While Elon Musk may be on his way out of government, we are soaring to glorious new heights with thanks to Bongino Army, the Boongino army, and Mug Club. Over the next hour, we re going to be looking at a variety of stories, including Elon Musk s departure from government. Have Tesla and the Tesla protesters succeeded in ousting their man?
00:02:41.000We take dives into a variety of subjects.
00:02:43.000And while Elon Musk may be on his way out of government, we are soaring to glorious new heights with thanks to Bongino Army, Bongino Army, Mug Club, thank you for the raid.
00:02:56.000Over the next hour, we're going to be looking at a variety of stories, including Elon Musk's departure from government.
00:03:02.000Let me know in the comments and chat what you think about that.
00:03:04.000Have Tesla and the Tesla protesters succeeded in ousting their man?
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00:04:41.000you know, he's made a noble effort there to fulfill his duty as a participant in a public event.
00:04:50.000The main news today on our show is that Elon Musk's time in government appears to be wrapping up.
00:04:56.000Let me know in the comments and chat if you think that's a result of the success of the Tesla protests.
00:05:00.000And let me know if you think that Tesla protesters should receive the same Treatment as January 6 protesters around the world now there continue to be natural disasters and indicated that uh Indicators that our almighty creator is infuriated with us.
00:05:15.000For example, there's this earthquake in Myanmar Let's have a look at this novel solution to the family and a demonstration of a novel solution to the problem And a demonstration that heroism still very much thrives in Christ This is the moment a heroic father
00:05:45.000jumped across a gap 600 feet in the air to get to his wife and child as an earthquake tore their apartment block apart.
00:05:54.000The heroic dad, Kwan Yung Joon, made the Hollywood-style leap as the walkway connecting his block to a neighboring high-rise collapsed in Bangkok, Thailand, due to the 7.7 magnitude earthquake that hit the country.
00:06:10.000I've been learning a lot about St. Francis of Assisi and apparently St. Francis of Assisi saw the world as if it were hanging upside down.
00:06:18.000The word dependent in Latin means hung upon If you consider everything not to be pulled to the earth by gravity, but suspended temporally, you can feel a new fragility in reality.
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00:06:40.000Over the course of today's show, we're going to be looking at a variety of stories, including the now potentially depying Elon Musk's Ukraine row with Mark Kelly.
00:06:51.000And some of the extraordinary deception that continues around Ukraine.
00:06:54.000We're also going to be looking at Bill Maher and Trump's interview, brokered brilliantly by Kid Rock, soon to be friend of the show, I'm sure.
00:07:04.000I also wanted to, before we leave, touch on this Elliot Page story.
00:07:07.000My husband says men never think like this or act like this.
00:07:09.000He says this is a woman trying to be a man who's acting like a woman.
00:08:08.000It's the little, it's, you know, Getting out of the shower and the towels around your waist and you're looking at yourself in the mirror and you're just like, there I am.
00:08:18.000I'm not having all these little moments that used to be just being in a t-shirt.
00:08:32.000It's being able to touch my chest and I think when you see Elliot Page it's difficult not to...
00:08:55.000Return continually to compassion and love as the Baromah and Fred that we have to continually hold when negotiating and navigating social issues.
00:09:06.000And however Elliot Page's choices and decisions have been used and deployed by the culture, me, my perspective and my duty as a follower of Jesus is to be continually loving with recourse only to judgment and discernment when required.
00:09:20.000And I don't see that anything's required here other than love.
00:10:29.000Later on in the show, we're going to be looking at increasing Ukraine tensions and Elon Musk's ongoing Let me know in the comments and chat whether you think it's the Tesla protest or some of the political positions that he's taken that are leading to his departure.
00:10:44.000Was it always a temporary arrangement?
00:11:56.000We'll be talking to the whole team over the course of the show, but let's first of all have a look at, oh wow, no, first of all, let's look at this before we leave YouTube or X or any of that.
00:12:35.000Yeah, Kate, over the last several days we've heard from President Trump in the Oval Office on Monday saying that Elon Musk would be going back to the private sector in the near future.
00:12:45.000Well, we're just hearing from a senior White House official that the president did tell his cabinet back during a meeting on March 24th that Elon Musk, who heads up Doge and of course has become a key figure in this administration, that he would be going back to the private sector.
00:13:02.000And the White House official tells me that this This would be at the end of his 130 days as a special government employee.
00:13:09.000Of course, that would be in late March.
00:13:12.000So of course, Kate, this comes on the heels of that special election in Wisconsin yesterday, where Democrats are seeing that as a win.
00:13:20.000Elon Musk, of course, spending millions, his PAC spending millions of dollars on that state Supreme Court race, and that his candidate lost significantly in that race.
00:13:31.000But again, the White House saying that this was in the works.
00:13:37.000Well, let me know what you thought about that story in the comments and the chat.
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00:14:04.000When major advertisers conspired, yeah conspired, to pull their dollary-doos, even brands like Dirty Dunkin' Donuts, which I think of as being a bit like the Dunkin' Donut of that Tesla guy that wiped his hand on his butt.
00:17:14.000I never thought a serpent as having ears before that makes the serpent a bit worse.
00:17:19.000I think those is Yeah, the Lord in the garden that's what I like to see in the beginning was the word yeah, let's go gospel John on that Tower of Babel, that was a bad idea.
00:18:59.000Because I think over the course, while we're all working together, I feel like the Christian members of the team, we're quite expansionist, like, and we're sort of working, I do quite a lot of work on Isaac, I'm always trying to get Isaac to essentially renounce his Judaism, far from listening to his AIPAC claptrap, I'm actually trying to Get him on board as a Christian.
00:19:20.000Luke, I think, well, most of the team's been Christian longer than me.
00:19:23.000Do you think that we should tacitly make it part of our shared community goal to get Massey and Isaac in particular to come to the Lord?
00:19:33.000That's the only thing I think about every day when I come into work here, for sure.
00:19:37.000Sometimes you do seem distracted, like, because I sometimes see some of the stuff you're putting on X and I'm thinking, this guy's just thinking about converting Massey, otherwise he wouldn't be making these controversial statements.
00:19:46.000Let's have a little bit more of a look at the script chat illustrated by the mind of AI.
00:21:48.000So the myth of the vampire does come from Ashkenazi Jews and any way that the rituals they used to perform, which is historically accurate.
00:22:01.000Isaac? What have you got to say about that?
00:22:22.000Well, both, but mainly Ashken- uh, Sephardic, yeah.
00:22:26.000All right, and so what's the- well, I don't mean to sound anti-Semitic, but what's- what's the difference, and why are you in charge of Hollywood?
00:22:36.000So the- the difference mainly is that Ashkenazi Jews, after basically exile from Israel and everything, those are the Jews that ended up in the diaspora in, like, the European area, and the Sephardic and Mizrahi are, like, more, like,
00:23:14.000Yeah, I think there's a couple of things.
00:23:35.000You have somebody who's had such a great career.
00:23:38.000And but we're all still open to sickness and hardship.
00:23:43.000You know, even at different times, you've had so much fame.
00:23:47.000I think about that aspect of them and then you're just you're gone and people do a little.
00:23:52.000Memory of you we talked about it on a show.
00:23:55.000Yeah, and then you know, that's kind of it So what kind of legacy is lasting then?
00:23:59.000I want to hear like your thoughts on Hollywood Because one part that was interesting for me is like when you first see Val Kilmer on some maybe like Top Gun or Batman You don't realize how serious of an actor he was if that's all you saw, right?
00:24:13.000Yeah, he was well into apparently look one of the things I know is a Hollywood insider people said the Val Kilmer was a Pain in the arse.
00:24:20.000Which he's had stuff like that so you think about man maybe maybe some other people have gotten bad raps that aren't that maybe he is actually that.
00:24:27.000Yeah all right let's have a look let's have a look at this uh tribute um later we're going to be talking a little bit about the potential for reconciliation in Hollywood Bill Maher and Trump we're going to be talking about the pyramids What's going on with that?
00:24:45.000And also Isaac's going to reveal just how deep the tendrils of Judaism go into the Hollywood industry and what's happened to irritate poor Kanye West so badly.
00:24:55.000Firstly, there's this tribute to Val Kilmer.
00:24:57.000Hollywood stars have paid tribute to Val Kilmer, who has died at age 65.
00:25:02.000The versatile actor played flying ace Iceman opposite Toad.
00:25:06.000Tom Cruise in Top Gun and Batman in Batman Forever.
00:25:13.000He was also acclaimed for his portrayal of singer Jim Morrison in the biopic The Doors.
00:25:18.000Kilmer's daughter says he died Tuesday in Los Angeles from pneumonia.
00:25:22.000He'd been diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014.
00:25:26.000Kilmer was born in Los Angeles and studied acting at the elite Juilliard School.
00:25:31.000He had his big break in the 1985 spy spoof Top Secret.
00:25:35.000Kilmer was sometimes regarded as a difficult presence on film sets, but said in his memoir that he always put the art first.
00:25:43.000Actors Josh Brolin, Matthew Modine and Josh Gad paid tribute to Kilmer on social media, along with filmmakers Francis Ford Coppola and Michael Mann.
00:25:52.000Brolin called him a smart, challenging, brave, uber-creative firecracker, while Francis Ford Coppola described him as a wonderful person to work with and a joy to know.
00:26:03.000Kilmer dated Cher and married and divorced actor Joanne Wally.
00:26:08.000He survived by their two children, Mercedes and Jack.
00:26:15.000In the end, you're sort of struck by the normalness.
00:26:21.000Living and all of that the gossip and the excitement and sort of the hysteria or whether you want to regard in positively or negatively It kind of just melts away.
00:26:32.000I mean, we're all at some point you're gonna have to be faced with death sickness weakness even at the height if you've accomplished all these great things in your life, you're still gonna have to deal with something that Connects our humanity Which is, we can't live forever.
00:26:50.000Yeah, it's like, in a way, I'm starting to feel like this is a post-celebrity moment.
00:26:54.000Let me know what you think about this in the comments and chat.
00:26:55.000People increasingly see the culture as redundant and irrelevant, like when the Oscars was on recently.
00:27:03.000In fact, for me, it really started during the pandemic period when they I don't Criminal or nefarious,
00:27:30.000but just one of those people that was a bit of a big shot here We all are now and I feel like the culture is kind of exhausted with it like, you know We've stuff that I don't have that, you know, I feel like that's where we are Yeah, because if it doesn't have depth you're realizing that people it's just these these false Celebrities, you know, it's not it.
00:27:48.000They don't even have the the work ethic that it's taken for a Val Kilmer to become a I mean, all of his education, his passion for...
00:27:58.000Because I think about even you, people might have only known you from your movies early on that were kind of silly and playful, but they don't know that you are a...
00:28:09.000Well, they would know that if they had focused on the film, Jake, because it was evident in every single scene and every single moment, whether I was stroking a furry wool or voicing Dr. Nefario.
00:28:18.000This is a man who's had a great deal of training.
00:28:22.000Certainly, I'm enjoying this incarnation a lot more as a follower of Jesus Christ and as a refugee from the culture and an apostate against it, because I see that culture primarily in the terms offered to us by Terence McKenna.
00:29:06.000of the biggest and most important things in our country is the people that actually build the country and ensure that everything operates the way that it needs to operate.
00:29:14.000And currently speaking, that population is declining quite significantly because of the stigma that you need to have a college degree puts on people.
00:29:22.000So people usually will go into college, either fail out or, you know, get something useless.
00:29:28.000And then, you know, the people that actually need to build our country are Kind of.
00:29:33.000We'll be talking about who actually built the country, as well as who actually built the pyramids.
00:29:37.000And while the Jewish slaves may be taking credit for that, as they do for so much in history, it seems that there may be more to the story of the pyramids than meets the eye.
00:29:47.000Massie, how come you wanted us to look at this pyramid stuff, mate?
00:29:51.000Well, I don't know why Gareth didn't bring...
00:29:53.000I've been waiting two weeks for Gareth to bring it up, and he hasn't.
00:29:56.000Like, what could be more important than the pyramids?
00:30:03.000I saw this clip myself and it was talking about the fact that the pyramids may be kind of the outward expression of deep chambers that are converting and maybe even generating energy and I like the idea that prehistory may be loaded with narratives and people that even if you watch that AI scripture thing, giants, angels, demons, dragons, Nephilim, weird cities full of demonic practices, seems to me like somewhere between Genesis and the end of Yeah.
00:30:33.000for there to have been lost civilizations.
00:30:35.000And the idea that who controls history controls the narrative remains a fascinating one.
00:30:39.000And Egypt, I've seen a bunch of stuff online this week as well about memes about hieroglyphs, which are, I suppose, early memes themselves.
00:30:48.000Looking at those weird acorn pinecone images and weird hand positions that are cropping up thousands of years apart.
00:30:56.000So it seems like there may be, and I'll use this word deliberately, submerged, Submerged narratives, pre-Diluvian or anti-Diluvian narratives about humankind and human species prior to the floods.
00:31:07.000Our man Hancock always talks about the Yunga Dryas event, some cataclysm that happened and potentially we lost civilizations for it.
00:31:15.000Let's have a look, shall we, at this pyramid video.
00:31:18.000this pyramid video together and have a look at what the indications and implications of it are.
00:31:23.000Turning to a story that is making headlines around the world, an unprecedented, albeit controversial, new discovery is shedding light on a mystery that dates back millennia, many millennia.
00:31:34.000Italian and Scottish researchers, mainly from the University of Pisa, conducted advanced high-frequency radar mapping under Egypt's famous pyramids.
00:31:44.000They claim to have discovered wells, caverns, and shafts that are more than 2,000 feet underground.
00:31:50.000If accurate, it changes the face of history as we know it.
00:32:05.000They sent some pictures coming from the satellite from space, looking at the surface underground the main pyramid of Giza, the pyramid of the king, the pharaoh Khufu.
00:32:16.000Now, we know back till now that this pyramid was dated to 2600 BC, and what the archaeologists wanted to discover is we have something beneath the soil, beneath the ground of this pyramid.
00:32:32.000So with a technology that I cannot explain because I'm not specializing in this.
00:32:41.000The main story today about Elon Musk potentially leaving government in the next few months.
00:32:47.000We're also going to be looking at potential reconciliation between the cultural fissures and strands.
00:32:52.000But my personal belief is them stories about superficial cultural matters, even if they're political ones, are less important than something like this.
00:32:59.000The idea that using modern technology We're discovering literal subterranean tales about potential advanced technology because that in itself was a peripheral narrative.
00:33:09.000The idea that the hieroglyphs and the pyramids themselves alluded to and pointed to advanced civilizations about whom we know little and perhaps we've forgotten much.
00:33:19.000The idea that our interface with sublime, divine, extraterrestrial and even divine entities is an ongoing and significant aspect of our human story.
00:33:29.000Let's watch the rest of this Israeli propaganda, if we can trust them to tell us the truth.
00:33:33.000Specializing in this kind of technology, they managed to get some data from the infrastructure that is beneath the soil, beneath the ground.
00:33:40.000And what they discover is if you want spiral hallways, I don't know how many of them, but that could lead maybe to a hypothesis, a thesis that maybe we have there in ancient technology.
00:33:55.000Wow. Well, people have said this for years, that the Egyptians, you know, knew something.
00:34:00.000I mean, we know that the pyramids are said to be going, aiming toward the Orion Belt, so, you know, We know that they had things that predated modern man.
00:34:12.000Because they've made AI, they've made renderings, and you're seeing cylinders in Q. It looks like a battery or a generator or some kind of solar energy.
00:34:21.000But we have to say that they reconstructed from the data they collected from the photographs that they had from the satellite from space.
00:34:29.000So the reconstruction with a 3D model with AI and all the newest technology that we have, it doesn't mean that But this is exactly what they saw.
00:34:38.000It means that the AI, the intelligence, reconstructed what they think they saw beneath the soil.
00:34:45.000But I have to say that the pyramid and the mystery of the pyramid, why they were built, some scholars will say that they were meant to be for tombs, the tombs of the first pharaohs, but many years, I think for the last years, people are starting to doubt that.
00:35:02.000Whether it was really the purpose of the tomb, or maybe the tomb was maybe a secondary use, or maybe not at all.
00:35:12.000Also because the pyramids themselves, not only because they were pointed to the stars, but they were covered, especially the top part of the pyramid was covered with gold.
00:35:21.000Really? So when we think about the solar energy of today, how we are using the solar energy, You know, to heat and to do many things, you know, it's a whole energy.
00:35:34.000So maybe the ancient Egyptians used the same energy.
00:35:39.000Now, if we are willing to think that the ancient civilizations were not so primitive, And maybe they knew things that we also are discovering them today.
00:35:53.000And maybe the history is not a linear history, but goes more in how we call it spiral history.
00:36:00.000So maybe this ancient civilization, whether it was the ancient Egyptian or even a prior civilization to the ancient Egyptian, used the solar energy or a different kind of energy that we are not aware of it today.
00:36:36.000So if it was for technology, maybe it was a kind of, if you want, a pillar of light, a pillar of fire, and maybe this is the pillar of fire from the story of Exodus.
00:36:47.000Wow. Okay, that'll be saved for another day.
00:36:50.000How I was going to explain the story of Exodus.
00:36:54.000I feel in general, the cynicism, I think Yeah,
00:37:32.000And do you think that there's a point where if you were to explore this story, you have to start encountering mystery or at least power that's so awesome that it amounts to a kind of supernatural power?
00:37:49.000Like, we have, everything's been explained to us now, and finally we've got something which is We thought we'd explained, and now we've got this mad stuff going on underground.
00:37:57.000So yeah, that awe is what draws me to it.
00:38:05.000Because they're saying it's a possible power station.
00:38:08.000Because to me, they just look like springs underneath the pyramid.
00:38:11.000When people say that it's potentially a power station, even that is an attempt, I think, to tether it in something manageable that we can appreciate and understand.
00:38:19.000Because when I think that 90% of the known universe is dark matter and dark energy, it means that we're operating within such a limited purview of our understanding of reality that...
00:38:32.000All of our speculation is bounded on either side by limits that mean we can't even start to contemplate what the true nature of reality might be.
00:38:41.000And even when you look at something like this, where something as familiar and as ancient as the pyramids is reviewed and we're forced to bring to bear on our former understanding the possibility that it has other aspects to it, we immediately try to frame it as,
00:38:56.000um, there must be a rational reason, it must be like giant batteries, oh, there must be storehouses, This is Yeah,
00:39:35.000I mean, I think if you have real power under there, if there is some sort of technology, somebody would want to control it and keep it to themselves.
00:39:53.000We want to give it all to the only one who can do the best things with it, and we want to surrender our lives to Jesus.
00:40:00.000It's like Christianity, just surrender, surrender, surrender, but everything in the world's saying, I want to know more, I want to control it, and power is ultimately trying to control things.
00:40:09.000Yeah, and part of that control, I think, is contingent on stripping away the mystery and stripping away the potential for authority that goes beyond the human.
00:40:19.000If all that there really is is different types of human authority based on rational discernment, then power goes to those that can dominate, because there is no supreme power.
00:40:31.000And it just seems so interesting to me that the defining principle of Christianity is maximum power, the power of God, is used in sacrifice to the weakest and most vulnerable.
00:41:01.000Luke, you've been Christian for a long time.
00:41:03.000Do you feel like we're in some period of revision with cultural artifacts like The Chosen coming out, with people being more and more open to the idea of mystery?
00:41:42.000Yeah, it's funny that you guys say what you're saying right now, because it reminds me of Hebrews 11 1, which is a verse that I memorized recently, which is, faith is the assurance of things hoped for and the conviction of things not yet seen.
00:41:54.000And so when I see things like this pyramid story or any of the crazy stuff going on in the world right now, I'm immediately reminded of the fact that that's the beauty of faith, is that I don't have to know everything, and Why would I need to trust God if I knew everything?
00:42:10.000I don't know everything, and that's the beauty of having him, is that I can rely on him and know that even though I don't understand what this is, it's really confusing, I can trust that he's got it taken care of, and the word says that he's coming back quickly, and that is what I can rejoice in as a Christian.
00:42:25.000So that's where my head goes with that.
00:42:27.000Yeah, and I like that sort of the book of Hebrews in a general way seems like an attempt to provide cartilage for new believers back to the Thank you.
00:42:37.000of breaking out of what restrictions the Old Testament put in place while still not feeling like a heretic, that we are dealing with an ongoing covenant with God that's being adjusted and adapted in the present with us.
00:42:50.000And when you're dealing with something as mysterious as consciousness, Consciousness itself.
00:42:54.000Like, you know when you look at something like the Garden of Eden and you think, it can't be that, it's too childish, like just one man and a woman in a garden getting tempted by a snake.
00:43:02.000You do realise at some point the art, what Is the origin of humankind.
00:43:08.000You know that, because when you even just like as a little kid contemplate your own navel literally and where your navel leads through the navel of your parents and their parents and their parents and their parents to presumably some single ancestor you recognize the limitations of biology and anthropology and sociology and everything really that in the end we are tethered to a mystery you are regarding a mystery from a position of the mysterious and in the end that's all that's available to me is And so much of our show that we talk about is fractions in politics,
00:43:39.000mudslinging, the Dems hating on the Republicans, the Republicans hating on the Dems, the Christians hating on Jews, everyone hating on Muslims.
00:43:46.000And you feel like, well really man, at some point or another we're going to have to mark out at least a different kind of territory, otherwise we're participating in this swirl of senseless rationalism and negativity.
00:44:00.000I'm looking over there at that part of the room, but I'm not assuming that any of you are.
00:44:04.000I'm not trying to blame anybody for this.
00:44:06.000So you guys aren't interested, Luke, in what they are then, under that?
00:44:11.000I mean, I would love to know what it is.
00:44:13.000Sadly, the first thing that came to my mind as we're playing this video is, If this was 30 years ago and I was seeing something like this, I probably would get in bed and not be able to go to sleep, but because I'm so desensitized to the dopamine of social media, I'm like, damn, that's crazy.
00:44:27.000Like, that's literally what my brain thinks.
00:44:29.000But no, I absolutely would want to know what it is, for sure.
00:44:32.000You're not allowed to dig around the pyramids, so you're not allowed to climb the pyramids, graham hancock's climbed them a few times but yeah you're not allowed to dig around the pyramids at all so we probably won't ever know unless trump signs an executive order to take the pyramids and get down there for america that's what he needs to do make these pyramids american again yeah like if
00:44:52.000you're gonna have greenland the panama canal just have them pyramids take them have the alps the pyramids it is interesting because of course that like no digging thing that would be practically um defined wouldn't it there is oh you can't dig because you can't mess with it because it's a world heritage site it's a massive mirror like same with something like stonehenge in our country and
00:45:24.000it's like weird literally weird I suppose connected in invisible ways that's what that Anglo-Saxon word means But whenever there is something that's beyond our understanding, we race to fill in that gap.
00:45:34.000And I like your point as well, Luke, that now, like, you know, like, I sometimes think, wow, X is still happening when I'm not looking at it.
00:45:41.000And, like, there's just that continual stream of, like, Kanye West is releasing an album called White Rape and N-Word Cock.
00:45:55.000Give me some relationship of eternity, just so I can relax for a second, man.
00:45:59.000can't bloody can't take it anymore all right guys we have a little uh should i play a bit more what do you think we should do now do you want to look at a bit of trailer see of five uh for season five excuse me for the chosen do you want to uh yield the floor to isaac talking about the decline of labor force do you want to continue with this pyramids thing or do we just simply want to look at justin bieber for his Presumably being on drugs.
00:46:22.000I've got to reach out to you, Justin, man.
00:46:25.000It seems to me that he might be on actual drugs.
00:47:55.000He still talks about Jesus regularly on social media and I just saw this over the last week.
00:48:00.000I've been seeing these clips kind of going around and it's sad because he's clearly going through a lot emotionally and he's been in that scene for a long time and I think that you probably could speak to it a little bit just because you yourself have been a part of that scene as well.
00:48:13.000But yeah, he's clearly going through some stuff right now.
00:48:15.000I met him at the Grammys when I was with Katy Perry and we were like, oh, let's adopt him.
00:48:28.000He was probably exploiting him in a much more tangible way.
00:48:33.000And yeah, he's an interesting phenomena, isn't he?
00:48:34.000Because it's sort of that you can make a case that he's the first modern celebrity, in some senses, that he was a cult, a social media phenomena before entering into the culture and completely dominating that.
00:48:46.000And like, look at so many, like so many people who've been through the machinery of celebrity, he ain't looking well now.
00:48:53.000But like, the other alternative is Val Kilmer like who in a way massive movie star in some regards, but just a journeyman of the entertainment industry still just Spills out at the arse end of life, just with a few accolades and some broken children.
00:49:08.000I don't mean to say that in a disparaging way about Val Kilmer, just to say that the reverence and worship of celebrity by itself and by its own definition is idolatry.
00:49:16.000And idolatry always just leads to despair, whether you are the idol yourself or a participant in it.
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00:49:42.000It supports cellular health, it combats aging, it boosts endurance, it gives you an erection that lasts for simply weeks that at some points might be embarrassing and at other points actually illegal.
00:49:52.000Keeping you sharper, not the erection, that's your mind.
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00:51:01.000I call that the golden nipple of justice, baby.
00:51:04.000Okay, now we are in a fractured and fissured Trump is meeting Bill Maher!
00:51:27.000Does this mean the culture war is at an end?
00:51:32.000I always look first and foremost to Kid Rock when it comes to brokering both domestic and international peace.
00:51:38.000And it is, of course, Kid Rock whose intervention means that Bill Maher and Donald Trump will be meeting.
00:51:43.000Is that a conversation you're going to watch?
00:51:44.000Let me know in the comments and the chat.
00:51:47.000We learned about this when Chris Como and Bill Maher chatted on Bill Maher's podcast, which I've been on once, I think.
00:51:59.000You know what's great about you, English?
00:52:02.000Octopussy. Man, I must have seen that movie twice!
00:52:07.000Yes. Here's a piece of that conversation.
00:52:09.000It's nice to know that Kid Rock, as well as making accessible hip-hop rock tracks and shooting up Bud Light cans, is able to broker significant interviews too.
00:52:21.000You're going to meet with the president.
00:53:00.000Is Bill Maher sort of still in the hock and capture in his L.A. place of the liberal elites who, whilst their power may be broadly eroding, still maintain significant control over media?
00:53:13.000Because I don't think Chris Comer really thought he was a dare.
00:53:16.000No, I don't have some sort of complex where I think I can heal America.
00:53:20.000I bet he does a bit, because otherwise he wouldn't say that.
00:53:37.000Chris Cuomo looks pretty buff, don't he, in that chair, all muscular, and Bill Maher looks like he's sort of tumbling into a near-Gollum-like pose and posture in his own equally-sized armchair.
00:53:48.000I'm gonna go on that podcast again, and I'm gonna dazzle people with my posture.
00:55:15.000And I've already had a couple of people who...
00:55:19.000I said to them, you know, I'm just going to take it as a backhanded compliment that you glide right past The idea that little Bill Maher from Rivervale, New Jersey Just a humble kid from the suburbs was invited for a private dinner to the White House You glide right past that to how dare you talk to him easy and that you're not impressed by it at all I'm impressed by it a lot I'm impressed the fuck out of it.
00:55:47.000I get to go to the White House and And yes, that is the structure of this dinner, is just let's talk.
00:55:55.000Let's talk to each other face to face.
00:55:57.000Let's stop shouting from 3,000 miles away.
00:56:02.000So if they expect me to be leaving in a MAGA hat, they're going to be very disappointed, but I know they don't.
00:56:09.000And I think it's going to be, you know, look, it probably will accomplish very little, but you got to try, man.
00:56:35.000Let me know in the comments and chat whether you think this will move the needle, whether Bill Maher and Trump can somehow broker a kind of cultural resolution.
00:56:43.000I got a call from a very good guy, a friend of mine, Kid Rock, asking me whether or not it would be possible for me to meet in the White House with Bill Maher, a man who has been unjustifiably critical of anything or anyone.
00:57:01.000Trump! I really didn't like the idea much, and I don't like it much now, but I thought it would be interesting.
00:57:05.000The problem is, no matter how much he likes your favourite president, ME!
00:57:08.000He will publicly proclaim what a terrible guy I am, etc.
00:57:11.000Very much like the Democrats at my recent address to the Joint Session of Congress, where I stated correctly that no matter what I said or did, they wouldn't stand, they wouldn't applaud, they wouldn't smile or laugh, and certainly wouldn't be in any way NICE!
00:57:22.000Who knows though, maybe I'll be proven wrong.
00:57:24.000In any event, I'm doing a favour for a friend.
00:57:27.000It's pretty amazing that Trump and Bill Maher are having a conversation and it's as a favour to Kid Rock.
00:57:36.000I look forward to meeting with Bill Maher and Kid Rock, and I believe even the legendary Dana White will be present.
00:57:42.000It might be fun, or it might not, but you will be first to know.
00:57:45.000There you go, Donald Trump in his customary manner, speaking plainly, directly to the audience that love him, and greeting him as a kind of messianic figure, as well as a political one.
00:57:56.000Are these conversations valuable and important?
00:57:58.000Necessary stations on a return to a united America?
00:58:01.000Has America ever been united or has it always been divided by forms of division, firstly against the British, then the North versus the South?
00:58:10.000And maybe secession, federalisation, subsidiarity are the answer when you have this much cultural tension.
00:58:17.000Is there an agreed upon America that we're all fighting for, whether we're on the left or the right, Christian, Muslim, atheist or Jew?
00:58:23.000Or is the era of their nation about to come to an end?
00:58:27.000Certainly, I often think it might be fairer and more just if we all had more access to the levers of power, the ability to control our communities and our resources, and the ability to express ourselves culturally in alignment with our own faith in God.
01:00:14.000I always do, like, the reason I suppose I would have talked about Christianity openly, explicitly, and maybe, you know, candidly, is because I'm a comedian and a communicator.
01:00:40.000Yes, and your research isn't wrong, it's drawn from a variety of resources that are being conflated.
01:00:46.000One is an ex-post where I said something like, I went to a freakout and I didn't even get a refund, like some sort of joke that I made.
01:00:53.000Another bit of the information is from a press junket, like sort of contemporaneously.
01:00:59.000So that, you know, for the purposes of simplicity and candour, At the time that I was making a movie with Puffy, I went to Vegas to see that boxing match and he invited everyone in the cast to his famous, notorious white parties.
01:02:18.000I was sleeping around with anyone who wanted to.
01:02:20.000Not in an institutionalised way, in a kind of meeting people in bars, meeting people after shows, meeting people all the time, waitresses, strip clubs, you know.
01:02:29.000Like, I was a pretty promiscuous person.
01:02:55.000And a lot of things are kind of bypassed the kind of normal procedures that you would go through of charming numerous dates, all of those things.
01:03:02.000But if you're also actually quite charming and enthusiastic, like You know, all of the talk shows I was on.
01:03:29.000That's the conscience that I was telling you about.
01:03:31.000Not only the conscience, the emptiness.
01:03:34.000Well, thank you very much, all of you, for joining us today.
01:03:37.000Isaac, I'm so sorry we didn't have time for your story, but perhaps you can console yourself with the fact that your people have got complete control over the American government.
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