1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:04,680 Speaker 1: From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies. History is 2 00:00:04,760 --> 00:00:09,080 Speaker 1: riddled with unexplained events. You can turn back now or 3 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:12,079 Speaker 1: learn the stuff they don't want you to know. A 4 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:26,320 Speaker 1: production of I Heart Radio. Hello, welcome back to the show. 5 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:29,240 Speaker 1: My name is Matt, my name is They call me Ben. 6 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:32,519 Speaker 1: We're joined as always with our super producer Paul Mission 7 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:36,280 Speaker 1: Control decades. Most importantly, you are you. You are here, 8 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:39,960 Speaker 1: and that makes this stuff they don't want you to know. 9 00:00:40,479 --> 00:00:44,040 Speaker 1: This is part two of our Dive and Davos and 10 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:47,360 Speaker 1: the Great Reset. If you haven't listened to part one, 11 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:50,640 Speaker 1: by all means, you can still listen to this first, 12 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:53,239 Speaker 1: but it'll make a lot more sense if you if 13 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:57,360 Speaker 1: you go back to Wednesday's episode and uh and see 14 00:00:57,720 --> 00:00:59,880 Speaker 1: the background that we laid out, and you know, I 15 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:04,040 Speaker 1: think that we did um an okay job outlining some 16 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:08,240 Speaker 1: of the basics of this initiative and organization. And then 17 00:01:08,319 --> 00:01:11,160 Speaker 1: I think we did an okay job giving giving the 18 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:14,400 Speaker 1: backgrounds here because as we said in part one, you know, 19 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:19,360 Speaker 1: even to hear the facts part was crazy, like there's 20 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:22,200 Speaker 1: crazy stuff. Yeah. There there was a whole section where 21 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:24,399 Speaker 1: I was like, we haven't even gotten crazy yet, and 22 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:28,080 Speaker 1: it's already crazy. We got pretty crazy. But I do 23 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:30,679 Speaker 1: believe that this part two picks up where it where 24 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:33,959 Speaker 1: it really starts to pop off. That's correct. So here's 25 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:36,880 Speaker 1: a quick recap previously on stuff they don't want you 26 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:40,440 Speaker 1: to know. Here are the facts. The World Economic Forum 27 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:44,440 Speaker 1: or Davos. It's a great place for great, big ideas, 28 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:47,560 Speaker 1: where where the public sphere and private sphere can come 29 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:50,840 Speaker 1: together and work in harmony for the greater good. And 30 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:56,560 Speaker 1: our compatriot ball mission Control decade said something very interesting 31 00:01:56,600 --> 00:02:02,280 Speaker 1: off air. Uh, Paul, you described You said, so Davos 32 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:06,120 Speaker 1: is kind of like south By Southwest on steroids, And 33 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:09,000 Speaker 1: it's true. One thing we didn't talk about where it 34 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 1: was the abundance of wild after hours parties. Like the 35 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:17,919 Speaker 1: guys in charge of Salesforce flew out fresh flower lay 36 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:20,640 Speaker 1: from Hawaii for all the attendees of his party. He 37 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:24,240 Speaker 1: also flew out alive. Well. I guess all human bands 38 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 1: are live bands, but he flew out a band that 39 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:30,639 Speaker 1: survived and perfectly like a steel drum band of some variety. 40 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:34,720 Speaker 1: I think more traditional Hawaiian music, but I'm not sure because, 41 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:38,760 Speaker 1: like many people in the audience today, um I did 42 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:43,760 Speaker 1: not attend Davos. You know, I had the odd, h 43 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:49,320 Speaker 1: I guess, honor or whatever of attending a similar type 44 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:53,040 Speaker 1: of event that is clearly influenced by a Davos, since 45 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:55,480 Speaker 1: this is like sort of the granddaddy of these type events. 46 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:57,880 Speaker 1: And it's called Summit, and it took play. It takes 47 00:02:57,880 --> 00:03:00,320 Speaker 1: place in Los Angeles, and the guy that or did 48 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:04,560 Speaker 1: it literally owns a mountain in like Colorado, remember his name. 49 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:07,880 Speaker 1: But it's this, you know, really, I was there as press. 50 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 1: I was like working on a podcast and I was 51 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:12,840 Speaker 1: gonna record an interview with like the founder of Circus 52 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:14,720 Speaker 1: l A. But like it didn't pan out. But I 53 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:16,920 Speaker 1: had a pass to go, and so I saw some 54 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:18,680 Speaker 1: of the panels and this is the kind of place 55 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:20,640 Speaker 1: where you see stuff like this only at these kind 56 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:24,799 Speaker 1: of things. I saw Jaden Smith interview Al Gore about 57 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:28,720 Speaker 1: climate change, uh in this weird old theater in downtown 58 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 1: l A. And then I saw that I really enjoyed this. 59 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:34,679 Speaker 1: It was this um interesting kind of mindfulness guru named 60 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 1: Eckhart totally who is like a um yeah, he's kind 61 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:41,400 Speaker 1: of this like meditative kind of mindfulness, you know, the 62 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 1: guy who is obviously beloved by a lot of these 63 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:47,480 Speaker 1: high powered people who brought him in and he does 64 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 1: speaking engagements. But it was very, very adaptable, and I'm 65 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:51,880 Speaker 1: glad I got to go. But just being there and 66 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:55,040 Speaker 1: seeing the opulence and the types of people that actually 67 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:57,400 Speaker 1: paid for their badges was definitely a bit of a 68 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:00,400 Speaker 1: culture shock for me. Yeah, I've been by did to 69 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:04,720 Speaker 1: things like that in in a similar in a similar vein. 70 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:07,720 Speaker 1: Probably one of my still one of my favorite things 71 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:09,640 Speaker 1: to go to, even though I know they're not perfect, 72 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 1: are ted talks and ted ex stuff. It's it's always um, 73 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:18,839 Speaker 1: it's always inspiring, even if there are things there that 74 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:22,599 Speaker 1: I don't agree with. I I love the conversations, you know, 75 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:25,920 Speaker 1: my I don't ever regret skipping out on those things 76 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:28,240 Speaker 1: for a while. I did try to skip out on 77 00:04:28,279 --> 00:04:32,839 Speaker 1: a lot of them. But my one big regret is missing, um, 78 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 1: any of the speeches about Corvid intelligence for you know, 79 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:41,760 Speaker 1: obvious reasons, right. Uh, the science is amazing. Yeah, I know, man, 80 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:43,680 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I feel you. You just need a fleet 81 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:45,920 Speaker 1: of Corvid's, is that what you call it? Well, I'm 82 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:49,680 Speaker 1: gonna be a murder technically, which honestly, it seems unfairly sinister, 83 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:51,719 Speaker 1: even though I know it kind of tracks with my 84 00:04:51,839 --> 00:04:54,640 Speaker 1: view of birds. But for you, Ben, I don't think 85 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:58,480 Speaker 1: a murder seems right. I like a fleet, uh murder 86 00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:01,320 Speaker 1: of crows. On check this out if you evert heard 87 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:06,520 Speaker 1: this one, folks, an unkindness of ravens also incredibly unpleasant 88 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:10,360 Speaker 1: connotations there. Hey, do you guys remember when I went 89 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:15,479 Speaker 1: to the Builderberg meeting? I remember when you went to 90 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:18,599 Speaker 1: the Build a Bear conference? Yeah, I know that was it. 91 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:20,720 Speaker 1: You're right, that was it. Well, they have a lot 92 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:23,719 Speaker 1: in common, you know. I think they're the subsidiary subsidiaries 93 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:28,360 Speaker 1: of the same organization. Right, clearly, we're keeping it in. 94 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:31,600 Speaker 1: We're keeping it in. We have we have mats that 95 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:35,520 Speaker 1: by far the best part of the show. Uh live 96 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:38,720 Speaker 1: and in fact, is he gonna make some remarks? Nope, 97 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:41,640 Speaker 1: I that's really important stuff. He needed the PlayStation four 98 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:46,560 Speaker 1: controller because, uh, he has things to do, important stuff. 99 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:50,320 Speaker 1: What's the gaming on these days? Man? Right? Nope, Nope, 100 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:53,640 Speaker 1: this time he's going for Cuphead, which, Uh that game 101 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:58,719 Speaker 1: is punishingly difficult. It's incredibly difficult. Like father, like son. 102 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:07,000 Speaker 1: Can he move things with his mind yet? Anyway? So 103 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:11,599 Speaker 1: moving on, moving on, Yes, so all of us have 104 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:15,120 Speaker 1: experienced things that are kind of at a lower level 105 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:19,080 Speaker 1: of this sort of this sort of event, but not 106 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:26,120 Speaker 1: near as exclusive as this. Here's where it gets crazy. 107 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:30,440 Speaker 1: The theme of last year's meeting at Davos, the Great 108 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:36,799 Speaker 1: Reset Initiative, was to use chaos in a little finger way, 109 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:40,599 Speaker 1: to treat chaos as a ladder, as a window of opportunity, 110 00:06:40,760 --> 00:06:45,800 Speaker 1: to say that when whatever uh secular god or a 111 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:49,400 Speaker 1: series of circumstances you believe in closes a door, that 112 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:53,080 Speaker 1: forced inevitably opens a window through which you may crawl 113 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:56,760 Speaker 1: into a new world. They wanted to use the chaos 114 00:06:56,920 --> 00:07:01,120 Speaker 1: of the COVID nineteen pandemic as an opportunity to rebuild 115 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:05,120 Speaker 1: society and the global economy at large in a more 116 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:10,880 Speaker 1: sustainable way. Prince Charles, yes that Prince Charles, who may 117 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:17,160 Speaker 1: have recently asked about his relative's future skin tone, kicked 118 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 1: off Davos with a with a launch, a speech at 119 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:26,080 Speaker 1: the launch ceremony that described key focus areas that were 120 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:29,080 Speaker 1: built on an earlier initiative that he had a pre 121 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:32,520 Speaker 1: existing idea, so he wasn't just like up there freestyling 122 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:35,000 Speaker 1: here are the things I think are important, which also 123 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:37,840 Speaker 1: would have been cool especially of his freestyle rhymes. But 124 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:42,440 Speaker 1: not there yet. Maybe here's the way he wanted to fix. 125 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:47,960 Speaker 1: The reinvigoration of science, technology and innovation, a move toward 126 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:54,040 Speaker 1: net zero transitions globally, the introduction of carbon pricing, reinventing 127 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:59,920 Speaker 1: long standing incentive structures, rebalancing investments to include more green investment, 128 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:06,200 Speaker 1: and encouraging green public infrastructure projects. So using financial tools 129 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:11,160 Speaker 1: that already exist or that have been proposed. Two, maybe 130 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:15,040 Speaker 1: not so much push the world at large toward more 131 00:08:15,080 --> 00:08:19,280 Speaker 1: alternative energy or it's a less waste, But to incentivize it, 132 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:23,880 Speaker 1: it's very different to make it up. To alter the 133 00:08:23,960 --> 00:08:27,680 Speaker 1: rules of the playing field such that it is more 134 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:34,120 Speaker 1: profitable in the long term to engage in these new technologies, 135 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:37,520 Speaker 1: these green technologies and so on. And yes, we are 136 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:42,640 Speaker 1: well aware of a concept called greenwashing, which is when 137 00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:46,160 Speaker 1: a an organization, be it a company or a country, 138 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:50,439 Speaker 1: purports to do things along this level. But really it's 139 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:54,000 Speaker 1: kind of lip service. This This stuff does seem sincere. 140 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:58,839 Speaker 1: There is solid science that says these things can help 141 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:02,120 Speaker 1: the world, but again, nobody agrees on how they should 142 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:05,240 Speaker 1: be rolled out. Who pays the tab and who gets 143 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:10,360 Speaker 1: who gets the immediate benefits. So of course you've got 144 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:13,080 Speaker 1: like imagine, you've got this elite meeting of some of 145 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:16,240 Speaker 1: the world's most important people. The city is locked down, 146 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:20,280 Speaker 1: you can't go. Uh. The journalist who do report there, 147 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:24,000 Speaker 1: uh tell stories of extensive security of metal detectors, of 148 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:29,200 Speaker 1: literal snipers posted on buildings, because there are you know, 149 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:32,040 Speaker 1: there are forces that would be antagonistic to a lot 150 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:35,720 Speaker 1: of the A listers here. So obviously, oh and Prince 151 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:40,400 Speaker 1: Charles kicks off the speech. Obviously, conspiracy theories emerge very 152 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:44,920 Speaker 1: quickly in full force, and they already existed for decades 153 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:49,199 Speaker 1: regarding this organization in other places like the World Economic Forum, 154 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:53,960 Speaker 1: but this time it was different because of COVID and 155 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:58,520 Speaker 1: because of some other conspiracies that existed before the Davos 156 00:09:58,559 --> 00:10:02,880 Speaker 1: meeting or shortly you know, or coalesced shortly thereafter, including 157 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:06,200 Speaker 1: five G including the idea of microchipping and so on. 158 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:09,440 Speaker 1: Some of these conspiracies here in the West, in the 159 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:12,600 Speaker 1: US in particular, we're spread by what have been described 160 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:17,520 Speaker 1: as far right groups. So it's like there is a 161 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:22,040 Speaker 1: great reset conspiracy that I have a terrible analogy for, 162 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:25,880 Speaker 1: and I hope it's not too too cringe. Worthy um, 163 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:28,720 Speaker 1: but please of course has always forward any complaints to 164 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:33,520 Speaker 1: our complaint department. Jonathan Strickland at I Heart radio dot com. 165 00:10:33,559 --> 00:10:35,720 Speaker 1: If you're on like a Q and on forum or something, 166 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:38,560 Speaker 1: you would probably see this and it would be something 167 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:42,480 Speaker 1: that a lot of people would agree with. This theory, 168 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:46,240 Speaker 1: called the Great Reset, has the somewhat dubious honor of 169 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:51,439 Speaker 1: becoming the first widely circulated conspiracy theory of the Biden administration. 170 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:55,520 Speaker 1: And it's a bit strange. You'll see a lot written 171 00:10:55,559 --> 00:11:01,839 Speaker 1: about this on social media and forums, um. And in 172 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:05,320 Speaker 1: in this theory, you know, we've we've kind of described 173 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:08,480 Speaker 1: you how the wide view of the Davos man is 174 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:10,840 Speaker 1: different from maybe the people who actually go there, and 175 00:11:10,880 --> 00:11:14,200 Speaker 1: how there are misconceptions about some you know, of the 176 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 1: ongoings there. But now also there's just not a lot 177 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:20,960 Speaker 1: of transparency about what goes on in after hours, you know, 178 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:23,520 Speaker 1: stuff that's not officially posted on the Davos site or 179 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:27,079 Speaker 1: posted on social media there um. But in this theory, 180 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:30,319 Speaker 1: it's it describes those who attend and those who run 181 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:33,720 Speaker 1: the whole thing there at Davos as essentially a coven 182 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:40,000 Speaker 1: of technocratic which is really uh, you know, doing in 183 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:43,640 Speaker 1: some ways telling the future and casting spells to affect 184 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:50,360 Speaker 1: the future. Yeah, exactly, techno financial oligarchs or occultists. Uh. 185 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:54,960 Speaker 1: Current President Biden had a slogan called Build Back Better, 186 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:58,160 Speaker 1: and this was red meat to folks who believe in 187 00:11:58,400 --> 00:12:01,439 Speaker 1: some of these theories. They said that build back Better 188 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:04,800 Speaker 1: is actually a cover phrase. It's a euphemism for a 189 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:10,120 Speaker 1: plan to enslave humanity and end capitalism, to abolish private property, 190 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:15,760 Speaker 1: to imprison everybody who dissents in any way, meaning particularly 191 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:18,560 Speaker 1: that if you refuse to accept the implants of a 192 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:21,560 Speaker 1: thought reading micro chip, off to the gulag with you. 193 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:25,120 Speaker 1: And this this is interesting to me because if you 194 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:27,680 Speaker 1: look at the structure of this, they can maybe there's 195 00:12:27,679 --> 00:12:30,280 Speaker 1: a little meta, but I can. This conspiracy is kind 196 00:12:30,280 --> 00:12:33,160 Speaker 1: of like if you go to Chipotle, and so it's 197 00:12:33,160 --> 00:12:36,079 Speaker 1: building a burrito for you. You can take the base 198 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:39,720 Speaker 1: theory here globalism, one world governance, and that's kind of 199 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:41,839 Speaker 1: like your tortilla, and then you can add some other 200 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:45,880 Speaker 1: conspiratorial toppings as the mood strikes you. And where do 201 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:51,040 Speaker 1: I go to invest in thought reading microchip technology? No? No, 202 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:57,400 Speaker 1: just the hot investment true. Yeah, it's uh, it's weird. 203 00:12:57,440 --> 00:13:01,200 Speaker 1: Because you would think that if the science were that 204 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:03,320 Speaker 1: far along, there would be a lot of things to 205 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:06,800 Speaker 1: invest in. But medtech is a huge medtech, biotech, whatever 206 00:13:06,840 --> 00:13:10,400 Speaker 1: you wanna call it, is a huge UH is a 207 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:13,840 Speaker 1: huge market. This is not financial advice, as they say 208 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:17,079 Speaker 1: on Wall Street bets. But from what I understand, No, 209 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:18,800 Speaker 1: all you have to do is call up Billy g 210 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:22,960 Speaker 1: Just text Bill Gates, Billy G. Williams. That's Billy D. Williams. Sorry, yeah, 211 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:26,640 Speaker 1: I got it, BG. What's Billy D doing too? Yeah? 212 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:28,640 Speaker 1: He he was in UH was in the Mandalorian for 213 00:13:28,640 --> 00:13:30,080 Speaker 1: a hot minute, wasn't he. No, No No, he was in 214 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:33,400 Speaker 1: the most recent Star Wars big big Screen reboot. Would 215 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:35,680 Speaker 1: love to see him in the Mandalorian. Yeah, I'd love to, 216 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:37,480 Speaker 1: you know, se se him on the show. It's been 217 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:40,160 Speaker 1: a while since we caught up. You know. I do 218 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:42,760 Speaker 1: wonder what he would have to say about this. So 219 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:46,640 Speaker 1: if we're if we're back in our conspiratorial Chipotle, here 220 00:13:46,640 --> 00:13:51,079 Speaker 1: the options. You can get his toppings banning religion. It's 221 00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:54,520 Speaker 1: a good old stand by. It always stands the test 222 00:13:54,559 --> 00:13:57,079 Speaker 1: of time and comes back up here in the US, 223 00:13:57,080 --> 00:14:01,280 Speaker 1: some small version of here are the powers to be 224 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:04,520 Speaker 1: banning religion pops up right before Christmas. Right, they're making 225 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:07,960 Speaker 1: a war on Christmas because of the way they're writing things, 226 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:11,920 Speaker 1: are saying happy Holidays. Another ingredient you could add would 227 00:14:11,920 --> 00:14:16,080 Speaker 1: be crushing all small business. This means that any private 228 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:19,720 Speaker 1: entity that's not affiliated with the big Davos players will 229 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:23,960 Speaker 1: be driven to insolvency or acquired by the in group 230 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:29,160 Speaker 1: of global corporations. Another thing here is something very common 231 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:32,560 Speaker 1: and something we've been watching occur for a long time, 232 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:37,840 Speaker 1: which is replacing work forces of humanity human work forces, 233 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:43,600 Speaker 1: the bees, the drones that do everything with automation, with technology, 234 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:48,120 Speaker 1: with self checkout lanes. Sorry that that ship has sailed. 235 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:51,160 Speaker 1: I love self checkout lanes and I don't know if 236 00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:54,600 Speaker 1: that makes me a bad person all about it. I 237 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:59,080 Speaker 1: hate them, you hate them. I want to talk to somebody. 238 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:02,880 Speaker 1: Oh man, you talk to us every day. But I 239 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:05,560 Speaker 1: just mean that one on one, even if we're masked 240 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:09,680 Speaker 1: up and stuff. But just whatever. Also, you know, I mean, 241 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:12,240 Speaker 1: it's it's a nice touch to have someone you know 242 00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:15,120 Speaker 1: bag your groceries who has experienced bagging groceries because I'm 243 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:17,840 Speaker 1: very bad at it. I smushed my bread every time. 244 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:22,440 Speaker 1: Uh yeah, there's a there's a there's a tetris to it, right. Uh. 245 00:15:22,520 --> 00:15:25,000 Speaker 1: But this this goes further, by the way, because it's 246 00:15:25,040 --> 00:15:28,680 Speaker 1: not just replacing, you know, the workforce in that way. 247 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:32,680 Speaker 1: It's in some way altering the humans in order to 248 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:35,600 Speaker 1: make them either unable to work in that way or 249 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:40,840 Speaker 1: just unnecessary in some former fashion, yeah, for cybernetics force 250 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:43,760 Speaker 1: wet wear kind of stuff. Uh. And then also, you know, 251 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:49,080 Speaker 1: going back to our earlier chapter one episode, imagine you know, 252 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:52,200 Speaker 1: you see somebody who doesn't hit Dumbar's number for you, 253 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:54,760 Speaker 1: and you're just like, that is not really a person 254 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:57,960 Speaker 1: to me. That's that's the function, that's the thing that 255 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:02,000 Speaker 1: moves the garbage on Tuesday. Then psychologically, you are not 256 00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:07,440 Speaker 1: particularly affected, um by a change in the thing that 257 00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:09,600 Speaker 1: is doing that function for you. So that's where that 258 00:16:09,640 --> 00:16:13,440 Speaker 1: conspiracy comes from. Uh. And then there's this other and 259 00:16:13,440 --> 00:16:15,920 Speaker 1: I guess this would be more right wing idea that 260 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:21,000 Speaker 1: this will result in a forced redistribution of wealth, but 261 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:25,800 Speaker 1: not for the not for the high level players at Dabos. Instead, 262 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:28,800 Speaker 1: it will be forced redistribution of wealth for you know, 263 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:33,560 Speaker 1: the average the average middle class household, uh, the average 264 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:38,080 Speaker 1: lower working class household that they're out to take your stuff. 265 00:16:38,920 --> 00:16:42,920 Speaker 1: And when you hear pundits or critics talking about the 266 00:16:42,960 --> 00:16:47,600 Speaker 1: Great Reset conspiracies, they're generally talking about some combination of 267 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:52,840 Speaker 1: these ideas we just mentioned, lots of different possible flavor combinations. 268 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:55,080 Speaker 1: You know what I mean. You can you can add 269 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:57,720 Speaker 1: all sorts of stuff. And then of course the avocado 270 00:16:57,760 --> 00:17:01,640 Speaker 1: of anti Semitism pops up right in this chipotle, um, 271 00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:05,200 Speaker 1: because usually it often does, sadly still when we're talking 272 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:08,959 Speaker 1: about globe less conspiracies. But no matter what you add 273 00:17:09,040 --> 00:17:11,880 Speaker 1: to the tortilla here, it is still a burrito. It's 274 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:14,240 Speaker 1: still kind of the same thing. And if there is 275 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:16,879 Speaker 1: an employee of the month, I promise I'm about to 276 00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:19,159 Speaker 1: let this analogy go. Thank you guys for humoring me 277 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:23,360 Speaker 1: in this conspiratorial Chipotle, it would probably be at least 278 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:26,920 Speaker 1: here in the US, a guy named Archbishop Carlo Maria 279 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:34,560 Speaker 1: Vigano Vegano, that's right. Uh. And he actually wrote um 280 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:37,800 Speaker 1: an open letter to Donald Trump that was later promoted 281 00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:41,720 Speaker 1: on the Fox TV network. Uh. And this was in October. 282 00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:46,280 Speaker 1: In this letter, vigan Vigano. And there's a little accent, ever, 283 00:17:46,320 --> 00:17:49,240 Speaker 1: though maybe it's a noo who knows. Um. He alleged 284 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:52,479 Speaker 1: that the Great Reset was in fact a cover for 285 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:56,040 Speaker 1: a scheme built by none other than Billy g himself. 286 00:17:56,440 --> 00:18:00,600 Speaker 1: Bill Gates centered on the quote renunciation and of private 287 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:04,000 Speaker 1: property and adherence to a program of vaccination against COVID 288 00:18:04,160 --> 00:18:09,560 Speaker 1: nineteen probably some of where the idea of microchip implants 289 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:13,280 Speaker 1: being part of the vaccination process maybe came from right, um, 290 00:18:13,280 --> 00:18:17,000 Speaker 1: But Vigana claimed people who refused a global digital id 291 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:21,359 Speaker 1: from a quote health dictatorship would be imprisoned in detention 292 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:25,120 Speaker 1: camps and lose all of their possessions. Um. So yeah, 293 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:30,080 Speaker 1: I mean, folks, you well may recognize this um having 294 00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:33,080 Speaker 1: a lot in common of this idea of Agenda twenty one. 295 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:36,600 Speaker 1: There's a bit more vaccination centric, right, and Ben, could 296 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:40,040 Speaker 1: we do a quick refresher on Agenda twenty one. Yeah, 297 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:45,560 Speaker 1: So it's a program for sustainable development that comes to 298 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:49,439 Speaker 1: us from the United Nations. But the conspiracy, of course 299 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:53,000 Speaker 1: is that it is a further step toward one world 300 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:58,400 Speaker 1: government that it would um create not just the global government, 301 00:18:58,480 --> 00:19:02,160 Speaker 1: but a global military and then a global currency. Right, 302 00:19:02,440 --> 00:19:05,720 Speaker 1: and of course all of the neo Nazis and anti 303 00:19:05,760 --> 00:19:08,560 Speaker 1: Semites out there did their best to pin this on 304 00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:12,560 Speaker 1: Ding ding ding Jewish people, um with you know, absolutely 305 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:15,560 Speaker 1: zero evidence to back that up. Uh. And then you've 306 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:20,000 Speaker 1: got the most outlandish, far out idea of them all, 307 00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:23,800 Speaker 1: the idea that Grover and Elmo, that's right of Sesame 308 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:28,320 Speaker 1: Street puppet fame are part of this scheme or a scheme. 309 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:33,679 Speaker 1: Bright Bark columnist James delling Pole argued that a w 310 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:38,120 Speaker 1: e F podcast called The Great Reset Resetting Education with 311 00:19:38,359 --> 00:19:43,399 Speaker 1: Sesame Street is propaganda meant to brainwash children, along with 312 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:46,040 Speaker 1: videos demonstrating how to wear a mask and to practice 313 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:50,040 Speaker 1: social distancing, um, things that as we know, we're very 314 00:19:50,119 --> 00:19:54,959 Speaker 1: much demonized and politicized um by you know folks in 315 00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:59,880 Speaker 1: this in this set. Uh so yeah, so you can 316 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:05,000 Speaker 1: mind this podcast we're mentioning here, the Great Reset re Education, 317 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:07,480 Speaker 1: Resetting Education with Sesame Street. You can find it on 318 00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:10,159 Speaker 1: SoundCloud and you can find it in a couple of 319 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:14,320 Speaker 1: other places. If you go to SoundCloud, you can read 320 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:19,320 Speaker 1: some of the comments that are placed within that file, 321 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:21,919 Speaker 1: because you know, when you're playing a SoundCloud file, you 322 00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:25,280 Speaker 1: can comment at a specific section and it shows up. 323 00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:27,600 Speaker 1: I just want to I'm gonna read a couple of 324 00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:31,720 Speaker 1: these really quickly, and I will edit myself. Alexander says 325 00:20:32,359 --> 00:20:36,119 Speaker 1: death to the new World Order. Jesus is Lord. Another 326 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:39,320 Speaker 1: one says resetting the entire world is a very big job. 327 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:45,280 Speaker 1: Dangerously close, says go yourselves, that people will rise against you. 328 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:49,240 Speaker 1: You better hide. Are they talking directly to Almo and 329 00:20:49,280 --> 00:21:00,120 Speaker 1: Grover or I just know I greatly appreciate this stuff because, um, 330 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:03,720 Speaker 1: it's it's funny. It's public education if it's something you 331 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:07,560 Speaker 1: agree with, but it's propaganda if it's something with which disagree. 332 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:11,480 Speaker 1: And uh, you know, I I think all of us, 333 00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:15,400 Speaker 1: I think all people who were watching Sesame Street at 334 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:18,199 Speaker 1: some point have one or two characters. He didn't trust, 335 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:20,600 Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Like Big Bird always seemed 336 00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:23,679 Speaker 1: a little suss to me. He was always kind of 337 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:26,480 Speaker 1: I thought he was the voice of reason. Almo always 338 00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:29,200 Speaker 1: rubbed me the wrong way, that weird, little yappy voice, 339 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:31,480 Speaker 1: and they just seemed like a speed freak or something. 340 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:33,800 Speaker 1: I don't know what his deal is. I'm sorry, I 341 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:36,040 Speaker 1: don't have I don't have a nemesis. What about snuff 342 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:40,040 Speaker 1: up Agus? How come only big Bird can see him? 343 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:43,400 Speaker 1: He's special that way, you know? What about what about 344 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:46,439 Speaker 1: the count? The count is my dude. You like the 345 00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:51,159 Speaker 1: Count I got. I like his vibe. Yeah, man, what 346 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:54,320 Speaker 1: you see is what you get. They never really go 347 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:56,679 Speaker 1: into like the mythology of the Count, like is he 348 00:21:56,720 --> 00:22:02,040 Speaker 1: a proper vampire? Does he feed on numbers? I don't know. 349 00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:05,560 Speaker 1: And I always wondered why he counts in threes. Whenever 350 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:11,639 Speaker 1: they're doing number of the day, he always counts up two, three, four, five, six. 351 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:17,040 Speaker 1: I thought, I thought, you many only counts in threes 352 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:19,240 Speaker 1: like one, three, nine. You know that's not because he 353 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:20,879 Speaker 1: teaches you how to count by two. He is all 354 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:23,040 Speaker 1: about all the different ways of counting because he's the Count. 355 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:27,240 Speaker 1: Mm hmm. And then you know, I think for um 356 00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:32,439 Speaker 1: many people growing up and especially in these current troubles times, 357 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:36,520 Speaker 1: Oscar the Grouch is kind of a spirit animal, like 358 00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:39,080 Speaker 1: a lot of people get. There's that he's got a 359 00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:44,720 Speaker 1: cool hand. Luke Energy of existential on we about him, 360 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:50,640 Speaker 1: shout up to Illumination Global Unlimited And speaking of sponsors, 361 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:54,160 Speaker 1: what say we pause to hear a little bit from 362 00:22:54,200 --> 00:23:00,160 Speaker 1: them and return with even more controversy, conspiracy and criticism 363 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:11,040 Speaker 1: of the Great Reset. Okay, and we're back now. We 364 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:13,960 Speaker 1: just talked about a lot of the claims against Davos 365 00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:16,160 Speaker 1: in the World Economic Forum, and they seem to be 366 00:23:16,359 --> 00:23:19,360 Speaker 1: pretty out there, some of them, if you're if you're 367 00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:22,920 Speaker 1: really thinking about them, pretty pretty hard. But we do, 368 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:25,639 Speaker 1: you know, we do know that we've already discussed the 369 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:30,320 Speaker 1: real mundane criticisms that are that exist of this group, which, yeah, right, 370 00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:34,240 Speaker 1: which is just the idea that this is an absolutely elite, 371 00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:39,119 Speaker 1: closed door session where real decisions are potentially being made, 372 00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:43,879 Speaker 1: whether you can call them handed down or just influencing 373 00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:48,680 Speaker 1: people with massive amounts of economic and political power. I mean, 374 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:52,360 Speaker 1: you know, you can't really say this is depriving us 375 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:55,439 Speaker 1: of democracy in terms of like the way Congress works 376 00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:57,399 Speaker 1: and the way laws are passed. But there's a lot 377 00:23:57,440 --> 00:23:59,720 Speaker 1: of closed door stuff that goes on behind that stuff 378 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:02,520 Speaker 1: that we don't see. So this is almost like an 379 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:06,119 Speaker 1: extra an extra level of closed door and nests behind 380 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:09,439 Speaker 1: an already pretty obscure process um that we are not 381 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:13,280 Speaker 1: always in on. That's right. And we mentioned before at 382 00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:16,400 Speaker 1: least we briefly mentioned the whole Green New Deal kind 383 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:22,240 Speaker 1: of thing, the you know, moving to more sustainable energy, 384 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:25,760 Speaker 1: different forms of energy, and you know, it is a 385 00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:32,200 Speaker 1: real threat for corporations and individuals who make their money 386 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:36,440 Speaker 1: off of the the older energy gathering techniques, right, I 387 00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:38,600 Speaker 1: mean that that we know that's a real threat to 388 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:41,960 Speaker 1: some people, but we also know that is a potential 389 00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:47,639 Speaker 1: planet saving thing potentially if you believe it and I 390 00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:50,119 Speaker 1: and I believe it. Yeah, I mean what good? What 391 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:53,120 Speaker 1: good is it? What? One way to look at this 392 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:55,880 Speaker 1: is to ask yourself. Honestly, you have to ask ourselves, 393 00:24:55,920 --> 00:25:00,600 Speaker 1: what good is it to have a very successful operation 394 00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:04,320 Speaker 1: when there's not a planet for it to operate on, 395 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:07,880 Speaker 1: you know, And that sounds hyperbolic, but it's it's unfortunately, 396 00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:11,359 Speaker 1: it's in the cards of a very large and terrifying 397 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:15,320 Speaker 1: deck called the future. We have to we have to 398 00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:20,040 Speaker 1: point out, you know, first off, neither the domestic political 399 00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:23,719 Speaker 1: left or the domestic political right are a percent on 400 00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:28,480 Speaker 1: board with the stated aims of Davos. And often you'll 401 00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:31,800 Speaker 1: see various groups say that these aims or these goals 402 00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:36,760 Speaker 1: do not feel sincere. The domestic right will sometimes argue 403 00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:40,719 Speaker 1: this is a cover for the imposition of communism and 404 00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:44,280 Speaker 1: the dismantling of what they see as traditional society, and 405 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:48,200 Speaker 1: the domestic left is pretty skeptical that these global emperors 406 00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:51,960 Speaker 1: of capitalism are either going to be a truly capable 407 00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:56,320 Speaker 1: or be truly willing to address problems that they have 408 00:25:56,800 --> 00:26:00,000 Speaker 1: to a great degree or to some degree created, especially 409 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:03,280 Speaker 1: when they continue to benefit to one degree or another 410 00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:10,119 Speaker 1: from that system. Why why would I logically destroy or 411 00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:15,400 Speaker 1: endanger the thing that continues to ensure my financial existence? Right, 412 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:18,960 Speaker 1: It's it's a good question. But then there's secondly, there's 413 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:21,639 Speaker 1: that perspective. We keep going back to it. Who is 414 00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:26,280 Speaker 1: Davos really helping? Beyond the theory? In practice, is this 415 00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:28,960 Speaker 1: helping is it helping the environment? Is it helping the 416 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:34,360 Speaker 1: crushing massive people struggling amid poverty, or is it, as 417 00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:39,680 Speaker 1: some critics allege, more a matter of helping the world's 418 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:42,919 Speaker 1: wealthy feel a little bit better about all the power 419 00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:45,439 Speaker 1: that they possess. And this is this is something that 420 00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:48,439 Speaker 1: I didn't really think about, but it does bear exploration. 421 00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:51,800 Speaker 1: I think it does, and it's something we have to 422 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:54,920 Speaker 1: take into account because we talked about motivation on this 423 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:56,880 Speaker 1: show all the time, and you you wonder what each 424 00:26:56,880 --> 00:27:03,560 Speaker 1: individual what motivates each individual person, right, And when you 425 00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:06,480 Speaker 1: look at some of the criticism that's coming that continues 426 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:09,560 Speaker 1: to come out, and then you you start to get 427 00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:12,480 Speaker 1: a picture of at least how some people are thinking 428 00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:17,159 Speaker 1: about it. And let's let's jump to Forbes, a man 429 00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:21,040 Speaker 1: named John Malden over there, who has a summation of 430 00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:24,520 Speaker 1: this big problem. He calls Davos quote another example of 431 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:28,800 Speaker 1: wealthy power elites saving their consciences with faux efforts to 432 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:31,640 Speaker 1: help them masses and in the process make themselves even 433 00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:36,800 Speaker 1: wealthier and more powerful. Yikes, man, that's I would say, 434 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:43,240 Speaker 1: that's a very to look at it. But is this 435 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:46,880 Speaker 1: cynical though, or is it like realistic? You know, I mean, 436 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:50,480 Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe those things can be can work 437 00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:52,080 Speaker 1: hand in hand. But like I saw a thing pop 438 00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:54,399 Speaker 1: up on a Facebook story the other day or Instagram 439 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:56,840 Speaker 1: story rather the other day. Where are we just talking about, 440 00:27:56,920 --> 00:28:02,000 Speaker 1: like the poverty industry with things like check cashing companies, 441 00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:07,720 Speaker 1: overdraft fees, um, you know, payday loans or whatever. You 442 00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:10,720 Speaker 1: know what I mean, Um, like all of this stuff. 443 00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:14,000 Speaker 1: These are billion dollar industries. And not to say that 444 00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:16,240 Speaker 1: any of this is discussed at Davus, I mean, because 445 00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:18,520 Speaker 1: it's all kind of behind this. You know, we could 446 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:21,040 Speaker 1: call it a guy's I guess of like making everyone's 447 00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:23,840 Speaker 1: lives better. But the question is like who is everyone 448 00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:27,200 Speaker 1: and are these just kind of like virtue signaling attempts 449 00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:31,399 Speaker 1: to like, you know, help third world countries and and 450 00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:35,120 Speaker 1: help like the quote unquote like global uh poor rather 451 00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:37,560 Speaker 1: than like, you know, the poor right here in our 452 00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:41,880 Speaker 1: country that that that are largely suffering under this kind 453 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:45,880 Speaker 1: of system of economic oppression. Uh. In my opinion, it's 454 00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:50,080 Speaker 1: expensive to be poor, and I wish more people would 455 00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:52,920 Speaker 1: talk about that more often, you know what I mean? 456 00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:57,760 Speaker 1: The associated cost of living towards the bottom of any 457 00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:02,080 Speaker 1: socioeconomic system can be tremendous, slee difficult. It's it is 458 00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:04,680 Speaker 1: in a very real way, uh, kind of plain life 459 00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:08,400 Speaker 1: on hard mode in many aspects. And it is a 460 00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:12,560 Speaker 1: good question who is everyone, right, who counts as a 461 00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:16,880 Speaker 1: person here and to what degree? Before we continue with this, 462 00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:20,480 Speaker 1: I do want to say it is important everyone to 463 00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:23,760 Speaker 1: know that when you're talking about an organization of this size, 464 00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:26,120 Speaker 1: you are very rarely going to be talking about a 465 00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:31,800 Speaker 1: uniform massive opinions. The Davos and the World Economic Forum 466 00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:35,960 Speaker 1: are rife with people who are sincerely making their best, 467 00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:40,520 Speaker 1: good faith efforts to improve the world while we still 468 00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:45,000 Speaker 1: have something around to improve. But maybe not everybody and 469 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:48,000 Speaker 1: and maybe maybe even those good faith efforts are at 470 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:51,880 Speaker 1: times misplaced. That's what a lot of the journalists criticizing this, 471 00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:55,880 Speaker 1: and a lot of the the experts and the researchers 472 00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:59,640 Speaker 1: criticizing this are saying, I was surprised that Forbes was 473 00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:01,800 Speaker 1: done on them so hard. You haven't seen the rest 474 00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:05,280 Speaker 1: of it yet, folks, But well we'll get there, um 475 00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:08,320 Speaker 1: to put it in perspective. So, there are a lot 476 00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:09,960 Speaker 1: of talks, right, but there are also a lot of 477 00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:13,920 Speaker 1: attractions and a lot of afterparties. One of the most 478 00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:19,440 Speaker 1: popular attractions in Davos is a re enactment of uh 479 00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:22,959 Speaker 1: where where you experience to a degree, the life of 480 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:26,400 Speaker 1: a refugee on the run. Attendees crawl on their hands 481 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:30,480 Speaker 1: and knees pretending to escape gunfire. It is a year 482 00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:34,560 Speaker 1: over year one of the most popular attractions. I totally 483 00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:37,560 Speaker 1: see that, and that sounds, I don't know, maybe an 484 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:41,040 Speaker 1: effort to change your perspective a little bit, but it 485 00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:45,520 Speaker 1: does sound performative. I guess what, I what I'm feeling 486 00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:47,640 Speaker 1: right now and thinking about all of this stuff, and 487 00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:50,120 Speaker 1: then hearing the criticism of it, and and then even 488 00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:54,360 Speaker 1: examining my own inner criticisms of it and my skepticism 489 00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:58,000 Speaker 1: that there's anything actually good being done here. I've got 490 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:03,960 Speaker 1: this competing thing where even even going to Davos in 491 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:07,040 Speaker 1: an attempt to discuss some of these big problems and 492 00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:12,040 Speaker 1: seek solutions, even if it is super flawed, feels like 493 00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:15,240 Speaker 1: that that individual person is doing way more than I 494 00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:20,680 Speaker 1: personally to push forward humanity to the future, right or 495 00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:23,680 Speaker 1: in an attempt. So I'm I'm just having problems. I'm 496 00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:27,400 Speaker 1: having a problem like viewing it as this big negative thing. 497 00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:31,640 Speaker 1: But I agree with a lot of the criticism put 498 00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:34,000 Speaker 1: forward too, So I think there's just a there's a 499 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:36,080 Speaker 1: push pull that I'm experiencing right here, And I wonder 500 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:38,520 Speaker 1: if anybody else listening to is having that right, Like, 501 00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:41,160 Speaker 1: is it? Um? I think we're there with you? Is 502 00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:46,800 Speaker 1: it in absolute terms? Right? In total terms? Than these 503 00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:50,600 Speaker 1: individuals can do much much more than the average person 504 00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:55,320 Speaker 1: right through any number of avenues. But also the question 505 00:31:55,440 --> 00:32:02,280 Speaker 1: is that I'd like everybody to ask ask ourselves, is um, 506 00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:05,400 Speaker 1: what do you have in common with the people at Davos, 507 00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:09,520 Speaker 1: Because you know, not all countries have equal quality of life, 508 00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:12,840 Speaker 1: So there are some countries where, uh, someone would be 509 00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:16,440 Speaker 1: considered very poor in comparison to their neighbors. Is living 510 00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:19,120 Speaker 1: in amazing life or what people in other countries or 511 00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:22,080 Speaker 1: other parts of the world would consider an amazing life, 512 00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:26,000 Speaker 1: you know. Um, so it's a question we have to 513 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:28,720 Speaker 1: turn on ourselves to like what what have I done? 514 00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:32,840 Speaker 1: What am I doing? What will I do? And I 515 00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:35,480 Speaker 1: think it's I think it's an appropriate and since youre 516 00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:39,120 Speaker 1: question to ask and for the for the work that's 517 00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:42,000 Speaker 1: being done at Davos, you know, I think there's a 518 00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:46,120 Speaker 1: lot of it that's worthy of applause. But this is 519 00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:51,120 Speaker 1: about the dark side and the problems. So the third 520 00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:54,280 Speaker 1: point of criticism here, I want to go back to 521 00:32:54,320 --> 00:33:00,760 Speaker 1: that phrase mentioned earlier, stakeholder capitalism. Well, that's so good, 522 00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:05,640 Speaker 1: right with stakeholders? Were all stakeholders. Now you're a CEO, 523 00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:09,360 Speaker 1: I am a farmer, and here's the person that repairs 524 00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:11,400 Speaker 1: the tractor, and here's the person that takes out the 525 00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:15,000 Speaker 1: garbage on Tuesday. All of us are equal in that 526 00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:18,800 Speaker 1: we are stakeholders in this new form of capitalism. It's 527 00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:22,320 Speaker 1: a slick phrase, but dangerously vague, Yeah, because I mean 528 00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:26,440 Speaker 1: there's no parody right between these different stakeholders at all. 529 00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:29,120 Speaker 1: I mean they are the stakeholders at the top, who 530 00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:31,680 Speaker 1: you know, you could probably change a few letters and 531 00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:35,280 Speaker 1: call them stockholders. Uh. And then you've got like your 532 00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:39,920 Speaker 1: you know, lower lower tier workers who absolutely keep the 533 00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:43,760 Speaker 1: trains running on time and keep the manufacturing process running 534 00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:47,840 Speaker 1: correctly or whatever. Um. But they they they're not on 535 00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:51,160 Speaker 1: an equal footing as the folks at the top, no way. 536 00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:53,640 Speaker 1: So you're right. It's sort of like a feel good 537 00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:56,920 Speaker 1: y kind of of of of way of referring to 538 00:33:56,960 --> 00:33:59,920 Speaker 1: these things that implies we're all in this together, except 539 00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:04,400 Speaker 1: you know, not not really. My assistant told me not 540 00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:10,080 Speaker 1: everybody goes to college. Think about that, folks, think about it. 541 00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:14,279 Speaker 1: All right, guys. I love what we're doing here. I 542 00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:18,640 Speaker 1: learned a lot better when we're working in analogies. Is 543 00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:24,080 Speaker 1: there any chance we could jump back to Chipotle? Been sure? Yeah, yeah, yeah, 544 00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:26,759 Speaker 1: let's go. Let's go. What do you got? What's on 545 00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:28,880 Speaker 1: the menu? I don't know. I'm going to you man 546 00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:34,080 Speaker 1: about I just know those chips are on point. They're salty, though, man, 547 00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:36,040 Speaker 1: they're a little too salty. Well, can we do a 548 00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:39,160 Speaker 1: case adilla analogy this time? It's not there like go 549 00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:41,600 Speaker 1: to menu item, but they'll do one for you. They'll 550 00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:44,600 Speaker 1: do it. Yeah, you just have to exercise. You just 551 00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:49,000 Speaker 1: have to have good charisma stats after it's off menu, 552 00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:51,080 Speaker 1: so you know, you gotta roll at least a six 553 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:52,759 Speaker 1: to get it, to get them to make you a 554 00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:57,160 Speaker 1: case of um. Yeah, case Ada by far one of 555 00:34:57,200 --> 00:35:01,719 Speaker 1: my favorite foods unrecognized. God, I'm gonna make one right 556 00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:05,919 Speaker 1: after this. Okay. So if we're going back with Archipotle analogy, 557 00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:11,560 Speaker 1: then we would say to Schwab, to Professor Schwab, if 558 00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:15,800 Speaker 1: he is ordering a burrito or sorry at case Ada, 559 00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:18,520 Speaker 1: if he's ordering in case Adia and that case Adia 560 00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:23,399 Speaker 1: is stock whole stakeholder capitalism, then he's not really being 561 00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:27,000 Speaker 1: helpful to the people who are supposed to, you know, 562 00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:30,680 Speaker 1: create this case Ada because they say, okay, you know 563 00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:34,960 Speaker 1: they got the tortilla right of globalism, and then they say, well, 564 00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:40,800 Speaker 1: what is stakeholder capitalism? What goes in this case idia, professor, 565 00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:45,640 Speaker 1: and then the professor steak Well, the professor goes, uh, 566 00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:48,279 Speaker 1: you know what really goes into this case a dia 567 00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:52,120 Speaker 1: is the idea of responsibility and accountability. And they're like, 568 00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:54,640 Speaker 1: we don't have that kind of cheese. Are you talking 569 00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:59,759 Speaker 1: about corporate personhood? Right? That's right as as this be 570 00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:03,120 Speaker 1: a weird off menu item. There's a guy name Ben 571 00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:06,000 Speaker 1: six Smith, which has a great name for ning fans 572 00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:09,879 Speaker 1: of Cloud Atlas especially. He argues that this is not 573 00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:13,120 Speaker 1: a bug, that this is a feature. It is vague 574 00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:17,440 Speaker 1: by design because then it allows these gigantic companies to 575 00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:24,120 Speaker 1: kind of interpret what stakeholder capitalism is as they wish. 576 00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:27,759 Speaker 1: And this leads us to ask ourselves, you know, is 577 00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:32,600 Speaker 1: this really a new innovative attempt at something different this 578 00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:35,839 Speaker 1: case idea, or is it really just kind of a 579 00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:40,040 Speaker 1: burrito that we rolled differently to look like it was 580 00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:43,080 Speaker 1: a new menu item when it's the same stuff with 581 00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:47,040 Speaker 1: the same ingredients. You just flattened it. You just flattened it, 582 00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:49,800 Speaker 1: just flattened it to make it look different at the time. 583 00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:53,799 Speaker 1: So there's uh. There's an author named Naomi Klein who 584 00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:57,000 Speaker 1: is writing for The Intercept, and she claims the Great 585 00:36:57,040 --> 00:36:59,960 Speaker 1: Reset is just this. She calls it a COVID brain 586 00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:05,400 Speaker 1: ended reiteration of all this stuff Davos already does. She says, 587 00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:09,040 Speaker 1: quote in short, the Great Reset encompasses some good stuff 588 00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:11,760 Speaker 1: that won't happen and some bad stuff that certainly will, 589 00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:15,680 Speaker 1: and frankly, nothing out of the ordinary in our era 590 00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:22,560 Speaker 1: of green billionaires readying rockets from ours. Oh man, she continues, Yeah, 591 00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:25,520 Speaker 1: but so basically all the bad stuff is gonna happen anyway. 592 00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:29,200 Speaker 1: These are these are lovely ideas. They're never gonna happen. 593 00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:31,920 Speaker 1: And everybody else, everybody that can is getting the hell 594 00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:35,640 Speaker 1: out of here. Yeah. She She goes further too, because 595 00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:40,640 Speaker 1: she says furthermore, the w e F has historically been 596 00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:44,640 Speaker 1: against a lot of the solutions or a lot of 597 00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:48,640 Speaker 1: the things rather that could have the potential to address 598 00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:52,520 Speaker 1: or solve the issues, it claims the champion. It's like, well, 599 00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:57,200 Speaker 1: why aren't they bigger fans of more robust regulation or 600 00:37:57,239 --> 00:38:01,440 Speaker 1: protection for local industries, progressive taxi shan and and I 601 00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:05,440 Speaker 1: think she prefaces this with like and god forbid nationalization, 602 00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:10,080 Speaker 1: which is, you know, a hugely hot topic in oil 603 00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:14,360 Speaker 1: wars of years gone by. Um, and she calls it 604 00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:17,400 Speaker 1: something she coined to freeze that I think we'll all enjoy, 605 00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:20,759 Speaker 1: called shock doctrine. Yeah. You know, I'm always a fan 606 00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:23,319 Speaker 1: of smashing things together at the one. Let's go shock 607 00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:26,759 Speaker 1: trine too obvious. I like shock doctrine. It's fun to say, 608 00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:32,480 Speaker 1: which is an attempt by the elite to leverage things 609 00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:39,520 Speaker 1: like COVID nineteen or you know, catastrophic weather, um, infrastructure 610 00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:42,480 Speaker 1: collapse and all that as a way of kind of 611 00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:46,720 Speaker 1: ramming through these policies that quote further enrich the already 612 00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:52,360 Speaker 1: wealthy and restrict democratic liberties. That's that's that's according to Kliin, 613 00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:55,200 Speaker 1: reminds me a bit of the Patriot Act. Guys. Yeah, 614 00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:56,920 Speaker 1: and she goes on to point out Ben, what I 615 00:38:56,920 --> 00:39:00,000 Speaker 1: believe is your very favorite headline of this entire article, 616 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:03,560 Speaker 1: because probably because it's food based. But she u titled 617 00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:08,319 Speaker 1: her article the Great Reset Conspiracy Smoothie UM to to 618 00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:11,759 Speaker 1: keep in line with all of these food metaphors. Yeah, 619 00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:14,879 Speaker 1: she went with she with smoothies, we went with uh, 620 00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:17,680 Speaker 1: we went Chipotle. You know. But I respect the craft, 621 00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:20,719 Speaker 1: I respect the work for sure. Um. And And whether 622 00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:24,160 Speaker 1: or not you know you personally are a fan of 623 00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:29,000 Speaker 1: capitalism rit large, you know, capital c capitalism, or whether 624 00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:32,920 Speaker 1: you are of the achalon of society that would attend 625 00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:37,520 Speaker 1: Davos um, it's pretty clear that the idea of philanthropy, 626 00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:39,880 Speaker 1: and we've talked about this in the past. There's an 627 00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:42,480 Speaker 1: episode in particular things called the Dark Side of philanthropy 628 00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:45,440 Speaker 1: or something along those lines. It, Yeah, can have just 629 00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:48,880 Speaker 1: that a dark side. Um, and Ben, you came up 630 00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:52,000 Speaker 1: with a great term for this. We've already talked about greenwashing. 631 00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:55,200 Speaker 1: Uh so what what would what would be a term 632 00:39:55,400 --> 00:40:00,440 Speaker 1: to describe the kind of optics of benevolence? Uh that 633 00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:03,360 Speaker 1: that that all of this stuff kind of has. Oh boy, okay, 634 00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:06,200 Speaker 1: still workshopping this one. So everybody go easy. I mean 635 00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:10,960 Speaker 1: good washing, good washing? What is what is good washing? Uh? 636 00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:14,480 Speaker 1: Maybe the mic drop moment comes from Steve Dunning also 637 00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:17,439 Speaker 1: at Forbes. I'm still kind of surprised they wrote about 638 00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:21,759 Speaker 1: Davos this way. Dunning says firms can go on privately 639 00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:25,400 Speaker 1: shoveling money to their shareholders and executives while maintaining a 640 00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:30,600 Speaker 1: public front of exquisite social sensitivity and exemplary altruism. And 641 00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:33,400 Speaker 1: then six Smith comes in, you know, like dropping a 642 00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:37,040 Speaker 1: cameo in the verse there and says Amazon can proclaim 643 00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:40,400 Speaker 1: that black lives matter, for example, while it's employees pissing 644 00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:43,480 Speaker 1: bottles for fear of being fired for taking toilet breaks. 645 00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:46,560 Speaker 1: That's the mic drop moment, right right right? But it's 646 00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:49,240 Speaker 1: it's good washing, isn't it. Look what we are doing 647 00:40:49,719 --> 00:40:53,800 Speaker 1: for society, just not for our employees. Um I speaking 648 00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:58,360 Speaker 1: speaking of Pitts Brakes. Guys, I'm gonna need to do 649 00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:01,640 Speaker 1: that really quickly. But we will be right back with 650 00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:12,120 Speaker 1: a word from our sponsor and we're back. So this 651 00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:14,839 Speaker 1: is maybe what this is maybe the most important part. 652 00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:20,960 Speaker 1: How much sand do these conspiracies and these criticisms actually hold. 653 00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:24,719 Speaker 1: I think we can all agree that if this is 654 00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:28,920 Speaker 1: a vast communist conspiracy to turn all the governments of 655 00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:33,440 Speaker 1: the world democratic authoritarian, what have you into one big 656 00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:37,200 Speaker 1: communist government or socialist at the very least right or 657 00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:39,920 Speaker 1: socialist at very least Yeah, good point. There're two different things, 658 00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:43,240 Speaker 1: but you know, trending in the same direction. Uh well, 659 00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:45,759 Speaker 1: if that were the case, the only thing we can 660 00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:47,799 Speaker 1: say for sure is this would be one hell of 661 00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:51,799 Speaker 1: a plot twist for Professor Schwab and pretty much all 662 00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:54,839 Speaker 1: the companies that are participating in Davos. I mean, think 663 00:41:54,840 --> 00:42:00,480 Speaker 1: about like Apple, Feiser, lockeed. Are they are they really 664 00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:04,000 Speaker 1: known for their radical left wing ideologies? Is it like 665 00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:08,840 Speaker 1: Fiser uh down down with the neoliberals or something. I 666 00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:11,600 Speaker 1: don't really think so, not so much. They're still getting 667 00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:14,719 Speaker 1: paid for vaccines. Remember they're making money. That's a good 668 00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:17,160 Speaker 1: point then, And it's the pandemic that really kind of 669 00:42:17,200 --> 00:42:21,080 Speaker 1: brings all of this into focus because every single country, 670 00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:23,680 Speaker 1: every one of these companies is in a pretty difficult 671 00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:27,040 Speaker 1: position in that if you move too far along in 672 00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:30,799 Speaker 1: a solution kind of in your own wheelhouse, um, you've 673 00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:35,520 Speaker 1: got no way of making these other organizations do the same, 674 00:42:36,239 --> 00:42:39,040 Speaker 1: meaning that there has to be some level of cooperation 675 00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:41,600 Speaker 1: for the system to hold for for everything to kind 676 00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:44,719 Speaker 1: of hold together. If you're out completely in left field 677 00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:48,040 Speaker 1: or right field, or whichever direction the field you find 678 00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:50,799 Speaker 1: yourself in, uh, you're not going to be successful. Then 679 00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:56,520 Speaker 1: if these big businesses were working in concert, right, Yeah, absolutely, 680 00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:58,000 Speaker 1: And think about it. You know, if you're a big 681 00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:02,840 Speaker 1: business and you are and you have competitors in the market, 682 00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:05,440 Speaker 1: and you say I'm going to make these radical changes 683 00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:09,480 Speaker 1: on my home turf and nobody else does, then your 684 00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:11,840 Speaker 1: stuff might get more and more expensive, it might be 685 00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:14,080 Speaker 1: more and more difficult to run your day to day business. 686 00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:16,640 Speaker 1: You might end up being bankrupt because you were not 687 00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:20,360 Speaker 1: able to move as a as a unit with these larger, 688 00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:23,920 Speaker 1: larger industry players. I mean, it's a thing that we 689 00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:26,439 Speaker 1: can't miss, you know, regardless of how you feel about 690 00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:32,000 Speaker 1: Davos or globalism, Professor Schwab, not for nothing. He's right. 691 00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:38,160 Speaker 1: Capitalism as it stands today has these massive, dangerous, possibly 692 00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:44,160 Speaker 1: fatal uh structural problems. And these problems really are too 693 00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:47,520 Speaker 1: big to tackle through conventional means. The stuff that worked 694 00:43:47,520 --> 00:43:50,680 Speaker 1: in the past, it's probably not gonna work now. And 695 00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:52,319 Speaker 1: that brings us to a weird spot, right, because the 696 00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:56,799 Speaker 1: erosion of the short lived age of privacy is very real. Right. 697 00:43:56,840 --> 00:43:59,560 Speaker 1: We are in a surveillance state, and we have been 698 00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:04,719 Speaker 1: the long term prospects of life for this species spoiler 699 00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:10,080 Speaker 1: alert not looking particularly swell at the moment. And unfortunately, 700 00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:15,439 Speaker 1: we don't need some wild easily disproven story about Bill 701 00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:20,320 Speaker 1: Gates and COVID microchips to come to either of those conclusions. 702 00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:24,000 Speaker 1: They are inarguable and they are fact uh and and 703 00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:28,920 Speaker 1: stepping stepping down off the uh off what do you 704 00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:32,040 Speaker 1: call it? Soapbox here? Um, I was wondering. People really 705 00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:35,400 Speaker 1: used to stand on soapboxes for sure, and even like 706 00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:38,560 Speaker 1: on film sets they use apple boxes, that's they still 707 00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:40,440 Speaker 1: they still call them that anyway, But they're basically just 708 00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:43,880 Speaker 1: like expensive, you know, hollow pieces of like wooden frame 709 00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:47,120 Speaker 1: to make shorter actors look taller. I just want to say, guys, 710 00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:51,399 Speaker 1: before we finish up here. You guys know this, and 711 00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:54,080 Speaker 1: I've mentioned this before in a couple of shows. I 712 00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:58,640 Speaker 1: personally lost my religious faith a long time ago. And 713 00:44:58,680 --> 00:45:01,359 Speaker 1: when I lost it, I put that I put that 714 00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:04,880 Speaker 1: faith that's that need to believe in something it was 715 00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:09,040 Speaker 1: still existed. I put it in groups of intelligent people 716 00:45:09,719 --> 00:45:13,879 Speaker 1: getting together and trying to solve problems. And that's really 717 00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:17,000 Speaker 1: where I put my faith. Like, Okay, if if this 718 00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:19,160 Speaker 1: isn't going to help me in my belief, my belief 719 00:45:19,239 --> 00:45:21,319 Speaker 1: now is this religion isn't gonna help me, at least 720 00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:24,399 Speaker 1: humanity is going to help me, and you know, all 721 00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:27,480 Speaker 1: of us get through these things. So this episode has 722 00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:31,640 Speaker 1: been really difficult personally for me to um square just 723 00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:33,640 Speaker 1: to square some of it because I agree with the 724 00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:36,360 Speaker 1: realities that we've outlined here, with the problems of criticisms. 725 00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:39,120 Speaker 1: I agree with that stuff. It's just tough thinking that 726 00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:45,600 Speaker 1: our best option is so flawed. Secular humanism, that's what 727 00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:49,839 Speaker 1: I should call it. I just it's tough knowing that 728 00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:56,040 Speaker 1: the elite secular humanism movement is Yeah, but they're they're 729 00:45:56,080 --> 00:45:59,279 Speaker 1: called the elite because there's their small percentage, you know, 730 00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:02,120 Speaker 1: of of humanity. And sure they have a lot of 731 00:46:02,120 --> 00:46:06,440 Speaker 1: control over the course of humanity, but they are not humanity. 732 00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:09,640 Speaker 1: And I would argue that in general, I've seen a 733 00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:14,920 Speaker 1: lot of outpouring of of of of wonderful qualities of humanity, um, 734 00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:17,800 Speaker 1: during this pandemic of like, you know, being there for 735 00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:20,759 Speaker 1: your fellow human and just kind of like having each 736 00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:23,160 Speaker 1: other's backs and all of that stuff. And and now 737 00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:26,360 Speaker 1: I'm kumbayeing a little bit, but I have not lost 738 00:46:26,400 --> 00:46:30,040 Speaker 1: faith in humanity at large. But yeah, it's a bummer 739 00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:34,880 Speaker 1: when when so few, uh, very very very powerful stakeholders 740 00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:39,000 Speaker 1: kind of set the course you know for so many others. 741 00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:42,080 Speaker 1: It's all beautiful, Nolan, I I agree with you. It's 742 00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:49,560 Speaker 1: just how do we solve the water crisis problem? Right? Well, 743 00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:51,880 Speaker 1: we can leave that, we can leave that conversation for 744 00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:54,359 Speaker 1: another day. But but but in the meantime, before we wrap, 745 00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:56,600 Speaker 1: I think we have a little bit of a special surprise, 746 00:46:56,640 --> 00:47:01,000 Speaker 1: don't we. Oh Hey, guys, Alex Jones speaking, Um, big 747 00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:03,600 Speaker 1: fan of the show, but fan, just why don't you 748 00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:05,479 Speaker 1: know that you guys are my favorite sorts of thake news. 749 00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:12,640 Speaker 1: I'm sorry about that. The snort of the big Railica 750 00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:17,840 Speaker 1: ship put in us there in a chest day what Anyways, 751 00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:21,040 Speaker 1: I just listened to your your your episode on the 752 00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:26,400 Speaker 1: Nestly Water conspiracy, and I, uh, you know my reason, 753 00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:29,520 Speaker 1: but a great idea to uh like you and your listeners. 754 00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:33,279 Speaker 1: You know, I'm great opportunity. It's just a great apportunity. 755 00:47:33,880 --> 00:47:38,320 Speaker 1: I'm proud to announce the Info Wars brand bottled water 756 00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:41,800 Speaker 1: is I know, I know, guys or something, thinking Alex, 757 00:47:42,040 --> 00:47:45,439 Speaker 1: how did you get past the globalists that the run 758 00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:50,399 Speaker 1: Nestly and get your own water bottle water line the 759 00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:53,440 Speaker 1: bolus that they cast out me and by the globus. 760 00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:57,600 Speaker 1: I definitely don't mean to juicse just make that clear. Anyways. Anyways, 761 00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:03,200 Speaker 1: this this water, it's it's great. It's great. It's it's 762 00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:05,640 Speaker 1: it's totally gluten free. It's only got a little bit 763 00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:08,279 Speaker 1: of mercury in it. That it totally Like I said, 764 00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:12,640 Speaker 1: it's it's it's that's stuff. It's less mercury. Then that's 765 00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:18,000 Speaker 1: probably less mercury. Well, I mean it's it's probably got 766 00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:20,880 Speaker 1: less mercury than uh that's what Michigan. But you know 767 00:48:22,840 --> 00:48:26,560 Speaker 1: it's good for you to need both character anyways, anyways, UM, 768 00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:29,840 Speaker 1: I just want to listen to guys and on that. Um, 769 00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:33,439 Speaker 1: you can get a super good deal on Alex dash 770 00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:39,040 Speaker 1: Jones dot bs. Um. Yeah, and uh I've also been 771 00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:42,200 Speaker 1: you are my spirit animal. I'm serious about that. You 772 00:48:42,239 --> 00:48:47,279 Speaker 1: are my spirit animal. Thank you. Well, well, well that 773 00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:56,080 Speaker 1: was something we made it. I mean, you're you're you're 774 00:48:56,080 --> 00:48:59,759 Speaker 1: fake Alex Jones a spirit animal. Then that's pretty Hey, 775 00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:02,759 Speaker 1: we we can't confer if that was fake Alex Jones 776 00:49:02,840 --> 00:49:05,799 Speaker 1: or the real Alex Jones would narrate himself doing a 777 00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:07,520 Speaker 1: giant rail of coke. I think he would just do 778 00:49:07,560 --> 00:49:11,799 Speaker 1: it and you know, decide for yourself. You're saying, you 779 00:49:11,800 --> 00:49:13,719 Speaker 1: guys heard that too. I thought that was just in 780 00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:17,280 Speaker 1: my head. Okay, all right, well I don't know something. 781 00:49:17,719 --> 00:49:20,880 Speaker 1: I didn't go to the website. Uh he did maybe 782 00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:24,520 Speaker 1: try to sell this spottled water. At the very least, 783 00:49:24,520 --> 00:49:28,240 Speaker 1: it's very good impression someone was channeling Alex Jones. Maybe 784 00:49:28,360 --> 00:49:32,400 Speaker 1: right absolutely, you know, yeah, somebody somebody printed out one 785 00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:37,400 Speaker 1: of those Alex Jones sigils. And now that he's now 786 00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:40,640 Speaker 1: that he's been pulled from all the you know, popular platforms. 787 00:49:41,040 --> 00:49:42,799 Speaker 1: I guess the only place you can really get him 788 00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:45,120 Speaker 1: is out in the ether, just being channeling him, you know, 789 00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:47,680 Speaker 1: just from the zeitgeist at large. Where is he on? Now? 790 00:49:47,680 --> 00:49:49,400 Speaker 1: It is he he's on like parlor or something that 791 00:49:49,520 --> 00:49:52,000 Speaker 1: gab gabs is where he? I don't I don't remember. 792 00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:54,600 Speaker 1: I have no idea of Maybe he's just lonely and 793 00:49:54,840 --> 00:49:58,000 Speaker 1: calling us. Uh. But if you want to take a 794 00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:02,200 Speaker 1: page from Alex Jones is bo you can contact us directly. 795 00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:04,759 Speaker 1: We try to be easy to find online. Yep. You 796 00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:07,759 Speaker 1: can find us on Facebook and Twitter where we are 797 00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:11,360 Speaker 1: conspiracy stuff or conspiracy stuff show on Instagram. Um. You 798 00:50:11,360 --> 00:50:13,720 Speaker 1: can also join our Facebook group Here's where it gets crazy. 799 00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:15,680 Speaker 1: How to fun to be had there? Yeah, that's right. 800 00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:18,040 Speaker 1: You can also give us a call. Re number is 801 00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:21,279 Speaker 1: one eight three three st d w y t K. 802 00:50:21,960 --> 00:50:24,640 Speaker 1: Please leave your name whatever you want us to call you, 803 00:50:24,719 --> 00:50:27,760 Speaker 1: doesn't have to be your real name. Tell us your message, 804 00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:30,400 Speaker 1: Try and keep it uh succinct if you can a 805 00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:33,239 Speaker 1: little short. Yeah, like Alex, his message was blissfully short. 806 00:50:33,320 --> 00:50:36,080 Speaker 1: Still felt a little long, but you know, clock time wise, 807 00:50:36,120 --> 00:50:37,640 Speaker 1: it was like only about a minute thirty and that's 808 00:50:37,680 --> 00:50:41,239 Speaker 1: one three three s T d w y t K yes. Uh. 809 00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:44,279 Speaker 1: And if there is a special message you just want 810 00:50:44,280 --> 00:50:46,279 Speaker 1: to leave for us you don't want to share with 811 00:50:46,680 --> 00:50:49,879 Speaker 1: the internet, that's fine to just tell us at the end. 812 00:50:50,040 --> 00:50:52,920 Speaker 1: Most importantly, do not feel as though you need to 813 00:50:53,080 --> 00:50:56,440 Speaker 1: censor yourself. 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