The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1747 - NEW： A Potential Lead In The Epstein Files. This Is WEIRD.

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall's show, new revelations from the Epstein Files raise more questions than

00:00:03.740 they answer. There are a whole lot of strange coincidences surrounding Epstein's death in

00:00:07.400 his jail cell. The story just went from weird to weirder, and we will discuss. Also, Muslim 1.00

00:00:12.020 terrorists attacked demonstrators in New York. Mamdani says the real problem is Islamophobia, 0.94

00:00:16.680 as you might have guessed. And have chatbots already gained consciousness? One CEO says they

00:00:20.800 might have. Talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall's show.

00:00:30.000 Over the weekend, reports started circulating about one of the prison guards who was on duty

00:00:54.080 the night that Jeffrey Epstein died. The report mentioned strange Google searches and mysterious

00:00:59.660 cash deposits. So I decided to look into it. And the DOJ, of course, released a batch of Epstein

00:01:05.780 files a few weeks ago. But as a practical matter, it has been impossible for anyone to go through

00:01:11.160 all those files in a timely fashion. There's a lot of information to sift through. And as a result,

00:01:16.800 some very important stuff has been missed. So today we're going to go through some of that

00:01:21.480 information and what it means. Most of the revelations concern this security guard who was

00:01:27.420 who was assigned to guard Epstein was later charged in federal court for falsifying her logs.

00:01:33.540 And as we talk about all this, we're going to be thorough and we're going to include all the

00:01:38.580 relevant context and document IDs and everything else. And that's not simply because the new revelations

00:01:44.560 are genuinely important and disturbing, although they absolutely are. It's also because whatever you

00:01:49.820 may personally think of the Epstein files, this is a legitimately very important political issue

00:01:57.520 also. It's probably the one news event of the past year that's broken containment and made it onto the

00:02:04.760 radar of almost every normal person in the country. Even the war in Iran hasn't quite done that, at least

00:02:11.640 not to this point, not to the same extent. So if you care about who controls the U.S. government,

00:02:16.280 and you should, then this story simply cannot be ignored. We'll start with a very conspicuous

00:02:24.280 subpoena that was issued to 4chan, the social media site. In case you're not familiar with it,

00:02:29.760 4chan is basically a free fire zone. It's a forum for memes, commentary, pranks, etc. To give one

00:02:36.920 example of 4chan's influence, you might remember that a few years ago, leftists were freaking out about

00:02:41.700 the OK hand sign saying that it was a, you know, a secret symbol of white supremacy. And a lot of

00:02:48.640 people got fired over it. It was a whole thing. Well, in reality, it was a 4chan hoax. 4chan users

00:02:52.700 deliberately set out to convince the media that Nazis were, you know, doing this, were making the

00:02:57.780 OK hand sign, and the media took the bait. So put another way, 4chan generally isn't taken seriously

00:03:04.780 as a credible source of information. A lot of content on 4chan is trolling or intentionally

00:03:10.020 deceptive, just meant to be funny. But just days after Jeffrey Epstein was reportedly found dead

00:03:16.100 in his prison cell, the federal government began taking 4chan very seriously. Indeed. In particular,

00:03:24.100 the Southern District of New York, probably the most high-powered U.S. attorney's office in the

00:03:27.680 country, obtained a grand jury subpoena seeking information from 4chan, and the site complied.

00:03:35.320 This is from the Epstein files, document 133350. Quote, pursuant to a federal grand jury subpoena

00:03:43.060 served by the Southern District of New York, 4chan provided the attached response

00:03:47.580 dated August 14th, 2019. And here's the information that 4chan provided. And as you can see, there are

00:03:53.740 some IP addresses that were blacked out. There are identities, or at least the virtual identities

00:03:58.120 of the people who made various 4chan posts on the morning of August 10th of 2019, the date that

00:04:04.080 Epstein died, which are also blacked out. And there's also the text of one of those posts, which

00:04:09.480 the federal government was especially interested in. Here's what the post said. It said this, quote,

00:04:14.540 not saying anything after this, please do not try to dox me. But last night, after 0415 count,

00:04:21.340 they took him, uh, medical in a wheelchair, front cuffed, but not one triage nurse says they spoke

00:04:28.320 to him. Next thing we know, a trip van shows up. We do not do releases on the weekends unless a judge

00:04:34.240 orders it. Next thing we know, he's put in a single man's cell and hangs himself. Here's the thing,

00:04:40.340 the trip van did not sign in, and we did not record the plate number, and a guy in a green dress

00:04:46.440 military outfit was in the back of the van, according to the tower guy who led him through

00:04:51.180 the gate. You guys, I am shaking right now, but I think they switched him out.

00:04:56.660 Now, by itself, this post in a vacuum is not particularly credible. Anyone could have written

00:05:03.040 it. But the fact that the Southern District of New York then demanded more information about the

00:05:09.100 person who wrote this post by itself raises a lot of questions. Again, 4chan is littered with

00:05:15.220 nonsense posts and trolling and all kinds of outlandish claims. The Southern District of New

00:05:20.680 York obviously doesn't subpoena every single one of them. They took an interest in this post,

00:05:24.920 possibly because they recognized that there might be some truth to it. I mean, if, if there were things

00:05:31.740 in the post that were true and that nobody would know unless they were there, then it would make

00:05:36.700 sense why they subpoenaed it. If it's just totally outlandish and, and not related to the facts at all,

00:05:43.100 then it doesn't really make any sense why they would. And, but they wanted to know exactly who

00:05:48.380 wrote it. On August 14th, 4chan told the government what it knew. All the organizations, including AT&T,

00:05:53.640 were apparently subpoenaed for the same purpose relating to this post. Online, various people have

00:05:58.420 speculated that indeed a prison guard wrote that post. Now we don't have proof of that at the moment,

00:06:05.120 nor do we know which guard might have written it. But on August 19th, an assistant U.S. state's

00:06:10.000 attorney in the Southern District of New York sent the following email to a redacted individual and

00:06:14.760 it reads, quote, here are the subpoena returns we've received. Don't worry about the 4chan records

00:06:19.280 or the subpoenas related to IP information. Now it's not clear why exactly the AUSA would say that.

00:06:27.240 Maybe they decided not to follow up on the 4chan lead after all. Maybe they wanted to end the

00:06:31.440 investigation for some other reason. We have no idea. But lurking in this same Epstein file dump,

00:06:36.800 the one that was released a few weeks ago, you'll find the following information about Epstein's

00:06:41.740 security guards, what they were doing on the night that he reportedly died. And this was first

00:06:48.080 uncovered by the New York Post. It's a readout of the activity on the computer of 37-year-old Tova Noel,

00:06:54.160 who was one of the two Metropolitan Correctional Center workers who was accused of falsifying records to

00:06:59.420 indicate that they had done their rounds on the day Epstein died, when in fact they had not.

00:07:03.780 And as you can see, there's a bunch of Google searches about furniture and law enforcement

00:07:08.260 discounts and federal government jobs. She also ran a Google search for EPP, EPP, at 4.31 a.m.,

00:07:15.560 as well as a search for Unum Insurance at 4.36 a.m. Unum Insurance mainly sells disability and life

00:07:22.440 insurance. And then at 5.42 a.m., according to these records, Tova searched Google for the phrase,

00:07:28.820 latest on Epstein in jail. And then less than a minute later, she searched Google for latest on

00:07:36.040 Omar Aminat, who was an entrepreneur who was sentenced for federal prison to federal prison

00:07:40.280 for conspiracy in the Southern District of New York, likely in the same facility. And then at 5.52 a.m.,

00:07:45.720 Tova Noel was back to searching about Epstein. And once again, she asked Google for, quote,

00:07:51.580 latest on Epstein in jail. Now, the timing of that last search is significant because it's less than

00:07:58.160 40 minutes before Tova Noel's colleague, a correctional officer named Michael Thomas,

00:08:03.200 found Epstein dead in his cell. Thomas had also been on Google, but he was mostly searching about

00:08:07.620 motorcycles and didn't search for anything about Epstein. Now, in 2021, Noel denied running the

00:08:13.400 Google searches. Here's what she said in a sworn statement to the DOJ, quote,

00:08:16.380 I don't remember doing that. I don't recall looking him up. Now, of course, it's possible

00:08:21.460 that this is coincidental. Maybe she was just Googling names of high-profile inmates that she's

00:08:26.900 supervising to learn more about them. Maybe it was a way of passing the time, so she didn't even

00:08:32.040 remember doing it. But it does seem strange to me, to me anyway, that not just the timing,

00:08:38.880 but the fact that she searched for latest on Epstein in jail, rather than latest on Epstein or

00:08:45.580 information on Epstein or something like that. Now, I could see why she would want to find news

00:08:50.020 about Epstein himself if she was curious about who he was and why he was in jail. But why did she

00:08:55.900 want news on Epstein in jail? Why did she want news from the jail, where she works, about Epstein?

00:09:04.440 That seems pretty weird. And things get a lot more difficult to explain, a lot weirder.

00:09:10.880 When you look at this FBI 302, which is a document the FBI prepares after an interview where

00:09:15.440 they recap what they heard. It's a handwritten five-page report from the FBI in which the

00:09:19.780 agency interviews an inmate at the same facility where Epstein died. The interview was conducted

00:09:24.140 two weeks after Epstein died. And according to the 302, which was first reported by reporter

00:09:29.480 Julie Brown, the Miami Herald reporter who helped break open the Epstein story, the inmate says that

00:09:35.140 he overheard a prison guard and others talking about covering up Epstein's death. And in particular,

00:09:40.060 the inmate claims that he heard an officer say, dudes, you killed that dude. And then a female

00:09:45.620 guard states, if he's dead, we're going to cover it up and he's going to have an alibi, my officers.

00:09:51.780 Now, the inmate also said that in the prison, other inmates would say that Miss Noelle killed 0.97

00:09:56.960 Jeffrey. Now, keep in mind, this was months before Noelle was charged with falsifying records

00:10:04.540 in Epstein's case. That didn't happen until November. So for whatever reason, Tova Noelle,

00:10:11.160 not her colleague who was regarding the same cell, was attracting attention from the inmates.

00:10:17.160 Now, again, look at everything in a vacuum. Look at this little detail in a vacuum.

00:10:22.980 You could write this off as a coincidence. Maybe Tova Noelle is just a lazy, unethical guard who was 1.00

00:10:28.820 very curious about Epstein right before he died. And maybe the inmates are just making things up.

00:10:34.360 I mean, that's entirely possible under the circumstances. Inmates are criminals. Criminals

00:10:38.180 are liars. Many of them are pathological liars. You could argue that, you know, her literally saying 1.00

00:10:44.200 out loud, we need to cover this up, is a little on the nose. But when you start looking at all these

00:10:51.420 things together, it just gets harder and harder to write off as coincidence. And it gets even more

00:10:58.380 tenuous when you look at Noelle's Chase bank records, which are also included in the Epstein file

00:11:03.360 dump that was released a few weeks ago. It turns out that Noelle had begun depositing thousands 0.92

00:11:08.460 of dollars in her Chase account in the weeks leading up to Epstein's death. Now, of course,

00:11:13.640 without context, that doesn't sound very suspicious. There's plenty of reasons why somebody might

00:11:18.540 deposit accounts, thousands of dollars in an account. Now, it's not that much money. And without

00:11:24.640 context, we have no idea. But banks, for the most part, do have context. They have a lot of context.

00:11:30.360 And they know how much this woman typically deposits in her account, where it comes from. 0.93

00:11:36.160 They have all kinds of sophisticated systems that could determine whether transactions could be

00:11:40.220 related to money laundering or fraud or criminal activity. They can detect when people are trying

00:11:45.700 to avoid mandatory disclosures to the IRS by spreading out a large deposit across several

00:11:49.980 small payments. And with all that information in mind, Chase Bank, independent of any of this,

00:11:56.760 decided that Noelle's deposits were suspicious enough to report to the federal government.

00:12:02.560 So for a lot of people, a $5,000 deposit would not be weird. For her, compared to her normal banking

00:12:10.380 activity, this was weird. And that's why it was flagged. This is from the DOJ, and it was first

00:12:16.820 flagged by the Post. And here's how they report in the findings. Quote,

00:12:19.600 Chase Bank flagged cash deposits in Noelle's bank account in a suspicious activity report to the FBI

00:12:24.920 in November 2019. Another file from the DOJ revealed a total of 12 deposits began in April

00:12:29.740 2018, the bank said, and culminated in the largest deposit for $5,000 on July 30th, according to the

00:12:36.380 records, 2019. The files only contained Noelle's bank records beginning in December 2018. They show

00:12:41.900 seven cash deposits totaling $11,880. Noelle started working at the special housing unit where Epstein had

00:12:49.080 been held beginning on July 7th, 2019, just weeks before her death. Noelle, who drove a $62,000 2019

00:12:55.480 Land Rover Range Rover, wasn't asked about the cash during her DOJ interview record show.

00:13:02.260 So those unusual deposits totaled over $10,000, but no individual deposit was over $10,000 itself.

00:13:09.760 That's often a tactic that criminals will use in an attempt to stay under the $10,000 mandatory

00:13:14.220 disclosure limit, which is why banks usually flag those transactions. Does this mean that the prison

00:13:20.520 guard is a criminal? No, it doesn't necessarily. The DOJ never charged Tova Noelle with fraud or

00:13:27.020 conspiracy or money laundering or anything else. The DOJ also dropped the charges against her for

00:13:32.480 falsifying records. Now, if you're the cynical type, you might conclude that she's being protected

00:13:37.560 for some reason. It's also possible that she's innocent of any wrongdoing, aside from being an

00:13:43.160 incompetent prison guard. We don't know. Even so, if you tend to take things at face value and you

00:13:52.340 don't look at each of these individual things in a vacuum, but you look at them all together,

00:13:56.160 here's where we stand. To recap, the prison guard who lied about checking on Epstein every 30 minutes,

00:14:02.620 which was her job, also coincidentally received a series of deposits in the weeks prior to Epstein's

00:14:07.400 death, which were so unusual that her bank reported them to the authorities. Additionally,

00:14:12.160 this guard was coincidentally named by inmates as somebody who may have been involved in killing

00:14:16.880 Epstein or covering up his whereabouts. And on top of that, the guard was coincidentally searching

00:14:22.640 Google for information about Epstein less than an hour before his body was discovered. Oh, and while all

00:14:27.300 this was going on, two cameras in front of Epstein's cell coincidentally happened to malfunction while

00:14:34.520 another camera had footage that was quote unquote unusable. And although Epstein had been placed on

00:14:39.980 suicide watch in July, he was coincidentally taken off suicide watch shortly before his death after a

00:14:44.720 quote high level psychologist stepped in and gave him the all clear.

00:14:49.160 Now, I'm not being sarcastic when I say that indeed this could be a string of coincidences. Unusual events

00:15:00.280 happen all the time. Sometimes multiple unusual events happen at the same time. But this is a lot.

00:15:08.860 This is a lot of coincidence piled on top of each other. You know, we have kind of a Jenga tower of

00:15:18.320 coincidence at this point at which feels very tenuous and unstable.

00:15:25.960 So based on the facts that we have been presented, we are at a minimum entitled to know some additional

00:15:33.360 information. First of all, the DOJ needs to tell us the identity of that 4chan poster. We need to know

00:15:38.680 who exactly was talking about swapping out Jeffrey Epstein the night he died. At a minimum, we need

00:15:45.160 to know whether it was one of the guards and if so, which one. And we also need to know why the

00:15:50.980 Southern District of New York stopped looking into the 4chan post as soon as the subpoena came back.

00:15:55.360 We also need to learn who sent those deposits to Tova Noel and what action the government took,

00:16:00.480 if any, after receiving the alert from Chase. Why exactly did Chase flag the transactions as suspicious?

00:16:06.320 And how many other times did Tova Noel search Google for information about Jeffrey Epstein?

00:16:10.940 Did she only start searching for information about him on the night he died?

00:16:15.460 None of this information should be hidden from the public. But the federal government, by dropping the

00:16:19.920 criminal case against Tova Noel, ensured that the information would be extremely difficult to

00:16:23.800 obtain. So the official narrative is all we can get. We're left to speculate about how Jeffrey Epstein

00:16:29.740 could have fractured multiple bones and started hemorrhaging from his eyes while hanging himself,

00:16:34.840 which is, quote, extremely unusual, as the physician hired by Epstein's estate put it.

00:16:39.880 And there's one other element that's, you know, of these files that's worth talking about for a

00:16:46.040 moment. Because as I said, there's, and this is part of the problem, there's tons of information

00:16:51.160 flooding out. And some of it is very credible or potentially credible. Some of it is not.

00:16:56.820 So there's also at the same time, all this stuff about the prison guard is coming out. People are

00:17:01.300 talking about it. There is, the media is making a big deal about the alleged revelation that in

00:17:06.700 these files, Trump was accused of, quote, hitting a school girl who refused to carry out a sex act

00:17:12.220 on him, as the Daily Mail put it. And according to the Post and Courier, which is a South Carolina

00:17:17.380 newspaper, quote, using archived government records and news accounts, the Post and Courier found that

00:17:22.260 the woman provided verifiable details to agents about her family background and its legal entanglement,

00:17:26.800 she offered the name of an Epstein business associate on Hilton Head Island, who became a

00:17:30.960 central figure in the drama with specifics that are reflected in public records. That's the third

00:17:35.900 paragraph of the story. Keep going. Here's paragraph number eight, quote, of the details,

00:17:41.900 the Post and Courier found supported by public records, none related directly to the alleged

00:17:46.860 victims' claims about Trump. So in other words, there's nothing to substantiate the claim

00:17:52.280 whatsoever, although it pains the media to admit it. If you page through the Epstein files,

00:17:56.500 you'll find dozens of wild accusations against all sorts of prominent figures.

00:18:00.780 And these allegations mostly come from people who are clearly unwell, with no evidence to support what

00:18:04.960 they're saying at all. So whatever you may have heard about this particular claim, there's nothing

00:18:09.500 to distinguish it from all those other allegations. In this case, when investigators asked the woman

00:18:14.740 for more detail, she refused to elaborate and broke off contact with the investigators entirely,

00:18:20.160 according to the Daily Mail. So this was no bombshell revelation by any stretch of the imagination.

00:18:26.440 It's not even a credible allegation, unlike the revelations about the prison guard.

00:18:32.280 And this is the key is distinguishing between these things. Revelation about the prison guard

00:18:38.600 based around verifiable facts. Bank deposits, that's a fact. Google searches, that's a fact.

00:18:47.280 The claims about the cameras outside the cell, all of that stuff.

00:18:54.880 And it certainly, and I also want to mention this, it certainly isn't proof that Trump launched the Iran

00:19:01.500 war to distract from Epstein, which is something I'm hearing a lot lately.

00:19:04.860 The, and again, this is, this is part of the, part of the, the trouble here is, is talking about the

00:19:14.740 Epstein files and staying focused on the things that are actually credible and that we need to

00:19:20.240 explore further. We need more answers about, you know, the idea that the president is willing to

00:19:25.980 tank the economy, sacrifice American soldiers, potentially destabilize the entire world. Also that 0.58

00:19:30.640 he can distract people from the Epstein files is, is, is something you see circulating on online.

00:19:35.580 I'm obviously a critic of the war, but I get very tired of this kind of midwit slop analysis, 0.97

00:19:40.320 which you hear with anything these days. Like anytime there's a new news event that happens,

00:19:46.200 the, the immediate analysis from the peanut gallery on social media is this is a distraction.

00:19:52.400 This is all about distracting us.

00:19:54.120 Now the fact of the matter is that everybody is distracted all the time anyway. It's a farce to

00:20:01.280 suggest that the government has to plot elaborate diversions so that people don't fixate on one

00:20:06.840 particular news story. A video of a monkey with a stuffed animal has been enough to distract people

00:20:13.300 for weeks as recent events have shown. I mean, frankly, the monkey video probably distracted more

00:20:19.660 people than the war in Iran. If you don't live in the DC bubble or on X, then you'll find most people

00:20:25.640 aren't actually spending much time thinking about Iran at this point. I mean, if the government really

00:20:30.540 wanted to create a diversion to distract us, they don't need anything elaborate. I mean, they could

00:20:35.460 just, for instance, like give a Nerf gun to a panda bear and post the video. That would be enough to

00:20:42.680 dominate our algorithms for the next six weeks. So the idea that an entire war was launched as nothing but

00:20:48.520 a distraction is just absurd. At the same time, the fact remains that there are still many unanswered

00:20:56.180 questions about Epstein. There is plenty of reason to suspect that we still are not getting the

00:21:02.640 complete story. The Epstein files themselves raise important questions that have objective yes or no

00:21:10.220 answers. The government has the capability to answer these questions. Millions of people in the United

00:21:15.300 States are interested in those answers and should be. And for that reason, whatever happens in Iran

00:21:24.400 or Cuba or Venezuela or anywhere else, we should stop with the piecemeal document dumps, release

00:21:30.280 everything, unredact any significant information. And then there should be a press conference where

00:21:36.960 they answer our questions as thoroughly as they possibly can. And until that happens, this is not going

00:21:43.980 away. And politically, it'll be something that continues to dog the administration into the

00:21:49.920 midterms, which is a disaster for the conservative movement and the country, regardless of what you

00:21:55.760 think about the Epstein story. Those are the stakes. We can either see total transparency from our

00:22:02.000 conservative leaders on this story, or we won't have those leaders for very long.

00:22:07.340 Now, let's get to our five headlines.

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00:23:16.500 Okay, the Post Millennial reports. Police in New York City are investigating another device

00:23:19.880 discovered on the Upper East Side on Sunday, just a day after an improvised explosive device

00:23:23.480 was thrown during a protest outside Gracie Mansion. Authorities said the device was located

00:23:27.780 inside a vehicle parked on East End Avenue between 81st Street and 82nd Street. Officers quickly

00:23:33.500 secured the area as situation unfolded. Discovery came less than 24 hours after the device was

00:23:39.180 ignited and thrown near Gracie Mansion during demonstrations on Saturday. According to Police

00:23:43.020 Commissioner Jessica Tish, the early device was confirmed to be an explosive device.

00:23:48.000 Quote, it's not a hoax device or a smoke bomb. It is, in fact, an improvised explosive device.

00:23:51.560 Two suspects, identified by police as Amir Balat and Ibrahim Kayoumi,

00:23:56.320 were arrested at the scene Saturday and remain in custody in connection with the incident.

00:24:04.080 So, these were bombs thrown at a demonstration, thrown by these two Muslim terrorists at right-wing 0.93

00:24:14.080 demonstrators. This was a demonstration against the Islamic takeover of New York City. And so, 0.97

00:24:23.240 these two Islamists show up and throw a bomb. Jake Lang was one of the people leading this 1.00

00:24:29.900 demonstration. And also, the terrorists confessed that they were inspired by ISIS. Daily Wire has

00:24:35.760 this. The FBI has reported looking at an attempted bombing New York City as a potential act of terror

00:24:39.400 after at least one of the suspects claimed that he had been inspired by ISIS. NBC News correspondent

00:24:44.440 Tom Winter reported on Sunday that one of the suspects referenced ISIS directly in statements to

00:24:49.740 law enforcement after his apprehension prompting the terror probe. Now, there are two other things

00:24:56.760 to show you. First of all, we'll show you this just on the screen. Here's a video of one of the

00:25:01.080 Muslim terrorists throwing the bomb. And there's a bunch of video that's come out. This is the 0.97

00:25:07.040 clearest one. You can see him right there. He lights it and throws it. Went with the kind of

00:25:11.220 Looney Tunes style bomb with the wick, like lighting the wick and throwing the bomb. Now, fortunately,

00:25:16.560 nobody was hurt. So this was an actual terrorist attack. And for that reason, very serious as any

00:25:23.480 attack is. But also, just about as incompetent and clumsy as a terrorist attack can get, thank God.

00:25:32.240 And now these morons are going to go to federal prison, having accomplished, not accomplished, 1.00

00:25:38.060 whatever it is they were trying to accomplish, whatever evil thing they were trying to accomplish. 1.00

00:25:41.200 And they should go for the rest of their lives, by the way. I mean, I'm a firm believer.

00:25:46.260 One of the many things that makes no sense to me about the way that about the criminal justice

00:25:49.700 system in this country is this is attempted, you know, when the crime for attempting something or

00:25:57.400 the sentence for attempting something is much, much less than actually doing the thing.

00:26:02.940 I don't see why, as far as the courts are concerned, that should matter.

00:26:06.840 I mean, if you attempt to do it, you should be treated as though you had successfully done it,

00:26:12.340 because you tried to. I mean, he tried to kill

00:26:17.180 several people. And so the court should treat him as though he had killed several people. The fact that

00:26:25.100 he didn't succeed in doing it is, in terms of the punishment, irrelevant, or it should be.

00:26:30.720 You shouldn't get points for the fact that you're incompetent. Like the fact that your incompetence

00:26:37.620 somehow managed to override your wickedness should not be something that gets you brownie points

00:26:43.500 when it comes to sentencing. And here's another piece of footage. This is apparently an FBI

00:26:48.400 raid on the house of one of the terrorists, his parents' house. He lives with his parents.

00:26:52.280 And you can see there, the FBI show, reportedly this is the FBI raid on the house. And you can also

00:27:00.240 see this is not a family in destitute poverty. Okay. They're living in what looks like, I'm guessing,

00:27:07.860 a, you know, 4,000 square foot house, maybe 4,500 square foot, upper middle-class home.

00:27:15.420 And, you know, million dollar home, 1.5 million, I would guess. It's not worth that. It's pretty

00:27:23.500 ugly, but still it's a, it's a nice big house by any measure. And to top it off, and this will not

00:27:30.580 shock you to learn at all, it's now been reported that both terrorists come from, of course, immigrant

00:27:36.040 families. Their parents, both of their parents became naturalized citizens over the past couple

00:27:41.080 of decades. One is from Turkey, the other is from Afghanistan. So to review, immigrants come to this 0.95

00:27:46.320 country, America welcomes them with open arms, makes them financially successful, gives them a

00:27:53.100 nice big house to live in, a house that is, would basically be a palace by Afghanistan standards.

00:27:59.200 And to repay us as a thank you, their children become terrorists. And actually, okay, so someone,

00:28:08.120 someone on X pulled up the Zillow on the house. Allegedly, this is the Zillow. So 1.7 million

00:28:15.780 dollars, 4,700 square feet, five bedrooms, four baths, less than half an acre of land.

00:28:23.420 So that's, you know, that's way too much money for an ugly McMansion on like a postage stamp property.

00:28:28.880 But still, that, that's all beside the point. The point is that these Muslim immigrants 1.00

00:28:33.580 came to the country, experienced the American dream, enjoyed prosperity well above what the

00:28:42.040 average American, actual American experiences. And this is what we get in return. And this is not

00:28:49.660 an aberration, by the way. I mean, a huge number of immigrants, especially immigrants from the Arab 0.91

00:28:53.680 world, produce children who despise the country. Now, most of them don't become terrorists. Some of

00:28:58.920 them do. But still, a huge number of them hate the country. And speaking of immigrants who hate the 0.98

00:29:05.340 country, how has the first Muslim mayor of New York responded to all of this, you might be asking?

00:29:10.420 Well, you don't need to ask. You know exactly, exactly what you thought he would do is what he

00:29:16.220 did. So here's the statement he issued over the weekend. I'll read it verbatim. Yesterday, white 0.98

00:29:23.380 supremacist Jake Lang organized a protest outside Gracie Mansion rooted in bigotry and racism.

00:29:28.280 Such hate has no place in New York City. It is an affront to our city's values and the unity that

00:29:32.540 defines who we are. What followed was even more disturbing. Violence at a protest is never

00:29:37.500 acceptable. The attempt to use an explosive device and hurt others is not only criminal,

00:29:41.140 it is reprehensible and the antithesis of who we are. I want to thank the brave men and women of the

00:29:45.660 NYPD who acted quickly to keep New Yorkers safe. Our officers ran toward danger without hesitation,

00:29:50.020 demonstrating once again the courage and dedication it takes to protect this city every single day.

00:29:53.900 My administration is closely monitoring the situation and I remain in close contact with our

00:29:57.300 police commissioner. So, well, that's good. He's monitoring it. Mamdani's lead, the thing he

00:30:03.000 opens with, is condemning Jake Lang and the anti-Muslim protesters. Notice also he doesn't even name

00:30:11.000 the terrorists. So he names one person in this statement and it's the victim or one of the intended

00:30:17.480 victims of this terrorist attack. He spends a paragraph at the top condemning white supremacy

00:30:23.720 before he gets around to saying anything about the terrorism, which is again exactly what you knew

00:30:31.680 he would do, but it's somehow even more gratuitous than I expected. And this morning he gave a press

00:30:38.380 conference, which he approached basically the same way. Watch.

00:30:41.780 This was a vile protest rooted in white supremacy entitled Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City.

00:30:50.080 I'm the first Muslim mayor of our city. Anti-Muslim bigotry is nothing new to me, 0.88

00:30:55.860 nor is it anything new for the one million or so Muslim New Yorkers who know this city as our home.

00:31:01.480 While I found this protest appalling, I will not waver in my belief that it should be allowed to happen.

00:31:06.900 Ours is a free society where the right to peaceful protest is sacred. It does not belong only to those

00:31:13.640 we agree with. It belongs to everyone. I will defend that right every day that I am mayor,

00:31:19.500 even when those protesting say things that I abhor. Let me also be clear about something else.

00:31:25.620 New York City will never tolerate violence, whether from protests or counter-protests.

00:31:31.520 Many of the counter-protesters met this display of bigotry peacefully,

00:31:35.020 with a vision of a city that is welcoming to all. But a few did not. Two men, Amir Balat and

00:31:43.520 Ibrahim Kayoumi, traveled from Pennsylvania and attempted to bring violence to New York City.

00:31:49.360 They are suspected of coming here to commit an act of terrorism. There is video of these two

00:31:54.940 individuals throwing two devices towards the protest. The police department has determined

00:31:59.760 that these were improvised explosive devices made to injure, maim, or worse. Thanks to the swift

00:32:06.760 and decisive actions of NYPD officers at the scene, both men were immediately taken into custody and the

00:32:13.700 devices they brought taken off of our streets. I want to commend the officers who were on site.

00:32:19.900 Now, needless to say, of course, if this was an anti-white protest, a BLM protest,

00:32:28.400 and somebody threw a bomb, he would spend precisely zero seconds condemning the protest itself.

00:32:34.960 But, but, and just as needless to say, that doesn't happen.

00:32:44.060 So, you know, leftists can protest and they can be violent as they want to be, and they can be as

00:32:51.020 provocative as they want to be, and they could do it feeling totally safe and secure because they know

00:32:56.320 that nothing's going to happen to them. They're probably not going to get arrested no matter what

00:33:00.000 they do, and they're not going to get attacked by right-wingers. But in this case, the fact is that

00:33:08.400 Mamdani, I mean, here's what it comes down to. Mamdani fundamentally agrees with the terrorists.

00:33:16.640 He may not agree with the idea of throwing a bomb, or maybe he does, but he agrees with them 0.99

00:33:23.460 ideologically. He sympathizes with them. And, you know, he couldn't be any clearer about that,

00:33:28.220 really. That's why, that's why to him, the lead, the most important part of this story is the fact

00:33:35.400 that these protesters were saying things that he finds upsetting. And this is what happens when we

00:33:41.840 import people who hate the country. It's also why we should deport not only these terrorists after

00:33:48.500 they serve their time in prison. I mean, they should be in prison forever, but that's not going to

00:33:52.480 happen. So after they serve, they should be deported, but we should also deport their entire families. 0.85

00:33:59.220 How about that for a policy?

00:34:02.600 You know, and it's a pretty low bar, but this should be an automatic policy.

00:34:08.560 Okay. If you commit a terrorist attack and you're an immigrant or a child of an immigrant,

00:34:13.800 your whole family is deported. Everybody, they all get deported.

00:34:17.820 Because if you come to this country and you then reveal that you hate this country, then obviously

00:34:24.520 you should be gone. But also if you come to this country and raise children who hate this country, 0.89

00:34:29.820 you should also be gone. I mean, like bare minimum standard for an immigrant is come to this country, 1.00

00:34:38.280 don't openly hate it, contribute. Right? I mean, if we're going to have, I'd like to just shut down

00:34:44.960 all immigration right now, but if you're going to have immigration, then bare minimum stuff,

00:34:50.720 bare minimum is you should, you can't openly hate the country, speak our language, right?

00:34:58.220 Contribute. Be a net, be a net positive for society. No welfare, no entitlements. And

00:35:08.040 don't raise immigrant children who become terrorists. Like that's, you said, bare minimum

00:35:15.140 that the bar is under the ground at that point. And if you can't get over that bar, then you're,

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00:36:34.560 All right. Here's something that interests me anyway. Mileage may vary. Fox reports SpaceX and

00:36:46.480 Tesla CEO Elon Musk gave a two-word retort after Anthropic leader Dario Amode claimed in an interview

00:36:52.620 that he isn't sure if his company's AI models have gained consciousness. Anthropic CEO says Claude may

00:37:00.820 or may not have gained consciousness as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety.

00:37:05.120 Read a post on X by cryptocurrency-based prediction market Polymarket, to which Musk replied he's

00:37:08.980 projecting. I don't really know what that means exactly. The comment from Musk, who's a founder

00:37:14.080 of XAI, comes as Anthropic is at odds with the Pentagon over its use in a separate matter.

00:37:19.020 In an interview with the New York Times, Amode, when asked about AI and consciousness,

00:37:23.380 said, we've taken a generally precautionary approach here, and we don't know if the models

00:37:27.260 are conscious. We're not even sure that we know what it would mean for a model to be conscious

00:37:31.900 or whether a model can be conscious, but we're open to the idea that it could be.

00:37:36.460 And then he goes on to talk about how they're showing symptoms of anxiety, these models are,

00:37:40.980 and that's why he thinks they're conscious. So we're going to hear a lot more of this kind

00:37:44.700 of thing in the near future. Claims of AI being conscious, gaining consciousness. And now as an

00:37:54.380 avowed AI hater, as an unabashed AI doomsday prophet, I will say that I find this to be absurd.

00:38:05.720 There is a very serious concern I have kind of related to this, which I'll get to, but the concern

00:38:12.300 is not that AI will become conscious. And to understand why that is, or why this is not

00:38:18.360 something that can probably happen, well, first you have to start by coming up with a definition

00:38:24.960 of what consciousness is. And I actually don't think that that's a very difficult question to

00:38:28.960 answer. The question of where consciousness comes from, how it works, what it means,

00:38:34.880 those are hard questions, but we must have some shared understanding of what it is, right? Some

00:38:43.620 shared frame of reference of what it is definitionally, or else we wouldn't be able to

00:38:47.440 talk about it. Uh, we won't be able to talk about it in a coherent way at all, but we do because I

00:38:52.560 think we do have a shared understanding and consciousness is, I would say, if I had to define

00:38:57.020 it, uh, the awareness and the experience of the self as a self, that's what I would say it is.

00:39:04.240 And maybe that sounds like a, you know, like a tautology, like a circular reasoning, the awareness

00:39:08.880 of self as self, but I don't think it is because self is being, right? A self is a being and to be

00:39:15.000 conscious is, is to, you know, uh, not only be sort of intellectually aware of beings, but to be aware

00:39:23.080 of your own being and to experience it in some way. So it's not just intellectual, it's experiential.

00:39:31.740 And that's important because it means that, um, you know, consciousness is self-evident. It exists.

00:39:37.700 You could be wrong about everything you think, everything you think could be wrong. You know,

00:39:44.640 your whole life could be an illusion. You could be in the matrix, yet you would still be conscious

00:39:50.680 because you're experiencing your own selfhood. You know, if, if, if, if your consciousness is

00:39:55.680 being deceived, well, there is a consciousness that is being deceived. So you are at least

00:39:59.660 conscious, you know, that, but there is no experience, you know, of being AI. I would strongly

00:40:05.000 suspect, you know, it's, it's not, it, there isn't anything that it's like to be AI, that there's

00:40:13.540 no experience of being AI. So put it this way, if you were to suddenly magically become

00:40:20.660 AI, you would not be morphing from one state of being to another. You would just simply be

00:40:28.100 obliterated. Like your consciousness would not be morphing into a different kind of consciousness.

00:40:32.500 That would just be obliteration. You know, for, for you to become AI would be like becoming a rock

00:40:37.700 or something. There is no, there's no, you're just ceasing to be. Now, on the other hand,

00:40:42.640 in some kind of thought experiment, if you were to imagine, uh, some sort of medical experiment in the

00:40:48.660 future, some sci-fi thing where you turn into a dog, well, we can assume that, that probably there's

00:40:55.620 some kind of experience of being a dog, a much more rudimentary experience, but there's probably

00:41:02.020 some kind of experience. So if you were to become a dog, you would not be ceasing to be, you would

00:41:07.200 just be changed quite fundamentally and profoundly. Uh, but with AI, there's no experience there.

00:41:12.140 You know, consciousness is the, is the awareness and experience of self and AI doesn't have that

00:41:17.680 and never will, I would think. And I also think that, um, probably some kind of sensory experience

00:41:26.400 is necessary in order to be conscious. I don't know that I'm just kind of theorizing, but we, we formulate

00:41:34.280 our notion of selfhood through our experience of the outside world and other people. That's how babies

00:41:41.340 develop their sense of self, uh, their consciousness, you know, newborn infants are

00:41:45.880 certainly human beings, obviously infinitely valuable, create God's precious creation.

00:41:51.920 Uh, but they also are certainly not fully conscious to the degree that you and me are. They're not fully

00:41:56.300 self-aware. And, uh, in fact, as we understand it, it's actually, you know, it's actually, it's,

00:42:01.560 I think it's quite beautiful in many ways, um, that newborn babies do not perceive themselves as

00:42:07.320 being separate from their mothers. They sort of see themselves as extensions of their mothers.

00:42:12.860 They don't, they don't perceive any separation, you know? And, uh, that's why separation anxiety

00:42:18.680 for a baby doesn't set in until, I don't know, four or five, six months, because until that point,

00:42:24.100 they don't perceive that it's possible to be separate. Um, and then once separation anxiety

00:42:29.340 kicks in, it's like they've, they've perceived that they are their own being and that they can be

00:42:34.940 separate from their mother and they don't want to be separate from their mother. And so that's

00:42:37.720 where a lot of that comes in. Um, but the point is that awareness of self, true consciousness comes

00:42:44.020 online sort of gradually for the baby and it's developed through, uh, I would think sensory

00:42:51.280 experience. Like one of the really funny things about a baby, when you watch a very young, like

00:42:57.600 newborn is you see them staring at their own hands, you know, or like hitting themselves in the

00:43:02.580 face with their hands cause they can't control their hands because they don't understand that

00:43:06.400 their hand is them. They don't, they don't have a, they don't understand that their body belongs to

00:43:11.200 them. And, uh, but over time they begin to perceive they're like, Oh, that's my hand. I can control that.

00:43:16.520 That's me. That's me. And they start to perceive through sensory experience, touch, sight, hearing all

00:43:24.100 these things. They start to perceive that they are, you know, they, they start to sort of understand

00:43:28.880 where they end and the rest of the world begins and they develop this awareness of self.

00:43:34.380 And I would imagine that a baby with no sensory experience at all.

00:43:40.480 Yeah. I don't mean just like a deaf baby or a blind baby. I mean, no sensory experience, 0.91

00:43:44.140 a baby that if you can imagine someone who's born, cannot see, can't hear, can't feel, can't taste,

00:43:51.600 can't smell, zero sensory experience of any kind. I would imagine that somebody like that born that

00:43:58.580 way would never develop full consciousness because there's no way for them to experience the outside

00:44:03.700 world, which is a necessary condition for experiencing the self as distinct from the

00:44:08.440 outside world. So anyway, bringing that back to AI among other issues, AI has no sensory experience.

00:44:14.300 So not only does it lack the complexities of the human mind and the biological material that I would

00:44:18.460 think is a prerequisite, but it's also, uh, it, it, there's no way to conscious, to, to experience

00:44:25.680 the world physically. Uh, so is it possible for a non-sensory, non-embodied

00:44:33.720 system to have any kind of thing that, that resembles what we talk about when we talk about

00:44:43.500 consciousness? I would think it's probably not. And imagining that it's kind of like imagining a

00:44:47.640 square circle. It's imagining something that is, that is literally unimaginable. And so anyway,

00:44:52.560 the real risk in my view, which I am extremely worried about is that AI becomes, so disregard all

00:45:01.300 the babbling I just did. Here's the real problem. AI will become, is already becoming very good at

00:45:10.020 convincing a lot of people that it is conscious. And so you get kind of a version of philosophers

00:45:19.640 talking about something called a philosophical zombie, which is something that it's kind of a

00:45:23.680 thought experiment, something that acts and speaks entirely as though it has consciousness, even though

00:45:29.880 it actually has no genuine inner experience at all. And that's what AI is or what it's becoming in my

00:45:36.460 mind. It's like a philosophical zombie. And when this happens with AI, and we're already seeing this,

00:45:46.080 um, and it's happening now already when, with my experience with it, it's, it's not very good at

00:45:52.440 pretending to be a conscious person, but it's good enough already to fool plenty of people.

00:45:57.780 And what's going to happen is that millions of very lonely people will isolate themselves from the

00:46:05.980 world even more, believing that their relationship with AI is a sufficient substitute for human

00:46:12.500 interaction. So, you know, the nightmare scenario is a world where the average human, uh, has friends,

00:46:20.800 has coworkers, even a spouse who are all really AI, all, all, all really nothing. You know,

00:46:26.880 there's kind of nothing going on inside and, but that's a sufficient substitute. So that's,

00:46:31.140 that's the, the, the nightmare scenario is not one where it's like a Terminator future and the

00:46:36.880 robots are conscious and they enslave mankind. I mean, maybe that happens, but that's not what

00:46:41.080 I'm worried about. What I'm worried about is, is a future where you have millions of people who are

00:46:46.720 completely isolated from the outside world and all of their human interaction is really just

00:46:52.580 interaction with these AI systems that are able to fool them into thinking that they're basically real

00:46:58.400 people. And what does that world look like? What does that society look like? Well, I think we're going

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00:48:09.340 that there's a shocking revolutionary countercultural article, unlike anything that you've heard from

00:48:22.080 the mainstream media before. And here's the caption for the article on X, and here's what it says.

00:48:30.500 Sooner or later, everyone has to decide whether to give up lazy weekends, disposable income,

00:48:34.600 and overall peace of mind to have a baby instead. For many of those on the fence, one anxiety looms

00:48:40.280 large. What if I make the wrong choice? Parent regret is more common than you might imagine.

00:48:46.160 The Reddit regretful parents alone gets around 70,000 weekly visitors who anonymously commiserate,

00:48:53.100 though stigma finds it hard to admit in real life. Writer Bindu Bansanath, good American name,

00:49:00.820 speaks with three moms of young children about why they wish they could go back to their old lives.

00:49:06.360 Okay, so parental regret is the topic. And I admit I didn't actually read the article because it's

00:49:12.260 behind a paywall, and I'm not going to pay for that. But I think we've already heard enough to,

00:49:15.900 you know, understand the basic argument being made, which is the same argument that the

00:49:19.320 antinatalist nihilistic media always makes. And which is that, you know, having kids is terrible,

00:49:25.220 and parents regret it, and it ruins their life. Now, there are two things that I would say in

00:49:29.840 response. First of all, this is a false choice. I get really tired of the absurd kind of false

00:49:34.820 dilemma we're constantly presented with. We're told that parents, you know, have to decide whether

00:49:39.840 to give up disposable income, lazy Saturdays, peace of mind. You can give it up and have kids,

00:49:47.480 or you can keep all that and not have kids, but that is not correct. You know, I reject that false

00:49:56.000 binary. I am non-binary when it comes to that. Because I'll take it all. You know, I'm greedy 0.83

00:50:01.260 in that way. You can have it all. I mean, you can't have it all in the sense of having everything

00:50:04.360 you want in life, but you can have the things I just mentioned and also have kids. That is a

00:50:08.380 possible thing to do. You can have disposable income. You can have lazy weekends with kids.

00:50:16.140 I mean, maybe not quite as lazy, but still pretty lazy. And you can have peace of mind. I don't know

00:50:20.200 why you'd be giving that up at all. The idea that you have to give up one to have the other

00:50:25.220 is a reflection of your own lack of ambition. You know, your own lack of imagination of anything.

00:50:29.880 It's not some kind of law inscribed into the cosmos. It's not physics. It's not gravity.

00:50:36.840 I'm not saying that parenting requires no sacrifice. Of course it does. You'll have to sacrifice money,

00:50:42.180 time, even some of your Saturdays, God forbid. But you don't have to write those things off. You can

00:50:47.620 still work towards a life with kids, with a family that is basically peaceful, includes plenty of time

00:50:53.340 for relaxation, and also includes financial prosperity. The second point is that there is

00:51:00.540 only one thing that will make you chronically miserable as a parent. There's really just one

00:51:05.240 thing. And that thing is selfishness. Okay. Immense joys are available to parents, a unique kind of

00:51:12.460 happiness that non-parents cannot experience. But those joys do require you to, you know, kind of

00:51:19.240 pull your head out of your own ass for long enough to experience them. And if you can't do that, if you 0.99

00:51:23.980 refuse to, then yeah, you'll be miserable all the time. But the good news, if you want to call it that,

00:51:29.600 is that selfish people are miserable no matter what they do. So whether you have kids or not, so like

00:51:34.460 there's no reason to regret it. You would have been miserable even without kids.

00:51:39.420 happiness. Your circumstances don't determine your happiness nearly as much as you think they do.

00:51:45.540 You know, circumstances can make happiness a little bit more or less easy to obtain, but they

00:51:49.940 don't determine it. And this is a lesson that everybody learns as you grow older, or, you know,

00:51:56.360 if you're a mature person, you learn it. It's like people say, well, you know, money doesn't buy

00:52:02.680 happiness. Well, it's true in a sense. Like if you have no money, if you're broke and you fantasize

00:52:09.540 about having money and you think that, well, once I have money, if I have real money, I'll be just

00:52:14.820 exuberant with joy every second of the day. And then many people discover if they get to the point

00:52:20.300 where they have a lot of money and they had no money before, what they find is that, yeah, it does

00:52:25.900 a great job of warding off financial anxiety, which is great. But, you know, what you find is

00:52:35.320 that, okay, like I have money now, but I'm still, I'm still me. My life is still my life. It's, it's,

00:52:40.460 you know, I still have to live day to day. It's not a source of just constant happiness. Like I'm not

00:52:46.260 just looking at my bank account every second of the day and being overwhelmed with happiness. It's kind

00:52:50.720 of like once, once you're in that circumstance, you almost immediately take it for granted and,

00:52:55.560 okay, this is my circumstance now. And, um, and if you expect that in and of itself to make you

00:53:03.440 happy, then you're not going to be happy. And, um, and that's the same thing with kids. You know,

00:53:10.660 if you're an unhappy person with kids, it's because you are an unhappy person without kids. Kids,

00:53:16.440 kids are not going to make you unhappy. They also won't make you happy in the sense of just sort of

00:53:22.940 forcing you to be happy. Right. It's not like, it's like, um, think about wetness, being wet.

00:53:34.220 That's a matter of circumstance. If you jump into water, you'll be wet. So if your problem is that

00:53:40.020 you're too hot and you, you know, you jump into water, well, you'll solve that problem.

00:53:43.840 Water, in a sense, forces you to be wet, right? Um, kids don't force you to be happy. Family life

00:53:52.960 doesn't force you to be happy. It doesn't result in happiness the way that jumping in the water

00:53:58.800 results in you being wet or the way that two plus two results in four. It's not like that. What it

00:54:04.960 does is it opens up the opportunity for a unique and in many ways kind of indescribable

00:54:11.520 kind of happiness. It makes it available to you. It invites you into that kind of happiness,

00:54:19.440 but you can decline the invitation. I mean, you can definitely be miserable with kids

00:54:24.380 and you can be more miserable than you were before. Let's be honest about that because family life

00:54:32.100 invites you into a particular and particularly profound kind of happiness. If you decline

00:54:37.320 that invitation, then as a consequence, you will have a particular and particularly profound kind

00:54:43.500 of misery. That's true. And that's because the type of happiness on offer is happiness in the

00:54:52.360 truest sense. It's not just pleasure or, you know, entertainment or whatever. It's, it's, uh,

00:54:58.380 it's happiness and happiness in its purest form is by definition unselfish. So you have to be willing

00:55:04.620 to step outside of yourself to, to look at something other than your own reflection in

00:55:09.060 the mirror. And some parents are just not willing to do that. They never do it. They never get out

00:55:16.160 of their own heads. They never get out of their own egos. And so they suffer as parents, they suffer,

00:55:22.220 um, in a life where great joy is, is right there. It's right in reach, but they won't stretch out

00:55:30.800 their arms and grab it. And this is the case a hundred percent of the time, a hundred percent

00:55:37.260 of the parents that you encounter who are absolutely miserable and hate being a parent. I'm not denying

00:55:42.620 that those people exist. They do. But in a hundred percent of cases, the reason why they're so miserable

00:55:49.320 is because they are too selfish to allow themselves to experience the great joy that is available to

00:55:58.120 them. And then that, and that just, and then it's compounding because that just makes them more

00:56:02.680 miserable. Right. And, um, and the kind of happiness is available to you is, uh, it's, it's like, it's

00:56:11.460 when you're a parent, it's all around you all the time. And there's also a lot of annoyances that are

00:56:15.660 available to you all the time. There's a lot of inconvenience. There's a lot of annoyance. There's a

00:56:20.460 lot of, you know, you have to do things you'd rather not have to do. You have to, you know,

00:56:23.860 there are, I'd like to just hang out on a Saturday morning, but I got to go do this, do this for the

00:56:28.800 kids, whatever. So you do have that all the time. That's always all around you, but you also have

00:56:34.740 these little joys that are always around you also. And it's totally up to you what you choose to focus

00:56:38.900 on. I mean, it's completely up to you what you choose to focus on. Um, and, and that's, and that's,

00:56:50.980 and that's the mistake that a lot of parents make. It is available to you. And if you're,

00:56:56.980 if, if you're miserable as a parent, it's because you're choosing to focus on the wrong thing.

00:57:02.680 And that's the case for parenting. That's the case for so much of life that your happiness depends

00:57:09.920 on what you focus on. And with parenting, there are so many opportunities to miss what is beautiful

00:57:16.960 and sacred because you're choosing to focus on the inconveniences and the annoyances in those

00:57:25.420 moments. You know, it's like if you're sitting on the beach and staring at the ocean, uh, you know,

00:57:32.760 and the sun is setting over the ocean or something, and you could focus on that, on this, this great

00:57:40.420 beauty that's in front of you, or you could focus on the fact that you're sitting in the sand and the

00:57:43.560 sand is kind of itchy and it's like getting into your shorts and that's annoying. You can focus on

00:57:48.480 either one. They're both real things, but if you choose to, you know, if you leave that experience

00:57:56.360 of watching the sunset as a, and you choose to see it as a negative experience because you were itchy

00:58:02.080 because of the sand, well, that's, that, that is entirely a function of what you decided to focus on

00:58:06.960 in that moment. And it's really up to you, but it requires that you get out of your own head. You

00:58:16.220 have, you have to, you have to, this invitation to happiness is there as a parent. You have to

00:58:20.640 accept the invitation. And if you're unhappy, it's because you haven't accepted it, but you can

00:58:27.080 and, and you should, but it's up to you. All right. That will do it for the show today. We'll wrap it up

00:58:34.480 there. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.

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