The King's Hall - Day One： Trump’s Executive Orders and the Remaking of America

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00:00:56.600 I don't know.

00:01:26.580 time on January 20th, 2025, it seemed everything about his demeanor had changed from his first

00:01:32.960 term. In 2016, he and Melania were all smiles while she was dressed in a classic light blue

00:01:39.240 dress reminiscent of Jackie Kennedy's remarkable style. This time around, she wore a black dress

00:01:45.400 that looked like a trench coat with a white rimmed hat that covered most of her face.

00:01:50.160 She looked more like the main character from V for Vendetta than she did the traditional first

00:01:55.080 lady, or perhaps more to the point, she looked like a 1920s gangster standing next to her

00:02:00.700 husband, all while Chris Macchio of Italian descent saying the national anthem in his

00:02:06.000 operatic tenor.

00:02:07.720 The whole scene had massive Godfather Day of Vengeance vibes.

00:02:12.260 Retributive justice, it would seem, is back on the menu.

00:02:16.000 The vibe everyone noticed was quite different.

00:02:18.940 If Trump's first term betrayed any naivete about what the inner workings of Washington, D.C. was really like, the second term was all about payback.

00:02:29.200 Call it a vendetta or an evening of the score, but Trump has not forgotten the people who wielded the judiciary to engage in lawfare against him.

00:02:38.120 And not just him, but the American people whom he represents.

00:02:41.940 As he has been fond of saying, they're not coming after me, they're coming after you, I'm just in the way.

00:02:48.940 he certainly has not forgotten about that day in July 2024

00:02:52.500 when a bullet ripped through his ear in Butler, Pennsylvania,

00:02:56.560 or all of the many security protocols which were broken or ignored

00:03:00.880 to put him in that precarious situation in the first place.

00:03:04.920 Nessun Dorma, the song from the payback ending scene in Some of All Fears

00:03:09.600 that Trump had played at the Republican National Convention

00:03:12.640 just days after the assassination attempt,

00:03:15.300 may as well have been playing during the first days of Trump's second term in office.

00:03:21.000 When you consider the first executive orders that Trump issued on day one,

00:03:25.700 the message seems loud and clear.

00:03:28.100 Trump will do what he can to roll back much of the 20th century policies

00:03:32.940 that brought about the disintegrating and divided America we've all inherited.

00:03:38.400 As he laid out in his inauguration speech,

00:03:41.820 it's time to recapture the American spirit of greatness.

00:03:45.300 Trump has also handpicked a very different sort of team this time as well.

00:03:50.220 For example, Pete Hegseth was just confirmed as Secretary of Defense,

00:03:54.500 the tie-breaking vote cast by none other than Vice President J.D. Vance,

00:03:58.760 which means that the man with a crusader cross on his chest

00:04:02.480 will play a leading role in directing the nation's armed forces.

00:04:06.940 Hegseth, who wrote Battle for the American Mind,

00:04:09.560 is poised to demolish DEI practices in the armed services.

00:04:14.920 Though this confirmation is yet to take place at the time of this recording,

00:04:18.880 Kash Patel could well be confirmed as director of the FBI.

00:04:23.320 And then there's Tom Homan, whom Trump appointed as border czar,

00:04:27.040 who has already deported over 300 illegal immigrants on day one of Trump's new term.

00:04:33.180 Speaking of immigration, one of Trump's first executive orders

00:04:36.680 declared that ongoing leaky borders constitute an invasion

00:04:40.640 across the southern border of the United States,

00:04:43.300 and that his cabinet would take appropriate action to repel, repatriate, or remove any alien engaged in the invasion.

00:04:52.800 Another order allows U.S. military service members to act as border patrol officers as part of Trump's mass deportation program.

00:05:01.260 In so doing, Trump essentially declared the migrant flow as a national security threat,

00:05:07.140 thus allowing him to utilize armed forces to assist in shutting it down.

00:05:11.360 He also suspended refugee arrivals, stopped birthright citizenship, restarted border wall construction, and created the Homeland Security Task Force in all 50 states, which will allow local law enforcement officers to put an end to the presence of criminal cartels, foreign gangs, and transnational criminal organizations. 0.50

00:05:33.060 Among other things, Trump also directed the Secretary of State to apply sanctions against any nation that didn't fully cooperate with the deportation and return of its citizens.

00:05:44.120 He ordered that sanctuary cities be federally defunded, stopped all funding to NGOs that were assisting in any way with bringing in immigrants,

00:05:53.740 and he designated international cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, effectively declaring war on them too.

00:06:02.140 Economically, Trump is adding an external revenue service

00:06:05.740 with the intent of increasing tariffs on imports

00:06:08.960 and encouraging companies to bring manufacturing back to the U.S.

00:06:13.420 He said he would push for a rewrite of NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement,

00:06:17.520 which would include 25% tariffs on Canadian and Mexican goods.

00:06:22.820 Trump also promised to increase tariffs on China,

00:06:26.000 and during his campaign, he said that they could be as high as 60%.

00:06:29.800 One order aimed to halt the flow of fentanyl into the U.S. from Canada, Mexico, and China, while another significant measure bars any U.S. government official from pressuring social media companies to combat mis- or disinformation.

00:06:44.100 On the energy front, Trump promised to drill baby drill in the U.S., which included a declaration of America's national energy emergency.

00:06:54.320 The U.S., Trump ordered, would withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement, which committed the U.S. to drastically reduce its policies related to carbon emissions.

00:07:04.500 Energy projects will be encouraged, while all of Biden's EV incentives will be ended.

00:07:09.740 In a clever move, many suspect that by changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America,

00:07:16.320 Trump was circumventing previous orders to stop drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

00:07:21.280 While there were many other orders, a few bear mentioning.

00:07:24.700 First, Trump pardoned the hundreds of people indicted or imprisoned because of the events on January 6, 2020 at the U.S. Capitol.

00:07:32.540 He also pardoned and freed the abortion activists who were sentenced for praying outside abortion clinics.

00:07:39.980 Second, Trump declared there would be only two recognized genders by the U.S. government, male and female,

00:07:46.600 and that all executive branch departments or agencies had 60 days to eliminate DEI programs,

00:07:53.500 including the elimination of all chief diversity officer jobs.

00:07:58.580 He also terminated Lyndon Johnson's longstanding executive order from nearly 60 years ago

00:08:04.080 that set anti-discrimination requirements for government hiring.

00:08:08.620 If we can measure anything by this first wave of executive orders,

00:08:12.400 it seems that Trump intends to make a serious war against the civil rights,

00:08:17.680 immigration, and energy policies that came to dominate the 20th and early 21st centuries.

00:08:24.380 Those on the left, of course, were furious.

00:08:27.820 One prominent figure on X said, quote, walking back progress from 60 years ago is utterly bleeping insane, end quote, to which another person retweeted and said, quote, we're repealing the entire 20th century.

00:08:42.240 I hope you're ready, end quote.

00:08:44.600 In any case, it seems the progressivism of the left is under attack in Trump's second term.

00:08:50.700 In this episode of the Kings Hall Podcast, we want to talk about why this is such a big opportunity for the builders, adventurers, and risk-takers of America, and especially for those of us on the dissident right.

00:09:04.720 For the first time in our lifetimes, we have the tailwinds behind us and in our favor.

00:09:10.140 The question is, what we'll do with these favorable winds?

00:09:13.380 It's hardly the time to sit on our hands.

00:09:15.960 Instead, it's time to pursue our vision for America with all of the strength and vigor we can muster.

00:09:23.360 We'll take a deeper dive into some of these executive orders, talk about why they matter,

00:09:27.800 and finally, we'll discuss some of the biggest economic and political blunders of the 20th century that should be destroyed.

00:09:35.960 The King's Hall Podcast exists to make self-ruled men who rule well and win the world.

00:09:45.360 hola y bienvenido el espectáculo brian

00:09:56.340 i thought you i thought they were all going back oh oh i thought this was now you're going back

00:10:03.780 guys welcome to the king's hall podcast just happened we're trying to be multicultural you

00:10:09.580 pick this week to be multicultural the the first week in our entire lifetimes when like you just

00:10:18.240 trump almost swooped in the room i know and and bodily removed you onto a c-130 to be airdropped

00:10:24.760 over mexico city yeah it is actually interesting because the way i pronounce that um i know a lot

00:10:29.660 of our spanish listeners will be like i think eric could be from mexico that's how good wow

00:10:36.700 are those the footprints of ice that i hear i already called i've got them on speed down wait

00:10:43.860 i i heard a rumor it's not true probably 750 for any tips i've got one of those letters of mark i

00:10:50.320 mean let's just say we could measure our friendship based on that 750 have you seen

00:10:57.860 an office competition i'm sure you've seen the reels but there's one and it's a guy and he's

00:11:05.520 like fake crying and he's like i'm so sad that they're gonna deport people because my mother-in-law

00:11:11.500 who lives at this address i'm worried about her i'm so worried again she lives at 1374 concord

00:11:19.360 apartment 17b i hope they don't get her

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00:11:59.240 oh man well gentlemen welcome to the show brian survey so good to be here eric not spanish but

00:12:09.920 french no not spanish better better some of the time you know era dependent like right now not

00:12:20.520 better okay um recently still not better medium term history still not better but in the deep past

00:12:28.360 yeah better better uh dan berkholder welcome to the show glad to be here i'm not going to talk

00:12:35.860 about my peoples they converted to christianity you know a warrior society converted to christianity 0.55

00:12:41.360 and and now they're really gay basically germans no basically not they are germans they are very 0.91

00:12:52.180 gay now i mean i can't yeah again we're in the same boat yep we're in the same boat but i'm 0.98

00:12:58.080 american yeah that's the thing america i'm proud to be an american yeah let's wait hang on let's

00:13:03.360 i know i'm free let's talk about uh eric cohen's past okay oh no okay here we go no if we're gonna

00:13:11.440 constantly be getting french jokes how about we talk about that eric no the certain people in

00:13:17.120 their lives that's not that is not my last name see okay so here we go with being an american

00:13:23.240 that see that was a trump negotiation he's changing the subject you know you hit us 0.99

00:13:28.440 with a 10 pound hammer i hit you with a freaking icbm that's what i do i just want you guys to 0.97

00:13:35.920 know all the deportations going on yeah um what we were sending some texts you saw the 0.98

00:13:42.240 The Sicario mode is basically on.

00:13:44.240 We'll get into some of that in a minute.

00:13:46.400 The cartels were shooting at Border Patrol.

00:13:49.680 So everybody on Twitter was saying, well, they were sharing it with like clips of Sicario.

00:13:54.440 And I sent one of these to our group chat at NCP.

00:13:58.340 And Ben said, I love when Eric goes in his Sicario arc.

00:14:02.680 And I said, that's my secret, Ben.

00:14:04.920 I'm always in the Sicario arc.

00:14:07.500 One of the things I did think was interesting, it was making the rounds,

00:14:10.740 was selena gomez crying about all the all of her people being deported and i saw a really

00:14:18.840 interesting comment somebody said it's it's amazing when push comes to shove how quickly

00:14:23.640 people can identify who their people are and so i think a lot of this brian uh correct me if i'm

00:14:31.920 wrong but i think a lot of this this question of we've talked about christian nationalism

00:14:36.600 But I think this this pressing question after 60 years of civil rights, this is still not settled in America about what is an American?

00:14:45.620 What does it mean to be a part of this nation?

00:14:47.820 It seems like there's still a lot of unrest about this.

00:14:51.460 Yeah, not only is there a lot of unrest, people are experiencing this new sensation who have been on the left where they've been for decades.

00:15:00.640 I mean, going on 50, 60 years at this point, attempting to carve out essentially like the barrio in America, and I'm like a barrio American, and I'm like an African American, and I'm an Italian American, and I'm all these hyphenated Americans.

00:15:19.700 and uh for the first time in our lifetime certainly the left is experiencing um the the

00:15:27.760 the sensation of being resisted and someone going oh you're crying i don't care in fact

00:15:36.100 when selena gomez was crying it it really touched my heart and i don't mean that it moved me to her

00:15:41.600 position but it warmed my heart to see her in pain and did you see did you see the meme by the way

00:15:48.460 it was like selena gomez crying and then right underneath it was the picture of baron trump he's

00:15:53.140 like bring it on let me see it let me see it no it that's what's happening right now and it's

00:16:00.680 i mean to the point where the nothing ever happens bros who are like nothing's ever going to change

00:16:06.280 i get why they're there like the the conservatives are never going to do anything trump's not really

00:16:11.560 going to do anything even if he gets elected it's just going to be immediate deep state stuff again

00:16:15.940 like i get why they're there because that has genuinely been all of our experience especially

00:16:21.260 millennials you could even say like gen x and under that's been our whole life politically

00:16:27.060 and culturally but it's actually been so like almost euphoric and incredible to be able to see

00:16:33.920 like jd vance say i don't really care margaret it was like his frankly my dear i don't give a

00:16:40.780 moment is rep butler moment is that it's just a new gone with gone with wind that's okay i was

00:16:47.100 gonna say casablanca it's uh it's just a sensation that neither the conservatives nor the left has

00:16:53.060 experienced yet and so you know hopefully we we see them stay the course and they continue to

00:16:58.720 basically what what we need to do we've been saying this for for months at the king's hall

00:17:02.560 now it's like we need to recover the national self-will the national will to be the national

00:17:08.380 will to to defend our people the national will to exist as a distinct people and not be subsumed

00:17:15.180 into globalist you know hegemony and multiculturalist goo where everybody else is allowed

00:17:21.900 selena's allowed to say oh my people my people who are mexicans being deported that's your people

00:17:28.180 selena well then guess what you're not an american yeah in fact we'll i'll i i will go on record

00:17:35.800 selena i will pay for your plane ticket to go to any city any major airport in mexico

00:17:42.900 one way only i'll pay for the ticket out of pocket i won't even expense it to new christian

00:17:48.260 press this is my personal gift to you if you want to be repatriated to your people i'm willing to

00:17:53.620 facilitate that go ahead and email us um you know you find our info on the website that's a really

00:18:00.100 generous offer you know i mean like i am people have told me many times you know brian your main

00:18:05.540 weaknesses are that you love too much. You care too much. You give too much. And I agree. Those

00:18:10.240 are my big, you know, some of my biggest weaknesses that, yeah, that is, that is a real

00:18:14.040 weakness. Uh, speaking of the spirit of American greatness, it kind of reminds me of a conference.

00:18:22.140 I knew it. Maybe somebody I know is hosting. Um, maybe you could tell me just a little bit

00:18:31.820 about this thing that i'm thinking yeah i think you're talking about the upcoming new christian

00:18:37.700 press 2025 summer conference no way it's called safety third recovering the american will to

00:18:43.140 greatness what where we're attempting to reinvigorate the american spirit of the american

00:18:49.100 settler and the the american founding and um all of these great moments in american history

00:18:54.700 where our medal and our people were approved and we need to get back to that for civil rights

00:19:01.500 civil rights act right um we're looking for a new speaker to replace eric con

00:19:08.060 will be replaced uh no but it's by an h1 june what 12th to the 14th by an h1b absolutely not

00:19:17.040 uh june 12th to the 14th yes new christian press.com slash 2025 2025 uh where you can find

00:19:24.420 ticket information i'm going to be putting on a concert we're going to have can we announce our

00:19:28.160 speakers they confirmed yeah we're we're gonna have we're gonna have dr wolf out i don't know

00:19:32.300 if you've heard of him dr stephen wolf the man the myth the legend is coming out of his woodland

00:19:37.300 he's emerging from the forests where he normally dwells and he's coming to ogden utah to speak at

00:19:43.780 our conference along with why don't you tell us about some others andrew isker the boniface option

00:19:49.400 dan the eighth century i think really technically your people yeah i mean looking at at mr isker

00:19:55.680 i'm pretty sure he doesn't need an axe to chop down a tree he could just use like a chop he

00:20:01.260 could use his own or he could just rip the tree out you know with his bare hands yeah so that'll

00:20:06.400 be exciting we have some panel speakers as well that are going to join us cj angle uh j chase

00:20:12.040 davis um so really excited for those guys to be there and i think brian a lot of this is about

00:20:17.800 recognizing the moment that we're in yeah um this idea oh and lest i forget joel wevin yeah i was

00:20:24.300 about to say joel i was joel when he didn't sign the contract or something joel be furious if he

00:20:31.120 knows joel's in we should just cut that out we should just cut out and just you know remain a

00:20:35.480 mystery yeah joel's in or out you know we've asked a lot of people everyone said no i don't

00:20:40.780 know who we'll possibly get and then later we announce oh but joel said yes no our main guy

00:20:47.440 Joel, he's going to be speaking. And this was kind of one of the things that he pointed out

00:20:52.480 to us in recent discussions was just the idea of Christians have always had the headwinds against

00:20:57.960 them. What do you actually do when you have a strong tailwind? And I think you're seeing that

00:21:04.020 there's a lot of people in the Christian camp. They'll actually self-detonate at the moment

00:21:09.340 when you can win. We've talked about this before, but purity spiraling and stuff like this. So how

00:21:14.900 do you actually be in a position to win? And to Brian's point, I think a lot of it actually comes

00:21:19.480 down to the will. You have to recover the will. And I think one of the things that we're seeing

00:21:24.860 and you will see in this episode with the executive orders, and people are kind of

00:21:31.480 memeing this, but it's like, you can just do things. When the woke journalist lady starts

00:21:37.660 crying about the deportations, you can just say, frankly, Margaret, I don't care. I don't want

00:21:43.620 them in my country. And then you move on. And it's funny because they actually don't know what 1.00

00:21:47.960 to do. So that will be really big. The conference, June 12th through 14th in Ogden, Utah, you can go

00:21:54.720 to newchristinandpress.com. I think it's slash 2025. Yep. Yep. Well, you can sign up today.

00:21:59.960 We'll have even more information forthcoming on that. One other plug I wanted to give,

00:22:05.460 because I think it's really important. Dan, we've been listening to a series from Isaac Botkin

00:22:10.120 from T-Rex Arms, one of our friends. They were kind enough to send us some holsters. So we've

00:22:16.640 been holstering the firearms in T-Rex holsters. So if you get a chance, check out their holsters.

00:22:23.080 Really high quality product. Love those guys. But Isaac has a multi-part series on the ATF

00:22:28.820 and Ruby Ridge Waco that we would encourage people to check out because a lot of what he

00:22:34.900 talks about in there is the failure of the new deal and how that moment changed america forever

00:22:41.200 and it's tied to overregulation big government etc so that would be a good thing to check out

00:22:48.900 yeah it's a fascinating deep dive he actually goes into the prohibition as well and that whole

00:22:53.680 movement of government overreach uh you can listen to it at t-rex labs on youtube or t-rex talks on

00:23:01.680 whatever podcast service you use. So it's really, really good. Really fascinating deep dive. A lot

00:23:08.400 of primary sources. Really good. Yeah. And I think it's really helpful because as you dig into these

00:23:12.160 executive orders and you dig into really all these government organizations, things like

00:23:18.240 non-government organizations as well, like the Fed. And when we start talking about things like

00:23:24.020 we need to end some of this, we need to repeal a lot of the things that happened in the 20th

00:23:28.640 century, your average American, your grill American is going to think, but we've always

00:23:33.920 had those things. And so I think it's important to know the history so you can go back and say,

00:23:37.500 actually, we haven't always had those things. And in fact, as Trump pointed out in his talk

00:23:42.920 about ending income tax, which is tied to the Fed, he was saying actually America's most

00:23:49.860 prosperous days as a nation were in the late 1800s before the Fed was created, which I think

00:23:57.220 is 1913 1913 yep you know what's crazy about that you know time period right around 1913 is that

00:24:04.460 there was this little boat called the titanic i don't know if you've heard of this what and there

00:24:09.600 were a lot of people on the titanic who actually would have resisted the implementation of the

00:24:16.500 federal reserve are you sure it was actually the titanic that sank well are we funny i think i think

00:24:23.500 or a king's hall on this yes it's like there's a there is so much surrounding that the the 20th

00:24:30.300 century policies that got us to where we are the fed being a bit the monetary policy being very

00:24:34.860 much central and also how they were publicized i think is a huge part oh yeah like what they were

00:24:39.880 saying this is going to be and what it will do well like in public school like i remember

00:24:44.260 you know hearing about rhodesia and you know them talking about like oh it's just this racist

00:24:50.360 country in africa like the worst people on earth and then later in life you start reading about it

00:24:55.120 and you're like give me rhodesia or give you're like when you say the worst people on earth do 0.87

00:25:00.280 you mean all the people that destroyed rhodesia right yeah it's not not the rhodesians like you 0.81

00:25:05.720 may you mean you mean the zimbabweans yes well so and maybe this is a good place to start as we

00:25:12.560 start uh thinking about dan this concept of repealing the 20th century people are taking

00:25:18.160 noticed that that is a lot of what the executive orders are aimed at. Why do you think Americans

00:25:23.480 would be in a place where they're willing now to accept the repeal of an entire century's worth of

00:25:29.680 legislation? You couldn't get Trump doing this if there wasn't public sentiment that had its eyes

00:25:37.780 opened to the problems. But how do we get here? How do we get to the point where people actually

00:25:43.000 want that to happen that's a big question and a really good question i i think if you just

00:25:49.740 look at the okay so we we've identified that there's a vibe shift right it's it's towards

00:25:56.020 christianity it's it's towards uh loving your people and loving your place and saying i don't

00:26:01.580 care anymore about your dei stuff about your pc stuff i don't care anymore well what led to that

00:26:09.120 point where essentially people broke and they said, I'm not tolerating this anymore. I'm not

00:26:13.980 playing your games anymore because for decades, many, many decades, uh, probably since the 1960s.

00:26:21.060 And even before that, you've had this government overreach into essentially causing you to hate

00:26:27.320 your people, hate your place and hate yourself and trying to remove the will to live. And the

00:26:32.620 thing is, there's only, you can only go so long with telling somebody that they, they do not

00:26:38.060 actually deserve to be alive or to exist or to have certain rights and privileges within their

00:26:43.940 own country. And you have foreigners that are coming in and taking your jobs and you can't 1.00

00:26:48.120 feed your family. And you're looking at the housing crisis and you're looking at how income 1.00

00:26:53.300 hasn't changed. You know, we've talked before. It sounds like fussing. It's really not. It's

00:26:57.380 just identifying reality where our fathers in the baby boomer generation, they get their job,

00:27:04.800 you know, and they're making $35,000, $40,000 a year and they paid $20,000 for their house or

00:27:10.920 shuffle the numbers around their income per year was greater than the cost of their house in many

00:27:15.380 cases. And now if you just look at income versus housing prices, I mean, if you get a six figure

00:27:21.720 job, you're making a hundred thousand dollars. You're doing really well, right? Where are you

00:27:26.060 going to find a house for less than $400,000 in any major city across the United States,

00:27:31.800 even smaller towns, it's getting more difficult to just live. And so I think people are just fed

00:27:37.360 up. They're just done. And so this repealing of the 20th century, I think the time is ripe because

00:27:45.420 people are just done. They're sick of it. Well, I also think a big part of this is after World

00:27:50.140 War II, you get a lot of the open society ideas that become part of the post-war consensus. So

00:27:56.980 even if you're a quote unquote conservative um you're pushing things like the you know global

00:28:02.120 international trade kind of this um malleable borders malleable peoples multiculturalism all

00:28:09.540 of those things and i think what happened is for a long time people were not really awake to that

00:28:15.740 play yeah that's true but i think what happened they really the globalist elites really overplayed

00:28:22.880 their hand in 2020. And I think because they did that, the open society, people started reading

00:28:28.900 about it. They started reading about Klaus Schwab and he's borrowing the ideas from other people

00:28:32.960 in the early 20th century. So people start pushing back against this. And I think you're

00:28:39.200 right, Dan, that the average grill American, where it really hits them is when they realize

00:28:45.940 we're up a Creek without a paddle financially. I can go to work. And if you make the average 0.51

00:28:51.500 american income it's like 55 000 a year but but if you factor in that a house costs for 500 000

00:28:58.320 you know you you've completely reversed it where a house was less than your annual salary

00:29:03.580 to many times up to 10 times as much as your annual salary and if you calculate the true

00:29:09.100 cost of purchasing that house oh yeah a 500 000 house purchased with today's interest rates on

00:29:13.940 a 30-year mortgage is more like 1.6 1.8 million dollars correct by the time you're done paying

00:29:19.280 Plus, because housing prices have gone up, that means property taxes go up.

00:29:23.220 And it's not just that.

00:29:24.360 It's energy prices, which we'll talk about.

00:29:26.580 How about eggs right now?

00:29:28.540 You can't buy eggs. 1.00

00:29:30.560 My wife was running around to different grocery stores the other day, even though I have chickens. 1.00

00:29:34.280 Like a hundred chickens.

00:29:35.600 It's the end of January.

00:29:36.860 They don't lay many eggs.

00:29:37.520 They don't like laying in January in Utah. 0.99

00:29:39.220 Yeah, but they're crazy expensive and they taste like garbage. 0.86

00:29:42.680 So I think that affects- 0.64

00:29:43.520 I mean, it's incredible.

00:29:45.040 That affects a lot of people.

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00:30:50.320 Hey, Dan, what are you doing?

00:30:52.740 I'm just checking my mutual funds, my stock portfolio.

00:30:57.520 Mutual funds, stock portfolio.

00:31:00.400 What did Dave Ramsey tell you to do that?

00:31:04.580 Maybe.

00:31:05.760 Why?

00:31:06.820 How's your return looking so far this year?

00:31:09.480 Well, they just did come out with unemployment numbers and they're a little higher or lower than I thought.

00:31:15.920 Ooh. Well, have you ever thought about diversifying your portfolio into things like

00:31:21.220 silver and gold? I mean, yeah, I guess. Well, you know, gold and silver are having pretty good

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00:32:47.100 um actually right now what we're dealing with inflation wise is um the oos so you think of

00:32:54.860 george w bush and then obama we have the economic crisis of 2008 you know fannie mae freddie mac

00:33:03.740 All that stuff's going on. But it's interesting to note that government spending went through the roof after 2008. So Obama's way of handling a financial crisis was let's spend more money on government employees. It's also interesting financially because I think it's the year 2000. The U.S. actually had a surplus, not a deficit. And now we run like a $1.8 trillion per year deficit.

00:33:30.560 so you're looking at that and financially it's just like a you think of a household

00:33:36.020 when you overspend there comes a point where you got to pay the creditors right yeah you've got to

00:33:43.100 deal with this problem that you've created all the spending was fun and so now i think the average

00:33:48.480 american when they find out things like that the average government employee annual salary is

00:33:54.780 $150,000 and they're living in squalor and can barely afford to live.

00:34:01.380 How do you afford a car?

00:34:03.200 I mean,

00:34:03.480 new vehicles are like 80,

00:34:05.240 $90,000.

00:34:06.800 How are you going to afford the basics?

00:34:09.680 Anyway,

00:34:09.940 I think that's part of why people are fed up.

00:34:12.160 We've watched what our politicians have done.

00:34:14.600 And I think Trump has done a really good job of understanding that resentment.

00:34:19.140 I think,

00:34:19.920 as you said in the cold open,

00:34:21.060 Brian,

00:34:21.280 that he now understands what the deep state is really about.

00:34:24.780 These are genuinely wicked, awful, evil people, and I think one of the wills, Brian, that

00:34:31.920 we've got to recapture is the will to crush our enemies.

00:34:35.300 People don't realize this, and if you look at the history of the world, there are people

00:34:40.140 that have to meet God, and that's the way that they have to be dealt with.

00:34:46.400 And the people who have done evil things, we've got to have a different strategy than

00:34:51.580 the quasi-pietistic, lame evangelical response that we've heard.

00:34:57.180 And so much of that lame, quasi-pietistic evangelical response relies upon this, again,

00:35:05.180 20th century, innovative, novel theological apparatus that creates a complete confusion

00:35:13.000 when it comes to what the state is and ought to do, what a nation is and ought to do in

00:35:18.660 terms of its government of itself, and the duties of an individual and a private individual when it

00:35:25.100 comes to their own neighbor in the context of their life, the people God puts in front of them

00:35:30.320 in providence. So much of this relies upon people saying, well, America is basically just like a

00:35:37.980 private individual who must turn the other cheek and who must, and it's like, no, no, no, hang on,

00:35:43.120 Let's go back to those texts like Romans chapter 13, where Paul says that God raises up the civil minister, the deacon of the state, to bear the sword of retributive justice to destroy enemies of the good.

00:36:00.440 That's what it's doing.

00:36:01.560 It's supposed to, when an enemy, when people come in and they act wickedly or they attempt to invade and destroy the land.

00:36:08.520 It's not a matter of personal retaliation.

00:36:10.460 No, the president, not only he's not permitted to say, like, this is how justice works when it comes to the state and the civic and the judicial realm.

00:36:20.840 You're not allowed as a good ruler to say, I will not enforce justice because I'm so I'm so nice.

00:36:27.780 I'm so kind.

00:36:29.340 No, you're actually you're not being kind.

00:36:31.120 You're hating the very people that you were called to love as a father and a city father and a national father.

00:36:35.820 Well, even the picture of Lady Justice, right?

00:36:38.460 The statue where she's blindfolded. 0.99

00:36:40.640 She has scales and a sword.

00:36:42.520 Yeah, that's a picture of.

00:36:44.700 Yeah, that's right.

00:36:45.180 She weighs things.

00:36:46.040 This in many ways, this moment in America, it reminds me.

00:36:50.140 I think there are parallels and some rhyming with the Soviet, the end of the Soviet era. 0.60

00:36:54.700 Like the USSR is just absolute juggernaut when it's established.

00:36:59.800 Largely, you know, in many ways with the help of Western aid coming out of World War II. 0.88

00:37:05.280 in in america and western powers basically ensuring that the ussr would gain a huge amount

00:37:12.120 of territory in europe that they would have a lot of military aid that they would we wouldn't

00:37:16.740 attack or harm them in any way we set up this basically you know decades-long nuclear stalemate

00:37:22.340 and standoff of mutually assured destruction well meanwhile under the iron curtain in the ussr 0.61

00:37:28.380 They're undertaking the probably, I mean, China might have a similar scale here, but you could argue in the USSR, the largest brainwashing propaganda campaign in the history of mankind through every aspect of institution, of education, government, of all of life is swallowed up in this communist regime that presents there are no gods but the state, basically, you know, and the state is never wrong. 0.50

00:37:58.000 And the state is the party and the party exists to serve the people, but the people are the party. But actually, really, there's about, you know, 10 or 20 Politburo members at the top who are gods in the land and they get all these special privileges and absolute power and control. They're just little gods in the land.

00:38:14.220 But what happens over time is that it doesn't work. Again, it's legislating water to run uphill. The whole system is violating all sorts of principles of natural law that God has worked in, basically every part of law, that the Lord has worked into his creation.

00:38:32.860 And so the people over time, it becomes an open secret that it's all lies, that the party is a sham, that communism doesn't work, that we're really not out competing America.

00:38:46.380 Why does America have supermarkets abounding with food and we have television shows celebrating the harvest coming in?

00:38:54.220 America doesn't do that because it's like they always have enough bread. 0.83

00:38:57.640 But in the USSR, it's like an event.

00:38:59.500 Oh, the state has provided you it. 0.66

00:39:01.480 Oh, look, your bread is coming in.

00:39:02.860 you know and it's like give us this day our daily bread pretty soon though one one of those uh sides 0.89

00:39:09.300 like the ussr they had to make it illegal for their people to leave and come and visit the west 0.59

00:39:14.220 because they would stay they wouldn't like the you would know but no soviet citizen if their

00:39:19.820 whole family could could move to the west and see what it was like would have been like i'll take

00:39:23.840 communism pretty much nobody like we were constantly poaching their agents and their people

00:39:29.900 from their intelligence apparatus. They're, you know, coming under the control of Western

00:39:34.600 intelligence, moving, becoming double, like, but it didn't go the other way. There weren't a lot

00:39:39.120 of Americans who were choosing all go live in communist Russia. So over time, there was a

00:39:45.960 moment where if you sliced it and just stepped into, let's say 1950s USSR, what does the average

00:39:51.680 communist citizen think? Well, they'd have been like, it's inevitable. This is what life is. This 0.82

00:39:56.440 is what it always has been this is what it always will be we're ascendant we're powerful but as it

00:40:01.240 weakens over time that there's an undercurrent of mass popular hidden where it's not yet it's

00:40:08.240 still against the blasphemy law if they come out against it they will still be instantly killed

00:40:12.860 in that case right they come out and say the state's evil right down with uh down with the

00:40:18.300 kremlin they would be instantly killed people in america felt that way particularly in an

00:40:23.860 accelerating fashion from the 2000s through 2020, 2022. It was like, at the peak, if you say the

00:40:33.720 wrong thing, you will lose your job, your livelihood, you will be canceled forever,

00:40:39.300 you'll be hated and despised by all mankind, rejected by your kinsmen, and you will be a

00:40:43.980 pariah and an outcast forever. And they were leveraging all of the massive power of cultural

00:40:49.140 institutions and the state and media and all of these communist bought institutions to try and

00:40:56.140 destroy the american people and suppress them from saying what we all knew for a long time which was 0.99

00:41:02.400 that dei and political correctness and all this was absolute garbage it was total it was lies 0.99

00:41:07.140 what's happened is that we reach that tipping point like what happened in the ussr 0.97

00:41:12.220 where it looks strong until all of a sudden it cracks and it falls over and it goes to dust.

00:41:20.140 And in a, I think in a different way, but it's analogous. We're at this moment in American

00:41:26.160 history where all of a sudden the iron dome has been lifted from the, you're not allowed to say

00:41:32.820 that. You're not allowed to think that you're not allowed to post that on your Facebook. We're

00:41:36.420 going to cancel you. You're going to lose your job. And now all of a sudden you have a strong

00:41:41.340 nationalistic leader who stands up and says, actually, not only can you say that thing that

00:41:49.100 you weren't allowed to say, all of the people who said you couldn't, I'm going to destroy them. 0.98

00:41:54.540 I'm going to fire them. I'm going to make them a pariah. And that's what you need to do. No half 0.99

00:41:59.940 measures, which is why it's so refreshing to see Trump do things like with the DEI. No, no, no,

00:42:04.580 no relabeling it. You can't take your DEI department and say, oh, this is actually,

00:42:09.760 I'm not the chief diversity officer I'm the chief strategy marketing officer like no no no if 30

00:42:16.320 days ago you were the DEI guy you're out you're gone yeah I think um Dan one of the questions I

00:42:22.540 want to ask you I think it's related to a principle we talked about with King Alfred

00:42:25.900 but pursuit so you know winning the election is one thing um you know ascending to a place of

00:42:33.760 power is one thing i've been encouraged to see i think trump and his his people doing uh the

00:42:41.180 pursuit thing meaning you have to not only take power but then you have to use power a certain

00:42:46.920 way we've watched the left do this for my entire lifetime where to brian's point we're going to

00:42:52.440 punish our enemies um which can take any number of forms but do you agree with pursuit and

00:43:00.560 particularly here we are, Christian pastors in one sphere, and we're encouraging, you know,

00:43:05.840 as Brian is encouraging the state in this case to wield the sword of justice. Well,

00:43:11.140 do you think this is a moment where we have to pursue? And then if so, what are some of the

00:43:18.640 other ways that this has to be done? Yeah, I think that's a really interesting way to frame

00:43:21.980 the question, Eric, because just like with King Alfred learned over time, if you win a battle

00:43:28.940 and you don't pursue victory they will reorganize and they will destroy you meaning chase your

00:43:34.760 enemies down chase them and cut them down in the field don't let them reorganize uh harry them to

00:43:40.460 the very end um and and so it's interesting to compare that to the election because winning

00:43:47.420 the election seems like a great battle was won and so what's happened in the past though is that

00:43:53.540 we'd get some sort of movement and you find out that the promises are empty there would be some

00:43:58.920 republican victory and they would have all of these promises based on their their campaign they

00:44:04.060 would campaign to the right and then all of a sudden it's like oh the tea party yeah the tea

00:44:09.360 party lots of empty promises lots of do nothing and so or maybe didn't even have the bureaucratic

00:44:14.380 mechanisms to actually effect change yeah yeah the will um there's still the instinct to apologize

00:44:22.060 you know for for injustice yeah you know so if you break these cultural norms that have been

00:44:27.880 forced down your throat, you still have to kind of say sorry about it. You know, sorry for noticing

00:44:32.620 DEI. And that's gone. That's gone. And right now, I think what you're seeing is the principle of

00:44:38.820 pursuit in action because it's interesting. So the president, senators, most elected officials

00:44:45.340 that I'm aware of, even military officers have to swear to protect the United States Constitution

00:44:50.880 against all enemies, foreign and domestic. And I think really what you're seeing with a lot of

00:44:56.060 as executive orders, which we are going to pursue. That's what you're seeing. You could argue all day

00:45:02.300 long about representative republic and government overreach or whatever it is. But what I see right

00:45:09.060 now from the executive branch is the principle of pursuit against enemies foreign, which means

00:45:15.240 we're stopping foreign aid right now. We paused that. We're not going to be a part of the WHO,

00:45:21.180 show uh part of the paris climate accord we're we're not doing any of this garbage anymore uh

00:45:27.700 secretary secretary of state the state department america first policy we are for our american

00:45:33.900 citizens we're no longer trying to pander to all of these foreign interests to actually enrich them

00:45:40.380 because that's what's been happening and that's we'll get into the tariffs discussion as well but

00:45:44.920 that's the argument for for tariffs is that uh we have been enriching foreign nations while putting

00:45:50.840 the burden on our own people. And so Trump is saying no more of that. The border wars,

00:45:56.420 the border crisis, you know, that's that's a foreign enemy and stopping the invasion into 0.93

00:46:02.480 our own country. And so deportations and everything like that, that's him doing his job 0.99

00:46:08.100 as far as upholding protecting the United States and the Constitution against foreign enemies.

00:46:13.920 um and then and then you have domestic enemies which uh it's the all the dei stuff giving

00:46:20.900 preference to people who functionally aren't americans h1b stuff uh a lot of the preference

00:46:28.040 in dei hiring which we've talked about in previous episodes it was like if you're just a white male

00:46:34.040 christian guy you get a college degree you are competing in a space where the point system that

00:46:40.820 they use and the DEI hiring requirements automatically means you go to the bottom of

00:46:46.240 the list. And so you do not have preference whatsoever. In fact, you are decentivized.

00:46:52.360 They are decentivized to hire you. And so all of these things that they're doing,

00:46:56.660 that the executive branch is doing right now, I think is that, is the principle of pursuit

00:47:02.580 saying, no, we're not just going to wave our hand at the foreign stuff. We're going to stop 0.95

00:47:07.720 foreign aid we're going to protect our country we're going to protect our borders the iron dome

00:47:11.480 stuff like is primarily protection first um you know the development of an iron dome i don't know

00:47:17.600 borders yeah borders like all of that we're going to protect our people and we're going to protect

00:47:22.200 our own people internally against internal uh enemies that are going to economically especially

00:47:29.180 um disadvantage our own american citizens oh and plus you can't scrub uh any information like you

00:47:37.400 can't control information anymore uh people deserve to know the truth so all of these things

00:47:42.580 i think what we're seeing is the initial like oh okay we won the battle and we're going to pursue

00:47:48.300 and we're not going to let up and i think people are terrified on the left and people i mean are

00:47:53.900 you guys sick of winning i'm not sick of winning i'm not like it feels so good we have a lot more

00:47:58.300 winning that needs to be won yes well and it brings up another question because i think okay

00:48:03.800 let's focus for a minute on, you know, us as a media company on the new Christmas

00:48:07.900 press side, the, the Overton window has clearly shifted.

00:48:11.840 We have this great opportunity.

00:48:14.200 It seems like one of the dangers could be that you have a victory and then the

00:48:19.700 Scottish nobility wants to march out and make a truce with the enemy.

00:48:23.360 So you could see the temptation for a lot of people where, yeah, we,

00:48:27.420 we won that fight, but you know,

00:48:29.740 whether it's larger platforms or other people that would come in and say like,

00:48:33.500 hey let's maybe ease off on some stuff we could kind of mainstream you or whatever

00:48:37.760 that could be a real danger and i think part of that for us would be backing off the messaging

00:48:45.260 that got us here but but others as well like i would say i would argue this isn't the moment 0.63

00:48:51.540 to go soft no no no this is the moment to take the principle and and like a spear or a pike

00:48:58.800 follow me you you thrust all the way through like and you you push to victory it this is it reminds

00:49:06.860 i mean there's many parallel types of situations where one would be tempted to back off before the

00:49:13.200 moment of actual success you know if you're let's say that you're making you've got some sin that

00:49:19.420 you've been wrestling with in your life and the spirit's convicted you of it and you're you're

00:49:25.160 really pushing against it you take some new measures you're trying to form some new habits

00:49:28.680 and structures to help you repent of the sin that you've been walking in.

00:49:32.620 And you start to see some victory and you get 80% of it's clearing up and you're really

00:49:38.040 on your way.

00:49:38.720 And then all of a sudden you go, man, I've been doing so good.

00:49:42.020 I'm going to let the pedal off.

00:49:43.520 The flesh is crying out.

00:49:44.780 I'm going to let the pedal off.

00:49:46.440 I'm going to take my foot off the pedal a little bit.

00:49:48.180 And before you know it, all of your victories have been lost.

00:49:51.480 And then some when an army is on the brink of breakthrough and they're like, we're about

00:49:58.300 to make a a hole in the enemy line and we fought dearly and we spilled blood and we're on the verge

00:50:04.360 of victory and then you go oh but the other side is really they seem like they're hurting

00:50:08.620 seems like we're hurting them we've actually seen this i'm trying to that's what i'm trying

00:50:14.040 that's what i'm actually attempting to do bring in all the photos and the videos and reels of like

00:50:19.040 crying immigrants here's here's what happens i think this is what happens in the novel theological

00:50:23.520 apparatus sort of thing you start re taking ground you notice the thing like c.s lewis is i bring it

00:50:30.640 up all the time the fire extinguishers during a flood instinct yeah where it's like you've got

00:50:34.840 the largest campaign in american history of making americans hate themselves and white americans

00:50:40.780 hate themselves and white christian men hate themselves and you you you identify that and

00:50:46.800 you're starting to make progress and you're about 80 of the way there and then all of a sudden you 0.89

00:50:51.840 go you know there is a really you you realize there's a real ditch here people might go way

00:50:56.100 too far and end up in some kind of sinful state where they fall in the opposite ditch because

00:51:03.040 there's always an opposite ditch that you could fall into it's always an opposite error of whatever

00:51:08.020 error you're in but the instinct when you're 80 through to healing it to go let's stop and focus

00:51:13.980 a lot of our attention now on that other ditch for a little bit no no you haven't won yet you

00:51:20.320 haven't made your breakthrough yet you haven't had established walking in keeping with repentance

00:51:25.820 with that huge issue if you take your foot off the gas now and you start if you turn around and

00:51:31.060 start counter signaling your own army with 80 of what you do well you've lost you're not going to

00:51:36.980 complete the victory you're not going to make it through to the other side and this is what the

00:51:41.400 left has successfully done is they've convinced the right to notice that to feel this discomfort

00:51:48.700 when they're about to win and police themselves and get them to back off well even even the

00:51:54.140 evangelical messaging right like roe v wade gets overturned and then all the pastors who are like

00:52:00.100 this isn't a moment to celebrate it's a moment to weep and you're like absolutely not i am going

00:52:06.260 shut up i am going to celebrate a victory because it is a victory and we're and we're going to take

00:52:13.700 that momentum and we're going to keep pushing through until there are no murdered babies in 0.97

00:52:18.160 this country and it's like oh you know what if jd vance when we showed a crying person a crying

00:52:23.600 mexican being deported or whatever selena gomez and he's like yeah let me just take a minute you're

00:52:29.160 right margaret let me let me address my people guys we heard we don't want to gloat we want to

00:52:33.600 make sure that we're compassionate that we have empathy for for these people like i know it has

00:52:38.960 to happen we've got to do this deportations it's going to be really hard for them though like

00:52:42.920 everybody keep an open heart and an open mind and instead he was like can we frankly margaret i

00:52:49.960 don't care what you're saying yeah and and the point isn't that jd vance literally doesn't care

00:52:55.800 about other people outside of america on some level like jd vance doesn't he doesn't want

00:53:02.520 all mexicans to die jd vance doesn't want venezuela to like descend into chaos and bloodshed

00:53:09.600 But, but what he's doing is he's saying, I'm not the vice president of Venezuela or Mexico.

00:53:14.200 I'm the vice president of the United States of America.

00:53:16.760 You actually have a God given responsibility to take care of your people.

00:53:20.320 And so my, I shall not pity with respect to performing my duty to protect the people that

00:53:26.940 are in my charge to protect.

00:53:28.560 And I have to do this.

00:53:30.100 And so you can't like, this is the thing you, you, you need to do both things.

00:53:35.560 You need to have the absolute steel will to destroy and win and crush your enemies and destroy all of the apparatuses, all of the the weapons that they've been wielding against your people and against the good.

00:53:48.600 Yet you destroy all of those and then you don't make the mistake.

00:53:53.940 There is a point where you don't want to make the mistake that, for example, we made in World War Two, the Civil War with Reconstruction Era Treaty of Versailles, where then you back your enemy into a corner. 0.71

00:54:05.560 And they can't, you make it impossible for them to live like that's, that's another error that 0.78

00:54:11.940 you can fall into, but you have to, you think about that after total victory, you think about

00:54:18.240 that after total victory and we're not even close. Yeah. Um, one of the things I think you've kind

00:54:23.940 of talked about these, but just to kind of clarify each one of them. So one ditch for evangelicals 0.99

00:54:29.460 would be falling into the empathy game. And, you know, instead of just being victorious and having

00:54:34.980 the will and crushing enemies and all that, you would just say, which by the way is interesting

00:54:41.100 because even like with, this is what lost Saul the kingdom among other things was he didn't follow

00:54:48.120 God's command to crush the enemy. He let them live and Samuel hacked Agag to pieces, but it becomes

00:54:55.680 a point of you do actually have to finish the job. So there's that, there's the empathy ditch. 0.51

00:55:03.040 The other ditch, though, I think that could be really easy in this time for a lot of evangelicals is to look at the country and to say, you know, there are a lot of, quote unquote, normies or grill Americans in the big evangelical churches.

00:55:15.560 Let's do two things.

00:55:16.480 Let's water the message down.

00:55:17.680 And then anything on the dissident right, quote unquote, that we term too far right, which, by the way, is really just the effective right.

00:55:25.540 Those are the people getting things done.

00:55:27.700 We don't necessarily attack them, but we poo-poo them.

00:55:31.040 Yes, I remember when I was young and I had idealism, but that stuff is really just, I'm going to take this third road, this high road. I'm above this fray. I think that can also be really destructive because fundamentally what it's doing is taking the wind out of the sails.

00:55:49.220 It's a it's a discouragement ministry, even though it's kind of couched as not that.

00:55:56.300 But I think that was a huge instinct with Tim Keller and with a lot of the kind of Gen X was just being contrarian to everything that's winning. 0.63

00:56:06.700 And so we don't want to do that either. We just want to encourage people to keep fighting.

00:56:11.640 I think this is the other point, too. One other thing I'll say there are this is probably in the purity spiraling form.

00:56:17.620 Now, Pete Hegseth gets the nomination.

00:56:21.740 He gets cleared.

00:56:23.400 Tie break vote goes to J.D. Vance, which is hilarious.

00:56:26.640 He's up there with his family.

00:56:28.900 Now, here's the situation.

00:56:30.220 You have a guy who committed adultery in the past.

00:56:32.940 There's a lot of sin.

00:56:34.560 He has fully repented.

00:56:35.820 His pastor has said he has repented.

00:56:38.000 He's righted the wrongs.

00:56:39.580 He has a healthy Christian family as best he can now.

00:56:42.560 And he's pursuing the good of his family, his church, community, and country.

00:56:47.620 He's got a crusader tat on his chest.

00:56:50.920 And we look at that and we go, you know, praise God.

00:56:53.480 Thank you for Pete Hegseth. 0.94

00:56:55.360 And then I look at the comments from all the Christians underneath and they're like, well, which wife is this? 0.98

00:57:01.000 The third one? 0.99

00:57:02.280 And you're like, guys, this isn't the moment for that.

00:57:06.940 Particularly when it's like, we do believe in repentance, though, don't we?

00:57:11.560 We do believe in these things.

00:57:13.180 if you're going to go and we see the same thing the same tendency with the heroes of the bible 0.99

00:57:18.640 when you have samson and people are like oh what a scumbag you know horrible we can learn nothing 0.92

00:57:24.480 from him and then as we've often said why is he in the hall of faith i've read hebrews 11 his name 0.98

00:57:29.660 is right there because does it mean you have to be perfect to be in the hall of faith the holy

00:57:33.620 spirit not not know not remember all of that stuff of course the holy spirit members but but i'm

00:57:39.200 curious what would you say to somebody who is tempted to do that thing and any victory

00:57:44.260 they're they're gonna find a fly in the ointment and say why it's not a real victory it's

00:57:49.400 it actually with hegseth the zionism thing is another example of it where they're like

00:57:56.880 oh but he's a zionist and i'm like yeah let's be honest guys right now in this moment would

00:58:03.160 it have been possible to get a strong nationalist leader who wasn't a zionist who didn't signal

00:58:08.960 strongly towards zionism probably not no you couldn't have done it there's a realpolitik

00:58:13.420 level to this as well where i even i think a great example is um trump he ran on a kind of

00:58:21.220 centrist abortion platform but then the second he was in office he continued just like the first

00:58:26.660 time around he is acted and legislated as the most pro-life president in our lives our lives

00:58:33.560 by the way we talked about this in a past episode we did where we said hey you guys have to have

00:58:38.900 space for politicking like it's it's an advantage to trump at this moment to not run on a strong

00:58:45.940 pro-life campaign but just realize like what he's done in the past is that he's actually governed

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01:02:07.980 To your question about the fly in the ointment, I just, I thought of that Zionism example as another one where I've posted things like, you know, glad that Hegseth was confirmed and people like, well, I'm not because he's a huge Zionist and he'd have all of our children dying for Israel tomorrow.

01:02:23.600 like look guys would you rather this is the art of the political would you rather have pete hegseth

01:02:29.120 with all the things we said who is still a zionist or a zionist plus kamala harris's choice

01:02:35.840 there wasn't a choice on the ballot where it was like you know what we'd really like to get eric

01:02:40.780 khan he's the sec deaf now congratulations i mean we would sure i'd vote for the guy but he wasn't

01:02:46.320 on the he wasn't he wasn't he wasn't an option so what it is in the gen x like this is a gen x

01:02:51.220 next time next time the the gen x instinct to counter signal and wet blanket it's a contrarianism

01:02:58.480 it's a form of pride because any any time you have popularity which is what you need in the

01:03:03.700 political to win you need a populist movement you need a lot of people so you're going to have

01:03:08.780 like a lot of people that to you are disdainful because they're not quite perfect they don't

01:03:14.560 have the right stuff. They're, they're dispy normie Zionists who love, you know, Netanyahu. 0.84

01:03:21.300 Okay. But they're also like being one more and more to American protectionism and America first 0.95

01:03:28.160 and some of these things. If you have an instinct, uh, the contrarianism instinct is a form of pride

01:03:33.460 because it's a way of you feeling superior to literally everyone where you're like, thank God,

01:03:39.540 i'm not like those leftists and then in the next breath thank god i'm also not like those normie

01:03:44.760 republican trump voters oh thank god i'm not like and by the time you're done thanking god for all

01:03:50.500 the people you're not like it's pretty much just you it's pretty much just you yeah and you're

01:03:56.860 constantly trying to discourage everybody and play machiavellianism against everybody it's like

01:04:02.960 who are you you're just a proud guy who doesn't want to be identified with anybody who's not

01:04:09.160 perfectly pristine in your own eyes i'm sorry that's not how politics works it's also not how

01:04:16.440 life works if you do this like in normal life people will hate you and be annoyed by you

01:04:23.580 constantly facts facts like you would they won't want it they'll be like you know what i'm just

01:04:28.900 not going to be around you know joe over there because he's constantly being a hey you guys

01:04:34.640 want to go see this movie i saw it was in theaters oh well i thought i heard the cgi was terrible

01:04:40.840 and okay well man like maybe we should go out to you know this restaurant they use canola oil in

01:04:47.360 their tortillas like well fine man let's just stay home and play a board game and you're like

01:04:53.160 what a waste of time like when we could be building something important these guys are insufferable 0.98

01:04:58.880 i want to punch them in the throat oh my word and we all have them in our lives i i i agree 0.99

01:05:07.800 strongly i agree strongly and that's a very masculine response by the way and something 0.99

01:05:12.540 that i think is an undercurrent in all of this that you're talking about the not having the will

01:05:17.760 to pursue victory completely like you talked about earlier with the 80 percent victory

01:05:22.660 and not fully completing it uh in lacking the will i think this is something that eric

01:05:27.820 you've talked about a lot on the hard men podcast is that the destruction of masculinity over time

01:05:34.740 is really the destruction of the will in a lot of ways in, in not wanting to complete the victory.

01:05:40.980 And so you see, you start to see feminine or if feminine responses to a lot of, of the, you know,

01:05:48.380 that's what they're really trying to pull at is I'm going to pull on this feminine, emotional

01:05:54.680 heartstring that you have as to why you shouldn't actually complete victory. And so you back off,

01:06:01.780 uh, you have this feminine or effeminate instinct in pastors as to essentially wet blanket or take

01:06:09.580 the wind out of the sails, you know, because you want to be safe in a lot of ways. And there's

01:06:14.180 the old man, there's dangers all over the place. You know, that's why safety third, I think is

01:06:17.880 really good because a lot of people have this safety first mentality where it's like,

01:06:21.200 Oh, but there's a ditch over there. What if we fall in the ditch? What if we sin? What if we go

01:06:25.400 too far? Oh my word. We need to actually like pull back from that. We need to stay in the middle.

01:06:30.120 It's, it's really, it's dangerous over there. Don't go over there guys. Oh, what if we go too

01:06:33.360 far? You know, all of these things, it's disgustingly effeminate. It's actually ends 0.96

01:06:37.560 up being what you get is school marming or a feminine nagging is, is really what's happening.

01:06:45.580 It's the same thing as the mother who's like helicopter parenting her little boys as they're

01:06:50.220 trying to like build a ramp that is definitely too big for their little bicycles and they're

01:06:55.740 not wearing their helmets you know and mom's out there like oh man we need to get osha involved

01:07:00.280 and we need some regulations like how did you what i mean what's the tensile strength of those

01:07:05.160 screws that you're using i don't even know like that ramp's just too big don't do it don't have

01:07:09.200 fun go inside read a book well when you think about it all the all the regulation that stops

01:07:14.220 innovation, stops exploration. I don't think, you know, like the Saturn five, the only reason you

01:07:21.060 could do that is it's like a pre OSHA, you know, pre EPA, like pre safety and regulation type thing.

01:07:27.600 Because the reality is if safety is the number one, if safety really is first, you'll never do

01:07:31.980 anything. Now, what we're going to do here is we're going to take a big bomb, but we're going

01:07:37.440 to make it only blow up out one end so that it goes about 8,000 miles an hour straight up. We're

01:07:43.140 going to put a couple guys on top of that and then we're going to get a guy with a lighter he's going

01:07:47.740 to light the bottom of it and they're going to go to the moon all right and everyone's like that 0.77

01:07:53.280 sounds reasonable yeah because we because we got to beat the commies to the moon because if we don't 0.55

01:07:58.080 get there they're going to get there and if we don't so we got it can you imagine if there's like 0.88

01:08:02.740 one karen involved in that process no first of all we need to do environmental impact study on

01:08:08.740 what's going to happen when you use the water to cool the launch there's a reason when you're in

01:08:12.800 like control center and you watch the old videos and saturn five launching every dude in there is

01:08:19.100 chain smoking and drinks like black coffee you're like watch this boys we're going to the moon

01:08:25.420 but i think you know and the other one is like you'll see this in reels how are we going to get

01:08:30.280 him back oh we didn't think of it no they really did think of that but i mean you see the reels

01:08:34.520 like parachutes there was one i was watching recently it was like a four-year-old his dad

01:08:39.040 bought him like a mini bike and they set him up on the mini bike and he takes off and the women

01:08:44.820 are all screaming in horror as he like careens into the fence and all you hear in the background

01:08:49.840 is his dad chuckling he's like i tell you what that boy it's like i broke so many bones before

01:08:58.620 age 12 oh yeah because we were constantly building jumps and like wandering off into the you know

01:09:07.000 the the whatever local woodlands we could find and just like mom will be back we're gonna go

01:09:12.260 damn up the creek make a swimming hole she's like all right you know here's two dollars get a jones

01:09:17.460 coast soda on the way so you're not hungry it's like today oh no and that was not that long ago 0.99

01:09:23.560 that was the 90s like well it's interesting we're gonna get back to that in trump's america kids are

01:09:28.540 gonna damn up the local creek and drink a jones coast soda on the way mark my word that's what

01:09:33.420 they're doing uh one of the other things i will point out i've thought a lot about this dan you

01:09:37.240 mentioned hard men podcasts in the words of trump it was a great show everybody loved that show

01:09:42.420 nobody wanted me to stop that show uh hard men podcast uh one of the lessons i learned throughout

01:09:49.160 all of that was you're gonna have to push on issues that people absolutely hate you for

01:09:55.700 And now some of those issues, like I think about 2020, when that was started to talk about men and women competing in combat sports together, to talk about the WNBA and what that was doing to women, to talk about how women were losing their periods because they were competing so hard in athletic endeavors that were intentionally designed for men to do those kinds of things.

01:10:21.060 To talk about the effeminization of the church, it was such hostile territory in 2020, which is just five years ago.

01:10:30.680 And, you know, Brian and I talk about this all the time.

01:10:33.380 I'll watch Twitter.

01:10:35.140 Guys will follow you.

01:10:36.820 Guys will unfollow you.

01:10:39.560 I think it's just understanding, look, to a certain extent, some of us, not all of us, some of us play a prophetic role in speaking truth to issues that people hate.

01:10:49.820 and that means you're going to be hated.

01:10:52.940 And so I think one of the ways you win as a media company is saying,

01:10:56.420 we're actually not going to take our foot off the gas.

01:10:59.020 We're going to keep going on the same principled positions that we've been

01:11:02.120 going on.

01:11:02.900 We're not doing it to be shock jocks,

01:11:04.620 but we are doing it because look,

01:11:07.800 if,

01:11:08.180 if the last five years taught us anything, 0.95

01:11:11.000 now some of those ideas are mainstream now because of transgenderism and all

01:11:16.820 of that,

01:11:17.160 people are like,

01:11:18.320 yeah,

01:11:18.500 I don't know.

01:11:18.920 I think men and women actually might be different like physically in their

01:11:22.480 natures.

01:11:23.340 Like you can now say that and not get quite as much pushback and hate.

01:11:28.440 And so I think it's like somebody has to be the tip of the spear.

01:11:31.740 Even now,

01:11:32.440 even in this moment,

01:11:33.840 say the true things that are unpopular,

01:11:36.640 you're going to have to say them about economics.

01:11:38.220 You're going to have to say them about the civil rights act.

01:11:41.180 You're going to have to say them about affirmative action.

01:11:43.620 You're going to have to say them about the new deal.

01:11:45.280 you're just going to have to count the cost and realize you may lose your head for it but somebody

01:11:53.680 has to do that work yeah and i think at that 80 percent where you've you've been brave and you

01:12:00.000 have the last 20 to push people are going to pressure you the hardest to apologize yes and

01:12:05.900 to denounce or could you just must not apologize for things you didn't do wrong could you like the

01:12:11.660 Jamie Vance interview. Yeah. That was what she was pushing for was the, yeah, I'm sorry that

01:12:16.840 this is really hard. And he didn't say that. He said, I don't care. I don't want these people

01:12:21.940 in my country. And we must cultivate that not apologizing for things that aren't wrong.

01:12:30.140 You should own, you should apologize for things that you do wrong, but you should not apologize

01:12:34.320 for something that is a principled stand that is in the right. Yeah. And one other thing I'll say,

01:12:38.840 just as a tie-in because it's spinning to my left here. Taking stands for things you know

01:12:45.760 are right. Zach Garris is under a lot of heat in the PCA this week as we record because of the

01:12:51.460 things that he said that are common biblical positions. Defending texts on basically what

01:12:59.180 the Bible says about slavery. Zach is not ashamed of what the Bible says about slavery. And he's

01:13:05.480 also not like some radical he's not out there trying to acquire slaves for example um from

01:13:11.480 what i understand or anything like that but again the the effeminate left instinct is trying to

01:13:18.180 they're trying to ham-fistedly um smear him using psychologized broad brush language like

01:13:27.680 zach garris is out there defending slavery instead of the much more accurate zach garris

01:13:34.540 is out there defending the biblical texts concerning slavery in the old and new testament

01:13:39.520 because he's concerned with the the word of god not being reviled and so i mean he's under all

01:13:45.700 sorts of heat yeah and so i think that that's a big part it would be a real temptation for a lot

01:13:50.760 of uh people who are maybe you know people who did well in the last five years maybe you're

01:13:56.580 ascendant maybe i'm more of a voice and then you go well i was zach's friend when it didn't cost

01:14:01.980 me anything but what about now what about when you know a large percentage of people out there

01:14:08.080 hate the guy and want to see him destroyed i just think it's going to take people being brave and

01:14:14.140 courageous and saying no you're not going to do that to zach he the crazy thing is when you talk

01:14:19.200 to zach he's like one of the most measured thoughtful i mean way more measured than i was

01:14:24.560 gonna say i was gonna say like for example i think the pca would actually agree let me just

01:14:32.880 put it this way zach is though under fire still in the pca eric were he in the pca would be kicked

01:14:40.000 out would have been kicked out i don't know sometime like i would say it would happen in

01:14:44.740 about three years ago in about instantaneous yeah no i've i've received many uh letters from

01:14:51.880 pastors and the PCA about my tone and posture and the spirit of my engagement and you name it.

01:14:58.320 But again, back to the point, I think not only crushing enemies, but standing by friends

01:15:03.160 and realizing like with Zach's book, this one in particular, not on biblical

01:15:08.740 tax and slavery or anything like that, but on sexuality. And I think why they're tied together

01:15:15.860 is because look, I mean, sexuality has been under attack. And one of the things that we

01:15:21.580 have to press for is not to get our culture back to complementarianism in a novel 1980s theology.

01:15:28.100 That's not my aim. It's not Gilderism. You know, I don't want my theology laced with Gilder.

01:15:33.680 I want a biblical, robust, let's go back to the actual text and the historical Christian views

01:15:39.720 on these and say, yeah, I don't care if Nancy Mace doesn't like it.

01:15:44.300 My wife let me drink a couple of Dr. Peppers today. 0.61

01:15:47.700 Oh, good for you.

01:15:48.760 She let me go to the lady pastor church. 0.99

01:15:50.660 My wife makes me eat brand cereal in the morning. 0.98

01:15:53.360 I'm sorry.

01:15:54.180 Give me Gouge, not Gilder.

01:15:55.920 Gouge, not Gilder.

01:15:57.200 Gouge, not Gilder.

01:15:57.860 Thank you.

01:15:58.620 So anyway, I think just being courageous on these issues, continuing to press the attack,

01:16:03.760 stand by friends.

01:16:04.900 The other one I would say is in terms of like media sort of adjacent would be education.

01:16:11.680 You know, the more you think about it, it's like, why couldn't all these university professors

01:16:15.800 just be fired tomorrow?

01:16:17.260 because brian brought up a really good point in our conversation about all this

01:16:20.740 these people are the factory for future americans and when i was recently for hardman podcast episode

01:16:28.060 looking at voting patterns you're like one of the number one determinants about whether somebody

01:16:33.100 votes left or right and predominantly on the left if they went to college yep yep and you see how

01:16:38.380 that gets spun right it's like oh well we're they're more educated when you're educated so

01:16:42.580 They're propagandized. That's right. So this is, again, an example of a place where a Christian

01:16:48.660 reforms, particularly within our reformed Christian world, might be tempted to purity spiral

01:16:53.180 because they want to say, well, no, no, no, that's don't do that. We want to get rid of the public 1.00

01:16:58.740 schools. We want to get rid of the public universities. We want to get rid of all this

01:17:01.620 stuff. It's like the other day I posted about, you know, what we a no brainer policy today that's

01:17:06.840 probably feasible and achievable would be the elimination of income tax for any lawfully

01:17:11.760 married couple with four children or more that remain married and they know more income tax

01:17:17.060 or property taxes as long as that is true. They've had those children. And I knew immediately what 0.95

01:17:22.000 was going to happen. The first 10 comments were going to be tismed out, reformed people saying

01:17:25.720 nobody should pay income and property taxes. Like, look, this is a similar thing. Absolutely.

01:17:31.840 Would I love for the entirety of America to have absolutely based Christian schools that everybody

01:17:39.220 went to or homeschooled a hundred percent but how do we get to that politically what we're talking

01:17:44.020 about though right now is that it actually would be an achievable goal to oust all of the professors 0.63

01:17:50.520 from these liberal university liberal making machines and replace them with the old white guys 0.90

01:17:57.540 that are all about to die in many key industries by the way the old white boomers who are keeping 0.97

01:18:02.940 like key industries alive with their technical abilities and expertise who were educated and 0.98

01:18:08.060 trained before this stuff those guys are about to retire we need to fire all the liberals make

01:18:13.340 them the professors and then what what will happen is that for a general for the as long as that

01:18:19.660 remains true that we're actually uh retaking those culture making institutions we will begin

01:18:25.380 to make people again who are able to think clearly and then we can make a lot more progress

01:18:31.380 maybe even we could do something about the public schools maybe we could even but politics is about

01:18:37.400 things you can do today and doing the things you can do today and not letting your inability to do

01:18:44.200 all the things you can't do today keep you from doing anything today and just calling yourself

01:18:49.900 a prophet standing outside of a thing and yelling at all of it yeah yeah actually no don't do that

01:18:54.880 involved in that process by the way this is a bit of an aside but i think worthwhile um you always

01:19:00.900 talk about we're talking with this dei but the when you walk into a plane and you see the old

01:19:05.900 white pilot you're like we're gonna be good somebody sent me this this week but it's a

01:19:11.460 story in 1990 and i'll put this on twitter so people can find it in 1990 on a british airways

01:19:17.760 flight 5390 the windshield for the cockpit blew off yeah i've heard this story it's quite

01:19:25.760 attendant nile ogden that's why we were mentioned in it ogden or excuse me nigel ogden happened to

01:19:33.260 be in the cockpit he grabbed the captain who was flying out of the window and he held onto his

01:19:38.460 ankles for 15 minutes while the plane descended the they were like well we can't drop him because

01:19:44.900 he might hit one of the engines and plus he's our friend and he'll die and he'll die it's a

01:19:49.980 two negative there's a picture on here of him like the guy's just like holding on with dear life

01:19:55.600 it like separates his shoulders holding on to him he won't let go they land and the guy survives 0.73

01:20:03.140 and you look at the photos and you're like oh it's a bunch of old white guys from like world 0.59

01:20:08.320 war ii i want to know the reason that's who i want running the country the reason the windshield

01:20:12.960 came off in that instance if memory serves is that someone had used the wrong machine screw

01:20:17.040 to secure the wind screen the wrong bolts it's like a very specific part and they're like out

01:20:22.460 of it so they grab the next one i just want to know who did that uh my guess would be like h1b

01:20:27.480 i'm not gonna predict it was the 90s so it was actually probably it probably was probably like

01:20:34.920 a 23 year old kid and he was like i don't know but i think making probably do wholesale changes

01:20:40.080 like that uh really thinking through that societally um is really important dan i want

01:20:44.860 to ask you particularly about the tariff the tariff i know how you you love economics um

01:20:51.180 so this is where you get to spin a yarn about tariffs and just just talking about why that

01:20:57.100 would be such a colossal change i'm not sure a lot of people they're like oh i wouldn't have to pay

01:21:01.980 income tax there's actually a lot that goes into this yes so i do have actually experience with

01:21:09.100 paying tariffs from importing goods for that were manufactured in china india it's actually

01:21:16.360 china china china china vietnam things like that um and and the thing is uh trump in his uh recent

01:21:25.840 announcement where he said, I'm going to abolish income taxes and do tariffs. He mentioned,

01:21:31.760 and Brian brought it up earlier, between 1870s and 1913 was one of the wealthiest periods in

01:21:38.480 American history. He said, we had to hire people to manage all of the money because there was so

01:21:44.840 much money coming in. We also made things here. Well, yes. So that's definitely part of it

01:21:50.840 because it advantages. I mentioned that the company I'd worked for paid tariffs because

01:21:55.880 we were importing goods. I was making hunting packs and wallets and leather goods and things

01:22:00.880 like that. Anyway, so you pay those tariffs and it advantages companies to manufacture things in

01:22:08.260 the United States because part of this tariff plan. So if you have up to 60% tariffs on products made

01:22:15.120 in china that's going to increase the the cost of the goods tremendously there was actually an

01:22:20.980 equation we used i'll i'll make it as high level so it's not boring but it was essentially you'd

01:22:25.820 take the cost of manufacturing of transportation and of the tariffs and you would three exit and

01:22:33.140 that's kind of how you'd find your your price so it's 60 it's 60 that means it's going to be very

01:22:38.920 very high so people are saying like oh get ready for really high price microwaves and things like

01:22:43.440 that. It's like, well, yeah, that's, that's definitely true. But what happens when a person

01:22:48.040 says, you know what, let's just make them here. Let's not pay the tariffs. They used to do that.

01:22:53.900 Yeah. Yeah. Those Maytag washing machines that used to run forever, like Louisville, Kentucky.

01:23:00.460 Yeah, that's great. And, and so it'll incentivize people to actually manufacture products here,

01:23:05.300 which means you hire American workers for a better product that ends up being a lower cost

01:23:11.500 than importing some junk from overseas from some second or third world country. The other thing 0.55

01:23:17.400 is that, okay, yeah, products will be expensive for a while. It definitely will be a pinch,

01:23:21.500 but you're not paying the government anymore. They're not taking your money through taxation.

01:23:27.320 You'll still have state taxes if you're in a state that does tax, but you won't be paying

01:23:32.600 federal income taxes. And then not to mention like as a business owner, when you're trying

01:23:37.500 to figure out how to pay employees, all of a sudden you've got a lot more creative options

01:23:42.280 in how you pay your employees because the entire game is taxes. How do you mitigate taxes for you

01:23:49.060 as a business owner and for the employees so that it's maximally benefit for both parties? Some,

01:23:54.140 some businesses don't care. They just like, can I ask a dumb question? Yeah. Why did we go away 0.99

01:23:59.440 from tariffs? Like what's the incentive on that? You know, that's really interesting because

01:24:03.200 tariffs have been something that we've done for a very, very long time. Like we've never not had

01:24:07.200 tariffs. Right. In recent history. Anyway, it was actually 1960s post-World War II because of world

01:24:14.140 trade. We started decreasing our tariffs to encourage world trade so that there would be a

01:24:20.660 lot more global economic activity. And so in order to make up for the income that was lost through

01:24:25.880 those tariffs, they had to start taxing people more. And so you'll see an increase in taxation

01:24:32.840 of the american people now it's not just straight income taxes that's the thing to remember there

01:24:37.700 are other things like inflation you know that will also is a hidden tax um in order to feed

01:24:43.960 the ever-growing government and and to feed that beast and the thing is what's really interesting

01:24:49.740 about a tariff is it's it's based on economic mutually beneficial economic activity right

01:24:55.480 there's a there will be people that will pay 60 percent tariffs in order to get products here

01:25:00.060 because it's mutually beneficial for all parties involved, but not with income taxes.

01:25:05.700 That's not a mutually beneficial activity because ultimately you're forcing your own

01:25:11.600 citizens to pay, to, to, to feed the government beast.

01:25:16.000 That's not an advantage to both parties.

01:25:18.580 It's a, it's essentially just theft because you're, you're, you've got guns pointed at

01:25:24.480 your own people saying we've increased the taxes because we decided to.

01:25:28.380 And so you must pay us, whereas tariffs are a voluntary activity that are mutually beneficial.

01:25:34.460 And so anyway, all that to say, like, just think about the ramifications of that.

01:25:39.000 You have more money in your pocket, right?

01:25:42.160 Because you don't have to pay as much in taxes.

01:25:44.820 You can freely choose what products you want.

01:25:48.620 If you want something that's made overseas, you'll pay extra for it.

01:25:51.660 But you voluntarily enter into that agreement that helps this tariff, you know, thing continue

01:25:57.860 to function.

01:25:58.380 There will be more American jobs because it will be advantage to companies to produce products in the United States because they don't have to pay tariffs.

01:26:06.540 You get a competitive advantage in this global economic environment because you can avoid tariffs.

01:26:12.500 When it seems like there would be a cascading effect, meaning, OK, if take the average American grill American, if he can find a quality job, he pays less taxes and he's then more likely to start a family.

01:26:28.380 Yes. He's more likely to have more children. And then you solve the whole thing like, well, America's a dying population, so we need to bring in migrants. And you're like, no, you need to promote natalism.

01:26:40.620 A good example of this in practice with some real numbers would be, take the U.S. steel industry. In the 1940s and the 50s, the U.S. steel industry employed about 700,000 Americans. And they were typically good jobs. You could raise a family on a lot of these jobs in the steel industry. And keep in mind, that's 700,000 with the population in 1950s levels.

01:27:04.120 Yeah. Today, the U.S. steel industry employs about 140,000 people. And if you were to look at that time period versus now, we dominated the global steel market in many ways during this period.

01:27:16.580 that if you looked at the top 15 steel companies globally today and asked the question how many of

01:27:23.600 them are american companies the answer would be zero nine of them are chinese companies several

01:27:30.020 of them are japanese one south korean the six that america doesn't even hit until the 16th

01:27:35.360 largest steel company so that's just one example yeah it's actually nucor down the road even um

01:27:42.040 Even like early in American history, there were economists who were not generally pro-tariff, like Adam Smith.

01:27:48.280 He wrote The Wealth of Nations.

01:27:50.740 But even Adam Smith understood the value of tariffs in a way that I think we have to understand Trump is using them also.

01:27:59.940 Adam Smith said that there were two instances when tariffs were important for a nation.

01:28:05.540 One would be in protecting industries critical to the defense of the nation.

01:28:09.880 so you if there's something that your nation needs to make in order to be able to wage war 0.98

01:28:15.840 and protect itself use tariffs to protect yourself from let's say a company like a nation like china 0.82

01:28:23.560 intentionally subsidizing an industry to make it artificially cheap for their companies to compete 0.91

01:28:30.400 so they can control in order to intentionally close down its economic warfare to remove the

01:28:37.080 ability of your home nation to steal is a good example you cannot fight wars without steel you

01:28:42.340 can't have aircraft carriers made without steel fighter planes drone you can't do anything without

01:28:48.240 steel right so one he would say tariffs are good if they protect domestic industries essential for

01:28:54.760 defense and then two tariff and this is trump classic trump you use tariffs when another

01:29:00.540 country is tariffing you you mirror them you don't let them do this thing to you you fight the tariff

01:29:07.820 war there and so we also have to understand that and we've already seen this in one week of trump

01:29:12.480 being in office is that tariffs are another weapon in the hand of the executive leadership

01:29:17.720 of a country to wage economic warfare and asymmetrical warfare so when a country says

01:29:24.160 like columbia yeah i'm not gonna land i'm not gonna let your migrant repatriation flights land

01:29:30.200 then trump says congratulations colombian coffee now has a 40 tariff and your entire if you keep

01:29:37.780 it up and i'll make it 50 and the next one that doesn't land is gonna be 55 and oh look you know

01:29:42.700 those colombian hats that you like so much those are american now like he it's trump loves

01:29:47.840 negotiation and he gets negotiation so some of the strategy with tariffs isn't even to invoke a

01:29:55.020 permanent 50% tariff on a country forever it's to it's to equal the playing field tom clancy even

01:30:02.960 wrote a book called debt of honor that is it's part of the jack ryan series one of my favorite

01:30:08.320 like military thriller series you should go check it out if you haven't read it patriot games is the

01:30:12.580 first one i just first of all appreciate how masculine that reading interest oh it's such a

01:30:18.120 good i mean i'm listening to um patriot games for about the 30th time uh right now there's a book

01:30:24.200 the debt of honor and it's it's basically set where clancy and he's known for his hyper realistic

01:30:28.740 military and economic so when he has a detail in a book it's not he didn't make it up he probably

01:30:33.880 like sat down with a submariner in the u.s navy and like understood the ohio class of submarines

01:30:38.580 for example but the idea is that america gets into a trade war with japan and america says okay

01:30:45.620 japan we're going to enact this new policy where we mirror your tariffs so if you're tariffing

01:30:51.780 American goods at 40%, which they hadn't been, America hadn't been reciprocating that,

01:30:56.920 whatever your tariff is, automatically our tariff matches it. And the point was that in that

01:31:02.220 plot, the Japanese automotive industry was going to suffer greatly because of this. And the US

01:31:08.880 automotive manufacturing was going to greatly benefit. So the goal isn't necessarily, I think,

01:31:15.040 for Trump. I don't think he's trying to permanently tariff everything at those levels.

01:31:18.900 he's leveraging negotiations in his first term trump renegotiated i mean like the u.s mexico

01:31:25.220 tariff agreement from 1994 that was negotiated i think under clinton he renegotiated in his first

01:31:31.700 term he renegotiated um a george w bush u.s south korea tariff agreement that was like a 2012 or

01:31:40.120 2004 tariff agreement he renegotiated that in his first term so trump has done this before

01:31:47.160 NAFTA is a good example of like one where we gave the farm away and allowed our nation to be plundered of its ability to manufacture.

01:31:54.840 So some people are thinking just like, oh, it's going to make goods more expensive.

01:31:58.460 And so it's bad.

01:31:59.660 And what they're not thinking of is what happens when you give all of the ability to manufacture critical components, components to national defense to Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Japan, Mexico, Canada.

01:32:14.800 Well, all of a sudden, the leverage that China has over American politics is devastating.

01:32:22.620 Yeah.

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01:35:21.960 Think about the way that people use money and income right now. You have to hide, if you are

01:35:27.520 in a certain tax bracket your advantage to hide your money or evade and that's a tax advantage

01:35:33.480 into 401k accounts and it's something that brian you tweeted on at one point with the stock market

01:35:40.060 and globalism and the global economy and everything like that how it keeps getting being fed what

01:35:45.420 happens when people that are uh you know middle middle upper class uh don't have to put as much

01:35:52.000 money as possible in the stock market to be tax advantaged and they have more free money to

01:35:57.740 actually invest and build things here yeah and to spend money here and to do whatever they want

01:36:02.300 i mean the ramifications though like you said are they cascade yeah one of the dangers of tariffs

01:36:08.720 because there's dangers to this plant there is no meaningful thing that trump can do to accomplish

01:36:13.740 that is not tremendously difficult and full of risk people just have to understand that for example

01:36:18.820 to really solve our American debt crisis and our tax crisis, we have to fix, get rid of,

01:36:27.260 and I mean, social security, massive government spending. There's no free lunch. So it's uphill

01:36:33.120 all the way. Imagine that in this scenario, like the how Trump sells it is not 100% real world

01:36:40.760 accurate. Let's say that we're funding the US government entirely from tariffs or mostly from

01:36:45.740 tariffs. And we have a 60% tariff on Chinese goods. And then, well, hang on. Then what happens

01:36:52.580 when you go to war with China and all the money you were making from Chinese tariffs go to zero

01:36:58.640 because you're not trading with them at all? France was Germany's biggest trading partner

01:37:03.100 the day before they invaded France. So you have to understand that the result then would be

01:37:09.780 massive inflationary money printing to fund a war effort without that source of income. 0.99

01:37:15.040 Trump's not an idiot. 0.95

01:37:15.960 He knows all of this. 0.99

01:37:17.420 You have to back up and say the thing Trump's saying he's trying to accomplish is actually partly in play.

01:37:23.660 But there's also things he's trying to accomplish that are more strategic negotiation, national interest goals.

01:37:32.500 And he's been doing this for decades and decades in the business world.

01:37:36.080 He did it in his first term.

01:37:37.620 So a lot of this, it's kind of like the example of him running more centrist on abortion, but then legislating and acting already in the first week, much more pro-life.

01:37:48.860 You have to understand the strategic nature of Trump's policymaking and his executive leadership.

01:37:57.600 He usually has an aim that he's not telling you with a policy that is a good aim a lot of the time that we would agree with.

01:38:07.620 But it's not transparent right away.

01:38:10.260 Right.

01:38:10.700 He's not going to tell you because that would be to give away all of this.

01:38:14.380 He wants to leave them guessing a little bit to say, you don't even know what I'm trying to do.

01:38:21.640 China. 0.93

01:38:22.520 Right.

01:38:23.400 Yeah.

01:38:23.640 And I think, too, like Pat Buchanan brought this up, but he said pretty much a nation in decline is a nation that is importing more than it's exporting.

01:38:33.320 It's actually one of the ways that Franco turned Spain around because they were a second world country. They were not doing well. And so part of his initiatives were to increase agriculture and manufacturing and everything within the country. So they wouldn't have to import everything. And it just so happened to turn out that when there was a global war and they didn't really involve themselves, they were producing their own goods. They were actually the ones that were exporting goods and they entered into the golden age of Spain.

01:39:02.160 so there's been that talk thrown around a lot as well the golden age of the united states you know

01:39:06.540 what's funny is that if you that's a and that's a great measure too um by the end of today our

01:39:13.900 trade deficit with china for today will be about a billion dollars meaning that we have bought a

01:39:20.000 billion dollars more goods from china today than they have bought from america it's like 360 to

01:39:25.880 $400 billion annually. Now, if you could change that equation, this is why it matters so much.

01:39:32.620 You're not talking about small change. You're talking about hundreds of billions of dollars

01:39:38.620 being invested into American manufacturing ability and business. Now, this is a mindset change that

01:39:46.120 needs to happen for the American people. This is an encouragement actually for, I would say,

01:39:50.440 for us and for Americans to be thinking through, is that we need to get away from what NAFTA

01:39:55.420 trained us to think like, which is how can I get this as cheaply as possible? How can I get

01:40:01.900 whatever thing I want as cheaply as humanly possible? That desire is not properly aligned

01:40:07.620 with national self-interest. Now, it doesn't mean that you want to pay exorbitant amounts for bad

01:40:12.940 stuff. That's not the goal. It should mean something that something is made in America.

01:40:17.520 That should mean it's great. It's better quality. But it's also going to mean-

01:40:22.060 did used to mean that even at the end of the whole process it might mean that you do pay more for a

01:40:28.120 thing but would you rather pay more for a good that was made in america that employed mere

01:40:33.720 countrymen that was made excellently that maintained your national sovereignty in its

01:40:39.600 manufacturing and war making capability defended your culture and yeah oh but i paid 18 more for

01:40:47.380 my washer yeah but will your washer last more than two years well that's the crazy thing because 0.56

01:40:52.600 will it employ your your kinsmen i was thinking about this with uh you know my dad he has tools

01:40:57.620 electric tools um in his garage and i'm like what is that tool it doesn't even have a label on it

01:41:04.240 it's like an old black and decker or something from like the 50s or 60s and he's like well this

01:41:09.780 is my grand that's it was my grandpa's that he passed down to my dad i'm like that thing still

01:41:14.580 works i've been through like even if you buy the high-end tools today yeah they're they're junk

01:41:19.420 you know like yeah it's cool they've got a lot of features whatever but you know uh the the 0.99

01:41:24.840 washing machines you can go to a lot of like the boomers homes like grandparents and they've still

01:41:29.140 got microwaves from the 50s that still work and ovens and washing machines that still work yeah

01:41:36.200 and we're buying yeah two thousand dollar samsung oven that'll be dead in five years yeah the

01:41:41.760 igniter is a two-year igniter. And the, oh, the knob is a three-year knob. And it's like everything

01:41:48.600 is junk and everything enriches our enemies. And we need to get away from that. And we will not

01:41:55.960 get away from that unless we start thinking in terms of our maximal self-interest and not just

01:42:00.780 our minimal self-interest. Our minimal self-interest is like that calculation of how can I get this

01:42:05.880 thing the cheapest possible? And our maximal self-interest is how can I pay a price that I

01:42:11.040 can afford for this item and that item be great and actually affect the good of my kinsmen the

01:42:16.000 good of my nation the good of our our national sovereignty and when we start doing that we're

01:42:21.280 doing actually we're going from thinking about me to think about we thinking about us as a nation

01:42:26.560 thinking about your people i think it also changes too if you do with multiculturalism

01:42:31.260 you promote natalism and then you you start to realize that a nation is just an extended family

01:42:38.340 and then you start thinking about things like well granddad works at the ford plant

01:42:43.500 where the ford trucks are built you know there used to be a thing where people especially uh in

01:42:48.580 the midwest where it's like if like if you lived in kentucky the ford truck plants there so people

01:42:53.880 were like you buy a ford that's our people yeah that has almost died out completely you remember

01:42:59.140 the old toby keith song made in america like nobody cares anymore because everything is like

01:43:04.320 just junk made from wherever but think about this assembled in the u.s think about 2020 they shut

01:43:08.620 down the entire economy you couldn't buy a new pickup why because you couldn't get the chips

01:43:13.520 yeah because they're not made here all made in taiwan and they can make the chips here they

01:43:18.020 could do that yeah it takes time to spool up manufacturing actually isaac at t-rex arms did

01:43:22.880 a good he did a couple posts and things about because he they're into manufacturing they

01:43:27.000 actually make things and he he did a post that was comparing or linked to it or something like

01:43:32.700 if I'm an American manufacturer, I need this part made of steel. And I get a quote from China and

01:43:37.160 America. The point was that the Chinese part was cheaper and it was faster. And they manufactured

01:43:41.860 it in a totally different way than the American company was going to. And part of the point was

01:43:47.040 that, yeah, like American companies really do need to compete, like they need to be able to compete

01:43:52.320 on that. But a lot of people pointed out, he might have pointed out that the hidden factor

01:43:57.480 that's going on in that transaction

01:43:59.800 is that the Communist Party in China

01:44:02.220 is taking state money and subsidizing steel.

01:44:08.420 So when the steel company in China buys steel,

01:44:11.480 they're paying a fourth or a third

01:44:14.080 of what an American company is paying

01:44:15.720 just to get the steel.

01:44:17.620 And also why are they doing that?

01:44:19.120 The way they treat their workers. 0.83

01:44:20.580 Well, they're doing that

01:44:21.360 not out of the goodness of their heart.

01:44:23.540 They're not like,

01:44:24.200 we just want our national steel company

01:44:27.460 to do well no they're doing it because they're saying we want communist china crush america

01:44:32.740 and we have to be like well am i gonna help or am i gonna am i gonna not help yeah so so there's

01:44:41.200 there none of this should minimize the fact that there's massive complexity in global supply chains

01:44:46.260 that did exist in 1910 nobody would dispute that that's just a fact um but we can't let the fact

01:44:52.020 that these are difficult things keep us from doing anything. Keep us from starting to walk

01:44:57.880 back up the hill. You know what's really interesting about that point? China subsidizing

01:45:01.620 the steel industry is that the government is actually benefiting their own workers. Well,

01:45:07.420 I mean, to a degree. I've been to factories in China. They're not that benefited. But the

01:45:12.320 companies are benefited. Whereas in the United States, through regulations and especially through

01:45:18.540 energy we've been disadvantaged to compete in this global marketplace well so yeah this actually

01:45:24.280 is segue to the last thing i want to talk about beautiful segue dan uh but when you look at energy

01:45:29.140 um why is it so important you know my dad worked in the coal industry his whole life

01:45:35.500 in energy and he said you know it's crazy i'd watch all these coal mines get shut down

01:45:40.640 which would kill local economies kill local places that's one side of it but he said you

01:45:46.700 know, yeah, the reason California is having blackouts is because the regulation on building

01:45:51.780 new power plants is so insane that it's not economically worth it to go through the hoop.

01:45:57.940 So they're just going to run out of power. And I think Trump was right to say there's an energy

01:46:02.420 crisis. One other thing I'll point to, my dad was working for Caterpillar recently, and he said,

01:46:08.600 yeah, we were building transformers for major entities, hospitals, whatever. You have to have

01:46:14.300 transformers and then generators and stuff like that and he said you know we were trying to

01:46:21.440 upgrade a lot of these hospitals and other other entities since 2000 china is the one who builds

01:46:29.160 the transformers it was like a three to five year wait on parts so he's like if i order something

01:46:36.380 now for generator parts or different components that they make three year wait so then you think

01:46:42.820 about what what happens if somebody attacks the u.s energy grid oh luckily we have a strategic

01:46:48.000 reserve of transformers did you notice we really do oh wait biden sent all of them to ukraine about

01:46:54.440 nine months ago interesting did you know that i did not know that that's insane these are

01:47:00.140 infrastructure critical components that cannot be fast-tracked they are genuinely on like michael

01:47:05.380 foster works in this industry and uh he had a post about this you know a while ago where like

01:47:11.900 Tesla's building a big factory. And pretty much the company Michael worked for could dictate

01:47:16.460 prices. They could say, I know two years ago, we said this transformer was going to be, you know,

01:47:20.800 100 grand. It's 1.5 million now, or it's 300 grand now. And you can either have it in nine

01:47:26.460 months from us, or you can have it in five years from which do you want? We had a strategic reserve

01:47:31.360 of transformers. Well, it wasn't a lot for our military and for our critical infrastructure.

01:47:37.100 biden literally sent them and gave them to ukraine and i mean i will help build gallows

01:47:45.940 the reason we found out about this is because then all of the flooding and everything happened

01:47:51.660 in appalachia and and a bunch of transformers are blown and and fema and these national these

01:47:57.320 companies entities that are supposed they tax us to oblivion and the least they're supposed to do 0.58

01:48:02.400 is come in and help with these kinds of national emergencies and they said sorry gave them to 0.98

01:48:09.420 ukraine yeah and this is i mean this is the insanity we needed him for butt sex in ukraine 0.94

01:48:14.160 i'm serious that's what it is it's like just don't know what to say what we need him for 0.99

01:48:22.340 we're gonna i'm sorry we had to defend globo homo in ukraine there's the more politically correct 0.55

01:48:27.100 see guys they're canceling me here they're putting political pressure but that literally

01:48:30.980 is the thing is like you think about the misplacing of priorities that you're you're

01:48:37.180 betraying your own people who footed the bill you're not taking care of them and then you're

01:48:42.220 taking care of ukraine i mean it's the trump i and i know this is changing but somebody had asked

01:48:49.320 trump about this uh with they said it one of his you know executive order signings well what do

01:48:55.800 you think is going to happen in israel palestine he's like i don't know none of my business it's

01:48:59.980 none of our business it's not america yeah what is that a city in like where is that i i haven't

01:49:07.080 heard of that was in colorado of israel i haven't heard but he basically signaled like hey you know

01:49:12.580 israel palestine those people got to work it out that's their neighborhood and you see the shift

01:49:17.080 now and saying we need to secure our border we need to take care of our we have real problems

01:49:21.940 here so energy it's really interesting energy is one of the primary means in which you could 0.98

01:49:27.720 destabilize a country you flood it with immigrants and then you you actually restrict energy and i'll

01:49:33.400 tell you why that is so alex epstein you think it was intentional which part all that oh yeah

01:49:39.340 absolutely i think it's 100 intentional i mean all the green new deal stuff all of the regulations

01:49:44.720 the inability to have a really cheap and accessible energy alex epstein in his book

01:49:50.800 the moral case for fossil fuels really interesting he says the biggest differentiator between third

01:49:56.180 and second world countries and second and first world countries is energy. And he, he gives an

01:50:02.120 example in a third world country. They don't have incubators for children that are born premature.

01:50:09.260 Like those kids, those babies die because they cannot run generators all the time. They don't

01:50:15.760 have consistent flows of electricity. Like the standard of living is low infant mortality rates

01:50:21.980 raise. You don't have the ability to actually function as a society if you don't have reliable

01:50:29.280 and cheap energy. And fossil fuels are the way that you actually do that. And so if you wanted

01:50:35.420 to revert a first world country into the second world, one of the ways that you would do that

01:50:41.600 is by restricting cheap and accessible energy. Because think about it this way. If you own a

01:50:49.620 business and all of a sudden energy costs go up. Nothing about your business has really

01:50:54.540 fundamentally changed. The nature of your product hasn't changed. The manufacturing product process

01:50:59.720 hasn't changed. Your material costs go up. The transportation costs go up. You have to still

01:51:06.600 run your plant, all of your manufacturing. If you've got a few thousand employees,

01:51:10.680 think about all of the equipment, the lights, like everything that you have to run,

01:51:14.080 all of that goes up in price. And then you have a completed product that you then have to transport

01:51:18.880 to whatever location in which you're distributing it. So that whole process means it eats into your

01:51:24.400 profitability. And, and what doesn't go up as a cost during that time is payroll. People don't

01:51:30.460 make more money. In fact, they have to drive, you know, commute home and they have to buy

01:51:34.700 other stuff, food and things like that. They have less disposable income. And so a business,

01:51:40.600 they look at, they look at their bottom line and they're like, our, our margins are really thin

01:51:45.100 and energy prices just went up. What is the thing that we actually can control the costs of

01:51:49.960 payroll? So we lay people off. We lay people off in order to make or we survive as a business

01:51:56.160 remote workers in India. Yeah, that's right. And so energy is this is why when Trump was asked

01:52:01.620 this question during the campaign a while ago, maybe you guys remember this. It was like,

01:52:04.700 I'm a single mom. You know, I'm trying to provide for my family. How in Trump's economy will I be

01:52:10.520 able to survive. And he said, energy costs. That was what he said. It's, you know, at first it's

01:52:16.300 like, oh man, you would think government subsidies or some government welfare program, social welfare

01:52:21.440 program. And he said, energy costs. And here's why. And then he goes on about how essentially

01:52:27.100 what I just talked about, how keeping energy costs low makes everything else more affordable.

01:52:31.380 It actually increases innovation. Think about that warehouse or that manufacturing plant.

01:52:35.820 And they're, they have the opportunity to innovate the manufacturing of their product

01:52:41.280 with new equipment and new techniques and everything like that.

01:52:44.240 But if they're always combating this razor thin margin because of their increased energy

01:52:49.040 prices, their research and development budget goes to nothing.

01:52:52.240 Like they're not going to innovate.

01:52:53.940 They're going to survive.

01:52:55.440 And that's a, that's how you really destabilize an economy and a people is by making it so

01:53:01.140 that people have to choose between their countrymen and surviving.

01:53:04.480 And you can see some of this even in our fossil fuels policy is the most obvious. You can see it in our nuclear policy as well. I mean, nuclear energy is a no-brainer. We should be building nuclear power plants. Regulation is what makes them billions of dollars, not the actual cost of making them.

01:53:22.480 people can say well what about security surrounding fissile material or nuclear material okay then we

01:53:28.500 build thorium nuclear plants that don't produce fissile material i think it's thorium there are

01:53:33.600 we already have the technology to solve many of these problems it already exists what's what's

01:53:39.880 keeping us from solving them are is bureaucracy it's communism more or less it's it's it's just

01:53:47.940 people that are not they they hate you they want to destroy your country to enrich themselves

01:53:53.320 tale as old as time by by the way the whole environmental thing with with using fossil fuels 0.96

01:54:00.340 is just it's it drives me crazy it's so dumb there's actually a thing you should look it up

01:54:06.180 it's called global greening global greening they've noticed this since the 1980s with the 0.78

01:54:12.620 use of fossil fuels and everything like that what what what happens when you burn oil or coal or

01:54:17.660 whatever it releases carbon into the atmosphere what is everything on earth made of carbon

01:54:24.800 carbon which has resulted in a incredible unprecedented um uh increase in food production

01:54:33.860 worldwide because of this great global greening because of the extra carbon that is available

01:54:40.460 for plants to actually use to grow i i mean and so and so we're we're saying like oh we're we're

01:54:47.200 going to cut carbon emissions when it's the very thing that's actually feeding the corn and the

01:54:51.820 soybeans so when i drive down the road and i roll coal i'm actually helping you're helping the

01:54:57.340 environment well okay i am the most environmental person hang on no um there are pollutants and

01:55:04.000 there are bad things but you do see like it's good there are um like real christian conservatism

01:55:12.120 is actually good at environmentalism it's not fake environmentalism so we should be thinking

01:55:17.800 about things like the way that we treat uh animals that we use for food and we should be thinking

01:55:23.480 about whether we use actually water water is really really important yeah so that was something

01:55:29.300 that we've definitely felt especially primary water well if we can get to the primary water

01:55:33.960 deep below the earth can we wrap this up you know but i mean for that reason i'm out for time for

01:55:38.840 purposes of time i'm not going to go deep on primary water but just know that um both oil

01:55:44.540 and water are being created deep in the earth's mantle it's really interesting i looked at a study

01:55:50.700 they found that one of the most profitable ways to access oil is to go to old wells that are dried

01:55:56.280 up because they're refilling yeah this is how do they get more dinosaur bones you know this this

01:56:00.840 is an evolutionary psyop that that all this stuff is dinosaur bones and like old flora and fauna

01:56:06.880 that is even the name fossil fuels eric told me i didn't know people legitimately believed

01:56:11.840 that it was fossil fuels as in like i just said pseudoscience according to a lot of people

01:56:18.180 it's it's the a biogenetic it's the a biogenetic oil idea that oil is not a biological thing but

01:56:25.460 it's actually made in chemical processes in the earth god basically gave us he was like look here

01:56:32.320 you go here's some oil have some fun great and the thing is he did this like gold there's like

01:56:36.240 texas tea there's like 50 different things that god did that we can make energy with uh i've said

01:56:41.420 this before probably on haunted cosmos but we're going to get to the point where we're going to be

01:56:45.940 able to tap into energy directly from matter and from the vacuum like the reason that a a bomb made

01:56:52.900 with an orange size globe of plutonium or fissile material when turned into a two-stage hydrogen

01:56:58.860 weapon a fusion weapon or a trigger weapon can you know 100 kiloton 100 megaton type of bombs

01:57:04.640 is because they're converting that enter that mass into pure energy equals mc squared energy

01:57:10.580 equals mass times the speed of light squared so we're so inefficient even in nuclear weapons

01:57:16.040 they're only converting a tiny percentage of that globe of plutonium into energy do you know what

01:57:21.340 would happen if you could convert a single raisin into pure energy or like powers new york for days

01:57:27.620 you could power new york city it's like days or weeks the entire city are you talking about

01:57:32.380 nuclear fission no i'm just talking about all of the stuff the the energy in a raisin you could

01:57:39.380 not even fissile material like if you could purely convert fissile material into energy i mean you

01:57:45.440 could just destroy the earth with a with a beach ball well they actually just they actually already

01:57:50.600 can't do this out i don't know if you knew this but doc brown and back to the future yeah i mean

01:57:55.660 eric fill us in my dad i didn't know that was a documentary i was confused it makes a lot more

01:58:02.280 sense now see my x feed for more my dad is is an icbm guy he's been he's an electrical engineer

01:58:08.480 he worked in icbms for like 40 years and uh so i was always interested in this stuff like my sixth

01:58:14.300 grade history fair project was about like boar and the the manhattan project and a lot of this

01:58:19.560 stuff it's always fascinated me but even as like a seventh grader it makes you realize that you it's

01:58:26.620 so obvious oh the government hates us like they could fix all these fake energy problems in in

01:58:31.900 like three years if if they wanted they would just do like they would drill they would remove all

01:58:37.200 this fake limitations on our oil production and usage they would make nuclear energy plants in

01:58:45.000 and like solar power is amazing too that's how a tree turns co2 into carbon it like blow torches

01:58:52.300 the carbon off of the co2 and makes itself out of that which is crazy but but we wouldn't even need

01:58:59.040 solar technology as it currently exists to solve our energy or wind or all these like super

01:59:05.120 inefficient guys we we have everything we need the government just hates you drill baby drill

01:59:11.980 it's so obvious the government did hate us like a seventh grader could figure this out

01:59:16.900 well you didn't see my seventh grade report card but

01:59:20.540 but no i think about even a place like uh ogden and how many people are employed in the global 0.72

01:59:30.720 homo wars and really expensive missile programs you know for ukraine or whatever and then you 0.84

01:59:37.440 think well these are brilliant people yeah they can figure so i'm sure if they put them to work

01:59:41.500 in something that actually would benefit america they could and that would be that would be really

01:59:46.320 good uh brian i want to kind of give you just the charge take us home land the plane okay yeah

01:59:52.620 pretend though when i say land the plane yeah we you're you're you're flying we're landing but i'm

01:59:59.560 holding dan's ankles as he's flown out of the windshield you'd let me go so you're saying take

02:00:05.140 my time take my time man this is thanks for listening to this episode of the king saw let

02:00:11.960 me leave you with this the elites don't want you to know this you can build your own nuclear power

02:00:16.620 plant in your house building i have three nuclear power i'm just kidding people have done that

02:00:21.760 before i don't do you read stories on this yeah people have done a guy who like in his shed in

02:00:26.660 his shed yes because everybody around him was getting nuclear poison well it was radiation

02:00:31.460 poison he didn't quite handle i some of the problems i do i do realize that and i think

02:00:38.020 everybody realizes let me close with this last name disregard disregard what i and eric and dan

02:00:46.560 just said no i think that this is the theme that we're going to be hitting in the conference you're

02:00:52.980 gonna hear this a lot in king's hall um in the coming months we think it's one of the most

02:00:56.380 important themes for America is recover the American will to greatness. You can just go

02:01:03.220 like things, do things, build things. You can go pursue greatness, not in competition with the

02:01:08.980 greatness and glory of God, but in thankfulness for the gifts that he's put into your hands.

02:01:13.840 So go and build, go and put safety third. It's on the list, but it's third. It's not first. Take a

02:01:20.680 risk. Build a business. Do the thing. Do it wisely. Do it with good counsel. But America is not going

02:01:27.420 to be retaken by one president at the top fixing everything for us. We have room to maneuver. We

02:01:34.420 have permission to go and be great and do these things. But you need to take that permission and

02:01:39.760 go and run with it. So just feel the wind in your sails. You're not fighting against it. You're not

02:01:46.160 attacking against a 60 mile an hour headwind anymore. The wind is behind you. And so take

02:01:51.180 advantage of this time. Go take some ground. Keep your foot on the gas pedal. Don't slow down. And

02:01:57.220 if you've been, you know, wallowing in black pill, nothing ever happens. It's all bad. I'm 1.00

02:02:02.060 going to purity spiral. Can you please knock it off and quit being annoying and just go and do

02:02:08.420 something meaningful with your life? So thank you for listening to this episode of the King's

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The King's Hall - January 31, 2025

Day One： Trump’s Executive Orders and the Remaking of America

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