The Tucker Carlson Show - December 21, 2023


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Topics
creepy senses and intuition war in Ukraine polygraph effectiveness and lying detection truth and freedom Tell Theo truth
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Tucker Carlson
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Dylan Janet Yellen Joe Biden Martin Luther King Sam Bankman Freed Gavin DeBecker Jimmy Cliff Zelensky Charles Soros
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In this episode of his new show, Tucker Carlson is joined by an old friend of his who is a financial analyst. They talk about how to deal with paranoia and anger and what to do about it. It's a really important topic to talk about, and it's one I think a lot of people need to be thinking about. I don't know about you, but I think most of us are a little more paranoid than we should be, and I think that's a good thing. I think we should all be more aware of our own paranoia, especially when it comes to things we don't have any idea what's going on in the world around us. And I think there are a few things we can do to help deal with it, and maybe a few ways to make it a little less scary, but probably not a whole lot more scary than it should be. I hope you enjoy this episode, and tweet me what you think of it! if you liked it, tweet me and let me know what you thought of it. I'd love to hear your thoughts on it. Timestamps: 4:00 - How to deal in the real world 5:30 - How do you deal with your paranoia? 7:00- How do we deal with our own fears and anger? 8:15 - How can we handle it? 9:20 - What should we do about paranoia 11:30- How can I deal with fear? 13:00 14:40 - Is paranoia a symptom of anxiety? 15:40- What do you need to do? 16:30 17: What are you looking for? 18:20- How to cope with paranoia 19: How do I know it's not a bad thing? 21:40 22:10 - What s your intuition? 23:10 Is paranoia real? 25:00 Do you know what s going to help you? 26:00 Can you trust your gut? 27:30 What s the best thing you're going to do with your perception of what you're seeing? 29: What s a good idea? 32:00 What s going on? 35:00 Is there a problem you can do about this? 31:00 Are you listening to your intuition or not a lie? 33:00 Does it matter? 34:30 Is it creepy?

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 I love it. Thank you.
00:00:13.000 Tucker Carlson, everybody! 0.99
00:00:16.000 Tucker fucking Carlson is in the house! 0.99
00:00:19.000 Tucker Carlson! 0.99
00:00:21.000 Well, I've never had an introduction like that.
00:00:23.000 And by the way,
00:00:25.000 every introduction should come with profanity,
00:00:27.000 so thank you.
00:00:29.000 I didn't hear the introduction because I was backstage
00:00:33.000 with an old friend of mine from television who's here.
00:00:36.000 I didn't expect to see him.
00:00:38.000 And he's probably the greatest financial analyst on television.
00:00:41.000 And so I said to him, jokingly,
00:00:43.000 since he deals with markets and, you know, real companies,
00:00:48.000 I said, there he is right there.
00:00:50.000 I said, is it crazy to bury gold in my yard?
00:00:54.000 He looked me right in the face.
00:00:56.000 He goes, no, it's not crazy at all.
00:00:58.000 And that kind of, and by the way, I'm not giving investment advice.
00:01:02.000 I'm the last person.
00:01:04.000 You would never take investment advice from someone who's never had an actual job.
00:01:08.000 Don't buy real estate from a homeless person, et cetera, et cetera. 0.96
00:01:12.000 Don't hire a fat person as your trainer.
00:01:15.000 So I'm not, I'm not doing that.
00:01:23.000 But I'm only saying that to highlight what everyone in this room already knows,
00:01:27.000 which is that it's really a volatile moment.
00:01:29.000 I flew out here across the country this morning and spent five hours texting people,
00:01:35.000 mostly people I know, but also the entire mentally ill community in America has my texts. 0.88
00:01:39.000 So a lot of crazies too.
00:01:41.000 But also a lot of people I really like and who are smart and temperate and reasonable people
00:01:45.000 who've been around who are my age.
00:01:47.000 I'm 54, you know, kind of seen stuff and have measured opinions on things.
00:01:51.000 And I got to tell you, every single person I texted with, with the exception of my wife,
00:01:55.000 who's not on the internet at all, was angry and paranoid.
00:01:59.000 Seriously.
00:02:00.000 And these are not crazy people.
00:02:02.000 These are normal good people with like kids and stuff.
00:02:05.000 With a vested interest in Americans' success.
00:02:08.000 These are not the burn it down caucus.
00:02:10.000 These are the, you know, these are the people you want voting.
00:02:13.000 And they were all angry and paranoid.
00:02:16.000 Every single one of them, some of them really angry and some of them really paranoid.
00:02:20.000 And I have to say, after assessing their views for five hours, I think they were justified in both.
00:02:26.000 Like they had every reason to be angry and all the evidence required to become paranoid.
00:02:31.000 And so I'm not mocking them at all.
00:02:33.000 I'm just telling you once again what you already know, which is this is going to be the next year,
00:02:39.000 is going to be, I think, I'd bet my house on it, really like nothing we've ever seen in the country.
00:02:46.000 And everyone can kind of feel that.
00:02:48.000 You know, most of our perceptions come through intuition rather than reason.
00:02:53.000 And if you have dogs, you know this because they can't understand literally a word you say
00:02:57.000 because they don't speak English.
00:02:59.000 Hardly any of them.
00:03:01.000 But if you're close to your dog, you know the dog knows exactly what's going on.
00:03:04.000 Knows when it's time to go out.
00:03:05.000 Knows when you're going on a trip.
00:03:07.000 Why is that?
00:03:08.000 Because they don't hear anything, they just watch.
00:03:10.000 And they feel.
00:03:11.000 And people are very much the same.
00:03:13.000 And if something bad is about to happen, everybody gets jumpy.
00:03:16.000 And everybody's really jumpy right now.
00:03:18.000 So I'm not here to, you know, make your anger and paranoia worse.
00:03:23.000 Just the opposite.
00:03:24.000 I'm here merely to suggest a couple of things that I think you could do about it.
00:03:29.000 And that might be useful rather than pointless.
00:03:32.000 Like spending a ton of time on social media screaming at people.
00:03:35.000 Well, obviously I do that for a living.
00:03:37.000 And I would never discourage anyone from doing it.
00:03:40.000 You know, probably aren't going to solve your problem.
00:03:42.000 So the first thing I think that's really important as you stare down the next 12 months is to accept the fact that all your senses are telling you the truth.
00:03:52.000 A good friend of mine called Gavin DeBecker once wrote a book.
00:03:55.000 The thesis of which was every feeling, every gut level feeling you've ever had is real.
00:04:01.000 It's totally true.
00:04:02.000 That your gut is the one thing that doesn't lie to you.
00:04:05.000 Your gut only has your interest in mind.
00:04:08.000 It is not trying to sell you a product or convince you to vote for it.
00:04:12.000 It's acting solely on your behalf.
00:04:14.000 So if you get a very strong message from your viscera, from your intuition, obey it.
00:04:19.000 Take it very seriously.
00:04:21.000 As I always tell my children, if you're talking to somebody and the person seems creepy, he's creepy.
00:04:25.000 It doesn't mean you can convict him in a court of law for creepiness, though maybe you should try.
00:04:30.000 But you don't need to.
00:04:31.000 All you need to know is that what your senses are telling you is absolutely true.
00:04:34.000 This person's creepy.
00:04:35.000 If you feel deception, you're being lied to.
00:04:38.000 Period.
00:04:39.000 Now, you may not know how you're being lied to or why you're being lied to, much less what the truth is.
00:04:43.000 You probably don't.
00:04:44.000 I most of the time have no idea.
00:04:46.000 But if you feel you're being lied to, you're 100% right.
00:04:49.000 You are being lied to.
00:04:51.000 And if you feel that something very intense and history-changing is about to happen, don't ignore it.
00:04:58.000 Don't panic.
00:05:00.000 There's no profit in that.
00:05:01.000 You can't control it.
00:05:02.000 You're not in charge of history.
00:05:04.000 No offense.
00:05:05.000 None of us is.
00:05:06.000 But that is absolutely real.
00:05:09.000 So, I mean, just ask yourself, just on the merits of the facts.
00:05:12.000 You've got the two frontrunners, just for president, just in this country.
00:05:16.000 And there are, by the way, 150 other countries where there's similar volatility unfolding, certainly in every Western country.
00:05:21.000 But just in our country, you've got two people running for president.
00:05:25.000 One of them is literally senile.
00:05:26.000 I'm not attacking the guy, but that's true.
00:05:28.000 Maybe not fully aware that he's president.
00:05:31.000 It's being, the White House is being run by a cartel of people for whatever ends.
00:05:36.000 You know, we have no visibility into that.
00:05:38.000 We don't know what the plan is.
00:05:40.000 We know the guy they claim is running it is not running it.
00:05:42.000 So that's grotesque.
00:05:43.000 And by the way, no one ever mentions it.
00:05:45.000 You know, people snicker at Joe Biden.
00:05:47.000 I try not to because I feel bad for him because I don't believe in making fun of old people or the disabled.
00:05:52.000 I'm serious.
00:05:53.000 I really don't.
00:05:54.000 I feel guilty every time I say it, including now.
00:05:55.000 But it's just true.
00:05:57.000 He's not running the country, and yet he's standing for reelection at the age of 80.
00:06:03.000 Okay?
00:06:04.000 Opposing him is a man who has been indicted four times and is facing life in prison.
00:06:10.000 Life in prison.
00:06:11.000 And every time he gets indicted and every time they tack years on to the sentence, this potential sentence, he becomes more popular and now he's winning.
00:06:20.000 So I love it.
00:06:22.000 Amen.
00:06:23.000 But it tells you a couple of things. 0.73
00:06:26.000 One, the side that's indicting him doesn't want him to be president so badly that they are willing to indict him on what are transparently ridiculous charges.
00:06:36.000 Okay?
00:06:37.000 And two, the public is not only not buying it, it is incentivizing them to support him.
00:06:43.000 Indite him again.
00:06:45.000 Arrest him again. 0.96
00:06:47.000 March him out to the gallows. 0.92
00:06:49.000 He'll become king. 0.93
00:06:51.000 So it's literally counterproductive.
00:06:54.000 So what does that tell you?
00:06:55.000 It tells you that the people currently in charge have no idea how the country works, what the country wants, and they don't care.
00:07:00.000 They don't understand human nature.
00:07:02.000 They're desperate and they'll do literally anything.
00:07:05.000 And he's winning.
00:07:07.000 So how does that resolve itself?
00:07:09.000 I mean, I could give you a thousand potential scenarios.
00:07:12.000 I personally think the governor of California will get in.
00:07:14.000 I have no evidence whatsoever that that's true.
00:07:17.000 Other than he's the single most ruthless and evil person I've ever seen in politics.
00:07:20.000 Therefore, he has to come to the top of that party.
00:07:23.000 But I don't know that.
00:07:26.000 I don't know that.
00:07:27.000 All I know for a fact is that this can't be resolved in an orderly way.
00:07:32.000 And it won't be.
00:07:33.000 Period.
00:07:34.000 So how do you respond to that?
00:07:36.000 Obviously, bury gold in your yard.
00:07:39.000 It's Charles approved.
00:07:41.000 But what else can you do?
00:07:44.000 Well, the first thing you need to do is understand the terms and the stakes of what's going on.
00:07:48.000 The big lie that we tell ourselves and that I have told many times is that this is political.
00:07:54.000 This is not political.
00:07:56.000 What we're watching is not political.
00:07:58.000 This is not politics.
00:08:00.000 Politics is a human conceived system whereby civilized people settle their differences without violence and by consensus.
00:08:10.000 Politics describes a negotiation.
00:08:13.000 You want this.
00:08:14.000 I want that.
00:08:15.000 Neither of us is going to get exactly what we want.
00:08:17.000 But we'll each come away thinking we didn't get totally hosed and we can continue to live together.
00:08:21.000 That's what politics is.
00:08:22.000 And that's why nobody wants to watch it because it's filled with horse trading and accommodations.
00:08:27.000 No one exits the process pure.
00:08:31.000 Everybody has given up something.
00:08:33.000 That's the nature of it.
00:08:35.000 And while it's unattractive like watching heavyset people have sex, it's absolutely necessary.
00:08:42.000 And it's kind of beautiful in its way.
00:08:46.000 In its way.
00:08:47.000 Everyone deserves love.
00:08:49.000 And everyone deserves to live in a country governed by politics, not force.
00:08:55.000 You say you hate politics.
00:08:56.000 What's the option?
00:08:57.000 Force.
00:08:58.000 You only get two options.
00:09:00.000 And we're past the political stage.
00:09:05.000 Nothing.
00:09:06.000 That's exactly right.
00:09:07.000 Whoever said that.
00:09:10.000 Nothing that is happening now or that has happened for the last five or six years can be explained through conventional political terms.
00:09:18.000 Period.
00:09:19.000 In a convention.
00:09:20.000 In a convention.
00:09:21.000 And I hear people miss this all the time.
00:09:23.000 Whatever awful thing is happening.
00:09:24.000 And I've contributed to this endlessly.
00:09:27.000 You find out that someone's getting a vig on something.
00:09:30.000 Someone's making a little money on the deal.
00:09:32.000 And you're like, oh, it's all about the money.
00:09:34.000 Follow the money.
00:09:35.000 It's all about the money.
00:09:36.000 I've said this myself a thousand times.
00:09:37.000 Since I quit drinking, I say it less.
00:09:39.000 But still.
00:09:40.000 Follow the money.
00:09:42.000 And you know, if it were only about the money, we'd be fine.
00:09:47.000 We'd be fine.
00:09:49.000 Because I understand that.
00:09:52.000 Just in the same way that I understand, being totally honest here, most crimes.
00:09:56.000 I understand most crimes.
00:09:58.000 I wouldn't commit them.
00:09:59.000 Because the penalty is too high and you try to be a decent person.
00:10:02.000 But when someone who is poor robs a bank, or even if someone who's greedy robs a bank.
00:10:07.000 Or someone who's greedy and makes up a fake cryptocurrency and buys his parents' houses in the Bahamas.
00:10:12.000 I'm not pointing at you, Sam Bankman-Fried, but I'm just saying, I get it.
00:10:17.000 I don't approve of it, but it makes sense to me.
00:10:20.000 It's explicable.
00:10:21.000 If people do something for power, I understand it.
00:10:24.000 You cheat in an election so you can become president even though you're senile.
00:10:27.000 That has happened.
00:10:28.000 I'm just telling you.
00:10:29.000 Well, you want to run things.
00:10:31.000 You want to be in charge.
00:10:32.000 I get it.
00:10:33.000 The lust for power is ugly.
00:10:34.000 It's a sin.
00:10:35.000 But it's certainly not foreign to anybody who's alive.
00:10:39.000 We all know that feeling.
00:10:40.000 It's totally recognizable.
00:10:42.000 That's not what's happening.
00:10:45.000 What's happening is bad behavior for its own sake.
00:10:51.000 There is no upside to the great trends of our age.
00:10:55.000 There's no upside to pushing transgenderism on kids. 1.00
00:10:58.000 Period.
00:10:59.000 None.
00:11:00.000 Not for the kid.
00:11:02.000 Not for the society at large.
00:11:04.000 Not for the parents who will never have grandchildren.
00:11:06.000 There's no upside.
00:11:08.000 So why are they doing that?
00:11:10.000 You've got to figure there's some percentage of the population who decides I want to switch
00:11:14.000 genders.
00:11:15.000 Whatever.
00:11:16.000 We've had that.
00:11:17.000 That's a long-standing thing.
00:11:18.000 But it involved a hundredth of one percent of the population.
00:11:21.000 If forty percent of the girls in your kid's eighth grade class identify as non-binary,
00:11:27.000 that's being pushed on them.
00:11:29.000 That's not an organic conclusion they have reached.
00:11:31.000 That is, someone has decided to tell them that there are more than two sexes. 0.99
00:11:35.000 And, of course, there aren't.
00:11:37.000 But why is that person doing it?
00:11:40.000 Is it really a conspiracy from gender clinics?
00:11:43.000 I mean, maybe to some extent, but it's bigger than that.
00:11:46.000 What you're seeing is evil done for its own sake.
00:11:49.000 Hurting people done for the sake of hurting people.
00:11:52.000 That's exactly what you're seeing.
00:11:55.000 When you see a war like the war in Ukraine, and I think, and I have always thought since day one,
00:12:00.000 that good people can have differing views on that.
00:12:02.000 I have my own views.
00:12:03.000 I don't expect anyone else to share them.
00:12:05.000 I don't attack anyone for not having my views.
00:12:07.000 I've certainly been attacked for my views.
00:12:09.000 But I think decent people can come to any variety of conclusions.
00:12:12.000 But in the end, no one really benefited, actually, from that war.
00:12:17.000 No one benefited.
00:12:18.000 I saw a video today of the latest class of Ukrainian army recruits.
00:12:22.000 They were older than I am.
00:12:23.000 And I'm pretty freaking old. 0.66
00:12:25.000 Close to death. 0.92
00:12:27.000 And these guys were at least as old and much closer to death.
00:12:30.000 And by their faces, you knew they knew it. 0.99
00:12:32.000 They looked miserable. 0.99
00:12:33.000 This is a country that's run out of men. 0.98
00:12:35.000 And they're not going to win.
00:12:37.000 So, you know, people win or lose wars.
00:12:39.000 I get it.
00:12:40.000 You make a bad bet.
00:12:41.000 You think this is going to work.
00:12:42.000 It doesn't.
00:12:43.000 I understand that.
00:12:44.000 I've done it many times.
00:12:45.000 But for American policymakers, for Janet Yellen, the Treasury Secretary,
00:12:49.000 to announce yesterday that we must continue this war, what is that?
00:12:54.000 A war with no hope of winning?
00:12:56.000 When the best possible outcome is a generation of grandfathers gets slaughtered?
00:13:00.000 What?
00:13:01.000 Because why?
00:13:03.000 What you're looking at is someone who is thrilled, and I mean Janet Yellen,
00:13:07.000 our Treasury Secretary specifically, who was thrilled by the prospect of people dying.
00:13:12.000 Death is an inherent good.
00:13:13.000 You're watching death worship.
00:13:16.000 That's exactly what that is.
00:13:17.000 Make no mistake.
00:13:18.000 And I'm not attacking anyone who's for Ukraine or Zelensky.
00:13:21.000 That's not what I'm saying.
00:13:22.000 I'm really saying at this point, right now, if you're rational at all,
00:13:27.000 and you take 10 minutes to read about it, there's no other outcome other than prolonged human suffering.
00:13:33.000 Period.
00:13:34.000 And if you're endorsing that, you have to ask why.
00:13:37.000 And then there's the question of lying.
00:13:40.000 And the question of lying since I'm in the media, though I don't admit it very often anymore.
00:13:46.000 Well, I guess now I'm unemployed, but I was in the media.
00:13:49.000 It's a big question.
00:13:53.000 I mean, when I started in this business, following my father who was in this business, in 1991,
00:13:58.000 there was really just kind of one, well, the unspoken rule was have an interesting life
00:14:02.000 and learn how to tell a story at dinner and, you know, don't pass out until you get home.
00:14:08.000 But the explicit rule in journalism really was just one was to tell the truth.
00:14:11.000 Tell that we're in the truth business.
00:14:12.000 That's it.
00:14:13.000 And, of course, we get it wrong.
00:14:14.000 When we get it wrong, we admit it.
00:14:16.000 The basic requirement of, like, seeking the truth is admitting when you don't find it,
00:14:21.000 right?
00:14:22.000 That's how you know an honest person, when he admits he was wrong.
00:14:25.000 And if you're dealing with people who never admit they're wrong, you're dealing with liars.
00:14:28.000 So there have always been liars, and there always will be.
00:14:33.000 But what we're seeing now is very, very different.
00:14:36.000 Because the kinds of lies, there are two things that make it different.
00:14:39.000 The kinds of lies that we're hearing are not conventional lies at all.
00:14:43.000 They're the inversion of the truth.
00:14:45.000 They're the exact opposite.
00:14:46.000 They're the mirror image of what is true.
00:14:48.000 And anyone who has kids knows exactly what I'm talking about.
00:14:51.000 If you...
00:14:52.000 All kids lie.
00:14:53.000 This is how you know it's inherent to the human condition.
00:14:55.000 All kids lie.
00:14:56.000 Even your beloved little Dylan, he lies.
00:14:58.000 Okay?
00:14:59.000 But they lie in a very specific way.
00:15:02.000 So you come down for breakfast, you open the cabinet, and, like, half the Oreos are gone.
00:15:06.000 And you say, Dylan, did you eat an Oreo?
00:15:11.000 And he's like, oh, no.
00:15:14.000 You ate an Oreo, didn't you?
00:15:16.000 Yeah, just one.
00:15:17.000 Dylan, there are 12 Oreos gone.
00:15:19.000 Well, maybe two.
00:15:21.000 You get it.
00:15:23.000 He's lying.
00:15:24.000 He knows he's lying.
00:15:25.000 He's ashamed of what he did.
00:15:26.000 He's trying to hide it.
00:15:27.000 You caught him.
00:15:28.000 He's doubly ashamed you caught him.
00:15:29.000 And so he's trying to hedge a little bit.
00:15:31.000 Well, it's not as bad as you think.
00:15:32.000 I'm not that bad a person.
00:15:33.000 I only ate two.
00:15:34.000 I didn't eat 12. 0.98
00:15:35.000 And instead of, you know, smacking him and saying, you liar, you get it. 0.98
00:15:38.000 Right? 0.97
00:15:39.000 If Dylan worked in the Biden administration, he would stare right in your eyes and smile
00:15:44.000 and say, I didn't eat any Oreos.
00:15:46.000 You did.
00:15:47.000 You ate the Oreos.
00:15:49.000 You ate the Oreos.
00:15:52.000 You ate the Oreos.
00:15:54.000 And he would be so calm and unperturbed. 1.00
00:15:58.000 And so certain of your guilt that in your mind you would think, shit, did I eat the Oreos? 0.99
00:16:04.000 Maybe I did. 1.00
00:16:05.000 Maybe I slept walked.
00:16:07.000 Because we're not used to dealing with people who can lie without guilt.
00:16:12.000 That's why the polygraph works.
00:16:13.000 And everyone lies about the polygraph.
00:16:15.000 Irony of ironies, they lie about the lie detector test.
00:16:17.000 They're like, oh, it's not admissible in court.
00:16:19.000 It doesn't work.
00:16:20.000 Oh, it certainly does work.
00:16:21.000 No, it's not admissible in court.
00:16:23.000 I don't know why.
00:16:24.000 But if you work for a big company or CIA or DOD or if you work for any organization where
00:16:29.000 telling the truth is a high stakes matter, they will polygraph you.
00:16:33.000 And if you've ever been polygraphed, you know how effective it is. 0.97
00:16:36.000 And it's effective because people don't like to lie.
00:16:39.000 They do it because they feel they have to because they're hiding the truth about themselves.
00:16:42.000 I get it.
00:16:43.000 But they don't like it.
00:16:44.000 And something in your body, literally in your body, rebels against lying.
00:16:48.000 You tell a lie, your palms will sweat involuntarily.
00:16:51.000 Your heart rate will increase.
00:16:52.000 And you will breathe more quickly.
00:16:54.000 And that's what they're measuring.
00:16:55.000 So they know you're lying.
00:16:56.000 So it takes a very rare person to lie in the way that we're being lied to.
00:17:03.000 And it takes a very rare moment to see lying at this scale.
00:17:08.000 But the final fact that makes this moment different is that they're not just lying.
00:17:12.000 They hate the truth.
00:17:13.000 They're offended by things purely because they are true.
00:17:17.000 Even when they don't possibly threaten anyone.
00:17:20.000 I saw this today.
00:17:21.000 Somebody sent me a piece.
00:17:23.000 There's a group called Media Matters, which is a, you know, it's a censorship organization
00:17:28.000 funded by Soros and a lot of other people who hate Western civilization designed to prohibit
00:17:33.000 people from saying certain things.
00:17:35.000 Well, the things that they're prohibiting people from saying are 100% true.
00:17:38.000 And that's why they're prohibiting it.
00:17:40.000 Somebody sent me a piece today where Media Matters attacked a guy for suggesting that
00:17:46.000 our historical timelines were wrong.
00:17:48.000 And there had, in fact, been advanced civilizations in earlier moments in time.
00:17:53.000 And that they had been eliminated somehow through climactic events, through natural disasters.
00:17:58.000 And that we're not aware of them in any detail.
00:18:01.000 Well, that's a really interesting hypothesis.
00:18:03.000 I have no idea if it's true.
00:18:04.000 It kind of seems to be true.
00:18:07.000 I'm not emotional about it either way.
00:18:09.000 I don't, you know, I'd like to learn more because I think it's really interesting.
00:18:12.000 We have no idea how the pyramids were built, for example.
00:18:15.000 How could we not know that?
00:18:16.000 We sent a man to the moon and you can't replicate the technology that created the pyramids?
00:18:19.000 You can't even, you don't have any good guess as to how they were built?
00:18:21.000 We don't.
00:18:22.000 We don't even know when they were built.
00:18:24.000 Those are facts.
00:18:26.000 So a normal curious person would say, well, why don't we know that?
00:18:29.000 And what does it tell us about ourselves and about the past that we don't know?
00:18:32.000 That's what I would think people would ask.
00:18:34.000 They were attacking this guy for asking that question.
00:18:37.000 And I was like, why would Media Matters care about your opinions on the pyramids?
00:18:42.000 Why do they care?
00:18:44.000 Or whether they were big civilizations in Illinois 10,000 years ago, which there were, by the way,
00:18:51.000 that used metal.
00:18:52.000 Amazing.
00:18:53.000 But why would anyone care?
00:18:55.000 Well, they care because that's true.
00:18:58.000 That is just true.
00:18:59.000 And the current version of history that we've been told is not only incomplete.
00:19:04.000 It's just wrong.
00:19:05.000 It's just flat out wrong.
00:19:06.000 Now, I don't know what the truth is.
00:19:07.000 I don't know what it means.
00:19:08.000 And I would never claim to.
00:19:09.000 But I know that what I learned as a kid is wrong.
00:19:12.000 And so it is much closer to the truth to say, we have no freaking idea how they built the pyramids.
00:19:17.000 And that's kind of amazing.
00:19:18.000 And Media Matters was offended.
00:19:20.000 Now, why were they offended?
00:19:21.000 They were offended purely because it was true.
00:19:24.000 And that is, across the board, the case.
00:19:27.000 Every person, and I just, by happenstance, because of the nature of my job, know like
00:19:31.000 80% of the people who have been canceled, which is to say had their lives destroyed by the censors.
00:19:36.000 And I can't think of a single case where someone was destroyed for telling the truth.
00:19:41.000 Or for lying, rather.
00:19:43.000 For lying.
00:19:44.000 There's no penalty for lying. 0.98
00:19:45.000 If they had lied, if they repeated whatever dumb slogan they were told to repeat, 0.91
00:19:49.000 whatever, we're in a climate crisis, diversity is our strength, or whatever. 0.91
00:19:53.000 Whatever the approved script is, if they just read it, like a good little robot,
00:19:59.000 they would have ascended the ladder at NBC News.
00:20:02.000 They wouldn't be living in their weekend house.
00:20:05.000 But they didn't.
00:20:06.000 What they did was they told the truth.
00:20:08.000 And that is, that is the case everywhere.
00:20:11.000 And if you don't believe me, look back, and do it when there's no one else around,
00:20:15.000 because everyone's afraid even to have unapproved thoughts now.
00:20:17.000 But go through like the last 15 famous people who were canceled for saying the wrong thing.
00:20:22.000 And ask yourself, is the thing they said wrong?
00:20:25.000 You may not agree with it.
00:20:26.000 It may offend you.
00:20:27.000 Some of the things people get canceled for are kind of offensive in my opinion.
00:20:31.000 But that's not the measure.
00:20:33.000 The measure always and everywhere has to be in a free society, in an honest society,
00:20:37.000 in a decent society.
00:20:39.000 Is it true?
00:20:41.000 Truth has to be a defense.
00:20:43.000 And it used to be our first defense.
00:20:45.000 You would say, well...
00:20:46.000 In fact, there was a guy who used to say, facts don't care about your feelings.
00:20:50.000 He's changed his views on that recently.
00:20:52.000 But that remains true.
00:20:56.000 The facts matter most.
00:20:59.000 And even more important than the facts, the truth of the facts.
00:21:01.000 What do they mean?
00:21:03.000 That's the most important thing.
00:21:05.000 It used to be you could say, well, I'm sorry.
00:21:07.000 I shouldn't have said that.
00:21:08.000 I always say to my children, never tell the truth about other people in their presence
00:21:13.000 because it can really hurt them.
00:21:14.000 I told my kids to lie.
00:21:16.000 The only lies that hurt people are the true ones.
00:21:19.000 The only attacks. 0.92
00:21:20.000 You know, don't call the fat girl fat. 1.00
00:21:21.000 That's cruel.
00:21:22.000 But in the end, that's a function of politeness.
00:21:26.000 I was telling my children to be polite, to care about the feelings of others, which I
00:21:29.000 think is super important.
00:21:31.000 But as a legal matter and a cultural matter, you cannot punish people for telling the truth.
00:21:38.000 Period.
00:21:39.000 Or else you become an empire of lies.
00:21:43.000 In every sense.
00:21:45.000 Both in a literal sense and in a spiritual sense.
00:21:48.000 That is just true.
00:21:49.000 And if you are governed by people who actively hate the truth and who lie for the sheer animal
00:21:55.000 thrill of doing so, you are living in a dark time under very dark people. 1.00
00:22:00.000 And the stakes are the ultimate stakes.
00:22:03.000 It's not about, it's not about who gets elected.
00:22:08.000 It's about what happens to the world in your soul.
00:22:11.000 And so my advice, like what, you know, what can you do about that?
00:22:15.000 You know, it's a very action oriented, practical country.
00:22:20.000 So people are always like, well, what can you do?
00:22:22.000 I have no freaking idea what you can do.
00:22:24.000 Write your congressman, he's not going to read your letter. 0.88
00:22:26.000 Go to your school board meeting, you're going to get arrested.
00:22:31.000 I think you should do it anyway.
00:22:32.000 I think you should tell the truth anyway.
00:22:34.000 I think the only way to stay alive and fully human in a moment like this is to resolve
00:22:41.000 that you are going to tell the truth in every and all circumstance.
00:22:44.000 And if you can't say it out loud, stay silent.
00:22:46.000 If it's going to hurt the feelings of someone you love, that's an absolutely justifiable reason
00:22:50.000 to be quiet.
00:22:52.000 But in every other circumstance, whether you're standing in carpool line with all the, you know, 1.00
00:22:57.000 fashionable ladies in your neighborhood at the stupid private school. 1.00
00:23:00.000 No offense, I sent my kids to one too. 1.00
00:23:02.000 I hate them.
00:23:03.000 Or whether you're at a dinner party.
00:23:05.000 Or whether your wife's friends are over in their SoulCycle outfits talking about something and you disagree.
00:23:10.000 There's a way to do it.
00:23:11.000 You can be gentle, you can be empathetic, and you always should be.
00:23:15.000 But you should never allow yourself to repeat anything that you know is not true.
00:23:21.000 That will destroy you.
00:23:23.000 That is the mark, not of a free man or a citizen, but of a slave.
00:23:29.000 That is the difference between freedom and slavery, is the right to say what you actually think.
00:23:36.000 That is the line.
00:23:40.000 And anyone who is trying to force you to lie is A, your enemy, and B, believes that you are subhuman.
00:23:51.000 Because that's not the way you treat adults.
00:23:53.000 By definition, you have to deal with adults.
00:23:57.000 They may have different views, different interests, different goals, and you have to contend with them
00:24:01.000 through the aforementioned process of politics, through negotiations.
00:24:04.000 I want this, you want that, let me convince you.
00:24:07.000 You are not allowed to say to a free adult citizen, shut up, you must do this.
00:24:12.000 Under no circumstances can you do that.
00:24:14.000 You can't do that in the middle of a pandemic.
00:24:17.000 You can't do that in the middle of a war.
00:24:20.000 You can't do that under any circumstances, or else you are no longer a citizen, you are a slave.
00:24:25.000 And worse than that, you have degraded yourself.
00:24:28.000 And that's the real cost.
00:24:29.000 Clearly the people who run things see the rest of us as slaves.
00:24:32.000 That's obvious to me.
00:24:33.000 I can't imagine how it could be more obvious.
00:24:35.000 It's crystal clear.
00:24:36.000 They don't seek consensus.
00:24:37.000 They are not interested in the public's opinion.
00:24:39.000 The overlap between the list of things that people care about in this country and the list of things that Congress and the White House actually do, there's none.
00:24:46.000 There's no overlap at all.
00:24:48.000 And by the way, this is not my opinion.
00:24:50.000 This is Gallup public opinion polling.
00:24:53.000 Go look at the last ten Gallup polls on what Americans care about and compare those to the policy priorities of your government.
00:24:59.000 They're not the same.
00:25:01.000 They don't care what you think.
00:25:03.000 They're not interested in what you think.
00:25:04.000 That's publicly available information.
00:25:05.000 They're not reading it because they don't want to because it doesn't matter to them.
00:25:08.000 They're in charge.
00:25:09.000 You're not.
00:25:10.000 So the truth is it's very hard to fight that.
00:25:13.000 I'm not exactly sure how, but I know that it begins with the strength inside you.
00:25:20.000 If you are weak, you will never prevail.
00:25:24.000 And that explains their determined effort to make you weak by feeding you poisonous garbage, by trying to make you take medicine that is not at all medicine, by their insistence that you shut up and hate yourself, by their claim that your children are not your own. 0.93
00:25:42.000 They have no interest in you having dignity. 0.94
00:25:44.000 In fact, your dignity and strength is a threat to them.
00:25:47.000 That's why they closed the gyms and kept the weed dispensaries open. 0.98
00:25:52.000 That's why the churches were shut down, but the strip bars weren't.
00:25:56.000 And I'm not attacking strip bars in Vegas.
00:25:58.000 I'm merely saying, what is that?
00:26:01.000 And of course, it's a determined, systematic effort to weaken the population in order to limit their resistance to what they planned for us. 0.80
00:26:09.000 Obviously, oh, you're a conspiracy nut.
00:26:12.000 No, I just have lived here for the last four years.
00:26:14.000 And that just could not be more obvious.
00:26:17.000 And so I'm not calling for armed insurrection.
00:26:19.000 I hope it doesn't get to that.
00:26:20.000 I'm calling instead for a population that becomes stronger inside and also outside, you know, physically stronger.
00:26:27.000 I think that's worth it.
00:26:30.000 But it's more than that.
00:26:32.000 It's retaining your dignity and your self-respect.
00:26:35.000 And by the way, when you allow people to lie to you without saying anything, when you're too afraid because of whatever you're trying.
00:26:43.000 And I've been there.
00:26:44.000 I had four kids young.
00:26:45.000 And I've been fired a bunch.
00:26:47.000 You may have heard.
00:26:49.000 Not the first time I've been fired at all.
00:26:51.000 And I had to sell my house because I ran out of money.
00:26:53.000 I'm not, you know, I'm not doing the woe is me thing.
00:26:56.000 I'm just saying, like, that happens.
00:26:58.000 It's not the worst thing.
00:26:59.000 It's fine, actually, as long as you're married to someone who can handle it.
00:27:03.000 And if you're not, that's probably your fault.
00:27:05.000 You know, you should try harder to explain it and rally the troops at home.
00:27:10.000 But the point is, you know, getting fired, being unpopular, maybe even getting arrested, those are not the worst things that can happen to you.
00:27:18.000 The worst thing that can happen to you is becoming a slave inside.
00:27:21.000 And I will quote the great Jimmy Cliff.
00:27:24.000 I would rather be a free man in my grave than live as a puppet or a slave.
00:27:28.000 And I think we should all want that.
00:27:30.000 And it's not hard, actually.
00:27:31.000 You don't need to, like, start a rebellion or order ammo on the Internet, though you should.
00:27:37.000 LuckyGunner.com.
00:27:38.000 But, no, it's much more fundamental than that.
00:27:43.000 Don't let them take your dignity.
00:27:46.000 And your dignity is rooted in your sense of self as a free person.
00:27:51.000 I'm a free person.
00:27:52.000 You may not do that to me.
00:27:53.000 You don't have to shout.
00:27:55.000 I'm not going to do that.
00:27:56.000 And there's literally nothing you can do to make me do that.
00:27:59.000 I don't want to be killed, but I'm willing to be.
00:28:01.000 Because I don't want to live like that.
00:28:02.000 In fact, I won't, and I've already decided.
00:28:04.000 And if you actually make that decision, and if you mean it, a couple of things will happen.
00:28:09.000 The first thing that will happen is that your marriage will improve.
00:28:12.000 Especially if you're a man.
00:28:14.000 No woman, and I know there are women, I don't have my glasses on, but I know there are women here. 1.00
00:28:17.000 No woman wants to be married to a man who will take that kind of abuse. 0.96
00:28:21.000 I'm sorry.
00:28:22.000 It just doesn't.
00:28:23.000 There's no woman who wants that. 1.00
00:28:25.000 No, it's true.
00:28:27.000 And most of them are pretty nice, and so they won't say anything about it.
00:28:31.000 But their respect for you will diminish, and why wouldn't it?
00:28:33.000 And the same with your children.
00:28:35.000 Same with your children.
00:28:36.000 So that's the first thing that's going to happen.
00:28:38.000 And the second thing that happens is the more you tell the truth, the stronger you become.
00:28:42.000 And you can feel the change happening inside.
00:28:44.000 And you don't have to believe in the supernatural.
00:28:46.000 I happen to.
00:28:47.000 But you don't even have to understand, and I don't really understand, where that comes from or why.
00:28:52.000 Where that power emanates from.
00:28:54.000 But I've experienced it, and anyone who has told the truth experiences it, too, instantly.
00:29:00.000 In the same way that lying and crappy behavior and being drunk all the time, I've been there, too, makes you weaker.
00:29:07.000 Telling the truth makes you stronger, and you can feel it.
00:29:10.000 It's like a superpower.
00:29:11.000 Did I just do that?
00:29:13.000 And other people can feel it, too.
00:29:15.000 They can smell it.
00:29:16.000 Dogs can smell it.
00:29:18.000 The person who tells the truth is strong.
00:29:20.000 Other people respect the strong.
00:29:25.000 And then it just increases from there.
00:29:27.000 And the third thing that happens over time, if you tell the truth persistently, quietly, gently, politely.
00:29:32.000 Not spray painting it on buildings.
00:29:34.000 Just, no.
00:29:35.000 In a dignified way, no.
00:29:36.000 I'm not doing that.
00:29:37.000 Sorry.
00:29:38.000 And here's why.
00:29:39.000 If you're interested, I'll tell you.
00:29:40.000 But I'm a free man, and I'm not doing that.
00:29:41.000 Ever.
00:29:42.000 The third thing that happens if you adopt that posture is that they will back off. 0.98
00:29:48.000 Because liars are weak. 0.99
00:29:51.000 They are weak and afraid. 1.00
00:29:53.000 They can't even admit that the president's senile. 0.97
00:29:56.000 They are hiding behind a facade of lies.
00:30:00.000 But the operative word, the verb in that sentence is hiding.
00:30:05.000 They're hiding.
00:30:07.000 Who hides?
00:30:09.000 Weak people hide.
00:30:11.000 Scared people hide.
00:30:14.000 People who can't stand sunlight hide.
00:30:19.000 That's who hides.
00:30:20.000 And that's exactly what they're doing. 0.82
00:30:22.000 They are weak.
00:30:23.000 And they are afraid of the population.
00:30:25.000 And I'm sad to say the population has given them very little reason to be afraid.
00:30:29.000 But they're still afraid.
00:30:30.000 Because they know they're doing wrong.
00:30:32.000 They know they're serving lies.
00:30:34.000 They know nothing they do or say is justifiable.
00:30:37.000 Can withstand scrutiny.
00:30:39.000 And on some animal level, they are terrified of the day that the average person, not some 0.99
00:30:44.000 stupid talk show host, but the average person who works at some big dopey company and shuffles 0.99
00:30:49.000 to work every day in some pod with a drop ceiling and fluorescent lighting, that that guy is 1.00
00:30:54.000 going to be like, no, I'm not going along with it, sorry.
00:30:56.000 I'm not going to the DEI meeting today.
00:30:58.000 Because I don't think you should discriminate people on the basis of their race.
00:31:00.000 How's that?
00:31:01.000 Because it's immoral, actually.
00:31:03.000 And we've got a monument on the mall that shows that it's immoral.
00:31:05.000 It's to Martin Luther King.
00:31:06.000 And that was his core message.
00:31:08.000 We're not going to discriminate against people on the basis of their skin color.
00:31:13.000 Period.
00:31:14.000 For any reason.
00:31:15.000 It's always wrong.
00:31:16.000 This is immoral.
00:31:17.000 I'm not participating.
00:31:18.000 If enough people do that, and things like it, this whole nonsense will end immediately.
00:31:25.000 That's the one thing they can't handle.
00:31:27.000 You don't have to take to the streets. 1.00
00:31:28.000 You don't have to take Saturday off to hold a candle, carry some stupid spray painted sign 1.00
00:31:32.000 on a bed sheet. 1.00
00:31:33.000 All you need to do is tell the HR lady, I'm opting out.
00:31:36.000 And here's why.
00:31:37.000 And I hope you will.
00:31:38.000 Thank you.