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00:00:00.000 today's show is uh i think quite good but what do i know i'm just the guy who did it

00:00:06.800 who's in the radio hall of fame anyway we talk a little bit about the bridge uh and

00:00:13.760 how that's just going to take america forever and uh i'd like just to remind you who we are

00:00:20.160 plus stew has a theory on who might have actually been behind all of these transportation incidences

00:00:31.920 now he's definitely not not saying pete buddha judge he's not not saying that and i just want

00:00:39.680 you to know that he's not saying it and he's not not saying it so we have that also the proof of

00:00:45.680 of the resurrection and the proof that jesus was a man who actually lived and walked the earth

00:00:52.560 uh and uh and finally uh we have tristan hopper on who is a guy a reporter from uh canada

00:01:01.360 who is still kind of mainstream up there you know you can't you can't even you have to say

00:01:06.720 margaret thatcher she should have been burned at the stake to write anything in canada

00:01:12.960 um he he's still writing so he must be good he's talking about um the the memo the internal memo

00:01:22.240 that came in from the royal canadian mounted police which is like their fbi on the trouble

00:01:27.280 that canada is in the coming few years it is remarkable what he said and important for you to

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00:03:16.240 i want to give you this this story that i read today the immediate upshot for americans on this

00:03:21.520 bridge collapse if you're waiting for a new car to come in from overseas prepare to wait longer

00:03:26.320 the port of baltimore stands as the nation's leading import export site for cars and light

00:03:32.000 trucks it's also the leading nexus for sugar and gypsum which is used in fertilized fertilizer drywall

00:03:39.680 and plaster a record 52.3 million tons of foreign cargo was transported through baltimore just last year

00:03:47.520 the bustling port is cut off now after the 1.6 mile bridge crumbled and fell into the river early

00:03:54.400 tuesday blocking the only shipping lane into the port the port is one of the busiest in the u.s and

00:04:00.160 saw a record of 52. million tons of foreign cargo transported in 2023 the officials have said the

00:04:08.080 timeline for rebuilding the bridge is quote years we're going to do everything we can to protect

00:04:13.600 those jobs and help those workers the president said yesterday the port of baltimore creates more than

00:04:19.280 15 300 jobs with 140 000 jobs linked to the activity at the port this is a major disaster and will continue

00:04:30.720 will create significant problems on the east coast for u.s importers and exporters the bridge collapse

00:04:38.080 will mean that for the time being it will not be possible to get to the container terminals or a range of

00:04:44.480 the other port terminals in baltimore the maryland secretary transportation told the reporters

00:04:50.560 tuesday that vessel traffic in and out of the port of baltimore would be suspended until further notice

00:04:55.840 but noted the port is still open to trucks so we still have trucks going in as soon as we clear the

00:05:03.040 bridge we can get vessels in but it's going to be a major hassle for over time for cars etc etc

00:05:10.880 an expert on property damage cases in the shipping industry told the new york post that the collapse

00:05:16.960 will have a major impact on shipping and traffic routes in the east coast for the foreseeable future

00:05:23.840 it's not quote it's not going to get fixed anytime soon it's going to take a lot longer than anyone

00:05:32.240 expects this is going to be a major problem for the northeast i'm sick of this i am absolutely sick

00:05:40.560 to death of all of these stories that say things like that

00:05:46.800 have we forgotten who we are have we forgotten what we've done

00:05:52.000 let me just take you on a little journey here for the american spirit

00:05:56.240 a spirit so potent and so vibrant that it has scaled towering mountains mountains nobody thought

00:06:03.280 they could cross constructed marvels of engineering have you ever been to the hoover dam

00:06:10.640 we erected buildings that scraped the sky the sky scraper was invented here

00:06:19.040 here we are on the threshold of tomorrow none of us know what is happening tomorrow none of us

00:06:28.400 but i'm getting the impression that we've been so beaten down that

00:06:31.440 that that we believe we're not going to make it tomorrow can i just remind you of who we come from

00:06:40.720 our ancestors what they did

00:06:42.400 our history if you just look through it briefly you will see a group of people

00:06:52.000 that never take no for an answer and can do anything

00:06:55.280 i want to stop just briefly in 1930 the great depression had its icy grip on us

00:07:05.120 it was a time like the where everybody felt the flickering candle

00:07:09.440 in the vast darkness it was just barely there

00:07:16.400 yet it was in this crucible of adversity

00:07:20.880 that americans did great things the empire state building rose

00:07:26.240 it wasn't just a structure of steel and stone but it was a beacon

00:07:31.360 a beacon of hope and american resilience and ingenuity the way that thing was built nobody

00:07:38.080 had ever seen anything like it before or since

00:07:42.320 in a record-shattering one year and 45 days

00:07:46.640 an army of workers

00:07:49.360 as many as 3400 men on certain days

00:07:52.320 they transformed this audacious vision

00:07:56.000 into a cowering reality the guy who was funding it knew this thing better come in under budget and

00:08:03.840 we got to get it in here fast or this is just going to destroy all of us

00:08:10.880 the empire state building wasn't constructed it was conjured into existence with a symphony of clanging

00:08:19.280 metal and roaring machines and quite honestly the inexhaustible

00:08:24.080 spirit of its builders

00:08:27.120 there are stories

00:08:29.680 the men who were perched on the steel girders that were being flown in by giant cranes they sat there

00:08:39.200 there whispered tales about how they could still feel the warmth of the freshly poured metal beneath them

00:08:45.680 that beam was still warm even though it was poured in pittsburgh

00:08:51.600 and then put on a train then put on a boat then put on a truck

00:08:56.720 then hauled up into the air

00:08:59.760 they could feel the warmth it was moving that fast it was

00:09:04.800 a feverish pace of construction

00:09:08.320 it seemed to defy the laws of time and physics

00:09:12.640 for a long time it was the tallest building in the world

00:09:19.360 an architectural achievement

00:09:22.160 it was also a declaration to the world that america was a land where the impossible became possible

00:09:30.560 determination innovation a relentless will to succeed

00:09:35.200 you know that's a little dusty history we why even look at that

00:09:45.520 because they're not merely historical footnotes

00:09:49.280 they are blazing torches illuminating our path forward they remind us or are supposed to remind us

00:09:57.760 that when we are faced with adversity

00:10:00.880 we don't just endure it we overcome it

00:10:04.960 we don't wait for history to chart our course we write it with the sweat of our brow and the strength of our backs

00:10:11.280 that's who we are

00:10:15.840 have we forgotten that

00:10:18.560 it's going to be years

00:10:19.760 we find ourselves at another crossroads america

00:10:28.400 faced with the challenges that threaten to dim the bright future that we all dream for

00:10:33.040 for our nation and for our children

00:10:37.040 the spirit that built the empire state building

00:10:39.920 it laid down miles of railroads that cut through the rocky mountains that sent astronauts to the moon

00:10:47.440 it's still inside of every heart of every american somewhere

00:10:56.000 awaken that spirit

00:10:58.960 scale new mountains it's not just

00:11:02.320 rock and earth scale the mountains of innovation and sustainability

00:11:10.720 build

00:11:12.800 not just physical structures but a future that upholds the spirit of adventure

00:11:17.440 and hard work and ingenuity

00:11:20.400 stop tearing everything down and let's start building

00:11:29.120 well we might have another president you know who's out there who could we

00:11:34.880 why are we waiting

00:11:39.680 if this isn't a national emergency i don't know what is and i don't mean the bridge i mean all of it

00:11:44.480 well our government has to lead

00:11:50.320 really really does it maybe that's our problem america is led by its values and its principles

00:11:59.280 that are found in the soul of those who still remember who we are and who we serve americans led the

00:12:06.000 way the government always follows 0.99

00:12:10.080 yeah well we can't act without them bull crap 0.98

00:12:15.120 where are the bridge builders who will stand up today and say i'll get it done 0.97

00:12:22.240 soon as that happens you'll see who's leading

00:12:25.440 and who's stalling the government is the one that stalls the engine out

00:12:29.680 to expect more from our leaders is rational but to expect the most from ourselves is essential

00:12:42.960 we are the architects of our destiny we are the builders of our dreams

00:12:48.240 there's a huge task that's right in front of us i still believe we can tackle that we can overcome anything

00:13:07.520 the history of america is a tapestry woven with the threads of bold endeavors monumental achievements

00:13:16.640 blood the blood spilled at the empire state building and every other path to greatness

00:13:27.760 let's harness the potential not for glory

00:13:34.000 not look at us oh we're the best we're the best

00:13:37.040 but because we understood we understand that in the pursuit of a better world action is not just an

00:13:43.840 option it's our duty

00:13:52.320 i often wonder and as i look to the horizon now in today's america is that a sunset or a sunrise

00:14:01.840 it depends on you

00:14:07.280 if americans rise with the determination that carried our forebears through the trials and tribulations

00:14:13.840 if we build with love and compassion and an unbreakable commitment to the spirit of daring

00:14:21.920 adventure and hard work and ingenuity we restore ourselves and our country

00:14:31.440 in the words of our ancestors

00:14:32.800 that are etched in every american heart somewhere

00:14:40.480 you can do it you can become anything you can do anything that doesn't make it easy it doesn't mean you

00:14:49.200 deserve it you can do it because it's hard and it's in doing the hard things that we find the best of

00:14:58.160 ourselves that's why everything that's going on is not necessarily a curse it's an honor to serve at this

00:15:04.720 time because we can find the best of ourself we can step forward into the dawn of a new day with our

00:15:12.160 why eyes wide open to all of the problems of the past and the possibilities that are right in front of us

00:15:19.840 but we have to resolve to make those possibilities our reality we are americans there is nothing we can't

00:15:34.240 achieve when we all stand together united by our dreams and driven by the will to see them fulfilled

00:15:42.800 don't listen to anybody else that tells you differently

00:15:52.800 sometimes hindsight can be 20 20 and that's good because making mistakes and learning from them

00:15:58.320 is the best way to grow but sometimes foresight is the way to go because it is better not to make

00:16:04.720 certain mistakes in the first place our economy is i mean it is the shakiest wobbliest glass

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00:17:50.880 i think this is the most important week of the year um religiously speaking uh and and speaking

00:18:04.640 just as a human being we the problems that we face in america today and quite honestly the entire western

00:18:11.760 world is a a lack of forgiveness a lack of grace and a lack of

00:18:23.520 understanding the atonement suicide rates are up people think there's no need to live anymore

00:18:33.280 that nothing is real they don't realize that they're not a human having a spiritual experience

00:18:41.200 they're a spirit having a human experience that we are at this time here for a reason

00:18:50.800 and no matter what you've done it doesn't matter it doesn't matter and you think i i can't at least i

00:18:58.400 did so what made me drink an alcoholic i couldn't i couldn't live in the world that i had created

00:19:07.280 it was so many things that i was ashamed of and everything else just piled on and it wasn't until

00:19:13.840 i stopped drinking went to aa and did that but i still couldn't really let go of the past until i was

00:19:22.000 baptized and when i was baptized i remember i said i was in the water pat actually baptized

00:19:28.320 me and i i was in the water and in my head i was saying you promise you promise you cease to be

00:19:35.840 god if you don't live up to your promise and that promise is live the way i ask you to live do the

00:19:42.560 things i ask you to do to the best of your ability and i will take all of the things from the past away

00:19:49.440 from you and i'm telling you my life changed overnight it's real a lot of people who even

00:19:59.120 profess that it's real i don't know they don't act like it's real you know and i think it's something

00:20:05.760 that you you have to practice put into practice every single day and be grateful for it is the

00:20:12.400 greatest gift ever given and that's what we're supposed to celebrate on easter the resurrection

00:20:20.880 but did that even happen there are people that claim jesus didn't even live

00:20:29.360 well let's look at history is there proof that he lived is there proof that he died is there proof

00:20:35.440 of the resurrection and i mean proof historical proof we happen to be friends with uh jeremiah

00:20:44.240 johnson not the guy who well i don't think so jeremiah do you like liver and onions

00:20:51.440 in another life maybe i'm i'm better looking than that jeremiah johnson

00:20:56.480 right okay so that jeremiah johnson the one the mountain man he he's you know that happy little movie

00:21:03.360 with robert redford kind of happy it didn't end that way in real life but anyway uh jeremiah johnson

00:21:10.000 he is a phd author of body of proof he is christian thinkers society president preston

00:21:16.640 went baptist church and an apologetics uh pastor and uh we wanted to have a huge fan of glenn beck

00:21:24.240 on if i may say and a blaze subscriber by the way really are you really of course i've been for i'm

00:21:31.040 an og subscriber and listen i love being on with you i appreciate your word i appreciate you speaking

00:21:37.040 truth thank you thank you very much well that's really hurt your credibility with everybody else

00:21:42.960 but i appreciate it so uh jeremiah we wanted to get you on because um there's a lot of unbelief today

00:21:50.560 and it wasn't until i went to school for like 10 minutes um at yale and i took early christology

00:22:00.560 and it was the historic proof of of christ and what it was through the history department and what

00:22:09.440 times were like back then and it really opened up a whole new world so i'd love to talk to you about

00:22:17.360 you know what this week was really like and what the evidence is that christ even lived right and then

00:22:24.480 we'll get to the resurrection love it and what's fascinating about it is christianity unlike any

00:22:30.080 other religion in the world glenn puts itself to a historical test make no mistake that archaeology

00:22:37.680 evidence proved not checking your mind at the door these are christianity's closest cousins no other

00:22:45.440 religion or ism is like that today or has been ever in an absolutely devastating passage in first 0.99

00:22:52.400 corinthians 15 17 glenn saint paul tells us what's at stake about how important it is what we're

00:22:59.920 discussing this week this holy week he said look if jesus didn't rise from the dead this is first

00:23:05.360 corinthians 15 17 we're still in our sins we have no forgiveness as you were just talking about and

00:23:11.840 two verses later paul says hey people should kind of feel sorry for us we should eat be merry for

00:23:16.640 tomorrow we die let's just go be corinthians and live wild and crazy but he says and again this is

00:23:22.320 an uncontested passage first corinthians 15 is one of the most respected historical documents and i'm

00:23:29.440 talking about even those apostate secular skeptical professors that you probably had in new haven at

00:23:36.640 yale i'm not saying they all are but some of them are i've been to the bineke this one wasn't but

00:23:41.200 okay everybody else yeah even they accept first corinthians as a historical document and paul passes

00:23:47.920 on what's called the kirgama he passes on the earliest tradition of the church that jesus lived he died

00:23:55.760 according to the scriptures he was buried and he rose again on the third day according to the scriptures

00:24:02.160 paul was a male chauvinist he hated christians didn't like women and he certainly didn't like

00:24:08.240 you if you were a jew it was only because of experiencing jesus alive from the grave that his

00:24:14.160 life is utterly transformed he's the earliest witness because remember paul's letters anti-date

00:24:19.280 the gospels and so i don't check my brain at the door when i become a christian glenn i am a follower of

00:24:26.080 jesus because on april 5th a.d 33 jesus walked out of that tomb alive from the dead that's the only

00:24:33.680 reason i'm a christian you know i let's talk about paul for a second because he is fascinating to me

00:24:40.080 he wasn't just a bad guy he was a really bad guy when when the crowd is surrounding the brother of jesus

00:24:49.680 he says here you know basically you don't want to get blood on your your coat let me hold your

00:24:55.680 coats right so he's holding their stuff so they don't get bloody while they beat this guy to death

00:25:01.920 and stone him to death i mean that's an extra level that's almost to the the evil nazi kind of guy

00:25:09.280 he was the original mafia mobster mob boss in jerusalem he gave approval to take out he gave 0.97

00:25:16.800 approval to all the hitmen to take out christians he thought that he was protecting judaism that judaism 0.56

00:25:22.320 was a coherent religion he didn't like this new jewish sect that welcomed salvation glenn as you 0.82

00:25:28.160 said so vulnerably and so powerfully in your personal testimony to start this hour he didn't

00:25:33.200 like the fact that the gospel this new message was for everyone after all he was trained in rabbinic

00:25:38.560 judaism and glenn i don't know if you're aware in rabbinic judaism they would say things like better

00:25:42.720 to burn the torah than teach it to a woman uh the jews had this this benediction they said thank you 0.99

00:25:50.320 god that you didn't make me a gentile thank you god you didn't make me an ignoramus a moron in greek 0.99

00:25:55.760 and thank you god you didn't make me a woman this is what's in the zeitgeist if you will the milieu of 0.94

00:26:01.920 paul and the judaism he comes out of so what can we say for the audience because this has immediate

00:26:08.080 consequences on everyone who's watching and listening today jesus christ not only lived his

00:26:14.160 death is the best established fact of the ancient world glenn i often say if we can't believe that

00:26:19.200 jesus was massacred on a roman cross don't bother believing in the roman empire because do you realize 0.98

00:26:25.200 as a historian so i had the privilege to study in oxford for three years 2009 to 2012 where i defended my

00:26:30.880 thesis 93 000 word glenn uber lieferongs geschisha resurrection 11 languages and my doctoral thesis

00:26:39.680 i looked at it i heard all the arguments against the resurrection which we should definitely dive into

00:26:45.840 here's the key though yes jesus came out of that tomb alive and it utterly transformed the world which

00:26:51.200 is one of my body of proofs from my book it's the only convincing evidence for me it's the only convincing

00:26:56.880 explanation for the historical fact that everywhere this gospel message goes and society embraces it

00:27:04.320 culture is dramatically improved and made better this same paul who is an og gangster in jerusalem

00:27:11.040 sees jesus glenn and he gives us a passage he says there's neither jew nor gentile nor their slave nor

00:27:17.280 free neither male nor female we're all one in christ jesus and that one verse changes the world

00:27:21.760 yeah revolutionary i think he's my favorite character in the the bible uh paul he's he's just

00:27:29.360 if we knew how to argue like paul if we knew how to live like paul in many cases um we would be just

00:27:35.840 an outrageously great uh group of people um tell me why is he why is he on the road to damascus he's on

00:27:42.720 the road to damascus because he wants to get even more approval he wants to take his pogroms against 0.94

00:27:48.640 christian and he wants them to go national he is going to get approval to continue to kill christians 0.87

00:27:55.040 so he is on the hit run literally he's going to take what he's doing the persecutions in jerusalem 0.98

00:28:00.640 he wants to pass those into damascus and beyond he wants a systematic extermination of the way 1.00

00:28:08.240 that's how christianity was first uh referred to in its earliest historical documents and so

00:28:14.000 what we can say though glenn and this is what skeptics who are listening and i get it man

00:28:18.000 i wake up a skeptic every morning and i have to wrap myself back in the truth of god's word and

00:28:22.240 the truth of the evidence of scripture what we can say as a historian not as a matter of faith but as

00:28:28.160 a matter of fact jesus christ the documents say appeared to those who loved him and followed him

00:28:34.080 he also appeared to those who were indifferent to him and make no mistake as we'll dive into he

00:28:38.880 appeared to those who are out and out hostile against him you are listening to the best of glenn back

00:28:44.400 to listen to the rest of this interview check out the full show podcast the whole of government

00:28:50.560 five-year trends 2023 it was a report that was forecasting uh exercise based on uh based on

00:28:57.920 a review of open source articles and reports spokesperson uh has said it was undertaken to provide federal

00:29:04.480 policing managers with insight into anticipated changes in canada's political economic social

00:29:11.840 technological environmental and legal circumstances aiding in safeguarding canada

00:29:18.960 tristan hopper is a reporter and columnist for the national post uh and he is he is all on top

00:29:26.720 of this uh and can tell us the meaning behind it uh if if anything significant tristan welcome to the

00:29:33.520 program uh thank you i didn't break the story i shamelessly stole the idea from someone else but i think

00:29:39.200 i wrote it better it's okay you well well you're the story that i found and so you know that's the

00:29:45.680 same um to me listen uh steal from me you've stolen twice the thing i that i want to know is when i read

00:29:52.960 the story um it it talked about how hopelessness is going to be uh a part of canadian's life in the

00:30:04.640 coming years and that yeah people aren't prepared why i wrote about it so the fact that the report

00:30:10.400 exists isn't surprising i mean the job of the police correct at least at federal level i mean

00:30:15.280 the rcmp i mean they do street level policing but they also sort of function of canada's fbi so think

00:30:20.640 of this as an fbi report um saying oh here's what the next five years are going to look like 0.75

00:30:25.200 so yeah police should be sitting around saying well that's gonna what's gonna bite us in the butt in

00:30:29.120 the next five years so i guess what was interesting was if you have a security analyst who's only

00:30:36.320 worrying about security they're going to look at canada and say oh yeah most of your young people

00:30:41.200 can't afford houses that's not good uh you know that that could be a real problem uh in the future

00:30:46.800 um so this is sort of one of the first times i've seen acknowledged uh within an organ of the canadian

00:30:52.720 federal government saying oh yeah things are not good they haven't been good for a while and

00:30:56.560 they're set to get worse so obviously um if you ask the political the trudeau governments um

00:31:02.720 government of prime minister justin trudeau they're going to say no no don't worry you

00:31:06.240 things are going to turn around but uh i mean according to the professionals within our security

00:31:10.400 state they're saying uh no no we we see none of this getting better and when you have increasing

00:31:16.080 numbers of young people who have no prospects of obtaining the life that their parents lived um

00:31:22.400 you know it's fine now but that can quickly devolve into something very ugly yeah this is

00:31:30.000 let me just quote you the warning the federal government received that canada may descend into

00:31:36.000 civil unrest once citizens realize the hopelessness of their economic situation the coming period quoting

00:31:43.200 the report the coming period of recession will accelerate the decline in living standards that the

00:31:49.120 younger generations have already witnessed compared to earlier generations yeah for example many canadians

00:31:55.920 under 35 they gotta just say for many canadians under 35 they are unlikely ever to be able to buy

00:32:02.800 a place to live ever right and i should point out this is sort of a for a u.s audience this is sort

00:32:10.400 of a preview of coming attractions so in affordability oh yeah and just general uh life standards canada is

00:32:17.120 sort of ahead of the curve on those being worse so our per capita gdp has been while the us has

00:32:23.280 actually been pretty good the last 10 years ours has been steadily trending downwards and then affordability

00:32:28.880 um i know houses are expensive um as for americans but in our major centers um if you earn anything

00:32:36.400 close to a normal income so in toronto vancouver even in some sort of secondary cities like edmonton or

00:32:41.920 calgary um yeah there are no circumstances whatsoever under which you can afford even a basic home

00:32:49.200 um so and that's really accelerated over the last 10 years so yeah you have a lot of people who have

00:32:54.560 good jobs their wife has a good job um they've saved their money and yeah real estate's gone up a thousand

00:33:01.120 percent so there's there's no way they can envision a future where they're not renting for the rest of their lives

00:33:07.120 and it's it's not just that here in america i mean uh i think it was state farm just said that

00:33:13.920 to californians we're out um we're not going to we're going to cut i think it was 70 maybe 70 000

00:33:21.680 customers um because they said they just you know that they've raised it up 80 percent for the people

00:33:28.960 they did keep and then just cut a bunch of other people because they said they can't afford to replace

00:33:34.080 the homes in in california i mean you can't take an 80 percent increase on home insurance a 30 percent

00:33:43.360 rise in electricity costs uh you know a 30 percent rise in in in uh water and then a 25 percent rise in

00:33:51.600 groceries and expect this to last it just can't that that's exactly right so yeah that that has been

00:33:58.320 happening um for quite some time and it's been so one one trend that is showing up in canada that

00:34:03.840 maybe is a bit different than the u.s is that according to poll numbers our population is getting

00:34:09.040 really conservative um particularly our young people so probably for the first time in my lifetime

00:34:15.600 and one of the first times you know in any western democracy um we are having a plurality of young

00:34:21.680 people actually favoring the conservative party of canada and you're seeing all of these demographics

00:34:26.000 never thought about voting conservative in their entire life um you know women or urban uh you

00:34:33.120 know i mentioned young people who are saying oh yeah yeah 55 percent i'm voting conservative next

00:34:37.360 election so there's never been anything like it so is that both men and women uh when it comes to

00:34:44.400 uh the youth because we're seeing that our women are going our young women are going uh just full on

00:34:52.960 woke leftist and the boys and the men young men are going hard conservative that was initially so

00:35:01.600 this time last year that was what the trend was showing this was showing uh young men were going

00:35:06.080 yeah real conservative but however uh that sort of changed so i wrote about that a couple months ago

00:35:10.960 i was saying you know women initially weren't on with this sort of what we would call the blue wave

00:35:15.280 the colors are swapped but you know there's blue wave happening um in canada but uh you can only sort

00:35:21.600 of hold out those options for so long until you realize oh i i pay three thousand dollars a month

00:35:27.600 for a 700 square foot apartment and my car has been stolen three times this month so um yeah i guess

00:35:33.120 people are being mugged by reality at a lightning face so one of the things that's in this report

00:35:39.600 um it says the trends in both canada and abroad um will have a significant effect on the canadian

00:35:46.080 government and rmc uh rcmp um canadians uh are becoming increasingly disillusioned with their

00:35:55.520 government which authors mostly chalk up to misinformation conspiracy theories and paranoia

00:36:03.200 law enforcement should expect continuing social and political polarization fueled by the misinformation

00:36:09.040 campaigns and an increasing mistrust for all democratic institutions this is terrifying to me

00:36:15.440 because they're they don't even recognize that the trust that we have all had for our institutions

00:36:23.520 has been eroding for a long time because they continue to lie to us and they're on a different

00:36:29.120 path than the people are uh yeah so this did stand out to me basically whenever i see the word

00:36:37.040 misinformation or disinformation it's usually front loading a whole bunch of stuff that's not true

00:36:42.400 um so yeah yeah to see this in the report i guess the ironic part that i took out of the report

00:36:48.160 um if you can find it funny is that yeah a lot of the section where they're getting into you know

00:36:52.640 paranoid populism and conspiracy theories so this is not a report that was supposed to be made public

00:36:56.800 i got it thanks to right uh matt malone he's a professor out of thompson rivers university he just

00:37:01.200 filed access information to get secret government reports and just release them and see what happens

00:37:07.440 um so in this section we're saying oh people don't trust the government anymore and conspiracy

00:37:12.080 theories most of that is blacked out um so yeah there's a section titled paranoid populism and it's

00:37:18.000 saying oh people are paranoid and popular i don't know why black out there so and then this whole 1.00

00:37:22.960 section is blacked out so there is one giant uh security risk um that takes up several pages that's

00:37:29.200 sort of the one they lead with that whole thing is blacked out so who knows what that i'm gonna guess

00:37:33.440 it's something we don't even know what that one is yes so wow we we've just got people are broke

00:37:42.080 and then it gets into um most of the country is catching fire every summer um you know commodity

00:37:48.080 risk so you know it's it's it's harder to get reliable all the all the sort of normal things but the

00:37:54.880 thing that is unusual is a government agency saying everybody's broke and that's usually makes for angry

00:38:00.240 people this is a i mean i just find it a little terrifying what what is the they mentioned the

00:38:07.360 increasing pressure to cede arctic territory is that to china or russia language yeah so we our military

00:38:15.440 is not in great shape lately and we have a lot of territory that isn't very strong we don't i mean

00:38:22.480 you the americans you got a fair amount of stuff up in alaska i wouldn't screw with anyone in alaska but

00:38:27.440 we don't even have any sort of permanent military bases up in the arctic so that kind of language

00:38:32.480 usually we use the word arctic sovereignty like which we're worried about russia or denmark or

00:38:37.840 or someone taking right you're putting that case that's the most dire language i've ever heard in an

00:38:43.040 arctic uh a government report saying oh yeah pressure to cede territory like we've seen but from

00:38:49.280 who they could take our stuff what are we going to do so is it russia are they specifically because

00:38:56.960 i have not heard that from any i mean i know that russia has subs up there and they're trying to you

00:39:02.160 know claim that they own it um but is that what they're talking about or is there additional stuff

00:39:08.560 usually i mean as as you sort of lose ice up there there's a whole bunch of you know there's oil

00:39:13.600 there's shipping routes it's becoming valuable um right so this is something i used to work i

00:39:18.480 used to work in the north i used to work at a magazine about 20 years ago so this was a big

00:39:22.080 deal back then saying you know as soon as this it was easy when it was just all frozen and sir john

00:39:26.880 franklin's corpse you didn't have to worry about anybody taking it um but yeah um we haven't really

00:39:32.960 increased um our military capacity in the north so as there's interesting stuff up there who knows you

00:39:38.960 could get china russia just move in and say oh we're taking this island it's uh nobody's using it

00:39:44.720 um there's very little we can do about that can i ask you tristan being a canadian and yet you're so

00:39:51.840 close to uh america i think you're up in bc are you most of us are most of us are along the border

00:39:58.880 okay all right so um you know you're close to you're close to america you understand what's happening

00:40:04.080 here i i contend that it is a game that is being played making us hate the other party it's oh it's

00:40:12.160 the republicans versus the democrats no it's really not in every country in the west that i have seen

00:40:18.720 it is these marches are the little people marching against the elites saying what are you doing

00:40:27.440 why are you doing this this is killing us um is it the same in canada and do you have

00:40:34.480 is anybody waking up to it's not just justin trudeau it's it's all of them it's the elites

00:40:41.920 that are taking us down this this really bizarre path and denying everything that they're doing

00:40:49.280 until they then come out and say yeah we did that what what's the problem yeah yeah i'd say it's part

00:40:55.280 of the sort of political uh realignments i mentioned um it's i'm definitely seeing it i mean i'm speaking

00:41:01.280 you from the capital british columbia basically just north of seattle it's easily the most left-wing

00:41:06.480 part of the country and i work for a center-right newspaper so whenever some lefty here has some

00:41:11.600 like dark right-wing thought in the middle of the night they usually call me and that's been happening

00:41:15.440 a lot lately so there's an awful lot of people who have voted um for progressive parties their

00:41:21.200 entire lives and then something just hits them um they'll see why did this guy get bail after you know

00:41:27.360 he keeps killing people when he's out of jail or how come my bike keeps getting stolen so there's a

00:41:31.840 whole bunch of that happening um and at a way more accelerated pace than i'm seeing in the u.s i'm

00:41:37.920 seeing the u.s is still quite entrenched um there's sort of a partisan divide but there's definitely a

00:41:43.680 wave happening uh we are seeing people flooding to the conservative party of canada in rates unseen i

00:41:50.640 would say almost since the 1950s that's incredible and i will tell you i think that's why one of the

00:41:57.840 big reasons why the democrats wanted donald trump to be the candidate because if we can just keep

00:42:04.400 arguing about donald trump and his tweets and everything else then we don't pay attention to

00:42:10.000 wait a minute there's something else going on here uh tristan thank you so much and i appreciate it

00:42:15.360 i'd love to stay in touch with you god bless thank you tristan hopper from uh from canada on a

00:42:22.240 what i find a disturbing report from the royal um canadian mountain mounted police

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