The Culture War #66 Deep State Corruption, Trump Conviction Press Conference w⧸M.I.A & Shane Cashman
Summary
On this episode of The Culture War with Maya, rapper and singer-songwriter, Shaan Singh, aka MIA, joins us to discuss the recent Donald Trump guilty verdict, government corruption, and much, much more. Plus, we talk about Shaan's new clothing brand, OmniWare, which is all about privacy, data, and dissent in pop culture. Featuring special guest Shaan Singleton ( ) and special guest Maya ( ) of the hip-hop group, "The Culture War." Music: "Noah" by Zapsplat ( ) Art: Macklemore and Ryan Lewis Editor: Mike Carrier Mixer: Will Witwer ( ) Editor: Christian Bladt ( ) Audio Engineer: Ben Koppel ( ) Music: Jeff Perla ( ) Additional Compositions: Hayden Coplen ( ) Graphic Design: David Fincher ( ) Special Thanks: John Rocha ( ) Executive Producer: James Pizzi ( ) Producer: Andrew Ghai ( ) Technical Direction: Daniel Gulati ( ) Assistant Editor: Matthew Herrell ( ) Senior Producer: Alex Blanchard ( ) Production Design: James Herrick ( ) Chief Editor: Ben Kotnik ( ) Social Media Strategy and Marketing and Social Media: Mike McLendon ( ) Our theme song is , and our ad music is . is by . . is a song written and performed by , and produced by ! by & is - our ad is by . and in ( ) is a production of with . We are featuring . Please rate us on . Our music is produced by our logo and is also available on SoundCloud thanks to , our logo is is available on on , the . Thank you to , . , "the_dave_ + thank you , , and , & can be found on Soundcloud we to thank you for your support, of , we are , thank you , and the , which is a , all for , can , thanks from , so much , a s Thank you, and all out there @ , Thank you out "
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It's the morning after. Donald Trump was found guilty on 34 counts.
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You've got one side of the aisle gloating and laughing, saying this is the rule of law.
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The other side, of course, is saying something dark has happened to our country.
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And it's wild because there have been many dark things happening in this country for a very long time.
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But I suppose targeting your political rival with criminal prosecution in numerous ways to stop him from winning an election is particularly dark because it's the end of the system.
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It's fascinating to me, though, that so many Americans don't care about or tolerate murder, kidnapping, military rendition, extrajudicial assassinations because it doesn't affect our system.
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It reminds me of the Joker in Dark Knight when he says if I told the press that, like, a busload of soldiers will be blown up or a gangbanger will get shot.
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But when he says one mayor will die, everyone loses their mind.
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I certainly think it's a bit more extreme seeing the frontrunner for the 2024 presidential election being threatened with prison convicted.
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It's particularly extreme. I understand why people are shocked.
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But there is a lot of stuff going on that needs to be broken down.
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And so I can just say, first, we are going to we don't normally do this, but it's such tremendous historical news at 11 when Trump gives his press conference.
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We will pull it up. It is going to be in line with with our conversation.
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I just want to say, though, you know, I wake up feeling relief that Trump was found guilty because now it means that we can go after Barack Obama for the extrajudicial assassination of Abdul Rahman Al-Awlaki,
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who was 16 years old and killed in a drone strike that he signed off on.
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I know. I wish I was kidding. I'm sorry. I wish I was kidding about that.
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But the reality is I'm kidding about him actually going to jail for it.
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The first ever prosecution felony charge of a former president was not for the extrajudicial assassinations, the illegal wars, the stealing of money, funneling off our resources, destroying the American.
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Oh, well, so we're going to talk about government corruption.
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We're going to talk about a whole bunch of stuff.
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We're hanging out today on The Culture War with Maya, also known as MIA, singer, rapper.
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And yeah, I wanted to come on your podcast to talk about that because it is all about data and privacy and things like that.
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I'm excited to talk about all the dissent that we should be doing with someone who's been a dissenter and one of the rare actual dissenters in pop culture.
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But here's some of the protective wear that limits some of that.
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Well, I definitely, I'm really excited to talk about that because it's like chic tinfoil hat, right?
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So like, you know, over the last past, I would say, what, four years, I got branded as a conspiracy theorist.
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And the first thing I'm launching is a tinfoil hat.
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What started the rumors of you being a conspiracy theorist?
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And if you go to Omni.com, it will be, I don't know if it's live right now, but it's going live today.
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So there is a bucket hat, which is reversible, so you can wear it black, and you can also wear it silver if you want.
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And this is good for Virginia because it's a sun hat.
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And all the hats are lined with silver, copper.
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So when the stock market goes up and down on silver, our products kind of might get affected.
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We're still figuring it out because this is our first collection.
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You can, you know, limit the amount of protection you need.
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But yeah, so I made some hats, and I made an entire clothing range.
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And so we made, like, maternity dresses and things like that.
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I made it after your Harari said, all humans are hackable.
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I was like, hmm, that's a really great thing to work off.
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You know, like, if you want your heartbeat measured every time you go down the high street in a smart city,
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But if you don't want that, you know, today you want to own your own data and your own biometrics and your own stuff,
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then you can just put on Omni, and it kind of holds it off for a bit.
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And, like, I have a do-rag, and this is a mesh, which is metal.
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And you put it on, and you can choose when your Neuralink is operational.
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But, you know, hopefully it is what they're saying it's for, which is to make people who need it in a medical way.
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You don't need it now, but you'll need it in 10 years.
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You're going to be working on your latest album or whatever, and they're going to say, this is fantastic.
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And you're going to say, I don't have Neuralink.
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And they're going to go, well, how do we get in touch with you?
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And you're going to say, just call me on my phone.
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And then they're going to be like, is there someone else we can reach out to?
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And they're going to say, look, sorry, if you want to work here, you want to work with us, we need to be able to contact you.
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I mean, could you imagine if someone was like, I don't have the internet?
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You can put it, and then you can try to call, and it will turn it off.
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You said you were in Dubai for the apocalyptic storm.
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Were you wearing your Omni in all that fake rain?
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And I was, you know, and I kind of sleep in this stuff, too.
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So I did think, wow, something's going on, because everybody's like, this is a force majeure.
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It's an act of God, and, you know, you're here in the apocalypse.
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And I was like, wow, like, God really hates me.
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Of all places and all times, I've never been to Dubai, and here I am, first day, boom, the apocalypse.
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Well, but then it was also the crazy week where Iran and Israel were fighting, you know, and that thing was going on.
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And so the clouds were kind of coming from the Iranian side as well, because we're on the coast.
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It's like, is this somebody getting trigger happy on the weather machine?
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Is it coming from Iran because some cloud was generated to block something, and then someone went crazy on it?
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And, you know, or is this Israel testing some weather machine, or is this like, you know, you don't know, because you're right there in the center of where it's coming.
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And the floods kind of went from Dubai, and then I think it went to Afghanistan.
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You know, it moved in a direction away from Iran.
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So I was there, and this stuff, you know, it's really interesting in a city like that, because they are super modern.
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They are going on turbo in terms of smart cities and things like that, and so it's perfect for there.
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You know, it's just going to be part of, it's the fabric of modern life.
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This is the first time I'm actually going on air talking about it.
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I did go on Gwyneth's Goop show in terms of the maternity dress, and I think she was interested in it, and she had a lot of flack for talking about it on her show.
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Because she's now considered a conspiracy theorist?
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Because he is the guy that my last record was canceled over.
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The day I said that tweet was, happens to be the day that my record was going to be released to the world.
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And I said, people can't be fined a billion dollars for lying, because so many people lie.
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Like, I can think of like 25 people that needs to be fined a billion dollars right now.
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That has been detrimental to humanity, you know?
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Not just the emotional suffering of families that were part of this incident, but lies that have changed the course of humanity.
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Yeah, they engineer the narrative of life, yeah.
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I was actually thinking of it in a positive way.
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I was like, yo, if we're going to fined people for lying, this is a great thing.
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Has the music come out, or what's going on with it?
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GQ, Drop My Cover, I think People From Vogue and stuff like that.
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There was loads of press lined up and everybody cancelled it.
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It's worth noting this is not the first time you've pissed off entire portions of the world.
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What would you say would be the first time you did something that gave you all that pushback?
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I think the first would be when I released my first song, Sun Showers.
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And then I had loads of people turn up to my shows and write into the government and stuff
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and say, this person should not be touring in America.
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So that's when I started having issues with the visa.
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So before 2005, I've been to America many times and it was just smooth.
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And I was traveling with Elastica band and I went to every single state.
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But when I released that song, people would write in to, you know, the FBI and stuff like that
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and be like, she's saying this and da-da-da-da-da.
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So it's weird to me that you can mention PLO in a pop song, however many years, 10 years ago.
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And then now it's like a glamorous thing in pop culture.
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Like the Hadids can come out and say all this stuff.
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And my dad was part of the revolution in Sri Lanka.
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And so when he started, his movement was called EROS.
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And when he started, EROS was trained by the PLO in the 70s.
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And so they were kind of connected to the Tamil cause.
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But they were connected to, I think, every single cause in the 70s.
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Because there were revolutions popping up all over the world.
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And that was a very normal thing that you basically train with the PLO.
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You know, this is so people can deal with the fact that, you know, the.
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It means you can put your laptop on your lap and.
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And these tracksuit bottoms I'm wearing is the same.
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But you can put your laptop on there and your room is protected or you're, you know.
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So I was going to say, it's weird to me that you get so much flack all that 20 years ago
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I think you're going to sell every single one of these.
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Fred Durst needs one of these on tour right now.
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It's like he's got a lot of surface area to, you know, attack.
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I feel like all of this stuff is going to sell out instantly.
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So I thought, what's better to bring this into the world than iKid?
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Who's very, you know, came out the same year iPhones did.
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Are these going to help root out the NSO groups?
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Hopefully, if you wear these, it will help negate the Pegasus spyware getting into your
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There's going to be a bunch of women who are going to buy this for their boyfriends or husbands
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And they're going to be like, we're having kids.
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I think if you're interested in having families, this is the brand for you.
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You know, it's like, also like for my son, he's a teenager and I have to make something
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that's cool enough that he's been to those jeans.
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Well, it's all new to him, you know, because I didn't get into the U.S. for the last six
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And we made this, you know, happen in that time I was away.
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I'm a bit disappointed you didn't call it a fanny pack, though.
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But like, if you were to say fanny pack in the U.K., it would mean something very different.
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But that's also like, it gives you a pocket inside where you could go off grid, and it's
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If you want your friends to call you, you could put it in one compartment.
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If you want to go completely off grid, you put it in a different compartment.
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Was it hearing that he could hack our bodies that set off you looking into all these different
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Or were you already on a path of like, we're being poisoned at every possible front?
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Well, I just think that, I think it's an interesting time.
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We're not going to stop the fact that people are going to build smart cities.
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And during COVID, it was just like such an aggressive sell of that thing.
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And I went into a mall, and it was a shop, a Chinese shop called Uniqlo.
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And they bought this new technology where you could just grab whatever you want in the store, and you put it into this bucket.
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And then you stuff it into this thing, and this thing says, oh, you've got 10 items, and this is how much it is.
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Then I realized that the entire shop was the bucket, you know?
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So you walk in, and the shop is looking at what the last song I listened to, you know, what the video I watched, and what colors I like.
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And it's using AI to analyze my phone and everything, and then doing my facial recognition, and looking at my reactions, and my eye movements at certain clothing.
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And I was like, wow, this is like, the shop is a box.
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And then I stepped out of the shop, and then I was like, whoa, the street is a box, you know?
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And then I was like, whoa, the whole city is a box.
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And then it was like, we're not going to stop that.
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It's like the traffic lights are doing that, and the CCTV.
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So in England, you're like, we're the most surveillance country in the world, you know?
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And we have all of this technology constantly bombarding us.
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And I thought I was going to move to a farm, but I didn't.
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And then I was like, okay, there has to be something that then helps me.
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If I can't take my son and live on a farm off-grid and running around in a field, grounding myself, then I have to bring that to the city.
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And it's like, am I going to grow vegetables on my roof?
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And this is one of the things that I feel like I can merge a 15-year-old fashion-conscious mind right now.
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Think about what the future is going to be like.
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You walk in, grab whatever you want, you walk out.
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And then it just tracks everything you're doing.
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So, as soon as it opened, I went there and I filmed myself taking whatever I wanted without paying for it.
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I'm not going to explain because it still works today.
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But I was able to go in, fill up a thing, walk out.
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I called Amazon right away and let them know that I had done it, that we had.
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I was able to walk out without paying, but we made sure someone made sure every item was paid for.
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But my concern is, yeah, and their response to me was basically like, oh, we don't care.
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The amount of money that we save by not having employees covers the cost of loss.
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They got rid of it and they're getting rid of self-checkout because everyone's stealing.
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But here's what the future is going to be like.
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You walk into the store with these 15-minute cities, these smart cities.
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You walk into the clothing store and you go, ooh, this shirt looks good.
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You've been deducted, you know, $326 because of, you know, inflation, right?
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As we're moving into the AI world automation, the calls for UBI and all this stuff, how will
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you get money to be able to go in and grab those clothes?
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And then if you have a high social credit score, they're going to say, you've got an
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extra $2,000 allotted to you this month for having a score over 800.
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And then you can walk in, take whatever you want.
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You walk into the McDonald's or whatever, and you just press cheeseburger and then just
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It's looking at your eyes, looking at your face.
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The machine is watching you everywhere you go, judging you.
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You crumple up your wrappers and you accidentally throw one in the wrong one.
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Social credit score goes down and you go, oh crap.
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You wave to the camera and you put it in the recycling and say, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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I would say China already has that to a degree.
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And we're seeing people locked out during lockdowns of their houses and apartments and they
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They were like, have to sleep outside in the parks.
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Aren't there people right now taking down those cameras?
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Yeah, so there is, that is, that's cool that they, they're incentivized to do that.
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This, this is not good if the London mayor's listening to this, but that's nice when people
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take matters into their hands to slow down what's going on because in the UK, it's not
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a social credit system, it's just too, it just like grinds society to a halt.
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You know, this is another thing we're talking about, creativity and artistic expression and
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how some of these things are really important to society and artists think, you know, we
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Like, it's not easy to think in a box, you know, and, and, and I think with all the monitoring
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systems that's in place and, and they have apparently the most sophisticated camera on,
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So when they, you know, if you're speeding, when they do the speeding ticket, like it's
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this incredible sophisticated camera that scans you in 3D and sees the inside of the
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car and, you know, like it can see if you're texting while you're driving and, and you're
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like, wow, this, this, I can't make music videos with this kind of technology, you know,
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without it being such a crazy thing, but we have it on a, on a speeding ticket.
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They've, they've had, they've had devices for decades that shoots a laser and when the
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laser hits glass, it can translate the vibrations in the glass into audio.
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So if you're in a room talking, they point it at the window and then they get a low resolution
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And that's been, that's been for like 30 years.
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We've been under global surveillance for decades.
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I mean, the UK is in the five eyes program with us and Australia, New Zealand, forget
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Canada, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and a U S yeah.
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But see, this is what, this is what makes me get more spiritual demons.
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Well, I wrote a book about this on Omni and it got taken down.
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Uh, it was called Omni nine and it was about, um, it's about the universe and how it is coded
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in mathematics and, you know, God sort of codes all this stuff.
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And then the demons use, um, their own understanding of maths to decode it, you know, and surveillance
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and monitoring and all of this stuff is, is done to monitor human beings because the belief
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of human beings matters, you know, which side they empower.
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So when humans believe in God, gods are strengthened and, you know, the angels are strengthened and,
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and when they're confused and they get tricked or led down the, you know, confusion route, um,
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So the only way to do that is through technology, you know, and, and so that was the book and
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Um, but I became a Christian in, I guess, 2017.
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So I grew up a atheist, uh, even when I came out as MIA, I was an atheist and my dad always
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said religion is used as a, is a tool for social control.
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And, uh, so then I guess after I made the Maya album is when I found out what my name meant,
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uh, after I got canceled for saying connected to Google, connected to the government.
00:32:50.920
And then obviously WikiLeaks and everything came out in two 10 to 11 around that time.
00:33:01.280
And so then, um, you know, it just kind of, it was about technology because the iPhone came
00:33:11.760
out and it was, the reason why that happened is because of my observation to do with the
00:33:16.520
Tamil genocide, like what, what kind of happened during 2009.
00:33:21.200
And I didn't really think too much about the wider scope of how things were going to be
00:33:33.420
And when I was canceled, I went to India for a bit.
00:33:37.720
And then that's when I discovered what my name meant.
00:33:40.460
And it was kind of a cool thing because in Hinduism, you had a concept of a goddess who
00:33:47.100
was the goddess of music and also the, uh, the goddess of the untouchables.
00:33:53.100
So it's about giving voice to the voiceless and, um, and, and she was, she, she was the
00:34:01.400
goddess of spoken word, which was kind of like rapping.
00:34:04.560
So when the record labels were like, why are you political?
00:34:11.160
I brought back this story and I said, look, 5,000 years ago, they'd already written a concept
00:34:17.300
where it was possible to be a musician and stick up for people and talk about pollution
00:34:23.720
of information and, um, and, you know, fight for something like it's okay to have these things
00:34:34.920
And, uh, so it was very useful having this Hindu understanding.
00:34:41.680
And, uh, so then I went down the path of Hinduism and studied it and tried to understand it a
00:34:49.880
And then suddenly out of nowhere, five years into it, um, I had a vision of Jesus.
00:35:01.540
Um, so I just made the borders video and, uh, yeah.
00:35:09.160
So that was the last thing I did as a Hindu and it was about, um, again, humanity.
00:35:16.340
And I, and I thought that creatively, cause Matangi is the goddess of like creativity as
00:35:21.320
So I really felt that I had to make this to understand what, um, this was it?
00:35:32.180
And, you know, the whole time I got, I had the strength to make this video on my own.
00:35:36.040
So I directed it and we kind of did the whole thing in 20 days.
00:35:43.040
I was going on holiday and there was a storm where I was going.
00:35:45.900
So I landed in Chennai and then we were, we were stuck there cause of the storm and we
00:35:52.360
So, and we started and finished it from scratch within 20 days, you know, and, and that, that
00:36:08.360
Um, so to do that very quickly, it's like you had to believe in something to get through
00:36:15.260
and, and what the message was and, and, you know, so I was feeling very comfortable in
00:36:21.720
Uh, but the funny thing we did during this video is we, we kept going to that markets
00:36:26.700
in India and buying really badly spelled shirts.
00:36:29.720
And we were going to put it in the video as a joke because, um, Indians always make these
00:36:34.860
motivational shirts, but they spell it all wrong.
00:36:38.060
You know, so one of the ones on, on route to this day, like this specific day, I think
00:36:45.340
Um, we had one where I was walking on water and that's because, um, all my stuntmen let
00:36:56.100
So they were like, you know, we don't have the ramps that we're going to shoot the speed
00:37:00.640
boat into the air, but we can make you a ramp where you can stand in the water.
00:37:05.360
But that day we found a t-shirt that said Jesus sad instead of Jesus said, I am the way.
00:37:16.600
And so it was kind of weird that we had this shot and, um, but I didn't really think about
00:37:23.500
And then straight after I made this video, um, something else happened in the Hindu realm.
00:37:33.660
And then I had a vision of Jesus because, um, I, I don't know why, uh, but it happened.
00:37:45.060
And Matangi or Mardangi, the goddess, it was always about, um, freedom, freedom of speech
00:37:59.180
And it's the articulation of inner thought into external sound.
00:38:04.840
And she resides in the throat, uh, in between your brain sending the signal and being, um,
00:38:18.340
And so when I was canceled and in between those two albums, I was canceled like 50 other
00:38:28.420
Superbowl, Superbowl, you know, there's the stuff about when I said Obama should give back
00:38:37.160
And then Julian Assange, like, you know, meeting him.
00:38:40.780
And then I made the WikiLeaks album and it was all like million other things.
00:38:45.960
Um, but then I thought, you know, truth is an important thing.
00:38:49.740
And when I had the vision of Jesus, it's not like I could lie about it or pretend I didn't
00:38:56.640
You know, I still have to be truthful because even in the context of the thing I'd followed
00:39:01.440
before, which was Mardangi, the concept of this deity, it, it stood for truth.
00:39:08.660
And it was part of my journey and exploration to find out what that meant.
00:39:13.900
And once you take truth serious, then you get revealed this other truth.
00:39:23.180
Like, what if this all was supposed to be up to this point, you know, and maybe there's
00:39:29.800
I don't know, you know, but at this point, that is a truth and can't lie about it.
00:39:42.680
Um, cause my life was pretty, I was quite comfortable in Hinduism.
00:39:50.040
Um, and then I guess when 2020 came along, it sort of made.
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And even though the Borders song was all of those things where I was saying,
00:41:37.380
You know, the opening of this song literally says, we need a new rhythm.
00:41:43.380
And then you throw all these things into the air.
00:41:50.180
Yeah, politics mean or the borders or everything, you know, as large topics and issues?
00:41:58.060
What do they all mean once you begin to tear at the fabric of society where meanings are given
00:42:08.480
to things and, you know, and we override that, you know?
00:42:16.080
And so, of course, all of those things are going to start breaking, you know, if you remove the foundation.
00:42:22.120
And so, I was already there in 2016 asking these questions because, yes, I saw the change, you know.
00:42:32.060
And I guess it was written before Trump came into power.
00:42:36.980
And so, then I was, after you asked those questions, you're just kind of like, well, what do you do now, you know?
00:42:50.160
And then I had the vision and I don't know why and I don't understand what the reason, what was the reason for it.
00:42:59.340
And then when 2020 happened, I see it on like a bigger level to be like, okay, this is, you know, certain things happen because they have to happen.
00:43:08.420
And, you know, it's, I guess we're still living through that time.
00:43:16.660
I had a very similar experience where I was an atheist.
00:43:19.660
Christ offered me the only structure and joy to chaos that this world gives you.
00:43:31.740
As you're also noticing, like you were talking about technology and like this totalitarian techno world we're in, they're trying to become God.
00:43:41.420
Whereas like there's an ancient omniscience that I was now believing in because it's the only way to push back against this fake omniscience in the world.
00:43:56.940
I mean, we have a lot of people come into this studio who are, oh, yeah, you know, I found Christ and things like that or more specifically that.
00:44:08.700
It gives you peace now because I don't know where else to find it.
00:44:13.040
I mean, even Hinduism, I have a lot of people around me who are, it's chaotic, you know, and therapy doesn't have the answer.
00:44:25.900
And, you know, science is a study to me, but it's not the answer, you know.
00:44:35.840
My mom was a Christian for a long, well, is, and I was very judgmental and always felt like, you know, I'm an intellectual and I look down at Christians as something, as it, you know, like naive people followed because they had nothing else, you know.
00:44:56.300
The weirdest thing to me is that people will lie and claim I'm an atheist.
00:45:02.100
You've said, I mean, I've heard you say it hundreds of times that you're not an atheist.
00:45:05.080
There has never been an instance where we've done a show where I have ever said I'm atheist or I don't believe in God.
00:45:11.440
I think you've even said the story many times of, like, going to some skater's house and seeing the painting of Jesus and asking him, like, what's up with that?
00:45:18.540
And, like, him giving you that nuance that perhaps we don't all have.
00:45:22.140
There are atheists who do the right thing as well sometimes.
00:45:27.460
And they don't know why they do what they do, but they, they, they, that's okay.
00:45:33.040
Like, like, for example, Julian Assange, I would say he's like that, you know, he's like my dad.
00:45:43.960
It doesn't mean, you know, he's also not willed by a certain power that, you know, that is, because people find the, the drive and the will and the energy from somewhere to do what they do.
00:46:04.260
And, you know, he went up against things that is a very selfless cause, you know, it's like he doesn't benefit from what he did.
00:46:15.800
You know, he was trying to speak about pointless deaths of some journalists, which will affect many, many journalists, but doesn't really, you know, he, he had no gain.
00:46:27.540
It's not like he was going to end up with a billion dollar tech company at the end of it, you know.
00:46:31.880
And, uh, a lot of people in that time did like loads of people became billionaires of tech companies, yet this man didn't, you know, so he was willed from something.
00:46:43.500
Those, those people became billionaires ended up working in tandem with the government.
00:46:50.260
And we got, you know, we got, we got that tech became used to go after every single person in humanity and, you know, where, whatever your Harari is talking about now, whether humans are hackable or whatever, however that is done, you know, is through all of these technologies that, that.
00:47:14.900
So I would also say Christ is like the greatest subverter of evil.
00:47:19.460
And so to be Christ-like is trying to subvert evil.
00:47:25.080
And that's why I think a lot of the evil people in government hate that transparency because they're like, oh, he's, he's exposing.
00:47:31.440
Well, what he really did, you know, above just, uh, showing us the videos of all this horrible, uh, murders of civilians is he exposed the unit party.
00:47:40.260
Cause at one point Hillary Clinton is on TV saying he's the worst person ever.
00:47:44.380
And then there's people on Fox news calling for his murder.
00:47:47.580
Like they're saying, I know it's illegal, but if you see him, you know, take care of him.
00:47:53.460
And then you had the famous line, Hillary Clinton asking, can we just drone this guy?
00:47:57.380
But, uh, you know what it is, is, uh, Julian Assange was sharing the truth.
00:48:01.120
And also like there's many people, it's not even, I get it.
00:48:08.820
Therefore he's evil, you know, and he's anti-American.
00:48:12.440
But there's many people in America who say, for example, when we talk about RFK and he's talking about poisonous food in the system,
00:48:22.740
someone like Julian doesn't have to harm Americans in that way because you could go to the supermarket and there's enough things in there that harms Americans.
00:48:32.460
You know, you don't have to, you don't have to drone Americans because Americans are selling Americans bad food, you know, and that, you know, and medical care, like their medical care is so expensive.
00:48:44.400
A lot of them are not interested in health like they should be, or, you know, like there's, there's loads of, there's loads of, um, things that American companies do themselves to hurt Americans.
00:49:01.660
And I think 2020 was like the, the first time you really saw that, like you saw how American government didn't care about the American people.
00:49:12.420
Like this is the first time American people saw that.
00:49:15.920
Because if you're not paying attention to the news, and this is what I was talking about when I opened the show, like everyone's shocked now.
00:49:22.460
And it's, it's wild to see all of these tweets from people who are not Trump supporters after the guilty verdict being like, holy crap, this country is blowing up.
00:49:30.220
And I'm like, man, that, I felt that way when I was hearing about the drone strikes.
00:49:35.180
Obama killed, I think like four, I don't know how many Americans said it was like four.
00:49:39.060
Or the, uh, the two most notable are Anwar and Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki, American citizens, no charge, no trial.
00:49:55.880
Like for normal public, you know, our internet at that time in 2009, we were like, Hey, you know,
00:50:06.440
to understand the internet, like the government wasn't, I mean, maybe I was naive thinking that, but I felt like, oh, they, they hadn't quite processed how big the internet is and what it means to, you know, to, to regulate it.
00:50:24.080
But instead of it being regulated for the people, it got regulated for the tech companies to become billionaires, you know?
00:50:33.140
And, and that, that was, that was the thing that was done between, well, it was Obama's years, you know?
00:50:40.440
When, uh, when the national defense authorization act, I think this was 2012 was signed.
00:50:44.960
This was the one with the indefinite detention provision in it.
00:50:47.760
They actually said for the national defense authorization, the president will have the right to basically rendition anybody, show up to your house, mill the night, black bag, you drag you off to a barge somewhere and hold you.
00:51:01.780
Congress, I thought when that happened, I was like, wow, this country is, is, is done.
00:51:10.960
This is, this is the worst president this country has ever seen.
00:51:13.200
And everyone's outside cheering and screaming and celebrating.
00:51:15.380
And I'm just like, this is, this is horrifying.
00:51:22.500
He puts on a tan suit and everyone's making, oh, easily distracted.
00:51:25.900
So I guess it's okay when it comes to him, you know, but it's funny and not funny.
00:51:30.120
I think one of our biggest problems is our short-term memory, because this is just cyclical.
00:51:34.260
Like the Trump thing is a new unprecedented situation, but, you know, thinking of Assange
00:51:41.420
I mean, the Pentagon papers came out during Vietnam.
00:51:49.940
I think it was, you know, like there's constantly whistleblowers that, you know, during wartime
00:51:54.260
that the government just doesn't want you exposed because I think about this a lot yesterday
00:51:58.160
when it, because like with Assange, I'll say, oh, well, he hurt national security.
00:52:13.000
So there's the difference, you know, like then you, then because of that, then you have somebody
00:52:19.220
like Snowden come up after who was like, okay, well, I'm an American and I'm going to do
00:52:25.180
this for American people, you know, and because he, I don't know, I guess he's on his own.
00:52:31.520
They were able to say, well, he's a Russian asset or something and sort of build that.
00:52:38.060
But again, I think he was, he was genuinely doing it for the American people.
00:52:42.960
And then you get Donald Trump and now here's the current iteration.
00:52:46.940
And he is certainly an imperfect avatar of a lot of the anger people have.
00:52:51.740
But, you know, Edward Snowden is, is witnessing all of the lies, the corruption.
00:52:58.240
You've got, um, was it Brennan lied to Congress?
00:53:08.220
And then Snowden's like, I'm going to just slide this over here to a couple of journalists.
00:53:12.260
The one challenge, the one problem I see with, with Snowden was he didn't actually read what
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It's good that we exposed X-key score and these other spying programs, but he actually
00:54:55.660
And he acknowledged this, that some of the stuff he released was not properly redacted.
00:55:01.700
The journalists published it and it actually put people at risk.
00:55:07.700
But I got to say like the net positive in the end, where we are today, knowing what they're
00:55:14.920
I will also then say, but has any of it stopped?
00:55:29.320
I mean, Five Eyes, like we were talking about earlier, was born out of stuff like Project
00:55:33.780
Shamrock, Project Minaret, Project Echelon, where it's just global surveillance constantly.
00:55:39.740
And they're getting, you know, RCA to, the government's infiltrating RCA and all radio
00:55:52.940
Now we're on the collective consciousness of Twitter where they can just pick, you know,
00:55:57.400
And they're watching you not just on your phones, they're watching you with Lockheed
00:56:01.720
That's why they got so mad when Elon bought Twitter and turned it into X.
00:56:05.660
Because this is basically their mass surveillance and manipulation program.
00:56:13.900
See, this is, then you have to get back to the spirituality thing, because what is the
00:56:19.860
point of studying humans, you know, and what is the point of all that?
00:56:25.080
It's like, you want to make them buy more things to become rich, okay?
00:56:33.480
Like right now, say the military industrial complex or whoever you're talking about, they
00:56:48.580
You know, why do you want to control the humans?
00:56:51.880
So it just keeps going round and round in this circle of questions.
00:57:01.840
So why are you trying to control them to spend money so you make money and you make them
00:57:10.020
Like, especially digital currency, you can just think of a number and put it in there.
00:57:14.660
Like, you know, BlackRock could just already be doing that, saying we have $50 trillion.
00:57:24.520
They get loans directly from the central banks.
00:57:27.720
You can literally just digitize, put in whatever number that the computer can hold.
00:57:33.700
When money is created upon the issuance of debt.
00:57:36.560
So when BlackRock says, hey, we're going to buy this house, they just type in a number
00:57:42.600
And now the money exists in the account of the person who sold the property.
00:57:48.560
And even money will just, it's like, you know, what is the value?
00:57:56.380
Because it is decentralized and they can't control it.
00:58:00.020
They can put blocks in, they can put in law and things like this.
00:58:08.820
So then you're like, okay, it must be some sort of spiritual warfare.
00:58:20.240
Because everything can be dismantled and remantled at such a speed, you know, nowadays, then the
00:58:31.060
purpose of why that's happening has to be something else.
00:58:34.240
And I think most of, you know, or the religion of choice for the coming world is supposed to
00:58:47.960
And Hinduism, I guess, because Hinduism is tolerant towards everything in a cosmic way, which is why...
00:59:05.960
I think it's Hinduism, and you might say it's something else.
00:59:14.520
I think that you have to be balanced with, you know, this country was predominantly Christian
00:59:23.400
And now, because Christians are a tolerant people, and maybe took turn the other cheek,
00:59:29.320
literally, they've allowed evil to continually step beyond the boundary and enter their threshold.
00:59:34.340
Yeah, the thing about Hinduism is this, is that it's a very, very, very, very old religion,
00:59:39.440
right, or philosophy, or science, whatever you want to call it.
00:59:43.260
But it has enough information for scientists today, or people that are interested in religion
00:59:52.260
But over the, whatever, 6,000 years, it's been super corrupted, you know?
00:59:58.760
So you've got layers and layers and layers and layers and layers of stuff going on.
01:00:04.000
And Hinduism itself does have a concept of good and evil, you know, but that has been kind
01:00:14.080
I know Hindus today who talk about Hinduism, but they never talk about the evil spirit in
01:00:19.560
Hinduism, you know, or the demonic entities in Hinduism.
01:00:26.760
There's hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of Hindu gods, but they fought demons.
01:00:35.280
So there's hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and thousands of demons too, you know?
01:00:42.080
And even, like, Shiva, his snake, the reason why he's blue and he has a snake around his neck
01:00:48.560
is because a snake bit him, and he was poisoned, which is why he turned blue.
01:00:53.420
And he took the snake, and he subdued the snake, and he wears it around his neck because he
01:01:02.540
And, but now everyone wears a snake as a symbol of Hinduism.
01:01:07.360
And, and you have gurus that make snake sounds when they enter the room, and you have to make
01:01:14.760
snake sounds when they exit the room and stuff.
01:01:18.100
Yeah, so you, you're like, when did, and, and there is a snake aspect to Hinduism where
01:01:24.640
Vishnu is a god that sits on a snake on the sea, and it's protecting him, and it's creating
01:01:30.600
a, um, uh, um, an umbrella for gods to chill under and stuff.
01:01:37.200
And you can have enlightened, you know, they've, they've been, like, subdued by the gods and
01:01:42.740
have been made into enlightened snakes, and then they come and help the gods.
01:01:48.200
But, so we have this, um, thing, you know, but in the modern day Hinduism and the way Hindus
01:01:59.200
And the, the, the, the way people follow Hinduism today, it's used in ways that I don't agree
01:02:07.540
with and I don't like, um, where it is coming from a, you know, I feel like when society
01:02:14.020
is broken, you know, and, and you're traumatized, and I can say that because I did suffer a lot
01:02:21.060
of trauma as a kid, living through the war and this and that, but I'm always aware of not
01:02:28.840
inflicting and putting that on people, you know, and that you have to be, um, a vessel
01:02:37.120
to put in negative information and turn it into positive and put it back out as a positive
01:02:44.260
And, but Hinduism, it, it has a, it has a, a way you can learn the magic no matter who
01:02:55.200
And you can learn the mantra without working on yourself, without being a positive thing.
01:03:02.460
Um, with all your negativity and trauma and all of that, if you put, if you arm yourself
01:03:08.600
with that power, you can inflict a lot of negativity, you know, and, and affect things in a bad way.
01:03:14.860
And this is, this is what I don't like about Hinduism is that it gives, it is tolerant to everybody
01:03:20.740
and it gives everyone the power to learn this magic, you know, and people use it wrong.
01:03:30.520
Is it, is it, is it weird that the, uh, the snake here, it's a double helix snaking up?
01:03:39.360
A lot of the information of our, our world that we live in comes from Hinduism, you know?
01:03:45.160
And so this would be ancient Babylonia information that, you know, the Abrahamic religions come
01:04:00.960
God told Abraham to come out of his father's house and then I'm going to give you a new religion.
01:04:06.200
And Abraham birthed Islam, you know, and the Christian religion, right?
01:04:12.520
Abraham's two sons are the ones warring in Israel right now.
01:04:17.060
You have Palestine and you've got Israel warring over this temple and it's both Abraham's
01:04:26.300
But Abraham came out of his father's house and his father came from a town called Ur, yeah?
01:04:33.760
And in the West they pronounce it Ur, but it's actually you are Ur.
01:04:42.180
So you can Google the word, like you can Google South India and everywhere in South India where
01:04:47.420
Tamils come from, and I'm a Tamil, every town ends with the word Ur because it's that old
01:04:55.120
So, you know, it'd be like saying, um, uh, Charlestown Ur.
01:05:01.960
You know, instead of saying town, it would be Charlestown Ur.
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We have Charlestown and Charlestown, which basically are the exact same thing, but one's just.
01:05:15.380
Charles, Charlestown was literally just because tin is a corruption of town and they would
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So I think Tamil was present, yeah, in that time.
01:05:28.480
I just, I just mean that when you look at this, it's called the, uh, what the caduceus.
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The symbol is, it's, it's two snakes spiraling up a staff.
01:05:41.060
And it says snakes are seen as holders of knowledge, strength, and renewal.
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Quite literally, DNA is the holder of knowledge and birth.
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And also, so in Hinduism, the snake is, um, representative of how the energy moves through
01:06:00.480
So the, the symbol that you saw there had wings at the top and then it had the, a bulb
01:06:05.520
at the top, which is the third eye or your pineal gland, which is your wisdom.
01:06:11.900
How did you look at the snake after becoming Christian?
01:06:15.820
Uh, did it change if you look back at like, you know, Genesis and Adam and Eve?
01:06:20.780
Well, no, actually, because I do think that it represents the beginning and the end and
01:06:28.160
Um, and, uh, yeah, I, I think about that because also the Pope's auditorium is a snake.
01:06:46.820
So the snake is there and, yeah, I mean, like you don't spend billions of dollars building
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I just wonder if, uh, if, you know, people knew things back then or how did this symbol,
01:07:04.780
you know, it's just kind of, it's interesting that it's, it resembles DNA.
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I think we, I think people like some things or, or someone explained to them what DNA
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Colts, for people that don't know, these are uncontacted Pacific islands that saw planes
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flying overhead during, I think, World War II and didn't know what they were seeing.
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So they built effigies of the planes and then began to worship them, hoping they would come
01:08:55.600
And so I'm wondering if this is something similar.
01:08:57.160
Someone explained DNA to ancient people and they didn't quite understand what was being
01:09:05.960
Well, actually, that, the ancient, is it ancient apocalypse?
01:09:14.780
And he goes back to the first ever town in Turkey and they have a snake on the side of
01:09:19.580
their building, the first monolith that was built.
01:09:24.380
And then in the Mayan civilization, like Chichen Itza, the pyramid, that Chichen Itza means the
01:09:45.140
So we do have, the press conference will be starting at any moment.
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Right now there's just placeholder music, so we'll pull it up as soon as it does.
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Did religion play a major part in the genocide in Sri Lanka or was it more of like political
01:10:03.860
It's now beginning to play more of a role because people feel very hopeless and, you know,
01:10:13.820
religion or Hinduism definitely is giving them an identity.
01:10:17.980
Because it is, it, Tamils, it's not a religious, it's an ethnic war.
01:10:24.500
So Tamils were there in Sri Lanka for a long time.
01:10:26.960
And this, this can be debated because the pure Tamil is called Sendhamal and that comes from Sri Lanka.
01:10:40.240
And then the Indian Tamil is like a dialect from that.
01:10:45.540
And so this is a bit that only a real Tamil knows.
01:10:50.820
And so even the Indian Tamils would tell you that the Sri Lankan Tamil is like the pure Tamil.
01:10:56.080
So how does a pure Tamil come from a tiny island and then spread to the mainland when history always told us that it's the other way around?
01:11:04.740
So Tamils have already been on this island for a very long time.
01:11:08.340
And so, and the Sinhalese are sort of people that were made from people that travel from the north, North Indians, around Bangladesh area near Thailand.
01:11:24.140
So there's a document called Maa Bamsa, which goes back a very long time that says Sinhalese came from a mixture of maybe people from Kerala mixed with people near Bangladesh and Thailand.
01:11:39.400
And that's why it also carries Buddhism as the main religion.
01:11:43.640
But the Tamils were already always associated to South Indians.
01:11:51.700
Because, not that I think there's a high probability of being true or anything, but when you look at stuff like, you know, they have, what is that little airplane they found?
01:12:06.620
And then many people just say all they did was make a brass fish.
01:12:10.000
It's artistic representation of a fish with fins.
01:12:12.480
You're over, you know, there's no tail or whatever.
01:12:14.760
But you think about what would happen if there was some kind of advanced civilization and technology was destroyed, lost as apocalypse.
01:12:22.980
The people who know the technology trying to explain it without books or references or computers to their kid.
01:12:32.940
So you look at, like, the serpents coiling around the staff, representing, you know, strength, life, rebirth, or whatever.
01:12:56.120
He's like, no, no, no, it's like two strands that spiral up called a double helix.
01:13:02.900
And now when that kid, having no idea what it means, is older, he goes, it's like two snakes spinning.
01:13:07.820
You know, and that's where the strength comes from.
01:13:10.380
That's how the knowledge breaks down without record.
01:13:12.860
That's one of the weird things about the genocide.
01:13:14.980
Like, already people don't talk about the Sri Lanka, what happened to the Tamils.
01:13:17.860
But then the other thing I believe, correct me if I'm wrong, Jaffna, the library,
01:13:21.620
they burned down, like, hundreds of thousands of old manuscripts, right?
01:13:28.780
Because also, like, the Tamils in Sri Lanka are important.
01:13:30.900
We fought for, our revolution was fighting for a place called Elam.
01:13:38.020
So my dad's organization, EROS, is Elam, Revolutionary Organization of Students.
01:13:48.700
And Elam and Elamites are going back to Ur, back in Mesopotamia.
01:14:11.640
This is a case where if they can do this to me, they can do this to anyone.
01:14:20.900
These are, in many cases, I believe, sick people.
01:14:24.240
When you look at our country, what's happening where millions and millions of people are flowing in from all parts of the world, not just South America, from Africa, from Asia, from the Middle East.
01:14:35.060
And they're coming in from jails and prisons, and they're coming in from mental institutions and insane asylums.
01:14:44.860
They're coming in from all over the world into our country.
01:14:47.560
And we have a president and a group of fascists that don't want to do anything about it, because they could right now, today.
01:15:01.520
And they're very much against me saying these things.
01:15:10.060
They want to stop you from having cars with their ridiculous mandates that make it impossible for you to get a car or afford a car.
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But make it very possible for China to build all of our cars.
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We just went through one of many experiences where we had a conflicted judge, highly conflicted.
01:15:37.740
Now, I'm under a gag order, which nobody's ever been under.
01:15:40.440
No presidential candidate's ever been under a gag order before.
01:15:44.140
I'm under a gag order, nasty gag order, where I've had to pay thousands of dollars in penalties and fines.
01:15:59.740
And I'm leading the Republicans to the point where that's over.
01:16:07.240
And I'm under a gag order by a man that can't put two sentences together, given by a court.
01:16:14.160
And they are in total conjunction with the White House and the DOJ, just so you understand.
01:16:20.360
Maybe his people, more importantly, I don't know if Biden knows too much about it, because
01:16:56.240
Because there's never been anybody so conflicted as this.
01:17:00.560
As far as the trial itself, it was very unfair.
01:17:04.740
We weren't allowed to use our election expert under any circumstances.
01:17:11.940
You saw what happened to some of the witnesses that were on our side.
01:17:16.920
They were literally crucified by this man who looks like an angel, but he's really a devil.
01:17:29.880
And you saw that with a certain witness that went through hell.
01:17:36.340
And when we wanted to do things, he wouldn't let him, he wouldn't let us do those things.
01:17:42.420
But when the government wanted something, they got everything.
01:17:50.180
We wanted a venue change where we could have a fair trial.
01:18:13.200
That's what he's really supposed to be looking at.
01:18:18.840
Yesterday, at McDonald's, you had a man hitting him up with machetes.
01:18:25.900
Whoever can imagine even a machete being wielded in a store in a place where they're eating and he's going rampant and Bragg is down watching a trial.
01:18:52.400
When they say falsifying business, that's a bad thing for me.
01:19:05.440
It means that legal expense, I paid a lawyer, totally legal.
01:19:16.000
And a bookkeeper, without any knowledge from me, correctly marked it down in the books.
01:19:25.640
Marked it down in the books as a legal expense.
01:19:27.580
And so a legal expense, paid a lawyer, is a legal expense in the books.
01:19:33.180
It's not sheetrock, construction, or any other thing.
01:19:42.440
This is what the falsification of business records were.
01:19:45.600
And I said, what else are you going to call it?
01:19:55.680
Because as soon as you testify, anybody, if it were George Washington, don't testify.
01:19:59.880
Because they'll get you on something that you said slightly wrong.
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But the judge allowed them to go into everything that I was ever involved in.
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In other words, you could go into every single thing that I ever did.
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And my lawyer said, what do you need to go through?
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And all you wanted to do is testify simply on this case, because I would have loved to
01:21:59.660
I would have liked to have testified, but you would have been, you would have said something
01:22:03.620
out of whack, like it was a beautiful sunny day and it was actually raining out.
01:22:08.340
And I very much appreciate the big crowd of people outside.
01:22:16.900
So the whole thing is legal expense was marked down as legal expense.
01:22:23.820
This is my, this is the crime that I committed that I'm supposed to go to jail for 187 years
01:22:30.680
for when you have violent crime all over this city at levels that nobody's ever seen before
01:22:37.260
where you have businesses leaving and businesses are leaving because of this, because heads
01:22:41.600
of businesses say, man, we don't want to get involved with that.
01:22:46.200
I could go through the books of any business person in this city and I could find things
01:22:57.900
But I'm out there and I don't mind being out there because I'm doing something for this
01:23:02.420
country and I'm doing something for our constitution.
01:23:08.200
And this can't be allowed to happen to other presidents.
01:23:10.780
It should never be allowed to happen in the future.
01:23:20.960
And the people understand it because I just see a poll just came out, the Daily Mail.
01:23:29.180
It was done last night right after the verdict where I'm up six points, six points from what
01:23:41.760
Now, maybe other polls come out and it says something differently.
01:23:44.800
But a lot of people have predicted it because the public understands and they understand what's
01:23:58.580
He should have allowed allowed us to have an election expert.
01:24:01.620
We had the best expert, most respected expert, head of the Federal Elections Commission.
01:24:12.020
And when it was his turn, Bragg's people protested.
01:24:16.680
And the judge knocked him out, said you can't testify.
01:24:19.580
He actually said you can't testify for anything having to do with the trial.
01:24:35.240
But with these people, they were able to use people salacious.
01:25:01.660
It was dropped by every agency, every governmental board.
01:25:06.600
It was dropped by the highly respected Southern District.
01:25:15.720
This is about a federal election, not a state election.
01:25:19.680
They took the state and the city and they went into a federal election.
01:25:25.040
The people from federal elections, Southern District, and Washington dropped the case.
01:25:35.280
And when Brad came in, he said, this is the most ridiculous case I've ever seen.
01:25:39.540
And who would have a certain person, again, gag order,
01:25:42.680
who would have a certain person like this ever testify?
01:25:45.640
He said, this is essentially one of the worst people I've ever seen, ever, to testify.
01:25:52.540
He said, the craziest case I've ever seen, this is Bragg.
01:25:56.720
Then when I announced I was running for president, long time later,
01:26:09.780
who was responsible for another case that was also brought,
01:26:15.680
destroyed the life of a very good man, by the way,
01:26:23.400
and then they just put him in prison again because they said he lied.
01:26:30.580
In fact, he didn't remember something and they put him in jail.
01:26:36.480
With me for many years, he was an honorable person.
01:27:13.260
but they put him in jail again because they didn't want him to testify.
01:27:52.460
This man was told you're going to get 15 years in jail
01:28:09.900
because he didn't want to spend the rest of his life,
01:28:20.240
So you can go to jail for four months, five months,
01:28:36.780
There's a whole group of lawyers that fight that.
01:28:53.380
And then you know who didn't want to bring the case?
01:29:02.520
They didn't say legal expense equal legal expense.
01:29:10.260
and by the way, this was a highly qualified lawyer.
01:29:12.440
Now, I'm not allowed to use his name because of the gag order.
01:29:33.660
He got into trouble because he made outside deals,
01:29:35.840
and he had something to do with taxi cabs and medallions,
01:29:50.620
And as soon as I saw that, I said, I wonder why he did that.
01:29:55.320
Now, he took a deal because he wanted to get off.
01:29:58.360
In other words, I'll take a plea deal, and I want to get off.
01:30:01.840
And he wanted to make a deal with the Southern District.
01:30:04.320
And they wrote the worst report I think I've ever seen on any human being,
01:30:09.980
other than the report that was written on James Comey by the inspector general,
01:30:16.920
a very great inspector general, actually, wrote a report that was so bad.
01:30:24.840
The Southern District, the judge didn't let us use it.
01:30:33.020
But he got in trouble for a very simple reason,
01:30:36.780
because he was involved with borrowing a lot of money,
01:30:42.460
I don't know if it's defrauded the banks, but something happened.
01:30:47.780
And then in addition to that, he gave up on three things where he wasn't guilty.
01:30:53.560
The head of the FEC, Brad Smith, the election expert,
01:30:58.520
number one rated in the country, was going to testify.
01:31:04.180
He just added them in because that gave him more bargaining power with respect to me.
01:31:08.260
But the three things that he pled on having to do with the election
01:31:12.260
and having to do essentially a little bit with me,
01:31:31.420
Totally honorable, totally good, totally accepted.
01:31:39.700
But the press called it slush fund and all sorts of other things.
01:31:49.360
And most of the people in this room have a non-disclosure agreement with their company.
01:32:06.080
And what happened is he signed a non-disclosure agreement with this person,
01:32:30.460
And everybody said it was a non-case, including Bragg.
01:32:44.840
It's a very sad thing that's happening in our country.
01:33:00.500
But I'm honored to be involved in it because somebody has to do it.
01:33:06.060
But I'm very honored to be involved because we're fighting for our Constitution.
01:33:18.920
In fact, the lawyer, in creating the NDA, because at that time, he was a fully accredited lawyer.
01:33:28.040
The media called him a fixer or the prosecutors called him a fixer.
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I didn't like, for instance, I didn't like that when I became president, he went around and made deals with companies.
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And he had payments coming to him, and a lot of this involved things that are very simple.
01:35:33.240
In fact, I just watched a couple of the reports.
01:35:36.380
You watched Jonathan Turley, Andy McCarthy, Greg Jarrett.
01:35:40.080
You look at all of these people, Mark Levin, all very talented people, great people, many more, many more.
01:35:58.540
I watched Turley this morning saying, there's no crime here.
01:36:06.620
Except for this DA that's got the city out of control with crime.
01:36:18.860
On legal expenses, you have 100 where they say they do a charge.
01:36:30.540
Falsification of business records in the first degree.
01:36:37.660
And even my own lawyers, I get very upset with them because they don't say what it is.
01:36:44.000
They say, well, falsification of legal records is only a felony.
01:36:53.800
But they try and bring it up to a felony if there's two crimes.
01:36:58.260
The other thing is they miss the statute of limitations by a lot.
01:37:03.260
They could have brought this seven years ago instead of bringing it right in the middle of the election.
01:37:12.260
The good news is, last night, we just got a report this morning.
01:37:25.940
They raised with small money donors, meaning like $21, $42, $53, $38, a record $39 million in about a 10-hour period.
01:38:03.460
Not because they were stupid and did things that they shouldn't be doing.
01:38:11.360
This is a case that should not have been brought.
01:38:15.680
I watched Andy McCarthy say, this is a case that should not have been brought.
01:38:48.180
And it has Trump up six points in the last 12 hours.
01:39:02.220
Because the people of our country know it's a hoax.
01:39:14.980
We're going to be appealing it on many different things.
01:39:32.160
And neither has anybody that was in that courthouse where he demanded that the courthouse be cleared.
01:39:36.480
Now, the good news is most of the people in the courthouse were the media.
01:39:39.840
And anybody that was in the media, if you're fair, you'll say, wow, that was anger.
01:39:50.080
And the reason that Bob Costello acted a little bit upset, which I think he has a right to,
01:39:56.740
was that every question he was being asked was being objected to by the other side and sustained by the judge.
01:40:16.860
And I never saw anybody treated that way by a judge.
01:40:20.100
And I've been treated very badly by two other judges also.
01:40:24.100
And it all comes out of the White House, crooked Joe Biden, the worst president in the history of our country.
01:40:29.680
He's the worst president in the history of our country, the most incompetent.
01:40:38.340
He's the dumbest president, most incompetent president.
01:40:42.140
And he's the most dishonest president we've ever had.
01:40:45.280
And so many of the he's a Manchurian candidate.
01:40:48.020
You take a look at the way he treats China, Russia, so many others.
01:40:59.120
And he gets three and a half million, meaning three and a half million is paid to the family, his family, from the mayor of Moscow's wife.
01:41:17.200
And the only way they think they can win this election is by doing exactly what they're doing right now, win it in the courts because they can't win it at the ballot box.
01:41:25.480
So we're going to show them that, oh, we're going to fight.
01:41:31.840
It's actually, I don't know, it's something where I'm wired in such a way that a lot of people would have gone away a long time ago.
01:41:40.220
They would have gone away after impeachment hoax number one.
01:41:44.380
I had great support from the Republican Party, though.
01:41:51.500
How about they formed the committee of thugs, the J-6th Committee of Thugs.
01:41:58.660
And they took their records and they destroyed all of the records after the committee was abandoned because those records were great for us.
01:42:22.200
It's 100 percent Democrat and two past Republicans that are no longer Republicans that are no longer in business anymore.
01:42:30.280
But it was all Democrats and two wayward Republicans.
01:42:41.600
He's the most emotional human being I think I've ever seen.
01:42:49.940
So they had all this stuff that they're leaking.
01:42:52.440
And then when it came time to look at the records, like where the police said and the Capitol Guard said that I supplied.
01:43:03.220
That I recommended as many soldiers or National Guard as you want, 10,000.
01:43:13.340
If you had 500, you wouldn't have had a problem.
01:43:18.360
Anyway, so they have testimony to all of that, that I did not attack the Secret Service agent in the front of a car.
01:43:27.100
And I supposedly went to the driver and I grabbed him around the neck and he rebuffed me.
01:43:35.840
And then I went to the other guy who I think is a black belt in karate.
01:43:44.540
And I grabbed him around the neck and said, he's a black belt in karate.
01:43:48.900
They know how to get somebody from around their neck.
01:43:52.600
They would have gone like this and that would be the end of that.
01:43:56.320
Actually, I had a friend that said, you shouldn't dispute that.
01:43:59.820
That makes you look like the toughest cookie we've ever seen.
01:44:14.580
I mean, we're looking at the historical first conviction of a president.
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But with all due respect, he's now just going into past grievances.
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Because I'm like, this is the first time a president's ever been convicted.
01:44:49.340
Like, Julian's also in a kangaroo court having a trial.
01:45:05.020
And I think he underestimated exactly the lengths they were willing to go to stop him.
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It's just another example of him collaborating with bad people.
01:45:16.960
Yeah, but see, so decisions are very important.
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Because they come back or they create a chain of events, you know, which will come back to you in some other way.
01:45:32.880
It's like he made that decision to ignore that point, you know.
01:45:45.800
I asked him, is he going to pardon Julian Assange?
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He said they're giving it very real consideration.
01:45:54.460
But I don't think he can just come outright and say yes on something as big as that.
01:46:01.300
What was your takeaway from talking to him, him telling you he was going to address Assange at that speech that we were at?
01:46:10.460
Do you think he confused him, or do you think he just decided not to write it up?
01:46:13.380
No, I think he intended to talk about Assange, but I think someone wrote him a script.
01:46:25.640
I mean, it's really tough because, you know, we're trying to, with this show, we want to have a longer conversation.
01:46:40.180
We didn't even think it was going to be like this.
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I thought I was going to come and talk about fashion, but here we are.
01:46:45.300
Yeah, I don't know if there's ever been a moment like this, so we'll jump back to his presser.
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It looks like they're building an army right in our country.
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We were energy independent for the first time ever.
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They just reported a 72% drop in crime in the last year.
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Because all of their criminals, most of them, and the rest are coming in now.
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A lot of people from their prisons and jails and brought them into the United States of America.
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I mean, that's what they're trying to do to Julian.
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Little things like our kids can't have a Little League game anymore because you have tents and you have migrants living on the fields.
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People are taking over our luxury hotels, migrants.
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And yet our veterans, our great veterans, are living on the streets like dogs.
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01:52:05.880
How do you feel when he talks about immigration compared to what happened to you as an actual refugee?
01:52:10.340
I mean, because it's everybody's political, like, talking point, you know, in America right now.
01:52:16.080
But, like, it's, it's, um, this is also why I'm counseled by the left sometimes.
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It's because, not sometimes, but have been the last few years, because they're like, you're supposed to be having the immigrants back.
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And, you know, I, I applied to get this visa in a legit way.
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I had, like, four lawyers, like, did everything I could to get in the right way, and I couldn't.
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Like, everybody was saying, why don't you just go to the border and walk over?
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They would just put me in jail, and then I'd never be able to see my kid.
01:53:01.280
But, you know, and Elon Musk is making a big thing about it, and everybody's making a big thing.
01:53:05.120
And then, obviously, on the Biden side, they are letting all these immigrants in, but I couldn't get a visa.
01:53:13.580
So I was in this really, like, weird situation with American immigration.
01:53:19.940
And in the end, I met someone who randomly knew the Clintons.
01:53:30.540
And I got a call from the Clinton office, one of their assistants, and he listened to my problem.
01:53:49.520
So then I was supposed to come on podcasts and be like, look, maybe there's a silver lining.
01:54:01.260
But then I went to Julian Assange the week after, and I said, you're never going to believe this.
01:54:11.400
After hiring four lawyers and trying for, you know, 10 months or whatever.
01:54:18.060
Because I got a call from the Clinton office, and I said, maybe they're human.
01:54:23.820
You know, like, maybe they understand, like, that there's certain things.
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You know, like, I was trying to see my son as a mother.
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But all I see is them saying, how can we manipulate someone with a large voice to maybe say something nice about us?
01:54:44.120
He was like, maybe they gave it to you because you're supposed to start saying nice things about them.
01:54:55.020
You know, and I was like, maybe you are going to be free after all.
01:55:16.620
So the logo of Romney is like, it's like a sentence, you know, and it's like, these are all months I spent outside.
01:55:25.800
Yeah, and that's where it comes from, and it's also, OMS is how you measure electricity, but I tried to turn it into the months it took for me to make this brand.
01:55:38.880
It's the months I spent outside of the U.S. trying to get a visa.
01:55:42.680
I also say, though, you as an immigrant, when you left Sri Lanka, you were leaving-
01:55:50.280
First of all, there's the difference between refugees and immigrants.
01:55:53.620
Tell people what you were, like, what were you leaving?
01:55:57.180
I was in a war zone, but I was in an extra bit of war zone because my father was the leader of a group called Eros.
01:56:05.400
And they, when they found that out, I drew, we were, my family was like a magnet, even though we didn't see him, we were a magnet for the government.
01:56:15.980
So wherever we went, the government would turn up in trucks and arrest every guy between the age of like 15 to 40.
01:56:23.840
And beat them up and torture them and put them in jail.
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You know, we were like, we had the plague or something.
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And everyone would be like, please don't come here, please don't come here.
01:56:35.420
And we would just sort of, in the end, the town put all their jewelry together and bought us the plane ticket, you know.
01:56:45.480
Because we didn't even have money to buy food and stuff and people would not really, we were very, like, ostracized and stuff.
01:56:55.380
And my dad didn't know any of this because he couldn't even come near us because we'd be dead if he did.
01:57:01.940
And so we lived like that and, you know, we lived in hiding and stuff like that.
01:57:17.040
That's when, I mean, there were just mass graves.
01:57:20.160
Yeah, and all of my family, all the men were arrested and everyone was being tortured all the time.
01:57:27.600
And I'd already seen so many, like, dead people by the time I was 10.
01:57:33.880
And it was like, I don't know, at that time, I was thinking about this the other day, like, when you're talking about,
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you know, I did a show in Bakersfield last week and everyone's on this weird drug, you know.
01:57:56.280
Oh, you're talking about, like, the weight loss drug?
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You know, the one where that makes you, like, bend over and walk like a zombie.
01:58:02.000
Like, loads of people are on drugs just walking around like zombies, you know.
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Like, by the time I was 10, I'd seen so many people dead, right, and killed by the government on the way out,
01:58:15.680
trying to make it out from Sri Lanka out to the airport in the capital, which was Colombo.
01:58:23.000
That journey alone took us, like, three, four months.
01:58:26.800
You know, which, in hindsight, if you look on Google Maps, it would take, like, three days to walk or something.
01:58:32.940
But for us to get out in the 80s, it took, because buses would just be stopped on the way and burnt and bombed, you know.
01:58:40.840
Like, there were just dead people everywhere on that route.
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And then I'd never seen a drug addict in my life, you know.
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Until I got to Colombo, that was the first time I saw one.
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And I found that more shocking than seeing dead people burn out in buses and stuff.
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Because that's the world you inherited, was mass death.
01:59:06.340
I was like, wow, I'm more triggered when I see somebody walking like a zombie on drugs than seeing someone shot in their head.
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Were you aware at that young age that the government was perpetrating the genocide?
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Because that was clear when you were there at that age.
01:59:23.480
Because, you know, it was just, I think the tigers weren't like a big thing then.
01:59:31.360
And my dad's movement was very, like, intellectual.
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They were very smart and it was full of students.
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And it was generally like an intellectual thing.
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And EROS were being trained by the Indian government at the time.
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And my dad would be, like, known because he studied in Russia, which is, like, triggering for Americans right now.
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But my dad went to Russia because Yuri Gagarin went to space and came back and decided he wanted to advocate for world peace.
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And the first place he came to was Sri Lanka, which also has the Adam's Peak, when you look it up.
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Adam's Peak, which is a biblical thing, is in Sri Lanka.
02:00:32.980
So, anyway, he comes and advocates for world peace and he set up scientific industries.
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So, they decided to get people into engineering and do production and things like that.
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And they were going to school people into becoming engineers.
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And my dad got chosen as, like, a kid at 16 to study space engineering or something.
02:01:01.820
And, yeah, he went on the first commercial flight that was launched between Sri Lanka to Moscow at 16.
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And he chose a university in his school thinking it was Paris, thinking he's going to France.
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And it was the Congolese president who was assassinated by the CIA.
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Or the opposition party of the Congolese government at the time were backed by the CIA.
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And so, Russia built a university named after him and opened this first university to teach people.
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And then, because he read the thing as a 16-year-old, he was like, yeah, France is going to be amazing.
02:02:11.960
And then, so he made weapons when he joined the revolution.
02:02:16.920
Because he, he's the only one who had an engineering background.
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And half of his movement was killed by the tigers.
02:02:30.060
And so, in India, they were hiding and everything because they were also hiding from the tigers because the tigers were just coming up.
02:02:41.160
And, you know, this is the thing about the revolution.
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There's always internal fighting and everybody knows.
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And it's like things are not so clear cut, you know.
02:02:56.320
And they did something which brought them into the bracket of they were labeled terrorists by, I think, Canada and America first.
02:03:07.080
And once they were branded as that, you know, it's very difficult to do anything.
02:03:13.020
And regardless of, I don't know, trying to liberate the Tamils themselves and, you know, regardless of what the outcome were, everyone just sees it as we are defeating terrorism, you know.
02:03:32.520
It's weird that it's been like 40 years, right?
02:03:42.240
They put out a report called Mass Graves and Failed Exhumations.
02:03:49.540
I don't want to say they're taking accountability.
02:03:52.340
But it hasn't turned out well from what I've seen from, like, family members who believe they've got people in those mass graves.
02:03:58.840
Like, has there been any country to say, hey, this is a genocide?
02:04:03.580
Obviously, now we're talking about Israel and Gaza a lot.
02:04:08.560
It sort of falls between the cracks because, like I said, I guess it's because it was the first year of smartphones and, you know, the government was filming the genocide and putting it on YouTube and bragging about it.
02:04:23.360
Because you can, when you're fighting terrorism, you can be like, look at all these terrorists we're killing.
02:04:31.420
You know, they pushed 450,000 people onto a strip of beach and bombed them.
02:04:36.920
And 450,000 people did not belong to the Tigers, you know.
02:04:43.620
And the argument was some of them are the Tigers, maybe 15,000 soldiers or something.
02:04:52.140
I don't know what the last days, you know, the amount of soldiers who were part of the Tigers, what the numbers were exactly.
02:05:01.740
But 450,000 people were bombed on that strip of beach.
02:05:07.100
And I think in the end they took in about, I don't know what the number is, but into the camps maybe.
02:05:16.900
They said they took in all 450,000 people, but it wasn't true, you know.
02:05:21.340
And then from the camps they removed generations of people that they thought might come up and rise up again.
02:05:30.480
So they removed all the 15 to 45-year-olds and killed them, you know.
02:05:38.780
And ironically, you know, everyone goes down as MIA.
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And it's like you had, you know, on video you have them assassinating the 12-year-old son of the leader, Prabharan.
02:05:54.000
Which is like the saddest thing to watch, you know.
02:05:59.140
And all of the labels they used against the Tigers to label them a terrorist organization was that they were using child soldiers.
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Yet during the end of that war, they were just massacring children.
02:06:20.220
Yeah, it's like Obama, you know, droning the 16-year-old boy.
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And so this, like, hypocrisy is just actually just hatred.
02:06:30.020
Were you told when you hit up, like, the upper echelons of pop culture and you started talking out about this stuff?
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Were there people behind the scenes being like, you should stop talking about this?
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And everyone saw it as, yes, why are you concerned?
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Music is, music can be a very spiritual thing, you know.
02:06:52.320
And it shouldn't concern itself with social problems is what I was told.
02:06:57.120
And then I was like, well, actually some musicians are social.
02:07:01.160
Like if you take John Lennon or Bob Dylan, if you remove the social out of it, they're nothing.
02:07:06.940
Yeah, so I was like, you know, that's not a thing, which is why I think the name kind of made sense later on.
02:07:15.560
Like some bands, particularly System of a Down, seem to completely get away with the activism.
02:07:20.840
One of their music videos is just international protests against the Iraq war.
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I mean, I think most of them, outright activist declarations, totally acceptable.
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Rage Against the Machine, totally acceptable in every way.
02:07:35.520
Maybe because Rage Against the Machine was always raging on behalf of the machine.
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They're always Marxist chumps, although I love their music.
02:07:46.440
But System is different for some reason because they talk more about like the prison system and maybe things that we could more people could do.
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They're like one of the biggest bands in the world.
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They're also weird because their drummer is, from what I know, a Trump guy.
02:08:03.740
And Serge, the singer, is definitely not a Trump guy.
02:08:07.240
Serge is not, from last I heard, not a Trump guy.
02:08:15.640
I'm just saying my assumption is he's an anti-Trump guy.
02:08:18.120
And then there's artists, and you can agree or not agree, that I believe you've done it authentically because you do it even though you get hate for it.
02:08:27.560
And then there's other artists who co-opt it, and they do it, like, I'll say Beyonce or Jay-Z.
02:08:37.480
You don't have to go there, but I think, well, other than him being-
02:08:40.940
Other than him being overrated, I think Beyonce takes things from other people.
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Yeah, she became a billionaire off the back of that.
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RFK became, the RFK to me became, like, the easy choice for people who want to be rebellious.
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And also, RFK has got this wake of dead Kennedys behind him.
02:09:20.580
There's actually a band called the Dead Kennedys.
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The drummer of systems is a Trump guy, apparently.
02:09:31.660
Then Serge is, okay, all I'm worried about is Trump derangements.
02:09:34.900
No, this is the interesting, even Trump said it.
02:09:37.160
It's about if you want to truly make America great again, and you have to believe in the
02:09:42.300
Constitution and all that, RFK does have very amazing historical knowledge, you know, from
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Like, if you really want to redefine that, he's got the knowledge to do that.
02:10:01.140
A lot of the Trump supporters are attacking RFK, saying he's a nut job and all that stuff.
02:10:05.100
And I'm like, I kind of feel like Trump should have a cabinet position for RFK Jr.
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Because, you know, we interviewed him, and it's very obvious RFK's core issue, the reason
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why he's running, is toxic environmental pollutants and things like this.
02:10:20.660
Yeah, but Trump doesn't care about any of those things.
02:10:23.320
And that's why there's a lot of people who wouldn't vote for Trump.
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But if Trump says, you know, look, let's say in a few months, RFK is clearly out of the
02:10:31.700
Trump goes to RFK and says, environmental cabinet level position, then I think a lot of
02:10:40.220
By the time my dad left politics, his last thing was that he wrote a massive theory on
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how there should be a central government with all parties, you know, for it to work.
02:10:51.740
And 25 years ago, my dad said to me, you know, this idea of democracy, when every individual
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on the planet, like this thing that everyone's fighting so hard for, you know, if every individual
02:11:08.840
on the planet is given a say, there will be chaos.
02:11:13.900
You know, in between me watching some random soaps or whatever, and it's just like, he's
02:11:18.220
talking in the corner and you're like, what is he talking about?
02:11:21.160
But fast forward, you know, 30 years or whatever, here I am.
02:11:26.140
If every single person and every single platform and every TikTok and every Instagram and every
02:11:31.520
everything and every Twitter has got a say, there is chaos.
02:11:39.060
And not one party is going to be perfect for satisfying all of these voices.
02:11:46.340
And maybe eventually my dad's right about that too, that there would be a party that involves
02:11:53.360
all of these party representatives that then can cater to every voice.
02:12:04.540
Like RFK, um, he saddles between Democrats and Republicans in this sense.
02:12:12.960
But there's an overlap enough to where when RFK comes out and says plastics, like, so we've
02:12:22.200
But we also have the filtered glass, filtered water and glass bottles recycled better for
02:12:30.060
The Trump administration could say like, we want to put you as a health advisor.
02:12:34.360
And so you can talk about plastics and chemicals and forever chemicals and microplastics, all
02:12:39.480
And people are going to, are going to people on the right will absolutely support it.
02:12:42.540
But there are some like, there's no, there's no position for Joe Biden in the Trump
02:12:49.540
If Trump were to win and then say, I want to give the, you know, Hillary Clinton a shot,
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She represents nothing that could benefit this country.
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But there are people who would march in lockstep behind Hillary Clinton.
02:13:05.040
I kind of feel like the only people who are supporting Biden and Democrats are people who
02:13:10.680
And the people who are supporting Trump are a mix of some who don't really know and some
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I would say that if they do know what's going on, they like that.
02:13:22.220
This, this is a, this has been a very interesting episode of the culture war considering, so
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I mean, yes, I am coming from culture and you have the president is almost like a rapper
02:13:39.000
But there are people saying like, what, what is this?
02:13:41.840
Look, we did not know that Donald Trump would give a historic press conference after he
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was found guilty when we were setting up a conversation around, you know, Julian Assange,
02:13:50.940
MIA's work, uh, immigration, silver and all this stuff.
02:13:54.540
Because, you know, Trump is saying, Hey, I want to move manufacturing to the United States
02:14:01.760
Tate BlackRock, who are basically whoever, the World Bank, who now took post-war in Sri Lanka,
02:14:09.140
all of the gold reserves from Sri Lanka, and I guess silver too.
02:14:15.920
Uh, so during the economic crash, they took it and now it's in the World Bank.
02:14:23.580
And this reserve is not then utilized in the United States of America to make this fabric.
02:14:35.800
And so you can be like, Oh, why does, why do you produce in China?
02:14:40.200
I have to, because even though America's holding all the metals and the precious metal
02:14:45.420
reserves, like BlackRock, they're not using it.
02:14:49.940
Um, you know, the old, uh, song, make new friends, but keep the old one is silver.
02:14:54.440
The other is gold for all the people watching your old friend, the golden haired president.
02:15:02.760
But, but we're going to, we're going to, we're going to wind.
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I just wanted to stress that, you know, uh, you know, normally this show is about just
02:15:13.380
But when you have a press conference from a president, I feel like you can't not play
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So I just want to make sure everybody understands, you know, how the format of the show went,
02:15:21.560
but, uh, subscribe to tenant media, smash the like button.
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Is there anything else you wanted to say before we wrap up?
02:15:41.600
I would go on Joe Rogan and Alex Jones's show because you know why?
02:15:48.000
Because I think it would be interesting to talk to Alex Jones about this stuff because
02:16:00.780
You know, I didn't know anything about him until the media blew it up and went, why is
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So then I was like, I have to get to know who he is.
02:16:12.920
And then by the time I found him and started like looking at what he does, he was already
02:16:21.880
Well, he's been, he's been doing it just on his own and he's kind of a little harder
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OMS is, OMS is, George OMS is a German guy who meant it resistance.
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Thank you so much for, for hanging out with us.
02:16:50.540
Shane, did you want to mention anything before we go?
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We're going to hit up Alex Jones right after this.
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Well, they call me a tinfoil hatter and I have the tinfoil hat.
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The next step is for us to make the beanie that Tim is wearing.
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And yeah, you can find me online at Shane Cashman.
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I got Inverted World Live on Sundays at 6 p.m. Eastern.
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This Sunday I have Ian Carroll coming on and talking about a lot of crazy stuff.
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