The Tucker Carlson Show - January 05, 2026


Tucker and Mike Cernovich on Nicolas Maduro’s Capture, Charlie Kirk’s Murder, and Battling Demons


Episode Stats

Length

2 hours and 17 minutes

Words per Minute

193.17064

Word Count

26,624

Sentence Count

15

Misogynist Sentences

10

Hate Speech Sentences

74


Summary

On this episode of the podcast, we are joined by former US Navy SEAL and retired US Army Special Operations Command Chief Master Sergeant Mike McCartan, who served as a member of the elite US Special Operations forces unit known as the Delta Force. Mike is a veteran of the Special Operations community who served with the elite Special Operations units of the United States Navy SEALs and the elite Venezuelan Special Operations Forces (DSO) and is a regular contributor to the Venezuelan media. He is also a frequent contributor to Venezuelan media and the Venezuelan press.


Transcript

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00:00:29.340 life insurance company thank you mike for doing this so what do you think of the apprehension of
00:00:39.580 nicolas maduro i'm i'm dealing with a lot of because i spent a lot of time online which you don't and i
00:00:46.540 think there's pros and cons to each for sure and the the pro is that you're really plugged in the con is
00:00:54.300 that if you read the comments which i do you really take a lashing every day like i just a lot because
00:01:00.820 you can't by by virtue of taking a position you just get lashed by one side or the other heard that so
00:01:07.380 now apparently i'm a neocon again i'm a neocon which is bizarre because i was pro the the raid on maduro
00:01:14.040 and people say well therefore you're a neocon and the answer you're not a neocon which is so that's
00:01:18.920 why it's interesting that you were in favor of course but if you're if you're online yeah of course but
00:01:22.340 if you're online you're whatever the most extreme that's what they call you and no i'm not i'm not
00:01:26.780 and i'm not an interventionist either but there's a i feel like we're always stuck between this false
00:01:33.800 dialectic of you either do nothing or boots on the ground we need full marine battalions to take the
00:01:40.220 beachheads whereas i've always been approach i've always been a fan of the trump approach which is use
00:01:45.400 delta we have these guys do targeted strikes remind the world that the usa is still a world power
00:01:51.080 even though we might not feel that way and exercise our might for for a good purpose so people
00:01:58.760 say well this is iraq or afghanistan again and i go the people of venezuela are not the people have
00:02:04.340 they're not the same people right as afghanistan it's a different people we've had special forces
00:02:09.200 there for three four decades we've had business interests there for decades the people of venezuela
00:02:16.020 voted out maduro or tried to and they couldn't get rid of them so we went in and we got rid of
00:02:21.140 them so obviously i oppose escalation and whatever but the parade of horrors especially after so mania
00:02:28.080 just hasn't happened yet and that's because i've talked a lot of special operations guys during the
00:02:34.800 trump admin and his the way his approach differed and this was covered a little bit in the media but
00:02:41.400 not enough is under obama they just didn't let the d boys and them run missions they everything had to
00:02:48.520 get approval and work up the chain and by the time it happened they didn't have their targets
00:02:51.620 and the trump approach was we we have these people they're trained the the the level of the missions
00:02:58.940 that they can accomplish which we saw on video is unbelievable right he lets them he lets them do the
00:03:05.200 missions they do the targeted strikes i've i've always been supportive of that yeah um i don't
00:03:12.460 know if i mean i've got a double stack staccato nine in my bedside drawer i've never used it i don't feel
00:03:16.640 the need to use it but i mean just because like but no i well i'll just tell you what i'm grateful for
00:03:23.460 and i'm grateful for the wisdom of not taking out the entire government not because i support the
00:03:30.200 government but because you know we have clear models in iraq and libya and a lot of syria
00:03:35.380 like it can be very hard to put those things back together again and the fact that they appear to be
00:03:41.700 backing delsey rodriguez not because they love her but because they're in favor of stability over chaos
00:03:46.400 and her brother and they're kind of you know keeping the structure in place but making sure it's pro-american
00:03:53.920 that seems like a much wiser approach that makes me calm down a little bit right yeah the the problem
00:04:02.060 that everybody the neoliberal and even some people on the right have is they don't understand that you
00:04:09.700 needed a strong man like saddam hussein to keep all these religious sex together and it's obviously
00:04:14.520 it's obvious in hindsight right but at the time people either didn't know and in my opinion they
00:04:19.800 didn't know i think that's people people were just generally clueless like i remember i spent time
00:04:24.220 with my wife in vietnam and you'd roam around all over the place and i remember we did the tours of
00:04:29.760 the caves and all i could think of was the tunnels not even the tunnels yet just the caves and the jungle
00:04:37.660 and all i could think of was i can't even fit in through here what in the world are we doing
00:04:42.520 sending 18 year old corn fed boys and black guys into the vietnam jungles because if anybody
00:04:48.760 had done any kind of advanced recon you would just say our guys are too big for the territory
00:04:53.220 you would literally just go through there's there's just a lot to be said for looking at the real estate
00:04:58.560 right and you would walk through and forget the tunnel rats and all the other ways that they were
00:05:03.380 buried in you would just say there's no way we can send our people out here this is just a completely
00:05:07.700 different area and then vietnam people have always tried to conquer them for thousands of years and
00:05:14.120 they actually take pride not being conquered and the foreign policy elite of course just said well
00:05:18.780 we're going to do vietnam and it was the same thing with iraq and libya oh all people are the same
00:05:23.860 everybody's the same right we'll just remove salam hussein and everything will be fine then of course
00:05:28.620 you have a mess but with venezuela and latin america they're they're just pretty much like us
00:05:35.400 it's a little bit of different culture but they've been influenced by the europeans they've been
00:05:40.100 influenced by catholic church they're running a like similar operating system you can communicate
00:05:46.880 to them in sort of like a shared language so even though people have doctrinal debates and everybody
00:05:52.200 wants debates religion and what's the truth which to me is like the most boring thing in the world
00:05:56.160 like if somebody's a christian and i'm a christian you're gonna maybe disagree about can you drink
00:06:02.520 can you do this right what is this but you're still in the same language right you're still able to
00:06:09.000 you're still like close enough that you can you share a framework like you can understand what
00:06:13.780 someone's saying yeah we didn't share a framework middle east no which is a big problem so in
00:06:18.100 venezuela it's a different it's a different situation and i also like that the air defense
00:06:24.840 was completely disabled even in the iran strike that happened a few months ago we disabled their
00:06:30.760 air system we sent a message and i think we need to send a message the i'm sounding like a neocon
00:06:36.400 that's why i hate that neocon i hate that neocons ruined it for all of us i hate that neocons
00:06:41.660 ruined the discussion where you can't just talk about how it's good to have military might
00:06:47.200 it's good to remind the world that we exist and that we can do these things we being the united
00:06:51.920 states of america it's good to remind people that we're still running the tables but you talk like
00:06:58.080 that and you sound again like you does it belong at the weekly standard or something well i mean you
00:07:03.720 still have a chance to pivot against the neocons because the bb people literally bb's office is
00:07:09.520 pushing for mcm this machado lady the the gay marriage lady the klaus schwab accolite um who is
00:07:17.920 supposed to be the nobel prize winner actually who's supposed to be the president and waiting
00:07:22.420 and trump has said flat out no she has no support we're not doing that but the neocons are pushing
00:07:28.340 for her they don't want uh the vice president to ascend to the presidency so you can say that's
00:07:34.420 crazy well i knew when she won the nobel peace prize i actually posted we're going to go into
00:07:38.940 venezuela yeah i i you can just check the receipt but not with her well no but the point is that's
00:07:44.420 how the table gets set you can all by now by now you can tell the future if you just know that they
00:07:49.720 always set the table a little bit beforehand and the minute she won the nobel peace prize and then
00:07:54.580 praise trump oh no thank you for this but and then she's immediately kind of schmoozing with trump
00:08:00.000 i go oh yeah we're going into venezuela i don't need any inside i don't need any i don't need any
00:08:05.200 top secret sources that was all i needed to see so whoever we send i don't know i just send rubio
00:08:10.800 i i'm just i'm i'm where we went wrong and i've had this conversation with everybody from
00:08:16.960 line infantry guys to people who did the higher level stuff in afghanistan as they said we just didn't
00:08:22.440 want to rule the country we we went in and we won all the military engagements this is another
00:08:27.720 thing too why i'm glad the venezuela mission happened i was so i got so triggered man the way
00:08:34.940 that even people politically aligned with us would talk about the american fighting man
00:08:39.740 oh they they can't win a war they got beat by people who wear flip-flops and say no they didn't
00:08:45.000 we took almost no casualties in afghanistan and i think the last year we were there i'm not even
00:08:49.640 sure if there was a single casualty it was occupation that was lost and these are just
00:08:53.540 completely different things so i i think it's good to just remind people no that was all black
00:08:59.160 pill doomerism because of poor leadership by people like millie and biden and the woke generals and that
00:09:06.160 we we have a it's unreal we should take great pride in the people that we have in delta and seals and
00:09:13.840 special operations of course but i mean they're not making the policy decisions they're not that
00:09:18.140 they're the instruments of other people's decisions they they are but they it's a two-way
00:09:22.800 street these guys are not potted plants right of course not but i'm merely saying you can't hold
00:09:27.960 you know a man with a gun in his hand responsible for the decision to be there with a gun in his hand
00:09:34.140 like he was told to do that by someone in dc yeah yeah there with with i don't know i i think that
00:09:40.600 with i think that to have retention at these higher level these higher level units i think is
00:09:48.180 the dc people they obviously have an opinion but i think i think those guys get more of a vote than
00:09:53.120 we might give them credit for they obviously can't just say well i'm not gonna go do this
00:09:57.180 but they you know they have a these are strong-willed people like i've met enough of these guys
00:10:01.920 one they're extremely impressive it's just a different caliber of person and it's very humbling
00:10:08.380 because because i would say oh i couldn't do this you know maybe some aspect of it i could but i
00:10:12.280 couldn't i i don't have any um delusions that i would have been a squadron commander in delta force
00:10:18.420 or whatever these are unbelievably impressive people yeah they are so they're they're not just
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00:12:59.520 else does so if the administration pulls this off and the country remains intact and you know you don't
00:13:06.480 have various generals occupying oil fields and claiming them for their own you don't have a civil war
00:13:11.680 you don't have a migrant crisis that you know wrecks colombia or winds up here if venezuelans in the united
00:13:18.240 states return to venezuela immediately as i think they should be required to do like immediately
00:13:23.360 um venezuelan nationals then you know that that is amazing that will be amazing and i'm praying for
00:13:30.580 that yeah it's always good i mean it's always good to look what look at what victory looks like and
00:13:36.400 so you think this is victory no it's good to think what victory would look like yes this was this was
00:13:43.600 the first step i think it was a good step but victory looks like we install our person who is
00:13:52.000 aligned but you can't have a puppet because then every because remember with 2028 it's not guaranteed
00:13:57.400 so we have to think longer term too and you want to get a person who's aligned and is has their own
00:14:05.200 point of view but generally is going to do the right thing the people of venezuela that do they were
00:14:09.740 eating that i mean you're in florida you talk to anybody in florida they're thrilled that that
00:14:15.980 this happened that maduro is out of power a lot of these people they had their farms taken their land
00:14:20.140 taken see i don't care about that like you show up in our country you adopt our concerns and importing
00:14:26.420 your homeland's conflicts into my country and making those the basis of my foreign policy should
00:14:33.340 strip you your citizenship immediately like what i mean i don't know like i'm not advocating for
00:14:40.600 anything in sweden or great britain i mean i do you know what i mean like stop they were during
00:14:46.540 during world war one though that's what we the anglos who founded the country so i guess
00:14:51.180 they were allowed to do it but if you go back and read the debates around world war one a lot of it was
00:14:55.720 about well we should go back because that's the homeland and people are naturally going to do that which
00:15:00.100 is why jim which is why i support immigration moratorium everything but you i don't know i'm
00:15:06.080 i guess i'm more of a pragmatist and idealist we live in the world sort of as it is and florida used
00:15:11.140 to be a swing state it's deep red now venezuelans who come over are anti-communist we need anti-communist
00:15:17.300 miami anti like i'll give you an example so if i if i if you hold events i mean you're way too famous
00:15:25.240 at this point god help you is i mean that like sincerely like god help you um if you go to
00:15:32.820 miami and antifa or somebody showed up the cubans would just say what do you get out of here like
00:15:36.840 we're gonna well they did that during blm we're gonna like beat your asses miami had no meaningful
00:15:41.920 blm riots tampa did why because tampa is the only majority white city in florida that's why right so
00:15:48.540 it's just like pussy whites indulging that and the cubans and venezuelans who come in and live
00:15:53.860 under communism so i if i if i look at the whole picture sometimes it's good to get a little
00:15:58.620 injection of people who lit you know who lived under that because they're gonna they're gonna see it
00:16:04.600 not as an abstract philosophical gentlemanly debate about oh should we allow wealth confiscation and for
00:16:10.720 your homelands to be destroyed they see it as a fight for survival so i i get it i just it to take
00:16:16.860 the attention away from our country which as far as i'm concerned is not thriving doesn't seem to be
00:16:23.120 from driving around or there's some problems that need to be addressed big problems imminent problems
00:16:28.320 and i don't know to spend all your time worrying about cuba like i don't i love the cubans here
00:16:35.200 love them but how much money do you want to spend out of like your kids college fund on regime changing
00:16:41.880 cuba i i'm more of an imperialist i guess than you like where we live in rome the empires do and
00:16:50.020 empires do like i i just look what happened to rome and london well and i mean venice and every other
00:16:56.840 and the seat of every other empire rome rome lasted a long time it did till the fall of constantinople
00:17:02.320 which was well that now he's doing the holy roman empire okay you're you're adding a few centuries
00:17:08.920 on there just notice i remember it's a funny story actually i remember i was because i you know i'm
00:17:15.200 argumentative sometimes and i remember in my 20s i would always hear people say oh this is like the
00:17:21.340 fall of the the roman empire i was like i wonder what that means well this is all pre-internet too so
00:17:26.280 you couldn't just read read twitter all day and have people summarize it and so i bought gibbons
00:17:32.940 the decline of fall the roman empire all three volumes and the single most boring treatment ever
00:17:37.720 written it's very well written though and i just kept reading and reading and reading and reading
00:17:42.200 and reading and i think i got the abridged six volume whatever i made it through three of six
00:17:46.840 and i go there's a lot to rome i don't know if we could just say there's a singular point
00:17:51.620 i totally agree oh this is where it's just like the decline of fall so i'm more i'm more um
00:17:58.480 bolshevik piled on the time we're in like i think we're much more closer to the time of franco or the
00:18:05.940 time of the czar in russia and you know like mystery grove when he republished those books i read all
00:18:10.720 those and i did too i had no real under like the white i remember actually it was funny when you said uh
00:18:16.060 where's the white army and then all these websites try to say he's he was a nazi army and i was like
00:18:20.800 you historical literates it was the white army it was the people fighting the white army yeah yeah
00:18:25.460 no no but you realize how illiterate oh they thought that i meant like white pig that like the
00:18:29.300 david duke army or something yeah no i know i mean again no i know i remember and i was like
00:18:33.900 wow these people are just illiterate historic illiterates and no because you would send the
00:18:39.720 monologue like where's our white army and immediately it was like twitter was like lighting
00:18:43.540 up tucker carlson this is why i don't look at it that's yeah and spiriting and uh no but that's
00:18:49.240 really how illiterate people are and people who write for a living who should know better right
00:18:53.240 because i didn't know what the white army was until i was under lockdown on covid covid covid in a way was
00:18:59.900 the worst thing that happened to regime propaganda yes because everybody was locked in and we had all
00:19:06.340 these smart people who are just like posting things and you'd have these long threads and i go i
00:19:11.000 never general franco all i knew about general franco was he's a fascist right general franco was bad
00:19:15.360 um the republicans were good and that was my understanding of it uh cortez was bad the
00:19:20.980 conquistadors were evil men they were there were great wicked people okay that was that's what i
00:19:25.360 learned in school bullshit revolution i kind of had a sense that it happened and the communists won and
00:19:30.780 it wasn't good but i didn't realize the full evil right and then with covid you're like wait a minute
00:19:37.080 people just posting books i'm like well i guess i'll just keep reading you know i was reading like
00:19:40.800 three four books a week right and be like you realize oh no we're not living under the fall of
00:19:48.560 rome we're living under the time of the spanish civil war or the the bullshit revolution that's
00:19:54.380 what we're living under well i agree i agree with that and it's about it's spiritual war as both of
00:19:58.760 those were the french revolution same revolutions of 1848 same it's all the same so we need we need
00:20:04.940 the cubans and the venezuelans and the people who i agree i just want to focus on the united states to
00:20:09.360 keep it from becoming well that's it's yeah but it's like tied together so so let me okay so it
00:20:16.160 does since you read gibbon um and bless you for getting through that it took me almost a year to
00:20:21.560 read that whole thing because it's so tough but um it's a different it's a different writing style
00:20:26.380 it is a different writing style and it's but it's worth it so so when you read the older books
00:20:29.980 which is especially good as we get up there in the years there they have you know because i write
00:20:35.760 short punchy boom boom boom but then i have to remind myself you got to go back and read to where
00:20:40.360 you read a full paragraph and you're like wait a minute i need to actually pay attention to what
00:20:45.000 i'm reading the flow is a little bit different and it's a much denser kind of writing and a book
00:20:50.800 length idea can be fully formed right but okay but since you're interested in rome there was this
00:20:57.760 pit i mean the pivot really was not the fall of rome that was the end and you're you're giving
00:21:02.360 istanbul credit for being rome uh okay but in the fifth century rome the place was invaded by the
00:21:09.720 german tribes and collapsed so the big pivot though was the move from republic to empire
00:21:15.620 and it kind of feels like that's where we are it but we're afraid to be an empire right but maybe
00:21:23.940 what we saw two days ago is the beginning of a period we're like okay we're an empire we're embracing
00:21:29.240 it that that was that's why i mean that's my hope is america you know american imperialism
00:21:33.600 because i believe we're just the moral people i believe we're a christian people i believe that
00:21:38.740 the venezuela i believe in like i believe that the greatest spiritual battle is the and i don't mean
00:21:48.520 to sound like utopian or sound like a bolshevik myself because some of this that's why again the left
00:21:53.580 and the neocons like they took all this they they ruined they ruined everything because you end up
00:21:59.680 sounding like a leftist utopian or you you sound like a neocon when you say these things but i just
00:22:04.920 i believe in my heart that america is the most righteous country that has ever lived that that
00:22:11.200 western europe if it if it doesn't fall needs needs to remain upright and that human suffering will
00:22:19.440 be reduced by what was done in venezuela so i think that's one way that i look at foreign policy is
00:22:25.180 in the middle east we created human suffering on a on a scale that's catastrophic and
00:22:29.520 vietnam especially too like that's one thing that always annoys me that i think the cambodian genocide
00:22:35.760 should be taught in our schools because one it was because of communism and pol pot and two it was
00:22:41.400 our fault because we were using cambodian airspace and that's what led to pol pot's rise and
00:22:47.040 propping up prince cianuk and the whole thing no it was you're absolutely right so if we have a
00:22:51.700 national guilt we should actually have a national guilt over the cambodian genocide and we never
00:22:56.520 rebuilt it we just sort of left them to live in squalor well you know who did fix it actually was
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00:24:17.500 you heard it here first but okay so i i guess i haven't quite figured out what i think i have a lot
00:24:26.960 of thoughts obviously i'm totally opposed and have been since a rock since 2003 to anything like this
00:24:33.520 on the other hand i'm thinking to myself maybe well maybe i'm not in charge of history okay that's
00:24:40.120 like one thing that um and maybe it's just time to accept the reality of it so i would like to live
00:24:48.280 in a small agrarian christian republic where everyone knows everyone else like that's kind of my idea of
00:24:54.200 utopia that's not anywhere near what we have we live on a continent-sized country with 350 million other
00:25:00.720 people and we'll probably have 500 million by the time we're old okay so and we run the at least half
00:25:07.260 of the world so maybe what we're seeing is people just embracing what was already true and not like
00:25:15.660 fighting against like i hate the idea of having an empire but we do right so maybe that is what's
00:25:21.580 happening i don't know i'm trying to figure it out no i mean you're born into the world right that
00:25:25.580 that's that's the you got an empire just roll with it be an empire like you're born into a
00:25:30.440 body you're born into like a human body and these like weird things and you have to figure out how to
00:25:34.440 balance being an animal and in a spirit and you didn't we didn't choose it we're born into america
00:25:40.960 in a particular place in time and here's the problems that we have here are the resources that
00:25:46.080 we have what you know what can we do to you know reduce as much as possible human suffering and
00:25:52.180 you know govern justly as an empire and we had one we we we i mean in a way we don't have one
00:25:58.700 that's the problem it's like the worst of all worlds where they invade the world invite the
00:26:02.260 world i forget who coined that but that's a favorite of pep buchanan's for sure yeah yeah
00:26:07.420 it might have been steve sailor one of those guys but we had the worst of it which is oh we're going
00:26:12.700 to go in and destroy your countries and then we're going to bring you back up here to do daycare
00:26:16.340 welfare fraud exactly right whereas the righteous thing to do would have said we're going to invade
00:26:22.320 your countries but we're actually going to share in your resources and that was one of the real i
00:26:28.320 think evils of removing qaddafi was they had education they which again sounds very leftist
00:26:34.600 but a lot of this is just objectively true and they had free oil more or less free petrol and now they
00:26:42.840 have you know open-air slave markets so we we did the the worst we didn't build empires we destroyed
00:26:49.580 other people's places and then rather than colonizing them we brought everybody up here and
00:26:54.880 now we we have 40 trillion in debt scam after scam we have like it or not we have blood feuds being
00:27:05.300 imported where like now you have to have an opinion about somaliland my god you know and in my life as i
00:27:11.680 get older i'm trying to have fewer opinions and now i have to know the difference between somalia and
00:27:16.900 somaliland and then you look at the minnesota flag which is is obviously tied to somalia that that
00:27:24.860 again is the worst of all worlds so if we're gonna if we're gonna do it then then we should we should
00:27:31.620 do it as an empire so what does the future look like what are the next three years look like so you
00:27:37.540 saw the president saying you know this worked we're gonna do it a bunch of other countries
00:27:41.180 well the the future generally versus empire building are two different things because i think
00:27:48.400 the future we're we're on a pathway with the transhumanism the there's a fork in the road
00:27:55.280 about humanity and what what what it what it even means to be a human so that this is a whole other
00:28:00.240 different discussion but if you mean geopolitics for example i think that we're going to continue to
00:28:06.420 see these kinds of targeted strikes now the danger is that whose aim is what to remove the
00:28:12.560 leadership of the country and replace it with a pro-american yeah yeah to put to you know plop one
00:28:18.700 guy out um put somebody else in and if you do in places like latin america i actually think you can do
00:28:24.300 i mean trump's already talking about colombia the the mexican cartel that that's the the strange thing
00:28:29.420 about all this is that the everybody says well why don't we do mexico when mexico is a full narco state
00:28:35.840 they have controls of border towns in the u.s it's a completely it's a control of arizona don't
00:28:41.500 they if you talk to the the turning point guys then yeah they have some pretty strong opinions about
00:28:47.000 katie hobbs and and how she got in so what would a war with a cartel it's a different it's a whole
00:28:54.120 different right pandora's box you're opening there but if you can remove maduro you can remove a few
00:29:02.180 people you're you're sending a message to people which is so here so here's where here's why i
00:29:08.500 disagree with the the neocon model and i think there's like a right a right wing worldview that's
00:29:14.840 coherent and it goes like this the neocon according to the neocon model everyone is just a madman
00:29:20.980 they're just madmen everywhere and pakistan they hate us for no reason they just they're just madmen
00:29:27.480 and they're not rational actors putin's a madman putler that's that's the whole worldview of just
00:29:34.060 the neocons and the neoliberal establishment putin's a madman and i'm like well i don't know
00:29:38.060 he's 70 i read a lot about russian history with the oligarchs had taken over the country after
00:29:43.320 yeltsin left you needed a strong man to come in he brought the oligarchs to heal the oligarchs were
00:29:48.080 like looting the country and you you look at him and you're like this is you can call him evil that's a
00:29:53.060 moral question but somebody being evil is different from whether somebody's a rational or an irrational
00:29:58.720 actor putin is is acting in a way that i in my opinion is quite predictable and he's the most
00:30:05.360 rational actor in the world and yeah of course then you look at the the moolahs and you just say
00:30:12.120 they want to have their fiefdoms they don't want high iq people in iran even they're trying to get rid
00:30:16.700 of as many high iq people as they possibly can this was funny actually i was at a dinner there's a
00:30:22.540 persian diaspora and in orange county and you know la huge yeah and you know not just jewish and
00:30:29.480 you know the secular and the muslim and i was talking to this they're just like a good looking
00:30:33.580 couple very well educated smart and i go how did the how did you guys get out of iran you know it
00:30:38.820 was like one of those things where i thought i knew something but i was revealed my own ignorance
00:30:42.520 i said how did you guys get out of iran he goes oh he goes you get um and people on twitter call me a
00:30:48.200 liar for this too which is like so annoying but he goes no no you basically they give you iq tests
00:30:53.820 and if you're a high iq and you're too high iq they let you get educated they want you out of the
00:30:58.340 country because high iq people have too much of a revolutionary risk so that that there shows you
00:31:04.380 that well that's why we legalize marijuana same right same idea right so that that's the i so i see
00:31:10.560 the moolahs under a different model than the neocons do and i view them as they want to have
00:31:16.200 their little fiefdoms of course they want to govern over the ashes so yeah obviously we don't want
00:31:20.160 to have become a nuclear power or whatnot but that doesn't mean you have to go in and go to war
00:31:25.040 with them because oh no any day now they might just do something like crazy right that and i think
00:31:31.800 that i think that's like the right-wing position is you see people you you remove the moralize the
00:31:38.200 moral which most people can't do most people they want to say the moolahs are evil sure nobody
00:31:43.600 hits the moolahs more than the persian diaspora and of course nobody hits them more so this whole
00:31:48.980 idea that they're not it's like sure they're evil but then the minute you talk about an evil person
00:31:54.100 engaging in rational activity then they're like oh wow so you support evil you know god i've lived
00:31:59.120 this oh my god right then you're dealing with someone who shouldn't be involved in the conversation
00:32:02.680 because they're not capable of like thinking clearly here's my concern i agree with i think your
00:32:07.440 analysis is absolutely right i mean talk to the gulf states you think they like the moolahs no they
00:32:12.260 despise them but they don't want to see them regime change necessarily because what comes next
00:32:17.380 the only country that wants that is israel and not even israel it's bb it's specifically netanyahu
00:32:23.620 and some of his supporters want that and they're putting enormous pressure on the administration to
00:32:28.580 do it and my one my biggest concern about what just happened in venezuela is that will be seen as
00:32:35.720 a template for iran like let's just take out you know the religious leadership of iran or the political
00:32:43.860 leadership or the military leadership and like everything will go as well as it did in venezuela
00:32:48.340 and you know maybe that's true but if it's not true the stakes are high no well that's why people have
00:32:54.760 to have a a definition of what victory looks like because victory for the united states looks different
00:33:02.800 than victory from other people so and this is where i think people people like lose the plot a little
00:33:09.720 bit so it's in it might be in the interest of some countries for there to be chaos because if there's
00:33:17.940 chaos and those people you can kind of go in you don't have to worry about it it's the interest in
00:33:22.380 the united states for there not to be chaos and i think worse that's what we say we say of course but
00:33:26.780 nobody says it you know well i do constantly chaos is not in our interest yeah so so it's in our
00:33:31.640 interest that if we do do regime change that we don't have we don't have chaos we do want to
00:33:37.820 have a moral leadership and moral clarity and we do want to keep things you know on the right path
00:33:43.880 and then other people have different interests and it's just up to us to keep pushing for
00:33:49.180 the orderly the orderly governance of the world via american imperialism well wasn't that long ago that
00:33:55.400 many americans thought they were inherently safe from the kinds of disasters you hear about all the
00:33:59.560 time in third world countries a total power loss for example or people freezing to death in their
00:34:04.240 own homes that could never happen here obviously it's america people are recalculating unfortunately
00:34:11.440 because they have no choice the last few years have taught us that remember when the power grid in
00:34:16.080 texas failed in the dead of winter yeah it happened and it could happen again so the government is not
00:34:22.920 actually as reliable as you hope they would be and the truth is the future is unforeseeable and things do
00:34:28.780 seem to be getting a little squirrely so if the grid does go down you need power you can trust
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00:35:40.120 of that is the belief that the point of the u.s government is to serve the interests of american
00:35:44.180 citizens correct well of course well not of course because i i mean the foreign policy leadership that
00:35:50.940 i've grown up with and that i know personally that's not even in the top five well these are people
00:35:55.640 that they want to play toy soldiers that's a whole that's the the neoliberal order the the
00:36:03.500 neoconservative or i think neo i think we we focus too much maybe on neocons and the neoliberals
00:36:08.260 who have probably done as much or or more the if you look at the biden foreign policy poking you know
00:36:14.420 poking russia and moving nato east that was all neoliberalism and they they're just too rich i guess
00:36:22.260 and bored and want to play checkers and chess with other people's lives but the the trump view is that
00:36:30.520 we're starting from the american position gas prices are down oil from venezuela like we need it we have
00:36:38.140 a deficit that we're never going to pay back like if you if you take a step back and you just
00:36:45.140 embrace it all you you so people always ask me how i feel and i go well i i go from optimism to despair
00:36:54.300 and in a split second because if you if you look at the national debt we're not going to pay that
00:37:00.120 there's no way to pay it back that it's impossible there's no there's no way to pay it back so what
00:37:04.700 happens do we hyperinflate our currency do we fault on our debt trump is going to try a resource
00:37:09.420 extraction so we get venezuelan oil we drive down costs here we get cheap energy here well apparently
00:37:17.340 ai lead to maybe some kind of deflation who knows people have their own opinions on that that's still
00:37:22.640 being hotly contested and in that way imperialism can be a win-win because the venezuelans can be better
00:37:29.920 off we extract our share of it maybe maybe that's utopia maybe that's pie in the sky but
00:37:35.940 that what's the other answer the the i mean the other answer is more the other answer is like
00:37:43.960 dude charlie kirk was assassinated charlie some guy was just at jd vance's house in columb
00:37:50.640 clumb or cincinnati banging on the window maybe shooting at it all the details aren't there
00:37:56.300 the the alternative is it's a it's like a bolshevik revolution the alternative is anarcho-tyranny
00:38:02.980 which is what we already have under the democrat rule and it's that's really bad but the the all
00:38:11.020 the alternatives if we don't if we don't fix it you're going to have more class resentment
00:38:15.320 we do have a neo-bolshevik movement in the united states on a bash marxist when the maduro thing
00:38:21.660 happened it was interesting you saw the brandon johnson chicago's mayor mayor karen bass who was
00:38:28.920 in africa while the palisades was burning she was taking some kind of vacation mandami and they're
00:38:33.680 all sort of with maduro so you have this global marxist movement which is you know the red green
00:38:39.320 alliance which gets tossed around but some of the stuff these guys say in the think tanks have
00:38:43.380 actually if you read into it enough i think a lot of that really is accurate so you have this
00:38:48.480 red green alliance of third world thinking with neo-bolshevism or marxism however people want to
00:38:55.020 characterize it and they do not have a good plan for the u.s they want to they want to loot it they
00:39:01.980 want to destroy it they have a deep hatred for whatever reason of white people white people of
00:39:08.240 european descent are just absolutely hated hated by all all of these forces so and not just by them
00:39:14.440 by the neocons we don't hate europeans too for some reason i'm not exactly sure why but um christians
00:39:21.500 i feel like kind of everyone i mean that is my frustration with all this talk of anti-semitism
00:39:28.220 which i oppose escape speech saying why i oppose it on christian grounds i am sincerely opposed to
00:39:34.020 anti-semitism and racism and hating anybody on the basis of his blood i'm just opposed to it against
00:39:38.240 my religion but like the main form of institutionalized hate is not anti-semitism
00:39:43.420 it's anti-white hate in the united states and like why does nobody say that well the affirm i mean i
00:39:50.100 remember with police and fire hiring that was in the 80s where if you're a white male adam crow
00:39:56.240 had talked about that before but he tried to be a firefighter of course and they just said well
00:40:00.020 you're you're a white man so how about jp morgan same thing it's in every part of american society so
00:40:05.080 yeah the white man has been the white man that's a funny way of putting it but white men have been
00:40:10.660 hated for decades and then they've been the world's punching bag until of course you need a delta force
00:40:16.160 mission they post a picture and it's all jacked white guys with a few latinos and always has with
00:40:22.300 tattoos and and you think well these the whole generation was was hollowed out and you you just
00:40:30.500 do not see and for me that's a litmus test for 2028 is anyone who runs for president but won't
00:40:38.700 specifically condemn anti-white hate by name is not even in the well jd vance just did that not even
00:40:44.380 you're not even in the mix because if you could you see ron de santis saying calling out anti-white
00:40:52.160 hate by name de santis is an interesting i i think he would have three or four years yes i totally agree
00:40:59.960 his evolution his evolution has been
00:41:03.900 he lost it he lost um he needs to listen to people like christina pushaw more and i agree the
00:41:12.900 the problem i noticed a lot of people get sucked into donor world they get they get in the west palm
00:41:17.360 beach they get around the richies and i've seen that happen to a lot of people is you just you
00:41:22.680 cannot spend whether it's the tech guys or the finance guys the west palm beach people the silicon
00:41:28.640 valley people can't spend too much time around the richies man they're uh i totally they're not
00:41:34.500 they're not they're not living in reality they have all these weird pet projects that don't have
00:41:40.500 any kind of connection to downstream reality yes they're glib and out of touch and they they're
00:41:48.860 gonna they're gonna steer you aside you have to just stay with you have to just stay with the people
00:41:53.120 man you gotta stay with the people so ken griffin is not a reliable bellwether of american public
00:41:57.280 opinion he bought this like he bought this uh i think tyrannosaurus rex fossil or something for
00:42:03.780 75 million dollars yeah people who people who are like i have so much money that i just want a dinosaur
00:42:10.880 fossil or dinosaur skeleton in my atrium might might not be the people you want to take political advice
00:42:18.560 from no probably the last people so do you think desantis is obviously going to run in the primary
00:42:24.880 you think desantis cruz it's going to be an open field because there always is because that's how
00:42:31.960 they get media time and sell books and everything but the what do you think it'll look like the the
00:42:37.920 table the table the table well one is it depends if we get it depends what happens in the midterms
00:42:43.980 and how many impeachments trump gets hit with if they can't keep the midterms although elon's back
00:42:50.440 in the game so maybe maybe republicans keep the midterms but i think the house i think they if if
00:42:56.080 with elon you can with elon's money you can and it's just that's the sad thing to say but that's
00:43:01.320 just again that's maybe maybe like that's where it goes back to like i'm an i'm a pragmatist not an
00:43:06.780 idealist yeah money out of politics okay well that's nice um no we need to get we need to basically
00:43:12.420 but like it's funny because i all my friends are pro israel basically and my advice to them is has
00:43:17.860 been like a singular one you need guys you need to just calm down because the anti-semis are so
00:43:24.880 moronic right now just let them talk because everything they say is off-putting to anyone
00:43:31.900 with a high aq but if you come with rancor then that's just you're you're muddy in the field and i go
00:43:38.220 to us just be like stephen miller stephen miller likes israel a lot wants israel to prosper and
00:43:45.240 everything but when people think of stephen miller all they think about is this guy's amazing
00:43:48.760 you know like stephen miller wakes up trying to do things for america and then if you do that
00:43:54.360 we don't really care what israel does or at least i don't um most of us wouldn't or if there would be
00:44:01.140 certainly less rancor around it and if they would just fund things then everybody would be better
00:44:08.580 off so elon he just writes huge checks and if that side wrote bigger checks for republicans to
00:44:13.540 just be republicans that's what that's i've been telling them is i go look you're gonna get 80 90
00:44:19.260 of what you want if you just keep republicans in the house you're gonna get that the alternative
00:44:23.620 for you guys is aoc and mondami and all these other people versus people like me who are just
00:44:31.800 realistic and pragmatic about it and people like jd who's like who's the same thing you just he's a
00:44:36.980 pragmatist you got to accept that you just got to accept that not everybody is going to be an
00:44:41.860 ideologue about it but you can still win without people being ideologues you can win which is good
00:44:46.760 old good old-fashioned alliances where you help out you pitch in where you don't see the trump
00:44:52.780 coalition is so broken so fractured because i do think the neocons are intentionally breaking it
00:44:57.660 because they want to keep jd from becoming i don't think it's working though i mean i'm old you don't
00:45:01.320 think it's working i'm old head from 2015 this is all a repeat of 2015 it's a repeat of the desantis
00:45:06.980 when he ran in the primary same talking points that the same people playing the same kind of games
00:45:13.500 so i don't um i just see it as this is the third season of 2015 you know 2015 2022 2023 and now now
00:45:25.600 it's back again so i don't see it and the the way the politics lines up on this stuff especially in
00:45:32.700 like 2028 is you got to look at it as the there's just not there's the problem you know i gotta i
00:45:41.880 always want to be careful what i say is that not because i'm like afraid of being canceled because
00:45:46.520 i've been i mean i've been through the ringer a thousand times but the they have the people who
00:45:53.340 really see israel as a key issue just need to understand that hey man you're going to get like
00:46:00.680 most of what you want but if you take take it so that we can't win in 2028 with a republican because
00:46:08.920 you create so much acrimony and division and suppress the vote then you're going to get a bad
00:46:13.560 democrat you're going to get a bad democrat and you're going to get maybe a bad democrat congress
00:46:18.960 so people need to not not behave in this kind of way that's because it's not helpful i just think
00:46:24.680 of things like politics am i being am i being helpful to the country and i'm being am i being helpful
00:46:30.280 for 2026 and 2028 and i think that's how everybody needs needs to view the map like are you are you
00:46:36.380 being helpful like are you going to get what you want if you continue to behave this way you don't
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00:46:46.860 but we're not in charge of it so we have to respond appropriately in ways to protect our families when
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00:47:39.480 well it depends what you want so if you run around calling people nazis the chance that you're going to
00:47:46.880 convince them to become nazis is pretty high i mean that's just very obvious if you're doing that
00:47:53.640 and so maybe they want more nazis there there's a there's a segment of people but i it's it's much
00:48:03.460 smaller the that's that i mean it's the loud segment it's well if you want if you want to if the
00:48:12.340 incentive structure is different so if you're in media and you want to maximize a certain kind of
00:48:18.260 sales funnel where they get as many people as they can as many eyes on them that they want to be
00:48:24.980 acrimonious and they want to throw bombs because that that's the business right but if you're more
00:48:32.700 political you want to think about like how's how is this going to help us achieve an agenda right how
00:48:39.700 how is this going to help the country how is this going to help them get what they want that that's what
00:48:44.960 i'm trying to see i'm just trying we have this alliance that won in 2024 the popular vote which
00:48:51.200 i knew trump was going to win we have mutual friend actually i'll tell you i'll tell you when when we
00:48:55.260 stop um when we stop filming but he was so blackpilled about the election right and i said no he's gonna
00:49:04.140 win we'll know that night he's gonna trump's gonna win we're gonna know that night he goes crazy
00:49:09.100 i go i promise you promise you and election night has like well who told everybody the only thing i
00:49:16.380 didn't see is i didn't think we were going to win the we you know i didn't think trump was gonna win
00:49:20.500 the popular vote so we have this alliance we have maha you have the og like maga people the the wild
00:49:29.660 energy they brought in there was always this boisterous male energy but then they brought a bunch
00:49:34.840 more of that in then you had the the post october i don't think trump wins if october 7th doesn't
00:49:41.640 happen to be honest and i said this at the time because when i when october 7th happened
00:49:47.220 they realized oh this is this is what the left really is right and i do think a lot of them weren't
00:49:54.140 a lot of the pros really people were not paying attention to what the left kind of had become
00:49:58.400 and because i remember i would talk about the right arena alliance and people's eyes would sort of like
00:50:02.740 glaze over like let's you know that sounds stupid and so you have they have the post 07 people you
00:50:09.480 have the they don't want their kids trans you have maha you have the nationalists you have the populists
00:50:15.380 you get the tech guys you get the wealth tax guys so we it's a it's a coalition and everybody
00:50:21.040 the rappers the salvadorans the other rappers you have the the venezuelan the cubans and it's a
00:50:27.200 it's a political coalition that has to be kept together and i think every coalition partner
00:50:33.940 needs to to look out for others and some coalition partners can push for themselves more and lose
00:50:42.220 sight of things so my opinion you know foreign policy and everything else has gotten too much
00:50:46.460 attention maha hasn't gotten enough attention rfk jr has sort of done done what he has the domestic
00:50:52.420 issues there's only so much trump can do because judges are blocking him but that that's another
00:50:57.800 concern of mine is that domestic issues are getting blocked and then that's going to create fractures
00:51:01.360 in the coalition but i do think the okay can i ask though if you i'm the reason i'm have such like a
00:51:09.400 tepid not interesting response to what happened two days ago is because i think it's like a pivot point
00:51:14.560 in history and i don't fully understand what it means so i don't want to get over my skis until
00:51:19.560 i have a better sense of what i think it means but um it is a totally new way of conducting
00:51:26.380 diplomacy slash foreign policy slash military action like this is a new thing because trump
00:51:31.680 didn't dress it up with a lot of lying about democracy or human rights he's like no we want
00:51:36.800 the oil and like this guy's bad and we're taking him out and we're gonna run it never no one alive
00:51:41.800 has seen anything like that before in the united states so you wonder and that's why i'm saying i think
00:51:46.760 we're for good or bad fully in the empire stage of civilizational development the republic stage is
00:51:54.400 over no one cares about congress so no just like no one cared about the roman senate i wonder like
00:52:01.280 how long until that same governing style applies to domestic policy where we lived it we lived it
00:52:08.480 man like we lived under biden well you're right before you flesh that out like people forget we lived
00:52:14.000 like people like me lived in hell ricky vaughn was a i remember when douglas mackie was arrested
00:52:19.000 what a good man raided in florida chased down with guns i followed all these court cases of the the
00:52:24.040 blacks for trump guy was chased down by unidentified fbi agents they just started chasing him down with a
00:52:29.820 gun because they obviously wanted to initiate a shootout and gaslight him into a shootout
00:52:34.200 thousand plus j6ers people who committed at most misdemeanor trespass around up we we lived under
00:52:41.540 anarcho tyranny lake and riley's murdered we have murders happening la is again anarcho tyranny for
00:52:48.360 those who don't know because you don't live on twitter thank god god bless you is you know i think
00:52:53.160 i forget who coined the phrase the name escapes but you would know and the idea is that if you're a
00:52:58.960 law-abiding citizen you live under a state of tyranny where you're going to jaywalking ticket that's
00:53:02.900 right but there can be a homeless encampment right next to the don't walk sign but you're the one who's
00:53:06.900 going to get the ticket while the encampment's there and that's that's what we lived under an
00:53:11.980 imperial dictatorship where everybody was just like oh yeah like when like have you talked to you had
00:53:17.580 you have you had like to talk to the kids yet and everybody charlie posobic everybody had that
00:53:24.100 conversation with the kids which is like hey just so you know like daddy might be taken away for a
00:53:28.320 couple years and you know he's gonna go away and if anybody like shows up don't do anything
00:53:32.680 uh you know because they might try to shoot you they might want to put a flashbang grenade in
00:53:37.560 in the house they might want to kill your kids in front of you when when they raided michael cohen's
00:53:42.780 house even though you know cohen ended up turning up what they did to him was was just disgraceful they
00:53:46.820 were going through his daughter's ipads in front of him this is wicked fussy stuff it just didn't get
00:53:52.380 really any media coverage because i didn't even know they did that no no that's one reason i think
00:53:58.760 cohen sort of sort of broke him they just took all the ipads out of the little kids room and they
00:54:03.480 were just like taunting him they threatened to send don junior to prison for the rest of his life for
00:54:07.320 he didn't do anything john eastman a respected member of the bar constitutional law professor
00:54:12.080 disbar in california jeffrey clark great career in law big law kirkland and ellis they're trying to
00:54:17.540 take his law license in dc one one thing after another and it got almost no coverage and no attention
00:54:22.680 because the media would cover downplay it or they would they would lie about it and that was that
00:54:29.700 was like the world dude like i've had that conversation with my kids they're too young to
00:54:32.780 understand like i remember like because i don't have any money like i have no money and people like
00:54:38.080 well you know once you have any money it's like my family has all my money because i know that i could
00:54:43.240 just be stripped of everything any day even you know even now that if you're a targeted regime you could
00:54:49.680 just like wake up you're like okay well i guess i'm fucked and but on the other hand you're just
00:54:56.000 like my god how have i been boiled in the pot for this long that i've just accepted that is the norm
00:55:03.360 and i think that's something that is is a problem with all of us is we're just we just took it for
00:55:10.580 like oh charlie kirk i remember charlie kirk got shot i remember posobic calls he's like dude they
00:55:16.520 killed charlie everybody thought they would just kill somebody else first but everybody knew they were
00:55:19.600 going to kill somebody everybody knew it this is how we live our life like i live my life knowing
00:55:24.340 i could be killed any day yeah i live my life under biden knowing well you know i could any day
00:55:30.580 anything any day something could happen i know every day that i wake up just to a shit show of
00:55:37.020 false it doesn't it just doesn't matter that that's the way that you live and as as like fucked up as it
00:55:44.720 is and and the reason our people i think don't talk about it is you just you have a certain
00:55:49.340 ability a stiff upper lip you don't want to you don't want to sound like a victim but that's exactly
00:55:54.420 right that's not it's not like nor it's like it's a weird it's like enraging in a way like no this is
00:56:00.340 not how it's supposed to be in america where you know that any given day like you you might be taken
00:56:05.940 away from your children because of of politics and because of how rotten and corrupt everything is
00:56:13.400 i i couldn't agree more obviously i live a life exactly like the one you described on the other
00:56:19.000 hand i think it's essential to cling to your nobility and refuse to become a victim and refuse to act
00:56:24.100 like seth dylan or whoever like constantly talking about oh the threats against me people are mean to
00:56:28.500 me come on you know you chose to be in this just man up he did but he shouldn't have to
00:56:33.860 no i look i agree no one should threaten seth dylan i i'm totally opposed to threatening him
00:56:38.340 or anyone else just saying like talking about yourself is that that's our but i know that's
00:56:44.080 our problem though see that's the that's how they got us in this catch 22 which is well nobody can
00:56:51.280 complain because we're you know mainly men and we're lost we take it off the chain we don't we don't
00:56:55.420 complain but then they get away with everything and people go wait a minute you had to say like
00:56:59.460 i think that most people if you told them oh yeah like i remember when i was when douglas mackie got
00:57:05.900 wrongfully arrested and charged for a crime he didn't commit and it's been proven now we didn't
00:57:11.900 commit the crime that i remember sitting out with my kids and i go hey kids i just you know want to
00:57:16.520 let you know um you know talk to my wife hey like you know here's your money here's where the money is
00:57:21.700 you know it's all in like your name i don't have anything and tell my kids hey kids like they might
00:57:28.080 take daddy away like the bad guys might come and get daddy and you know it'll be okay and everything
00:57:32.560 dude that if we don't talk about it then nobody knows right right so but we're like well i don't
00:57:38.940 want to fucking cry i'm a real man i'm a it's like great and then nobody knows and then people get
00:57:44.940 like wait a minute john eastman a distinguished law professor wrote a memo that wasn't even acted on
00:57:49.820 he just lost his life lost his position at chapman his standing in the world even his law license his
00:57:55.980 ability to like earn a living this is like this is what is happening so we do need to bitch more
00:58:00.980 to be honest that's our problem that's the exploit and whatever our dna is or whatever our operating
00:58:07.200 software is or whatever our genetics is that's our exploit is we just sort of you just take the hits
00:58:12.420 you take the hitch you endure the weight of life dad doesn't complain that's what you do
00:58:16.900 and then they're taking and then they take our country and then they fuck us up like one by one so
00:58:22.540 i remember like some guy showed up to fuentes's place to kill him and then end up killing somebody
00:58:27.700 else down the street shows up people like well they didn't even know it was like because you're
00:58:33.300 not supposed to talk about it like and fuentes his credit yeah i mean i gave him a chance to talk about
00:58:37.920 it and whatever you think of fuentes but he did not marinate in his victimhood at all yeah some loony
00:58:42.600 goes up to cat turns house tries to get him they go after benny johnson they go after seth dillon
00:58:47.720 candace owens has had threats charlie kirk gets killed so i i think it's there's a way to
00:58:55.660 to talk about these and that's why so the charlie kirk thing really was a frustrating thing for me
00:59:00.520 because well i mean it was a tragic thing you know like that sounds so like shallow um i i just thought
00:59:08.340 that people would realize they're they're like they're hunting us for sport all of us tucker they're
00:59:15.020 hunting you if they could get shapiro they would get shapiro if they could get walsh they could get
00:59:19.160 walsh if they could get candace they could get candace and it ain't the israelis and it ain't
00:59:23.180 the jews that are doing it it's a violent feral terrorist you know bolshevik left and they would
00:59:28.700 get all of us if they could so whatever acrimony we have which is like i'm not a unity guy i'm a
00:59:34.340 guy who likes you know likes the mix maybe too much but it's like dude they're gonna kill us
00:59:40.540 they're gonna kill all of us and we need to figure out we need to figure out some kind of
00:59:46.020 way to coexist with one another understanding that the threat against us is existential and they would
00:59:52.220 the the left if they could kill set dylan they'd be glad to kill him if they could kill you they'd be
00:59:56.540 glad to kill you to them that's just another another notch on their belt or a point on the scoreboard
01:00:00.360 so what's i mean what's the administration doing with this that i mean that was that was my problem
01:00:06.200 with the trump's first term is the political violence against trump supporter because again
01:00:11.520 we're just supposed to deal with it just deal with it was the completely almost completely ignored
01:00:17.640 during his first term is it still being ignored under my definition it is yeah they're they're
01:00:24.760 arresting some people there there's more happening than the first term but the the response is not
01:00:31.000 what i would like to see so the claim when charlie was murdered was that this was antifa or some
01:00:36.720 antifa adjacent uh person or organization i don't i don't know if that's true i don't know anything about
01:00:44.360 it i think it's absolutely true uh i don't know that but and i i don't have any other theories i just
01:00:49.840 i don't even understand the story but but if people said it was true so like okay where's the roundup
01:00:57.440 antifa so they're uh sorry you got a dog sneezing right there that's good good the good puppy so
01:01:03.540 the no i'm i'm a i mean i think it was tyler robinson i think a 22 year old man on a mission
01:01:11.180 is a very dangerous thing and that i i think that there were other people in those discord servers and
01:01:18.840 there were people tweeting something big is going to happen tomorrow and after tomorrow charlie won't be
01:01:24.080 around anymore so i'm very frustrated that there doesn't seem to be much interest and
01:01:30.000 maybe those people were just guessing or maybe they were trolling but there doesn't seem to be
01:01:35.500 much interest in finding out who the who those other people why do you think that's well it doesn't
01:01:41.820 make any sense to me i i always i always go back to the garland texas mass shooting which is to me
01:01:48.280 this is like the skeleton key of it all so pamela geller who's very much uh pro-israel about as
01:01:55.720 hardcore as you can be on the issue did a draw muhammad contest and there was going to be a
01:02:01.080 bunch of other people also like very pro-israel and a jihadi was going to shoot the place up
01:02:07.860 the he it was texas he got taken out but by accident of faith or an accident of fate a local law
01:02:16.020 enforcement officer pulled over an fbi agent who was fleeing the scene got the guy's phone and the
01:02:21.500 the text message to the jihadi said tear up texas sounds unbelievable it's 100 true sander grassley
01:02:28.120 has asked for information twice from ray and garland has been stonewalled i don't know why cash patel
01:02:33.400 won't release it i've asked everybody up as high up the food chain as you can get why we can't get it
01:02:39.300 and what's the answer my my belief is that there's that mk ultra never-ended co-intel pro mk ultra was
01:02:47.720 of course the mind control experiments they conduct on people where the the book chaos covered this in
01:02:53.140 great detail for people who are curious about that about the charles manson murders the manson murders
01:02:58.280 and then there was that air force guy who was drugged up and killed somebody and that didn't even make
01:03:02.520 sense and i even know about that well that book was completely mind-blowing and i do think they
01:03:10.040 still have whatever arm of that is whether that's within the fbi or some other dark site within the
01:03:16.080 intelligence community i i'm certain that that that that still exists so because of that you don't
01:03:23.060 get you don't get you're not going to get any information about that because i do think there would
01:03:27.200 be some kind of dark op because what a lot of people again it's just the title book shows the
01:03:33.120 agenda it's just chaos get out get everybody afraid get everybody panicked usher in more surveillance
01:03:38.620 technology usher in a surveillance state bring in anarcho-tyranny where if you're law-abiding
01:03:43.940 everything you do is monitored by flock and all these camera traffic cameras everything you do is
01:03:49.420 monitored but if you're a drug addict on the street you're you have free reign you do anything you
01:03:54.800 want this was uh the bolshevik method there was a solzhenitsyn called alexander solzhenitsyn quote
01:04:01.460 where it went i don't have the exact quote but the substance of it was your punishment for having a
01:04:08.440 knife was different for the thieves when you had a knife it was terrorism when the thief had it it was
01:04:13.340 just his way of life and that's what we're living under now the modern anarcho-tyranny so what do they
01:04:19.700 have in common like why does this same phenomenon reoccur yeah it's it's the the battle the the
01:04:27.540 battle between people say good and evil but you just say like logos and chaos logos the divine order
01:04:34.180 the order of god the unison of people the fellowship of people versus the chaos and the acrimony
01:04:42.100 the evil of the the dark one satan demons every religious tradition has a even dualistic religions
01:04:52.360 or polytheistic religions have chaos gods right so even if you're not monotheistic which i'm
01:04:57.900 monotheistic obviously but everybody has had those the chaos agents so chaos is destroying the divine
01:05:05.300 order and the divine communion of people so you don't see this as political battles but as
01:05:11.320 manifestations of a spiritual battle it's yeah it's a spiritual yeah the political
01:05:14.680 is what you see the spiritual is what you talk about and then people will make fun of you and
01:05:20.860 say you're crazy i don't think they make fun of you anymore do they much less so they so you had a
01:05:25.740 tweet about this yesterday i think here's your tweet if you were a demon with dominion over the planet
01:05:33.760 and you wanted to increase the amount of human suffering across the world you would eliminate the white
01:05:38.100 population yeah yeah that so you see you see what's happening the the death of whites their mass
01:05:47.100 massive contraction as a racial group globally you see that as a manifestation of the spiritual war
01:05:53.700 ireland really is the rosetta stone i think in all this i agree because you can again even if right
01:06:01.900 or wrong you could at least rationalize rhodesia was an evil apartheid state and they had to give
01:06:07.380 it over to mugabe and it became zimbabwe but you know what they did the right thing and had a bad
01:06:11.800 outcome or south africa for that i don't agree with that but you could there's a chain of logic okay
01:06:15.880 they did the right thing that ended apartheid it led to a bad result maybe they could have
01:06:20.560 transitioned it better but there's an a to b to c thing they're right ireland they were colonized by the
01:06:26.480 the white irish were colonized by the white british they were starved their resources were plundered
01:06:32.120 they had the potato they had the potato famine they lived like churches were desecrated churches
01:06:38.160 were desecrated they were an enslaved people but they have to be punished oh i agree why do the irish
01:06:44.420 right to me that's when if people think that tweet sounds crazy or any of this is crazy
01:06:48.820 then you have to tell me why that why do the irish have to pay i totally agree and that that gives up
01:06:55.920 the whole game gives up the whole game so this is a manifestation of the spiritual war the destruction
01:07:03.900 of whites yeah and and then why that is i i don't know yet i'll still unravel it but you can't you can't
01:07:11.660 deny it when you look at ireland and you look what is happening look what's happening globally you look
01:07:17.560 what is happening in the u.s and has been happening for decades but again that goes back to well you don't
01:07:23.680 want to talk about how you could be killed any day and that's just something you live with and i just
01:07:28.680 live with it knowing that at any moment i could be gone removed one way or another how does that
01:07:35.540 change the way you live that knowledge the you when you know when you know it's like it's like
01:07:43.240 memento mori so the the arrogance or whatever the because i pretend to be arrogant on the internet
01:07:50.320 sometimes but people who know me sort of find that kind of funny but the there's a there's one there's
01:07:58.120 like a deep weight that you carry just a deep weight where you know that what you do has consequences
01:08:07.940 and you need to really focus on doing the right thing it has consequences for yourself in the country
01:08:12.700 because if we do lose the amount of human suffering is going to be immeasurable in the u.s and globally
01:08:19.000 it's like it isn't it when you read about the hull the more you read about the cambodian genocide you
01:08:24.880 read about the the gulags it's just a scale of human suffering beyond beyond human understanding
01:08:31.860 and where the remaining bulwark against it so you're you're just left with a sense of like
01:08:36.620 and then you're you're um like i have i have a thing kind of a bit i do online although it's really
01:08:43.500 true is i have like i have a war on fun so you don't get to have fun like i don't get to have fun
01:08:48.980 that doesn't mean i don't enjoy my life it doesn't mean that i don't have a cigar and mountain bike
01:08:53.800 and do other things but i just i don't get to have fun that's not the cards to me i don't get to
01:08:57.700 have fun i have to live like a serious person who knows i could be killed that my friends could be
01:09:02.900 killed in the case of charlie a friend will be killed that even people like seth and them that i
01:09:08.080 may not see eye to eye with like they could get killed that any of us that could be killed
01:09:13.080 on any given day and so in a way it's like being in it's not being in a combat zone in a way but it
01:09:20.720 is a way of it is a form of warfare so i just i don't get to like have fun i don't i don't get to
01:09:25.560 like goof off or live so it gives your life meaning in some ways it gives it gives your life it yeah
01:09:32.020 meaning is a complicated subject but it gives your life a you certainly have a purpose right where
01:09:40.220 you know that and this is true of everybody or how people should live is what you do does have
01:09:45.780 significance and consequence and you do have to you do have to make it count that sounds i mean in
01:09:52.460 some ways worse but in most ways better than living without that knowledge that it could end well that
01:09:59.060 that's the meaning that's the meaning kind of paradox i think that's why some people call it the
01:10:03.620 meaning crisis then before that jonathan hate wrote a book the happiness hypothesis and meaning is this
01:10:10.080 concept where if you chase meaning you can't find meaning but you find meaning by living in a
01:10:16.940 certain way and then you go oh this is so like this is meaning so i give you i have these weird
01:10:22.700 it's like a hyper reality you just did a film on this i should i should we're working on it yeah we're
01:10:26.800 in post we're yeah so okay so yeah explain this through that lens okay well the you know you get when
01:10:36.920 you get older you want to do things that are interesting and hard and i think doing a movie
01:10:41.180 on the meaning of life is about as about as hard as you get right and there so you would say like
01:10:48.260 what is the meaning of life which i've asked everybody and you know people have their own
01:10:53.740 answers but sometimes it's good to sort of attack it from the inverse which is what would be a
01:10:59.920 meaningless life a meaningless life would be all this suffering of yourself and others all the human
01:11:07.060 suffering it was just the way it is we were just animals and we were bred by some kind of alien
01:11:12.500 species to harvest gold and if people got harmed or genocided or whatever that was just there's no
01:11:20.700 reckoning at the end that that to me gives me nightmares to think there's no reckoning or no so then
01:11:28.020 you would say well that would be meaningless okay that's i'm chasing whatever that is so then you
01:11:33.500 start to think of meaning who what is that what meaning is is a communion with god is a catharsis
01:11:39.180 it's that whatever it was whatever you know there's a saying like the only way out is through is like
01:11:44.620 whatever this is that you're going to get through it and there is a divine evening out of everything
01:11:50.900 and that everything did have a point and everything did matter and everything happened for a reason not
01:11:56.980 because you're a actor who doesn't have agency but because it was part of as part of the ride so
01:12:03.020 like i got chunks taken out of me there's no like there's you've had chunks everybody has you know
01:12:07.540 again we're not supposed to talk about it because we're so you know macho macho men but like i think
01:12:12.240 i'm like sometimes i'm just like dude i'm tired man like it is just like having to live like that
01:12:18.380 especially under the biden regime i am the censorship regime where as an adult man you can't even say what
01:12:25.000 you believe because your whole livelihood would be destroyed you might not be able to have a bank
01:12:28.800 account right that that was like the way you kind of lived and you have chunks taken out of you and
01:12:35.740 to think that that was for nothing right like losing which is how meaning ties into i think the
01:12:42.360 the political melee is losing would be the most meaningless thing in the world there's this
01:12:47.880 painting somebody posted and i'm and we get it reproduced in an um oil painting and it's of
01:12:56.940 when the bolsheviks took over the palace at the bolshevik revolution and it just shows this it just
01:13:02.380 fills me with this like rage you're just staring at evil and i look at like this is what losing looks
01:13:07.960 like losing looks like you're lined up next to your kids and they start shooting you but the kids don't
01:13:13.780 die right away so they bayonet your kids in front of you that's what losing looks like people people
01:13:18.640 used to say oh cernovich you're crazy that sounds crazy i remember they say that 2015 2016 oh you're
01:13:24.120 so hyperbole now everybody that's what losing looks like losing doesn't mean oh you're gonna have a
01:13:29.600 wealth tax and you have to pay a little bit more taxes losing is you are lined up in the basement and
01:13:35.260 they are killing your kids in front of you that that is what like losing is well to me that's
01:13:39.440 meaningless to me that's the antithesis of like whatever the meaning of life is so the connection
01:13:47.380 between really meaning and what do you mean well i don't know i mean the basis of christianity is
01:13:54.900 this guy who christians believe was god who came down and then like got brought up on false charges
01:14:00.280 and tortured to death but that he did that so we didn't have to he took on the burden a lot of people
01:14:05.300 take the christ martyrdom as some kind of message that we should become martyrs and i i always say
01:14:12.420 there's been one martyr christ died on the cross i ain't dying on the cross i ain't a martyr christ did
01:14:18.960 that and he took on the sins of mankind and he did that for us i'm i'm not i'm not here to to be
01:14:27.200 crucified and take on take on the sins of mankind that that's not me if anything it was it's almost
01:14:32.860 it's almost like uh egotistical to think that i should you know that i should be a martyr
01:14:38.580 and that that would be that would be a way to go so i i reject martyrdom theology fully
01:14:44.820 interesting yeah so what it so what is the meaning if the meaning is not getting lined up against the
01:14:51.200 wall with your kids the meaning is communion divine communion meaning is divine communion
01:14:57.000 everything is divine communion the interacting with god interacting with god and the downstream
01:15:02.680 the communion of people so i'll have these moments of like hyper reality where i'm like wrapped up in
01:15:09.200 my own bullshit and oh you know what if i did this and you know in your own head and then i'm on the
01:15:16.300 couch with my kids and there's just like a moment of like stillness and never lasts there's just like
01:15:21.500 moment of like stillness not when you have four it doesn't last no well in my own bullshit
01:15:26.240 fucked up brain too you know like a lot you know there's a lot of us we make prisons of our own
01:15:32.040 mind right of course and we the demons steal our joy you're just you're having a moment and then
01:15:37.980 they're like what about this their deep state's coming for you or you know one one thing after
01:15:44.300 another and there's just these moments of like stillness and you know this is what it's about you
01:15:51.060 know the but that's as because of our primitive brains or whatever our problems are probably because
01:15:57.140 we're not in the garden of eden is we we just can't maintain divine connection the monks can but it's
01:16:03.740 a great aesthetic i always get that word wrong asceticism i always get that bad yeah i'm bad
01:16:08.800 with my asceticism and but they have it's a constant effort you know that's why you know
01:16:15.380 they're living on a pillar of salt or in a cave yeah yeah and it's like the arrow prayer is like
01:16:19.660 god you know jesus christ have mercy on me i'm a set you know you have to constantly be connected
01:16:24.580 with the divine and then lean into your heart more to distract us from the egoism which but you have to
01:16:32.160 have some kind of egoism if you live in the world you can't just not participate in the world so
01:16:35.920 there's this tension between divine connection which means surrendering yourself to the full
01:16:42.480 presence of god right versus okay but i have to like pay my bills dude you know like i have to yeah
01:16:50.700 i have to make my way in this world then those are constantly attention but then something and this
01:16:57.700 is probably why there's a more of a rise for like eastern orthodoxy and and older religious
01:17:03.020 religious traditions and christianity is the and and i love protestants so no no offense to the
01:17:09.840 protestants but protestantism is very well it's very waspish waspish it's like by the book the bible
01:17:16.700 says this and like here's the scriptures and it's very much of the mind christian apologetics oh well
01:17:24.060 you think this is there the trinity and it's like arguing back and forth but you're like existing in mind
01:17:28.580 whereas the eastern traditions and by eastern i don't mean hinduism but even though hinduism has a
01:17:35.680 eastern christianity but eastern orthodoxy and eastern christianity is also about the the knowledge
01:17:41.220 of the heart and the tension that you feel every day like uh every day i'm i just feel a great
01:17:47.300 spiritual tension where i don't like if you ask me are you gonna go to heaven or hell i'd say i don't
01:17:51.740 god help me i don't know i don't know like are you a good person or bad person god help me i don't
01:17:56.780 know i don't i don't know i don't have a good answer to that it makes it weird too when like
01:18:00.920 people go at you because you're just like i don't even know if i'm gonna defend myself maybe i you
01:18:05.080 know maybe i am you know like what am i am and and but you can find a certain amount of meaning in
01:18:12.300 that the there's like a certain amount of meaning of confusion like maybe that's how it was supposed
01:18:17.020 to be that we are spirits and human bodies because the if you you know if you read your old
01:18:21.900 philosophy there's debate of mind body dualism and there's there is a sense that we've all had that
01:18:29.380 am i a body am i a mind well god we're both we're we are both we're a mind and a body and
01:18:37.320 or a spirit and a body and there's going to be tension between this that we you know we wrestle
01:18:45.920 against the flesh and so maybe that's the right answer maybe the right answer is to not be so sure
01:18:51.340 that you're right and that you're such a righteous and holy person and maybe the right answer is i
01:18:56.060 don't know i honestly don't know humility is always the right answer you're not god but you can be proud
01:19:00.760 of humility you know there's a great of course well of course benjamin frank is one of the best
01:19:04.540 favorite writers and he said he would keep a list of the virtues and he said i was i would he said i i've
01:19:11.180 achieved all virtues but i found that i myself became proud of my humility i realized like that
01:19:17.980 was gonna get me so so yeah the yeah so there is there is like a meaning crisis because there that's
01:19:23.740 why we have the opioid epidemic yes we have people but even people who are successful drug overdose so
01:19:29.300 they blow up their family lives because they're they're thinking is this really all there is oh i i did
01:19:34.460 the right things and so even if you end up in a success beer you're still having those nights one
01:19:40.920 well maybe especially and maybe that describes the politics you were talking about earlier where
01:19:45.460 a lot of a ruling class is just bored and let's let's hurt people just to shake it up a little bit
01:19:50.880 yeah a lot i think a lot of them are driven by demonic spirits and those people i think it's less of a
01:19:57.320 less of a meaning crisis and it's more of a like an evil an evil animating force okay so how do you
01:20:03.560 recognize that what there's got to be a difference between just being wrong which i have done many times
01:20:08.800 probably even today and being animated by an evil spirit
01:20:13.840 the angel and demon on your shoulder yeah i mean that's where the that's where the discernment that
01:20:21.900 people talk about so often is something that i thought i think about every you know so who do you
01:20:27.140 who do you look at from afar and perceive to be controlled by evil spirits most i mean when i go to dc
01:20:35.540 although it felt a little bit but it felt like i had exorcism recently is i remember you go to dc
01:20:40.580 and you just feel you just it's just like what is this yeah what is this demonic place this place is
01:20:48.420 the playground playground of the demons the whole the whole place the whole place like just to name
01:20:57.140 one person would be to not do justice to the demonic forces at work in dc even recently if you
01:21:04.900 look in the department of justice have you ever looked at the occult artwork and at doj no that
01:21:10.420 i'll show you some pictures next time doj next time you're at doj go get a tour and go look at all the
01:21:19.160 occult artwork and uh why is there a cult artwork at the department of justice that's it shows by the
01:21:25.400 way that's because it because they take the they take their religion seriously we might not take our
01:21:29.840 religion seriously but they take it seriously the the bad guys take their religion quite seriously
01:21:34.380 and they have they have a religion they have a god their god is in our god their god's the anti
01:21:40.040 and the inverse of our god but they absolutely have a religion their occult artwork is everywhere
01:21:45.120 the it's mortifying and when you when you get the tour you can probably find the pictures online
01:21:52.740 so that's what we're we're up that's what we're up against what's on the dollar bill
01:21:56.300 yeah well the some of that yeah the occult symbolism the complicated one because
01:22:01.100 like is we had um jonathan pageau's and it was interviewed for meaning and i was like i'm like
01:22:08.620 ever since with ayahuasca i'm like obsessed with what does the serpent mean because under the
01:22:14.220 kind of the mainline protestant understanding the serpent tempted eve the serpent is bad the snakes are evil
01:22:20.340 serpent serpent's not good it's more complicated than that so and he's an orthodox christian so he
01:22:28.300 he wrote an article the serpents of orthodoxy where he goes because there's there was a staff with two
01:22:34.280 serpents moving around there you know there's dna there was even before the the double helix structure
01:22:40.180 of dna was discovered there was a two serpents wrapped around that was sort of for sure what was
01:22:46.100 understood um you know ayahuasca the cosmic serpent a lot of people see serpents and that you know
01:22:52.240 that's a whole other you've seen serpents while doing ayahuasca i felt felt it like moving through
01:22:58.040 me just like flowing flowing through me serpents snake oh yeah yeah yeah so that doesn't i mean i'm i'm
01:23:09.160 no shaman but that doesn't sound good well that's what sent you on these like quests so so we wouldn't
01:23:16.200 be having this conversation if i because for one thing you know for christians ayahuasca is like
01:23:22.140 strictly forbidden so i don't i don't want to seem like i'm glamorizing it in any way shape or form but
01:23:26.760 like there was i have gone on multiple ayahuasca journeys over the years and for me it's been
01:23:36.380 completely transformed my heart it's transformed how i see my children it's the way the way like
01:23:42.520 interact with the world that got me interested in christianity again because well so the thing is god
01:23:48.560 can meet you wherever you are right which is why there is good and evil so it isn't to say there's
01:23:53.560 no such thing as good and evil but god god can meet you wherever you are and god ought god can go
01:24:00.800 anywhere and meet you wherever you are so in my case i was not someone who i never had any kind of
01:24:07.240 faith because i never felt anything i would i would go to church and i grew up very christian
01:24:11.940 and i would like try to feel it i was like what do these people have like there's just not there's
01:24:16.720 just isn't it what is it that they feel like is everybody in on something that i'm not in on is
01:24:23.500 everybody faking like i'm faking because i don't believe anything and that was because i had no
01:24:30.020 whatever whatever sixth sense people have for god i didn't have i didn't have the god gene
01:24:34.760 and then i remember you know first time drinking tea and being catapulted to the spirit world and i
01:24:43.880 was like okay the spirit world is real that's okay that's not even up for debate now to the point
01:24:50.560 where it doesn't even offend me when people are atheists or don't believe in i was like well i didn't
01:24:54.840 believe in it either i had to see it with my own eyes you know paul he had to be knocked over
01:24:59.260 you know blinded yeah he had so for me that was like my my paul moment where i was like okay well
01:25:05.680 somehow i ended up here drinking tea with no belief at all in god or the spiritual realm at all and now
01:25:12.880 i absolutely know it's real and what you know went through a number of things and you know if you want
01:25:19.680 to go into all that but i i do like why'd you do ayahuasca in the first place for the wrong reason
01:25:25.180 which was for the ride you know what was hunter thompson said buy the ticket take the ride yeah
01:25:31.860 so many people just sit around ruminating all day or daydreaming all day maybe i'll do this maybe i'll
01:25:37.360 do this i've always been a just buy the ticket take the ride what's it like buy the ticket take the
01:25:41.760 ride so i thought well i mean i've done a lot of things in life before and i felt like i i felt like
01:25:47.520 i was pretty sure of myself that i knew how to live and was arrogant in a lot of ways and i thought
01:25:54.140 well you know i've done everything else like might as well just do ayahuasca you know by everything
01:25:57.860 else i don't mean drugs i just mean like i was so full of myself and my own ego that i just thought i
01:26:02.800 knew so much about life and i was such a wonderful person that obviously i would just do this because
01:26:07.680 that's what people who are so you know so great so great do right i'm so great i'll just do this
01:26:13.580 like other thing and it like broke my heart broke my heart over and over again the whole night just
01:26:20.380 like broke my heart and so the way the way it works is you're you know you drink the tea
01:26:28.860 and you just kind of like look around okay i think that's a mistake and then you sort of like you kind
01:26:36.100 of like start to fall under and you venture to the spirit world but you don't it's not like you're
01:26:44.880 here and i'm walking around la la la i'm in the spirit world you're taken to a place where you have no
01:26:49.620 free will you have no power you are more insignificant than an insect on this world and you start to
01:26:59.480 journey and you know experience various things so so one i'll give you an example because it's kind
01:27:06.660 of hard to explain but i remember like i'm drinking the tea and and sometimes you have like a little
01:27:11.940 bit of a light show when you when you go in you go into spirit world you hear like a buzzing sound
01:27:16.980 like bees and then you see like a little bit of light a little vapor on the side like and then you get
01:27:23.820 the dmt sort of light show that people associate with a psychedelic experience that's the least
01:27:29.260 significant part of the night but a lot of times you start to get the light show and you think oh
01:27:33.840 okay i'm i'm into somewhere but there's a sense of like there's me and i'm in i'm into something
01:27:38.700 and you you know you go through there and then you become completely disoriented you you wake up and
01:27:47.120 you look you know where am i at first where am i so i remember i woke up i go where i look around
01:27:53.800 because you know you're laying down you can't walk around you're laying down i look up and i go where
01:27:56.980 am i where am i where am i i go oh yeah i'm mike cernovich and i'm in this place i'm on this mat
01:28:03.560 and i got dropped off and then i walked in here and i saw this person and then i came and i drank the
01:28:09.780 tea okay cool it's like you're reassuring yourself close my eyes wake up where am i oh i'm mike cernovich
01:28:16.200 i'm in this room and i came in oh yeah i got dropped off i'm doing ayahuasca okay cool
01:28:22.880 okay cool close eyes wake up mike cernovich where am i close my eyes wake up i'm uh where am i
01:28:34.940 wake up what the fuck ah dead dead there is no eye dead dead ah and as i'm falling down into like
01:28:50.760 wherever i'm falling into you i see like my kids surface and my wife surface and i was for all
01:29:00.340 purposes dead i was overwhelmed with the feeling that i was dead it's like i'm dying i'm dead there
01:29:06.580 was no eye i'm there wasn't even an eye who's experiencing and i'm dead and then like all i could
01:29:13.520 think of was like are my kids gonna be okay is my wife gonna be okay are people gonna be okay
01:29:18.280 how is that so foolish how was i so foolish how how i was so i remember like when i funded my kids
01:29:28.180 like college fund i was like okay like my kids are set like i can die you know like what do i need to
01:29:35.200 be around for like because i grew up poor like then you learn that's your own trauma and everything i was
01:29:39.500 like okay like my kids are good my wife's good like everybody's good you know everybody's good i got
01:29:44.320 me taken care of whatever happens to me you know because part of this is like you know knowing that
01:29:48.600 you could be killed or or framed any day and i'm like okay everybody be okay and i remember i'm dying
01:29:55.920 i just heard a voice say you fool you fool they're not okay they're not okay because of money
01:30:03.660 because you set up money like no they're not okay where what is wrong with you and i was just left
01:30:12.080 with the sense of i just i'm a fool and i live my life foolishly and i can't believe that i was such
01:30:18.620 a fool and i'm dead now and it's like too late and then eyes closed and i wake up and then i'm like
01:30:25.280 puking in a bucket like you know so they call like a spiritual purge and i remember being like oh god i'm
01:30:35.200 still alive i'm still alive like looking around you know like looking at this bucket like i'd never
01:30:41.760 been you know everybody's afraid of throwing up on ayahuasca i'm like oh you will that will be the
01:30:46.800 best part of the night that will be that you will be thanking god that you're alive like you know
01:30:53.280 throwing up in a bucket and i was like oh god i'm alive okay i'm alive alive and then but then that's
01:31:00.200 just like that was five minutes that was just five minutes and then you like go back under and then
01:31:06.700 it's like another thing another catharsis like another like time loop so i remember i get up
01:31:16.200 and i look around and there's this woman walking around and she's carrying the buckets because you
01:31:23.500 know people are throwing up and everybody's sick and you so you have kind of the the shaman guy or
01:31:28.520 the facilitator and then you have like the helper and there's this person you know she's walking
01:31:33.040 around and she's carrying a bucket carrying i wake up and i look and i go oh there she is carrying the
01:31:38.960 bucket and then close my eyes you come back up time loop so time loop means like i'm reliving this
01:31:44.100 moment with you and i remember reliving this moment with you but i'm like stuck in it like groundhog
01:31:49.220 day time loop and that's the first time it happened to me and that's a real like mind fuck so
01:31:53.720 i get up like oh she's like carrying things okay she's cleaning up after people and then i thought
01:32:02.700 you know how nice fall fall asleep wake back up i go man look at she's like so helpful and
01:32:09.780 i couldn't do that like i couldn't clean up after puke on other people i just i don't know how they do
01:32:15.240 this and then i wake up and i'm in the time loop again i'm like what what like why i'm in this time
01:32:20.340 loop you know and like you start to feel like you're going insane like why am i stuck in this
01:32:24.200 time loop and i close my and i'll put up and it goes said you don't even know her name you never
01:32:29.040 introduced yourself to her you didn't talk to her you don't talk to people you just look through
01:32:33.660 people you don't get to know people you're so arrogant this person is doing something you could
01:32:39.980 never do because you don't have the humility you're so you could never clean up after other
01:32:44.440 people you don't give a shit you don't give a shit this and but you'd even like look this
01:32:49.380 person in the eyes and just say like hey you know what's your name like how'd you how'd you
01:32:55.100 get here you just came in here to drink your tea selfishly like the arrogant prick that you are
01:32:59.540 and because you wanted to take the ride you know you want to take the ride and you're just a bad
01:33:05.080 person i was like what the fuck you know and then so that was more or less my night and you see
01:33:14.040 demons at one point over and over again oh yeah that was so you can see d so you can see demons i
01:33:20.540 remember being taunted so so that's what's weird about it is it's like it's like scenes of a movie
01:33:28.820 with generally there's a catharsis you don't know that's why they just say before you go in they go
01:33:33.580 the only way out's through you're like i gotta go fuck yourself the only way out's through what
01:33:38.060 kind of shit is that the only way out's through what the fuck does that mean you know again that was
01:33:41.860 my arrogance and my own delusion and that's true in life though yeah yeah and i was just
01:33:48.820 and you're like what does that mean well it means that no matter how bad it is with the ayahuasca i
01:33:54.860 remember i would i would you know i would do mask and then i would open up the mask and try to look
01:33:59.340 around and a demon at whatever it is an entity says oh you think you can open your eyes and just
01:34:07.420 show me like the most fucked up things i'd ever seen people being tortured to death killed like
01:34:12.180 horror like the road have you ever seen the movie the road no like a cannibal like a horror film
01:34:17.360 and then it said oh you think you can take your eye mask off you can't run you're running from
01:34:22.980 yourself you're trying to run from yourself and you can never run for yourself like what am i
01:34:28.540 running from then i'm like what am i running from what what do you mean i'm right because if you
01:34:32.420 talk to me at that point in my life you would be talking to a very cock you're not be talking to
01:34:39.600 this person you would be talking to a person who's like oh yeah i got things figured out man like i got
01:34:45.280 things figured out and i can prove it i grew up poor i've had some things happen that haven't been so
01:34:49.980 good in my life i've had to navigate life with a bipolar mom like i know life you talk to me now i'm
01:35:00.500 like i mean i have ideas you know things that i think are like the path forward but
01:35:04.820 that that person was just shown you are in the spirit realm you are nothing you are nothing and
01:35:12.100 you're so arrogant you're out here you like you have no power so and it says you're running from
01:35:18.840 yourself and i was like what am i running from and it goes all that success you chased and all the
01:35:26.100 whatever a clint whatever it is i was trying to do they go that was just masking your heart your
01:35:33.720 your your the the trauma the trauma that you have and that everything you're doing is just to mask
01:35:41.780 that i'm like that's bullshit you know that doesn't make any sense so it's like okay because
01:35:47.400 you're because you're and by this i mean i'm you're talking to a guide so when i'm saying this this is not
01:35:53.600 like an internal monologue this is you're talking to something outside of yourself it's like dante's
01:36:00.700 infernal like the guide and the guide said okay you know big mouth you want to argue like we'll just
01:36:07.480 vortex you back and uh the spirit realm so then it's like you close your eyes that's why i'm like it's
01:36:14.600 like and seeing you're like oh you're like you're in like a new scene and then like it shows you
01:36:20.500 something from like when you were a child or maybe in my case it was like something from when i was
01:36:25.660 like a child that was remember it was like it was showing me it was showing me the house i grew up in
01:36:30.260 and i was like why is it showing me the house like my house i grew up in this like small shitty house
01:36:37.300 i hated it we had holes in the carpet like i was embarrassed to bring people over i was like why
01:36:43.560 why am i being shown my house what like i hate that fucking house i hate this fucking house
01:36:50.400 why are you showing me this house and then it and then like voice is like you had all the love in the
01:36:57.900 world in that house your dad loved you your mom loved you they did the best that they could do
01:37:03.340 and you think that you can just like give your kids money because that's your own thing you know
01:37:11.480 like well you grew up poor so but it's like you took the love for granted you just like you had all
01:37:17.540 this love but you didn't have money so then that becomes your hang-up like oh do i have enough and
01:37:22.720 like well if my kids have enough what do you need what do you need me for you know like what's that for
01:37:28.820 it was it was like all the love in the world was in the house and you hated the house and you'd like
01:37:34.660 you'd even know it i was like oh fuck you know so like i always loved my dad and had a good relationship
01:37:40.700 i was like oh my god like it was like and what was it like for your dad to be poor like not know how to
01:37:46.460 make a what was that like for him you know and you're just like oh fuck you know like he was poor too
01:37:53.160 you guys were just poor that was like the town lost the factory and people were jobless and that's
01:37:58.520 just every kid's dad went through the same thing you worked at a factory and then you
01:38:01.500 had to find some other kind of shitty job and you kind of find something else and then eventually
01:38:05.520 my dad figured it out by then i was like in high school so it didn't really impact my life either
01:38:10.500 way and then i was like oh fuck i have all this i have all these issues around money just in a way
01:38:17.300 that's like traumatic you know not just in a way that you know people need money to live and you want
01:38:22.580 to be greedy and but i like i had no idea and i never would i never would like reach that
01:38:27.880 conclusion emotionally and then and then you're like zooming out and it's just like oh it's like
01:38:34.200 there's like love the the love of your family the love that god has for you and then and i was like
01:38:42.060 fuck okay so then i close eyes like you wake back up and it's like look it was literally like an old
01:38:48.140 grandfather or something like something out of gandalf or something and it's like look and it goes
01:38:53.940 it's like in a very calming like masculine voice it says it's not supposed to be this way
01:38:59.060 and it was just like he was like doing this he's like it's not supposed to be this way
01:39:03.860 and i look and like like i said i'm laying down and i look and i see this
01:39:07.940 gandalf like figure floating and like i was like it's not supposed to be this way i was like
01:39:12.780 what's not supposed to be this way and then he just showed
01:39:16.420 all the the light it's like the lights are all separate now you're supposed to be together it's
01:39:24.760 supposed to be communion it's supposed to be that everyone's you know loving each other and you just
01:39:29.420 want to like kill each other he goes this this is not how it's supposed to be it was like it was
01:39:34.080 like a frustrated dad who was like this is like this is not how it's supposed to be this is not how
01:39:38.720 it's supposed to be and i was like oh okay you know this is so above my pay grade you know i don't
01:39:44.620 even know like and that's how i know it's not coming for me that i'm like if i could come up
01:39:49.680 with stuff like this people would think i was a genius you know this is not my brain and i'm so
01:39:54.820 smart and then i like go back under and then i come back up i hear this like scream and it was like
01:40:06.140 the scream of an enraged mom basically screaming at like the same situation so then you know
01:40:14.440 it takes years to put all this together and everything but that was like showing me the
01:40:18.740 masculine the logos and the the way like a father governs and then like the rage of a mom and the
01:40:25.200 children like are not getting together and you know the tension of the tension of male and female
01:40:31.400 and then i like i saw an old woman's face on a mountain i was like i don't even know where this
01:40:38.580 from i never read any books before this and that's pachamama so that's a different kind of entity
01:40:43.380 so in that case i saw like whatever whatever pachamama was the you know mother earth or
01:40:50.340 whatever and paganism that people describe it as so i'm just going you know back and forth
01:40:55.200 between flashbacks to my life wait so you saw a demon that others identified
01:41:00.800 a woman's head in a mountain yeah yeah pachamama i had no idea yeah i didn't i didn't do my research
01:41:07.380 before going in so i'd know like i so what you're saying is these are definitely not parts of your
01:41:14.040 subconscious that rose to the surface they're there yeah they're unless it's a parabola or
01:41:17.940 unconscious is you know there's a theory that that that our unconscious is generating our experience in
01:41:23.000 real time but it's not it wasn't me it wasn't a book i read it was because i was again like atheist so
01:41:29.340 every rationalistic argument they could say well you probably just like no i never studied
01:41:34.260 aztec culture and indian culture but i didn't know what pachamama was and so there was
01:41:41.760 they're like they're external entities so the the older figure you could say maybe well that was uh
01:41:48.280 the guardian and you read dante's inferno in high school right that was some thing in your
01:41:53.440 unconscious that surfaced but pachamama and other kind of entities were not so beyond my cultural
01:42:01.660 understanding or my my knowledge so yeah so then you're going like you're going back into that and
01:42:09.800 like you go through it really i mean it's not a pleasurable there aren't a lot of ayahuasca addicts
01:42:17.740 right is that true and it's not covered by medicaid no no they they're um which is which is a good
01:42:24.940 thing because i i don't know um a lot of you don't want to some fly-by-night shaman or you end up
01:42:29.840 with the wrong situation it's all in mexico right a lot of things can go bad they're um
01:42:34.020 they're they're different areas i'd south africa i'd done it before and how many times have you done
01:42:39.220 it nine ten times actually yeah they're um oh yeah they're it because it's just you go in and
01:42:50.020 the i had a lot of i had a lot of i mean i like i had a i had a lot of things that i had to beat out
01:42:57.140 of me i used to like just like we're earlier talking about how you you know a certain amount
01:43:01.820 of stoicism we all have which like i think is good and i think therapeutic culture goes too far
01:43:07.040 where you don't want to sit around and like talk about how bad it was being a kid but a lot of us
01:43:13.040 and i learned this dealing with a lot of a lot of veterans have done plant medicine uh i don't know
01:43:17.300 if you've seen in waves in war yet with ambus amber marcus mccone uh capone amber marcus capone
01:43:23.500 they're amazing so you have all these vets who were suicidal and then they a lot a lot of them
01:43:29.900 do ibogaine they go down to ibogaine clinic that's what vets is a charity i've sponsored um donated to
01:43:35.860 you know for a number of years and vet solutions and so with me the you you realize that like a lot
01:43:44.880 of what we do that we think of as virtuous is trying to we're trying to hide something from
01:43:51.140 ourselves we're trying to make it so that we can't be um vulnerable and so with veterans especially
01:43:58.180 they they you know they find out a lot of things that happened when they were kids and that's why
01:44:02.600 they became the men they were because you're driven by the sense that like i'll never be weak
01:44:07.160 and powerless again right i'll never be weak and powerless again which that's a good thing you
01:44:12.020 shouldn't be weak and powerless but if you have all this other stuff underneath that then maybe you
01:44:20.420 don't love your kids the way you're capable of or maybe you're afraid to love your kids and wife the
01:44:24.640 way you are because maybe you're you are afraid to be hurt and that's another aspect i think where
01:44:31.120 therapy culture has taken things too far where you're like oh let's like talk about our trauma
01:44:36.280 like all day and relive things whereas no like but maybe for a weekend you know yeah maybe spend a
01:44:42.980 weekend and talk about it and figure it out then and and work through it don't you don't have to like
01:44:49.240 live it so i just i had so many lessons on how how i was just a fool basically it's just a fool
01:44:58.200 well that sounds i mean i mean i love that my concern is if the demons are real
01:45:04.220 aren't you afraid they'll enter you that's that's the big debate right sarah from rose wrote a book
01:45:11.060 the soul after death so if you talk to josiah trunnum he would just say well this is demonic
01:45:15.340 in this pharmakia and absolutely like absolutely not that that's kind of my instinct it wouldn't even
01:45:20.700 be a debate yeah what there's there's really like no debate to be had and my my position is i always
01:45:28.800 warn people away from it because it's a monumental undertaking it's not just something that oh yeah
01:45:36.260 we'll go eat some shrooms and go take a hike in nature right it's not in the same world and a lot
01:45:42.360 can go wrong and it can disrupt a person's life well i've seen that yeah too with with uh people's
01:45:50.120 lives being destroyed by heavy duty hallucinations like in what way a friend who killed himself um
01:45:57.820 was from lsd but you know yeah wrecked relationships yeah lsd lsd is poisonous that they can cause a lot
01:46:06.740 of issues and the that's why it's more more or less like if you're the like the guys especially at
01:46:15.080 vets and amber and marcus and them work with these are guys that are going to kill themselves and
01:46:19.120 they're alcoholics most likely we're not we're not talking like oh i'm living like life is great
01:46:24.880 and i'm living in a state of love i'm gonna go drink ayahuasca this weekend right it's more like
01:46:29.260 or in my case where you're just being pushed there because i was living in such a state of folly and
01:46:36.560 delusion yes that there there was like no other way so in my in my belief i think god pushed me there
01:46:43.280 i think i think it was god and he showed me this is the only way that i can show you
01:46:49.240 that you are just not who you you are just a delusional fool and this is the only way that
01:46:56.780 we're gonna get through you yeah and the message like got through and then you know i have drank and
01:47:04.280 you know had more tea since then but it's not something that i that i do regularly so what about
01:47:09.340 the threat though of the demon entering you you said you had serpents inside you i should just say
01:47:15.460 i believe you but i mean the consequences of being i mean the first missionary trip jesus sends the
01:47:24.820 disciples on all he says is cast out demons the whole new testament's jesus casting out demons the
01:47:31.140 disciples casting out demons like that's completely real in my opinion yeah and the and but the
01:47:37.980 consequence of living my i was probably demon possessed before the ayahuasca because i was so
01:47:44.220 i'd been deluded by dark forces into thinking that i was something that i wasn't yeah so in my view
01:47:51.200 it isn't where oh i was such a holy person in my mind i would have thought i was yeah no it's like
01:47:58.840 the opposite where like whatever i was before that i'm not that way now and whatever path i'm on
01:48:04.620 is like about god and christianity and like trying you know finding more love in the world and divine
01:48:13.020 communion and just knowing that you're just not like uh you're just not a paycheck to your kids you
01:48:18.580 know and i didn't even treat him like i was just a paycheck but it was just some it was i would just
01:48:23.420 it was a glibness that i had yeah so it's just the the the ayahuasca has just burned out all the
01:48:29.440 glibness that i had where i can't even laugh at things sometimes i'm just like i just that's just
01:48:34.940 not funny i'm the way i'm like too serious it's like why are you laughing it's a very non-american
01:48:39.680 approach this is just not funny trump is so fun i don't care fuck fun i hate fun what do you mean
01:48:45.800 fun we don't get to have fun on this world fun you want to have fun what are you a little kid
01:48:51.480 right so it's it's driven it's driven all of that out of me in a way that i couldn't have reached
01:48:59.940 intellectually so how does it make you feel about death it may well one i know there's a judgment i
01:49:06.780 don't think there's a judgment i know there's a final judgment for sure really so for me it's not
01:49:12.980 even i think you're right but what convinced you of that because i just was in the spirit world like
01:49:16.820 i saw my divine judgment and my divine judgment was hell you know that was that was like my divine
01:49:23.120 judgment and so one is i just i know there's a final judgment to the point where when people
01:49:30.200 say oh you're whatever crazy whatever i don't even get offended i'm just like brother i was that was me
01:49:36.800 i was you i was you before this so how can i be upset with you for thinking this when that was what i
01:49:42.960 thought before then so like i know there's a final judgment i know the accounting is in the human
01:49:47.460 heart it's not the words it's not in what you say it's not in how holy you can be and how you can
01:49:54.420 tell everybody else they're not holy and you're you know you're mr holier than thou and everybody else
01:49:59.920 is a sinner it's your this the human heart is going to be weighed and measured by god in my opinion
01:50:05.860 it's jesus christ and you know in my opinion it's christianity and jesus christ but i'm but i'm not a
01:50:13.580 um i'm not into the apologetics where we argue in mind all day about like what it is i think the human
01:50:19.940 heart is going to be weighed that's something that that god's going to determine at the judgment i know
01:50:24.580 that i'm accountable for everything and i know having died like for all purposes like i have died i have
01:50:32.760 died and i know that when you die the only thing you're going to think about is the people you left
01:50:42.260 behind so all of this materialism and oh no somebody i'm i'm being picked on today on the internet or i'm
01:50:51.360 being canceled again or this and that like none of that came up actually what one funny thing that came
01:50:57.160 up was during one of my journeys i was like i was under and i saw some things i came up and it goes
01:51:03.500 whatever it it whatever that's what i mean i don't know what it is i still don't understand it
01:51:07.920 they said you know how blessed you are that you've been like attacked and everything they go you can
01:51:15.340 talk about anything that's right doesn't matter people are just like oh wow certainly if he talks
01:51:19.420 about ayahuasca we fucking knew he was crazy anyway you know like this is probably the least crazy
01:51:24.480 thing that he's like said all week whereas if i were more of like legitimate and respectable
01:51:31.140 then i would have to think well how's this gonna play how's this gonna play should i talk about this
01:51:36.620 should i tell tucker are people gonna clip this up and make fun of me what is this gonna impact my
01:51:42.620 standing with the administration and all the serious people in the world are they gonna
01:51:46.740 none of that comes up all that came up was arm are is my family gonna be okay that's the only
01:51:53.780 thing that i could think about so then you go from there well are they have you loved them do
01:51:59.320 they know you love them do you tell them that every day are you saying your prayers like every night
01:52:03.260 because tomorrow's not promised i could be in a car right now flip over and die in a second people
01:52:08.740 die all the time in a second we take it for granted charlie kirk is dead charlie kirk is dead
01:52:15.180 and that hurt me too that hurt me bad i haven't cried so much in the past three months in my whole life
01:52:22.180 and i don't care to admit i've cried about it you know i think that's a problem people have is
01:52:26.220 oh you know we don't it's like i don't know whatever a real man is i think i'm pretty pretty high up
01:52:32.220 there and i've been crying more in the past few months than i have my whole life combined and you
01:52:41.180 realize like charlie just died he just went went to work he's dead his kids don't see him they're not
01:52:45.080 with him at christmas we're on the internet arguing about fucking tyler robinson and was it the
01:52:50.980 masad or was it charlie's kids they don't have a christmas with them anymore they don't have a
01:52:57.620 christmas with them erica goes home to an empty house and then she goes on the internet and everybody's
01:53:02.260 just saying the worst things in the world about her she's not even my friend but she's a mom
01:53:05.980 there's the worst things in the world about her that and they had christmas without their dad
01:53:10.980 what's that like what's it like to have christmas without your dad a lot of people go through that
01:53:14.440 so do my do my kids know this might be our last christmas together but i'm gonna be here
01:53:18.980 i'm gonna try to make it home but if i don't make it home you know i love you you know i love you you
01:53:24.640 know that you're my world and that i'm obsessed with you and they never for a minute they never for
01:53:28.740 a minute have to wonder what like does dad love us is dad you know is dad good to us nobody my life
01:53:35.560 i text my friends the most dopey shit you know like love you man just thinking about you
01:53:40.100 just thinking about you i never never did that before just the dopiest like most sentimental
01:53:46.160 stuff that you can imagine hope you're okay how like think about all your friends you how all of
01:53:52.100 us have these man friends we're also you know mainly me when's the last time somebody's just like
01:53:55.880 hey bro i hope you're okay just thinking about you that's nothing i'm not uh not poetry but i just
01:54:01.920 oh i haven't talked to this guy in a couple months i'm sure he's doing fine maybe he's not
01:54:05.400 doing fine though maybe he's not why do we think everybody's doing fine right why why that's our
01:54:11.600 delusion that's the fault that's the fallacy everybody the the folly everybody's doing fine
01:54:17.380 and then you don't reach out and then you go oh well we shouldn't have seen it coming you know
01:54:21.440 maybe you wouldn't maybe you wouldn't have so i think i meditate on death i think about every day
01:54:27.000 every every day i meditate on it and it gives me uh a sense of of calming if that makes any sense
01:54:34.380 that's exactly right avoiding death is what makes you neurotic facing it makes you calm gives you peace
01:54:41.020 because that's the root of all fear obviously is the it's the fear of dying fear death and the fear
01:54:47.080 status and the fear of the the egoistic attachments that we all to our names our reputations
01:54:52.900 affect your relationship with your wife just like i'm like obsessed with my wife like i'm just a
01:54:58.700 simp for my wife which i wish if you you'd have to ask her but i don't know that she would have said
01:55:04.020 that was true you know or maybe necessarily like early on like all i think about is my wife and kids
01:55:10.400 like like if i make money like i don't even care i just like get rid of it you know get it to them
01:55:17.060 like what people like aren't you worried about your wife like leaving you or your kids i'm like i don't
01:55:21.660 care i mean i really like i don't care i i mean signing all your money over to your wife yeah yeah
01:55:27.020 you should do that yeah i mean i did it's the right thing no there's a lot of peace in that too
01:55:30.480 totally it's like you're gonna get blood from a turnip come after me and i've lived it you're
01:55:34.100 very very disappointed when you start tip me upside down and maybe you get a few quarters out of the
01:55:40.900 pocket so it's made me just it's completely like obsessed with her and the kids it's made me
01:55:48.680 like i've gotten much nicer even online than i used to be you know because you just think
01:55:53.940 so much of it is i'm not perfect you know because people can but i mean my god not even i'm not even
01:56:01.200 i wouldn't say i'm good let alone perfect but you just realize like maybe that guy's just having a bad
01:56:06.580 day you know the guy cuts you off that's right i'm mad i'm honking at him i'm gonna fight maybe that
01:56:13.680 guy's kid's dead dude maybe his kid is in the hospital and now i'm just adding so i'm always
01:56:19.460 about like i don't want to add to the trauma burden of the world what what like who knows what other
01:56:25.220 people and that doesn't mean i'm gonna let people walk all over me and everything but who knows what
01:56:29.260 people are going through man you just like you never know so i think i think about that all the
01:56:33.920 time like i don't have like i don't have any doubts that my kids know where we stand my friends
01:56:40.220 know where we stand the people who aren't my friends know where we stand because i don't have
01:56:45.080 time for like fake love and fake pleasantries and everything it's either like like it's real or it's
01:56:52.240 not it's not real there's just no point why even why even go into that middle space and i just my love
01:56:59.560 for my dad which was always very strong was like even stronger my empathy for my dad my mom you know
01:57:04.780 because you think about what you always think about what they did right to you because we're
01:57:09.740 the center of our own story because you have to be or you can't live i'm not i'm not diminishing that
01:57:14.260 but then once you start thinking about like what happened to them what happened to them that got them
01:57:20.720 right here and then suddenly you're like yeah man whatever my problems are my problems are what i
01:57:26.420 went through as i went through but every everybody everybody is going through that everybody's going
01:57:30.420 through something and then and then as that expands i think that's meaning and i think that's how you
01:57:35.580 connect more with god because yeah that's the divine communion empathy you know empathy is part of the
01:57:41.740 divine communion that's why charity is part of the divine communion that's why these are all taught by
01:57:46.860 christ even people who don't believe in them see the the logic in it is your it's just it's communion
01:57:53.600 with the divine and the better we are to each other the more in touch we are with the the divine and
01:57:59.800 the more that we fight and we bicker and we squabble and in the case of war we kill each other the
01:58:04.260 further the further away we are from god you know scott adams quite well he's facing death it sounds
01:58:12.540 like no no that's why i've been crying i've been telling you i've just been crying you know i saw
01:58:16.600 some video shauna sent me a video and he's like you know a lot of people don't know this but when i was
01:58:21.460 just starting off like mike cernovich like really helped me out and really boosted and which is true but i was
01:58:27.140 like he's on his death bed he's thinking about other people and i'm wrapped up in my own yeah
01:58:32.420 bullshit aren't we all every day yeah so he you know charlie's dead scott's dead we're all getting
01:58:39.200 older the you know there's tragedy all around us every day and you want to start thinking about your
01:58:45.680 own life and not that we don't already so with scott adams dying that's like a huge loss i was again i
01:58:55.220 had to leave my house because i was crying i was like not that i'm afraid to cry in front of my kids
01:58:59.600 but they'd be like why are you crying dad who's you know it's just like i just gotta i just gotta
01:59:04.560 take a walk and i'm just walking and i'm like which is another thing too i liked about that i
01:59:09.560 couldn't cry before i want you to like hold it in you know you hold it in and once you get good at
01:59:15.880 working with the plant medicine you learn it's just a wave man it's just a wave let the waves flow
01:59:19.920 why are we so afraid like why are we so afraid to cry by ourselves right like why if you're in a room
01:59:26.420 by yourself and things are surfacing whether you're with the plants or not with the plants
01:59:31.220 who's there to look at you other than god what are you afraid of i don't know what what are we afraid
01:59:36.400 of that is scary that's the that's the the ego in us that keeps us alive but also enslaves us
01:59:42.580 that's the part that desires the illusion of control so when you're when you're letting things
01:59:50.380 go you have to surrender control for a minute you do have to like lose your shit for a minute
01:59:56.180 and then that that part of the the egoism wants to wants to fight against that and wants to feel
02:00:01.600 like i you know i don't do this and then be dignified we don't do this like we don't cry it's
02:00:06.120 like well i mean i don't think it's healthy to cry around your wife all the time right it's not
02:00:10.600 right i'm not a good idea yeah i'm not saying walk around and like we're don't cry in front
02:00:14.300 of your wife all the time we're weepy you know we're weepy all the time but that's a recipe for
02:00:19.260 celibacy yeah yeah that's that's not that's not an ideal thing but like when my wife had a miscarriage
02:00:25.440 i like i cried the hell out of that i just in my office by myself and i cried and then i you know
02:00:30.380 when i noticed i started talking to people or i you know i wrote about it they're like oh i had a
02:00:34.860 miscarriage i was like why does nobody talk about this i know you can't talk about it that felt like a
02:00:39.760 kid died i was not even pro-life at that point i was like yeah politically kind of am and when we
02:00:47.360 had that miscarriage my kid died my kid is dead and from that i was like oh pro-life you know i just
02:00:54.060 i just was an idiot i didn't really understand that's such a common story though you hear from
02:00:59.520 people yeah you know but people don't talk about it well you're right yeah that's another thing and
02:01:04.080 then everybody's walking around holding everything in they're like why are people getting drunk why are
02:01:09.400 people doing opioids why are people why do you think because they're just like holding on to it
02:01:15.020 and then then they want to mask the feelings as they bubble up so they find alcohol or they find
02:01:21.740 drugs or they find pornography or they the devil loves that that's that's the thing too where i go
02:01:26.880 back and forth on the demonic thing with ayahuasca i was telling a friend about this actually i told a
02:01:31.720 friend and he goes he goes what are you doing this weekend i was like oh i gotta i'm doing some
02:01:36.540 fasting and i'm gonna do ayahuasca retreats like ayahuasca that's sounds dangerous and scary
02:01:40.680 and i go where are you going he's like i'm going to vegas and i go that sounds dangerous and scary to
02:01:45.780 me well you're gonna be amongst the drunks and you might get hit by a drunk driver and you might
02:01:50.640 drink too much and find yourself in a strange bed that to me but that's where the devil wants you
02:01:57.160 i agree because if you start looking at i like with the ayahuasca thing even having some experience with
02:02:02.340 it i'm talking myself out of it until the minute that i drink the tea up until that very second that
02:02:09.160 i drink the tea i'm thinking of every excuse in the world to not drink it because i don't want to
02:02:14.220 drink it i don't want to do it but if 10 years ago you said hey do you want to go some take take
02:02:20.000 some shots of vodka and other things about oh yeah that sounds like a great time of course so then
02:02:24.820 you have to that's where the discernment comes in and that's where it becomes a heavier question
02:02:28.480 well why is it that i want to do things that we know we're a sin that we know we're damaging and
02:02:36.060 i want to i'm excited for that but i don't want to do this thing that is like demonic with all of
02:02:43.400 my being i do not if the i do not want to ever drink ayahuasca for the rest of my life i do not
02:02:49.700 want to that doesn't mean i won't but i don't want to but why though why don't i want to well it's
02:02:56.680 it's because of the the spiritual awakening or the spiritual reckoning that happens and the
02:03:02.060 the realizations which fundamentally i think have made me more again i don't want to say a good
02:03:08.580 person but it certainly made me change my life and live differently have there been any downsides
02:03:14.820 you got to be comfortable spiritual spiritual confusion which we won so i have a certain there's
02:03:24.120 a certain like weight now that i have you ever hear that expression like the unbearable lightness
02:03:29.260 of being of course and it's like very california thing and everybody's all about lighten up man you
02:03:36.200 know chill out you should like learn to relax and i do and a friend of mine who found the medicine
02:03:43.980 after i did remember we were hanging out he came out to one cigar and he goes mike i was like yeah what's
02:03:49.940 up brother what's up he goes i don't know how to say this he goes but since drinking ayahuasca and
02:03:56.060 he's a christian he plays in his band you know in the he plays guitar in a band at church every Sunday
02:04:01.760 he goes so i don't know how to say i go oh you're like really spiritually confused right he goes yes
02:04:06.400 and i go what do you think i like know the answer he's like he goes all i'm thinking about is like
02:04:11.280 am i doing the right thing and there there's a there's a confusion but like in a good way
02:04:18.600 where i think that a lot of people think well i'm i'm a christian i'm saved i accepted jesus as my lord
02:04:24.900 and savior once saved always saved and then i'll just sort of live my life and maybe go to church
02:04:31.340 and try to be a good person or whatever but you feel like i'm a you know i'm a christian like i've
02:04:35.860 check the box whereas when you with the medicine i think it's the opposite where you're just on any
02:04:44.300 moment you're just waging against whatever sin the darkness and you're just like i don't know man i
02:04:52.440 i believe but i don't i don't really know what's going to happen i i hope i you know i hope i'm doing
02:04:57.640 the right things and that level of spiritual confusion i think is not meant for everyone so i don't think
02:05:04.680 most people are i think almost nobody should should drink ayahuasca i think almost no one should
02:05:09.740 i think it's only something that if a person feels like they're going to do it anyway and no amount of
02:05:16.260 persuasion for me is going to work then that's something to talk about but i don't think people
02:05:21.600 should should dabble in this kind of stuff really but if you're a vet and you're like looking at the
02:05:28.320 bottom of a bottle of jack daniels you got a gun next to you
02:05:32.280 let's get you to mexico you know let's get you to peru like that's that's a whole different
02:05:39.360 have you ever known anyone who's been made worse by it
02:05:42.320 worse is worse is a hard way of putting it because people go through phases so i've what happens with
02:05:51.960 some people unfortunately is because you are getting quote-unquote like downloads from the
02:05:57.220 universe people do kind of chase that download of the universe dragon versus like the hard work of
02:06:03.480 living in life right so drinking ayahuasca once you kind of have a hang of it it's never easy
02:06:09.800 but it's like you put on your space suit and you kind of know you know you kind of know like
02:06:14.680 you drink it and you can feel it moving through you and your hands start to feel like you have carpal
02:06:19.240 tunnel and right when you feel like you sort of stretch out you're like oh yeah i'm up the
02:06:23.540 medicine's about to hit and you can't direct the experience in an active way but you sort of know
02:06:29.340 what you're you're getting into the first couple times god help you and what people will do then
02:06:35.980 is rather than undertake the hard work of being alive the hard work is here the the realizations
02:06:42.740 that i had change how i live here but the hard work is still like i don't know this is a great
02:06:49.180 talk i'm gonna leave here i'm like i think that was a good talk and then i'm gonna be like
02:06:54.480 wrapped up about some business thing you know or mad about something that somebody did to me or
02:07:01.100 wondering about some you know uncertain thing and then the you know the demons come in and kind of
02:07:07.760 kind of steal your joy so the hard work is here and and planet earth why are we here that's again
02:07:13.600 goes to the meaning of life question the um like take the garden of eden story for example
02:07:19.400 even if it's not real why was it written i mean if it's not real it was written as a metaphor i suppose
02:07:26.740 why though to tell us about the nature of god and man that's one yeah but i think it's this is not
02:07:37.000 our home yeah right we just we know we don't we know we don't belong here right the the garden of
02:07:43.560 eden is whatever this is this is not like we were whether we were cast out of eden because we listened
02:07:50.780 to the serpent and we rejected god whether that's literal that's a metaphor the the underlying feeling
02:07:58.220 is that we are aliens on this planet yeah however we got here is a different question the new testament
02:08:05.040 says that a lot and we're just like stuck in these like bodies that don't want to cooperate
02:08:09.560 and that want to lead us to things that we on a spiritual level maybe don't want to do so
02:08:17.060 so that the only real downside that i've seen from people who have done the plant medicine although
02:08:23.720 there are bad stories like they're like i after i had a really big night and the guy said
02:08:29.120 you know if you're thinking about leaving your wife call me first and i go i love my wife more
02:08:37.000 than ever i was like it actually would be the opposite he goes okay he goes but you had a big
02:08:40.940 night so what happens is a lot of times that people have a big night the facilitator or shaman guy
02:08:47.340 isn't good or he's fly by night and you're just like oh i realized i'm not living the way i'm
02:08:53.260 supposed to and they just like up in their life yeah i know someone who did that yeah yeah so that
02:08:58.900 is a 100 a risk and that's why i'm always hesitant to talk about it because i don't want to seem like
02:09:05.980 i'm glamorizing it i want to like when i talk about ayahuasca i want it to sound kind of like foreboding
02:09:10.980 yes maybe you shouldn't do this you probably shouldn't do this you probably shouldn't you might
02:09:16.080 just blow up your whole life you probably shouldn't do it to to avoid people going in and saying
02:09:23.020 it's like no bro you didn't you were just bored right you were just bored and now you like destroyed
02:09:28.040 your whole life and the real the real work is the homework the homework is this what we got to do
02:09:34.160 here the downloads in the universe might feel great at the time or you might feel like you have all
02:09:39.600 this insight and connection to a super intelligence to superpower but you're still back here on planet
02:09:44.920 earth so why don't you spend more time here in this body and planet earth and figuring out the
02:09:50.560 best way to live your life has the experience made you more aware of like the spiritual realm
02:09:55.980 around you day to day i see everything as spiritual realm yeah every i see everything as being
02:10:02.180 interests entities trying to act upon humanity in some kind of cosmic war that we don't really
02:10:12.880 understand but for whatever reason humans are a very important part of it now my belief again is
02:10:17.620 the orthodox christian part which is like i accept the orthodox christianity story is a true one but
02:10:24.120 i'm just you know i'm trying not to be uh you know like i'm a priest because god no go to josiah
02:10:29.600 trentum or someone if you want a priest stay far away from me like that's people ask me religious
02:10:33.640 questions i'm like get away from me and find josiah trentum i feel the same way so far away from me please
02:10:40.140 i have no no standing yeah yeah get away so i'm just saying like my own belief is that
02:10:46.080 god created man we have bodies the demons envy us because they can't be satiated they don't have
02:10:53.620 bodies they hate us when they attack us that's their revenge against god so the demons are constantly
02:10:59.900 trying to use us they can't be satiated how in what way why do you say that because they're floating
02:11:05.320 around in a spirit they've been denied bodies so that they are roaming around like in a zombie kind
02:11:12.400 of state always thought that one of the hallmarks of like hell on earth is the inability to be
02:11:18.220 satiated satisfied full yes whether it's eating bad food or having the wrong kind of sex it's like
02:11:23.480 it's never enough or drugs or alcohol or insomnia yeah imagine yeah so they're walking around
02:11:29.700 in insomnia and they hate us they hate humans and they want to hurt us and they more importantly
02:11:35.620 want us to hurt each other to harm god that's how they see us because the demons think they're going
02:11:42.880 to win remember like if you're a christian we say well we know how the story ends god wins in the end
02:11:49.320 right the demons don't believe that though we believe that they don't believe it so they believe
02:11:54.900 that the they can turn us against each other they can get us to hurt each other they can like a lot
02:12:01.060 of demons enter people through traumatic experiences yes they believe they believe they're going to win
02:12:07.080 this is not and their minds they are the winners in the end they're going to win so they want to use us
02:12:14.460 to get us to harm each other because they see that as harming god more than anything else so we're
02:12:20.440 constantly being acted upon so i'm constantly like praying for discernment discernment discernment
02:12:24.880 discernment discernment am i being manipulated am i being led astray because i mean on a
02:12:31.300 political level i've been played before by people by sources not knowing it oh me too and then i find
02:12:37.820 out a lot yeah yeah so i'm so like when people tell me things like oh here's the truth about the
02:12:44.200 venezuela raid or here's the truth about israel or here's the truth about palestine it's like discernment
02:12:50.720 am i just being played because everybody wants you you know especially at your level that's what i was
02:12:55.040 telling telling you guys earlier like i think the lord above that i am not you that i'm not russell
02:13:02.400 brand that i am not tim pool that i am not any of you guys because i'm so weak and pathetic i
02:13:10.520 couldn't imagine if i had your guys yeah it's not you can say that you can brush it off but um i have so
02:13:16.320 many dogs and children that it's like i don't even notice but uh all right i make myself not notice but
02:13:21.180 no but i think anyone who's in a position where other people listen to him is under particularly
02:13:28.320 fierce attack constant no just imagine that the text like jd is that's right imaginable just like
02:13:35.560 unreal um because even sometimes i'm like ah you know i'll see something you said like i don't i don't
02:13:40.880 agree with that and i go man i'm not gonna be another guy texting tugger nagging him about please
02:13:45.940 do nagging him about something but no so i so there is the risk that
02:13:51.380 as you've seen happen a person is kind of an ayahuasca tourist they go in they go oh my whole life has
02:14:00.020 been a lie and therefore i'm just gonna like blow up my whole life don't do that like and if the
02:14:05.540 person you're with is not if the shaman or whatever the facilitator is not telling you like
02:14:10.860 don't do that then then you're in the wrong place but other but other than that and people getting
02:14:17.880 caught in the the trap of downloads i've seen like the biggest baddest men on the planet that just want
02:14:25.040 to like hug their kids and they went from ptsd and staring off into the void and drinking and
02:14:32.500 fighting with their wives and riding motorcycles too fast just for a rush and because frankly like
02:14:38.960 maybe they maybe it is a death wish of course it is right and then you take away responsibility
02:14:42.840 because you go oh i just got in a crash i didn't kill myself like some pussy you know i just got in
02:14:48.000 a wreck but really they're trying to kill themselves and just become like it's actually pretty it's
02:14:54.760 actually changed my view on a lot of this like real men don't cry and you see all this bravado
02:14:58.560 and i'm like dude i've cried with the delta force guy i've cried with the seal team six guy you are
02:15:04.720 not more whatever your definition of manly is you are like not more if you ever see like marcus capone
02:15:10.660 he's like this you are not more manly than marcus capone or dj shipley or any of these other guys
02:15:18.140 that that's like for sure so they're so i at the very least i do hope it because again i don't want
02:15:25.700 people to listen to this go to ayahuasca it's an immense that would be immensely damaging for
02:15:30.100 somebody to do that based on what i'm saying to me i don't want them to do it that wouldn't be a
02:15:33.920 nice thing to do to me but i do hope that people can say yeah what's the big deal like i'm by myself
02:15:42.440 in a room and i'm praying and i cry why am i holding it in who cares right and then find that find
02:15:49.300 that ego is the reason i think you're exactly right so last question we were in a period of
02:15:55.100 we're in a huge change period of course and one of the qualities of it is chaos it's just a chaotic
02:16:02.780 moment it's hard to understand especially if you're you know 50 and you've been watching this
02:16:07.780 stuff your whole life it's like all of a sudden this weren't this is a departure how much of that
02:16:13.140 chaos is like spiritual it always has been i mean you remember that song sympathy for devil
02:16:20.240 rolling stone of course what if that's not assault what if that's real right well it is real right so
02:16:26.760 in in my view that the the the jacobin terror the bolshevik revolution the spanish civil war what's
02:16:34.000 happening in ukraine yeah it's all the same it's all part of the same strain so i think that
02:16:39.140 we because again you're born into a certain period of time and then we tend to overweight the time that
02:16:45.220 we're in and we see it maybe in a different color than it should be we're not like your son isn't
02:16:52.320 getting drafted in the vietnam war we're not getting drafted in the world war ii we're not getting
02:16:56.300 drafted in the world war one i think that in terms of even though he's kind of a lamester steven pinker
02:17:03.140 is like better angels i think we were on the trend to towards a better world and we've seen that that's
02:17:09.220 been upended but that we're still in a good time and what we do want to have is our as our north star
02:17:16.160 is is like preserving order knowing that like we're going to have conflict but if we can find some kind
02:17:23.200 of allyship or alliance and that means everybody has to pull their own weight then we shouldn't give
02:17:29.840 into the rank or the infighting and i i used to be an infighter and like infighting a lot and i've cut
02:17:36.240 down on that by at least half it's a good new year's resolution mike sternovich that that didn't
02:17:44.180 go in the direction i'd anticipated was much better and more interesting and deeper thank you thank you
02:17:49.200 my pleasure