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00:00:30.220 Today's guest is a teacher, geopolitics expert, and YouTuber known for his popular channel

00:00:36.480 Predictive History, where he breaks down why global events happen and what could come

00:00:42.840 next.

00:00:43.920 We covered a lot of ground here, war in the Middle East, China versus America, secret

00:00:49.140 societies.

00:00:51.180 I had a fascinating chat with today's guest, Professor Zhang.

00:01:00.000 And I will find a song

00:01:03.880 I've been singing

00:01:05.080 I'm going to sing

00:01:06.120 Professor Zhang?

00:01:13.840 Hey, Theo.

00:01:14.480 Is that correct?

00:01:15.480 That's correct, yeah.

00:01:16.260 Professor Zhang,

00:01:17.080 thank you so much for coming by today.

00:01:18.700 Well, thanks so much for inviting me.

00:01:20.440 Yeah, very happy to have you.

00:01:21.980 Is this your first time in Los Angeles?

00:01:23.600 It's my first time in Los Angeles, yeah.

00:01:25.500 And how's the experience been so far?

00:01:27.200 It's been surreal.

00:01:27.820 So your producers have been wonderful

00:01:31.800 They put me in this fantastic hotel

00:01:34.560 And I went for a walk around the neighborhood

00:01:38.460 West Hollywood

00:01:40.060 So I went down St. Monica Boulevard

00:01:44.240 It's just gorgeous

00:01:45.840 The streets are so illuminated

00:01:49.080 And the buildings are so beautiful

00:01:51.860 But then as I'm walking

00:01:53.380 There's in the middle of the sidewalk

00:01:56.400 a pile of dog shit

00:01:58.580 so I walked past it

00:02:00.680 and it takes me a couple minutes to realize

00:02:02.400 that didn't come from a dog actually

00:02:04.900 so yeah

00:02:06.940 it's been surreal

00:02:07.540 we got a lot of tall dogs in this area

00:02:10.680 that's just

00:02:12.820 a little decoration brother

00:02:14.060 that's how it goes here

00:02:15.320 and if you're lucky it'll have a needle in it in the middle

00:02:17.820 it's freedom man

00:02:18.820 it is freedom man

00:02:20.200 Professor Zhang thank you so much for just making the trip

00:02:23.880 for coming and joining us

00:02:25.100 I know you're from your channel, your YouTube channel, Predictive History.

00:02:29.200 Can you tell us a little bit about your channel for people that don't know about it?

00:02:32.480 Yeah, so I'm a high school teacher.

00:02:35.260 And what I try to do is try to explain geopolitics in a way that students can appreciate.

00:02:42.720 And what I try to do is, with my analysis, I try to make predictions.

00:02:47.740 And that's a really good way to engage students, as well as to test my own worldview, my own hypothesis.

00:02:55.160 And so two years ago, while I was teaching this class, I made three predictions.

00:02:59.540 The first is that Trump would win in 2024 and that he would launch this war against Iran and that he would lose this war.

00:03:08.640 And I blew up online because it turns out that all three predictions should not be accurate.

00:03:14.040 Well, the first two for sure.

00:03:16.020 And that's how you came on my radar was with those two predictions.

00:03:18.560 That's how I learned about you at first.

00:03:20.400 And before we move on with it, do you teach at high school?

00:03:24.280 That's right. I teach a high school level.

00:03:25.660 What's something that's kind of unique about a school in China maybe that we wouldn't know?

00:03:29.040 Well, there are no guns.

00:03:30.800 Oh, okay.

00:03:31.360 Yeah.

00:03:32.480 Good. You win.

00:03:34.480 You win.

00:03:35.120 Sorry. I'm sorry.

00:03:36.660 So I've been in China and we're just brainwashed all the time about American schools and American culture.

00:03:42.140 But at least you're brainwashed not to have guns in school.

00:03:44.380 Yeah, yeah.

00:03:44.960 That's some of the positive brainwashing at least.

00:03:48.580 Yeah, you came on my radar whenever...

00:03:51.040 I saw the videos about your predicting your Trump win and predicting the war in Iran.

00:03:57.000 I noticed that you use something called game theory.

00:03:59.680 Yes.

00:04:00.300 Can you explain game theory just so people know?

00:04:03.780 Yeah.

00:04:04.200 So the idea of game theory is that if you want to analyze someone's behavior, you have to look at three things.

00:04:12.080 First of all, you have to look at the structure of the game.

00:04:15.860 How do you win the game?

00:04:17.340 What are the rules?

00:04:18.500 What are the incentives?

00:04:20.140 And once you figure that out, then you can figure out his or her optimal behavior in this game.

00:04:27.040 So in terms of geopolitics, just imagine the United States, Iran, Israel, Saudi Arabia as distinct players in the game, which they're trying to maximize the outcome against each other.

00:04:40.760 And they will use their own unique strategies in order to achieve so.

00:04:44.840 And that's how I'm able to make some amazing predictions.

00:04:47.620 Yeah, I know the game theory.

00:04:49.240 I remember first hearing about it in that film, Beautiful Mind.

00:04:52.900 Oh, yes, yes.

00:04:54.100 Who was the, what was the guy's name, Nick?

00:04:56.380 John Nash.

00:04:57.200 John Nash.

00:04:57.920 Yeah, he uses that like whenever he's examining things or trying to figure things out, he

00:05:02.140 uses that in there.

00:05:04.080 That's right.

00:05:04.660 And he went crazy too.

00:05:05.780 Yeah, yeah, anyway crazy.

00:05:07.400 So best of luck.

00:05:08.640 Right, thank you.

00:05:09.520 Best of luck, professor.

00:05:11.300 Yeah, let's talk about the war in Iran.

00:05:13.000 Let's start there because that's fresh.

00:05:14.320 That's on everybody's mind right now.

00:05:15.740 Yeah.

00:05:15.920 Do you think it could be our new Vietnam?

00:05:17.900 Or what do you, like, how are you viewing the war in Iran right now?

00:05:21.140 Yeah, the best case scenario is that it becomes America's Vietnam.

00:05:25.940 But I think the problem is...

00:05:27.660 That's best case scenario.

00:05:28.460 That's best case scenario, yeah, yeah.

00:05:30.160 But I think the problem is that this war is expanding very rapidly.

00:05:34.600 So before, a few months ago, it was limited to a war between Israel, United States, and Iran.

00:05:40.980 And now it's brought in Saudi Arabia against the Hufis, which is in Yemen.

00:05:45.920 there's a credible threat that the war in Ukraine might merge with the war in Iran.

00:05:53.460 Really?

00:05:53.880 Yes, because what's happened a couple weeks ago is that an Iranian cargo ship

00:05:59.600 that was transporting supplies from Russia to Iran through the Caspian Sea,

00:06:05.740 it was hit by a Ukrainian drone.

00:06:09.360 And since then, the Ukrainians have apologized.

00:06:12.940 But according to game theory, right now, the Ukrainians aren't doing so well in Ukraine.

00:06:20.200 And right now, Russia is fighting a war of attrition.

00:06:23.320 And because Russia is such a much bigger power than Ukraine, in the long term, Ukraine will ultimately lose this war.

00:06:30.120 So to change that dynamic, what Zelensky wants to do is lure America into the war.

00:06:37.180 And the best way he can do that is to combine the two fronts.

00:06:40.520 So if Zelensky shows that Russia can supply Iran for the Cassian Sea

00:06:48.580 Then America needs to stop this trade

00:06:53.620 And Ukraine can help America by sending drones to attack Iranian shipping

00:06:58.700 So there's a real threat that these two fronts merge

00:07:01.960 In which case all bets are off

00:07:03.900 In which case it's World War III

00:07:05.100 And you can also see the possibility of systems collapse

00:07:09.700 civilizational collapse as well.

00:07:11.660 All of that from that.

00:07:12.980 From that.

00:07:13.860 And the reason why is that area,

00:07:15.780 Ukraine, the Middle East,

00:07:17.680 it's really the nexus

00:07:19.480 or the heart of the global economy

00:07:21.040 because that's where the world gets...

00:07:23.100 But Ukraine and the Middle East

00:07:23.920 are pretty far from each other.

00:07:24.760 Can you even show me on this globe, actually?

00:07:26.300 How far away from each other are they?

00:07:27.480 Right, right, right.

00:07:28.020 So this is really interesting, okay?

00:07:29.000 So this is Iran.

00:07:30.280 And you can move that close.

00:07:31.280 Okay, sure.

00:07:32.200 Yeah.

00:07:32.680 So what I want to show you is

00:07:34.000 how far these fronts are, okay?

00:07:35.580 Okay.

00:07:35.860 So this war in Ukraine

00:07:36.780 has been going on since 2022, right?

00:07:38.900 It's been four years, and most of the funding is going on in eastern Ukraine, right, over here.

00:07:46.740 And fortunately, the war has been limited to this front.

00:07:51.680 Now, as of late February, Iran, this war in Iran has broken out.

00:07:58.800 And what's been happening is that at first, the main conflict was over the Strait of Hormuz, which is right here.

00:08:06.020 But the problem is the entire Middle East depends on the Shred of Hormuz for trade.

00:08:12.100 So Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, what they do is they take their oil and then they transport it all the way through the Shred of Malacca to East Asia and to India and Pakistan.

00:08:30.320 So, really, the oil from the Middle East feeds the economies of Asia.

00:08:36.480 You look at a place like Japan, it depends on three-quarters of its oil from over here.

00:08:42.200 Wow.

00:08:43.200 In China, it depends on 40%.

00:08:45.080 India, it's like 50% to 60%.

00:08:47.440 In return, these places will send food over back to the Middle East, as well as water,

00:08:55.800 because this place is a desert.

00:08:57.280 They don't have their own food and water.

00:09:00.260 But now, what people don't appreciate is that

00:09:02.860 there are lots of byproducts of oil production.

00:09:06.300 And one of these byproducts is fertilizer for food.

00:09:09.640 And this fertilizer also transits food

00:09:12.640 that's just removes to Africa.

00:09:14.480 And this fertilizer feeds their population.

00:09:17.920 So imagine what happens if this entire era shuts down, right?

00:09:21.960 You can have famine in Africa,

00:09:24.640 and you can have economic collapse in East Asia,

00:09:28.600 which would then cause a domino effect

00:09:32.600 where Africa breaks down.

00:09:35.300 You have civil war, revolution in Africa.

00:09:37.720 Then what happens?

00:09:38.500 These migrants shift over to Europe.

00:09:41.320 We've already seen that last week

00:09:43.560 when you have this 50,000, essentially, invasion.

00:09:46.700 In Morocco? In Spain?

00:09:47.700 That's right.

00:09:48.800 A place called Ciutu, Spain, yeah.

00:09:52.180 Right, and that's a small part of Spain

00:09:53.820 that's actually connected to Morocco, right?

00:09:55.700 That's right.

00:09:56.100 That's right.

00:09:57.060 We can see how volatile the situation is.

00:10:00.260 Wow.

00:10:00.540 So it's really a domino effect.

00:10:01.960 Right.

00:10:02.480 Now, Ukraine is very important

00:10:04.860 because Ukraine and Russia together

00:10:06.940 supplies the world with one-third of its carbohydrates.

00:10:12.000 So Ukraine-

00:10:12.680 Ukraine-

00:10:13.160 Say that again.

00:10:13.700 Ukraine and Russia together

00:10:14.780 supply the world with a third of their carbohydrates?

00:10:17.280 So, yeah.

00:10:18.420 Is that what you're saying?

00:10:18.940 So what I'm saying is

00:10:20.200 a third of the world's carbohydrates

00:10:22.120 comes from Ukraine and Russia together.

00:10:25.320 Wow, is that true?

00:10:27.180 Yeah, so Ukraine is considered a breadbasket of Europe.

00:10:30.980 Wow.

00:10:31.900 The claim is not accurate,

00:10:33.100 but it means that one-third of all carbohydrates

00:10:35.540 eaten or produced globally come from Russia and Ukraine.

00:10:38.680 A more accurate version is Russia and Ukraine

00:10:40.400 have supplied roughly 12% of internationally

00:10:42.960 traded food calories

00:10:44.740 and a very large share of specific grain export markets,

00:10:47.780 about 28 to 30% of globally traded wheat.

00:10:50.640 so there's a there is a huge amount of um of food calories that comes out of there that's right so

00:10:59.540 that is true that's right yeah okay so thanks so much for fact-checking me um but but yeah but

00:11:04.920 you can you can appreciate how the world depends on food fertilizer and energy from this area and

00:11:13.960 And so the great threat is that because Russia can supply Iran through the Caspian Sea, the

00:11:23.740 war extends to the Northern Caucasus, which brings in Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan.

00:11:30.040 And then if that would happen, you can see this entire area is now engulfed in war.

00:11:36.320 Another really critical thing that's been happening these past few weeks is that more

00:11:42.480 and more nations are being brought into this war.

00:11:46.560 Into which war?

00:11:47.100 Into the one in the Middle East?

00:11:48.140 In the Middle East.

00:11:49.380 And the reason why is that for Iran to pressure the United States, what Iran can do is threaten

00:11:56.220 the energy infrastructure of American allies in the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia,

00:12:01.260 Kuwait, UAE, Buran.

00:12:04.020 What Iran can do is hold the energy infrastructure of the Middle East hostage.

00:12:08.740 Imagine Saudi Arabia as just this huge oil field.

00:12:11.520 Okay.

00:12:11.960 Right?

00:12:12.220 And it's great in a time of peace because you can take this huge oil field and sell it to Japan, China, South Korea, India.

00:12:21.500 But the problem is that a huge oil field means it's a lake of gasoline.

00:12:25.940 So all they have to do is take a match, light it on fire, and then everything blows up.

00:12:30.280 And Iran can do that with its drone and ballistic missile capabilities.

00:12:34.800 And so Iran is always threatening this.

00:12:38.700 The other issue is that Iran has proxies, meaning allies in the Middle East.

00:12:44.300 And there are three major allies.

00:12:45.720 The first are people called the Houthis, who are these religious fanatic people who live in the mountains.

00:12:52.900 And they occupy a very strategic area called the Baal al-Mandab Strait.

00:13:00.540 Baal al-Mandab Strait?

00:13:01.860 Yes.

00:13:02.400 So here is the Strait of Hormuz, yes?

00:13:04.540 Yes.

00:13:04.920 This is the Baal al-Mandab Strait.

00:13:07.540 And as you can see, these are the two most critical maritime choke points in the Middle East.

00:13:14.900 And the problem is that the Houthis live in mountains.

00:13:19.300 So it's almost impossible to dislodge them.

00:13:22.140 And because so much of maritime shipping requires insurance, any threat of destruction means that the insurance companies don't want to insure these ships.

00:13:35.280 And that puts a hold on global trade.

00:13:38.400 So the real fear is that Saudi Arabia will launch a ground invasion to dislodge the Houthis and control this choke point.

00:13:47.620 So you can imagine a massive alliance being formed to go against the Houthis.

00:13:54.160 Another major proxy is called Hezbollah, which is in Lebanon.

00:13:58.880 And these past few weeks, Israel has been trying to attack Hezbollah.

00:14:05.280 And there's a real threat that this area, Lebanon, breaks out into total war.

00:14:12.120 And right now what Israel is trying to do is assemble an alliance to destroy Hezbollah.

00:14:17.480 And this alliance includes Israel, but it also includes Syria, and it also includes the Lebanese army.

00:14:24.960 And Hezbollah is a proxy of Iran.

00:14:28.820 So, Iran, if it sees Hezbollah under threat, then Iran would extend the war in order to help out Hezbollah.

00:14:40.420 But why would the Lebanese army support Israel?

00:14:43.840 Hasn't there been issues between Israel and Lebanon recently?

00:14:47.200 Right.

00:14:48.300 Hasn't there been attacks in Lebanon from Israel?

00:14:51.640 Right.

00:14:51.960 So, Israel is attacking Lebanon because it sees Hezbollah as a threat.

00:14:58.220 because Hezbollah can launch rocket attacks against Israel

00:15:01.860 and Lebanon can threaten,

00:15:04.380 sorry, Hezbollah can threaten the Suez Canal.

00:15:06.420 Because Israel has been attacking Lebanon, right?

00:15:08.380 That's right.

00:15:08.860 Okay, great.

00:15:09.480 That's right.

00:15:10.200 So Hezbollah is not part of the Lebanese government.

00:15:15.460 Got it.

00:15:15.680 And so imagine there are different Ceterian groups in Lebanon

00:15:19.660 and they share power together.

00:15:20.980 And one of these groups is Hezbollah.

00:15:23.300 And Hezbollah is aligned with Iran

00:15:25.360 and they are committed to protecting themselves from Israel.

00:15:31.660 And Israel sees them as a bunch of terrorists that need to be removed.

00:15:36.160 And so Hezbollah, the problem of Hezbollah is that it's extremely popular in Lebanon,

00:15:43.100 among the Lebanese people, because unlike the Lebanese government,

00:15:46.760 they're not corrupt and they provide good services to the people.

00:15:51.100 Understood.

00:15:51.940 So, yes, sometimes we hear about these groups.

00:15:53.700 You hear about Hamas, you hear about Hezbollah, but the people there in some of these countries actually prefer some of these groups or actually do support some of these groups because they're kind of an outlier government that's more supportive to the people than the actual government?

00:16:08.820 That's right. So they're popular because they are able to provide basic community services to the local population.

00:16:16.680 And unfortunately, these governments in the Middle East, a lot of them have proved to be very corrupt.

00:16:24.040 And a lot of their leaders seem to be sympathetic towards Israeli interests.

00:16:29.980 And people suspect that they've been blackmailed by Mossad because Mossad's very good at that.

00:16:36.200 Yeah.

00:16:36.800 What kind of blackmail could Mossad be doing, do you feel like, in these spaces?

00:16:41.140 You talk about blackmail, and you hear about blackmail a lot.

00:16:43.660 You hear about Mossad.

00:16:44.400 You hear about blackmail in America a lot, like with the Epstein files in different places

00:16:50.120 holding things potentially over American politicians' heads.

00:16:53.580 So I think that rather than use the word blackmail, I think we can use the word influence.

00:16:57.600 How are they able to have so much influence in the area?

00:17:01.780 Well, I mean, the easiest way is to become friends with these people, right?

00:17:06.660 So let's just say you're a leader of Lebanon.

00:17:09.280 Well, you have children.

00:17:11.040 Don't you want your children to go to the best schools?

00:17:13.460 Don't you want your children to get good jobs, maybe working for like Goldman Sachs,

00:17:18.340 maybe working for a university as a professor?

00:17:22.440 Well, we can help you because we have all these friends in the United States,

00:17:26.420 and we can arrange visas for your kids to go study at elite universities.

00:17:30.900 We can ensure that they get good jobs, right?

00:17:35.060 Right.

00:17:35.840 I mean, it's that simple.

00:17:36.940 Right.

00:17:37.280 It's that simple.

00:17:37.980 Let's just be friends.

00:17:38.900 Right.

00:17:39.300 Right?

00:17:39.620 And so if you're a leader of a place like Lebanon, and the entire place is rife with

00:17:45.320 sectarian violence, there's not much you can do.

00:17:47.520 The entire place is rife with what?

00:17:49.780 Sectarian violence.

00:17:51.600 Sectarian violence.

00:17:52.740 Sectarian violence?

00:17:53.380 So let me say what, sectarian.

00:17:55.680 Okay.

00:17:56.920 Sectarian violence.

00:17:58.480 S-E-C-T-A-R-I-A-N.

00:18:00.480 And sectarian violence is physical conflict and harm

00:18:03.060 between different religious or political groups

00:18:05.120 within a community or nation.

00:18:07.620 There's a lot of that in Lebanon?

00:18:09.280 Yeah, because you have a lot of different

00:18:10.540 religious groups in Lebanon.

00:18:12.460 Okay, understood.

00:18:12.920 You have the Christians, you have the Muslims,

00:18:15.840 and then they're also broken up in different groups.

00:18:18.480 And there are also these tribal loyalties

00:18:20.560 throughout the Middle East.

00:18:21.900 So if you're a leader of Lebanon or Iraq

00:18:26.080 or any place in the Middle East,

00:18:31.020 You're dealing with a very volatile political situation.

00:18:34.940 And do you really want to deal with these people?

00:18:37.260 Or would you rather use your position to ensure that your children have a better future?

00:18:42.860 To help out your relatives, help out your friends.

00:18:45.480 And that's why they go into these political positions.

00:18:49.280 And that's the main way that the Mossad is able to exert influence over the Middle East.

00:18:55.660 because they can help these leaders send their money

00:18:59.700 and their children to a safe place in Europe or the United States.

00:19:04.600 And that is just being friendly.

00:19:08.420 Yeah, that's human survival too.

00:19:09.620 It's like where you want to survive,

00:19:10.960 you want to be well enough to take care of yourselves.

00:19:13.760 That's right.

00:19:14.080 So it's not always like a level of blackmail that's violence.

00:19:17.020 Sometimes it's a level of assistance.

00:19:22.200 That's right.

00:19:22.940 I'm just helping you out.

00:19:24.160 We're helping each other out, right?

00:19:25.660 I help out your children and you help me kill people who are doing nasty things like Hezbollah, right?

00:19:31.180 We both hate Hezbollah because they're terrorists.

00:19:34.000 So we're just like rubbing each other's back.

00:19:36.680 Yeah.

00:19:37.080 You mentioned the Strait of Hormuz a few minutes ago.

00:19:40.000 Yes.

00:19:40.720 Why is that place so important?

00:19:43.520 Yeah.

00:19:44.120 So that place-

00:19:45.100 Because you hear it all the time.

00:19:46.300 Can you explain it kind of in basic terms and why it's so important?

00:19:49.260 Right.

00:19:49.820 Okay.

00:19:50.080 The Strait of Hormuz is the linchpin of the Middle East economy.

00:19:54.660 Because, like, if you just look at this globe, okay, there are certain countries that are within the Persian Gulf, right?

00:20:03.820 Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, basically Dubai.

00:20:08.940 Now, it's important because there's only one way for them to transport their oil.

00:20:16.700 Okay, got it.

00:20:17.260 Right, okay?

00:20:17.720 Do you see how there's only one passageway?

00:20:22.720 It's like a one-way street.

00:20:23.960 Got it.

00:20:24.660 right? So they're going to take their oil and then transport it to East Asia. And then

00:20:32.580 what they get in return is water and food because it's a desert. They can't grow their own food.

00:20:41.200 They don't have their own water. So that is crucial to their survival. If that were to be

00:20:48.320 eliminate, like suddenly close off, then UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Iran, all these places would be

00:20:54.900 dead in the water. Recently, Trump had spoken up. I think it was even just the other day where he

00:20:59.260 said, uh, he said, um, that Iran will be hit very hard. You know, he's always like, we're going to

00:21:05.760 hit it. You know, we're going to hit him in the, you know, in the fucking head nuts or whatever.

00:21:10.420 We're going to fucking hit him in the, you know, the mittens they wear on their head. He's always

00:21:14.320 doing stuff, but it's like, he said, they're going to be hit very hard. If this trade of Hormuz

00:21:17.580 doesn't open very soon yes how is i how is iran like controlling that effectively right now for

00:21:23.460 themselves right yes um and how successful are they being with their management of the

00:21:28.080 strait of hormuz right now yes okay so to answer this question i have to explain a concept to you

00:21:32.760 called the escalation ladder okay okay so what is the escalation ladder it's very simple idea which

00:21:37.820 is in a fight um emotions create momentum okay okay so for example let's just say you and i

00:21:47.440 uh we have a fight um i tell a joke you think it sucks i get pissed off you so i punch you

00:21:54.900 right so so what then you punch me back and i i'm like okay and then i take out a knife

00:21:59.680 and i stab you then you got a knife and then you stab me and i feel like gonna shoot you

00:22:04.060 You take a gun, then you shoot me.

00:22:05.960 Then I take out that bazooka and I hit you.

00:22:08.160 Okay?

00:22:08.560 So you can see how it's a ladder and how emotions create momentum.

00:22:14.160 But there's a logic to the escalation.

00:22:16.720 Okay?

00:22:17.220 So understanding the escalation ladder now, I'll explain to you how the war in Iran has been escalating.

00:22:23.200 Okay.

00:22:23.740 And how it should continue to escalate if the war continues.

00:22:27.780 So this is an escalation ladder you're showing involving Iran and the Strait of Hormuz.

00:22:33.080 Yeah, so this is the United States, and this is Iran, okay?

00:22:35.780 Okay.

00:22:36.180 So we start the war with the United States using something called a decapitation strategy,

00:22:42.380 meaning that if—what the United States believes that if I take out your leader, now you're

00:22:48.740 leaderless, and therefore you must surrender to me.

00:22:51.500 So in the first day, February 28th, they killed the Ayatollah Khamenei, the supreme leader

00:23:00.100 of Iran.

00:23:01.160 The Ayatollah Khamenei, yeah.

00:23:02.260 That's right.

00:23:02.720 And they killed also a lot of the senior leadership.

00:23:05.060 And this is what we call a decapitation strike.

00:23:07.040 And the assumption is that if you're able to kill the leader, then Iran would break out into civil war and they surrendered to you.

00:23:14.700 And that's exactly what happened in Venezuela a few months back, right?

00:23:18.900 So this is what we call a decapitation strike.

00:23:20.860 When they got Maduro.

00:23:21.960 That's right.

00:23:22.540 Yeah.

00:23:22.760 And he was in jail with 6ix9ine, which is crazy.

00:23:25.900 Okay, yes.

00:23:26.740 But it didn't happen here.

00:23:28.280 But it didn't happen here, okay?

00:23:29.160 So that's a first strike, okay?

00:23:30.420 So they tried it in Iran.

00:23:31.940 They tried the decapitation strategy.

00:23:34.000 Yes.

00:23:34.380 But it didn't break out in civil war.

00:23:35.720 That's right.

00:23:36.480 That's right.

00:23:36.960 So now what Iran does is it strikes back by closing off the Shred of Hormuz, right?

00:23:43.440 But that's because they made a new Ayatollah who took over.

00:23:46.760 Who was that?

00:23:47.780 The son.

00:23:48.560 The son.

00:23:49.080 Right.

00:23:49.360 So Khamenei's son.

00:23:50.560 That's right.

00:23:50.940 They replaced the Ayatollah Khamenei with the Ayatollah Khamenei.

00:23:53.620 Okay.

00:23:54.140 Yeah.

00:23:55.440 And then what Iran did, the first thing they did was close off the Shred of Hormuz.

00:24:00.600 They start to attack America's allies in the Middle East, including Qatar, Dubai, Bahrain, Kuwait.

00:24:10.620 America did?

00:24:11.500 No, Iran did.

00:24:12.840 Okay, so take me back a step.

00:24:14.520 Okay, all right.

00:24:15.320 So the United States does a decapitation strike.

00:24:17.560 Got it.

00:24:18.600 And then Iran punches back.

00:24:22.020 How?

00:24:22.720 By putting pressure on America's allies, right?

00:24:27.380 They attack Israel.

00:24:28.940 They attack Dubai.

00:24:30.160 they attacked Qatar. The reason why they did that was the theory that these places

00:24:37.400 give a lot of money to the United States. They invest a lot in the US economy, so therefore

00:24:43.080 they have a lot of leverage over the United States. If they're being attacked, they would

00:24:46.960 pressure Trump to end the war, okay? And so once Iran did that, then that forces the United States

00:24:55.420 to basically have a ceasefire because if the war continues, then what would happen is the

00:25:04.420 entire world would lose at least 20% of the global oil supply and this could possibly

00:25:13.080 create economic collapse.

00:25:14.500 So you're saying America had to take a break then and rethink about what's going on?

00:25:17.840 Yeah, because the first strategy didn't work and the United States didn't have a second

00:25:22.080 strategy.

00:25:22.520 And the Strait of Hormuz is closed at this point?

00:25:24.280 They closed it?

00:25:24.840 The should-of-who moves is—

00:25:27.060 At this point, in the latter.

00:25:29.120 Okay, so throughout this entire process, there's been a lot on and off.

00:25:35.440 So sometimes it's open, sometimes it's closed, okay?

00:25:38.700 So now what the American response is now to put more pressure on Iran by trying to strangle the economy, okay?

00:25:50.160 So how the United States does that is Iran ships 90% of its oil to China, right?

00:25:59.640 So what America did was impose a naval blockade in the Arabian Sea to prevent Chinese tankers from reaching Iran and prevent Iranian tankers from reaching China.

00:26:11.780 So they wanted to stop the flow of oil from Iran to China.

00:26:14.200 That's right.

00:26:14.500 And that's how China gets most of its oil.

00:26:15.920 Well, no, China gets its oil from many different countries, but Iran will export 90% of its oil to China.

00:26:26.880 And the theory is that if you stop that trade, then Iran cannot pay its soldiers.

00:26:31.640 Then its soldiers would rebel, and the government would collapse, okay?

00:26:34.400 So that's the second step.

00:26:36.380 Okay, I tried the capillation strike.

00:26:38.120 It didn't work, so now I'll try to strangle your economy.

00:26:40.920 Got it.

00:26:41.340 And that doesn't work either, right?

00:26:43.580 And so what happens now is that—

00:26:45.700 Why didn't that work?

00:26:47.000 Because the Iranians have been under sections for the past 30 years.

00:26:53.620 So they are used to being poor.

00:26:55.640 Ah.

00:26:56.300 Right?

00:26:57.880 Right?

00:26:58.200 So in Los Angeles, if we made gas $10 a day, well, there'll be riots.

00:27:05.940 But in Iran, if you take away half their calories, well, they're used to being poor.

00:27:11.840 So they're used to the sanctions.

00:27:13.960 they're used to living with a government

00:27:16.080 that's like manipulating them

00:27:17.400 and taking advantage of them.

00:27:18.460 That's right, that's right.

00:27:19.540 So therefore, the Iranians are much more able

00:27:22.140 to bear pain than the American, right?

00:27:26.640 And so the American government now under Trump

00:27:29.380 is under a lot more pressure in this war

00:27:31.220 than the Iranians.

00:27:32.300 Understood.

00:27:32.940 Okay, so that's a second step.

00:27:35.060 And that doesn't work either.

00:27:36.280 So now you move to a third step,

00:27:38.740 which is you destroy the state's capacity

00:27:42.500 to deliver basic services,

00:27:44.380 which means water, food, and electricity.

00:27:47.820 So when Trump says,

00:27:49.200 I will destroy their civilization,

00:27:51.020 what he's really saying is,

00:27:52.480 I will destroy their power plants, right?

00:27:55.560 Because energy is a source of civilization, right?

00:27:58.120 So the next step that we can expect,

00:28:00.860 which has not happened yet,

00:28:02.540 but there are signs that it will happen is

00:28:04.220 the United States will target its missiles

00:28:06.200 at Iranian power plants

00:28:08.520 and deny electricity to the local population.

00:28:11.080 And the theory is that if you do that, that people will not be able to bear the pain and they will revolt.

00:28:17.020 Revolt, exactly.

00:28:18.460 Wow.

00:28:19.120 So that's, man, that's a lot going on.

00:28:23.640 And you believe that that's where we could be headed there?

00:28:25.860 We are very much heading in that direction, okay?

00:28:28.780 So now what the Iranians do in response is they activate their proxies, okay?

00:28:34.260 Why?

00:28:35.380 Because the proxies are now able to exert a lot more pain on the global economy.

00:28:41.080 So the Iranians are able to close off the Shri of Hormuz.

00:28:43.320 And their proxies, who are they, just say who their proxies are?

00:28:45.320 Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen,

00:28:49.560 and then you have the militias, the Shia militias in Iraq.

00:28:53.000 Okay.

00:28:53.720 Right? So the logic of this is by closing off the Shri of Hormuz,

00:28:59.960 Iran is denying the world 20% of the global supply of oil.

00:29:06.040 But now, if the Hufus are able to close off the back Al-Mandad Strait, then that's another 7%.

00:29:12.360 So that's putting more pressure on the global economy.

00:29:16.600 And now, if Lebanon is able to close off the Suez Canal or put pressure on trade over here,

00:29:24.120 that's even more pressure, right?

00:29:28.440 That's a lot.

00:29:29.400 Yeah, but as we can see, this escalation ladder is coming up really fast, right?

00:29:35.080 And the real fear is that the Americans will be under so much pressure that they use tactical nuclear weapons against Iran.

00:29:46.440 And then we could be looking at nuclear war and civilizational collapse.

00:29:51.500 And that's World War III for sure.

00:29:53.500 No, it's the end of civilization for sure.

00:29:55.300 Oh.

00:29:56.020 Yeah.

00:29:56.820 Professor Zhang, what are we going to do?

00:30:00.460 Do you believe in God?

00:30:01.600 Yeah.

00:30:02.140 We're good then.

00:30:03.720 That's a good point.

00:30:04.680 Yeah. All right. Yeah. All right. I'll see you on the other side. See you in the big H.

00:30:10.280 That's right. Dude, I heard that if you go to heaven, this is something I heard that's kind

00:30:13.460 of cool just to take a break from the war stuff for a second. If you go to heaven and thank you

00:30:18.280 for explaining this and thank you for discussing the escalation ladder with us. If you go to heaven

00:30:22.940 that when you get there, your friends are there, right? All your friends that you knew from here

00:30:27.940 and your family, but they all like work in different places. So you might go to like a

00:30:33.400 jersey mics in heaven and your brother or your ex-girlfriend could be working there and once you

00:30:39.820 lock eyes with each other you have memories of like things that you knew from this period here

00:30:43.960 yeah but but it's brand new there so it's like you get to go everywhere and find your old friends

00:30:49.520 and stuff so it'd be pretty cool like you could be somewhere and like frederick douglas or whatever

00:30:53.820 could be a park ranger or xi jinping or something could be he could be working at an ice cream stand

00:30:59.140 you know yeah so it could be kind of cool anyway sounds pretty cool yeah yeah so just letting you

00:31:03.640 in on a little bit of uh bts heaven lore great um it would be impractical for america to end up in

00:31:11.800 a nuclear war though yeah i don't think it will happen okay yeah so you don't think that will

00:31:16.080 happen i don't think it will happen no what stops that escalation ladder from going uh forward yeah

00:31:21.380 okay so again we want to use game theory and step back and ask ourselves why this war is happening

00:31:27.740 okay okay because once you figure out what the motivations of the players are then you can figure

00:31:32.040 out how far this goes right because the players are trying to win and they're they're gonna try

00:31:38.920 to win in a way that um it's at least harmful or the easiest way to win if that makes sense yeah

00:31:45.960 it does because it's kind of like poker so say if i got an okay hand yeah i might bluff a little

00:31:50.300 in the beginning or go in on a few blinds or something but i'm not gonna probably raise it

00:31:54.920 to the end of the line because I know what I have.

00:31:57.680 I'm gonna wait for another hand.

00:31:59.140 Right, so let's look at game theory and ask ourselves,

00:32:01.700 who are the major players in this game

00:32:03.300 and what do they want?

00:32:04.220 Okay, so you have the United States, of course,

00:32:06.980 you have Iran, you have Israel,

00:32:09.760 and I would say the fourth major country is Saudi Arabia.

00:32:12.720 Okay, and why are we even in this conflict?

00:32:15.540 That's right, so we're trying to figure this out.

00:32:17.480 Because that's been a big question in America,

00:32:19.480 especially amongst a lot of my peers.

00:32:22.560 Why are we there?

00:32:24.000 Why are we putting our troops there?

00:32:25.580 It doesn't seem like we have a real interest.

00:32:27.640 I know there's the rumors of weapons of mass destruction again.

00:32:30.400 There's rumors of nuclear weapons held by Iran.

00:32:33.620 But I think people, a lot of people,

00:32:37.760 feel like we've fallen for that trap before in Iraq and in Kuwait.

00:32:45.020 And that it could just be the same sort of fool's errand again.

00:32:49.860 Yeah, exactly.

00:32:50.500 So it's a great question.

00:32:51.420 Like, why did America attack Iran after the failures of Afghanistan and Iraq?

00:33:00.520 Well, and also, Trump, our president, said that we would not go to war with Iran.

00:33:03.940 That's right.

00:33:04.540 That's right.

00:33:05.640 Yeah, what do you think's happening?

00:33:07.220 Yeah.

00:33:07.720 So I want to refer you to something called a clean break memo, okay?

00:33:12.700 Clean break memo?

00:33:13.640 Yes.

00:33:13.920 It's really important we understand this, if we understand what's going on.

00:33:16.100 The clean break memo, maybe your producer can bring it up.

00:33:18.960 The Clean Break Memo, written in 1996, okay?

00:33:21.660 Okay.

00:33:22.260 And so let me give you some background.

00:33:25.080 So Bill Clinton is in office, and Bill Clinton is obsessed with peace in the Middle East.

00:33:32.820 Because it rhymes, probably.

00:33:34.100 Probably, yeah, yeah.

00:33:35.420 And the Israelis have decided that now is a good time for a two-state solution.

00:33:42.040 And the reason why is that throughout its history, Israel was always in conflict with the other Arab nations around it because of the Palestinian issue.

00:33:52.420 And the idea is that if Israel is to have security, it needs to resolve the Palestinian issue.

00:34:00.320 It needs to give the Palestinians its own state.

00:34:02.400 And then once that happens, then the Arab nations can resume diplomatic relations with Israel.

00:34:11.160 They can trade peacefully, and the Middle East will be prosperous and peaceful, right?

00:34:15.820 But you first have to resolve the Palestinian issue.

00:34:17.900 Because a lot of the Palestinians were Muslim, right?

00:34:20.060 That's right.

00:34:20.600 And a lot of the surrounding areas are also Muslim.

00:34:23.340 Around Israel are also Muslim.

00:34:24.420 That's right.

00:34:24.720 So they're sympathetic towards the Muslims, right?

00:34:28.920 So, for example, Saudi Arabia, the royal family said that as long as the Palestinian issue is not resolved, we will never, ever have peace with Israel.

00:34:37.720 So this is what we call the Oslo peace process.

00:34:40.300 Yeah, the Oslo Accords, right?

00:34:41.340 That's right.

00:34:41.880 That's right.

00:34:42.760 And the majority of the Israeli population was in favor of this.

00:34:49.300 And the major leader who was spearheading this movement in Israel is Isaac Rabin.

00:34:55.200 What's the name?

00:34:56.480 Isaac Rabin.

00:34:57.340 I'll spell it for you, okay?

00:35:00.860 Isaac?

00:35:02.240 Isaac Rabin.

00:35:03.280 Rabin.

00:35:04.360 Isaac Rabin.

00:35:05.240 Isaac Rabin.

00:35:06.280 Yes, okay.

00:35:06.920 Isaac Rabin.

00:35:07.600 And he was determined to have eternal peace with the Palestinians.

00:35:15.760 So he resolved this issue once and for all by giving them a state.

00:35:18.780 So he and Clinton were aligned with figuring this out.

00:35:20.880 That's right.

00:35:21.280 And they also had Arafat to help them out as well.

00:35:24.860 And the Arab nations, especially Saudi Arabia, were very supportive of all of this process.

00:35:30.960 But there was one person who was opposed to the peace process.

00:35:36.560 His name is Benjamin Netanyahu.

00:35:39.840 And he assembled a team of people, mainly Americans,

00:35:43.840 who developed a new policy for him called the Clean Break Memo.

00:35:50.220 And what the Clean Break Memo says, it's a very short document.

00:35:52.900 It's only about a one page.

00:35:54.460 What it says is screw peace because our neighbors are Arabs

00:36:01.820 and they only understand power.

00:36:04.420 So you want peace

00:36:06.500 You don't negotiate

00:36:08.200 You don't compromise

00:36:09.520 You hit them hard

00:36:11.360 You keep on hitting them hard

00:36:13.020 Until they respect you

00:36:15.320 Okay?

00:36:16.380 So there are three major pillars to this strategy

00:36:19.140 Called the clean break

00:36:20.040 The first is

00:36:21.600 Go after the person's hard

00:36:23.300 Don't give them land

00:36:24.980 Don't compromise them

00:36:26.100 Teach them to respect you

00:36:27.600 Okay?

00:36:28.680 Show power

00:36:29.440 Make them afraid of you

00:36:31.240 Okay

00:36:31.580 That's number one

00:36:32.240 Number two is you have to rejuvenate the Israeli economy by adopting neoliberalism.

00:36:41.140 Forget socialism, let's go with capitalism.

00:36:44.460 Because at this time, socialism was very popular in Israel.

00:36:48.260 And the third thing is to establish balance of power in the Middle East.

00:36:58.560 Balance of power in the Middle East.

00:36:59.760 And the way you do that is you destroy regimes that could potentially threaten you.

00:37:06.700 This includes Syria, and this includes Iraq.

00:37:10.200 And so the strategy calls for working with Turkey and Jordan to destabilize Syria.

00:37:16.200 And it calls for regime change in Iraq.

00:37:20.740 It's called a clean break memo.

00:37:22.120 Okay, a clean break, a new strategy for securing the realm, commonly known as a clean break report,

00:37:27.280 is a policy document that was prepared in 1996 by a study group led by Richard Perle for Benjamin Netanyahu,

00:37:33.440 then Prime Minister of Israel.

00:37:35.380 The report explained a new approach to solving Israel's security problems in the Middle East

00:37:38.840 with an emphasis on Western values, which that means, I guess, more like a capitalistic balance.

00:37:44.080 That's right. That's right.

00:37:44.980 It has since been criticized for advocating a policy of removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq.

00:37:49.280 That's right.

00:37:49.620 And the containment of Syria by engaging in proxy warfare

00:37:52.260 and highlighting its possession of weapons of mass destruction.

00:37:55.860 Certain parts of the policies set forth in the paper were rejected by Netanyahu.

00:38:00.160 However, the report was ultimately adopted and serves as a foundation for modern-day Israeli global affairs.

00:38:05.580 Is that true?

00:38:07.020 Well, yeah.

00:38:09.380 So something really important for us to appreciate is the study group.

00:38:13.780 There were two major participants in the study group, Richard Perle and also Douglas Faith.

00:38:21.060 Okay, got it.

00:38:21.740 Right. And this is important because these two are Americans, and a few years later, they will work for the Pentagon.

00:38:31.300 And Douglas Thief and Richard Pearl work with Paul Wolfowitz, and these three will become the architects of the Iraq War.

00:38:38.760 Paul Wolfowitz?

00:38:39.560 Yes.

00:38:40.000 Okay, so you're saying two of the people that came up with the Clean Break Memo then went on to work for the Pentagon.

00:38:46.640 Yes, and they're the architects of the Iraq War.

00:38:49.100 Okay, so they were architects of the Iraq War.

00:38:51.240 Here we go, Douglas J. Faith, an American lawyer who served as Secretary of Defense for Policy.

00:38:56.120 Faith has been described as an architect of the Iraq War.

00:38:58.500 In the lead-up to the war, he played a key role in promoting the false claim that the Saddam Hussein regime had an operational relationship with al-Qaeda.

00:39:07.540 A Pentagon inspector general report found that Faith's office had developed, produced, and then disseminated alternative intelligent assessments on the Iraq and al-Qaeda relationship,

00:39:17.420 which included some conclusions that were inconsistent

00:39:21.460 with the consensus of the intelligence community

00:39:25.340 to senior decision makers, huh?

00:39:28.220 The other thing about Douglas Five

00:39:31.580 is he has been suspected for a long time

00:39:35.680 of being an Israeli asset.

00:39:37.120 Okay.

00:39:38.040 But despite that, he was still able to climb the hierarchy,

00:39:41.540 which is very weird

00:39:42.420 because the FBI and the CIA determined in the 1970s

00:39:46.120 that he could possibly be an Israeli asset.

00:39:48.640 Wow, so that's interesting that they thought that

00:39:51.620 and then he was still able to climb the ranks.

00:39:53.600 Very interesting.

00:39:54.500 Yeah.

00:39:54.740 Yeah.

00:39:55.280 Hmm.

00:39:55.940 Yeah.

00:39:56.380 But not only him, but Richard Perle was also suspected of being an Israeli asset.

00:40:02.080 Richard Norman Perle is an American political advisor

00:40:04.060 who served as the Assistant Secretary of Defense

00:40:06.340 for Global Strategic Affairs under Ronald Reagan.

00:40:09.020 Perle was an architect of the Iraq War.

00:40:10.740 Yeah.

00:40:11.640 He claimed that Saddam Hussein regime possessed weapons of mass destruction.

00:40:15.140 Okay.

00:40:15.540 So we need to understand what the Clean Break Memoir really is, okay?

00:40:20.180 And what it really is is a blueprint for the Greater Israel Project.

00:40:26.900 And the Greater Israel Project is a belief among certain Zionists

00:40:32.760 that the entire Middle East belongs to Israel.

00:40:38.540 And just to be clear, this isn't Jewish people.

00:40:40.500 This is, we're talking about the Israeli government and extremist views, right?

00:40:47.000 That's right.

00:40:47.460 It's not necessarily a Jewish person.

00:40:49.960 Zionist is someone who believes in supremacy of Israel.

00:40:54.100 Okay, so a Zionist is someone who believes in supremacy of Israel.

00:40:57.260 Look it up, Nick, because I hear the term.

00:40:58.820 We might have talked about it before.

00:41:00.440 We've probably talked about it before some, but I don't know if we've ever looked it up.

00:41:05.360 Zionism is an ethnocultural nationalist movement

00:41:08.020 that emerged in late 19th century Europe

00:41:10.200 to establish and support a Jewish homeland.

00:41:12.580 What does ethnocultural nationalist mean, Nick?

00:41:15.020 Can you click on that?

00:41:20.220 Ethnocultural, ethnic nationalism

00:41:22.100 is a form of nationalism

00:41:23.280 in which the nation and nationality

00:41:24.820 are defined in terms of ethnicity.

00:41:28.940 Yeah, what does that mean?

00:41:31.520 Ethnocultural nationalism.

00:41:32.580 What it really means is there are certain people, Zionists, who believe that God promised this land to the Jews and only the Jews.

00:41:42.980 And therefore, only the Jews should be in this land.

00:41:46.200 And therefore, the Pasadenaids have no right to be there.

00:41:48.920 Therefore, our two-state solution goes against the will of God.

00:41:52.260 Got it.

00:41:53.220 That's what it really means.

00:41:54.300 Okay, wow.

00:41:55.080 But what about people who just believe that Jewish people deserve to have their own place as well?

00:42:02.360 Is that Zionism?

00:42:03.720 So there are different forms of Zionism.

00:42:05.920 Okay.

00:42:06.300 And what I'm referring to is an extreme form of Zionism that has taken hold over Israel.

00:42:12.500 Okay.

00:42:12.720 Because remember, in the 1990s, the majority of people were supportive of a two-state solution.

00:42:17.480 They wanted peace with the Arabs.

00:42:18.680 In the 1990s, is that true?

00:42:19.920 Let's bring that up.

00:42:22.840 Let me see.

00:42:23.780 In the 1990s, the Israeli public was deeply divided rather than in full agreement regarding a two-state solution,

00:42:28.900 while the signing of the Oslo Accords in 93 generated strong initial hope

00:42:32.640 and fluctuating majority support for the peace process at various points.

00:42:36.780 Substantial portions of the population, including right-wing political factions

00:42:40.280 and the settler movement, opposed partitioning the land.

00:42:45.560 So there was some support for it.

00:42:48.860 Okay.

00:42:50.100 Okay, so you have this extreme, so you have an extreme group.

00:42:53.200 Yeah, the settlers, basically.

00:42:54.940 Okay, so the group you're talking about is an extreme group

00:42:57.700 that's supporting this clean break.

00:43:01.040 That's right.

00:43:01.480 That wanted a greater Israel.

00:43:03.280 That's right.

00:43:03.640 That's an extreme group.

00:43:04.740 That's right.

00:43:05.280 And they were led by Netanyahu.

00:43:07.440 Okay.

00:43:07.700 Who became prime minister in 96

00:43:08.880 to implement the greater Israel project.

00:43:11.980 Okay.

00:43:12.180 It's been in power for the past 20 years.

00:43:14.000 And if you look at what's been happening

00:43:15.360 in the Middle East, right?

00:43:18.060 The Iraq war.

00:43:19.140 And then after that,

00:43:20.580 the invasion and regime change in Libya,

00:43:24.860 in Syria,

00:43:25.820 and now this attack against Iran.

00:43:27.700 It is consistent with the Clean Break Memo.

00:43:30.320 Got it.

00:43:30.860 And what is amazing is that this transcends politics.

00:43:35.680 Both the Democrats and the Republicans are participating in the implementation of the Clean Break Memo.

00:43:41.600 You mean American Democrats and American Republicans are?

00:43:43.760 That's right.

00:43:44.020 That's right.

00:43:44.740 So it was George W. Bush which launched a war against Iraq.

00:43:50.260 But it was Obama who supported regime change in Syria and in Libya, which is also part of the Clean Break memo.

00:43:58.560 What I want to do now is show you a video.

00:44:01.780 This is important.

00:44:02.360 We'll watch this video together.

00:44:03.840 And so the video is General Wesley Clark, and he's talking to Amy Goodman.

00:44:10.960 This is after 9-11.

00:44:12.860 And so 9-11 was a traumatic event for Americans.

00:44:16.460 And the assumption was that the U.S. military would seek vengeance against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda by attacking Afghanistan.

00:44:26.360 But what Wesley Clark says is, no, no, no.

00:44:31.000 We're not just going after Afghanistan.

00:44:34.080 We're going after seven countries.

00:44:36.640 And let's listen to what he says.

00:44:39.060 And so this is a – but this – how do we know this isn't a – is this a theory or is this facts?

00:44:45.060 That's what I'm wondering.

00:44:45.740 Oh, it's all facts. The Clean Break Memo is a fact. And Wesley Clark saying this to Emmy Goodman, I mean, it's on YouTube.

00:44:52.860 Okay, and this is U.S. Army General Wesley Clark, right?

00:44:56.600 That's right. He's retired now. He's talking to Emmy Goodman about what happens after 9-11.

00:45:01.580 Okay.

00:45:02.280 About 10 days after 9-11, I went through the Pentagon and I saw Secretary Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz.

00:45:09.500 I went downstairs just to say hello to some of the people on the joint staff who used to work for me.

00:45:14.100 and one of the generals called me in.

00:45:15.300 He said, sir, you've got to come in and talk to me a second.

00:45:18.700 I said, well, you're too busy.

00:45:19.600 He said, no, no.

00:45:20.640 He says, we've made the decision we're going to war with Iraq.

00:45:25.740 This was on or about the 20th of September.

00:45:28.520 I said, we're going to war with Iraq?

00:45:30.280 Why?

00:45:32.320 He said, I don't know.

00:45:35.620 He said, I guess they don't know what else to do.

00:45:39.400 So I said, well, did they find some information

00:45:41.860 connecting Saddam to Al-Qaeda?

00:45:44.240 He said, no, no.

00:45:45.640 He says, there's nothing new that way.

00:45:47.700 They just made the decision to go to war with Iraq.

00:45:50.660 He said, I guess it's like we don't know what to do about terrorists,

00:45:54.480 but we've got a good military and we can take down governments.

00:45:58.420 And he said, I guess if the only tool you have is a hammer,

00:46:01.960 every problem has to look like a nail.

00:46:04.940 So I came back to see him a few weeks later,

00:46:08.280 and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan.

00:46:10.580 I said, are we still going to war with Iraq?

00:46:12.440 And he said, oh, it's worse than that.

00:46:14.300 He said, he reached over on his desk, he picked up a piece of paper,

00:46:17.140 and he said, I just got this down from upstairs,

00:46:20.440 meeting the Secretary of Defense's office today,

00:46:22.120 and he said, this is a memo that describes how we're going to take out

00:46:25.100 seven countries in five years,

00:46:28.620 starting with Iraq and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan,

00:46:33.060 and finishing off Iran.

00:46:36.180 I said, is it classified?

00:46:37.520 He said, yes, sir.

00:46:39.460 I said, well, don't show it to me.

00:46:43.560 So you're saying that this is part of the clean break memo.

00:46:46.140 That's right.

00:46:46.880 Because how else can you explain what's going on?

00:46:49.380 And again, this is General Wesley Clark has access to confidential Pentagon formation.

00:46:55.380 He's saying that right after 9-11, they've already decided to go to war against the entire Middle East, finishing with Iran.

00:47:03.340 And did we end up doing those things right there?

00:47:05.840 Yes, we did.

00:47:06.700 Well, not me.

00:47:07.880 Not us.

00:47:08.840 Yeah, no, not us.

00:47:10.420 Yeah, I would have been involved.

00:47:11.900 I'm chill, yeah.

00:47:13.300 I definitely, yeah.

00:47:14.060 I mean, I have issues with my neighbors sometimes because of their dog or whatever.

00:47:17.080 Yeah, yeah.

00:47:18.700 Wasn't me, man.

00:47:19.580 Yeah.

00:47:20.600 So, but we've gone, but have we done those things that they said in that video,

00:47:24.980 that have we attacked, have we gone to war with those places?

00:47:28.260 Yeah.

00:47:29.180 What was the places he listed?

00:47:30.920 So, Syria, right?

00:47:33.860 That's done.

00:47:36.040 Libya.

00:47:36.440 Iraq

00:47:38.940 Was it Somalia one of them?

00:47:42.940 Yeah

00:47:43.220 Iraq, Syria, Libya

00:47:45.460 Lebanon, Somalia, Sudan

00:47:48.520 and Iran

00:47:49.200 So Iran's the last one on the list

00:47:50.460 It's his final boss

00:47:52.880 Final boss

00:47:54.160 That's right

00:47:54.620 Wow

00:47:55.240 Yeah

00:47:55.700 A final boss

00:47:57.460 Oh

00:47:58.120 That's the Mike Tyson right there

00:48:00.080 Yeah

00:48:00.560 So

00:48:01.980 But why

00:48:03.040 Why do you feel like

00:48:04.240 So you

00:48:05.440 feel like America is working at the behest

00:48:07.780 of the Israeli government, of Netanyahu's

00:48:10.180 choices?

00:48:11.340 What do you think that relationship is there?

00:48:14.360 Well, it seems...

00:48:15.380 Because if this is true, then it would

00:48:17.260 say that America is working at the behest

00:48:19.820 of

00:48:20.340 Netanyahu and some of these other people

00:48:23.560 who this is what they want, right?

00:48:25.840 Or is this what we want?

00:48:27.580 Yeah, so again, there's a pattern

00:48:29.560 here, right? So I'm

00:48:31.740 not trying to make a judgment. All I'm trying to do

00:48:33.760 is point out a pattern that's emerging

00:48:35.160 Where in 96, they write the Clean Break Memo encouraging Netanyahu to choose a path of war and dominance in the Middle East and to clean break away from the Oslo peace process.

00:48:52.060 And that's exactly what he's been doing for the past 20 years.

00:48:54.320 then these people

00:48:56.820 specifically Richard

00:48:58.860 Pearl and Douglas Fife

00:49:00.540 they go work for the Pentagon and they

00:49:02.620 help implement a lot of the

00:49:04.600 Clean Bank Memo policies by starting

00:49:06.800 a war against Iraq for no particular

00:49:08.760 reason and then for no particular

00:49:10.740 reason what happens to Americans

00:49:12.660 attack Libya

00:49:14.000 destabilize the regime cause millions

00:49:16.620 of refugees to flow into Europe

00:49:18.280 and now we have this war in Iran

00:49:20.360 and we don't even know why Trump

00:49:22.680 attacked Iran

00:49:23.440 and you point this out

00:49:24.920 like he never

00:49:25.360 he's been saying

00:49:26.280 for a long time

00:49:26.820 that he would not do so

00:49:27.960 yeah

00:49:28.300 so what's going on here

00:49:30.400 right

00:49:31.160 like

00:49:31.920 if the United States

00:49:33.780 was not doing this

00:49:34.660 at the behest of Israel

00:49:35.600 then how can we explain

00:49:37.140 what's going on

00:49:37.840 right

00:49:38.120 right

00:49:38.700 now what I'll do now

00:49:39.880 is use game theory

00:49:40.500 to explain

00:49:41.100 why Israel would want this

00:49:42.640 okay

00:49:43.160 right

00:49:43.540 because

00:49:43.960 so

00:49:44.660 this will be hard

00:49:46.860 for Americans to understand

00:49:48.680 alright

00:49:49.180 for Americans to understand

00:49:50.180 okay

00:49:50.460 but like

00:49:51.240 Wesley Clark says

00:49:52.660 we need to remove seven nations in five years.

00:49:56.540 And they're doing that, right?

00:49:57.640 Iran is the final boss.

00:49:59.580 And the idea is there are Zionists

00:50:02.820 who want to achieve the Greater Israel Project.

00:50:05.040 And the idea of the Greater Israel Project

00:50:06.720 is that Israel will dominate the Middle East.

00:50:10.660 And only if Israel does that

00:50:12.140 will Jews have security in the Middle East.

00:50:17.280 Okay.

00:50:17.660 Okay?

00:50:18.160 But weren't they secure before?

00:50:19.800 Like, I don't understand why they weren't secure.

00:50:22.660 Right. So they weren't secure because the Palestinians were in revolt against them.

00:50:29.360 The Palestinians felt that they were being oppressed, that their land was stolen from them.

00:50:33.580 And so they were engaging in terrorist activities against the Israelis, including bus bombings, including airplane hijackings.

00:50:41.000 But why wouldn't Israel just figure that out instead of go this other big route?

00:50:45.780 It seems like, you know what I'm saying?

00:50:47.800 It seems like if it's me figuring out something with a neighbor as opposed to battling the whole town, it would seem like more at my behest, like a wiser choice to just figure out something with my neighbor.

00:50:58.260 Right.

00:50:58.600 Because you have a brother who's kind of crazy.

00:51:01.500 And your brother believes that this house is not their house.

00:51:05.240 It's our house.

00:51:06.360 Okay.

00:51:06.860 Which was stolen by this other family.

00:51:10.240 And so we have a right to go take it back from them.

00:51:14.020 Okay.

00:51:14.280 And there's nothing you can do about your crazy brother.

00:51:16.480 And you're saying Netanyahu's the crazy brother?

00:51:17.500 Basically, yes.

00:51:18.040 Okay, got it.

00:51:18.800 Right?

00:51:19.720 And these are people we call the settlers, right?

00:51:22.600 Okay.

00:51:22.920 These are people who go against Israeli national law and go and forcefully evict Palestinians from their homes, even if this is against Israeli national law.

00:51:34.900 Yeah.

00:51:35.400 I know there's a lot of cases of that.

00:51:37.140 You can see them on YouTube, too, of people getting evicted from their homes for no reason, people taking people's land.

00:51:41.900 A lot of heartbreaking stuff out there.

00:51:44.280 Okay, so now you're showing me, what is this you're looking at here?

00:51:47.680 So let's just take what we know and draw things to the logical conclusion.

00:51:51.960 So this is game theory.

00:51:53.020 This is game theory, okay?

00:51:54.420 If you believe that this land was given to you by God, and it says so in the Bible, okay?

00:52:01.640 And you believe that it is Israel's destiny to dominate the Middle East, your real enemy is not Iran, right?

00:52:10.560 Who's your real enemy?

00:52:12.940 The United States of America.

00:52:14.280 Of the United States.

00:52:15.420 Right.

00:52:16.060 Because the United States provides security guarantees to many Arab nations.

00:52:21.100 Saudi Arabia is protected by the United States.

00:52:24.500 And Saudi Arabia is part of the Greater Israel Project.

00:52:27.100 Egypt is protected by the United States.

00:52:29.040 Egypt is also part of the Greater Israel Project.

00:52:32.340 Right.

00:52:32.540 So what you need to do is remove both Iran and the United States from the equation.

00:52:38.740 And the best way to do that is to have them go to war against each other.

00:52:43.080 Right.

00:52:44.280 And then Israel is the last nation standing.

00:52:46.840 And then they achieved the Greater Israel Project.

00:52:50.180 This is game theory, by the way.

00:52:51.920 This is game theory.

00:52:52.540 Yeah.

00:52:53.320 But how would you, like, how would America, I mean, our country's way over here.

00:52:59.420 And I know that's like, I know that doesn't mean everything, that we have this geographical space.

00:53:05.340 But how would we, like, how would we be defeated in it?

00:53:10.640 Well, we would be, like, the United States would be defeated if this war becomes so unpopular at home that the people revolt, and that forces the American military to retreat back to American borders.

00:53:25.100 Okay.

00:53:25.880 So then we would lose that war, but we wouldn't lose our country, though.

00:53:29.700 No, yeah.

00:53:30.600 I mean, the United States wouldn't lose their country, but they would lose the empire.

00:53:34.540 Yeah.

00:53:35.260 Oh, so we would completely remove ourselves from the Middle East.

00:53:38.440 You're saying remove ourselves from all of our allies, and then Israel would have the ability to control them.

00:53:43.460 That's right.

00:53:44.280 But why doesn't Israel just go control them and not even involve us?

00:53:48.480 Because Saudi Arabia and the other nations of the Middle East, they have a lot of money,

00:53:56.440 and they invest hundreds of dollars in the U.S. economy in exchange for U.S. protection.

00:54:01.880 Got it.

00:54:02.500 Yeah.

00:54:03.240 Wow.

00:54:03.680 you know one thing that has scared me and i've heard people a lot of people talk about it was

00:54:10.020 like a lot of like the technology and stuff that they that that was used in palestine like during

00:54:15.620 a lot of the genocide over there it's like drones being used to kill people being used to kill

00:54:20.520 children we had a doctor on who was talking about children getting shot just right down through

00:54:25.340 their bodies you know like in a way that was like it seemed very logical that drones were

00:54:31.720 the ones that were doing it all the reporters being killed there so that nobody could transfer

00:54:36.180 any real information out of the out of the uh world over there um one of those things especially

00:54:41.700 with the technology and then you start to see the surveillance stuff happening in america

00:54:45.460 it starts to make you think well what why wouldn't that why wouldn't it come here like if you know

00:54:51.340 like that's certainly a fear that i hear a lot is that um that we're going to become in this

00:54:56.840 surveillance state and then the same thing could happen to us over here if we're out of line with

00:55:02.000 who with um if israel to gain control of america and then we're out of line with something that

00:55:08.400 they see or some behavior or something um or they want to move people here off of their land you

00:55:14.300 know it's it's that that's something that's very scary yeah so if you look at gaza i think gaza

00:55:19.520 um is the uh pilot for a surveillance state you think it's pilot for what for a surveillance state

00:55:26.120 Yeah, as a testing ground.

00:55:27.720 That's a testing ground for a southern state.

00:55:29.340 Because the theory is that once Israel achieves the greater Israel project, it now needs to control this entire area.

00:55:36.600 And there aren't that many Jews.

00:55:38.920 So it needs surveillance technology in order to control the local population.

00:55:43.340 What I think will happen, and this is going to shock a lot of people, is right now, Israel is very close with India.

00:55:50.320 And India, the population is booming.

00:55:53.920 And there's a lot of young people.

00:55:55.140 and if you let

00:55:56.580 if you just let them

00:55:57.560 stay in India

00:55:58.260 they're going to revolt

00:55:58.940 against you

00:55:59.520 because the economy

00:56:00.260 is not doing so well

00:56:01.000 but so what if

00:56:02.100 Israel and India

00:56:03.460 were to get together

00:56:04.060 and says

00:56:04.480 hey let's bring in

00:56:05.980 millions of Indians

00:56:06.840 to work now

00:56:07.980 in the Middle East

00:56:08.860 because war has destroyed

00:56:10.260 the population

00:56:10.700 in the Middle East

00:56:11.400 and now you can use

00:56:13.400 servant technology

00:56:14.160 to control these Indians

00:56:15.560 and these

00:56:16.020 the Indian people

00:56:16.700 are used to a caste system

00:56:17.580 anyway

00:56:17.960 so the idea

00:56:19.220 that the Jews

00:56:19.900 are at the very top

00:56:20.660 right

00:56:20.980 and the Indians

00:56:22.020 are working class

00:56:23.500 like the like

00:56:24.700 doing the labor, and it's all been controlled by surveillance technology, well, you would achieve

00:56:31.560 the Greater Israel Project.

00:56:33.300 Wow.

00:56:34.860 And do you think that's what's going on?

00:56:37.660 I think that's the direction we're moving towards.

00:56:40.760 Whether or not they will succeed, I can't really say, but I think that's the plan.

00:56:43.740 But the people, certainly the people of Israel don't want to see all that, like, they don't

00:56:49.720 want to see so many people get killed and that sort of stuff happen.

00:56:52.500 You think they want to?

00:56:53.260 I think

00:56:54.440 Israel may be heading

00:56:55.860 towards a civil war

00:56:56.760 between two places

00:56:57.780 you have Tel Aviv

00:56:58.860 which is the gayest city

00:57:00.020 in the world

00:57:00.500 very liberal

00:57:02.180 very cosmopolitan

00:57:04.040 you mean gays

00:57:04.720 like people being gay

00:57:05.760 like I mean like real gays

00:57:07.220 like men that hug each other

00:57:09.060 like

00:57:09.200 yeah

00:57:09.540 and women can hug each other too

00:57:11.040 oh yeah

00:57:11.340 okay I don't know

00:57:12.200 if you're using it

00:57:13.320 like hypothetical

00:57:13.740 like homosexuals

00:57:14.600 okay yeah

00:57:15.080 yeah gays

00:57:16.100 yeah

00:57:16.400 sorry

00:57:17.040 yeah just regular gays

00:57:18.240 yeah

00:57:18.600 I didn't know

00:57:19.580 if we were talking about

00:57:20.220 different you know

00:57:20.860 a different branch of gays

00:57:22.120 or I didn't know

00:57:22.580 what was going on

00:57:23.180 Yeah, like, yeah.

00:57:24.340 Yeah, just gays.

00:57:25.120 Yeah, yeah.

00:57:26.180 And they have Jerusalem, which is very conservative, very religious.

00:57:29.980 So these are two competing visions of Israel.

00:57:34.140 And unfortunately, the people in Jerusalem are the ones with the power,

00:57:39.560 and they are extreme in their religious vision, okay?

00:57:42.860 Yeah, I just—well, I know they have an election coming up over there.

00:57:45.240 That's right.

00:57:45.640 They do, yes.

00:57:46.380 And so that's—I just feel like—is that going to determine a lot?

00:57:51.260 Because, like, I mean, I feel bad for a lot of my Jewish friends here who do not want to be associated, like, you know, it's heartbreaking to them.

00:57:58.280 You know, my friend Michael's always talking to me.

00:58:00.020 It's like, you know, to make sure to, like, just because Israel doesn't mean Jewish people.

00:58:05.260 It doesn't mean, like, it's the government.

00:58:07.680 That's right.

00:58:08.600 So I want to use religion to show you how extreme these people are.

00:58:11.420 Okay.

00:58:11.700 Right?

00:58:11.940 So the Holocaust was a traumatic event, and 6 million Jews died.

00:58:18.300 Let me ask you this question, okay?

00:58:21.260 Why did the Hawkehawks happen?

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00:58:55.080 The Holocaust happened, I guess,

00:58:56.800 because of an ideology that was created

00:58:59.000 by Hitler and his regime.

00:59:00.440 Yeah, it was Hitler's fault, right?

00:59:01.780 Okay, so the extremist Jews are called Kabbalists,

00:59:08.000 okay, the Kabbalah.

00:59:09.660 And they have an extreme vision

00:59:13.920 of how the universe works.

00:59:16.160 And the deep, dark secret that they have

00:59:20.240 about the Holocaust is the Jews deserved it, okay?

00:59:24.740 So let me explain why.

00:59:26.240 If you read the Bible, the Bible,

00:59:29.120 the Old Testament basically,

00:59:30.480 it's fundamentally about the relationship between God

00:59:33.260 and his chosen people, the Jews.

00:59:36.160 And problems arise when the Jews turn away from God.

00:59:43.460 So for example, when Moses was leading the people

00:59:48.400 from exile in Egypt to the promised land,

00:59:51.860 the people chose to worship an idol.

00:59:54.800 And the first commandment is do not worship false idols.

00:59:58.060 So God had to punish them

01:00:00.120 by making them wander the desert for 40 years.

01:00:03.920 And this is a consistent theme throughout the Old Testament

01:00:07.160 where Jews suffer because they turn away from God.

01:00:12.400 So the most traumatic event in the Bible

01:00:15.100 is the destruction of the first temple

01:00:18.740 where the Babylonians come in

01:00:20.480 and they destroy the first temple.

01:00:22.400 Now, if you read the Bible, the book is Jeremiah.

01:00:25.780 What Jeremiah the prophet says is,

01:00:28.180 the Babylonians are not the enemy of God.

01:00:31.320 They are the tool of God to punish the Israelites

01:00:35.620 for turning away from God, right?

01:00:38.780 So if you just extend the logic, then the logic is this.

01:00:41.860 Why did the Holocaust happen?

01:00:43.960 Not because of Hitler, but because the Jews turned away from God.

01:00:48.700 And so there's groups that believe that?

01:00:50.260 That's right.

01:00:50.820 So at this point in history, the year 1900, when Zionism comes into being, most Jews think Zionism is retarded.

01:01:00.620 I'm a Jewish person living in Germany, living in the United States, living in England.

01:01:05.080 I've assimilated into society.

01:01:07.360 I'm a professor.

01:01:08.540 I'm a doctor.

01:01:09.620 I'm doing well for myself.

01:01:11.560 I'm secular.

01:01:12.940 I have lots of friends who are Christians.

01:01:15.600 And what does secular mean?

01:01:16.780 Secular means non-religious.

01:01:17.860 Okay.

01:01:18.440 Right?

01:01:18.680 So it's like, why would I go to a desert called Palestine?

01:01:24.740 It's not even called Israel.

01:01:25.300 It's called Palestine, where there was already people living there.

01:01:29.260 And it's like literally a desert, right?

01:01:31.900 So only about 3% of the global Jewish population at this point in history,

01:01:36.160 the years 1900, actually support the idea of Zionism.

01:01:39.140 Okay.

01:01:39.800 Right?

01:01:40.060 So the Holocaust had to happen in order to force the Jews to hold the covenant with God.

01:01:50.020 Because the Jews were created as God's chosen people.

01:01:53.140 They were the light of nations.

01:01:54.660 They were meant to show true faith in God and therefore be virtuous and be the moral guidance for the world.

01:02:07.560 Okay, so they were chosen to be an example of God.

01:02:10.380 They're chosen to be the light of nations.

01:02:12.600 They're chosen to be the best representatives of humanity.

01:02:15.260 Okay.

01:02:15.860 Yes.

01:02:16.540 So you're saying that some devout Jewish people or religious or extreme, this is an extreme group,

01:02:23.140 believe that the Holocaust was supposed to happen because the people in the Bible had turned away from God.

01:02:32.520 Right.

01:02:33.080 Is that what you're saying?

01:02:34.400 Yes or no, you're saying?

01:02:35.540 Okay, so let me clarify what they believe the mission of the Jewish people is, okay?

01:02:41.700 The mission of the Jewish people is to return to Israel, create the Greater Israel Project, which is the Promised Land, and then build the Third Temple, which will be the house of God.

01:02:59.080 So the purpose of history is to force a reunion between the Jewish people and God.

01:03:08.240 And once that happens, then the world will end and we will be in paradise forever.

01:03:14.500 So three things must happen for this world to end.

01:03:19.780 The first thing that must happen is the greater Israel project has to be achieved.

01:03:24.480 And therefore, we have these wars in the Middle East.

01:03:26.900 But why would that have to be achieved if that was something that was just developed 30 years ago?

01:03:31.460 Because according to these people, the original covenant between the Jewish people and God is that God promised them the land stretching from the Nile in Egypt to Euphrates in Iraq as the covenant.

01:03:47.540 And the Jewish people, once they receive this land, they must be loyal to God.

01:03:54.460 So for God to return, first of all, his promise must be kept.

01:03:59.080 Okay.

01:03:59.260 So the first thing is the Greater Israel Project must be achieved.

01:04:02.080 Second thing that must happen is all Jewish people must return to Israel and repent.

01:04:10.420 Meaning, if you don't believe in God, you have to believe in God if you're Jewish.

01:04:16.300 Meaning, if you're homosexual, if you're Jewish—

01:04:18.920 You better tighten it up.

01:04:19.720 You better learn how to, you know—

01:04:22.400 You better figure it out.

01:04:23.240 Yeah, you know

01:04:24.240 Dang

01:04:24.820 Yeah

01:04:25.320 That's going to be a long day

01:04:26.500 Yeah, yeah

01:04:27.660 Start liking this, man

01:04:29.340 So that's the third

01:04:30.740 Second thing

01:04:31.540 And the third thing

01:04:32.340 Is the third temple

01:04:34.740 Must be built

01:04:36.340 Because that's where

01:04:37.400 God will live

01:04:38.180 Okay, got it

01:04:38.820 But the problem is

01:04:40.300 The site of the third temple

01:04:42.120 Is now where

01:04:43.620 The Al-Azharic Mosque is

01:04:44.920 The Al-Azharic Mosque

01:04:45.860 Is the third holiest site

01:04:47.640 In the Muslim world

01:04:50.100 So if they destroyed

01:04:51.200 The Al-Azharic Mosque

01:04:52.080 in order to build a third temple,

01:04:53.580 this would trigger a religious war

01:04:56.100 between Jews and the Muslims.

01:04:58.220 Oh, wow.

01:04:59.080 Yeah.

01:04:59.540 So these are three things that must happen

01:05:01.200 according to the eschatology.

01:05:02.560 Okay.

01:05:03.220 So, but you're not saying that's going to happen.

01:05:04.880 You're just saying that that,

01:05:05.840 if you look at that,

01:05:07.300 that's according to what?

01:05:08.880 Is that according to?

01:05:09.620 That's according to their eschatology,

01:05:12.780 which is what they believe,

01:05:14.640 how the world ends

01:05:16.000 and how we achieve heaven on earth.

01:05:17.820 But who believes that?

01:05:18.620 Like my Jewish friends,

01:05:19.400 I don't think believe that.

01:05:20.360 That's right.

01:05:20.700 That's right.

01:05:20.980 Wait, wait, wait, what's right?

01:05:22.220 They do believe or they don't believe?

01:05:23.400 They don't believe this.

01:05:24.300 Okay.

01:05:24.960 This theory, okay, what I just told you, the vast majority of Jewish people who are religious think this is heresy.

01:05:32.020 Okay.

01:05:32.400 This is madness.

01:05:34.120 It's insane.

01:05:35.300 Okay.

01:05:35.540 The problem is that this ideology is promoted by secret societies around the world.

01:05:42.840 Okay.

01:05:43.220 And secret societies control the world.

01:05:47.000 And that's why we're seeing a lot of things happen.

01:05:49.220 Because how else can you explain why the United States is attacking Iran for no particular reason?

01:05:54.980 I mean, it's definitely, look, I think a lot of people believe it.

01:05:57.780 It's at the behest of Israel.

01:05:58.860 There's some involvement there.

01:06:00.360 But I think, yeah, but after that, it's like, yeah, you kind of don't know why.

01:06:04.920 A lot of it's just like questions.

01:06:06.360 And you don't get a lot of information sometimes.

01:06:08.620 Like, you know, you'll ask political figures and stuff, why are we so embedded here?

01:06:13.680 And a lot of them don't have an answer.

01:06:15.860 And so I think that's the part that seems kind of alarming.

01:06:18.440 And I think that's also the part when you don't get a lot of clear information, that's when a lot of like conspiracy theories, different ideas, uncertainties, ideas like this even start to take even more shape because you don't know you're not and you're not getting information from people who should know.

01:06:39.500 So I think it's like I do understand how people can start to, yeah, it makes perfect sense

01:06:46.560 how people can start to believe things and how people can start to look into things

01:06:49.460 because there's no place to get real news anymore.

01:06:51.600 There's no place to get the information.

01:06:53.640 Yeah, and a lot of things that are happening right now just defy human logic.

01:06:58.940 So everyone's looking at Donald Trump and it's like, the war is lost already.

01:07:03.880 Just make peace with Iran.

01:07:05.440 Just get out of there.

01:07:07.560 And what Trump is doing is doing, he's doing tackle.

01:07:12.760 Like one day he's like, we're going to end your civilization.

01:07:15.360 And the other day is like, let's make peace, guys.

01:07:17.620 Let's just be friends.

01:07:18.540 And the next day he's like, no, I'm going to nuke you now.

01:07:20.900 And the next day he's like, oh, you know what?

01:07:22.720 I didn't really mean that.

01:07:23.900 It's just weird.

01:07:24.940 Yeah.

01:07:25.280 It feels bizarre.

01:07:26.320 It feels pointless, but it matches with everything feels bizarre right now.

01:07:30.580 And, like, the way that Trump is behaving right now goes against his character.

01:07:37.380 Because in the 80s and 90s, he was a real estate developer.

01:07:40.520 He was a business person, right?

01:07:41.460 He understood, like, if you do business, you need to have credibility.

01:07:45.000 You can't flip-flop because, like, everyone will be scared of you.

01:07:49.120 I agree.

01:07:49.560 That's actually a really good point.

01:07:50.640 I mean, even when he was running for office, it seemed like every other thing,

01:07:53.380 it seemed like he knows exactly what he's talking about.

01:07:55.280 It seems like he knows exactly where he stands.

01:07:56.880 So it's this really weird situation where how the United States is behaving in the Middle East, it goes against American interests.

01:08:07.080 And the way that Donald Trump is behaving, it goes against his character.

01:08:10.920 He's never behaved like this before.

01:08:13.500 You mentioned a little bit ago about secret societies, right?

01:08:17.900 Yes.

01:08:18.220 Can you take me into some of that and how – and you said that you believe that that's some of what is controlling some of this?

01:08:24.140 Secret societies rule the world, okay?

01:08:25.480 You believe secret societies rule the world?

01:08:27.600 Yes.

01:08:27.980 Okay.

01:08:28.320 So let me explain why that's the case.

01:08:30.300 Okay.

01:08:30.620 All right.

01:08:31.060 So the power in the world is what we call transnational capital.

01:08:36.880 And transnational capital, all it means is money that is able to move freely around the world and invest where it wants and extract profit from these places.

01:08:48.500 And so transnational capital would include pension funds.

01:08:52.440 It would include sovereign wealth funds.

01:08:54.260 It would include private capital, such as like State Street, Vanguard, Wall Street, City of London.

01:09:00.500 China has a huge sovereign wealth fund, doesn't it?

01:09:02.360 That's right.

01:09:02.940 So, traditional capital is a huge entity.

01:09:06.520 And, you know, they say money makes the world go around.

01:09:09.440 Okay?

01:09:09.840 So, traditional capital controls the world.

01:09:16.040 So, money controls the world, you're saying?

01:09:17.680 Basically.

01:09:18.020 Got it.

01:09:18.180 But the problem is that transnational capital is a game.

01:09:27.720 It's a gain?

01:09:28.640 It's a game.

01:09:29.880 Game.

01:09:30.440 Because you're trying to maximize your profit.

01:09:32.460 You're trying to beat others in the stock market.

01:09:35.200 And in any game, there's a certain way to win.

01:09:40.180 And so how do you win every single game?

01:09:43.300 No matter what game you play, what's the secret to winning every game?

01:09:46.580 Get to the end.

01:09:47.840 The answer is you cheat, okay?

01:09:50.680 You play by the rules.

01:09:51.860 You work hard and you play fair.

01:09:54.920 You're a sucker, okay?

01:09:56.120 To win the game, you have to cheat.

01:09:57.740 And the best way to cheat is to secretly conspire with others

01:10:02.220 to rig the game in your favor, okay?

01:10:06.120 And that's why we have secret societies, right?

01:10:08.220 Because to win the game of capital, you need three things.

01:10:11.380 First of all, you need access to secret information.

01:10:13.260 You need to know more things than other people know.

01:10:16.460 Second thing you need is infiltration.

01:10:18.780 You need your people to go in the government

01:10:20.240 in order to create policies that favor you.

01:10:22.860 The third thing is you need coordination,

01:10:25.460 conspiracy between these different groups

01:10:27.580 in order to create an outcome that you want, right?

01:10:32.240 So an example is the Rothschild family.

01:10:36.300 And the Rothschild family became

01:10:37.480 one of the most powerful banking companies in the world

01:10:39.580 because they had a secret network of agents

01:10:43.400 scattered throughout Europe.

01:10:44.860 So in 1815, Napoleon fights the Battle of Waterloo, and obviously he loses.

01:10:53.440 And the Rothschild has an agent who witnessed the battle.

01:10:57.600 Then he sends his information back to England on a Corvette, which is a fast ship.

01:11:04.320 Then what happens is rumors spread that the English lost the war, and now there's tremendous fear.

01:11:12.620 But that wasn't true.

01:11:13.300 It was not true.

01:11:14.240 They won.

01:11:15.260 But the first rumor—

01:11:16.700 The agent got there and spread a rumor.

01:11:18.400 Well, we don't know, okay?

01:11:19.640 But there were rumors that they lost the war, which created a panic.

01:11:23.800 And the Rothschild were able to make a lot of money doing that, okay?

01:11:26.840 And this is very common.

01:11:28.620 And so this shows you an example of how information is crucial if you want to win the game of transnational capital.

01:11:35.480 Got it.

01:11:35.880 Right?

01:11:37.220 So the Corvette got there, the fast ship got there, and knew in advance that—

01:11:42.920 The Rothschild was new in advance.

01:11:44.140 The Rothschilds knew in advance.

01:11:45.500 That the battle had been won.

01:11:46.560 And three days later, official news came to the British public.

01:11:51.380 Tell them that the battle had been won.

01:11:53.040 But during these three days, there's mass panic because rumors are spreading that the battle has been lost.

01:11:58.700 I see.

01:11:59.000 So the Rothschilds was able to capitalize on that panic financially.

01:12:01.960 That's right.

01:12:02.340 And so that's when people started realizing, oh, we can do this.

01:12:04.820 Right, right.

01:12:05.280 And so think about the world that we live in today, right?

01:12:08.020 Where if you have like one minute of confidential information, you're able to make millions, billions, right?

01:12:16.960 So the question then is like, how do you access this information?

01:12:21.540 Well, you do so through transnational networks.

01:12:24.980 And throughout history, there have been three major transnational networks in Europe.

01:12:29.760 The first is the Freemasons.

01:12:33.860 The second are the Jesuits.

01:12:35.200 And the third are the Jewish diaspora.

01:12:37.340 and at some point

01:12:38.980 they figured out

01:12:39.920 why don't we just

01:12:40.860 work together

01:12:41.900 and what they call themselves

01:12:44.320 the Illuminati

01:12:45.100 damn

01:12:46.340 yeah

01:12:46.840 I heard about it

01:12:48.140 my black friends

01:12:49.140 are always talking about them

01:12:50.240 man

01:12:50.620 yeah

01:12:50.960 the Illuminati

01:12:52.420 dang

01:12:53.400 they got us

01:12:54.840 the Illuminati

01:12:55.940 and it is a name

01:12:56.640 given to several groups

01:12:57.680 both real and fictitious

01:12:58.660 historically the name

01:12:59.780 usually refers to

01:13:00.460 the Bavarian Illuminati

01:13:01.680 an enlightenment era

01:13:03.340 secret society

01:13:04.520 founded on May 1st

01:13:05.580 1776

01:13:06.460 in the electorate of Bavaria.

01:13:09.860 The Illuminati, along with Freemasonry and other secret societies,

01:13:12.840 were outlawed through edict by Charles Theodore.

01:13:16.960 In the subsequent use, Illuminati has been used

01:13:18.820 when referring to various organizations

01:13:20.200 alleged to be a continuation of the original Illuminati.

01:13:24.140 These organizations have often been accused of conspiring

01:13:26.180 to control world affairs by masterminding events

01:13:29.480 and planting agents in governments and corporations

01:13:32.460 in order to gain political power, influence,

01:13:34.860 and establish a new world order.

01:13:36.460 Dun, dun, dun.

01:13:38.760 I mean, at the end of the day,

01:13:40.520 if Trey National Cowboy controls the world,

01:13:43.080 you need to decide just to win the game.

01:13:44.460 Got it.

01:13:45.080 So in addition to there being countries,

01:13:47.780 there's these different countries.

01:13:49.060 They're above countries.

01:13:50.140 But they're above countries.

01:13:51.160 Right.

01:13:51.320 Wow.

01:13:51.780 And so they'll have members of different countries

01:13:53.400 that are part of them.

01:13:54.680 So think of Jeffrey Epstein, right?

01:13:55.840 Uh-huh.

01:13:56.120 So everyone thought that Jeffrey Epstein

01:13:57.580 was a Mossad agent.

01:13:58.580 He was above Mossad.

01:13:59.920 Wow.

01:14:01.300 Dang.

01:14:02.180 Yeah.

01:14:02.620 Do you believe that Jeffrey Epstein's still alive?

01:14:05.220 I don't think he's alive.

01:14:07.400 Yeah, because...

01:14:08.540 Do you think he died in the jail cell?

01:14:10.680 Yes, because he's expendable.

01:14:16.340 What is the basic code, do you think, of the Illuminati?

01:14:18.800 Do you think they have a code?

01:14:21.060 That's a great question, okay?

01:14:22.640 So when you have these secret societies,

01:14:25.380 we have to remember secret societies are just a natural outcome

01:14:28.340 of the game of transnational capital.

01:14:30.160 So you have many different secret societies in place.

01:14:33.360 And so which societies have the greatest advantage?

01:14:37.400 And the answer is those who practice eschatology have the greatest advantage

01:14:44.300 Eschatology?

01:14:45.220 Right, eschatology is the belief in that God will end the world at some point

01:14:52.620 Okay, and so why are you

01:14:57.340 So why is it that eschatological societies are superior to other secret societies?

01:15:01.860 And the reason why is they're able to channel the religious energy of millions of people.

01:15:10.060 So why we're having this war in the Middle East, it's not just secret societies.

01:15:17.640 It's also the fact that you have tens of millions of Christian Zionists, Christian evangelicals who support Israel, right?

01:15:26.900 So if you're an investor, there are three ways to make the most money.

01:15:31.040 the first is war

01:15:32.640 second is

01:15:34.000 revolution

01:15:35.220 and the third

01:15:36.080 is religion

01:15:37.200 so

01:15:38.680 these two studies

01:15:39.920 through the eschatology

01:15:41.060 are always supporting

01:15:41.800 war

01:15:42.500 revolution

01:15:43.120 and religion

01:15:43.720 because

01:15:44.120 if you're

01:15:45.020 a millionaire

01:15:46.420 well you invest

01:15:47.320 your money

01:15:47.640 in the stock market

01:15:48.120 but if you're a trillionaire

01:15:49.300 you invest your money

01:15:50.260 in war

01:15:51.260 revolution

01:15:51.840 and religion

01:15:52.380 wow

01:15:52.840 but don't you

01:15:54.680 do you think

01:15:55.800 that sometimes

01:15:56.320 it's kind of a

01:15:57.000 like

01:15:57.340 is it

01:15:59.240 like

01:15:59.620 if you

01:16:00.140 if you think of it all like that right doesn't it feel pretty dark it is uh dark but once you

01:16:09.320 actually study the eschatology once you study the religion it actually gives you hope um because

01:16:15.900 what motivates uh these people is not greed um it's not um power it's faith it's they're

01:16:26.660 accelerationists. They believe that God has a divine plan. And all I'm doing is helping God

01:16:32.280 accelerate this plan. Wow. Oh my gosh, dude. What the heck? So that's part of some people's faith.

01:16:41.640 They believe they have a strong enough faith that they believe that what they're doing is

01:16:45.860 helping to accelerate it. That's right. Oh my gosh. I don't even know what to think anymore.

01:16:51.900 and that's why things are happening so fast

01:16:54.760 dude it does

01:16:55.800 yeah it feels like things are happening so fast

01:16:59.380 yeah

01:16:59.980 it's just like what is happening so fast

01:17:02.640 yeah

01:17:03.140 so how does this end

01:17:05.060 I mean

01:17:08.720 that's kind of dark

01:17:09.720 maybe we just leave it to be continued

01:17:12.580 yeah

01:17:13.320 we can pray that that doesn't happen because we don't know that that's

01:17:16.540 we don't know that's going to happen right

01:17:18.080 they put their faith in God we should put our faith in God

01:17:21.180 amen

01:17:21.620 yeah that's where my faith is yeah in jesus name man amen brother we just have to keep our faith

01:17:27.860 where we can and we can we control what we can control and it's always if that's the case and

01:17:32.600 it's always been part of something yes you know and it's like all we can do is do or just do what

01:17:37.280 we can and try our best by our own compass right that's right amen that's right amen yeah jesus

01:17:43.400 believe in jesus yeah amen um you are you're chinese i am yes thank you i guess okay

01:17:51.460 sorry

01:17:51.760 just making sure

01:17:52.680 I didn't know

01:17:53.160 I don't know for sure

01:17:54.240 if you are or not

01:17:55.040 what's

01:17:57.460 some people

01:17:58.340 has anybody ever said

01:17:59.220 they thought you were a plant

01:18:00.180 that you

01:18:00.520 oh yeah

01:18:01.280 what do you get

01:18:02.620 okay so

01:18:03.340 now and then

01:18:04.140 cause you'd be a good

01:18:04.960 Chinese asset

01:18:05.820 yeah

01:18:06.280 well there are people

01:18:07.540 who believe I'm the Antichrist

01:18:08.600 there are people

01:18:09.640 who believe that

01:18:10.380 I'm in my Chinese classroom

01:18:11.860 with my whiteboard

01:18:12.940 and my whiteboard

01:18:14.540 is magical

01:18:14.960 so I can actually

01:18:15.660 like

01:18:16.600 direct the course

01:18:18.160 of human events

01:18:18.760 with my whiteboard

01:18:19.980 I'm just there

01:18:21.040 And I'm just like, I want war.

01:18:22.660 And I want, you know, and I'm like, I'm not the Antichrist.

01:18:26.720 I swear to you, I'm not the Antichrist.

01:18:28.580 I'm going to be a Chinese spy, but I'm not the Antichrist.

01:18:31.840 Speaking of that, speaking of China, what is China's relationship right now?

01:18:35.700 Where do they play a role?

01:18:36.480 Because you didn't factor them into this at all.

01:18:39.220 China looks at what's happening and they're like, what the fuck is going on?

01:18:45.660 What the hell are you guys doing?

01:18:49.060 That's China.

01:18:49.740 Do you think that they're hyper worried? Do they have a lot of like, do they have a lot of

01:18:54.220 intelligence assets that are over here working and that are working in the Middle East? What

01:18:57.740 do you think's going on? I'm sure because they obviously, they're a world power. They're going

01:19:01.200 to have, they're going to be concerned and involved. Yeah. So the problem with China is

01:19:07.120 that Chinese are non-religious. So it's almost impossible for Chinese to appreciate what's

01:19:13.020 happening in the Middle East. But they're capitalists though. They're capitalists and

01:19:19.020 And they want this war to end as soon as possible because they want people to trade with each other.

01:19:24.860 Chinese don't go to war.

01:19:26.240 They trade.

01:19:28.680 And so everyone in China is just completely confused.

01:19:31.860 But historically, there's been war in China.

01:19:35.400 Well, there's war within China, but China doesn't really go out and invade other countries the way that the United States does.

01:19:45.700 So what is America's current relationship with China?

01:19:48.320 Do you feel like I've I've had friends recently say that they think the safest place to move in the world right now is China.

01:19:56.640 Yeah, I think I think that what's happening is a domino effect where the war in the Middle East is out of control.

01:20:03.700 It engulfs everyone. So like a World War Three.

01:20:08.880 Yeah. And it's like total war. And what would the sides be?

01:20:12.120 It would be complete chaos.

01:20:15.420 So the idea is that the world will break out into regional wars.

01:20:22.420 So imagine in Europe, NATO is fighting Russia in Ukraine.

01:20:28.920 And there's a possibility that Russia may take over the Baltic countries,

01:20:36.720 Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and maybe even attack Poland, okay?

01:20:42.120 So imagine all of Europe is now in flames.

01:20:45.300 You move over to the Middle East, and everyone's at East Asia's throat, right?

01:20:52.840 You move over to East Asia, what the most likely scenario is that China is in conflict with Japan,

01:21:02.140 and North Korea is in conflict with South Korea.

01:21:08.020 The real danger in East Asia is not China.

01:21:12.380 It's actually North Korea

01:21:13.440 because North Koreans have absolutely nothing to lose.

01:21:16.980 They're kind of crazy and they're brave.

01:21:20.180 So North Koreans have been sending soldiers

01:21:21.700 to fight in Ukraine and they fight to the death.

01:21:24.780 Is that true?

01:21:25.400 Yeah, 10,000 North Korean troops.

01:21:26.620 There's 10,000 North Korean troops in Ukraine right now?

01:21:28.680 Yeah, in Ukraine, that's right.

01:21:29.820 And they fight to the death.

01:21:30.640 And the reason why is they're captured, their family members back in North Korea.

01:21:35.720 Get killed?

01:21:36.940 Yeah.

01:21:37.560 No way.

01:21:39.040 Welcome to a dictatorship.

01:21:40.880 North Korea continues to expand its military support for Russia in the war against Ukraine.

01:21:44.960 In addition to sending troops and weaponry, Pyongyang is now said to have deployed a missile unit to Western Russia.

01:21:51.480 Wow.

01:21:52.060 By the end of 2024, Ukraine, the United States, and the South Korea estimated that around 10,000 to 12,000 North Korean soldiers have been sent to Russia.

01:22:00.120 And that's just 2024.

01:22:01.560 That's right.

01:22:01.980 So they're trying to raise them to 30,000.

01:22:04.520 Wow.

01:22:05.060 Yeah.

01:22:05.860 Unbelievable.

01:22:07.600 I've heard you talk about the grand bargain.

01:22:09.920 Yes.

01:22:10.940 With China.

01:22:11.560 And that's between America and China.

01:22:12.860 That's right.

01:22:13.320 Tell me a little more about that.

01:22:14.640 Right.

01:22:14.980 So there are two nations that currently benefit the most from the current global economic order.

01:22:20.960 They are the United States and China.

01:22:23.540 The United States, obviously, because it controls the U.S. dollar.

01:22:25.840 But China as well because China was able to lift millions out of poverty because of global trade, right?

01:22:33.640 So both are heavily invested in maintaining the current global order.

01:22:37.860 And so the idea of a grand bargain is that they resolve the Taiwan issue where basically China and Taiwan signed an agreement where they reconcile politically.

01:22:53.160 and the United States withdraws from East Asia

01:22:58.300 and allows China to maybe dominate East Asia.

01:23:03.260 Okay, understood.

01:23:04.200 So that's something that China would want,

01:23:06.060 probably just a little bit more assurance

01:23:07.400 that they don't have to deal with America over there.

01:23:10.300 That's right.

01:23:10.720 But also for China, Taiwan is a huge political issue

01:23:15.720 because there's something called a century of humiliation

01:23:19.000 where China was coughed up in the 19th century

01:23:21.620 by the Russian powers.

01:23:23.160 and having Taiwan back in the fold of the motherland

01:23:28.380 would be a tremendous political achievement

01:23:30.180 because it would mean the reunification of the motherland,

01:23:33.280 the completion of the motherland,

01:23:34.800 and that's something that China would pay a huge price for.

01:23:37.860 And right now, the United States needs China to buy more U.S. treasuries.

01:23:42.700 So that's the idea of the grand bargain.

01:23:44.460 Got it.

01:23:46.160 What do you think is going on with America right now?

01:23:48.020 Do you feel like we're still the world's economic superpower?

01:23:53.160 um it's an empire in decline um it's like i'm just walking the streets of los angeles

01:24:00.820 and um it really seems that america is on the brink of a civil war and really you think that

01:24:10.960 yeah how would that happen though yeah i i think that um the midterms will be a major test

01:24:18.720 of the cohesion of this country.

01:24:22.480 And what I think may happen is

01:24:27.180 Trump may go for a third term.

01:24:30.640 No way.

01:24:31.120 How could he do it?

01:24:32.080 Can't you only go for two terms?

01:24:33.820 So according to the Constitution,

01:24:36.260 there's something called the 22nd Amendment,

01:24:37.740 which says that a U.S. president

01:24:40.140 may not sit for more than two terms.

01:24:42.840 But there's a loophole.

01:24:45.800 The loophole is, imagine 2028.

01:24:48.420 Don Jr. is at the top of the ticket, and Donald Trump is the vice president.

01:24:54.800 They win, and then Don Jr., he resigns, and then Donald Trump is now the president again.

01:25:04.300 No way.

01:25:05.240 You think that's going to happen?

01:25:07.020 I think there's a strong possibility this could happen.

01:25:08.900 But also, there's the War Powers Act, where America's at war, and so they just turn the Constitution, which is what happened in Ukraine.

01:25:15.860 That's why Ukraine could not have an election?

01:25:18.160 Right, because they're at war.

01:25:19.680 And if they could have an election, would they still elect Zelensky, do you think?

01:25:22.320 Probably not.

01:25:23.060 Got it.

01:25:23.660 Yeah.

01:25:27.020 There's a lot of darkness out there.

01:25:29.920 Yeah.

01:25:30.840 What are some positives that you see?

01:25:32.640 What are things, what's a positive way that you see out of some of this?

01:25:35.520 And please have an answer for me, Professor.

01:25:37.040 Yeah, family, love, God.

01:25:40.060 I mean, that's why we're here.

01:25:41.680 We're here to experience things that we couldn't experience anywhere else.

01:25:44.940 because we're eternal souls.

01:25:46.620 Like once you appreciate that this is only,

01:25:51.000 the thing that we're experiencing here,

01:25:52.500 it's only a journey in a eternity of experiences

01:25:56.920 and that we're here to experience things

01:25:59.500 that are unique to this world.

01:26:00.800 And one thing that's unique to this world is family,

01:26:04.280 like having children.

01:26:07.700 And love.

01:26:08.840 And love, exactly.

01:26:10.100 Hugging somebody.

01:26:11.080 Exactly.

01:26:11.900 Yeah, doing your best.

01:26:13.280 Yeah.

01:26:13.740 Being supportive, sharing.

01:26:15.240 So if you just focus on what's happening geopolitically,

01:26:18.680 you'll go insane.

01:26:19.520 You'll literally go insane.

01:26:20.480 Are you insane yet?

01:26:22.100 I have a family.

01:26:23.340 Okay.

01:26:24.040 So I have a wife who loves me.

01:26:28.300 So I want to tell you the story of how my wife and I met.

01:26:33.440 And you can appreciate how much we love each other.

01:26:35.200 Okay.

01:26:35.460 Okay.

01:26:35.700 So we met each other about 10 years ago.

01:26:38.600 And I'm about 40.

01:26:40.840 And this is like the darkest moment in my life.

01:26:43.580 What was going on?

01:26:44.900 Well, I was unemployed.

01:26:46.420 I had no place to stay and I was depressed and I felt that life was hopeless.

01:26:52.440 And I literally believed that my wife was an angel sent by God to redeem me, to save me, to show me that love is possible.

01:27:01.880 So that one day I could be sitting across from you telling the world that love is possible.

01:27:09.360 And if we just move towards love, then we will redeem the world.

01:27:13.700 But so I meet my wife randomly, and we go on a first date.

01:27:19.500 Where'd you meet her at?

01:27:20.820 I met her randomly at an event.

01:27:23.600 And it was like love at first sight.

01:27:25.800 And I asked for her number.

01:27:27.380 I called her out.

01:27:29.040 And if you ask for it, God will give it to you.

01:27:33.760 And I was asking for someone who could be my wife.

01:27:37.140 I wanted to start a family.

01:27:39.140 And so we go on this date, and I took her someplace really nice in Beijing.

01:27:43.080 We go to a Japanese restaurant, I order sake, and it's a lovely date.

01:27:49.620 Now, the custom in China is that on the first date, if you really like someone, the woman will get serious suddenly, okay?

01:28:00.560 I mean, you could be laughing throughout, but suddenly the woman will get really serious, look at you dead in the eye, and ask you, how much money do you make?

01:28:10.440 Like, what's the size of your bank account?

01:28:12.060 Really?

01:28:12.440 That's a serious, that's a real thing that happens there?

01:28:13.980 Yeah, because in the United States,

01:28:15.380 they'll ask you what your dick size is, right?

01:28:19.160 Yeah, something.

01:28:20.180 We're a more advanced civilization,

01:28:21.600 so we ask how much money you have.

01:28:23.300 Got it, got it, got it.

01:28:23.820 Yeah, for sure.

01:28:24.740 It's okay.

01:28:25.420 And I'm really afraid we reached this point, right?

01:28:28.460 So this date is going fantastic.

01:28:30.340 You work two hours, and we're just laughing,

01:28:32.720 we're connecting, we're simpatico.

01:28:34.960 And then my date, my future wife, gets serious.

01:28:40.800 Looks at me dead in the eye

01:28:43.640 And I'm freaking out

01:28:45.940 I'm trembling

01:28:46.840 I'm nervous because like

01:28:48.140 Because you don't have a job

01:28:48.800 I don't have a fucking job, man

01:28:50.080 And so she looks at me in the eye

01:28:52.640 And she asks me

01:28:54.400 So, are you gay?

01:28:58.200 And I felt such relief

01:29:01.520 And I knew, she's the one, man

01:29:03.380 She gets me

01:29:05.380 Right?

01:29:07.040 Yeah, yeah

01:29:07.500 She doesn't care if I'm poor

01:29:08.900 She just cares if I'm gay

01:29:10.100 Yes, I can work with that, you know?

01:29:12.380 Yeah, dude, of course.

01:29:13.640 Yeah.

01:29:14.620 Oh, yeah.

01:29:15.600 But it's like these moments that make this world so wonderful and so blessed.

01:29:21.200 So we should just focus on moments like this.

01:29:24.140 Yeah.

01:29:25.020 Yeah, moments where people are asking if you're gay or not.

01:29:27.220 Yeah, well, it's better than asking your dick size or your bank account.

01:29:31.600 Oh, yeah, for sure.

01:29:32.900 I think, yeah, it is better than asking how much money you make.

01:29:35.760 Yeah.

01:29:36.200 I'm so happy that you got somebody.

01:29:38.620 Yeah.

01:29:38.940 Because you were 40 and you didn't think you were going to have someone.

01:29:40.980 That's right.

01:29:41.460 I thought that I was, my life, I was adrift.

01:29:45.460 I thought that life was pointless.

01:29:46.860 What were you doing?

01:29:47.520 Were you living at home?

01:29:49.100 No, I was like literally living from place to place with my suitcase.

01:29:54.860 I had no place to live.

01:29:56.600 I was unemployed.

01:29:58.000 Don't they give you a job in China?

01:29:59.660 Like, tell me a little bit more.

01:30:00.480 What is it like in China?

01:30:01.600 Yeah, yeah.

01:30:02.720 So I went to China to work as an education reformer.

01:30:07.560 So I believe like the best way to build a good future.

01:30:11.320 But you grew up there.

01:30:12.920 No, no.

01:30:13.480 So my background is I was born in China.

01:30:16.480 But when I was six, I moved over to Canada.

01:30:19.000 And that's where I grew up.

01:30:20.640 Then I went to Yale University.

01:30:22.380 Dang, cool.

01:30:23.060 Yeah, yeah.

01:30:23.920 And then I went back to China to help reform the school system.

01:30:27.840 I love Canada, man.

01:30:29.000 Did you live in Winnipeg?

01:30:30.040 No, I lived in Toronto.

01:30:30.980 Oh, dang.

01:30:31.520 Yeah, I'm hoping my friend Diego Pavia goes up there and plays for Canada.

01:30:34.880 Yeah.

01:30:35.040 Like, you know, Canada's really cool

01:30:37.700 But, you know, we're a bit slow

01:30:39.600 We have five years of high school rather than four

01:30:41.440 So, you know, our IQ is a bit lower than the Americans

01:30:44.960 But you guys have great posture up there

01:30:46.540 Canada has some of the best posture in the whole world, I've noticed

01:30:49.360 That's something that I've noticed

01:30:51.460 Okay, so you end up back over there in China

01:30:53.680 But, yeah, is it like

01:30:55.820 Do you hear a lot of stories that, like, people can only have one child?

01:30:58.340 Like, what are some of the policies that are true over there that we hear about?

01:31:01.120 Well, you know, the one-child policy was true for a long time

01:31:04.660 but then Chinese were aging

01:31:08.340 and there were not enough children

01:31:10.740 to support the elderly

01:31:12.040 and then the birth rate was declining

01:31:14.780 and so they promoted policies

01:31:16.880 to encourage more fertility

01:31:19.240 and now you can have as many children

01:31:20.920 as you want

01:31:21.900 but I mean the reality is

01:31:25.400 most young people do not want to have children

01:31:27.420 it's a situation

01:31:28.720 it's a similar situation throughout the world

01:31:31.000 like in the United States

01:31:31.840 young Americans don't want to have children

01:31:34.680 Europeans are the same way.

01:31:36.940 Right now, the fertility rate in East Asia,

01:31:40.840 in South Korea, I think it's 0.6.

01:31:44.380 In China, it's 1.0.

01:31:45.880 In Japan, it's like 1.2, 1.3.

01:31:48.220 But it's really low.

01:31:49.780 World Population Prospects, the United Nations publisher.

01:31:52.720 What chart is this, Nick?

01:31:53.640 Can you tell me?

01:31:54.700 Yeah, I think this is world fertility rate.

01:31:57.700 In 1963, it was 5.3 births per woman.

01:32:01.460 And now it's 2.2 births per woman.

01:32:04.000 huh

01:32:05.240 that's wild

01:32:07.960 and China has

01:32:10.400 1.0

01:32:12.280 1 birth per woman

01:32:13.320 yeah

01:32:13.680 and wait

01:32:15.140 who has that big

01:32:15.900 go to the top

01:32:16.680 and hit the tops

01:32:17.380 Chad

01:32:18.980 Congo

01:32:19.760 they have 6 births

01:32:20.800 per women

01:32:21.280 Niger

01:32:22.180 Mozambique

01:32:24.760 5 births

01:32:25.760 per women

01:32:26.080 so my wife

01:32:27.540 has 7 college

01:32:28.840 roommates

01:32:29.180 there's 8

01:32:29.820 in her

01:32:30.760 dorm

01:32:31.480 and

01:32:32.480 we have 3 kids

01:32:34.220 Oh, you guys have three kids.

01:32:35.080 We have three kids, yes.

01:32:35.700 And I met your once-on Christopher, he's here today.

01:32:37.640 That's right, that's right.

01:32:38.460 Yes.

01:32:39.000 And so she, they're in their 30s, which is a prime age to have children, and collectively

01:32:48.080 they have three kids.

01:32:49.160 Hmm.

01:32:50.100 Yeah.

01:32:50.460 So it's not happening.

01:32:51.640 No, it's not happening, yeah.

01:32:54.440 We've looked at some stuff today that seems kind of dour, but it's also interesting, you

01:32:58.820 know?

01:32:59.880 Do you think that peace is an option, and how would we get there, do you feel like?

01:33:03.420 Like, what has to adjust?

01:33:05.900 I think that for the longest time, we've trusted our leaders to—

01:33:12.240 I agree with you.

01:33:13.600 We thought they had our best interests.

01:33:15.200 That's right.

01:33:15.760 That's right.

01:33:16.480 And in fact, they're controlled by secret societies, and they're crazy people who want to achieve their eschatology.

01:33:23.020 And it's time for us to wake up.

01:33:25.580 And if we collectively wake up, then we will achieve peace in this world.

01:33:29.440 But waking up is a hard process.

01:33:31.640 Yes.

01:33:31.900 As you know, right, it's a very hard process.

01:33:35.060 It means going against social conventions.

01:33:37.200 It means defying all that you've been taught.

01:33:40.100 It means losing a lot of friends and family in the process.

01:33:43.760 Have you suffered from even speaking out about certain things?

01:33:47.300 And like, have you like had any issues like come your way?

01:33:49.760 Have you ever feared for your safety?

01:33:51.440 Have you had people that have spoken up against you?

01:33:54.020 Or what's that been like for you?

01:33:56.800 Yeah.

01:33:57.080 So one thing that I think a lot about is what are the consequences for telling the truth, for speaking up, for drawing attention to six societies?

01:34:11.300 And here's my logic.

01:34:14.040 I think that these people get to where they are because they really do believe in God.

01:34:24.080 But the God they believe in may not be the God that we believe in.

01:34:27.080 right? But they really do believe in God. And they really believe that what they're doing is

01:34:32.340 doing God's will and they're accelerating events that were predestined by God since the beginning

01:34:40.320 of time. And so I present a paradox to them because I seem to know their plans, right? And so

01:34:51.060 if I don't get their plans correct

01:34:53.860 then I'm an idiot

01:34:54.660 and they can just ignore me

01:34:55.740 but

01:34:56.700 if

01:34:57.920 I'm able to articulate their plans

01:35:00.160 then

01:35:01.640 how am I able to know

01:35:03.980 all this

01:35:05.100 because I'm not part

01:35:06.300 of the sick societies

01:35:07.240 I don't know any of these people

01:35:09.640 but at the same time

01:35:10.360 I know how they think

01:35:11.200 and I know

01:35:12.340 what their plan is

01:35:14.200 so

01:35:15.240 they can't resolve this paradox

01:35:17.560 so they

01:35:18.180 the only thing they can do

01:35:19.260 is ignore me

01:35:19.960 I'm kind of dissonance

01:35:21.820 Does that make sense?

01:35:23.080 Right.

01:35:23.380 If they were to come for you,

01:35:24.880 then it would prove that there's something true about their plan.

01:35:27.960 Is that what you're saying?

01:35:28.600 No.

01:35:29.680 So in their mindset,

01:35:33.340 the only way I could know their plan is if God told me their plan.

01:35:37.860 But they think that they're doing God's work.

01:35:41.620 So how to explain the fact that God's telling them what to do,

01:35:47.500 but also God's telling me to tell the world—

01:35:50.380 That their plan's bad.

01:35:51.220 What the plans are.

01:35:53.060 So they're like, well, we don't know how to resolve this.

01:35:56.240 So let's just ignore this guy.

01:35:57.840 Yeah.

01:36:00.900 Do you...

01:36:02.440 Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.

01:36:03.200 One more point is the idea of...

01:36:08.200 So there's a theory out there that a lot of these societies,

01:36:15.020 they reveal to you what their plan is.

01:36:18.020 And the reason why is, let's just say they screw up and they blow up the world.

01:36:24.820 And we all go to heaven.

01:36:26.760 And then God asks, hey, so what happened?

01:36:29.580 How did you blow up the earth?

01:36:32.300 Well, most of us would be like, we didn't know what was going on.

01:36:36.400 So they get all the blame.

01:36:38.340 But let's just say they tell us their entire plan.

01:36:41.340 Then it's all of our fault.

01:36:42.720 Then it's all of our fault.

01:36:43.540 We're complicit in our own destruction.

01:36:47.060 right? So maybe I'm a useful tool. Maybe I'm a useful idiot who mysteriously is able to decipher

01:36:54.160 their plans. I'm telling them the world what's happening, but the secret side is like, that's

01:36:59.320 cool of us because now everyone knows what's happening and they do nothing and it's complicit.

01:37:05.800 And so, yeah. We've all become very complicit with things being okay.

01:37:11.780 Yeah. Is it the same in China? Yes. Yes, exactly.

01:37:15.220 It's kind of heartbreaking sometimes.

01:37:16.960 It's like, I don't know what happened.

01:37:19.520 I don't know if there's been like this slow sedation.

01:37:22.860 I can't tell what has occurred.

01:37:25.400 I can't tell if, you know, I don't know.

01:37:28.100 It all just feels like we've lost some of our...

01:37:31.360 The great truth is that we're all spiritual beings.

01:37:34.940 That's true.

01:37:35.380 We are first and foremost spiritual beings.

01:37:36.980 That's true.

01:37:37.340 But materialism has corrupted us.

01:37:40.260 We should be focused on our spiritual well-being,

01:37:43.120 on our consciousness, on elevating ourselves, on being generous, on being open, on being spiritual.

01:37:49.900 And now we live in a world where money is everything. So we just pursue materialism.

01:37:58.440 Right. We're so, yeah, you're so focused your whole life and it's all built towards this. You

01:38:02.820 got to go to school to get a grade, to get a college, to get a job, to get a thing, and then

01:38:07.180 get it from a, and to get a house. Everything is like the next carrot. It's always something.

01:38:12.100 We are in the matrix, and we have to wake up.

01:38:14.740 Wow.

01:38:16.400 Dang.

01:38:18.160 We are in the matrix.

01:38:19.640 Hello.

01:38:20.620 We're in here.

01:38:23.620 We want out.

01:38:25.980 Whoever's seeing us, we want out.

01:38:30.660 Help.

01:38:33.360 We're in an interesting spot, it feels like, with...

01:38:37.280 Oh, was that CERN accelerated?

01:38:38.940 Did that have anything to do with how time has been adjusted, do you think?

01:38:40.900 Or no, do you see anything with that?

01:38:41.900 I don't know much about it either, okay.

01:38:45.320 One thing I wanted to ask you before you leave.

01:38:48.260 Financially, you've talked about the transnational-

01:38:51.900 Capital.

01:38:52.400 Capital.

01:38:52.960 Yeah.

01:38:53.520 What would you do with money or assets right now?

01:38:56.820 Like, what do you feel like the future of that could look like?

01:38:59.320 Have you thought about that much?

01:39:00.920 Yeah.

01:39:01.460 So I think that the world is heading towards financial collapse.

01:39:06.820 And it's pretty clear with the AI bubble, right?

01:39:09.320 where they're building these data centers

01:39:12.760 and it's really uncertain

01:39:15.560 how they will make money out of these data centers.

01:39:20.100 And it really seems the AA bubble is going to burst

01:39:22.720 and it really seems that the United States

01:39:27.660 is heading towards financial collapse.

01:39:30.580 And so I think that trying to figure out

01:39:33.740 where to put your money, it's a dead end.

01:39:36.680 You have to think about how do I lift my consciousness

01:39:41.240 so that I'm ready to help myself as well as others in a time of crisis.

01:39:46.480 Ah, okay.

01:39:48.400 Right, so what could I create right now?

01:39:50.360 What could I start to have around me?

01:39:52.160 Or what knowledge could I start to have?

01:39:54.860 Yes.

01:39:55.300 Because if the grid goes down, suddenly you're just back to your own knowledge.

01:39:58.140 That's right.

01:39:58.480 And dude, a lot of us, if we had to go back to our own knowledge, bro,

01:40:01.980 shit would be bunk.

01:40:04.280 Yeah, we're dead.

01:40:05.240 yeah so yeah but it will be exciting yeah but i do think you're right it's like what skills would

01:40:11.100 you have what can you apply how could you help someone what could you offer yeah and in a weird

01:40:15.600 way man i feel like it's almost what we could use the most is that scary to say that look i i think

01:40:21.960 that what you do um telling jokes is exactly what we will need in a time of crisis we we need in a

01:40:30.940 time of darkness to see the light and laughing is the best way to see it to see the light yeah

01:40:38.520 yeah man telling stories being a part of joy sitting around people laughing that's my favorite

01:40:45.140 thing that's right yeah sometimes i got lost i think on this like what was important you know

01:40:50.200 the past few years it's been fun i've been having a good time but some of it's just been like

01:40:54.280 yeah i don't know you get you get you get focused and you kind of you don't lose yourself but you

01:40:59.600 you feel a little disconnected from yourself you know yeah so you know i work in school uh reform

01:41:05.540 and what my theory is that a school should be centered around laughter because if kids come

01:41:15.060 into class laughing yeah they learn the best they're engaged they're excited so uh there was

01:41:22.020 a science experiment uh many years ago uh called a scientific experiment yeah yeah called laugh club

01:41:28.220 And so this Indian doctor, all he did was bring in people together at a park and just laugh together.

01:41:35.260 And laughing is infectious, right?

01:41:37.540 So if someone's laughing, other people are laughing.

01:41:40.260 And he just asked people to pretend to laugh, like, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

01:41:45.960 But what's magical is, like, once you start to pretend to laugh and other people are pretending to laugh as well, people start to laugh naturally.

01:41:52.700 And what he discovered is people who participate in Laugh Club every morning, the kids would go to school and pay more attention in class.

01:42:02.260 The adults would go to work and have less stress.

01:42:07.820 And the elderly would be much more resilient against disease.

01:42:13.100 They recover from disease faster.

01:42:14.920 Yes.

01:42:15.280 It's called Laugh Club.

01:42:16.940 The Laughing Club of India usually refers to Meera Nars.

01:42:20.920 Short documentary about Mumbai's early laughter club movement,

01:42:24.020 not a single exclusive organization.

01:42:25.740 The film follows groups who meet often in parks to do stretching,

01:42:28.320 clapping, breathing exercises, and deliberate group laughter

01:42:31.160 as a social and stress relief practice.

01:42:33.660 The movement was begun in Mumbai in 1995 by physician Dr. Madan Kataria.

01:42:39.640 Its earliest meetings used jokes,

01:42:41.160 but participants quickly shifted to laughter exercises when the jokes ran out.

01:42:45.380 This is a movement you should start

01:42:48.200 In the United States

01:42:49.160 Amen bro

01:42:50.400 We need some things

01:42:51.740 We need to feel inspired

01:42:52.960 And I don't mean

01:42:53.840 I don't even mean you

01:42:55.340 Whoever's listening

01:42:55.960 I mean me

01:42:56.620 I mean yeah there's just

01:42:58.260 I don't know

01:42:58.800 I'm glad we're talking about it today

01:43:00.240 I do feel like there is an awakening

01:43:02.000 In some ways

01:43:02.960 And I do feel like

01:43:04.020 Yeah we have been stuck in this matrix

01:43:05.440 I've heard you talk before you leave

01:43:10.280 And thank you so much for your time today

01:43:11.540 No it was great

01:43:12.360 Fantastic

01:43:12.860 Really cool man

01:43:13.600 Thank you

01:43:14.040 You know I came with a purpose

01:43:15.040 which is tell the joke about my wife

01:43:17.260 and like the gay joke

01:43:18.200 and I've done that

01:43:18.760 so I'm good

01:43:19.680 okay good

01:43:20.980 yeah

01:43:21.280 I've heard

01:43:23.380 a lot of what we consume nowadays

01:43:25.760 is very

01:43:26.380 there's huge filters on it

01:43:28.300 it's like the information that we get

01:43:29.720 what's allowed to come through

01:43:30.900 you know

01:43:32.640 I think we saw that after

01:43:34.060 like the

01:43:35.060 a lot of information came out about Gaza

01:43:36.860 it's like now I don't see many videos about it anymore

01:43:38.980 yeah

01:43:39.360 I think a lot of the just

01:43:40.640 you know

01:43:41.020 there's a lot of strongholds on

01:43:43.420 who has

01:43:44.500 who is letting information through to us.

01:43:47.280 That's right.

01:43:48.540 How do you, I've heard you talk about a propaganda test before.

01:43:51.700 What's a propaganda test that you use to know if something is propaganda or not?

01:43:56.600 Yeah, so I think what's really important is for people to make predictions.

01:44:07.880 Because whenever we say something, we're making certain assumptions about the world.

01:44:13.560 And so the way for us to know if the way we understand the world is correct or not is by extending the logic and making predictions about how the world should turn out.

01:44:24.120 And if it doesn't turn out the way that we predicted it, then we should just reflect on how we think and make changes to ourselves.

01:44:33.460 And I think the greatest problem in the world that we have today is gatekeeping.

01:44:38.020 There's too much gatekeeping in media.

01:44:40.540 There's too much gatekeeping in academics.

01:44:43.240 So, for example, I'm not really a professor, right?

01:44:45.700 You're not?

01:44:46.280 I'm not a professor.

01:44:48.080 I'm a high school teacher.

01:44:49.300 Okay.

01:44:49.820 I don't have a PhD, right?

01:44:51.700 So just for, yeah, just for honesty, okay?

01:44:56.420 But that's just gatekeeping, like where, you know,

01:44:58.400 if you're not a college professor, you don't have a PhD,

01:45:01.500 you're not a specialist, you don't get to be called a professor, okay?

01:45:04.580 So there's just too much gatekeeping going on.

01:45:06.680 I think that one way to improve our society is

01:45:10.680 if experts are forced to make predictions.

01:45:12.880 Because now we know how good their knowledge set is, right?

01:45:18.460 Right?

01:45:18.980 And now it's Democratic.

01:45:20.360 Now it's not just like your Harvard PhD and therefore you know what you're doing.

01:45:24.140 No, no.

01:45:24.480 It's like you are-

01:45:25.940 Show your work.

01:45:26.740 Yeah, exactly.

01:45:27.600 Show your work.

01:45:28.940 Bro, I like that.

01:45:30.180 Yeah, let's be Democratic.

01:45:31.280 Yeah, a basketball player, it's like you don't just believe he's good if he tells you.

01:45:34.620 That's right.

01:45:35.000 Or you believe he's good because he went to a lot of basketball camps.

01:45:37.860 He's got to go do it.

01:45:40.120 Look at COVID, right?

01:45:42.280 I mean, during COVID, they were running out of these vaccines.

01:45:45.440 Oh, dude, Anthony Fauci's a f***ing it, dude.

01:45:47.780 Look, look, look.

01:45:48.740 And he was like, how dare you question the science?

01:45:52.440 We know better than you.

01:45:56.280 We have your best interest at heart.

01:45:58.220 Just obey us.

01:45:59.320 Trust the science, bro.

01:46:00.620 Yeah.

01:46:01.700 And that was it.

01:46:02.700 And it was like, okay, fine.

01:46:03.840 Show me the science because, you know, show me.

01:46:08.020 I know.

01:46:09.540 It's the matrix, man.

01:46:11.100 Yeah.

01:46:11.580 I'm glad we got to meet at least here in the Matrix.

01:46:14.020 Yeah, yeah.

01:46:14.960 Well, everything happens for a purpose.

01:46:17.460 Yeah.

01:46:17.820 You know, and like, you know, I really respect what you do.

01:46:20.220 You bring truth to the world, truth to laughter.

01:46:22.380 And that's really the most powerful way of communicating.

01:46:25.400 Well, thank you, Professor Zhang.

01:46:28.580 I appreciate it.

01:46:29.620 Yeah, I just appreciate that.

01:46:31.140 Like, it's just interesting.

01:46:32.260 I think one thing that is great about social media and technology is just the different people that you can bear witness to.

01:46:41.320 you know and different people that can get their voice out there and i think it's great that you've

01:46:45.440 developed a voice for yourself um what do you what do your students think about it what do they what

01:46:49.780 do they think about it in china um so are you more popular here than in china i'm way more popular

01:46:55.980 here than in china people think i'm actually insane in in china uh why is it because you're

01:47:03.220 brave you put yourself out there is that a thing that doesn't happen very much in china where

01:47:06.800 people kind of put like yeah um so i i think that a lot of things i say are dark oh yeah and so they

01:47:18.080 uh would rather be ignorant oh i see ignorance is bliss yeah it is man i used to be so ignorant

01:47:25.700 dude and i was fucking doing great yeah absolutely i was doing great dude yeah but you know once you

01:47:32.200 achieve full knowledge you'll do even better oh i don't i'll never get there but

01:47:37.720 yeah a little bit at a time man it's always about the journey yeah it's always about the journey

01:47:43.540 yeah yeah and yeah connecting with the people that you love that's what god put us here for

01:47:47.600 that's why we're here that's right family we're here to have experiences that mean something yes

01:47:51.620 yeah um professor zhong thank you so much for your time today uh travel safe how do you say

01:47:56.860 Goodbye in Chinese

01:47:57.980 Zaijian

01:47:58.620 Zaijian

01:47:59.420 Yes

01:47:59.780 Okay

01:48:00.700 Zaijian

01:48:01.140 Zaijian

01:48:01.620 Now I'm just floating

01:48:03.640 On the breeze

01:48:04.780 And I feel

01:48:05.580 I'm falling

01:48:06.380 Like these leaves

01:48:07.720 I must be

01:48:08.820 Cornerstone

01:48:11.060 Oh

01:48:13.640 But when I reach

01:48:14.860 That ground

01:48:15.600 I'll share this

01:48:16.640 Peace of mind

01:48:17.760 I found

01:48:18.440 I can feel it

01:48:19.820 In my bones

01:48:21.940 But it's gonna tell you

01:48:26.860 We'll see you next time.

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This Past Weekend with Theo Von - August 13, 2026

#675 - Professor Jiang

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