00:34:47.820 And he's been my friend right from the beginning
00:34:49.720 of this whole beautiful event.
00:34:51.860 And we're going to turn it around
00:34:53.140 and make our country great again.
00:34:54.920 Amen.
00:34:55.320 And all I'm going to say,
00:34:58.560 so it don't be asked later,
00:35:00.980 is that was disrespectful
00:35:03.060 and just shows you all
00:35:06.660 the character
00:35:09.380 who was not invited.
00:35:13.900 He knows that it's inappropriate
00:35:17.260 to be near this family.
00:35:19.640 But he did it.
00:35:20.360 And so I say to people,
00:35:23.480 actions speak louder than words.
00:35:26.880 Okay?
00:35:28.200 What he has failed into
00:35:30.080 is the political operatives
00:35:32.980 that want to make this thing
00:35:35.680 a political thing of hate,
00:35:39.560 yet bigotry,
00:35:40.900 and yet racism.
00:35:43.100 We have conservative operatives
00:35:45.820 that have been posting
00:35:47.340 nonstop
00:35:48.860 about this case.
00:35:51.240 All right, Jack Wasoba,
00:35:52.100 here we are back live
00:35:53.180 Human Events Daily.
00:35:54.060 Now, just as we were going
00:35:55.680 to air today
00:35:57.820 for the show,
00:36:00.020 and I want to also welcome
00:36:01.360 in the Charlie Kirk audience
00:36:03.640 on the third hour
00:36:04.740 of Salem Radio Network
00:36:06.340 that Carmelo Anthony's
00:36:09.040 family advocate
00:36:10.820 decided to hold
00:36:12.220 a press conference.
00:36:13.540 This is something
00:36:14.560 that is
00:36:15.580 so egregious
00:36:17.360 and so uncommon
00:36:18.560 that I honestly
00:36:20.060 couldn't believe it
00:36:20.920 when I heard it
00:36:21.660 that he was holding
00:36:22.500 a press conference,
00:36:23.720 again,
00:36:24.180 after the person
00:36:25.980 he represents,
00:36:27.040 a minor,
00:36:27.960 stabbed another minor
00:36:29.580 to death
00:36:30.720 at a track meet,
00:36:32.620 and he proceeded
00:36:33.820 to hold this press conference,
00:36:35.820 and throughout the conduct
00:36:37.960 of the entire press conference,
00:36:39.600 what did he do?
00:36:40.420 This Dominique Alexander,
00:36:42.540 himself,
00:36:43.300 someone who's gone to jail
00:36:44.300 for violently assaulting
00:36:46.320 a toddler,
00:36:47.980 he decided to employ
00:36:50.800 something that I've written
00:36:53.260 about in the past
00:36:54.160 in Unhuman's book
00:36:55.220 called the Darvo tactic
00:36:57.540 because he spends
00:36:58.620 the entire time
00:36:59.500 acting like Carmelo Anthony
00:37:01.860 is in fact the victim,
00:37:04.200 and the perpetrator
00:37:06.400 he claims
00:37:07.120 is the internet
00:37:08.140 or some such thing,
00:37:10.040 he doesn't really explain
00:37:11.100 what he's talking about,
00:37:13.360 but he claims that
00:37:14.900 and acts
00:37:15.740 like he's playing
00:37:16.580 the victim card,
00:37:17.660 he certainly plays
00:37:18.880 the race card
00:37:19.620 throughout the entire
00:37:20.420 press conference,
00:37:21.560 this is sort of
00:37:22.300 a BLM junior
00:37:23.980 type organization
00:37:25.360 there in Frisco, Texas,
00:37:27.600 and this individual
00:37:28.500 employs the tactic
00:37:32.840 of Darvo,
00:37:33.660 and what does that mean?
00:37:34.620 Darvo is a tactic
00:37:35.800 employed by narcissists
00:37:38.080 called deny,
00:37:40.300 attack,
00:37:41.180 and then reverse
00:37:42.100 victim and offender,
00:37:43.600 D-A-R-V-O,
00:37:45.000 Darvo,
00:37:45.660 and of course
00:37:46.740 you'll see psychologists
00:37:47.620 talk about this,
00:37:48.580 anyone who understands
00:37:49.300 narcissists,
00:37:50.500 you know,
00:37:51.600 psychology in relationships
00:37:52.920 knows about these
00:37:53.760 types of tactics,
00:37:54.660 it's what they do,
00:37:56.160 in fact,
00:37:57.020 this is what they do,
00:37:58.520 so the entire point
00:38:00.060 of the spectacle
00:38:01.160 was to try
00:38:02.940 to make it out
00:38:03.940 that Carmelo Anthony
00:38:06.540 was in fact
00:38:07.560 the victim,
00:38:08.180 but the problem
00:38:09.320 is,
00:38:10.400 is that when
00:38:11.340 the press conference
00:38:12.160 began,
00:38:13.440 there was someone
00:38:14.080 there that they
00:38:15.080 hadn't inspected,
00:38:16.480 and it was in fact
00:38:17.540 the father
00:38:18.440 of Austin Metcalf,
00:38:21.180 standing quietly
00:38:21.980 in the back
00:38:22.420 of the room,
00:38:23.380 and he stood
00:38:24.680 back there,
00:38:25.700 and he waited
00:38:26.880 patiently
00:38:27.380 for the press conference
00:38:28.780 to begin,
00:38:29.800 didn't say a word,
00:38:30.420 Carmelo Anthony's
00:38:33.180 family and the advocate
00:38:34.120 asked him to leave,
00:38:36.800 he said,
00:38:37.180 no,
00:38:37.300 I don't want to leave,
00:38:38.140 I'd like to be here
00:38:39.080 and to view
00:38:39.840 the press conference,
00:38:40.860 again,
00:38:41.660 this is a press conference
00:38:43.080 where they invited
00:38:44.240 the public
00:38:45.560 to attend,
00:38:47.140 they wanted
00:38:47.660 to get their voice out,
00:38:49.100 they wanted
00:38:49.520 to get their message out,
00:38:51.300 but the problem
00:38:52.980 was,
00:38:54.880 Austin Metcalf's
00:38:55.880 father
00:38:56.340 would ruin
00:38:57.380 the entire narrative,
00:38:58.820 do you know why?
00:38:59.620 because the actual
00:39:01.780 victim
00:39:02.380 of the situation
00:39:03.720 was Austin
00:39:05.260 Metcalf,
00:39:06.700 and his father
00:39:08.280 is the advocate
00:39:09.540 for his son,
00:39:10.800 his father,
00:39:11.340 by the way,
00:39:12.040 who already
00:39:12.840 came out publicly
00:39:13.840 and said that he
00:39:14.920 forgave
00:39:15.620 Carmelo Anthony,
00:39:17.820 and what was
00:39:18.640 the response?
00:39:19.960 What was their
00:39:20.760 response
00:39:21.360 from the Carmelo
00:39:22.360 Anthony family
00:39:23.280 to see the father
00:39:24.880 there?
00:39:25.320 Did they
00:39:25.820 invite him up?
00:39:27.480 Do they
00:39:27.820 have a moment
00:39:28.700 and say,
00:39:29.420 let's try to have
00:39:30.460 unity in this country,
00:39:31.640 let's not rip apart
00:39:32.480 this community,
00:39:33.840 let's stand together
00:39:34.720 and say,
00:39:35.540 we're both very sorry
00:39:37.340 about what happened?
00:39:38.440 No,
00:39:39.200 no,
00:39:39.400 that's not what they did.
00:39:40.400 You know what they did?
00:39:41.280 They called the cops
00:39:42.620 on him
00:39:43.140 and had him thrown
00:39:44.580 out of the press conference
00:39:46.020 rather than have
00:39:47.460 someone there,
00:39:48.780 God forbid,
00:39:50.220 who was an advocate
00:39:51.140 and a representative
00:39:52.220 for the boy
00:39:53.500 whose life
00:39:54.460 was lost
00:39:55.500 who bled out
00:39:56.560 on the bleachers
00:39:57.500 at a track meet.
00:40:01.800 I can't even say
00:40:03.180 as a father,
00:40:04.660 I can't even begin
00:40:06.000 to tell you
00:40:07.260 what I would do
00:40:08.920 if I were in that situation,
00:40:11.340 were I in that situation.
00:40:12.600 I can't.
00:40:13.500 All I can tell you is
00:40:14.920 this is disgraceful,
00:40:17.820 it's despicable,
00:40:19.140 it's absolutely disgusting
00:40:20.560 what they're doing
00:40:21.580 to this community,
00:40:23.380 what they're doing
00:40:23.780 to this country,
00:40:25.220 raising money
00:40:26.100 left and right,
00:40:27.460 flagrantly,
00:40:28.080 and then just throwing it
00:40:29.080 back in the face
00:40:29.700 of the public
00:40:30.240 and saying,
00:40:30.980 no,
00:40:31.240 it's your fault.
00:40:32.960 It's your fault
00:40:33.960 for being upset
00:40:34.660 without what happened.
00:40:35.760 It's your fault.
00:40:36.900 And in fact,
00:40:37.500 many of these people,
00:40:39.180 if you go online,
00:40:40.540 are saying that it was
00:40:41.340 Austin Metcalfe's fault.
00:40:43.760 Well,
00:40:44.140 he can't be here
00:40:45.560 because he's dead,
00:40:47.060 because you robbed him
00:40:49.300 of his life
00:40:50.640 and then
00:40:51.880 when his father
00:40:53.060 showed up
00:40:54.180 just to be there,
00:40:56.800 you had the police
00:40:57.920 throw him out.
00:41:00.400 Texas needs to wake up.
00:41:02.140 This entire country
00:41:03.160 needs to wake up.
00:41:04.580 We've got a lot
00:41:05.320 further to go,
00:41:07.200 but guess what, folks?
00:41:08.240 We're going to go
00:41:08.960 all the way through
00:41:09.820 because it's Easter time
00:41:11.660 and Christ
00:41:12.880 is crashing down
00:41:14.520 the gates of hell.
00:41:16.880 Ladies and gentlemen,
00:41:17.600 as always,
00:41:18.020 you have my permission
00:41:18.680 to lay short.
00:41:19.680 Jack, you're safe.