1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,080 Charlie Kirk was a racist, a bigot, and he got what he deserved. 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,720 Or, Charlie Kirk was a hero, a man of God, and a great father. 3 00:00:15,160 --> 00:00:16,040 What's true? 4 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:18,600 I don't know. 5 00:00:19,080 --> 00:00:24,700 I wasn't sure if I wanted to make this podcast, but the experience of the last week, it compels me to do so. 6 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:28,440 Today I'm going to work through the who, the what, and the why. 7 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:34,320 and I'm going to explain some of the research I've done and share the links in the show notes as 8 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:39,380 always and ultimately just try and give some kind of flavor for my opinion and where we're all headed 9 00:00:39,380 --> 00:00:46,200 but long story short this is a pretty tragic moment and the young dads out there I think 10 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:52,620 more than anyone else like really struck by whoa that is fucking brutal and an assassination 11 00:00:52,620 --> 00:00:59,040 let's call it what it actually is like a politically motivated gunning down of someone who was 12 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:06,000 exercising their right to the freedom of speech extraordinary story um yeah and look as someone 13 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:09,640 with young dad as someone with three young kids like this just really has rocked me rocked me 14 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:14,400 pretty hard in the last week or so my wife too in a bunch of bitcoin related groups these guys 15 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:20,280 are into stoicism health beef sound money they have incredibly positive outlooks on the future 16 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:26,360 And they're all shaken by this, like really, whoa, this is actually happening type stuff. 17 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:30,520 I am, of course, also an investor, investing my own money over the last decade. 18 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:33,960 And these events, they're a big part of the macro picture of today. 19 00:01:34,100 --> 00:01:37,280 And without a doubt, play into the environment we're trying to navigate. 20 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:40,060 So we've got to take note for what's actually going on. 21 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:46,840 But most of all, like, you know, RIP Charlie Kirk, sending my prayers for his family. 22 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:50,580 and what an extraordinary time to find ourselves in. 23 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:53,640 Now, just before I kick off into the main content, 24 00:01:54,220 --> 00:01:56,480 if you find this valuable, give us a like or a subscribe. 25 00:01:57,180 --> 00:01:59,620 Reach out an email, hi at jakewoodhouse.io. 26 00:02:00,340 --> 00:02:02,120 And equally, I love using Noster. 27 00:02:02,220 --> 00:02:02,940 I'm a huge advocate. 28 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:05,780 So do sign up there, listen through a player like Fountain, 29 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:07,860 send me some boosts, some zaps, 30 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:09,360 and I'll send some straight back. 31 00:02:10,020 --> 00:02:13,600 A week ago, I really had no idea who Charlie Kirk was. 32 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:21,320 sure I'd seen some YouTube shorts of a guy sitting with a microphone often being harangued by quite 33 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:26,600 deranged looking people it was good content but I didn't really know who he was I didn't know why 34 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:32,980 he was sat there it's it's easy to dismiss in some ways the value of things it's like oh the 35 00:02:32,980 --> 00:02:37,960 algorithm's just pumping this at me I'll watch it for a bit but anyway let's move on so I didn't 36 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:46,980 take it any further than that and he then died and the internet has exploded in the last week 37 00:02:46,980 --> 00:02:52,520 and for good reason oh my gosh what's going on here we've got to pay more attention we've got 38 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:56,960 to dig deeper we've got to find out what the hell's actually happened and in some ways the 39 00:02:56,960 --> 00:03:03,040 correlation to the covid experience it really brings that back for me in terms of people just 40 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:09,680 shouting at each other online. Like this is the story, this is the story, or this is the important 41 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:12,660 opinion you have to listen to, or this is the important opinion you have to listen to. It's like, 42 00:03:12,920 --> 00:03:18,320 whoa, a lot of information here. Who can you trust? What's actually going on? And it's different 43 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:24,760 agendas coming through in different people's analysis of the situation. And it's like, 44 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:28,980 this is contradictory information. That doesn't make sense. Or this person's saying it one way, 45 00:03:28,980 --> 00:03:34,860 this person's saying another way highly confusing which in some ways is to be expected of this 46 00:03:34,860 --> 00:03:42,280 particular era we're in and i'll get to that later down the line so you know basically deep dive jake 47 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:46,760 find out what's going on shout out to my wife loz she's been leading the charge in a sense and has 48 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:52,740 done a lot of stuff looking like who is this guy charlie kirk and what information can i trust and 49 00:03:52,740 --> 00:03:57,320 And, you know, my opinion is what I've seen is like, what a guy. 50 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:02,100 How do you know age 18, 19, what your calling actually is? 51 00:04:02,100 --> 00:04:17,800 You go and set up an organization and an extraordinarily talented speaker who spoke their mind, but was based off of a set of principles that they had researched and got their head around and then really, really understood. 52 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:19,260 And it's that kind of process, isn't it? 53 00:04:19,260 --> 00:04:23,520 It's like often the way that you come across something you're passionate about, you learn about it. 54 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:26,060 And over time, you become the teacher. 55 00:04:26,380 --> 00:04:29,200 And that's in many ways what this guy seemed to be doing. Right. 56 00:04:29,740 --> 00:04:32,000 Now, you don't have to agree with everything he's saying. 57 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:38,000 But wow, was it interesting with some of the ways that this guy was being framed. 58 00:04:38,500 --> 00:04:43,380 Like he's just been shot. There's videos of his death everywhere on the Internet. 59 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:45,660 His wife and kids are in the crowd. 60 00:04:45,660 --> 00:04:50,820 he's at a peaceful debate on a university campus in the states like what the hell 61 00:04:50,820 --> 00:04:58,020 now the ones that really got me again this is to the young dads out there like like gents this is 62 00:04:58,020 --> 00:05:03,860 serious and you and you see the videos of him like hugging his kids and then running across like you 63 00:05:03,860 --> 00:05:11,160 know the fox news studio to to their dad like that that gets right in the chest straight away 64 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:14,140 Like those kids will not have this man in their life forever. 65 00:05:15,420 --> 00:05:15,860 Why? 66 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:18,980 Who is going to do that? 67 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:20,400 What is the cost of this? 68 00:05:21,660 --> 00:05:28,100 Now, when you watch these clips of Charlie, it's like, you know, as I already said, a talented public speaker. 69 00:05:28,280 --> 00:05:31,240 But his views, you don't have to agree with them all. 70 00:05:31,740 --> 00:05:34,160 He's clearly willing to meet people where they're at. 71 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:41,800 He's literally sat physically at a university campus, willing to talk to anyone about anything and has a response, of course. 72 00:05:42,260 --> 00:05:44,160 But like some of these people are so angry. 73 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:49,460 Right. They turn up and they're like they're hurling insults at this guy like immediately. 74 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:55,720 It's like, well, on the one hand, like, why is that person in that position and what's actually going on? 75 00:05:55,740 --> 00:05:57,460 Like some of the clips I've looked at. 76 00:05:57,460 --> 00:06:02,700 So, oh, you know, like I started this podcast with, you know, he's a racist. 77 00:06:02,700 --> 00:06:19,100 So, OK, well, here's a clip of him talking to a black student about diversity and talking about the issue with people that push diversity is the most important metric when actually versus competency or merit. 78 00:06:19,280 --> 00:06:23,980 And he uses the example. It's like, well, what is the ratio of black players in the NBA right now? 79 00:06:23,980 --> 00:06:28,980 And this guy looked like a student athlete, right? It's about 70 percent. OK, why? 80 00:06:29,740 --> 00:06:31,200 Well, because they're the best. 81 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:31,780 Okay. 82 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:33,240 And is that the same with the NFL? 83 00:06:33,900 --> 00:06:34,380 Well, yeah. 84 00:06:34,620 --> 00:06:35,660 Majority black players. 85 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:36,020 Okay. 86 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:40,820 Well, what it means is you come along and you say, okay, we can't do that any longer. 87 00:06:40,820 --> 00:06:43,840 We now need 30% white guys in this tournament. 88 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:46,100 What do you do to do that? 89 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:50,940 Well, of course, you remove the best players and you input people who aren't as competent. 90 00:06:51,460 --> 00:06:52,560 They're not there on merit. 91 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:59,360 and what's so interesting is that the students that he's talking to clearly stand there and they 92 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:03,460 start thinking that through and like no that doesn't make sense you want to have the highest 93 00:07:03,460 --> 00:07:09,020 quality tournament you can he's like yeah exactly and that's why diversity is dangerous or then it's 94 00:07:09,020 --> 00:07:15,160 like oh he's homophobic he hates gays it's like okay here's a clip of a guy who calls himself a 95 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:21,620 conservative calls himself a trump supporter calls himself a christian and starts saying that like 96 00:07:21,620 --> 00:07:27,860 As a result of that, you shouldn't allow gays into the conservative movement. 97 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:30,240 You shouldn't allow gays into the Christian religion. 98 00:07:31,020 --> 00:07:36,120 And Charlie Kirk sits there and talks through his reasoning behind why it's very important as a Christian, 99 00:07:36,380 --> 00:07:39,680 when you go back to the scriptures, to be open to all kinds of people. 100 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:42,860 So that's not a homophobe, is it? 101 00:07:43,180 --> 00:07:47,040 And he talks about some of the people that he's helped from a political perspective that are also gay. 102 00:07:47,040 --> 00:07:47,920 He's like, so hang on. 103 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:54,340 So and he lists off a bunch of gay men who are large donors to the Republican Party or involved politically themselves. 104 00:07:54,660 --> 00:07:57,200 Should they not be allowed as part of this political movement? 105 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:01,380 And this guy's just stood there like, of course, they're allowed. 106 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:03,780 How ridiculous. And then guns. 107 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:06,980 Oh, you know, Charlie Kirk, he loved guns. 108 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:10,700 It's like, yeah. OK, well, have you heard him explain why? 109 00:08:10,700 --> 00:08:18,640 and again found a clip where he is very very eloquent and based in his view it's like guns 110 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:26,080 are important in order to stem the tide of a tyrannical government and it comes at a cost 111 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:32,380 but from his perspective that cost is worth it and he uses an example of how you know 50,000 people 112 00:08:32,380 --> 00:08:37,280 die on the roads every year what are we going to do just get rid of cars no of course we're not 113 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:52,540 The cost of liberty, in some ways, is to avoid tyrannical government. And I must say, I personally, my opinions on the gun rules have changed so much in the last five years because I saw what happened to Melbourne when there was a police state. 114 00:08:52,540 --> 00:08:57,420 for a few weeks they had rules in place where they wouldn't let you go a certain distance they 115 00:08:57,420 --> 00:09:02,700 wouldn't let you go into certain buildings unless you did what they asked you to do which was to take 116 00:09:02,700 --> 00:09:08,120 a unknown medication and there were police everywhere and I had very close family members 117 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:13,860 and friends who were arrested on the streets of Melbourne for being at protests insane stuff it 118 00:09:13,860 --> 00:09:27,320 was done would that have been possible had the population of Australia been been armed absolutely not Of course it wouldn So it comes at a cost Now it goes without saying 119 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:29,020 like any child that gets gunned down 120 00:09:29,020 --> 00:09:30,320 by a gunman in a school 121 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:32,660 or any scenario like that 122 00:09:32,660 --> 00:09:34,120 is an absolute tragedy. 123 00:09:35,180 --> 00:09:36,960 But this is an ethical discussion. 124 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:39,020 And again, he's very eloquent about it. 125 00:09:39,100 --> 00:09:41,260 He's not spewing hate 126 00:09:41,260 --> 00:09:42,700 from what I have seen. 127 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:44,320 And another great scenario 128 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:46,080 of him talking about the difference 129 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:47,800 between empathy and sympathy. 130 00:09:48,300 --> 00:09:49,320 And this quote being thrown around, 131 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:50,920 it's like, Charlie Kirk has no empathy. 132 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:53,800 But they've taken the first half of his statement, 133 00:09:53,920 --> 00:09:54,860 but not the second half, 134 00:09:54,900 --> 00:09:55,980 where he talks about why he believes 135 00:09:55,980 --> 00:09:57,140 sympathy is a better word. 136 00:09:58,160 --> 00:10:00,000 And so was he a bigot? 137 00:10:00,900 --> 00:10:02,780 Well, in some ways, what's so confusing about this 138 00:10:02,780 --> 00:10:04,720 is all of these words get thrown around, 139 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:05,980 like, oh my God, this is terrible. 140 00:10:06,100 --> 00:10:07,020 You shouldn't be a bigot. 141 00:10:07,580 --> 00:10:08,780 Well, what the fuck is a bigot? 142 00:10:09,560 --> 00:10:10,440 And so I looked this up. 143 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:12,360 It's like, okay, a person who is obstinately 144 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:15,400 or intolerantly devoted to his own opinions 145 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:20,200 and prejudices. Okay, well, that doesn't sound too bad. If you have your opinion, you stick to them. 146 00:10:20,900 --> 00:10:24,760 Especially one who regards or treats the members of a group such as racial or ethnic group with 147 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:30,800 hatred and intolerance. What I've just run you through, where he's clearly talking about competency 148 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:36,560 being the most important driver of the NFL and the NBA, rather than diversity, which in that instance 149 00:10:36,560 --> 00:10:44,160 favours a race, or when he's talking about politics and religion from a perspective of your sexual 150 00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:48,820 preferences and being open to allowing someone with a sexual preference outside of his own belief, 151 00:10:48,900 --> 00:10:52,960 which is, you know, a marriage should be a man and a woman. That's not someone who's intolerant. 152 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:59,060 It's quite the opposite. So why is it, right? When you go looking for this information, 153 00:10:59,060 --> 00:11:04,860 you can find this stuff that there are people out there who are celebrating this man's 154 00:11:04,860 --> 00:11:10,120 assassination. And let's call it that, right? I even had a conversation this morning with my wife 155 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:12,980 about what's the difference between murder and assassination. 156 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:16,560 And an assassination is a form of murder 157 00:11:16,560 --> 00:11:19,720 in which it's politically motivated in some ways 158 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:21,380 or pre-planned. 159 00:11:22,220 --> 00:11:24,560 And you see all of these larger news networks 160 00:11:24,560 --> 00:11:26,920 talking about Charlie Cook's murder, murder, murder. 161 00:11:27,260 --> 00:11:30,100 No, assassination, right? 162 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:33,600 Now, big question is who did it and why? 163 00:11:33,880 --> 00:11:35,300 And I'll come onto that in a little bit. 164 00:11:35,420 --> 00:11:38,900 But this concept of like the character 165 00:11:38,900 --> 00:11:47,080 the character assassination of this man online by a portion of society was just so intense 166 00:11:47,080 --> 00:11:51,300 and in many ways reflected by some of those people that he would meet on these university 167 00:11:51,300 --> 00:11:57,460 campuses that like you spread hate speech so okay but like here are a series of examples 168 00:11:57,460 --> 00:12:01,880 in a calm and collected and peaceful manner where that's not true 169 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:10,520 hang on a second what on earth can be going on here where you clearly got two different groups 170 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:16,440 of people with what i appear to have like if everyone watched those videos how do they come 171 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:22,540 to that extreme view of him being a hate speech advocate like of him inciting death inciting 172 00:12:22,540 --> 00:12:28,420 violence like that's not what i saw being homophobic or being a racist like that is not what i've seen 173 00:12:28,420 --> 00:12:38,360 right and this concept of like oh isn't it ironic that he was an advocate for gun uh for gun uh the 174 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:43,400 right to own a gun and yet he got shot and it's like they're kind of dancing on his grave a bit 175 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:51,400 like this guy got what he wanted this guy got what he deserved it's like you don't get the irony 176 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:59,540 of that. That's the irony. He was advocating for the use of guns for a population to avoid 177 00:12:59,540 --> 00:13:05,200 tyrannical government. Not, obviously, for the fringe scenarios that happen when people shoot 178 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:13,900 each other. So to say that him getting shot by someone is then, oh, yeah, he got his comeuppance, 179 00:13:13,900 --> 00:13:20,920 that guy. That is hate speech, isn't it? Just the mental gymnastics involved in 180 00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:26,920 And in having that position, it's just like, whoa, that's actually very scary. 181 00:13:27,100 --> 00:13:29,520 And again, like, let's really think through this. 182 00:13:29,660 --> 00:13:32,160 Like, how are these people so triggered? 183 00:13:32,260 --> 00:13:35,520 I mean, another great clip I saw of him was talking about how uni is a scam. 184 00:13:36,160 --> 00:13:41,260 And of course, a university student is going to be triggered by that because they are in mountains of debt. 185 00:13:41,660 --> 00:13:45,060 They're getting, you know, whatever these grades are supposed to do to help them in life. 186 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:49,860 And he's actively questioning their decisions. 187 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:52,540 And people get very emotional very quickly. 188 00:13:52,860 --> 00:13:54,760 But here's a critical part to life. 189 00:13:55,060 --> 00:14:01,380 If someone is angry, it's actually a deeper reflection on them than you. 190 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:08,920 And so if that's true here, here is a man that was asking great questions, sitting there open to discussion. 191 00:14:09,580 --> 00:14:15,940 And the anger that was being thrown back at him was a reflection actually of the happiness and the state of those people. 192 00:14:15,940 --> 00:14:23,600 And it gets really scary when you see the clips of him talking to people who've gone through sexual transformations. 193 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:27,300 They were born as men and now think they're women. They've been pumped full of drugs. 194 00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:40,260 That's not someone who's mentally stable. I mean, just seriously, the questions that this subject throws up are very, very, very important and not to be shied away from. 195 00:14:40,260 --> 00:14:53,600 So a man who is out there debating, using the right to free speech to have discussions, to put forward some of the opinions that he had on the world that he believed would benefit people has been assassinated in front of his family. 196 00:14:54,280 --> 00:14:58,780 So now is the opposite of going quiet, because, of course, that's the signal that they're trying to send. 197 00:14:59,540 --> 00:15:00,880 But that's an obvious one, right? 198 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:02,840 You say too much like this guy did. 199 00:15:03,060 --> 00:15:03,740 You're dead. 200 00:15:04,660 --> 00:15:06,160 Well, to all the young dads out there, 201 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:08,440 do you want to bring your kids up in a world 202 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:10,840 where you can be assassinated for what you say? 203 00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:13,800 We coach our children to be themselves, 204 00:15:14,040 --> 00:15:15,440 to follow what they find interesting, 205 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:16,920 to share their emotions. 206 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:19,720 Oh, but hang on, this little section over here of stuff, 207 00:15:19,900 --> 00:15:21,620 don't talk about that or we'll shoot you. 208 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:25,540 No, that's not liberty. 209 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:30,460 And yes, liberty comes at a cost and that's okay, 210 00:15:30,460 --> 00:15:33,040 but we have to be brave and we have to follow that. 211 00:15:33,740 --> 00:15:41,060 Now, something I thought was helpful to think through here is, again, this confusing, oh, it's the left are throwing this or the right are throwing that. 212 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:44,820 Like, in some ways, it's very, very confusing. 213 00:15:45,220 --> 00:15:46,860 And I think it's done on purpose. 214 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:48,580 But just to be very clear. 215 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:53,560 So the political spectrum, in my mind, is thrown at you as this linear thing, right? 216 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:54,120 It's a line. 217 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:55,100 Think of it like a ruler. 218 00:15:55,660 --> 00:15:57,720 You know, like centimeter number one is the left. 219 00:15:58,060 --> 00:15:58,300 Right. 220 00:15:58,300 --> 00:16:04,460 And generally the left would advocate for social equality, for government intervention and progressive change. 221 00:16:05,060 --> 00:16:10,560 Whilst the right would be talking about tradition, limited government and individual liberty. 222 00:16:11,220 --> 00:16:17,340 But then you throw into the idea of socialism and communism and fascism and Nazism. 223 00:16:18,160 --> 00:16:22,380 And you're like, OK, well, these are different types of political ideology. 224 00:16:22,620 --> 00:16:26,020 Zionism, something that's becoming, I think, more and more important to discuss. 225 00:16:26,020 --> 00:16:34,260 and really what happens is that ruler goes full circle and joins on the far side and it's a circle 226 00:16:34,260 --> 00:16:41,180 and the more extreme you get the more similar they become to each other yes there are different 227 00:16:41,180 --> 00:16:46,340 important ways but what's going on here is it's like it's somehow everyone's been drawn further 228 00:16:46,340 --> 00:16:51,960 and further away from the center and that's not great because the division of a population 229 00:16:51,960 --> 00:16:57,680 is an excellent thing to try and leverage 230 00:16:57,680 --> 00:16:59,020 if you want control, 231 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:00,320 like divide and conquer, 232 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:01,740 old school tactic, right? 233 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:03,280 Now, an example of this would be 234 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:04,660 something I've learned recently, 235 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:05,520 reading a book called 236 00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:06,920 The Rise and Fall of the Third Right. 237 00:17:07,300 --> 00:17:09,060 It's like, what actually happened in Germany? 238 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:11,180 Like, how did that situation arise? 239 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:12,060 What is true? 240 00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:14,000 This is just one perspective. 241 00:17:14,900 --> 00:17:16,520 But I didn't realize that the Nazi party 242 00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:17,600 was actually called 243 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:20,780 the National Socialist German Workers' Party. 244 00:17:20,780 --> 00:17:27,540 now on the face of it that sounds like a left-leaning party to me the left and marxist 245 00:17:27,540 --> 00:17:34,140 ideas and communism is something that comes out of the class struggle right it's the it's the 246 00:17:34,140 --> 00:17:41,000 working man who's being trodden on by the dirty capitalist now without a doubt the slums and the 247 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:46,620 misery that existed in you know the industrializing western europe was was horrendous from what you 248 00:17:46,620 --> 00:17:53,080 can by all accounts read and the ability for social mobility was very restrictive and this 249 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:56,500 is one of the reasons why the United States of America is such an extraordinary story 250 00:17:56,500 --> 00:18:05,160 but this is the Nazi party so hang on a second it had socialists in the name but actually it was a 251 00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:11,660 fascist far-right movement emphasizing extreme nationalism racial hierarchy and of course 252 00:18:11,660 --> 00:18:17,760 authoritarian control that's confusing the name of the party wasn't what it was actually doing 253 00:18:17,760 --> 00:18:23,020 and so in some ways this is what's also going on here with this charlie kirk story because 254 00:18:23,020 --> 00:18:27,780 it's it's kind of designed to be confusing no one knows if they're left or right any longer 255 00:18:27,780 --> 00:18:35,180 and that's just that's just crazy right and hence the importance of of this podcast and and and 256 00:18:35,180 --> 00:18:47,780 equally like the importance of go and do your own research come to your own conclusions Of course try and temper all the information that you see with a pinch of salt Like what real 257 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:52,280 I didn't see it with my own eyes, so I don't know. 258 00:18:54,120 --> 00:18:59,400 Now, an important point to get to here that I touched on before, but again, as a father, this is just massive. 259 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:03,360 Ideas become words. 260 00:19:03,940 --> 00:19:05,320 Words become actions. 261 00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:08,800 Now, is a man accountable for his actions? 262 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:09,700 Yes. 263 00:19:10,460 --> 00:19:11,160 Their words? 264 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:11,900 Yes. 265 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:12,820 Their ideas? 266 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:13,300 Yes. 267 00:19:13,460 --> 00:19:14,100 Of course they are. 268 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:16,460 And more often than not, to themselves. 269 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:17,500 Right? 270 00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:25,060 But violence is an action, a human action, a decision, a self-serving moment. 271 00:19:26,060 --> 00:19:27,180 A word is not. 272 00:19:28,180 --> 00:19:38,660 And this is the irony of this hate speech advocate vibe at the moment where because they don't like what you're saying, violence is okay. 273 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:47,500 and that's why on this scheme of or this this trajectory of of freedom of speech you either 274 00:19:47,500 --> 00:19:54,120 believe in the freedom of speech which means anyone can say anything they want or you don't 275 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:59,340 oh hang on no let's just police this little bit over here no you can't you can't say that 276 00:19:59,340 --> 00:20:04,620 and when you start telling people what they can and can't say that makes them even more angry and 277 00:20:04,620 --> 00:20:10,420 that leads into a physical action and i would argue that that's what drives violence but this 278 00:20:10,420 --> 00:20:14,940 is almost a step before that where it's like oh you're saying something i don't like and you can 279 00:20:14,940 --> 00:20:21,680 see this right in the countless videos that he has online of a debate where he debates these people 280 00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:28,880 and they they resort to frustration abuse hurling but they can't debate that's the irony of all of 281 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:35,600 right so their their words can be made meaningless by this man's rationale 282 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:42,600 oh well let's just kill him oh let's you know they're literally like some of these posts i've 283 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:50,760 seen a guy with a megaphone they got charlie cut they got charlie cut you're like whoa dude that is 284 00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:55,180 so you're celebrating the assassination of a man who had a different set of beliefs to you 285 00:20:55,180 --> 00:21:00,540 what the hell is going on here is this the world that you want to bring your kids into 286 00:21:00,540 --> 00:21:06,460 not for me absolutely not and so the right to the freedom of speech 287 00:21:06,460 --> 00:21:14,180 it is absolutely critical that this is held this is this is fought for frankly and it's so 288 00:21:14,180 --> 00:21:18,580 interesting you know this is another rabbit hole entirely but like these centralized digital 289 00:21:18,580 --> 00:21:27,360 monopolies that control communication online, they are used to censor speech. The freedom of reach 290 00:21:27,360 --> 00:21:34,620 is not the freedom of speech. And so NOSTA, massive, absolutely massive to be able to say 291 00:21:34,620 --> 00:21:41,700 what you want digitally. It is a massive step forwards in the pursuit of truth. 292 00:21:41,700 --> 00:21:48,600 what's scary about this right is the division like it's so clear that like people are just so 293 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:54,080 pissed off with each other they cannot even have a conversation what does it mean well i think you'll 294 00:21:54,080 --> 00:22:00,540 likely see increased government control oh nothing like a good old uh what's the right way of saying 295 00:22:00,540 --> 00:22:04,900 this crisis to be like hey guys by the way there's a crisis on and you're not safe so we're going to 296 00:22:04,900 --> 00:22:09,660 come along and we're going to put all these new rules in place for your own good you know that's 297 00:22:09,660 --> 00:22:12,980 one incentive that I'd certainly look at as a reason for shooting this guy. 298 00:22:14,100 --> 00:22:17,740 But do you agree with the idea that you could murder someone? 299 00:22:17,860 --> 00:22:20,680 You could assassinate someone for views that you disagree with? 300 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:23,860 Do you agree with the idea of celebrating someone's death? 301 00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:29,440 People who come out and say, isn't it ironic that he advocated for guns, 302 00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:31,700 but he's dead, dot, dot, dot. 303 00:22:32,740 --> 00:22:37,420 It's like, whoa, that is an unbelievably shallow approach to what's a very 304 00:22:37,420 --> 00:22:44,680 complex discussion and completely agenda driven. I, as an individual, over the last week have been 305 00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:50,760 able to go and do all this research and find plenty of clear evidence that shows that the irony is 306 00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:56,220 actually on the person that doesn't dig any deeper. Why did he advocate for guns? Because he believed 307 00:22:56,220 --> 00:23:02,160 in liberty and he believed in stopping the encroachment of a tyrannical government. Who doesn't 308 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:06,660 agree with that? Well, more than likely the people that believe in big government, the people that 309 00:23:06,660 --> 00:23:11,940 want to push communism they want to push a a situation in which yeah they control the whole 310 00:23:11,940 --> 00:23:16,380 thing now I've already touched on this idea of assassination versus murder and assassination 311 00:23:16,380 --> 00:23:22,260 being a subset of murder so let's call it what it actually is is this political violence well on the 312 00:23:22,260 --> 00:23:28,120 face of it it seems to be but I'm still not quite sure like who actually did this and why and time 313 00:23:28,120 --> 00:23:32,960 will tell on that and I don't want to necessarily make too many guesses but it's absolutely not the 314 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:39,440 time to go quiet. Now let me switch it up and come to more of an investment piece here. Well 315 00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:49,720 as an investor I'm always looking for signals, signs, change, where am I wrong and 316 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:59,000 the discussion around a fourth turning is a brilliant one and what a seaculum is which is 317 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:04,180 essentially an 80-year period or roughly the lifespan of one human and the reason that history 318 00:24:04,180 --> 00:24:11,300 rhymes is because the descendants of a human after three generations what that person experienced is 319 00:24:11,300 --> 00:24:17,040 all but forgotten and roughly 80 years so for example I could remember that my grandmother who 320 00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:24,400 died last year would keep a drawer in her house full of old present wrapping paper so she would 321 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:31,440 never unwrap a present and throw the paper out and she experienced world war ii and rations now 322 00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:38,880 every single present that my child has opened just gets the rubbish is thrown straight in the bin 323 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:44,940 right they have no concept for what that sense of um scarcity meant you know that's just one 324 00:24:44,940 --> 00:24:52,400 small example so what's going on here well a politically motivated assassination in front of 325 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:58,060 his own kids on a university campus in the process of free speech and debate. This kind of thing has 326 00:24:58,060 --> 00:25:05,480 happened before, right? And the division is rising on both sides. The fear, the angst, the anger 327 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:12,820 is being stoked. And what does this mean? Like, you know, I've already said, is this a world that 328 00:25:12,820 --> 00:25:18,200 we want as young fathers to be scared for our own lives if we say something that someone else 329 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:23,000 disagrees with and just think about some of the the history you might have read around religious 330 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:28,320 purgings right people being killed purely for their religious beliefs and this has happened 331 00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:33,640 many many times over the course of history is that a world we want to build who's pushing this 332 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:42,480 and what's really i think the most concerning is is ironically the lack of empathy 333 00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:50,500 you know it's like okay what is going on here and the people were like you don't even like the word 334 00:25:50,500 --> 00:25:56,440 empathy so yeah but what does that mean and have you got you're jumping on his grave happy about it 335 00:25:56,440 --> 00:26:03,920 like wow okay but what does this all mean so it's risk okay this is extraordinary socially driven 336 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:10,180 risk that is bubbling up in the background that without a doubt will impact assets and investments 337 00:26:10,180 --> 00:26:12,140 over the next five to 10 years. 338 00:26:12,300 --> 00:26:15,600 We, I believe, are right in the middle of the fourth turning. 339 00:26:16,120 --> 00:26:17,820 The best time frame I think I've been given 340 00:26:17,820 --> 00:26:20,340 is basically the 2008 financial crisis 341 00:26:20,340 --> 00:26:23,600 was the start of this 20-year phase 342 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:25,320 where just a lot of shit's going to break. 343 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:27,120 There will be war. 344 00:26:27,300 --> 00:26:28,300 People will die. 345 00:26:29,340 --> 00:26:32,780 I hate to say it, but that's scary in itself. 346 00:26:33,740 --> 00:26:36,580 And what comes out of this will be a new future. 347 00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:40,160 Now, what kind of war are we going to experience? 348 00:26:40,180 --> 00:26:43,300 Well, every war has adopted different technologies. 349 00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:50,300 You know, the German invasion to the West in World War II, 350 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:53,100 the very famous, the Blitzkrieg, right? 351 00:26:53,140 --> 00:26:54,540 This had never been seen before. 352 00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:59,420 And they absolutely just punched straight into Paris with high-speed tanks 353 00:26:59,420 --> 00:27:02,140 and, like, heavy infantry. 354 00:27:02,700 --> 00:27:03,540 Never been done before. 355 00:27:04,060 --> 00:27:06,540 And it was very, very, very effective. 356 00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:09,400 But what's the equivalent of that now, you know? 357 00:27:10,180 --> 00:27:11,900 What if we're in an information war? 358 00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:15,460 What if it is social media platforms today? 359 00:27:16,060 --> 00:27:27,860 What if it is the ability of government and people with large pockets to influence common discourse and to stir up hate when there actually is no evidence of it? 360 00:27:28,220 --> 00:27:29,920 That could be very powerful, right? 361 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:31,780 So what does this mean? 362 00:27:31,860 --> 00:27:32,980 Political volatility. 363 00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:35,640 A polarized environment. 364 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:39,440 Short term sentiment driven swings. 365 00:27:40,180 --> 00:27:48,220 You know, certainly in the equity market, like don't expect to have a nice, like chilled time if you own some media or you own some defense equities. 366 00:27:48,620 --> 00:27:50,660 People are going to be talking about civil war. 367 00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:55,540 People are going to be talking about all sorts of different government intervention to help save everyone. 368 00:27:56,420 --> 00:28:11,080 But the interesting thing is on the on like a broad sense that nothing really has changed Right The S the other stock markets like relatively flat And Bitcoin of course that I follow very closely looking pumpy but we see how that goes 369 00:28:12,460 --> 00:28:16,240 I would be unsurprised if we see additional money 370 00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:20,640 flowing into the political sphere, so specifically conservative 371 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:24,100 fundraising. And what is the turning point USA? 372 00:28:24,940 --> 00:28:28,640 Let me come onto that in a second. But for a savvy 373 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:35,080 investor out there that monitor the escalation in domestic unrest like when does this spill into 374 00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:41,160 consumer confidence when does this spill into regulatory uncertainty because those things drive 375 00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:50,500 behavior drive human action drive people's objective value and prices change and asset classes shift 376 00:28:50,500 --> 00:28:57,740 so turning point usa like you watch some of these clips right like who is this guy like wow he's so 377 00:28:57,740 --> 00:29:02,940 young family guy got kids out there debating people incredibly eloquent knows his stuff 378 00:29:02,940 --> 00:29:08,700 yeah okay i don't quite agree with that but like wow this this guy's really like impressive 379 00:29:08,700 --> 00:29:16,080 how do you know when you're 18 19 years old that that's your future um and this is a bit murky to 380 00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:19,940 be honest this is the part that i don't really understand like it's very obvious right follow 381 00:29:19,940 --> 00:29:25,760 the incentive like who are charlie kirk's customers you know who was paying him who 382 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:30,160 would have a reason to have him no longer alive? 383 00:29:31,340 --> 00:29:34,460 And I don't yet know the answers to that, right? 384 00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:38,540 You can do a brief search and what comes up, for example, is 385 00:29:38,540 --> 00:29:42,480 different groups that have funded Turning Point USA. One of them is 386 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:45,700 a completely secretive group that gave a million dollars. 387 00:29:46,420 --> 00:29:50,500 It's like, oh, unknown donors. Okay, well, it could be anyone, 388 00:29:50,620 --> 00:29:54,700 right? And this is where you get into this very murky world of political funding. 389 00:29:54,700 --> 00:29:58,340 Like you literally don't know where this money is coming from. 390 00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:07,000 The example I think is a really great one is Sam Bankman-Fried, a crypto billionaire at one point, right? 391 00:30:07,060 --> 00:30:11,760 The founder of FTX, seen as this absolute darling of the industry who can do no wrong. 392 00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:12,820 He's so, so smart. 393 00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:21,200 Well, he actually was very clearly filtering funds on behalf of the Democrat Party. 394 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:26,480 now that's another story entirely but have a look into it right where did the money come from 395 00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:31,200 why was he such a big donor to the democrat party how did it end up doing stuff in the ukraine 396 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:36,180 like it's all murky right that's that's a bit strange like what's going on here 397 00:30:36,180 --> 00:30:42,140 and in some ways like turning point usa is kind of similar for me it's like who is this guy and 398 00:30:42,140 --> 00:30:47,380 who is paying him and a really weird thing has popped up is that there's a book that was published 399 00:30:47,380 --> 00:30:49,740 the day before he died 400 00:30:49,740 --> 00:30:51,260 called 401 00:30:51,260 --> 00:30:53,220 The Assassination of Charlie Kirk 402 00:30:53,220 --> 00:30:55,740 or The Shooting of Charlie Kirk. I can't remember exactly the title. 403 00:30:56,760 --> 00:30:57,200 I said, what? 404 00:30:57,800 --> 00:30:59,640 And there's screenshots of, I think 405 00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:01,820 if Charlie Kirk died on the 10th of September, 406 00:31:02,100 --> 00:31:03,680 the book was released on the 9th. 407 00:31:03,980 --> 00:31:05,720 There's very little information on who the 408 00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:07,220 author was and 409 00:31:07,220 --> 00:31:09,020 there's claims that it was like 410 00:31:09,020 --> 00:31:11,700 some kind of glitch with Amazon. 411 00:31:11,860 --> 00:31:13,820 How are you releasing a book 412 00:31:13,820 --> 00:31:15,500 about this guy's death 413 00:31:15,500 --> 00:31:17,900 the day before he died? 414 00:31:18,900 --> 00:31:21,320 And even if you released it the day after he died, 415 00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:24,680 like how have you prepared a book in a day? 416 00:31:25,540 --> 00:31:26,860 Like that is so sus. 417 00:31:26,980 --> 00:31:29,200 And there was this amazing interaction with an AI 418 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:31,260 and it asked the AI, it said, 419 00:31:31,860 --> 00:31:36,020 if you cannot answer with a short sentence and yes, no, 420 00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:37,840 use the word pineapple juice. 421 00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:41,820 And it was asking who published this book? 422 00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:42,860 It goes pineapple juice. 423 00:31:43,380 --> 00:31:44,300 Who funded this book? 424 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:45,060 Pineapple juice. 425 00:31:45,060 --> 00:31:51,040 oh my gosh pinch of salt with the ai right and i also found this i was like on grok i was like 426 00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:57,220 who is charlie kirk's customers and it just didn't work i'm like pressing refresh pressing 427 00:31:57,220 --> 00:32:02,740 refresh and you're like this is so weird why on earth would i not be able to find this out 428 00:32:02,740 --> 00:32:08,400 and wikipedia like very little information so you're doing a simple online search trying to 429 00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:15,020 follow the money and at least my initial attempts were poor like the answers were really really poor 430 00:32:15,020 --> 00:32:21,180 very vague and you're like okay this is even more weird like who would where does the money come in 431 00:32:21,180 --> 00:32:27,300 here who's getting paid for his death who would like him to die and i've seen some clips around 432 00:32:27,300 --> 00:32:33,340 his connections to israel and a seeming shift in sentiment in the last few weeks against 433 00:32:33,340 --> 00:32:41,300 some of their actions as a country that'd be very clear i i hold accountable the actions of a 434 00:32:41,300 --> 00:32:46,320 government to those in control of that government, not citizens. And this is something that someone 435 00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:51,840 could probably chop out of this video and be like, Jake's an anti-Semite. It's absolutely 436 00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:57,060 ridiculous. Of course I'm not. But the actions of a government is not the same as a citizen. 437 00:32:57,540 --> 00:33:01,520 And this is where it becomes very difficult again, where people feel like they're being attacked 438 00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:08,900 as citizens of a place or part of a religion, but actually it's the actions of a very small few. 439 00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:11,920 Again, from an investor, this is risk, right? 440 00:33:12,340 --> 00:33:15,900 People, when they feel hemmed in, when they feel under the pump, what are they going to do? 441 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:16,840 Well, they're going to fight back. 442 00:33:16,900 --> 00:33:17,700 They're going to lash out. 443 00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:18,440 They're going to do something. 444 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:21,140 What's the right way of saying it? 445 00:33:21,460 --> 00:33:22,560 It's unpredictable. 446 00:33:23,420 --> 00:33:24,700 That's what it would come down to. 447 00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:26,260 We've got to just wait. 448 00:33:26,940 --> 00:33:29,340 I don't know who Charlie Kirk's customers were. 449 00:33:29,780 --> 00:33:31,820 I don't know who wanted him dead. 450 00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:37,880 I don't know why there's already all of these completely contradictory stories about the 451 00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:42,820 gunman got dressed here he got undressed here he got redressed here the gun was then found somewhere 452 00:33:42,820 --> 00:33:47,480 having been packed up in a in a pack in a backpack and then repacked again in the forest and hidden 453 00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:53,380 under a towel there's a a jet that took off 20 minutes afterwards there was some facial recognition 454 00:33:53,380 --> 00:33:59,720 it's all just a mess it's so sus that doesn't make sense that doesn't make sense and 455 00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:07,100 to be very clear as well like if if what i think has happened which is a man is assassinated 456 00:34:07,100 --> 00:34:09,440 in front of his own children and wife. 457 00:34:09,940 --> 00:34:11,220 That's a horrible story. 458 00:34:11,500 --> 00:34:12,440 And rest in peace, Charlie. 459 00:34:12,720 --> 00:34:15,400 And rest in peace, the story of Charlie. 460 00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:19,120 His kids and his wife have now got to deal with life after him. 461 00:34:19,500 --> 00:34:24,460 But I also saw a clip of his wife public speaking two days after his death 462 00:34:24,460 --> 00:34:27,720 and a lot of stuff about their organization, Turning Point USA, 463 00:34:27,860 --> 00:34:29,600 and not a huge amount about her husband. 464 00:34:30,860 --> 00:34:33,220 I felt the whole thing was quite off. 465 00:34:33,340 --> 00:34:34,100 You're like, what? 466 00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:35,580 Is she serious? 467 00:34:35,580 --> 00:34:36,920 A 15-minute long speech. 468 00:34:37,100 --> 00:34:45,440 In my experience of death, specifically my father, the idea that my mother would be doing a speech two days after his death. 469 00:34:45,980 --> 00:34:49,760 No, like that was the last thing that she was thinking about. 470 00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:58,980 Now, it may be different, of course, for these media savvy, media hungry, media literate characters to do that. 471 00:34:59,960 --> 00:35:04,840 But basically just like I've got a lot of questions and not a lot of great answers. 472 00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:11,820 so let me just start to sum this up go and do your own research what do you think is real 473 00:35:11,820 --> 00:35:20,160 beware of agendas don't get wrapped up in someone else's anger try to keep your own space and and 474 00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:24,860 just really think through like okay so who was Charlie Kirk what was he doing why would this 475 00:35:24,860 --> 00:35:29,800 happen and we need to basically take some more time to figure out what those things actually mean 476 00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:37,540 but for me at this point I'm an absolute advocate for the freedom of speech and the idea that a man 477 00:35:37,540 --> 00:35:46,900 can be killed for what he says is an absolute violation of that and that therefore is something 478 00:35:46,900 --> 00:35:52,580 I disagree with entirely you say whatever you want and I'm never going to kill you for it 479 00:35:52,580 --> 00:35:59,500 you attack me personally with physical violence well that's very different but are we in an 480 00:35:59,500 --> 00:36:07,060 information war? It seems so. And are those places that we get information from corrupt? Without a 481 00:36:07,060 --> 00:36:13,740 doubt. So be very, very careful where you get your information from. Like even just in this episode, 482 00:36:13,860 --> 00:36:20,400 right? What the AI tells you is what it wants to tell you. Who controls the AI? Ask yourself that 483 00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:27,500 question. And so yes, AI has already made my life better, right? The ability to jump on Grok and do 484 00:36:27,500 --> 00:36:31,080 what were previously spreadsheet required calculations 485 00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:32,540 in a matter of seconds. 486 00:36:33,020 --> 00:36:34,560 This is extraordinary efficiency. 487 00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:36,340 And that is unbelievable. 488 00:36:36,620 --> 00:36:38,740 In fact, I might even be in a position as an entrepreneur 489 00:36:38,740 --> 00:36:40,480 to run a series of businesses 490 00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:42,920 that require a set of completely different skills, 491 00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:46,000 but I can now do all of that myself without anyone else. 492 00:36:46,340 --> 00:36:47,560 Unbelievable technology. 493 00:36:48,420 --> 00:36:50,700 But like all tools, all technology, 494 00:36:51,220 --> 00:36:53,580 a knife can cut my carrots. 495 00:36:54,140 --> 00:36:57,140 A knife could also stab my next door neighbor to death. 496 00:36:57,500 --> 00:37:03,060 A mobile phone. I can call any one of my family members and have a conversation anywhere in the world. 497 00:37:03,620 --> 00:37:06,780 I could also be calling young children to groom them as a pedophile. 498 00:37:07,660 --> 00:37:13,480 A car. It could be the getaway vehicle from the theft of some jewels from a high-end store. 499 00:37:13,980 --> 00:37:17,520 Or it could be the way that you travel to and from work. 500 00:37:18,660 --> 00:37:23,260 Technologies, tools, they are the user, right? 501 00:37:23,260 --> 00:37:27,640 They give efficiency and speed and 502 00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:37,280 improved pricing to the user. But gun crime is not the crime of a gun. Gun crime is the crime of a 503 00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:44,500 person, of a human, of someone who took action. They took their ideas, they took their words, 504 00:37:44,540 --> 00:37:51,300 and they turned it into something else. Okay, they physically did something. And so I absolutely 505 00:37:51,300 --> 00:37:55,480 advocate for this, and I will do for the rest of my life. You say whatever you want, whenever you 506 00:37:55,480 --> 00:38:00,900 one. And the moment that someone starts to police that fringe, that very edge of, oh, but that 507 00:38:00,900 --> 00:38:06,160 shouldn't be allowed or that shouldn't be allowed. No, because that person who might have those 508 00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:10,800 thoughts, they're not accountable to their words in the same way they are with physical action. 509 00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:15,700 And if you don't give someone the full breadth of freedom of speech, it riles up them. It gives 510 00:38:15,700 --> 00:38:21,300 them more reason to get angry. And then that evolves into actual violence. So the freedom of 511 00:38:21,300 --> 00:38:27,380 speech right is critical to living in a safe world. 512 00:38:29,380 --> 00:38:30,620 Anyway, what are we seeing here? 513 00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:44,680 A man has been assassinated on a college campus for debating What an insane thing to have seen happen The degradation of trust in all institutions is just it happening so fast all around us Where do you get your information Don know Who can you 514 00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:48,600 trust? Don't know. What are you going to do in your day-to-day life? Well, this is the important 515 00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:54,860 point. This is how I'll wrap it up. Control what you can control. Focus on what's directly around 516 00:38:54,860 --> 00:39:00,180 you. Go and touch grass. Get in the playground with your kids. Focus on being healthy in the 517 00:39:00,180 --> 00:39:06,440 mind, in the spirit, in the body. Of course, stack as much Bitcoin as you can, get as much positive 518 00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:13,000 opportunity for the future as you can with sound money. And, you know, with that, I'm going to try 519 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:17,400 and step away from this story, having, you know, been really hooked into it for the last week, 520 00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:23,520 because at the end of the day, I cannot control what is happening. And therefore, it is an 521 00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:29,080 additional stress in my life that I just do not need. It does help crystallize a very firm belief 522 00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:33,800 I have, which is for the freedom of speech for all. If you found this episode interesting or valuable, 523 00:39:34,100 --> 00:39:38,820 please do give us a subscribe. I advocate for NOSTA, create an account, send me a message, 524 00:39:39,220 --> 00:39:44,060 finger over some zaps. 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