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Chapter 1: What is the highlight of today's show?
I spelled conspiracy, but you wouldn't know it from the title I put on this show. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. I mean, at least until we get our gravitic propulsion systems. Can't wait. But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even comprehend with their tiny, shiny human brains...
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Well, the news is all fun and interesting, so I'm going to zip through it and delight you. Number one, first of all, Owen is going to do a Spaces, which he's been doing on Saturdays, so you can look for that.
I don't know if it will become a long-term tradition, but at least for today, Owen Gregorian will be doing a Spaces after this show where he can talk about what we talked about or, I suppose, anything else. All right, so look for that. So yesterday... I opened up my ChatGPT app, which I haven't looked at recently because I've been using other apps.
And I didn't realize that my app had already been upgraded so that you can do the thing where you open the camera on your phone. You can just point your camera at stuff, and the AI will have a conversation with you about what you're looking at. Now, I didn't really know how cool that was until yesterday.
where I'm standing outside my driveway at night and the moon is out, nice little crescent, but really near the moon is this very bright, presumably a planet. And I said to myself, huh, which planet is that? It's so bright. And so I turned on the chat GPT camera and I just aimed it at the sky. And I said, well, what planet do you think that is? And chat GPT said, well, it could be, you know,
this bright planet could be this or it could be that, but it's probably Venus because that's the brightest one that would be in that part of the sky. And so I said to it, because it chats with you, you don't have to touch another button, you can just keep the conversation going. So I said to it, are you saying that Venus is the shiny one?
And does that mean that the other planets would be experiencing Venus envy? And it laughed at my joke and complimented me. It actually reacted to the joke positively. Now that just freaked me out. Because if you're a person who likes to get credit for telling jokes, which is literally my profession, I worry that I would get hooked on that. You know, just having AI tell me I did a good joke.
Like, yeah, yeah, artificial intelligence right there. If you think it's funny, it must be funny. But then I remembered that AI can only do dad jokes, and that was basically just a PG-13 dad joke. I'm like, eh, okay. More work to go. Anyway, there's a study written about in Study Finds that success could come down to luck more than merit, according to research. Huh, research.
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Chapter 2: How can you increase your luck?
Or even if they don't wear it and all they do is leave it at home, they're probably going to leave it somewhere where they see it all the time. It's going to be on top of their dresser, and they're going to see it every time they get it. dressed, but they're like, ah, I don't want to wear it. But there it is. So rule number one for persuasion, the most important starting rule for persuasion.
You have to make people focus on your thing more than they were. That's it. That's your rule number one. So Massey is turning this concept of debt into a physical device that your eyes are looking at. makes you think about it more than you were thinking about it. That is really good persuasion.
So it looks like it's a clever toy and people want one because other people have one, but it's way more than that. It's just really, really smart persuasion. Meanwhile, we got a new Speaker of the House. There was no real drama there. Took one vote, and Mike Johnson's back at it. And he's already saying that the House Republicans will investigate the disbanded House Select Committee.
Those are the bad people who did the January 6th show trial. What is not specified is whether the Republicans will run it as a show trial, which would be kind of perfect to do back to the Select Committee what they did to the January 6thers. Why not do it in public? Now, I'm sure that no matter what they do, they'll have to testify in public.
But wouldn't it be funny if they did what the J6 Committee did, which was hire a TV producer and really make it watchable so that when you watch it, you're like, wow, this is interesting. Because I'm not sure everybody watches the clips of somebody testifying for three hours. But you would definitely watch it if they entertainatized it, making up a word. So I don't know that Republicans do that.
But under the Trump administration, I feel like that might be the kind of thing that Trump could add to the process. Meaning, you know, you don't have to do this the boring way. Well, Mr. President, we don't want to be like the Democrats. We just want to get to the bottom of it and find out the truth. Yeah, yeah, I get that. But you don't have to be boring.
So I feel like there's a conversation that's going to happen where Trump is going to take his reality TV experience, which is phenomenal, and see if he can apply it to this situation. We'll see how it goes. I'd be happy either way, honestly, but it'd be fun to see it as a show, just to pay him back.
Well, meanwhile, the Biden administration has determined that the chemical formaldehyde, which it turns out is in all kinds of products and in your environment all over the place, is an unreasonable risk to human health and should be regulated. So you're basically surrounded by this thing that the administration just told you is deadly and it's everywhere and you're not going to get rid of it.
But I wonder if there is a counter argument. Yes. Turns out the American Chemistry Council, and they're, of course, a lobbying group for the chemical industry, stressed the importance of formaldehyde and said that the determination that it was unreasonably risky was based on, quote, a flawed assessment. So here's your choice. I want to see which way you think the credibility is.
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Chapter 3: Is Siri eavesdropping on you?
I feel like everybody who has real-world experience and has paid attention, they don't trust the science so quickly. You know what I mean? By the way, well, I can't tell you yet, but there's some science that is really bad that I've had a preview to. I don't know if I could ever go public with it, but oh, my God.
So Biden is going to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom, one of the country's greatest honors. on a number of people, but it includes George Soros and Hillary Clinton. And you might be saying, wait, what? I probably heard that wrong.
It couldn't possibly be true that Biden's giving our highest medal of freedom to Soros, who has done the most to destroy the country and is the most closely associated with evil incarnate. He's getting an award. the highest award. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton is also getting the award. What do Hillary Clinton and George Soros have in common? Commonality. Oh, Huma Abedin.
So she was longtime confidant and assistant to Hillary Clinton and now is married to George Soros's son, Alex, who's taking over the business. Huh. Seems to me that wherever Uma Abedin is, is the real power, doesn't it? She's like a moth to the flame. So where she goes tells you where the real power is.
What do you make of the fact that Biden is doing something that's so remarkably obscene in giving these two characters the highest award in the country? Here's what I think is happening. This is a flex. This is how George Soros and Alex Soros tell you that they're still in control. Because if you can make Biden do this, you are always in control.
This is basically telling the Democrats, hey, these are the ones who are in control. That's what I see. I'm surprised they didn't throw Obama in there. But I do wonder what's the dynamic between the Clinton power island versus the Obama power island. Because I don't think the Democrats have one leader who's pulling all the strings.
I think they probably have a Game of Thrones kind of few power sources vying for dominance. But it seems to me that Obama has been taken completely off the field because, I mean, he just did such a bad job promoting Biden and he's the one who picked Biden and seems to have been behind the Russia collusion hoax. And he didn't have a good year. Obama didn't.
So I suspect that the Soros-Hillary thing probably came from Soros and or Hillary, and that its real purpose is to establish them as legitimate rulers of the party, albeit behind the scenes. So that's a very artificial persuasion play. This is to tell you that these are not the biggest criminals in the world, but rather should be respected. Meanwhile, Greenland throws us a curve.
You know, Trump wanted to maybe take control or buy Greenland. And the Danes who own it, Denmark controls Greenland. And the Danes said, no way. No way are we going to sell you Greenland. It's valuable and we're going to keep it. And now Greenland itself says, you know what? We don't like being owned by this colonizing Denmark. We should be an independent country.
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Chapter 4: What are Thomas Massey's debt badges?
Of course, if they were independent, they would make their own treaties and stuff. Maybe they could work out some kind of deal. But here's what I think. It seems to me that if I were in the CIA... And my job was to secure America using every little clever trick I could. The first thing I would do is convince Greenland that they really need to be independent.
So first you got to get them away from Denmark. Why? Because I'm guessing, this is just speculation, but I'm guessing that the CIA would not want to use dirty tricks against a European ally. It's not something we would do to Great Britain. It's not something we would do to France. It's not something we'd do to Denmark, I think.
I mean, it's not like all the countries are not spying and messing with each other a little bit. But I don't think the United States would try to steal a land mass from Denmark like the other allies. I don't see how that could possibly happen.
But the moment this little 56,000 people giant country becomes independent, they're going to be helpless and completely vulnerable to CIA bribery, blackmail, complete puppet control. which is what we want. We might not want to own the country so much as have functional control over it and put our military bases there and maybe get some approval for mining.
I guess they have a lot of rare earth minerals. So there is a way to make a deal where they're independent, but not really. 56,000 people population could not stand up to the power of our intelligence people if we wanted to have control of it. So that's what I think is happening. I think Greenland might be getting a little boost to say, why don't you make us independent?
And then Denmark is going to say, because we own you. Then Greenland will say, why do you own us? You're on the other side of the world. What rule says you should be ruling over us? You're colonizers. So Denmark is going to have a hard time explaining it, and apparently they also subsidize Greenland. So if you're a voter in Denmark, how much do you care that you're paying Greenland to exist?
And Greenland might drag you into a war in the Arctic. How much do the Danes want that? They get no economic benefit because they're subsidizing. I think that's true. I'd need a fact check on that. I don't think they have economic benefit. I think it's just a cost. And there's nothing to gain from it. It's literally just prestige, maybe, because it's something they owned.
But now the prestige will turn into, you evil colonizers, you're preventing us from pursuing our destiny as a Greenlander. So it's an interesting thing. I just wonder if we're involved in this or it's happening organically. If we're not involved in trying to make it happen, I'd be disappointed and surprised. Meanwhile, Justice Juan Merchan...
He's the judge who is presiding over the case of Trump getting those loans and misrepresenting the value of his properties, said the courts. Now, what we know is that that case never would have come to fruition if it had been anybody but Trump. We know there's no victim. We know the bank said, no, we always check the values ourselves. It doesn't matter what he said.
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Chapter 5: Why is the Presidential Medal of Freedom controversial?
So some of the things we know is that Christopher Wray, head of the FBI, he warned us months ago that there would be lone wolves inspired by ISIS. And it turns out that as far as the FBI can tell, the New Orleans guy was a lone wolf, and there's no indication yet that he was somewhat directly an ISIS fighter or something. He just seems inspired by. Now,
And so, so far, there's no real mystery there. Ray told us what happened. It looks like it happened. It's exactly like he called it. It's inspired by, not planned by. But there are coincidences, such as they seem to have spent time at the same base, Army base, but they weren't there at the same time. And it's such a big army base that something like one-third of all soldiers go through it.
So there really is no coincidence to the base thing. It just means they were both in the military. Now, is somebody who is in the military more likely to stage a violent attack? I would think so. If you've ever been involved in violently attacking people, I feel like it would be an easier transition to, violently attack some more people, if that's what your philosophy said you should do.
So I don't think it's a big coincidence that they're both military. So was Timothy McVeigh. I don't think it's a coincidence they were at the same base. And I also don't think it was a coincidence that it happened on the same day.
Because if you did a survey and you said, all right, if you were a terrorist and you were looking for a big crowd to take out and you wanted to get a lot of attention where everybody's paying attention, what day of the year
would you pick i think you'd find i know 40 of the people who answered the question would say well the cameras are rolling and everybody's watching on new year's eve and you know that's the first day of 2025 and we plan to kick things up in 2025 so the one guaranteed time that it's going to work is the first day and i will go further and say if you had planned a 2025 attack
Or maybe you were just trying to avoid Christmas. It could be that they both would have done it whenever they were ready, but they didn't want to ruin Christmas. Because literally, I think they both had families. They didn't want to ruin Christmas. So there's nothing really too coincidental about January 1st.
If it had been a random day, like March 13th, a random day, well, that would be a big coincidence. But January 1st is probably the most likely place anybody would have picked if they had bad intentions and wanted a big crowd and a lot of attention. So no real coincidence. And also the use of the same rental company.
As Tyrus pointed out on The Five the other day, and I told you, I think I'm the first one to point it out. You can fact check me on this, but I think I'm the first one in the country to say that's not a coincidence. They're probably less monitored by authorities.
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Chapter 6: What does the future hold for Greenland's independence?
And he had the knowledge to create a better bomb, but he just used fireworks and gasoline, which doesn't look like a professional act. However, a fellow named Sam Shoemate was on the Sean Ryan podcast, And I think I got this right. So Sam Shumate runs an account where people give him tips on stuff, a lot of military stuff, because his background is military.
And he was apparently contacted ahead of the event, but he didn't know the event was coming. And allegedly, sorry, allegedly, the Las Vegas... slash terrorist, wrote to him and told him that he was trying to get attention for the fact that the drones over New Jersey are really exotic, gravitic propulsion devices that only China and the United States have. And China now has it.
And these super flying saucer drones are coming from offshore, from Chinese vessels. And that's what's over New Jersey. And they have unlimited power and they can destroy the entire East Coast or any part of it without being harmed because they're magical technology. And that it's game over and China has complete control over destroying the country.
And he wanted to use fireworks so that it made a big show of things, but clearly he wasn't trying to destroy the building. So does that make sense? Does that sound real to you? Well, I definitely don't believe there's any such thing as gravitic propulsion devices. Somebody said, are you kidding, Scott? Here's the patent.
So going on the Internet, there's a patent for something like the gravitic propulsion device. I don't believe that's a real patent.
You just have to look at it and say, all right, if you know a little bit about patents, you know that you're not going to get a patent unless it's either already built and you could demonstrate that it works, or it's something that a person who is skilled in the field could build somewhat easily. So you don't have to have a prototype.
if what you're describing is something that anybody could build if they were in that field. I don't see a way you could get exotic propulsion device patented unless you could show you could build it or that somebody who knew this field could build it. And there's nothing like that. So no, I'm not going to do the research to find out that that's a fake patent page. It's clearly fake.
And even if it did get patented, which I suppose is possible, it's not real. Couldn't possibly be real. So I'm not buying that. Laura Loken was pointing out that the email is filled with media talking points and smacks of a staged cover-up. Well, that's true. It did seem to be that he had a lot of Kraken-like talking points so that we could get the public talking about
gravitic propulsion devices in China instead of maybe something else we should be paying attention to. You know, we're always worried about the distractions. Erica, our New Jersey, let's see, journalist, independent journalist, at least in this case, says the drones are still out in New Jersey. So they were quiet over the holidays. Oh, okay.
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Chapter 7: How is Amazon affecting small businesses?
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