The John-Henry Westen Show - Steve Bannon's Urgent Update In The War For The West

00:00:00.160 You live in a unique time in American history, because this is the fourth turning, and we're

00:00:07.300 going to determine whether what was bequeathed to us is what we passed down, or it's going

00:00:11.640 to be something radically different.

00:00:19.300 My friends, we are here in Washington, D.C. We're here actually for a dinner in honor

00:00:25.160 of Bishop Athanasius Snyder from Kazakhstan, who came to the United States, is doing a

00:00:30.120 tour of the United States. And very interestingly, a dinner was held for him, hosted by none other

00:00:36.340 than Steve Bannon of the War Room, whom I know you all know. And it was a very interesting

00:00:41.900 dinner. It was all sorts of people in media and promote the faith and everything else.

00:00:46.980 And it was momentous. It was a dinner not only to honor the bishop, but also to have a war 0.56

00:00:56.540 room. And that's no surprise, considering the host. And we've got that host right here

00:01:01.700 on this episode of The John Henry Weston Show. Stay tuned.

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00:01:51.060 Steve Bannon, welcome to the program.

00:01:52.600 Thank you so much for having me, John. Thank you. And thank you for coming to the dinner.

00:01:56.540 It is an honor. It's an honor. Let's begin, as you always do, with the sign of the cross.

00:02:00.420 In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

00:02:04.840 We are here in the Hay Adams Hotel, which is directly across from the White House. It's a historic place,

00:02:13.400 beautiful place, and it's very appropriate for...

00:02:17.080 St. John's, where it was burned. Remember, it had burned during the BLM riots of June. It's the

00:02:26.800 president's church is where the president always attends on the morning of his inauguration. Since,

00:02:32.300 I think, Madison and Jefferson and the time immemorial. And, of course, it was spray-painted,

00:02:39.520 burned, trashed by the anarchists. In this building, Hay Adams, I think was the home.

00:02:44.680 John Hay was the secretary at 21 years old, I think, of Abraham Lincoln. And then later became

00:02:52.560 Secretary of State, one of the wealthiest men in the country. This is the home that became the hotel

00:02:59.220 later. Wow. Historic. Indeed. A lot of big events here.

00:03:04.020 And this, I think, was a big event. What inspired you to hold a dinner for Bishop Schneider? And what

00:03:13.060 inspired you to vote or to invite those whom you invite? Well, Bishop Schneider is, as you know,

00:03:19.480 a kind of a historic figure right now in the church, and particularly among traditional Catholics

00:03:23.840 from Kazakhstan of a German family, you know, came through communism. The life story is just amazing

00:03:31.440 of what the family had to sacrifice to keep the faith and to pass the faith down. And he's such a

00:03:38.160 humble, you know, deeply spiritual man. But he is, in his own humble way, one of the great voices in

00:03:44.720 the church for what I would call the tradition, the traditionalism in the church, Latin mass and

00:03:51.940 mass in pre-Vatican II. Really, the syllabus of errors back to the 19th century, you know,

00:03:58.760 pre-modernity. And I felt he was going to, he was in town and he was going to come by. And we've

00:04:03.540 had him in the war room for a special episode, take an entire hour. And I said, you know, with

00:04:09.580 Alexander Priate and some of the people that I work with, why don't we try to have, we're in a

00:04:14.500 spiritual war, let's have a spiritual war council. And let's, let's invite 25 or 30 of the people that

00:04:21.520 are really out there dedicated in media and social activism and putting things together that really

00:04:27.700 have a sense and can use the wisdom of the bishop in an evening of just kind of free give and take.

00:04:34.120 And so I was, I was, I was stunned that we got the 25 people we could get. So it was, and I told the

00:04:40.480 bishop before he came, there will be many people at this dinner that are very spiritual and very

00:04:46.520 religious. And then there'll be some warriors that are, they're warriors too, but there'll be some,

00:04:50.860 some, some guys that need some prayers. So I count myself in that. But I think, I think the dinner

00:04:56.480 was everything that I hoped. I thought it was a great exchange and people like yourself,

00:05:00.760 we had so many great people there and the free give and take. And I think quite frankly,

00:05:04.380 the reality of where we are. Would you mind if I asked you to give our audience a glimpse of Steve

00:05:13.740 Benin, you've had a rough life. You've had a lot of things happen to you.

00:05:18.840 Oh, I've had an easy life. I haven't had a rough life. Bishop Schneider had a rough life.

00:05:24.940 Come on. I, you know, anyone raised in the Catholic church, I was the last of that. I think I'm the

00:05:30.460 last, not just generation. I think I'm the actual end of the Latin mass altar boys. When I became an

00:05:38.440 altar boy, Latin mass, and then all of a sudden bang, Vatican II came in. So no, I had a, you know,

00:05:43.840 blue collar Irish Catholic family. It's the best. I mean, you'd be brought up in a church in the

00:05:48.940 heyday of the church in the 1950s and the 1960s before everything hit it. So no, my life's been

00:05:53.880 very, very easy. And, you know, people say, oh, the stuff you're going through with Trump, that's,

00:05:58.240 that's nothing. There's nothing compared to what's going to happen. You know,

00:06:01.620 Tom Williams, a good friend of mine, just wrote an incredible book. Tom's the head of Breitbart,

00:06:06.480 Rome. And a fantastic guy wrote a book on the coming persecution of the church,

00:06:12.380 where he makes a case it's going to be worse than the first century. In fact, today,

00:06:16.580 it's actually worse than the first century persecutions and probably going to be greater

00:06:20.360 than the great persecution. So the trials and tribulations going through the world, my life

00:06:25.760 is very easy and doing the war rooms easy because I have people like you and the bishop and just

00:06:31.180 there's so many great voices and so many dedicated people. We just have the platform people come on.

00:06:35.180 I think the reason people love the show is we get so many great voices that don't get a chance to go

00:06:41.660 on bigger platforms and people just, you know, gravitate to that. And so it's, I got an easy

00:06:47.360 job and I've had a very easy life. If someone asks you, why are you Catholic? What would you say?

00:06:55.680 First, I was born Catholic, you know, baptized. That's, that gives, I mean, tonight the dinner

00:06:59.700 would really impress me is they asked who the converts were and some of the most dedicated people,

00:07:06.960 I didn't even know they were converts. Some of the most dedicated people in this of their Catholicism

00:07:11.300 were converts. My grandmother, who very much our faith was around our father and also our mother,

00:07:16.620 but his mother was a Southern Baptist and to marry his dad, she converted and she became the toughest 0.99

00:07:24.160 daily mass communicant, I mean, Catholic. And I mean, six o'clock mass. She was, she was the most

00:07:31.900 dedicated Catholic I've ever met. And I think that permeated the entire family. So I was born and

00:07:36.320 baptized a Catholic. And then, you know, the, the, the churches was the center of our life.

00:07:42.980 Right. And we weren't churchy. I mean, we were very into the church. Some families were very,

00:07:48.060 very into the church. We were obviously the, you know, altar boys, choir boys, everything around

00:07:53.280 in the church. And, uh, I was fortunate enough to go to Catholic school with the Benedictine nuns

00:07:59.900 grammar school. And then I went to a Catholic military bullish boys school run by Benedictine

00:08:04.600 monks. Then later I went to graduate school at Georgetown when it was still Catholic, right? 0.96

00:08:10.760 With the Jesuits. So no, I've been, I've been very fortunate, very fortunate in having so many great

00:08:16.520 friends that were Catholic and just the spirit of Catholicism, but very lucky to be raised post-war 0.91

00:08:24.020 1950s, 1960s, before all the massive changes. In fact, the FBI report that came at Richmond,

00:08:31.560 I think targeted, uh, our parish, the, the, I went to, we had a abbey or a church associated with the,

00:08:39.060 with the military school, St. Benedict's. And we went there. We also had a parish near us,

00:08:43.180 St. Paul's we went to, but as soon as they authorized Latin mass in the seventies,

00:08:48.820 in our diocese, Bishop Sullivan did my, my parents were one of the ones that helped took a,

00:08:54.360 there was a couple of Benedictine monks that actually formed St. Joseph's was became a

00:08:58.680 Tridentine, uh, Latin mass. My dad was always very much focused on the Latin mass. And so

00:09:04.000 that FBI report in Richmond, I think from the Richmond field office, because the, as, as,

00:09:11.180 as great as the Catholic parishes were St. Joseph's, which was a traditional Latin mass,

00:09:16.380 people from all over the state would come. I mean, the masses were packed when other

00:09:21.140 parishers were having a tough time filling the churches, this little church, they would come

00:09:25.160 because only place in Virginia at the time that had a Latin mass all over. And of course you get

00:09:29.160 there and they get five, six, seven, eight, nine kids. I mean, it's the hobbits. It's, it's the

00:09:34.240 deplorables, super patriotic, super dedicated. Most of them blue collar or lower white collar,

00:09:40.060 just incredible families, incredible dedication. So many kids went to the Naval Academy,

00:09:44.960 uh, became Marines fought in the Iraq and Afghan war. Just, it just incredible. I mean, it's the,

00:09:50.500 the, the, the backbone of American societies right there. So I was, I had a very easy life

00:09:56.400 and, uh, been very blessed to be, have so many great influences.

00:10:02.220 That's one of the things, I mean, a lot of people of your generation raised Catholic,

00:10:06.400 even in good Catholic homes, abandoned the faith for probably a multiplicity of reasons, but

00:10:11.720 they were enamored with a nouveau. They still call it Catholicism, but you've referred to it as

00:10:18.880 anti-Catholicism. What kept you from going there?

00:10:23.240 Well, you have to remember, I think, I think a lot of people that are Catholics during certain

00:10:29.860 part of their life may not be as, uh, and I want to say Catholic, maybe as not church attending as

00:10:35.420 they were when they were younger. But I think a lot of those people come back to the church

00:10:39.420 eventually. Um, I, I, I think it's just, it depends on, on, on, on your family and your

00:10:47.540 environment and, and, and how you were raised. I think that's, you know, what the church means to

00:10:53.100 you, especially, look, I'm not, people will tell you, I'm not particularly churchy. I mean, I'm not,

00:10:57.940 you know, I, I profess my faith hopefully in, in different ways through my actions. Um,

00:11:05.200 um, but I think people, each person has their own journey of what they're going to do, right?

00:11:12.420 Particularly in the modern world. That's why I'm so not obsessed, but you go back to the 19th century

00:11:17.240 church and the syllabus on errors and Cortez and I've talked about this in the show. If you look

00:11:21.960 at the great popes of the 19th and early 20th century, I mean, they foresaw what was going to

00:11:26.100 happen in the 20th century. They saw what was going to happen with modernity and particularly the kind

00:11:30.960 of drifting away and people, um, um, you know, this atomization of society that was going to

00:11:37.000 happen through technology. They saw this and they, and they prophesied it and said they, remember,

00:11:41.760 they took an oath against modernity that the Vatican council too took away. So I think each person's

00:11:48.480 got to be on their own journey. And I think eventually if you, particularly the one thing I've

00:11:54.640 found in, in, in more Catholic reading is the depth of the thinking of the church, right? If you

00:12:01.720 look at the music and the art and, and everything associated with the great intellectuals and the,

00:12:06.780 and the desert fathers and the fathers of the church, there's so much intellectual depth that

00:12:12.380 you can spend your time, you know, really getting a deeper understanding and belief in your faith.

00:12:17.000 That's very, very powerful. So, and I think most people come back to it over time.

00:12:20.920 Yeah. You've been a lot, you've been involved in politics an awful lot in it's, it's sometimes a

00:12:28.440 hard sphere for people of faith to get into, to understand, to try and even see a way forward in 1.00

00:12:37.480 what would you suggest on that score? Because it's one where we need to be involved. We need to be

00:12:42.800 involved politically. How do we get there? How do we even start? It seems like an insurmountable

00:12:47.100 mountain right now. It's, you know, it's like looking at a cliff, not even a mountain.

00:12:51.680 It's not easy. I mean, we're, we're, that's why I think people of faith have got to get involved.

00:12:56.360 And I don't think you can have, oh, I can just have my spiritual life. And particularly in these

00:13:02.240 times, because I think we're very close or on the edge of the possibility, not just a secular

00:13:09.620 society. And Tom Williams said this on the show, he talked about his book. We've gone from a

00:13:13.540 Christian nation or believing in the Judeo-Christian, the tennis of the Judeo-Christian West to a 0.91

00:13:19.640 post-Christian country now to an anti-Christian. And like he said, there's two types of persecution.

00:13:25.240 There's the white persecution, which is the oppression, right? The soft persecution. Then 0.70

00:13:29.440 there's going to be the red. You're, I think we see our society and culture collapsing all around us.

00:13:35.100 And so I think it's for people of faith have got to get involved in politics and politics is not 0.98

00:13:40.140 pleasant. It's, it's, it's oftentimes not fun. It's very, you know, nitty gritty and grubby. And

00:13:46.520 it has, you're going to have a lot of grease underneath your fingernails. And there's a lot

00:13:50.880 of things in politics that are going to offend you as a Christian and as a Catholic. But I think you

00:13:57.040 have to make that sacrifice in order for us to, in a democratic society, you know, come to grips with

00:14:02.340 a lot going on. If we don't, if you just are going to sit there and have your own life

00:14:06.280 in your own parish life, that's clearly a decision and that's your own decision as a, as a free

00:14:12.520 individual in this country, but we are going to lose the country that way. You have to get involved

00:14:16.320 and you have so many people engaged that was around the table tonight. So many people involved

00:14:20.900 in Catholic activities, right? But all of the, even once in the Catholic activities are saying

00:14:26.940 we have such a political, you know, firestorm going on right now that you have to, you have

00:14:33.020 to, you have to get engaged. So I would tell everybody, particularly people who come to

00:14:37.520 your site, which I think, as I've told you, not just for news about life, but really news.

00:14:42.900 You guys do such a great job of breaking news and analyzing things that are going on. I mean,

00:14:48.380 no offense, if you can go to LifeSite News and read it and be comfortable, I don't need

00:14:51.780 to do anything. Let me go play golf. You can't, you just read it and you go, I got to get involved

00:14:57.120 here. What can I do? It's not about giving dollars, not about being a donor. It's about getting

00:15:01.060 engaged. And I think if enough of the hobbits get engaged, we'll turn this thing around.

00:15:05.120 But we're in a, we're in a fight and you don't know which way it's going to come out. It's

00:15:09.900 going to be all determined in the next five or 10 years. And people, I think, and the bishop

00:15:15.280 said tonight, I keep telling people, you live in a unique time in American history, because

00:15:22.600 this is the fourth turning. We're going to determine whether what was bequeathed to us is what

00:15:27.480 we passed down or it's going to be something radically different. And your audience doesn't

00:15:31.060 need to be told what it's going to be, how it's going to be different. You can see it

00:15:33.740 every day. That's what's going to be an even worse. But not just that in the whole history

00:15:39.200 of homo sapiens or man, we're now at an inflection point of transhumanism and artificial intelligence

00:15:44.380 that within the lived experience of people in the watching this in the next 10, 20 years

00:15:51.400 max, you're going to be at a crossroads of the singularity. You're going to have homo 1.00

00:15:55.520 sapiens made in the image and likeness of God and endowed by the Holy Spirit. And then

00:16:03.260 you're going to have humanity 2.0. We're going to have to make huge decisions about that. As

00:16:08.260 I think in artificial intelligence, we're going to be making decisions today. That's the stakes.

00:16:13.040 And that's divine providence chose you to be in this veil of tears right now. So, and I

00:16:19.760 don't think people have the, I think we'll be weighed and measured after that. And part

00:16:23.820 of it is what you, what you contributed and what you did to, to, to fight this and preserve

00:16:30.480 this great, you know, Judeo-Christian civilization that was bequeathed us has been for, you know, 0.99

00:16:37.940 thousands of years. It's got to be preserved. If it's not preserved, we lost it on our watch.

00:16:44.780 I want to get to the AI thing in a minute. But one of the things you said about us turning

00:16:49.100 from a post-Christian culture into an anti-Christian culture, into an anti-Catholic, in a way, culture,

00:16:55.040 the strange part is that's coming to a significant extent from those who call themselves Catholic.

00:17:02.220 This country is run by devout Catholic Joe Biden, you know, Nancy Pelosi, the, the, but they're all 0.53

00:17:09.260 calling themselves Catholic. In fact, Nancy goes on and on and on about how she's doing it for Catholic

00:17:13.180 reasons. But those are the very people who will instigate the persecution that goes from white to 0.57

00:17:19.760 red, as, as Father Altman always says, because they are serious about sicking the FBI on us and

00:17:25.600 doing who knows what. If they go after Mark Houck, peaceful father of seven kids with little kids,

00:17:30.920 with his little kids there and his wife, while they go after him with guns, 25 of the FBI,

00:17:36.160 that's insane. So how are we just make sense that these are devout people who call themselves Catholic

00:17:46.000 and yet that's the anti-Catholic persecution that's coming? I think to, in their mind, I think

00:17:50.580 they are devout to their interpretation of Catholicism. And, and they're very, oh, I mean,

00:17:58.420 not just the fact that they say they're devout, they're honored by the hierarchy of the church.

00:18:06.160 So if you, if you believe in the institutional church, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's the,

00:18:12.240 it's the people at this dinner, the, the, the marginalia, right? You're, you're, you're the,

00:18:18.000 you're the outsiders, the people that get the honors of the church. You know, I have, I, I miss my

00:18:22.680 invitation to have a private audience of Pope Francis. I think you missed yours too, as did the

00:18:28.580 people that in this dinner tonight. Nancy Pelosi has given the highest awards to the church and given

00:18:33.560 private audiences with the Pope, Joe Biden, all the other, you know, Catholics and people question,

00:18:39.900 well, how can they be Catholic? That is a, I think we have to come to a unpleasant realization that 1.00

00:18:45.780 that is the dominant form of Catholicism, or at least a majority of Catholicism and particularly

00:18:53.320 the institutional aspect of this, of the institutional church. And if you look at what's

00:18:59.840 gone on in the Vatican, you've read any of the books that's gone to the Vatican, you, you've see

00:19:02.980 how they handled the pedophile crisis. You look at what's happened here in the United States,

00:19:06.780 you see the empty churches. It's, it's, there's not Steve Bannon saying that. I'm just saying the

00:19:11.100 facts of parishes that are, you know, one third fold today. You go to Italy or you go to England,

00:19:19.520 you see these magnificent churches, you see all these great churches of Christopher, all these other

00:19:22.960 great churches, all the churches are empty. You go to, you go to Rome and it's the most

00:19:27.980 magnificent churches. And I mean, on every block there's, there's, it's literally a work of art.

00:19:32.280 These, these are, you know, have, have some of the greatest works of art when you walk in there.

00:19:36.880 Not only the church is empty, when I say empty, I mean, you go to a Sunday mass, went to a Sunday mass

00:19:42.000 last time I was in Rome and, um, the, the, the church right by my hotel, there couldn't have been

00:19:50.680 50 people. I think it was nine o'clock or it was nine o'clock or 10 o'clock when the high mass,

00:19:58.160 but it was a regular, but it was not six o'clock. It was nine or 10 o'clock. There couldn't have been

00:20:03.340 50, 75 people in the entire church. And at 60, I think it was a couple of years ago. So let's say

00:20:10.300 at 67, I was the youngest person in the church. Now, now here's the thing. It was not the, the,

00:20:16.680 the, the priest who was, had a chance to spend a few minutes with him afterwards, a terrific,

00:20:22.980 great priest. I mean, he gave a very nice sermon, but he was from Nigeria. And I asked him afterwards,

00:20:28.720 I said, how many Nigerian, he says, oh, I got guys from all over Africa. Cause they're, they're

00:20:33.040 having, they're actually having, uh, they're generating young priests. And he says, he did,

00:20:39.220 he said, I don't know any young Italian priest in the, so they're not, they're not getting any,

00:20:44.780 they're not generating any priest. And you had one of the great reporters here tonight at the

00:20:49.200 dinner. She said, look, it's become a nihilistic society. This is Italy shows you and Rome shows

00:20:55.140 you the collapse of this, the collapse of this civilization. And so that is the part that's the

00:21:01.080 Nancy Pelosi. And look, I'm, I'm not here to opine on someone's faith. The faith is between them and

00:21:05.400 God. And Nancy Pelosi is, is, is in one aspect of very devout Catholic as Joe Biden is a, goes to

00:21:11.960 church every Sunday. And one level is a very devout Catholic and they are rewarded and honored

00:21:16.400 by the hierarchy and basically in the church. But you look at the hierarchy of the church,

00:21:22.400 what have they done? What have they done? The pedophile scandals, a disaster. It's cut out,

00:21:27.180 you know, 50% of the wealth that was created or the assets that were created by hardworking people

00:21:32.040 through generation after generation. And it's all been stripped away. The church, you know,

00:21:36.200 they're losing so many bills that had to sell so much to pay for this. And then you go and look at

00:21:40.400 the records. Baltimore just put in a record the other day. You read it, you can't get,

00:21:44.040 you can't get, there's a 400 page report, a 600 page report. You can't get 25 pages into the report

00:21:48.920 and you can't take anymore. It's so horrendous. So now there's another aspect of the church and

00:21:55.220 another one that I think the Latin mass are more traditional and it's treated as a stepchild,

00:21:59.860 but I think that's getting to be robust and I think it's getting to be a powerful. And I think

00:22:04.440 that's part of Pope Benedict's. There's going to be a smaller, more lived Catholicism,

00:22:09.520 but we've got many, many tough years ahead of us, right? Particularly as people are going to be

00:22:13.800 ostracized. It's obvious now in this country, you're going to start to be ostracized for your

00:22:18.680 religion. And the Dobbs decision only made it, only made that, raised that up to high relief. And so

00:22:24.860 more and more of the people that are professed Catholics and professed Christians are going to

00:22:29.400 have to keep that to themselves at work. And that's a very different change. You know,

00:22:33.680 he's always had a strain of anti-Catholicism in the country from the know-nothings to even when

00:22:40.240 President Kennedy ran. But, you know, it's been very minor, very minor compared to what's before us

00:22:48.140 because now it's like the central thing of anti-Christianity. And I think we live in a

00:22:53.060 culture and society that is virulently anti-Christian and anti-Catholic.

00:22:56.620 And that's coming at exactly the same time as this new advent of technocracy or the AI generation

00:23:08.900 or this transhumanism advance into the next form of humanity, humans 2.0, as you said.

00:23:16.840 Okay. So right now we see AI just with chat GBT going forward. People know that you can now get

00:23:23.640 them to write your essays. You can get them. One of the creators, Elon Musk even, talking about how

00:23:29.440 the dangers that are right now before us are this form of AI can convince people in elections. We've

00:23:39.160 already seen that a lot. Google's been doing that for years, slanting people's opinions on the election

00:23:44.060 just by, you know, giving people different search results. Where do you see that going? What do you see

00:23:51.180 the progression as in terms of AI getting us to humans 2.0?

00:23:57.320 We're only 100 days. I mean, chat GBT was released at Davos on 15 January. We're doing this interview

00:24:04.220 in the first couple of days of May. This is essentially 90 days or 100 days into this.

00:24:10.080 Now, what we're finding is that just a thousand of the most prominent people in this area, including

00:24:15.620 Elon Musk, just signed a declaration saying we should stop all research immediately for six

00:24:20.820 months, the top people in the space. Now, what's important about that, there were a handful of

00:24:26.880 people that did not sign that, that were the founders. I mean, the real brains, more than

00:24:31.920 Musk and these guys. I'm going to talk about the guys that were the biggest thinkers in back

00:24:36.100 of this, artificial intelligence. They didn't sign it because they said it didn't do enough.

00:24:41.820 Oh yeah, they said it didn't do enough. In fact, one of the leaders said that if we do not stop

00:24:47.240 immediately, all research throughout the world and enforce it, that any of the computational

00:24:52.100 centers, because really you have AI is the content, but then you have the pure muscle of a data center

00:24:58.320 that can actually drive AI. He actually said that you should, we should have missile strikes and

00:25:03.220 take out the data centers. Oh yes. And 60 minutes, they did 60 minutes. I played a couple of times

00:25:08.340 on the show. Proteins, which are the source of life in the basic building blocks of life. I think

00:25:14.660 there's 200 million proteins of which we know almost nothing about, by the way, if all the great

00:25:19.120 scientists have the real structure, the atomic and subatomic structure of proteins, we know almost

00:25:24.180 nothing about. A PhD, one of the smartest guys, the smartest guys in the world, these PhDs

00:25:28.680 with advanced computers take five years to break down one protein, this term main protein,

00:25:36.600 break down one protein, five years of their life, doing nothing every day of the week,

00:25:40.840 but doing that. Artificial intelligence, deep mind, the Google something took five years to

00:25:47.320 write the programs and to get AI on this, took five years to write it. In a matter of seconds,

00:25:53.200 whatever, take five years. In a matter of seconds, they were able to break down and totally map

00:25:57.180 the protein. One billion years of PhD work, one billion years of PhD work on proteins were

00:26:05.900 done in a matter of minutes. One billion years. And then they released that the first time it's

00:26:14.000 ever been released in human history. And it's advanced. But here's the problem. In artificial

00:26:19.840 intelligence, the machine itself can start to, you can take this programs, you can take the proteins

00:26:25.140 and start to recombine them and make biological and chemical weapons. In fact, they did a study we

00:26:31.020 just talked about today with Joe on the show, that I think in Switzerland, they ran a test to see if it

00:26:36.340 could be done. Now, they weren't really doing the biology of it. But they were doing in the silicon

00:26:40.700 base, but doing the mathematics and back of it. 47,000. In a matter of minutes, it created 47,000

00:26:48.360 new combinations of potential biological weapons. My point, and what these guys know is that artificial

00:26:54.660 intelligence and artificial general intelligence can start to actually program itself. There are five

00:27:02.420 areas of this. There's biotechnology, quantum computing, advanced chip design, okay, regenerative

00:27:10.280 robotics, artificial general intelligence. Those industries are converging. CRISPR, all this,

00:27:17.360 they're all converging with this massive research. Artificial intelligence getting the most

00:27:21.140 publicity today because of what happened to GPT. But to chat GPT and doing the homework,

00:27:26.980 that's nothing. When they talk about that, forget it. That's, it's going to redefine what is happening

00:27:31.460 in education. That is nothing, zero, compared to what's to come. The convergence of these five

00:27:37.560 of quantum computing, artificial general intelligence, regenerative robotics, CRISPR, and biotechnology,

00:27:44.880 all of that converging onto one thing. That is what's called the singularity. At the singularity,

00:27:52.260 on this side of this, on this side of it, is a homo sapien, a human being made in the image or

00:27:59.760 likeness of God. On the other side of that, and that other side is coming in 10 years, is humanity plus,

00:28:06.900 where God didn't make that, but man playing God made that. And we have no risk mitigation in this,

00:28:13.600 no, zero risk mitigation. As Elon Musk, who's not really a doomsayer in this, he said this is a

00:28:22.220 hundred times, a hundred times more dangerous than nuclear weapons. I think it's a thousand times more

00:28:26.520 dangerous. There's no risk mitigation. And we are literally building the antichrist in the weapons

00:28:33.940 laboratories and the research universities, just in the United States, forget what they're doing in

00:28:37.920 China, forget what they're doing in Eastern Europe, forget what they're doing in North and South Korea. 0.96

00:28:42.640 There are things going on right now that we can't even imagine the power of it. And that's happening.

00:28:49.060 And that, I think, is going to engulf everybody in a very short period of time.

00:28:54.200 Given that, it's not surprising that people say,

00:28:56.880 there's only a spiritual solution to any of this. What's your vision of the end in terms of how

00:29:07.060 we're called to get out of this? Because you believe, as do I, that our Lord is still in charge

00:29:13.340 of human history. He is himself the ruler of the world, even though he's not regarded as such,

00:29:19.100 but he is. Where do you see this? Well, I think we say, I think if you read the, and study,

00:29:28.000 and I'm no scholar, and like I said, don't, don't take me as a moral example ever, or as a practitioner

00:29:33.160 of the Catholicism. There are, you know, billions of people better. However, in my own simple way,

00:29:39.380 when you read and study the Old Testament and the New Testament, divine providence, God, Jesus Christ,

00:29:46.080 works through human agency and instrumentality in this sphere. And that's why, to me, it's everybody,

00:29:53.300 you're called to do this. And you're either going to do it or you're not going to do it. You got to,

00:29:56.820 and it gets down to the basic things of subsidiarity, of taking back your community,

00:30:02.480 of taking control of your community, taking control of your school boards. Don't let the 0.55

00:30:05.680 kids be poisoned. Don't let your town be poisoned. Don't let these radicals take over your town,

00:30:10.780 your community, your House of Representatives, your states. Build it all. Get involved. Get involved.

00:30:15.280 You have to get involved. Put the golf clubs up. Put the tennis rackets up. It's not that you have a

00:30:20.120 live a life that's, doesn't have enjoyment of fun. You can do all that stuff too, but

00:30:23.720 dedicate yourself to something greater than yourself. Put your faith to work and put it to

00:30:29.620 faith that you're working in your community. Start there and then get involved. If it's politics

00:30:35.400 that you're calling or activism, but do something. If you take yourself and weaponize yourself and turn

00:30:40.260 yourself into an instrument, right, and to use your agency and think, hey, when the time comes,

00:30:47.000 when it's all over, I want to leave it all in the field. I want to look back in those last couple

00:30:51.360 seconds of my life and go, man, I wish I'd done this. I wish I'd done this. I wish I'd done this.

00:30:54.820 We're all done differently. Do it differently today. So when you're, because you're going to be weighed and

00:31:00.380 measured on this. You just are. I mean, we're living in times people could say, hey, these are the end

00:31:05.660 times. I don't know. Nobody knows. But what I know is that the, the man has created by his own hand

00:31:13.460 weapons of science and technology that could make nuclear weapons, which could destroy the world

00:31:21.620 easily, make nuclear weapons, not even, I mean, between the biological weapons, artificial intelligence,

00:31:26.680 chemical weapons, things have been created. We have the, we have the instrumentality to destroy life

00:31:32.180 many times over. And so what is your calling to stop that? What is your calling to make sure that

00:31:37.960 we live, you know, that we can see the sunlit uplands ahead for future generations? And what

00:31:43.160 do we have to do today? So to me, it's, it's pretty simple. Not that complicated.

00:31:48.960 Steve Bannon, truly a tour de force. Thank you, my friend. Thank you for the dinner. Thank you for

00:31:56.480 honoring Bishop Schneider, one of the truly great heroes in the world today. And he called you

00:32:01.520 that same thing.

00:32:03.020 No, you're, you're, look, you guys, I've done an incredible job. And I know the pressure you're

00:32:08.120 under. Are you back on YouTube? You still, you got your YouTube. So can you see this?

00:32:13.020 Of course he's still canceled. But no, but this is for the audience. The struggle of these guys

00:32:18.660 every day to do it, to put out great content, and then to build, and you've had it done twice.

00:32:23.460 It is, first off, it is a sign of their spirit and determination to say, okay, I'm going to do it.

00:32:30.720 It's like Sisyphus rolling the stone up the hill. To do that, and to have those type of audiences and

00:32:37.000 taken away from you, it's soul crushing. And they want it to be soul crushing. Remember, YouTube is

00:32:41.980 Google. Google's deep mind. I just talked about the proteins. Those are the deep mind guys. They,

00:32:47.920 oh yeah, we did this great thing for humanity. Yeah, you did a great thing for humanity. And that

00:32:51.680 on a scale from here is fantastic. You're really a great thing. But when you opened up humanity to

00:32:56.880 for its total and complete destruction with no power to stop, it is like a thousand times

00:33:00.780 worse than that. And you should, we should have risk mitigation. Those are the exact same guys.

00:33:06.660 That's the exact same mentality. And that's the people we're letting make decisions

00:33:10.260 that would twice say, think about it for a second. The same company said,

00:33:17.180 that's okay doing that saying, oh, look at these guys here. They're talking about life.

00:33:21.460 They're talking about, you know, boy, they're, they're bad guys. They're evil guys. Let's shut 0.94

00:33:24.400 them down. Let's shut them down here. And the reason they're shutting you down, they understand 0.98

00:33:27.700 your content's terrific. You understand your content's reaching people, your content's changing.

00:33:32.080 I mean, look what happened on the Dobbs decision. If it wasn't for you guys, that would have never

00:33:35.440 happened. It would have never happened. And they know that. And let me be blunt.

00:33:39.640 I am far from perfect. He's far from perfect. Trump's far from perfect. Many of the people we

00:33:47.380 were far from perfect as we all are, but those people are evil. They are evil. So it's pretty 0.97

00:33:54.840 simple. That's evil. And we're not perfect, but we're not evil. And so you have a decision. It's a

00:34:04.160 very simple decision. Am I going to just sit here and go along with my life and pretend that evil is

00:34:10.360 not in our country and spreading like a virus and it is encapsulating the world. And I'm just going to

00:34:16.920 go and just live my life and just be myself. And, you know, hopefully I get through this.

00:34:22.900 You'll be weighed and measured on that. I believe in my own simple, you're going to be weighed and

00:34:27.080 measured at the end. Bishop Snyder says something. He quoted somebody today. It was very powerful.

00:34:32.540 When the guy was being attacked or the priest was being attacked, he said,

00:34:37.940 he told Bishop Snyder, don't worry about what they say about you in your lifetime. Every day of your

00:34:43.660 life, spend it and worry about what they're going to say about you a hundred years from now.

00:34:47.680 You live your life like that and fight evil. And the people that shut you down are the same evil.

00:34:55.760 Can I say this on LifeSide News? Bastards. 1.00

00:34:57.760 He's going to have to say another rosary. He's going to have to say another rosary. 1.00

00:35:03.360 Did I tell you it was not that church? No. No, they are. Because, and here's what,

00:35:09.440 for the audience, just remember, that is soul crushing. When you work at these organizations

00:35:14.060 and get some traction, and you've had two huge, I think you had 350,000 the first time and almost

00:35:18.260 a million, that is soul crushing. Because you got to go, oh my God, I got to go and start all over

00:35:22.980 again and build it up person by person by, you know, person. They want it to be soul crushing.

00:35:28.640 And who's going to win are the warriors, as I said, they go, you know what, we're going to do

00:35:34.440 this again. But one day, we're going to have the power to shut them down. And we will shut them

00:35:42.080 down. And the reason is they're evil. And you're good. Great honor. Thanks. God bless you. 0.98

00:35:48.200 Thank you, sir. Thank you. And God bless all of you. We'll see you next time.

The John-Henry Westen Show - May 16, 2023

Steve Bannon's Urgent Update In The War For The West

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