Charlie Kirk was a racist, a bigot, and he got what he deserved.
Or, Charlie Kirk was a hero, a man of God, and a great father.
What's true?
I don't know.
I wasn't sure if I wanted to make this podcast, but the experience of the last week, it compels me to do so.
Today I'm going to work through the who, the what, and the why.
and I'm going to explain some of the research I've done and share the links in the show notes as
always and ultimately just try and give some kind of flavor for my opinion and where we're all headed
but long story short this is a pretty tragic moment and the young dads out there I think
more than anyone else like really struck by whoa that is fucking brutal and an assassination
let's call it what it actually is like a politically motivated gunning down of someone who was
exercising their right to the freedom of speech extraordinary story um yeah and look as someone
with young dad as someone with three young kids like this just really has rocked me rocked me
pretty hard in the last week or so my wife too in a bunch of bitcoin related groups these guys
are into stoicism health beef sound money they have incredibly positive outlooks on the future
And they're all shaken by this, like really, whoa, this is actually happening type stuff.
I am, of course, also an investor, investing my own money over the last decade.
And these events, they're a big part of the macro picture of today.
And without a doubt, play into the environment we're trying to navigate.
So we've got to take note for what's actually going on.
But most of all, like, you know, RIP Charlie Kirk, sending my prayers for his family.
and what an extraordinary time to find ourselves in.
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A week ago, I really had no idea who Charlie Kirk was.
sure I'd seen some YouTube shorts of a guy sitting with a microphone often being harangued by quite
deranged looking people it was good content but I didn't really know who he was I didn't know why
he was sat there it's it's easy to dismiss in some ways the value of things it's like oh the
algorithm's just pumping this at me I'll watch it for a bit but anyway let's move on so I didn't
take it any further than that and he then died and the internet has exploded in the last week
and for good reason oh my gosh what's going on here we've got to pay more attention we've got
to dig deeper we've got to find out what the hell's actually happened and in some ways the
correlation to the covid experience it really brings that back for me in terms of people just
shouting at each other online. Like this is the story, this is the story, or this is the important
opinion you have to listen to, or this is the important opinion you have to listen to. It's like,
whoa, a lot of information here. Who can you trust? What's actually going on? And it's different
agendas coming through in different people's analysis of the situation. And it's like,
this is contradictory information. That doesn't make sense. Or this person's saying it one way,
this person's saying another way highly confusing which in some ways is to be expected of this
particular era we're in and i'll get to that later down the line so you know basically deep dive jake
find out what's going on shout out to my wife loz she's been leading the charge in a sense and has
done a lot of stuff looking like who is this guy charlie kirk and what information can i trust and
And, you know, my opinion is what I've seen is like, what a guy.
How do you know age 18, 19, what your calling actually is?
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.
And it's that kind of process, isn't it?
It's like often the way that you come across something you're passionate about, you learn about it.
And over time, you become the teacher.
And that's in many ways what this guy seemed to be doing. Right.
Now, you don't have to agree with everything he's saying.
But wow, was it interesting with some of the ways that this guy was being framed.
Like he's just been shot. There's videos of his death everywhere on the Internet.
His wife and kids are in the crowd.
he's at a peaceful debate on a university campus in the states like what the hell
now the ones that really got me again this is to the young dads out there like like gents this is
serious and you and you see the videos of him like hugging his kids and then running across like you
know the fox news studio to to their dad like that that gets right in the chest straight away
Like those kids will not have this man in their life forever.
Why?
Who is going to do that?
What is the cost of this?
Now, when you watch these clips of Charlie, it's like, you know, as I already said, a talented public speaker.
But his views, you don't have to agree with them all.
He's clearly willing to meet people where they're at.
He's literally sat physically at a university campus, willing to talk to anyone about anything and has a response, of course.
But like some of these people are so angry.
Right. They turn up and they're like they're hurling insults at this guy like immediately.
It's like, well, on the one hand, like, why is that person in that position and what's actually going on?
Like some of the clips I've looked at.
So, oh, you know, like I started this podcast with, you know, he's a racist.
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.
And he uses the example. It's like, well, what is the ratio of black players in the NBA right now?
And this guy looked like a student athlete, right? It's about 70 percent. OK, why?
Well, because they're the best.
Okay.
And is that the same with the NFL?
Well, yeah.
Majority black players.
Okay.
Well, what it means is you come along and you say, okay, we can't do that any longer.
We now need 30% white guys in this tournament.
What do you do to do that?
Well, of course, you remove the best players and you input people who aren't as competent.
They're not there on merit.
and what's so interesting is that the students that he's talking to clearly stand there and they
start thinking that through and like no that doesn't make sense you want to have the highest
quality tournament you can he's like yeah exactly and that's why diversity is dangerous or then it's
like oh he's homophobic he hates gays it's like okay here's a clip of a guy who calls himself a
conservative calls himself a trump supporter calls himself a christian and starts saying that like
As a result of that, you shouldn't allow gays into the conservative movement.
You shouldn't allow gays into the Christian religion.
And Charlie Kirk sits there and talks through his reasoning behind why it's very important as a Christian,
when you go back to the scriptures, to be open to all kinds of people.
So that's not a homophobe, is it?
And he talks about some of the people that he's helped from a political perspective that are also gay.
He's like, so hang on.
So and he lists off a bunch of gay men who are large donors to the Republican Party or involved politically themselves.
Should they not be allowed as part of this political movement?
And this guy's just stood there like, of course, they're allowed.
How ridiculous. And then guns.
Oh, you know, Charlie Kirk, he loved guns.
It's like, yeah. OK, well, have you heard him explain why?
and again found a clip where he is very very eloquent and based in his view it's like guns
are important in order to stem the tide of a tyrannical government and it comes at a cost
but from his perspective that cost is worth it and he uses an example of how you know 50,000 people
die on the roads every year what are we going to do just get rid of cars no of course we're not
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.
for a few weeks they had rules in place where they wouldn't let you go a certain distance they
wouldn't let you go into certain buildings unless you did what they asked you to do which was to take
a unknown medication and there were police everywhere and I had very close family members
and friends who were arrested on the streets of Melbourne for being at protests insane stuff it
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
like any child that gets gunned down
by a gunman in a school
or any scenario like that
is an absolute tragedy.
But this is an ethical discussion.
And again, he's very eloquent about it.
He's not spewing hate
from what I have seen.
And another great scenario
of him talking about the difference
between empathy and sympathy.
And this quote being thrown around,
it's like, Charlie Kirk has no empathy.
But they've taken the first half of his statement,
but not the second half,
where he talks about why he believes
sympathy is a better word.
And so was he a bigot?
Well, in some ways, what's so confusing about this
is all of these words get thrown around,
like, oh my God, this is terrible.
You shouldn't be a bigot.
Well, what the fuck is a bigot?
And so I looked this up.
It's like, okay, a person who is obstinately
or intolerantly devoted to his own opinions
and prejudices. Okay, well, that doesn't sound too bad. If you have your opinion, you stick to them.
Especially one who regards or treats the members of a group such as racial or ethnic group with
hatred and intolerance. What I've just run you through, where he's clearly talking about competency
being the most important driver of the NFL and the NBA, rather than diversity, which in that instance
favours a race, or when he's talking about politics and religion from a perspective of your sexual
preferences and being open to allowing someone with a sexual preference outside of his own belief,
which is, you know, a marriage should be a man and a woman. That's not someone who's intolerant.
It's quite the opposite. So why is it, right? When you go looking for this information,
you can find this stuff that there are people out there who are celebrating this man's
assassination. And let's call it that, right? I even had a conversation this morning with my wife
about what's the difference between murder and assassination.
And an assassination is a form of murder
in which it's politically motivated in some ways
or pre-planned.
And you see all of these larger news networks
talking about Charlie Cook's murder, murder, murder.
No, assassination, right?
Now, big question is who did it and why?
And I'll come onto that in a little bit.
But this concept of like the character
the character assassination of this man online by a portion of society was just so intense
and in many ways reflected by some of those people that he would meet on these university
campuses that like you spread hate speech so okay but like here are a series of examples
in a calm and collected and peaceful manner where that's not true
hang on a second what on earth can be going on here where you clearly got two different groups
of people with what i appear to have like if everyone watched those videos how do they come
to that extreme view of him being a hate speech advocate like of him inciting death inciting
violence like that's not what i saw being homophobic or being a racist like that is not what i've seen
right and this concept of like oh isn't it ironic that he was an advocate for gun uh for gun uh the
right to own a gun and yet he got shot and it's like they're kind of dancing on his grave a bit
like this guy got what he wanted this guy got what he deserved it's like you don't get the irony
of that. That's the irony. He was advocating for the use of guns for a population to avoid
tyrannical government. Not, obviously, for the fringe scenarios that happen when people shoot
each other. So to say that him getting shot by someone is then, oh, yeah, he got his comeuppance,
that guy. That is hate speech, isn't it? Just the mental gymnastics involved in
And in having that position, it's just like, whoa, that's actually very scary.
And again, like, let's really think through this.
Like, how are these people so triggered?
I mean, another great clip I saw of him was talking about how uni is a scam.
And of course, a university student is going to be triggered by that because they are in mountains of debt.
They're getting, you know, whatever these grades are supposed to do to help them in life.
And he's actively questioning their decisions.
And people get very emotional very quickly.
But here's a critical part to life.
If someone is angry, it's actually a deeper reflection on them than you.
And so if that's true here, here is a man that was asking great questions, sitting there open to discussion.
And the anger that was being thrown back at him was a reflection actually of the happiness and the state of those people.
And it gets really scary when you see the clips of him talking to people who've gone through sexual transformations.
They were born as men and now think they're women. They've been pumped full of drugs.
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.
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.
So now is the opposite of going quiet, because, of course, that's the signal that they're trying to send.
But that's an obvious one, right?
You say too much like this guy did.
You're dead.
Well, to all the young dads out there,
do you want to bring your kids up in a world
where you can be assassinated for what you say?
We coach our children to be themselves,
to follow what they find interesting,
to share their emotions.
Oh, but hang on, this little section over here of stuff,
don't talk about that or we'll shoot you.
No, that's not liberty.
And yes, liberty comes at a cost and that's okay,
but we have to be brave and we have to follow that.
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.
Like, in some ways, it's very, very confusing.
And I think it's done on purpose.
But just to be very clear.
So the political spectrum, in my mind, is thrown at you as this linear thing, right?
It's a line.
Think of it like a ruler.
You know, like centimeter number one is the left.
Right.
And generally the left would advocate for social equality, for government intervention and progressive change.
Whilst the right would be talking about tradition, limited government and individual liberty.
But then you throw into the idea of socialism and communism and fascism and Nazism.
And you're like, OK, well, these are different types of political ideology.
Zionism, something that's becoming, I think, more and more important to discuss.
and really what happens is that ruler goes full circle and joins on the far side and it's a circle
and the more extreme you get the more similar they become to each other yes there are different
important ways but what's going on here is it's like it's somehow everyone's been drawn further
and further away from the center and that's not great because the division of a population
is an excellent thing to try and leverage
if you want control,
like divide and conquer,
old school tactic, right?
Now, an example of this would be
something I've learned recently,
reading a book called
The Rise and Fall of the Third Right.
It's like, what actually happened in Germany?
Like, how did that situation arise?
What is true?
This is just one perspective.
But I didn't realize that the Nazi party
was actually called
the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
now on the face of it that sounds like a left-leaning party to me the left and marxist
ideas and communism is something that comes out of the class struggle right it's the it's the
working man who's being trodden on by the dirty capitalist now without a doubt the slums and the
misery that existed in you know the industrializing western europe was was horrendous from what you
can by all accounts read and the ability for social mobility was very restrictive and this
is one of the reasons why the United States of America is such an extraordinary story
but this is the Nazi party so hang on a second it had socialists in the name but actually it was a
fascist far-right movement emphasizing extreme nationalism racial hierarchy and of course
authoritarian control that's confusing the name of the party wasn't what it was actually doing
and so in some ways this is what's also going on here with this charlie kirk story because
it's it's kind of designed to be confusing no one knows if they're left or right any longer
and that's just that's just crazy right and hence the importance of of this podcast and and and
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
I didn't see it with my own eyes, so I don't know.
Now, an important point to get to here that I touched on before, but again, as a father, this is just massive.
Ideas become words.
Words become actions.
Now, is a man accountable for his actions?
Yes.
Their words?
Yes.
Their ideas?
Yes.
Of course they are.
And more often than not, to themselves.
Right?
But violence is an action, a human action, a decision, a self-serving moment.
A word is not.
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.
and that's why on this scheme of or this this trajectory of of freedom of speech you either
believe in the freedom of speech which means anyone can say anything they want or you don't
oh hang on no let's just police this little bit over here no you can't you can't say that
and when you start telling people what they can and can't say that makes them even more angry and
that leads into a physical action and i would argue that that's what drives violence but this
is almost a step before that where it's like oh you're saying something i don't like and you can
see this right in the countless videos that he has online of a debate where he debates these people
and they they resort to frustration abuse hurling but they can't debate that's the irony of all of
right so their their words can be made meaningless by this man's rationale
oh well let's just kill him oh let's you know they're literally like some of these posts i've
seen a guy with a megaphone they got charlie cut they got charlie cut you're like whoa dude that is
so you're celebrating the assassination of a man who had a different set of beliefs to you
what the hell is going on here is this the world that you want to bring your kids into
not for me absolutely not and so the right to the freedom of speech
it is absolutely critical that this is held this is this is fought for frankly and it's so
interesting you know this is another rabbit hole entirely but like these centralized digital
monopolies that control communication online, they are used to censor speech. The freedom of reach
is not the freedom of speech. And so NOSTA, massive, absolutely massive to be able to say
what you want digitally. It is a massive step forwards in the pursuit of truth.
what's scary about this right is the division like it's so clear that like people are just so
pissed off with each other they cannot even have a conversation what does it mean well i think you'll
likely see increased government control oh nothing like a good old uh what's the right way of saying
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
come along and we're going to put all these new rules in place for your own good you know that's
one incentive that I'd certainly look at as a reason for shooting this guy.
But do you agree with the idea that you could murder someone?
You could assassinate someone for views that you disagree with?
Do you agree with the idea of celebrating someone's death?
People who come out and say, isn't it ironic that he advocated for guns,
but he's dead, dot, dot, dot.
It's like, whoa, that is an unbelievably shallow approach to what's a very
complex discussion and completely agenda driven. I, as an individual, over the last week have been
able to go and do all this research and find plenty of clear evidence that shows that the irony is
actually on the person that doesn't dig any deeper. Why did he advocate for guns? Because he believed
in liberty and he believed in stopping the encroachment of a tyrannical government. Who doesn't
agree with that? Well, more than likely the people that believe in big government, the people that
want to push communism they want to push a a situation in which yeah they control the whole
thing now I've already touched on this idea of assassination versus murder and assassination
being a subset of murder so let's call it what it actually is is this political violence well on the
face of it it seems to be but I'm still not quite sure like who actually did this and why and time
will tell on that and I don't want to necessarily make too many guesses but it's absolutely not the
time to go quiet. Now let me switch it up and come to more of an investment piece here. Well
as an investor I'm always looking for signals, signs, change, where am I wrong and
the discussion around a fourth turning is a brilliant one and what a seaculum is which is
essentially an 80-year period or roughly the lifespan of one human and the reason that history
rhymes is because the descendants of a human after three generations what that person experienced is
all but forgotten and roughly 80 years so for example I could remember that my grandmother who
died last year would keep a drawer in her house full of old present wrapping paper so she would
never unwrap a present and throw the paper out and she experienced world war ii and rations now
every single present that my child has opened just gets the rubbish is thrown straight in the bin
right they have no concept for what that sense of um scarcity meant you know that's just one
small example so what's going on here well a politically motivated assassination in front of
his own kids on a university campus in the process of free speech and debate. This kind of thing has
happened before, right? And the division is rising on both sides. The fear, the angst, the anger
is being stoked. And what does this mean? Like, you know, I've already said, is this a world that
we want as young fathers to be scared for our own lives if we say something that someone else
disagrees with and just think about some of the the history you might have read around religious
purgings right people being killed purely for their religious beliefs and this has happened
many many times over the course of history is that a world we want to build who's pushing this
and what's really i think the most concerning is is ironically the lack of empathy
you know it's like okay what is going on here and the people were like you don't even like the word
empathy so yeah but what does that mean and have you got you're jumping on his grave happy about it
like wow okay but what does this all mean so it's risk okay this is extraordinary socially driven
risk that is bubbling up in the background that without a doubt will impact assets and investments
over the next five to 10 years.
We, I believe, are right in the middle of the fourth turning.
The best time frame I think I've been given
is basically the 2008 financial crisis
was the start of this 20-year phase
where just a lot of shit's going to break.
There will be war.
People will die.
I hate to say it, but that's scary in itself.
And what comes out of this will be a new future.
Now, what kind of war are we going to experience?
Well, every war has adopted different technologies.
You know, the German invasion to the West in World War II,
the very famous, the Blitzkrieg, right?
This had never been seen before.
And they absolutely just punched straight into Paris with high-speed tanks
and, like, heavy infantry.
Never been done before.
And it was very, very, very effective.
But what's the equivalent of that now, you know?
What if we're in an information war?
What if it is social media platforms today?
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?
That could be very powerful, right?
So what does this mean?
Political volatility.
A polarized environment.
Short term sentiment driven swings.
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.
People are going to be talking about civil war.
People are going to be talking about all sorts of different government intervention to help save everyone.
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
I would be unsurprised if we see additional money
flowing into the political sphere, so specifically conservative
fundraising. And what is the turning point USA?
Let me come onto that in a second. But for a savvy
investor out there that monitor the escalation in domestic unrest like when does this spill into
consumer confidence when does this spill into regulatory uncertainty because those things drive
behavior drive human action drive people's objective value and prices change and asset classes shift
so turning point usa like you watch some of these clips right like who is this guy like wow he's so
young family guy got kids out there debating people incredibly eloquent knows his stuff
yeah okay i don't quite agree with that but like wow this this guy's really like impressive
how do you know when you're 18 19 years old that that's your future um and this is a bit murky to
be honest this is the part that i don't really understand like it's very obvious right follow
the incentive like who are charlie kirk's customers you know who was paying him who
would have a reason to have him no longer alive?
And I don't yet know the answers to that, right?
You can do a brief search and what comes up, for example, is
different groups that have funded Turning Point USA. One of them is
a completely secretive group that gave a million dollars.
It's like, oh, unknown donors. Okay, well, it could be anyone,
right? And this is where you get into this very murky world of political funding.
Like you literally don't know where this money is coming from.
The example I think is a really great one is Sam Bankman-Fried, a crypto billionaire at one point, right?
The founder of FTX, seen as this absolute darling of the industry who can do no wrong.
He's so, so smart.
Well, he actually was very clearly filtering funds on behalf of the Democrat Party.
now that's another story entirely but have a look into it right where did the money come from
why was he such a big donor to the democrat party how did it end up doing stuff in the ukraine
like it's all murky right that's that's a bit strange like what's going on here
and in some ways like turning point usa is kind of similar for me it's like who is this guy and
who is paying him and a really weird thing has popped up is that there's a book that was published
the day before he died
called
The Assassination of Charlie Kirk
or The Shooting of Charlie Kirk. I can't remember exactly the title.
I said, what?
And there's screenshots of, I think
if Charlie Kirk died on the 10th of September,
the book was released on the 9th.
There's very little information on who the
author was and
there's claims that it was like
some kind of glitch with Amazon.
How are you releasing a book
about this guy's death
the day before he died?
And even if you released it the day after he died,
like how have you prepared a book in a day?
Like that is so sus.
And there was this amazing interaction with an AI
and it asked the AI, it said,
if you cannot answer with a short sentence and yes, no,
use the word pineapple juice.
And it was asking who published this book?
It goes pineapple juice.
Who funded this book?
Pineapple juice.
oh my gosh pinch of salt with the ai right and i also found this i was like on grok i was like
who is charlie kirk's customers and it just didn't work i'm like pressing refresh pressing
refresh and you're like this is so weird why on earth would i not be able to find this out
and wikipedia like very little information so you're doing a simple online search trying to
follow the money and at least my initial attempts were poor like the answers were really really poor
very vague and you're like okay this is even more weird like who would where does the money come in
here who's getting paid for his death who would like him to die and i've seen some clips around
his connections to israel and a seeming shift in sentiment in the last few weeks against
some of their actions as a country that'd be very clear i i hold accountable the actions of a
government to those in control of that government, not citizens. And this is something that someone
could probably chop out of this video and be like, Jake's an anti-Semite. It's absolutely
ridiculous. Of course I'm not. But the actions of a government is not the same as a citizen.
And this is where it becomes very difficult again, where people feel like they're being attacked
as citizens of a place or part of a religion, but actually it's the actions of a very small few.
Again, from an investor, this is risk, right?
People, when they feel hemmed in, when they feel under the pump, what are they going to do?
Well, they're going to fight back.
They're going to lash out.
They're going to do something.
What's the right way of saying it?
It's unpredictable.
That's what it would come down to.
We've got to just wait.
I don't know who Charlie Kirk's customers were.
I don't know who wanted him dead.
I don't know why there's already all of these completely contradictory stories about the
gunman got dressed here he got undressed here he got redressed here the gun was then found somewhere
having been packed up in a in a pack in a backpack and then repacked again in the forest and hidden
under a towel there's a a jet that took off 20 minutes afterwards there was some facial recognition
it's all just a mess it's so sus that doesn't make sense that doesn't make sense and
to be very clear as well like if if what i think has happened which is a man is assassinated
in front of his own children and wife.
That's a horrible story.
And rest in peace, Charlie.
And rest in peace, the story of Charlie.
His kids and his wife have now got to deal with life after him.
But I also saw a clip of his wife public speaking two days after his death
and a lot of stuff about their organization, Turning Point USA,
and not a huge amount about her husband.
I felt the whole thing was quite off.
You're like, what?
Is she serious?
A 15-minute long speech.
In my experience of death, specifically my father, the idea that my mother would be doing a speech two days after his death.
No, like that was the last thing that she was thinking about.
Now, it may be different, of course, for these media savvy, media hungry, media literate characters to do that.
But basically just like I've got a lot of questions and not a lot of great answers.
so let me just start to sum this up go and do your own research what do you think is real
beware of agendas don't get wrapped up in someone else's anger try to keep your own space and and
just really think through like okay so who was Charlie Kirk what was he doing why would this
happen and we need to basically take some more time to figure out what those things actually mean
but for me at this point I'm an absolute advocate for the freedom of speech and the idea that a man
can be killed for what he says is an absolute violation of that and that therefore is something
I disagree with entirely you say whatever you want and I'm never going to kill you for it
you attack me personally with physical violence well that's very different but are we in an
information war? It seems so. And are those places that we get information from corrupt? Without a
doubt. So be very, very careful where you get your information from. Like even just in this episode,
right? What the AI tells you is what it wants to tell you. Who controls the AI? Ask yourself that
question. And so yes, AI has already made my life better, right? The ability to jump on Grok and do
what were previously spreadsheet required calculations
in a matter of seconds.
This is extraordinary efficiency.
And that is unbelievable.
In fact, I might even be in a position as an entrepreneur
to run a series of businesses
that require a set of completely different skills,
but I can now do all of that myself without anyone else.
Unbelievable technology.
But like all tools, all technology,
a knife can cut my carrots.
A knife could also stab my next door neighbor to death.
A mobile phone. I can call any one of my family members and have a conversation anywhere in the world.
I could also be calling young children to groom them as a pedophile.
A car. It could be the getaway vehicle from the theft of some jewels from a high-end store.
Or it could be the way that you travel to and from work.
Technologies, tools, they are the user, right?
They give efficiency and speed and
improved pricing to the user. But gun crime is not the crime of a gun. Gun crime is the crime of a
person, of a human, of someone who took action. They took their ideas, they took their words,
and they turned it into something else. Okay, they physically did something. And so I absolutely
advocate for this, and I will do for the rest of my life. You say whatever you want, whenever you
one. And the moment that someone starts to police that fringe, that very edge of, oh, but that
shouldn't be allowed or that shouldn't be allowed. No, because that person who might have those
thoughts, they're not accountable to their words in the same way they are with physical action.
And if you don't give someone the full breadth of freedom of speech, it riles up them. It gives
them more reason to get angry. And then that evolves into actual violence. So the freedom of
speech right is critical to living in a safe world.
Anyway, what are we seeing here?
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
trust? Don't know. What are you going to do in your day-to-day life? Well, this is the important
point. This is how I'll wrap it up. Control what you can control. Focus on what's directly around
you. Go and touch grass. Get in the playground with your kids. Focus on being healthy in the
mind, in the spirit, in the body. Of course, stack as much Bitcoin as you can, get as much positive
opportunity for the future as you can with sound money. And, you know, with that, I'm going to try
and step away from this story, having, you know, been really hooked into it for the last week,
because at the end of the day, I cannot control what is happening. And therefore, it is an
additional stress in my life that I just do not need. It does help crystallize a very firm belief
I have, which is for the freedom of speech for all. If you found this episode interesting or valuable,
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