AI Synopsis
Imagine peering into the crystal ball of our future, where new world orders and philosophical comedies collide with the day-to-day. That's the tapestry we weave in our latest episode, where 'Groundhog Day' becomes more than a laugh track—it's a guide to self-improvement reflecting our own repetitive struggles. We sidestep the political theater to spotlight the real-life conundrums like fortress-like borders and the surge of grassroots zeal. The political arena is ripe for a shake-up, with career politicians facing their curtain call as I dissect media narratives painting caricatures of leaders like Biden and Trump.
Your wallet feels it, that pinch at the grocery checkout that's become all too familiar. I tackle the elephant in the room: a staggering 25% price hike over recent years. From the tendrils of supply chain woes to the economic aftershocks of 2020, we unravel the causes behind the inflationary squeeze. Shifting gears, we scrutinize the Cloward-Piven strategy, pondering if today's economic scene is a chessboard for social architects aiming to checkmate capitalism. This segment isn't just about the problems—we're in for lively engagement with you, our audience, as we stress the vitality of rejuvenating the energy sector to anchor our financial ship.
As the global stage brims with tension, we discuss the specter of conflict with Iran and a President's reach during wartime, as highlighted by Rep. Thomas Massie. Through this geopolitical maze, we question the integrity of politicians, juxtaposing true ideologues against those consumed with power lust. We'll close with a reflection on happiness that transcends material desires, inspired by 'Groundhog Day' and Aristotle's philosophies. And, with anticipation, we tease forthcoming conversations with the insightful David Knight and the compelling Don Jeffries, promising more enriching discourse ahead. Join us for this thought-provoking odyssey; it's a dialogue you won't want to miss.
AI Synopsis
Imagine peering into the crystal ball of our future, where new world orders and philosophical comedies collide with the day-to-day. That's the tapestry we weave in our latest episode, where 'Groundhog Day' becomes more than a laugh track—it's a guide to self-improvement reflecting our own repetitive struggles. We sidestep the political theater to spotlight the real-life conundrums like fortress-like borders and the surge of grassroots zeal. The political arena is ripe for a shake-up, with career politicians facing their curtain call as I dissect media narratives painting caricatures of leaders like Biden and Trump.
Your wallet feels it, that pinch at the grocery checkout that's become all too familiar. I tackle the elephant in the room: a staggering 25% price hike over recent years. From the tendrils of supply chain woes to the economic aftershocks of 2020, we unravel the causes behind the inflationary squeeze. Shifting gears, we scrutinize the Cloward-Piven strategy, pondering if today's economic scene is a chessboard for social architects aiming to checkmate capitalism. This segment isn't just about the problems—we're in for lively engagement with you, our audience, as we stress the vitality of rejuvenating the energy sector to anchor our financial ship.
As the global stage brims with tension, we discuss the specter of conflict with Iran and a President's reach during wartime, as highlighted by Rep. Thomas Massie. Through this geopolitical maze, we question the integrity of politicians, juxtaposing true ideologues against those consumed with power lust. We'll close with a reflection on happiness that transcends material desires, inspired by 'Groundhog Day' and Aristotle's philosophies. And, with anticipation, we tease forthcoming conversations with the insightful David Knight and the compelling Don Jeffries, promising more enriching discourse ahead. Join us for this thought-provoking odyssey; it's a dialogue you won't want to miss.
We have before us the opportunity to forge, for ourselves and for future generations, a new world order. Good evening folks. You're listening to the hour of the time. I'm William Cooper. The chair is against the wall. The chair is against the wall. John has a long mustache. John has a long mustache. It's 12 o'clock, america, another day closer to victory. And for all of you out there on or behind the lines, this is your song Hi wait.
Speaker 1:Veteran of three foreign wars, entrepreneur and warrior poet, tony Arteburn takes on the issues facing our country, civilization and planet. This is the Arteburn radio transmission. The wretch, considered all in self Living, shall forfeit fair renown and, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, unwept, unhonored and unsung. Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Arteburn radio transmission. I am your host, tony Arteburn.
Speaker 1:I was reading an excerpt from a poem on the movie Groundhog Day, because it is Groundhog Day. It is February 2nd 2024. It's the 33rd day of the year. I'll talk a little bit about the philosophy of Groundhog Day. I want to get into that a little bit. There's a lot to learn from the movie. It's not just a movie. It's not just a comedy with Bill Murray. There's life lessons. It's metaphysical.
Speaker 1:I was looking at the headlines today just getting back into the shop. I didn't do a broadcast at my normal time on Free World. There's a lot of things going on at Wise Wolf. I wanted to talk, just get off topic, get off politics for a second. We're still going to go over some headlines. I'm always broadcasting. I got beans the brave here. We're always broadcasting in defiance of globalist goblins, the neocons, the New World Order, the Build Back Better Biden Beals Above Baphomet, bilderberg, bohemian Grove, banchster Bunch. Well, let's get into some headlines first and then we'll circle back to talking a little bit about Groundhog Day.
Speaker 1:I desperately want to get away from politics. The PSYOP is so strong I don't know. Again, I'm supposed to be interested. Every week I start thinking about well, we got this election coming up and it's for the first time in my life. I don't see anything in the election that interests me other than what's happening at the border with Texas, what's happening on the grassroots level. I have some schadenfreude from the German word for you. You have a little bit of joy when you see somebody else going through the gauntlet, especially somebody that deserves it. There's some politicians that are on the docket to lose an election and, especially where I'm from, I'm watching some of that happen. I do have to say it's been a long time coming. I see and I won't mention names If you know me then you know what I'm watching. It is interesting to see that I do get a little bit of a grin, especially people. You know these types.
Speaker 1:I was told by this person I've been in politics a while that I wasn't political, I wasn't political enough. I always thought that was interesting because I know a great deal about history and I know strategy and politics have always interested me. But there is something different about being political, because being political means that you are a shapeshifter of some kind. You literally change and you morph into the thing that is most palatable to the public at the time. Instead of being on principle or having ideals that you hold tight within your solar plexus that you believe in, you morph and you change. Well, eventually time runs out. It's kind of like Zero Hedge, the website for articles that gets that name from the movie Fight Club, where he says you know, on a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everybody drops to zero, and that's where you get Zero Hedge. That's true for politicians. It's interesting to watch.
Speaker 1:I think that a big part of the future is going to be losing a portion of our society when it comes to losing a portion of what we believe politics to be. I mean the class of people that have made a career. I think the career politician is going to become sort of like a dinosaur. It won't work. It won't work in the challenges that we have ahead. It'll be kind of like when the films from the early 20th century, the teens and the 20s, when they were silent movies and along came the talkies, you know, and became sound. There was no longer the vaudevillian guy with the piano and the theater doing all the music for the films and live. It was projected through the film themselves. And those silent film actors just a lot of them didn't make it. They didn't make the transition to the talkies. And I think that's what's happening a lot with our political process.
Speaker 1:And I'm pulling up the headlines on Drudge. I don't even know what to make. I know that. You know, obviously, operation Mockingbird, I know that the alphabet agencies, this is what they want me to think about. Let's look at the headlines on Drudge. I really want to see what the take is here. Biden privately slams the sick F Trump. Okay, I don't know, I don't know where to begin with that, and there's so much, there's so much to unpack with what.
Speaker 1:What Joe Biden is and I guess it depends on what the definition of is is but I don't even really know where to where to take a critique of Joe Biden. He's such, you know, you they ran him as like a. You know he's your crazy hunk, old and he's he's, he's tired of all the malarkey and really what he is. He's just a soulless globalist puppet, like it. It's so clear he doesn't believe in anything. I've seen two articles pop up in the last two, three weeks. Where they're, you know, running snippets of Biden, you know, in 2007 and previous times, talking about constitutional foreign policy or talking about how a nation can't be a nation, can't be sovereign nation, can't be anything unless it has a border. And then you fast forward all these years later and he, just again, he never believed those things. Those things were stuff that he and issues that he talked about at the time.
Speaker 1:Again, that's opening up my show, talking about the political people. That's what I'm talking about. It doesn't mean you don't again, you can. You can be interested in politics and, I think, channeling something Leon Trotsky said about war you may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you. Well, it's the same thing about politics you may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.
Speaker 1:And I think that's what we're we need to understand when, in this political theater and you're talking about well, it's a selection and none of it's real. Well, they have, it might be fake, but it has real consequences. That's why we study it. You know, it's what Sun Sue, sun Sue's maximum of know. Your enemy is so very important now, because your enemy is the ruling class, the elite, the puppet masters and the people that you don't see. You know, again, we have so much theater here, so much WWE. It's scripted, and now we have the left right paradigm, the two parties going at each other, and I don't want to get into that too much because it is this massive divide.
Speaker 1:So let's go more into the Intel. Here's a. Here's something interesting on drugs. You've got record US oil production frustrates OPEC cuts. Now that's interesting, isn't it? I mean, with all the hobbling and all the regulation and everything that the Biden administration did when it took office and you cut the Keystone XL pipeline, basically told Saudi Arabia that we're going green. Saudi Arabia shifted away from the, shifting away from US influence to China, and there's been talk of a Petro Yuan. By the way, saudi Arabia officially joins BRICS, and why that's not plastered everywhere, on every financial headline? I think that's the tell right, these things that are happening right now, and we're going to get to an article on inflation, because everybody's still waiting. Well, inflation has been on its tackle and Jerome Powell told me that there's a terminal rate and we hit yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, there's some problems with the fact that you can't really you can't put the horse back in the barn. Once you've, once you've, destroyed the purchasing power of a fiat currency, it doesn't rebound to its previous state. It's kind of like once you've expanded your mind, you know, and that's kind of the inverse, like once you've grown and once you've accepted an idea or you become a bigger person, it's hard for you to go back to the same person that caused the problems that you need to solve in the first place. That's one of the things you learn when you really study, like self improvement or goal setting, like you have to become a bigger person, a better person than the person who started the problem in the first place. Well, that's kind of the inverse, an example of what happens to fiat currency. Because it's on a long enough timeline, it's zero hedge as well, it goes to zero and we'll talk about that. But you know, record US oil production, another jobs blowout. They say 3353,000 jobs added in January. Okay, well, I think we're running some, the numbers are being fudged, and I've talked about this.
Speaker 1:I remember, back during the height of the MAC, the jab mandates and all these. You know, corporations were lining up to make sure that their employees got all the mandatory jabs and operation warp speed. And they would say, well, there's a million or two million new job openings. And I'm like, yeah, because they fired many people, they let millions and millions of people go. So you know, having something added to the roles is not, it's not new, it's again. It's a consequence of having a job opening. You've got rid of someone, and so there's all these jobs.
Speaker 1:Cudlow, larry Cudlow praises Biden economy quote. I was wrong, I don't. I don't know how much out of context that is, but without even surprise anybody. I remember seeing a great interview with Larry Cudlow. This was years ago. This is how my mind works.
Speaker 1:I remember like old cable TV interviews from like the early 2000s or mid 2000s and Larry Cudlow was talking to Pap Buchanan about trade deficits. And again Pap Buchanan proven to be right. Oh must be maddening, like he's been right about so much for so long and then no one cares. I kind of feel a little bit of that Because I've been right about so much, I'm so far ahead usually and this isn't an ego thing, but I'm just tend to. By the way, it's not an ego thing because it doesn't inflate my ego, because nobody cares, but I have been right about a lot and watching that transpire and then people look around and go oh yeah, you're right about that, but we're talking like way out.
Speaker 1:Well, pap Buchanan was talking about what was going to happen to the US economy when we keep having these massive trade deficits. And again, we didn't run a trade deficit in this country until 1973. We never ran one before. We were the manufacturing marvel of mankind where the arsenal of democracy we made everything. You know Detroit, turning things out. We had the what used to be in the heartland, it's now called the Rust Belt. We would make things and would send them out all over the world and we had a living wage and, oh gosh, that was a very quaint time. Now you look back and we've thrown our workers into this Darwinian contest of survival of the fittest, with slave labor and these big multinational corporations, just you know, try to bring the products back in, you know, stack it deep and sell it cheap, and that's what became a consumer economy. We all of that went inverse to building wealth. You know, a great nation will rise on sound money and economic nationalism and it will decline on fiat, currency and free trade agreements.
Speaker 1:And that's what Pat Buchanan was saying. I mean it's, you know, all through the years. And Larry Kudlow, I will never forget, kept just interrupting him. And you know he said but Pat, you know, the numbers are X, y and Z and the stock market is doing this. And I remember Pat just said Larry, I'm not talking about today, I'm talking about 1020 years from now, when we see the hollowing out of what was left of a production economy.
Speaker 1:And I remember, even when I ran for office, you know, 10, 11 years ago, I was talking about a trillion dollar trade deficit. That was on the horizon. I got laughed at. Guess what we hit that People thought I was that's too big of a number. What are you even talking about? What's a trade deficit? Where does the money go? It's the largest transfer of wealth in human history. It went somewhere, but it's not into your pocket and certainly not into the wealth of the United States. So here we are.
Speaker 1:You got Larry Kudlow saying that the Biden economy is hot, red hot. I'm Paul Krugman saying the same thing. Everything's doing great and we are making again the record oil production, and this is probably. Things take time. This is probably a remnant of some deregulation that happened post 2017. Let's just be honest. There was probably a lot of investment. There was a lot of infrastructure put in. Things were a lot hotter than now. We're seeing some payback, because this is, it takes years.
Speaker 1:So you've probably seen a little bit of a bump, but the future is not, unfortunately, unless there's a drastic change. It needs to be. I will hope that it is, but I don't see it. It needs to be US production on energy and leading on energy, but we're shackled and hobbled by the globalist goblins that run most of this country at this point. So I don't see that's out. That's even possible. All right, let's again in that. In that line of logic, let me take you to an article that I saw on this very thing, which was about inflation, and this was a link. Let me turn this screen off. This was a link that was on Drudge, and I thought it went really well, with the economies doing fantastic. Let's see Again.
Speaker 1:Americans are finally getting a break from inflation, with prices for gasoline, used cars and health insurance all falling over the past year, relieving families and booing President Biden's 2024 election bid, but prices painfully remain high for one particular frequent purchase, groceries. Grocery prices have jumped 25% over the past four years, outpacing overall inflation of 19% during the same period. While prices of appliances, smartphones and a smattering of other goods have declined, groceries got slightly more expensive last year, with particularly sharp jumps for beef, sugar and juice, among other items. Stubbornly high grocery prices represent a critical drain on the finances of tens of millions of people and remain, along with housing, perhaps the most persistent economic challenge for the Biden administration. Americans, the economy is back on solid footing.
Speaker 1:Well, the reason and this has to do with supply and demand and the true face of inflation, the true representation of inflation, would be in your groceries, because that's the most real-time supply chain to market to shelf, to cash register, to your home. That is the most up-to-date, real-time representation of price hikes. That's why that is that way. Now you could have certain deals. Maybe they did an overproduction of cars. Demand is down. See, people still buy food, but these other items appliances demand is down. When demand is down, there isn't as much production. Again, this is economics 101. So the true inflation is always going to be in the most immediate items.
Speaker 1:Because we had a supply chain, a controlled demolition of that supply chain. That's what 2020 was all about. It was a controlled demolition of small business. Remember, you were told you were not essential. Oh, big box was essential, just the big multinationals. You were not essential. Hundreds of thousands of small businesses shut down. That's what that when President Fauci, by the way, I say this last week. But if Trump has reelected, does Fauci automatically become president or do we have to wait? But under President Fauci, we had the lockdowns and we had all of the mandates that came with that and all the states and the petty potentates that came out and said, well, you're not essential and this is going to be shut down.
Speaker 1:Do you realize that the intricacies of an economy are built on supply chains? They're built off of things, that the hidden hand, the forces of the market. This is Adam Smith, this is like from wealth of nations, 1776, stuff like basic economic modalities, and yet we have all these dead-eyed automatons that somehow make it up to the higher echelons and levers of power and they're like, well, it doesn't matter, you can shut down this piece of the economy and people can just stay home and Netflix it and everything's going to be okay. No, there's so many things like the book I Pencil, like when you get the wood for the pencil, the eraser, the manufacturer who actually produces the pencil, the lead, I mean everything it all has to be sourced and there's so many intricacies just to make a pencil. And that's the same thing with a supply, a modern economy, and now we have on time delivery and all these things. There's not this huge supply. So, as you're talking about a stretched out supply chain, of course that's going to be the most realistic representation of inflation.
Speaker 1:And once you've crossed that Rubicon again, 80% of all the dollars ever created in the last, since our 80% since the beginning of this country until now, 80% of the dollars that were created in the last four years, trillions upon trillions upon trillions. And don't get me started about the last quarter of 2019 that nobody ever talks about, which was the largest exodus of CEOs in history. What did they know? And, of course, the Federal Reserve propping up. And that was not just the Federal Reserve, not just our central bank, but central banks around the world propping up the repo market Six trillion just from central bank in the United States, just from the Fed alone in 2019. Nobody talks about that. That was before the first quarter of 2020, when everything, when you get the great reset and make no mistake, that's what it is, it's a plan. So now you've had inflation, it's here to stay because you lost the purchasing power of the dollar. It's not going to get under control. You can't put the again. The genie doesn't go back in the bottle, the horse is out of the barn.
Speaker 1:I don't know how many other metaphors I've still got lots of metaphors, but that's the general overview of it and it's interesting that you see these same kind of articles. Like I like the dichotomy. I like to see Larry Kudlow on one side saying the economy is red hot, I was wrong, this is great. And then on the other side, well, things are really getting better, but groceries are still so high. And then inflation is hurting everyone. Yeah, because everybody eats, but not everybody needs a TV. Not everybody needs a cell phone or a new one anyway, and a lot of times people are bargain shopping. Not everybody needs a used car. Some people are just repairing cars, getting along with what they already had. But this economy is not red hot. This economy is in no way shape or form, healthy. It's not built on production. It's not inviting innovation. Have you seen our cities? Have you seen the results?
Speaker 1:Again, this is the end game of a clowered and piven moment. The economists clowered and piven back in the 1960s I believe that it was the University of Chicago and they had this idea that well, if you really want a true socialist state, then we have to bypass all of these. We can't just be social security and it can't be the welfare state or the safety net. It needs to be full socialist. How do we get there? Well, clowered and piven where you get the terminology is where they just decided let's just overload and destroy the system, let's put everybody on the rolls, let's bankrupt the system so we can start anew. That's what clowered and piven is.
Speaker 1:Are you recognizing this strategy by people like George Soros, if you're a billionaire, why would you fund things that are anti-business? Did I just ask a question that's beyond Fox News comprehension? But if you're a billionaire or trillionaires because there are trillionaires folks why would you support things that are anti-free market? Why would you support hiring DAs or funding these elections of district attorneys all across the country, strategically to make sure that there's just roving gangs of people taking things out of Walgreens and CVSs and Target and again, looting and total destruction? Why would you do that? The reason is because that's what the world's richest people always do. They don't believe in free markets. They use that system to get their wealth or it's generational and then they fund communism. That's what they do. I'm not talking about your average billionaire, I'm talking about the elite. Again, george Soros is an agent on behalf of the House of Rothschild. This is a direct linkage there. That's what you're seeing.
Speaker 1:This is clowered and piven. The border is clowered and piven. It's clowered and piven internationally. We're putting strain on the system. The calls are coming from inside the house. The strain is there to break it.
Speaker 1:It's not to just usher. It's not about ideas. What you have to understand it's not about ideas. San Francisco, the DA's who hired out there. It's not about ideas. It has nothing to do with ideas. It's about destruction. It's about, you know why do they fund certain politicians who don't believe in anything. Cloward and Piven, like we can play. I can play you clips all day long of Joe Biden coming out for borders, coming out for sensible, you know, tax reform, anything I mean, and now he's just the head of what is he? The head of the globalist operations in the United States. He believes in nothing. Total nihilism. What does it even mean? What does a Biden administration mean? It just means that there we're going to carry out the orders of Davos, the World Economic Forum. That's what it is, and it's Cloward and Piven.
Speaker 1:All right, I'll see if there's anybody in the Rockfin chat. I wasn't able to get over onto freeworldfm today. I see Jackson T Barrett is on the Twitter chat, thank you. Thank you, jackson, appreciate you joining the show and I see. Well, we're on Rockfin. There's, there's. I know it's a different time. See Aaron Gale and Gammie Gammie's in the chat. Thank you for being here, guys. It really means a lot to me. That's right, jackson T Barrett.
Speaker 1:We have to put everyone back to work in the energy sector. I'm all about that Starved to death so you can buy a cheaper smartphone. That's about right. Happy Friday to you, my friend. All right?
Speaker 1:Well, let's jump around a little bit here. I was gonna talk a little bit of foreign policy and then we'll talk a little bit more about the internal economic issues and maybe close with a little bit of Groundhog Day. Let me get this up on the screen. But while we're concerned with what's happening internally in the border, there's things, there's rumblings. Always remember when something is going on. When you're inundated with a particular subject matter in the news cycle, always look to see what else is happening, and I'm starting to again. I'm always very sensitive to this, but the war drums. You have to be careful, and this is authored by Dave DeCamp at antiwarcom. I found this up on Zero Hedge and this is Rep Thomas Massey hints that impeachment if Biden starts a war with Iran.
Speaker 1:Thomas Massey of Kentucky on Wednesday appeared to threaten to pursue the impeachment of President Biden if he started a war with Iran. Massey posted a video from 2007 on X of then Senator Biden threatening President George W Bush with impeachment if he went to war with Iran without congressional approval. I made it clear to the president that if he takes this nation to war with Iran without a congressional approval, I will make it my business to impeach him. This is what Biden said in the video in 2007. In his post, massey wrote in 2007, senator Biden put the president on notice that he would impeach him for going to war with Iran without congressional approval. Massey's post came amid reports that President Biden is planning to launch a weeks long bombing campaign that could target Iranian assets outside of Iran, in response to the drone attack in Jordan that killed three US troops. The Pentagon has admitted it has no evidence Iran was involved in the drone attack beyond its arming of the Shia militias the US believes was responsible.
Speaker 1:Another comment Biden made during the Trump administration related to Iran has surfaced amid the tensions. Let's be clear Donald Trump does not have the authority to take us to war with Iran without congressional approval. A president should never take this nation to war without the informed consent of the American people. What's very convenient, isn't it? It's very convenient. You know what you guys wanna hear the clip here. I'll play it and I wanna make it clear and I made it clear to the president that if he disdains his nation to war in Iran without congressional approval, I will make it my business to impeach him. Yeah, yeah, woo, yeah. Well, that's the same guy. You know.
Speaker 1:We were told by candidate Biden at the same time, that he believes in a border and believes in sovereignty. And these are just politicos, folks. It's not real. You know. You learn that. It's like you get the glasses on, they live and you put them on and you go oh okay, so you don't really believe in anything, you just believe in yourself or you believe in your own power in this realm. Like it's not. We've got a problem in our modern era and maybe it's an error, but we have a problem. This is, you know, what I opened up when the show talking about politicos, people that identify as politicos. You have to be very careful. These people are not going to ever fulfill their promises. They are not your friends. They don't believe in anything. These are not ideologues not really, and ideologues have their own place. But at least you know what they believe in, at least they're from the heart.
Speaker 1:You know that was the difference between Leon Trotsky and Stalin. You see Stalin and you get the name. You know that he was. The Stalin means steel and he came up with that name. He gave himself his own name as a meaning steel. But Leon Trotsky, who also had a different name. But Trotsky was all about the revolution, all about worldwide communism, all about spreading that and liberation, and that was his raison d'etre, that was his. He had found his calling and in the depths of existential despair he's found, you know, being a revolutionary. And it was, that was what consumed him. But he was not necessarily a tactician, not necessarily organized, but he believed things. And so the difference was Stalin, who would eventually rise to power.
Speaker 1:Was you talk about the banality of evil? Like it was cold calculating, you know, like the way you describe the death camps in World War II, where you have, like this little bureaucrat on a typewriter, just putting your name into different categories and putting you in a file, then putting you in a train car, then you know, liquidating you, you know, as the trains off to the east. That's the banality of evil. And then the administrative part of that was very much Stalin. Stalin was organized, cold calculating, didn't really believe in anything except his own power, whereas Leon Trotsky was all about revolution. So could you trust either one of them? No, but the whole point was, at least Trotsky believed in something, you know, and that's why Stalin had him murdered in Mexico with an ice pick in the 1930s, had him taken out. He was a threat to Stalin's ordered regime. You know very much top down, authoritarian, tyrannical, but cold, cold and calculating.
Speaker 1:And I read a story years ago that supposedly Khrushchev and a couple other key members were in the room when Stalin had a stroke and he couldn't. He was, you know, couldn't get a breath in or just sit there dying and they just watched him die, like literally just cold, calculate, so that all comes back on you eventually. You know we all owe a death, we all owe a debt. We can't, you know, nobody gets out of life alive. So it's interesting, these people, they're consumed with power and consumed with all the things in the world and then you leave with nothing. Everybody leaves the same thing as nothing and it seems so very sad to me. He got caught up in it.
Speaker 1:But you're better off believing in something. Right, you know it's. You can still be a monster and believe in something, but there is a certain satanic quality to somebody who doesn't. That's like when I who doesn't feel, it's like when I talk about the book of revelations with people, and people want to figure out what the anti-Christ will look like, and I keep thinking well, maybe it's just the AI. You know what's the most anti-Christ thing you can imagine? It's like a cold calculating machine without emotion, and that's the closest thing that we're gonna see as far as the complete opposite polar opposite of Christ is going to be a machine, and so that's something to think about. And again, there is evil lurking in the void of someone who doesn't know who they are. All right, let's keep going down the headlines. By the way, we will get to a little. I'll get to a little bit more talk on Groundhog Day.
Speaker 1:I wanted to cover some headlines. This is naturalnewscom. Another blow to the food supply explosion and subsequent fire Devastate Texas Chicken Plant. Is anybody noticing a pattern here? Anybody? Anybody noticing that we are getting and again, this was what is it like? 150 or more different incidents. Remember planes were flying in to food, food manufacturers. I mean literally two different planes over the last couple of years, and there's fires. I wanna get in.
Speaker 1:A chicken farm in Texas has been hit by an explosion and subsequent blaze, causing another blow to the food supply. My San Antonio news, my SA news, reported that the Feathercrest Farms, located outside the city of College Station, was damaged by an explosion on January 29th. The fire was reported around 5 pm on January 29th with flames engulfing two buildings. Firefighters were still at the scene the following day trying to fight the fire. That happened post-explosion. Numerous departments and firefighters, along with other emergency personnel are on the scene. Said separate report by 100% fed up. Black plumes of smoke and flames are visible for miles. It's currently unknown if anyone is injured or how the fire started. According to one American news, browse County Sheriff Wayne Dickey has reported that the highway 21 is reduced to the one lane and that Democrat road is now closed. Well, it seemed that's a pretty substantial fire.
Speaker 1:You wonder how, with all, when you're a commercial plant and you have all of the, the codes you have to meet and all the regulation and all the insurance, how do you get a fire that big? I mean, is it possible? I'm sure, but that is the issue. Right is we are watching and this is the open question Are we? Are we having some sort of coordinated effort to hobble the food supply in this country? This is an open question. I mean, even people like Tucker Carlson have asked this question. Yeah, jackson Barrett in the chat says don't insurance companies require a surveillance system? Yes, so to prisons, though. That's that's why you all that maybe you had a catastrophic failure of cameras for Jeffrey Hefstein cell. No injuries reported at Feathercrest Farms Fire. Well, that's good. Upon arrival, there were two buildings on Feathercrest Farms property at this time. The fires contain to the two buildings. They've been in operation since the 1950s, but was purchased by the Barrett family since 1970s.
Speaker 1:Yes, there's something weird with this. I, you know. I know natural news picked it up, but that's just that. Always, that always makes me skeptical when I read a headline like that, and it hasn't been. I haven't seen as many of these in the last year, but there was a time when we started seeing. It was just multiple ones, over and over and over again. So stay frosty out there. This is we are definitely in.
Speaker 1:I need to get back to talking about welcome to tomorrow. I used to do that when I would open up my show in San Antonio in 2018, 2019. Because I felt like we were on the precipice of this new era, and it would be much like what we're watching now, and now that we're in the thick of it, it is, I mean, even when you're prepared, for it is absolutely insane the headlines, the strangeness. It does feel like we're in a bit of a and I think it's this you know, the zeitgeist, the spirit of the age. You do feel like you're in a bit of a simulation because you see all in the fourth turning. When you're in a fourth turning, you will start seeing, like old institutions, what you believed in, what you, you know again, the foundation of your reality.
Speaker 1:Some of those things start to come apart and that's why it's important to have and we're going to talk here in a second on Groundhog Day, an inward reflection time to meditate, time to talk with God and center yourself. And this is something I even struggle with, with everything going on as much as I'm trying to do and just staying healthy. You know, that's why I come on air and talk to all of you guys. I haven't missed a show in a while and I appreciate all of you sticking with me, but there's just so much to talk about really getting to the heart of what your mission is, what your purpose is, and trying to navigate all these things at the same time. It's a task, but we're here for a reason, right? All right, let's.
Speaker 1:I was going to talk a little bit about gold and if you guys tune in on Monday for the Weiss Wolf Golden Crypto Show, I'm going to put an interview I did with the great David Knight. I'm going to put that Thursday interview up I did yesterday on the feed. A little bit later I'm going to take Don Jeffries live on the America unplug channel here very soon as well. I produce for Don every Friday. It's one of a great honor I'm able to help Don get live every Friday and I might jump on his show too. But lots of new stuff hitting the feed. So be sure and subscribe to the podcast channels.
Speaker 1:All right, let's jump in a little bit to the Groundhog Day, the philosophy of that, and I was quoting when I opened up the show. I was quoting the poem that Andy McDowell's character. You know it's about a quarter through the movie. She takes on Phil Connors and he just acting. Just you know he's again, he's out of his mind because he wakes up in the same day over and over again. And she quotes, I think it's Walter Scott.
Speaker 1:It says the wretch consented all in self. Living shall forfeit. Forfeit fair renown and doubly dying shall go down to the vile dust from whence he sprung, unwept, unhonored and unsung, and I always thought that was interesting and because he makes fun of it. But then later in the movie you see him reading poetry and he goes from being suicidal. He hates where he lives, he hates the, just everything about it. You know he hates the situation and you know just giving up on life. And then you see him start to make a change and I always thought this was interesting. It's a lesson for everyone.
Speaker 1:He lets go of what? Because he really wants to be with Andy McDowell's character and that consumes him and it's you know. He regrets his past actions. He regrets who he was the day before, because he can't make any progress, because every day starts over and over again, so he can't make any progress with her. He finally tries everything else. It's not money, like he can rob all the stores, you know he takes the bank money from the security guards. You know just whatever he can get away with in that 24 hours. He does it and he always fills his life with excess. And that the money doesn't do it. Getting away with everything doesn't do it. He can't do anything with. You know, and make any progress with Andy McDowell always ends badly. So finally, he just decides that he's going to culture himself and work on himself. It's the last. It's like not looking for external things and becoming the best version of himself. And if you ever watched them I mean it came out in 1993, so I don't think I'm spoiling it for anyone.
Speaker 1:I want to read a little bit of this article, though. It says For the Greek thinker Aristotle, virtue can be understood as a kind of practical wisdom that develops from habit. By repeating good actions, sooner or later, we condition ourselves to perform them more naturally. That's what Aristotle said. You know, success, excellence, is a habit. They become an inseparable part of our character. So the act of kindness are expected to manifest themselves by inertia whenever necessary. He who is virtuous in the Aristotelian sense will always know what to say and do, no matter what the situation. According to the philosopher, we should all aspire to be virtuous. It is part of our nature. That being the case, deep down in our souls we have to desire to improve as people. And then, of course, yes, Aristotle always asked what is the good? For Aristotle, good is always the middle point between two extremes. This was known as the golden mean, something that the Greek philosopher Aristotle talked about hitting the not too far one way or the other, just right down the middle, the golden mean. So how does this philosophy relate to Groundhog Day? Phil is the perfect representation of Aristotelian virtue.
Speaker 1:The protagonist of the film embodies the figure we all want to become. Phil has been through emotional ups and downs. However, thanks to his dedication to cultivating morally good habits during his repetitive confinement in Punx-a-Toni, he managed to hone his character. At the end of the film he's a happy person, and when it gets to this point, the spell of time is broken. The day on a loop comes to an end, and just like that we realize something. Phil learned his lesson and he has now mastered the art of living. Here the movie's plot gives way to what would arguably be one of the broadest character arcs in the history of cinema. That's right. At the conclusion of the show, he reached the pinnacle of humanity.
Speaker 1:Aristotle calls this goal eudemonia. The concept refers to the tranquility that is proper to a life well-lived as flourished as it is transcendent. It's precisely this happiness, this last existential frontier, that all human beings should aspire to achieve. It's the joy of sleeping peacefully and contentedly. It's being aware that every day you fought to be the best possible version of yourself. The metaphysical relationships with the ordeals of everyday life make up the essence of reality as we know it.
Speaker 1:I liked the breakdown here of the philosophy of Groundhog Day very much. I thought it was an interesting take. It's how I felt for a long time. The lesson there is that it's not an external thing that is going to bring us peace and happiness and fulfillment. We have to look inward and when you look inward, you're really talking to God because you're subconscious, you're spirit, you're soul. That's your connection to the divine. It is very difficult in our modern times, with all the electronics and with everything we're hooked up to. It's very difficult to go inward, to separate yourself from the little black mirrors we carry around or from the screens or from the problems that manifest all the time and then pop up in our everyday experience. It gets us away from truly working on ourselves. That's the whole reveal. It's the last place you'd look, because you're always looking. You read the.
Speaker 1:I think Laosu wrote about this, the Chinese philosopher, more than 2,000 years ago. If you want to create a different world, you create a different self. That's where we're taught in schools and we're taught in the modern society that it's all outward, it's all external, but it's really internal in what we become, what we think about, what you are, internally, manifest in the third dimension. It's pretty magical because God gives you that. He gives you that ability. Even if you know it and you don't practice it, it doesn't mean anything, even if you know it, like me. I know this, but I have to constantly, constantly practice it. Where I realize that I have to work on me, I have to work on how I react to things, or my improvement, becoming a better person. That, in turn, is the only way that I'll ever create a better. External is to work on the internal. That's what Groundhog Day is about.
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