If you sinners were looking out the window right now in Beverly Hills, West LA, like you sinners, you unspiritual tides, those of you who don't have the gift of prophecy, those of you who are not vessels for God, right? Those of you who don't have the privilege of being on a mission from God, those of you who don't have a license to deliver the divine karma, those of you who have never given the gift of the recipe for eternal salvation, right? You sinners, you may well look out the window and you may well say, well, may they say, I see blue skies, I see palm trees dancing in a very light breeze, I see some great clouds, the air, the air seems to be, you know, decent quality today, right? I see blue skies. Isn't that a Louis Armstrong song? I see blue skies. Oh, yeah. So you sinners, right? You sinners, you see skies of blue, right? You sinners see clouds of white.   The colors of the rainbow, that's what you see, so pretty in the sky or also on the faces of people going by, you see friends shaking hands saying, how do you do? They're really saying, I love you.  But for those of us who are spiritually developed, right, those of us who are vessels for God, right, those of us who have divine mission, those of us who have been granted the gift of prophecy, right? Those of us who are able to see past the shadows dancing on the walls, all right? The blue skies, the trees of green, right? The red roses, babies crying and laughing, children playing, all right? These are just shadows on the wall, right? I see what's really happening out there and you know what's really happening out there, mate? I see dead people. I see dead people and you are too unspiritual to be able to see all the dead people. I see corpses. I see crematoria. I see gas chambers. I see concentration camps. I see mass genocide. I see turmoil. I see the great conflict between Gog and Magog. I see the forces of Satan doing battle with the forces of God. I see a great struggle between good and evil, right? I see civil war out there but you're too unspiritual to see it, right? There's practically a crematoria going up here in Beverly Hills just like Auschwitz, right? Every day we are getting closer to crematoria setting up in Beverly Hills. Every day, what did they have in the Soviet Union? What were their very bad camps where you get sent away to Siberia and what did the Ukrainians suffer? Did they suffer some mass starvation? Oh yeah, I see mass starvation. I see people just getting lined up before ditches and that's what I see, man. Just machine guns, just killing people, sending them into ditches, man, because I am so spiritual, right? I am so far more advanced than you are that I see dead people. You who just live this primitive, unenlightened life, you see trees of green and skies of blue and you hear children laughing and playing and you think what a wonderful world but I see civil war. I see mass genocide. I see concentration camps. I see starvation. I see Kristallnacht and Auschwitz. I see the Holodomor in Ukraine. I see what the Armenians suffered at the hands of the Turks. I see what First Nation people suffered at the hands of Europeans in Australia and the United States and Canada. That's what I see because I am deep, right? You are shallow. You see you're so happy. You're just fine with your trees of green.  I am wiser than you. I am more important than you. I am greater than you. I am more righteous than you. I am more profound than you. I am more spiritually attuned than you. I am more godly than you. I am more critical to the well-being of humanity than you because I see dead people. I see civil war. Could it happen here, you ask? Well, I tell you, it's already happening here and how do I know that? Because we now have government telling business what to do. Did you know that the Biden administration is passing onerous restrictions on car companies? They are mandating the number of miles per gallon that car companies must meet on average for every car sold in the United States and you know what that means? When government starts telling business what to do, that means fascism. That means fascism. You know what it means when your local county health commissioner says in the middle of an influenza outbreak that you should wear a mask? That means Soviet style communism. Do you know what it means when in the middle of an epidemic, people are encouraged to work from home? That's just like the cultural revolution in China. So you may well say, 40, could it happen here?  It already is. So Fox News is going to settle with Dominion. Fox News is going to pay $787 million to Dominion. And I say, good. I say, great. They deserved it. They lied and people died. Well, I don't know people died, but they lied and they lied for ratings. They lied not to get on the bad side of their audience. Hey, after the election, all right, for about a day, I entertained the possibility possibly even two days that voter fraud was the significant factor deciding the rightfully elected Donald Trump versus that fraudulent Joe Biden. Then I read a book, The Myth of Voter Fraud, came out in 2010 by Professor Lorraine Minetti. And I realized that we don't have a massive problem with voter fraud. And so day in, day out, I said, voter fraud did not decide this election. I said the Democrats were more sophisticated, more successful at rewriting election laws. So all the ways that they changed election laws to reduce the number of mail-in ballots that would get rejected, they did it all within the system. They were more effective. They had better lawyers. They were more adept. They were more adapted. They were better at fundraising. They got people like Mark Zuckerberg on their side to massively deliver money to democratic areas to get out the vote. So they were just simply more successful. They worked the game like the Tennessee Titans. Why do the Tennessee Titans win so many close games in the last two minutes? Because they stretched the rules. Their players, their defensive players are instructed to lie on top of the opposing team's players, not side of me, no funny business going on here, but just to slow the other team down if the other team is trailing, to inhibit their ability to do some kind of hurry-up offense. And then when the Titans are on offense, they have all these ways to trick the other team and get them to jump offside at critical moments. So the Tennessee Titans just push the rules just like the New England Patriots often have, more successfully than other teams. They are more successful at pushing the boundaries of the rules, and that's why they win games. The Democrats were more successful at rewriting election laws in 2020 than the Republicans were. And to the victor goes the spoils. They played the game smarter, right? They played the game better. They played the game more effectively. And as a result, they won.  And I wish Donald Trump had been reelected. I wish the Republicans won. But I didn't stand here giving the audience what his wants. Now, it's a beautiful thing if you can give someone what they want. It's a beautiful thing to bring joy to people. It's a beautiful thing to bring pleasure to people. It's a beautiful thing if you can deliver a corrective emotional experience. It's a wonderful thing if you can offer people salvation, if you can offer them insights, if you can give them hope and joy, help them to release unnecessary muscular tension and muscular constriction and interfering patterns where people are holding themselves down and in and they're contorting and compressing themselves where they have, you know, all sorts of unnecessary and maladaptive reactions to stimuli. And you can suggest to them, hey, why do you even need to react to that stimuli? Why not just pause, notice your habitual reactions, ask yourself in this circumstance, is this habitual circumstance? Does this habitual reaction really serve me? Think it through and then decide whether or not you want to go through with your habitual reaction to life, right? If you keep doing the same things you've always been doing, you'll keep getting what you've always, always gotten. So if someone can deliver to you a corrective experience like that, right, that's a wonderful thing. But I'm not going to sacrifice my dignity, right? I would stand up here day after day, every single person in the chat frequently would disagree with me. My closest friends in this virtual world would disagree with me. And I would stand in here day after day, all right, saying what I believe to be true. I was not willing to compromise myself for ratings, right? Unlike Fox News. Dr. Carlson, tonight, in a minute, we're going to bring you the rest of our conversation with Elon Musk. We showed you some last night, tonight, his views on the state of the American economy. That's a topic that many Americans are concerned about and you can see why. As if tonight inflation persists, the commercial real estate sector seems to be teetering. The US dollar continues to lose its value. So key economic indicators, or as they say in the market shows, worrisome. But on a more fundamental level, there are also danger signs. When young people are told by their leaders that work is a scam and that stealing things from other people is a human right, how do you think your economy is going to look in 10 years? How about your civilization? The answer depends in part on just how much idleness and theft you put up with. Any society that cannot declare unequivocally and with confidence that stealing is wrong has no future. When you let the mob loot, you are doomed. This is why we used to shoot looters, not because we hated them, it wasn't personal, but in order to defend the foundation of all that we have, which is private property secured by law. Without that, we would be living in savagery and chaos. In Chicago, they already are. This is what America's second largest city looked like this weekend. There's no point to that, nobody's benefiting.  If you let that continue, there will be nothing left standing. Most people don't need to be told that, it's so obvious, it's intuitive. Would you let your kids set fire to the living room? Probably not.  When they destroy what others built, he becomes more powerful. Their destruction has a political use, and so he refuses to criticize them. They're stealing because they're hungry, he told us. Like these were the widows of Richmond during the bread riots. Watch his explanation. Is that the answer to loot because it's a form of reparations? To loot because that's how they can eat? The real answer is how do we make sure, the question is how do we make sure that people can eat? Look, no one is going to condone behavior that quite frankly speaks to a level of desperation. You're not condoning looting. I'm saying that people are acting out of desperation. We don't want a society that is acting out of desperation, but you have to pay attention to the cries that people have. You're not condoning looting. There's no way to embrace that. What I'm saying is you can't condone the looting that corporations continue to do every single day when they take tax dollars from black, brown, white folks all over the city of Chicago so that they can turn a profit. They're trying to eat because starvation is a pressing problem in Chicago. But it's not. Obesity is a pressing problem in Chicago. About a quarter of Chicago high school students are overweight. They join the overwhelming majority of their parents. Obesity is the problem. The shortage isn't of food. And as if to prove the point, the same mob the mayor just defended reportedly tried to break into the Art Institute of Chicago. There was no bread in that museum, only chagalls into coonings. So these are not people who are trying to feed themselves.  We shouldn't lie about this. It's very obvious. And if you let it continue, you're done. But Chicago's leaders are lying about it for political reasons. This makes them more powerful, destroying things that other people built that previous generations created makes this new generation of vandals who add nothing more powerful. That's the whole point. A state center of Illinois called Robert Peters called the riots, quote, a mass protest against poverty and segregation. Right. Chicago's outgoing mayor, the destroyer Lori Lightfoot, agreed. Watch. The mass majority of the young people came downtown, came downtown because it was a great weather and an opportunity to enjoy the city. That's absolutely entirely important. There are a few that came with different intentions and they have and they will be dealt with. But I'm not going to use your language, which I think is wrong, to say there's man. Right. So you can bet that none of these destroyers will be hunted down like animals, like the protesters on January 6th have been for over three years. Their lives won't be destroyed. Their families won't be hounded. They won't be banned from Airbnb. And yet, of course, what they did is far more destructive to our society than anything you saw in Washington in January of 2021. Their behavior is encouraged. So what happens if you encourage this kind of behavior, if you cheer the mob, rather than restraining the mob?  Productive people will flee, innocence will die, and ultimately you will get from this mob racial attacks. All of that is happening in Chicago right now. All of it. Watch this woman, surrounded and beaten this weekend because of her skin color. So that footage was shared widely on social media. We didn't have to hunt it down. It came with the caption. You may have seen it. Yay, we get active. So this was racist mob violence. And we should not be surprised by that. This is what mobs do. The hive mind takes over, the lowest instincts take over, and people who are different get hurt, often killed. This is widely known and has been for a long time. Just last year, in fact, Joe Biden signed the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act that made what you just saw specifically a felony. And he signed that to much fanfare. And yet, and this is the key, no one at his Department of Justice is investigating that video or anything that happened in Chicago over the weekend because they support it. Democrats approve of racial violence. They are stoking it everywhere. No, it's not your imagination. They want race, hate and violence today. Joe Biden released a statement about a young man called Ralph Yarl, a teenager, a black teenager who was shot after showing up to an elderly man's house in Kansas City. We don't know the details of this. There is much we don't know. And of course, we feel for anyone who was shot, including this teenager. But the White House didn't pause for a moment before drawing conclusions from this sad encounter and using those conclusions to further divide the country on the basis of race. The president said in more quoting, no parent should have to worry that their kid will be shot after ringing the wrong doorbell. Well, that's demonstrably true. But of course, the president is saying this in order to further divide the country along racial lines and to tell a story that is in fact not supported by the facts, which is that black teenagers are murdered by elderly white people just for showing up on their doorsteps. Ralph Yarl, think Kevin did not die from his injuries. He was just released from the hospital. But these kinds of mistakes do happen. And they're always sad, assuming this was a mistake. Again, we don't know all the details. This same weekend, a 20-year-old woman called Caitlin Gillis was shot and killed after her friend turned into the wrong driveway in upstate New York. A man shot her dead in the passenger seat. But there was no statement from Joe Biden and Kamala Harris about this, of course, because Caitlin Gillis was white and therefore her death could not be used to further incite racial conflict that benefits the Democratic Party. Now, if you think that we're not giving our leaders enough credit, if you're wondering, could they really be that cynical and destructive? Unfortunately, they not only could be, but they are. And the effects, of course, are destructive, always and everywhere. Over the weekend in Compton, California, needless to say a Democratic Party stronghold, it's not hard to imagine a future in which there are no more gas stations because in California, mobs apparently can just walk into a store, including a gas station, and destroy the place, smash the windows, and take what they want. We know that because it happened on Sunday in Compton. Now, this mob was not starving. No, they didn't steal food. They stole beer, condoms, and cigarettes. Oh, it looks third world, you hear people say. But that's not accurate. Very few third world countries would put up at that for a minute. El Salvador is far safer than Los Angeles. In Los Angeles, criminals control the stores and the streets because there aren't enough police to respond. And of course they know that perfectly well. And that's why the people who looted that store then did burnouts in the street while the store is being looted. Watch this. That's a public street. That's not a parking lot in a rural area. That's Los Angeles. You can't live in a country like that. No normal person can live in a chaotic, dangerous country like that. And so the normal productive people will leave. They absolutely will leave. And not just Los Angeles, not just Chicago, all over the country in the cities controlled by the Democratic Party. In New York, a man with 11 prior arrests just bludgeoned a female police officer with a bottle in the middle of the day. You're seeing the attack on your screen right now. And the sad news is a lot of these attacks, and you see them online if you pay attention, are racial. And that's the last thing you want. You definitely don't want people hurting each other because they're of different races, not in a country like this. Not in any country, but especially not here. This is not what we were promised, and yet it's what we're getting. As if to underscore that point, the riding this weekend in Chicago began in a place called Millennium Park. If that sounds familiar, you're not from the city. That's because Millennium Park, Grant Park is part of it, is the same place where Barack Obama gave his famous 2008 victory speech in which he promised a better future. Listen. It's been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this day in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America. Change has come to America. Barack Obama was more prophetic than we knew. That was just 15 years ago. But today we're seeing the change that Barack Obama brought to America. This is what it looks like. Heather McDonald is the author of When Race Trump's Merit, How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives. That book is out today. Heather McDonald, congratulations on that book and bless you for pointing out that it destroys beauty, which some people still care about. Thank heaven. So it does seem like these outbreaks of lawlessness and mob rule are the easiest kinds of crimes to stop. Well, that would depend on believing in the police authority and the elites have done everything they can possibly do to discredit legitimate police authority by calling it racist.  It's a willed and voluntary breakdown, and it will continue and worsen until we stand up against the phony charge of racism, whether directed at the police, at medicine, or the arts, and start defending America's civilizational inheritance. I love this idea that what we're seeing is the product of starvation or deprivation or poverty. These mobs are all organized on social media. The participants all have smartphones. That's not my idea of starvation or deprivation. You wonder though, I mean, if you're the so-called opposition party, which of course most of the time colludes with the Democratic Party, but if you're an ambitious Republican, like running on making the country safe and clean and getting the junkies out of the parks and the marauding teenagers out of 7-Eleven, that's not hard. Why does nobody do that? Is everybody so intimidated that no one will just say that obvious truth? Yes, they're absolutely intimidated because the left will say they're playing the race card. It's very odd because the left says there's no racial disparities in crime, and yet if somebody talks about crime, they'll be accused, Soto Voce, of being racist, so the left actually knows something that it's not letting on. The fact is that law enforcement is not racist for having a disparate impact on black criminals.  And yet we're not allowed to talk about those black victims because doing so means talking about black crime, and America turns its eyes away from the pathological inner-city culture that gives us these mobs, that gives us these barbaric drive-by shootings, and that will tear down everything unless we stop capitulating to the racial hustle ticker. You see a video like that and you really feel like, wow, it's not just coming, it's here, and we do need to stand up against it if you care about civilization. Heather MacDonald, I sure appreciate your coming on. Thank you for writing this book. I'm going to read it. I hope so. Thank you. Thanks, Tucker. Thanks, Heather. So yeah, it's a good thing to bring people joy. It's a good thing to be in rhythm with people. All right, you move, and then I move, I speak, and then you speak. There's something going on.  I mean, is that partnership?  No, that's not love. I need to practice my machine gun imitations. Yeah, sorry, sorry, but that's not love. That's not love. So I remember I went to interview Kitten Nativedad thinking early 1997, and I was just a naive 27-year-old working on my first book. I'd be innocent lad three years into my stay in Los Angeles, and Kitten Nativedad was an experienced wise woman, and she had accumulated so much knowledge, so much wisdom, so much love, and so much philosophy from her 52 years of life. So I went to interview Kitten. We had a nice dinner. I helped her install AOL on her computer, and when I went to say goodbye, she like gave me a big hug, which was a little bit surprising, and I know you're thinking, oh 40, I'm going to mock you for courting a 52-year-old woman when you're 27. Like I am going to mock you for showing tenderness to a 52-year-old woman.  I am going to despise you for the consideration and the care that you took with this 52-year-old woman because it's a good thing to love. It's a good thing to bring people pleasure. It's a great thing to get on the same page with people. The more you have in common with someone, the better. If you agree on the same music, that will bring you closer. If you agree on the same movies, that will bring you closer. If you agree on the same favorite football team, that will bring you closer. If you agree on the same politics, that will bring you closer. If you're a member of the same religion, they have the same theology, the same religious practice, the more you are having common, the closer you're going to be. On the other hand, when the pundit, when the live streamer, when the podcast gets out of touch with his audience, let's say his audience are mainly dissident types and they are convinced that the 2020 election was stolen, but the host does not go along with them, then that relationship has lost its balance and it is in danger. So you start thinking differently than other people. You start speaking differently than other people. You start practicing differently than other people. You are going to create dislocation and distance from those people.  And the more dissonance comes between you and the audience, the more things that you disagree on, the weaker that relationship is going to be until people just turn on you. Now, being in harmony with people, like moving together with people, that's a great thing, but there are more important values. So I was willing, even though I was completely unexpected, you know, I was willing to be the old-fashioned 19th century Victorian gentleman with kitten natividad, but there were still values that were higher for me than being a courtly 19th century Victorian gentleman when it came to kitten natividad. So when she asked me to do something that was just not in consonance with my values, I said, no, I refused. I was willing to be the courtly 19th century Victorian gentleman. I didn't flee from her embrace, but she's screaming out, stick your fingers up my butt, but I wouldn't do it because that goes against my values.   Like, I'm not like Mr. Holiness, and I may not be a walking, talking vessel for God. I may not be the greatest embodiment of ethical monotheism. I may not be the poster child for conversion to Orthodox Judaism, but I am not going to slip a couple of digits into that aperture, all right? I'm not going to do it. I stand for things, man. I'm not going to sell out my integrity, even if she's screaming for me to do that. And she was really disappointed. But I said, no, all right. You might be screaming for me to take the side of voter fraud or to denounce the globalist elites for imposing COVID lockdowns, or you may want me to go against COVID vaccines. But when COVID hit, I read a book on the 1918-1919 Spanish flu, and I said, oh, wow. There are instances when you've got a severe influenza epidemic where you want to give public health authorities more room, and you do want to take fairly stringent public health measures. I don't know exactly where you should go. Just like I understand that pornography and civilization are at odds, right? You have to put limits. Otherwise, they used to have animal sex shows on Melrose Boulevard.  So when photographers talk about, oh, we never track in child porn, that's only because you can't get away with it anymore, right? When they could get away with it, they did get away with it.  I mean, just a vow. No monkeypox for me, all right? So there are things that I still stand for. And with Fox News, man, if only they had imbibed the spiritual lessons from when I said no to Kitten at Tividard, screaming for me to insert digits up a particular aperture. Fox News was afraid of losing their audience.   No, they didn't want to do it, but they were even more afraid of losing their audience. So I could have compromised my integrity. Like I could have sold my soul to bring Kitten at Tividard, the kind of pleasure that she demanded, but I wasn't going to sell out, right? So it's a beautiful thing to be in harmony with people. Like the more you have in common with people, the better. So generally speaking, you should say the same things, do the same things as the people you most want to get along with. Now you can just give them different meanings, right?  Or if everyone around you insists on 2020 Vodafraud, then you should say the same platitudes, but you can just understand the 2020 Vodafraud as a spiritual Vodafraud, right? So you say the same things, you do the same things as everyone else, right? But you don't have to sell out, man.  All right, a lot of great stuff in the chat. So let's get to the chat. Love will prevail. Yes.  Man. Stormy Daniels must be stark. No, no, Stormy Daniels is the only thing standing between us and another Holocaust. Yeah, that writing in Chicago is just different people expressing their different gifts. It would be terrible if these writing use starved to death. Anything that we need to do to stop that from happening. Yeah, think of the initiative that these use are exhibiting.  Elliot says Tucker Carlson is correct. Get out of the city. Move to Whitefish Montana. Luke Croft says conservatives are obsessed with racial snuff films. Yep, Democrats, the real racists. Tucker just bringing the old love and inclusion or hate and division. Love will prevail. Look, I don't care what your skin color is. God made us all equal. Elliot's thinking of opening a 7-11 in Compton not for the money, but for the community. Beautiful. Smash racism. We need first step 2.0, right? Thank God for Donald Trump and first step getting so many criminals out of prison, oppressed criminals of color in particular. Yeah, what Tucker was saying, absolute nonsense. I feel safe at LA. And if youths got to play, they got to play. We just need more midnight basketball. Well, I vote for Trump so I can do another first step back. Absolutely. We need more community outreach programs. Maybe Dennis Prager can host some dinners with a difference. Dennis Prager had this program dinners with a difference where he invited black people and white people inviting each other to their homes for dinner to overcome racial division, racial divide. But the money people behind Dennis Prager advised him that that would be legally risky. I don't know. I don't think it'd be legally risky.  And what could possibly go wrong having some Compton youths come to Beverly Hills, Westwood, Santa Monica, Century City for a nice dinner with some uptight white folks? What could possibly go wrong? I don't see anything that could go wrong. I wish Dennis Prager had the courage to enact dinners with a difference. Think about what a much better country this would be if black people or white people were able to sit down and have dinner together. Yeah, if only these writers learned to immerse themselves in Hayek and Saul and Martin Luther King.  I mean, the US is just fine, bros. Yeah, they're just breakdancing. It's their culture. It just feels honest. It feels homely.  Yeah, that's what that's what Hitler told the Einsatzgruppen. You need to need to practice your machine gun work. They just needed practice. Bro, you're just reenacting the graduate. How many viewers did 40 lose after he read those books on election fraud? I completely alienated my core audience. Yeah, my average views went down from like 20 live viewers per stream to like 14. And it hurts. Like I often, I stand here and I'm just delivering gold just pure gold. And sometimes there's just a flood of viewers to check out my stream. Maybe I've got this sexy title that compels viewers. And then I stand here, I pour my heart out. All right. And then I watch the viewer count drop from 25 to 20 to 15 to 10. I think I was like 90 minutes into last night's show and I was down to like five live viewers. It's like the normal live stream at the longer he streams, the more viewers he gets. I'm the very opposite. The longer I stream, the fewer viewers I get. They just keep dropping off. Maybe it's because they're so old. Maybe they're like dropping dead. Sad. I mean, you may see trees of green, skies of blue and think what a beautiful world. But I'm more spiritual than you are. I see dead people. I see civil war. I see crematoria going up in Beverly Hills. I see another a lot of more in Century City. I asked Luke to set up an interview with the singer of air supply. But he's that guy's got a lot of tats. Yeah, I even said no when the professor and the landlord and just a whole bunch of rando blokes wanted to blow me, right? Like free rent meant nothing to me. A man in my high moral character. The cola cola plants were all killed and drained of liquids in front of a rabbi look. Apertures are for photography. Yeah. So I dated a woman after she left the industry, Hailey Rivers. And what what ultimately drove her from the industry is that she went for a photography shoot. And she was posing naked in a very vulnerable position. You'll be absolutely shocked when you find out what happened. You won't believe what happened next. The photographer, he dropped his trousers. He inserted himself inside of her without a condom, pumped her a few times and ejaculated inside of her. Like that's no way to treat a lady, right? She went along for a classy photography suit. And that's the kind of treatment she gets. That's why the photography industry is consistently lost its best and brightest because of this kind of me too abusive, you know, white male objective, objectification of women. It's got to be stopped. Yeah. Bro, I haven't been kicked out of 109 apertures. You're getting the spiritual lesson of what I'm trying to impart to you. Totally wrong. I have refused 109 apertures. Like people used to mock me. Like I'd be there on the red carpet of some photography movie premiere, like conducting interviews with porn starlets. And these various porn starlets would come up and hit on me and like invite me over to their pool and have a party with them. And I would just ignore them because I just kept my focus on my work. Like I could have sold out, but I believe in things. I stand for things. It was a lot of responsibility for years. I was the moral leader in the pornography industry. And I could have taken advantage of that status. Right? But did I, did I sell out? Did I, did I dissipate my essence all over the San Fernando Valley? I said no. Like I'm a serious journalist, guys. Look, hit that last note of chance. I love that song, chances. But the chances are all gone. Oh my God. That makes me think of that. The sweet, beautiful, lovely girl that I went to Sierra Community College with just a lovely blonde girl, just wholesome, beautiful. I assumed she was a virgin. And I once, before a political science class, I once snuck up behind her and I surprised her. And when she turned around, she had tears in her eyes. Right? That's, that's how painful. And that's how vulnerable she was willing to be with me. She was willing to cry and show me her tears. And she wanted me to go to UC Davis and study economics with her. But no, I wanted to go to Southern California because I heard the girls were really slutty. But the chances are all gone. I could have been with a nice girl. I could have had a normal life. Like we could have grown together. I could have been with a strong, independent woman who wouldn't be afraid to call me on my nonsense.  Someone who would have been my equal, someone who would have challenged me and we would have grown together. Right? We could have been like 30 years into our marriage by now. We'd, we'd have four kids and two grandkids by now. But no, I wanted to go to UCLA because I thought the women were slutty there. And I could have gone to UC Davis, got a very respectable degree in economics, settled down with a very nice blonde girl. And now the chances are all gone. Man, the viewership just dropping like flies. A coffee enema is still a thing in LA. I haven't heard much about them. Have I been to the Channel Islands of California? Nope. Yeah, I feel like I'm all out of love. But am I without you? I know you were right believing for so long. If I launch into song, right, then I'll get copyright problems, right? If I actually hit the tune, right, then I'll get copyright issues. What did I want to do with my economics degree? I wanted to get a masters in economics and then a PhD in economics from Oxford. Luke Ford talks about what air supply means to him. 140,000 views. Throw me down that link, bro. Throw me down that link. Put another link on the bar before me, mate. Oh my God, I've got gold for you today. There's gold in them, their hills. What do you want to play? Rock you like a hurricane on the didgeridoo.   I mean, I wish I could do it. I wish I could bring it like he does. And he has this great line, the bigger the government, the smaller the citizen. Meaning that the more the government does for people, the more it diminishes them. The more it infantilizes them, right? The more it limits their opportunities for growth. You know what? How lucrative that approach is. The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen. You know how conservatives love that? Small government conservatives just resonate with that. There are so many speaking opportunities, writing opportunities, radio opportunities, TV opportunities, status in the conservative world with that kind of thinking. There's just a problem. It doesn't have much validity. The smaller the government, the bigger the citizen. Okay, we have an enormous defense budget, right? That's what makes the United States so strong and the dollar so strong. So it's having enormous military and enormous defense budget. Do you feel like that's really diminished you? Because I don't feel like that's diminished me. If I were to go to a public toilet on Venice Beach and instead of like the really cheap toilet paper, there had some, you know, toilet paper was real thickness and even like a pleasant odor, right? That would cost more money. That would be bigger government. But I don't feel like that would diminish me if I were to wipe, you know, with a more comfortable, a thicker, a more fragrant and just a more classy toilet paper. Like if we had more police, right? That's bigger government so that the streets were safe and you could walk anywhere, anytime in Los Angeles. That's big government. I don't feel like I would be diminished if I didn't have to worry about crime. Let's say we had more luxurious public facilities and we had cops there to make sure they weren't ruined. Let's say that we made sure that you could ride the subway with perfect safety. You could ride mass transit with perfect safety. You would have twice as many people riding public transport in LA. You'd have a lot less traffic on the road. You'd have less smog. But oh, that's big government. Can't have that. That diminishes the citizen. I don't know if government takes measures, spends money to reduce smog, to reduce crime, to jail people engage in anti-social behavior. That's big government, right? I would like to double the size of our prison population. That is big government. I am all for it. I don't feel like I am diminished. I don't feel like you're diminished if we have bigger government that in prison seat twice as many people for twice as long as we currently do. If we have clean public restrooms. Just imagine you could walk like, I want to, here's my dream. I have a dream that one day I go for a walkabout. Just me and my, not my didgeridoo, but my yodel, whatever the thing that holds your phone. And I just walk all of Sunset Boulevard.  And just imagine that I could do that from sea to shining sea, from Pacific Coast palisades, you know, walk to Glendale, wherever Sunset Boulevard ends. And just imagine that we had such big government that there were nice, clean, safe public restrooms along that route. I don't feel like I would be diminished, right, if I could safely walk Sunset Boulevard. I don't feel like I would be diminished. I don't feel like I would be smaller. I don't feel like I'd be an inferior human being if I could walk all over Los Angeles at any time and not have to worry about, you know, my bowels and, you know, finding, you know, a place to evacuate because I don't know about you, but when I start walking and talking, and I just get swept away with the power of my insights, the profundity of my vision, the transcendent nature of my moral perspective, right? Sometimes you need, you need, just imagine I could just drop in at a public restroom without walking the entire length of Sunset Boulevard and I could just safely leave my gimbal with my phone on it, just, you know, live streaming while I just pop in to the public restroom and come back and it's still live streaming. No one's stolen it because we've got big government that keeps public restrooms nice and safe and clean. I don't feel like I would be diminished, right? I think that would enhance my life. Plan ahead, dude. Right. So yeah, I could plan ahead and I could make my own arrangements with homeowners along the route, right? And I could spend money and time and effort to, you know, arrange things along the route, but it would be much more convenient to have big government do that. Just imagine we could have, you know, air conditioning in public schools. We could have nice, safe, clean, elite public schools all over the United States, right? That's big government, but I don't feel like having air conditioning in public schools diminishes people. I don't know about you, but I retain more when, say, the temperature in this room is, say, less than 80 degrees or less than 70 degrees as opposed to when it's 85, 90, 100, 110 degrees. I like to have air conditioning when it gets hot, right? It dramatically improves the quality of my life and I would retain more if I was a student if there was air conditioning. So for the money that we spent invading Afghanistan and Iraq, we could have nice, you know, socialized medicine where everyone could get free medicine. So imagine that we had socialized medicine instead of invading Iraq and Afghanistan, right? Would that really diminish us if you didn't have to worry about losing your job and then you'd lose your health insurance? You didn't have to worry about living on the edge of bankruptcy or entering bankruptcy or being homeless because of some health emergency. So imagine we just had the same level of socialized medicine as a high-functioning country like Australia. So when I go back to Australia and they have cradle to grave social welfare programs and they have excellent public health, right? When they have, you know, an excellent public education program into university, right? I don't feel like the citizens of Australia are diminished or made smaller by having a government that is high-functioning, that is on their side, that's trying to make their life better. So yeah, it is an incredibly appealing sentiment, you know, the bigger the government, the smaller the citizen. But is it really true?  Is it really true? I know it's appealing, but what about truth? Don't you want someone to tell you the truth? What about love?  What about profundity? Where's my, where's my didgeridoo? I mean, I kind of understand where, where Craig is coming from. You know, I've got some, I've got some sympathy.  When do you think of, does he look like me? Do you tell lies for status profit, national syndication and then say that it's forever? Do you think twice or just touch and see? Oh, babe. Oh yeah.  Are you wild and willing? Or is it just for show? Oh, come on. I don't want to touch you too much, baby. Because making love to you might drive me crazy. So now you think that small government is the way you make it. So why don't it be there when you decide to break it? No. Government bites. Government bleeds. It's bringing me to my knees. Government lives. Government dies. It's no surprise. Government begs. Government pleads.  When I'm with you, are you somewhere else? Am I getting through? Or do you please yourself? When you wake up, will you walk out? Can't be love if you throw it about. Oh, babe. Oh, I don't want to touch you too much, baby. Because big government is driving me crazy. Government bites. Government bleeds. It's bringing me to my knees. Government lives. Government dies. It's no surprise. Government begs. Government pleads.  But is it really? Is it really? I mean, the bigger the government, the smaller the citizen. I heard that on Dennis Prager. Okay, so what I succeed is a live stream. You have to give the audience what they want. You have to balance things. Say the words, all right? When she says, I love you, you say, I love you too. I love you more. So you may think, oh, national parks, local parks, pleasant walkways past the ocean, clean rivers, clean air. You might think that those are good things. But government bites, bro. Government bleeds. Government brings you to your knees. The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen. The cleaner the air, the smaller the citizen. The cleaner the water, the smaller the citizen. The finer the public restroom facilities, the higher quality the toilet paper in public restrooms, the smaller the citizen. The more public restrooms available to you, the smaller the citizen. The less crime, the smaller the citizen. The more the super predators are locked up, the smaller the citizen. The more pleasant public walkways, the smaller the citizen. The more national parks, the smaller the citizen. The stronger the national defense, the smaller the citizen. You want to be a big citizen, have very limited national defense. Just go fund me for national defense. Then I will show you a real national citizen. I mean, that's where men were men. When we didn't have government providing for the national defense. When we didn't have government providing roads, but you had to just cut down your own pathway through life, your own pathway through the forest. That's when men were men. That's what we need. Okay, welcome. Call our blessings. Bro, you all right? I've been adjusting my pharmacology. What do you think?  Oh, no. Do you need someone to talk to, dude? I see dead people. Do you try shrooms? I didn't eat shrooms, bro. I've been listening to Dennis Prager. We've got, could it happen here? It is happening here, bro. We've got a civil war that's raging around us. Okay, okay. But you have to admit, you know, may not be civil war, but things do seem kind of shaky, don't they? Well, in some ways, but bro, we're just living in a liminal space, right? It's just between now and what comes next. It could be a disaster. Like, tomorrow could bite, tomorrow could bleed, tomorrow could bring us to our knees. Or it could be the greatest thing ever. We could reduce racism, inequality. We could have like green energy. But we can't. Because we gotta support those Ukrainians, bro. They need us. They need our help. We could have peace in our time, bro. Peace in our time. That's what I stand for. Yeah. Okay, okay. I didn't have much to say. I was legitimately concerned. Oh, I can handle it, bro. Like other people, they can't handle this kind of, you know, caffeine and midaphanel and the cranberry extract and the, the, the Canada dry, no sugar, ginger ale. Other people can't handle that kind of thing, but bro, I can listen to death leopard and I can handle it all. Did you have any nicotine gum today? I haven't had any nicotine gum today. Would you, would you recommend? Is this the type of nicotine gun? No, it's absolutely the wrong type of nicotine gun. You need, you're going to go the other direction. You need a, you need a dark and stormy. Bro, she is the only thing standing between us and fascism. Yeah.  It's great. No, I don't. Oh, it's a, it's a rum, but it has, you don't drink alcohol. It's rum and ginger beer. It's, it's a, it's very nice. Luke Croft says that video last night got me worried. Elliot Blatt, what's he talking about? I don't know. Asking to refresh my memory. Stormy or cattle cars, bro. Stormy or cattle cars. Make your choice, Western man. No, it's not stormy. It's going to be the utter, I'm really getting the urge. I'm really starting to leave the city, given what I've seen. It's, am I being, am I overreacting? Am I being better? Yeah, bro. You're in a liminal space. Don't, don't introduce people's sisters to drugs. Right. Don't have adulterous affairs with the sisters of men with extensive criminal convictions. Right. Try not to do that. And, and you'll be fine. I know, but there's a certain randomness to this violence, which it seems like, I don't know. It's genuine chaos. I don't know who could open a business.  Everything's fine. Yeah. So no, no problems in Pico Robertson. Yeah. We have problems, but problems are just opportunities to grow in love. We're in a liminal space here. We have no, we have no idea.  There was a great article on this, this New York Times essay is called, We Don't Know What Will Happen Next. It's so profound. Have you ever thought about that? I'm still quaking. I'm shaking from the profundity of that. I mean, the New York Times, it bites, it bleeds, it brings you to your knees, but the New York Times lives and it loves and it begs and it pleads and that's what I need. Mm-hmm. So did you read your copy today? Yes, yes, yes. Of course. Elliot, everybody hurts. Everybody cries, but don't let yourself go. Everybody hurts sometimes. Like, you missing R.E.M.? Hey, you should listen to it. Don't go back to Rockville. You're feeling nostalgic. When your day is long and the night, the night is yours alone. When you're sure you've had enough of this life, well, hang on. Don't let yourself go, because everybody cries. That's true. That's true. I'm really, I've had a tough couple of days, Luke. I'm just, I'm not, I'm not functioning at my highest. Tell me, tell me where it hurts, bro. I'm here for you. Ugh. Just the grind, Luke. I'm being ground down. Ground down, Luke. Every day is the same.  I have to pull the same load through the fields every day. Sounds like you need power. I do. I do. I need a network. I need power to pull your load. You need an internal reorganization so that you can optimize and become more effective and efficient and more powerful so you can jump up to that tree branch and just pull yourself up. Do a couple of pull-ups. I need to blow this load, Luke. I need this load out of me. I need to blow this load. You need to blow this load, bro. Yeah. Are the termites killing you, bro? Are the satanic pedophiles getting you down? No, I've got my optimal male magniforce from Alex Jones. So I'm cool. So seriously, what do you do for power? So I feel more powerful usually after I meditate, after I do pull-ups, after I get exercise, after I listen to an inspiring like 12-step talk or go on a 12-step meeting or just a favorite podcast or like inspirational books or connecting with friends. Where do you get your power, Elliot Blatt? I get it by lying supine on the sun tanning deck at the beach. I just absorb those venison solar rays. I'm a sun worshiper, Luke. Simple. Simple. I go old school. I know just how to fake it and I know just how to scheme and I know just went to face the truth and then I know just went to dream and I know the night is fading and I know the time is going to fly and I'm never going to tell you everything I got to tell you, but I know I got to give it a try. I know the roads to riches and I know the ways to fame. I know all the rules and I know how to break them and I always know the name of the game but I don't know how to leave you and I'll never let you fall and I don't know how you do it, bro, making love out of nothing at all. It's powerful, dude. It is powerful, isn't it? Don't you feel empowered?  I feel like Caesar, bro. Crossing the Rubicon. Hey, I'm going to do what's having a show on Sunday. I'm going to call in. We're going to discuss our entrepreneurial activities. We're going to have a little practical networking session, you know. People who, Jews who knew Jews are the luckiest people in the world. That's right. Tribe of Abraham, man. It's nothing like this. We need each other, man. We need to lift each other up.  We've got to grab the old ladies. Everyone goes because this is Brother 40's traveling salvation show. Have you kept up with Ethan Rell? No, how is Brother Ethan? He is not doing well, dude.  Sorry. He's descending into this just gremlin state, this sort of semi-human state. He just kind of mumbles and slurs, but the drug use seems to have just gone off the charts. I really don't think he's going to live long. Do you know why God gave us two good hands so that we can reach out with one hand? To our brother Ethan, when he is troubled. Like just reach out one hand for him because that's what it's there for. Like when Ethan is troubled, you got to reach out your hand. Reach it out to the man up there, Ethan, because that's what he's there for. So take my hand in yours. Walk with me this day. In my heart, I know I will never stray. What do we do with the other hand? We put it on our heart and we listen to our heart. We got to pack up the babies, grab the old ladies and everyone goes. I'm a stickler for detail, so... Well, yeah, I don't think he'd be receptive to what I have to say.  I think he needs an intervention, Luke, and you're the man to bring it. Well, it's important to start soft and slow, like a small earthquake. And then when I let go, half the San Fernando Valley shakes. Well played, dude. Well played. All right, man. That's all I got. That's all I got. I gotta go to bed. That's all you've got. It was so much. I mean, for Elliott, he just like, he sells himself short. Like after those polls of wisdom, he says, that's all I've got. I mean, he gives us so much. I go out on top. I go out on top. I don't wait for the hook, you know. I go out on top. Elliott gives and gives and gives. And then he says, oh, that's all I've got. It's like, he's climbed the 20,000 foot mountain. He's taken us to the highest peaks, right? He's helped us forward every valley, cross every stream. Look, to quote Mick Jagger, I don't got that much jam. Bro, blessings. Love is all around us. Yeah, so like nice national parks, clean air guys, clean water. Notice how it just really diminishes the citizen. Clean streets, safe streets, safe cities, safe neighborhoods, super predators locked up in prison. When I paint that picture for you, that you could walk anywhere, any American city, and feel safe. You could go anywhere in America and be safe, have abundant public facilities. You could go to a public restroom where they didn't use the cheap toilet paper, all right, where you had cleaner air and cleaner water. But I just think about that. I feel so diminished because big government, it lies. It bites. It bleeds. It screams. It'll drive you to your knees.  Think about the oppressed people in Finland, Norway, Sweden. Think about the Scandinavians and how diminished their life has been, having cradle to grave welfare, abundant public facilities, free healthcare, free public education.   Think about all the opportunities for growth that they missed out on because they didn't get to breathe as much toxic air. They didn't get to breathe as much polluted, inhale as much polluted water. They could just walk anywhere they wanted and it was safe and clean. My God, that big government there in Scandinavia just incredibly, credibly diminished them. Because I'm more spiritual than you are, when I look at Scandinavia, I see dead people. Big government, it bites, guys. It bleeds. It'll drive you to your knees.     And I enjoy Fox News. Good times, happy times, joyous times that we've shared together.  But there are a lot of fun girls with incurable anal warts. Now, there are a lot of really fun, laughing, happy, loose women with sexually transmitted diseases. And so Fox after round and got caught. And now they have to pay $787 million. I mean, just imagine you make one bad decision.   Just because you made one mistake one time with a transvestite in Brazil. And now you've got incurable anal warts. So yeah, Fox is fun. There are a lot of fun girls out there. But they may have incurable anal warts. And Fox has got apparently incurable anal warts. And they're going to try to pay $787 million. But the anal warts are still there. So this is an example of the spiritual progress I'm making. This is why I'm so much better than you. And this is why I can see crematoria and you can't. This is why I can see civil war and you can't. Yes, I broke the Sasha Gray incurable anal warts story. And did I win any journalistic awards? No. Did the Columbia Journalism Review like invite me in to lecture? Was there even an item about me in the Columbia Journalism Review? I did the New York Times acknowledge what I'd done. Did President Bush call me, you know, one of his thousand points of light? Nothing. No. No awards. No prestige. No status. No movie deals. I just did it because I'm a truth teller. And that's okay. I don't need glory. Blue Cross says I broke the millennial worst general award story. But you didn't do it for the glory. You did it for the truth, man. We believe in transcendent values of truth. So this is an example of how much more spiritual I am than you are. This is an example of how much more morally elevated I am than you are. So when I used to drive around Los Angeles, I would kind of think about different streets, different neighborhoods, and remember the erotic times that I had there. Like, oh, I went for a first date here. Oh, just up this street. I did these things that are illegal in a lot of states. But I didn't do that anymore because I am a spiritual giant. I see dead people. Now when I drive around Los Angeles, I think about the amazing Torah that I learned. Or I think about the misvahs that I did. I think about the acts of loving kindness that I did. Or the people that I 12 stepped. Or the people that I 13 stepped. I now resonate. I am now vibrating on that spiritual level where I'm able to see dead people in civil wars and crematoria and Gog and Magog and demons and devils and angels. I'm just a vessel for God. That's the kind of level that I'm vibrating at right now. I mean, I think you can tell how my aura has just become so much more clean. There's no longer any brown in my aura. Have you noticed the complete removal of the color brown from my aura? And that's just happened in the last month. And I'm not one to boast about that because I'm just a vessel. So Donald Trump should have put stormy in his beauty pageants. Think about how much agro he could have saved.  That was a prime focus of J.F. Guarrapee's show and Banked Alaska, Nick Fuentes, they were all in with Ali Alexander and the other groomers, you know, stopped the steal, giving people what they want. But was I standing here giving you what you want? No, I said screw what you want. You're an inferior human being. I see dead people and you don't. So who cares what you want? I see civil wars and you don't. I see crematoria and you don't. So one thing about the Stormy Daniels story that illustrates something I often said about porn stars.  Porn stars are hookers without shame. So most hookers would feel shame going public with their hooking.  And so they don't have the same trepidation about naming and shaming their clients. So Stormy Daniels is a hooker without shame.  So Aaron Salkin, the creator of the West Wing, big patronizer of hookers, and he made a movie, all right, about someone operating this, you know, illegal poker game. All right, it's called Molly's Game 2017. So this woman operated in legal poker tournament until she got busted. But you know what made her the hero of this movie? That she didn't sell out her clients.   So you're the hero because Aaron Salkin has been burned by so many hookers who he patronized and promised things to and then they felt betrayed by him and, you know, spilled the dirty on him.   I just thought it was ridiculous that Aaron Salkin makes this 2017 movie, which is, you know, fun watch compelling, but the whole point, the upshot of the movie, the moral message of the movie is how awesome it is when you engage in illegal behavior, but you don't turn on richer and more powerful people than yourself like Aaron Salkin.  I mean, what can we all learn from Stormy Daniels? Like, what can we learn? It was the evening of April 1st, and the woman at the center of the legal drama that led to the first criminal indictment of a U.S. president had agreed to ask the guides for help to see more clearly the past, the present, and what she calls the potential or likely outcome. Daniels doesn't claim to be a fortune teller. Nobody can predict the future, she said. We all have free will, but she can for sure identify fortune's fool. She raised her hands and pressed the empty space between her palms. She spoke quietly. What can you tell Olivia about Donald Trump? She waited for a moment. Nothing.  That's weird. She was having trouble connecting to the realm of the spirits. She shuffled the deck again. There. Between her palms, the force field of energy swelled. She dealt the cards. As if by magic, the room shifted. My ears began to ring. Tensions right across my forehead.  I looked across the table and met the dealer's gaze. She was crying too. The cards confirmed what she already knew. She looked down. First, she saw the past. This is the unity card, she said. It's normally a very beautiful card. It means that everything is connected. But not today. When the card landed on the table, it was upside down. Reverse, it means everything is coming apart. Next, she saw the present. This is current energy, she said. She motioned to two cards, each decorated with a cloaked figure. We have double death. She paused to explain. Death is not dead. It is the natural ending of something. Sometimes when it's right side up, it can be kind of a good thing. Two death cards, one inverted, was not that. She read the text that accompanied the cards. Reverse meaning is important change is being blocked or delayed, but cannot necessarily be stopped. By clinging to old habits or things that were once true, something difficult is about to be forced upon us. We must release these outgrown or outworn ways of thinking to move forward to the next stage. It is important to look to the future, however unknown or frightening, rather than to try to target the past. You must dig deep and stop holding on to the untruths that have been spoon fed to you. There will be pain in this process, but hopefully a step forward into the future. She arched an eyebrow. Are you surprised? Next, she saw the future. Have you ever watched Harry Potter? She asked. This is the golden snitch.  This is the outcome. Shit going crazy. Potential for good, but needs to be harnessed. She read again from the book. It is ungrounded energy and it is not meant to be. Humans need to keep their feet firmly on earth. If you encounter the roar, breathe slowly, center and ground yourself. Be clear about objectives before chaos ensues. This one is terrifying because of who it is. It's for Trump, but let's face it. It's kind of for everybody. His fate, she believed, would determine ours. I was bewildered by the wave of emotion that seemed to wash over. Why do we cry? I mean, Stormy is trying to water us guys. Stormy is the only thing between us and fascism. Are we, are we willing to listen to Stormy's wisdom or are we going to deny Stormy yet again? Right? Will you reject Stormy? She's trying to save you. Are you going to deny Stormy yet again in your sinful unbelief? I sure hope not. Daniel says she received a call from Intouch Weekly, which was considering publishing her story. In her book, she recounts contacting a publicist named Gina Rodriguez, who said she believed the tabloid had been informed by Daniel's ex-husband, Mike Maas. Rodriguez laid out a case for cooperating. If she refused to talk, Daniels would be putting herself in a lose-lose situation. Not only would the secret be out, but it would be on her ex's terms and likely for his financial benefit. However, if she worked with the magazine, she could exert some control and she would get paid. She recalled Rodriguez asking her, do you really want to hand him 15 grand? Daniels submitted to an interview and to a subsequent lie detector test, which she passed. It was around this time that Daniels says she was first threatened.  That just blows my mind. I never thought that someone doing what they love, sex work. I never thought that that could possibly be dangerous or revealing intimate details of sex with a powerful figure. Who ever thought that that could come with some dangerous complications? I thought sex work was just all fun and fluff and love and kindness and goodness.  This is just totally blowing my mind. Guys, why didn't we listen to Stormy Daniels? She's the only thing standing between us and fascism. Daniels came up behind her. Beautiful little girl you got there, he said. She figured he was lost. She was going to offer to help him find where he was going. Instead, he said it would really be a shame if something happened to her mom. He was staring at the child. Yeah and Stormy Daniels is the first public figure who's taken some controversial actions and there was blowback. Can you believe that? There were negative repercussions to becoming a public figure as a prostitute who had sex with a powerful man and then you tried to leverage that for money and fame. I mean she just wants to do work that she loves making pornography and being a stripper and a hooker but now she finds that there's downsides to being a public figure who would have thought that if you are controversial, that if you tick off a lot of people, if you threaten powerful people, if you reveal things that most people would want to keep silent, who would have ever considered that there might possibly be downsides to this? This is just blowing my mind. Isn't this the first time that any public figure has received negative repercussions for things, for stories that they've put out to the public that they've sold to the public? This is amazing and so sad. I had no idea that if you engage in public controversy that there can possibly be a downside. I just thought that everything would be sweetness and light. Forget the story. Leave me. Whoa. Mr. Trump alone. She would have no choice but to oblige. I had no idea that if you hurt people, if you damage people, if you bothered people, if you threaten to derail their political campaign or any dream or project that they're on, that there might be blowback, that there might be some opposition who knew that some people would be unhappy if you tried to destroy what they're working on. I had no idea until this excellent article by Olivier Nuzzi in New York Magazine, the Stormy Daniels story. So important. So important. Pitch in touch went dark. A few months later, the story cropped up again. Someone had told a gossip blog, The Dirty, about the relationship. Daniels isn't sure who that someone was, though she has theories. The blog attributed the source to a friend. Rodriguez introduced Daniels to a lawyer, Keith Davidson, who she said could help. This is pretty shocking.      And not all of your friends turn out to be a sterling character. I mean, this just blows me away. Who would have thought that being in the sex industry might predispose you to dealing with an inferior quality of people? This is blowing my mind. Within a few hours, the item had been taken offline. Daniels didn't know who Davidson was, nor that his specialty was brokering sex tapes and the like. She was just grateful to avoid humiliation. She didn't know anything, right? She's just totally innocent babe, right? She just loved to do work that she loved.   She just simply wanted to get paid money for her story. And just, this is just so sad. And she's the only thing standing between us and fascism. She didn't want the world, especially not her then husband, Glendon Crane, to know about what had happened in Tahoe or in the months that followed. Who could imagine that when you're a professional sex worker that maybe the husbands that you pick, I think she's on husband number four by now. But apparently, being a professional sex worker is not really great for lasting long-term healthy relationships. It's not really a really solid foundation for marriage. I mean, this blows me away. I thought that active prostitutes and active porn stars and strippers, I would think they'd just make the best, most stable families and only the best, the creme de la creme, the elite, the finest, the people of sterling moral character would marry them.  And for a little while longer, at least, it seemed no one would. I let it go, she said, content to let Donald Trump recede into the past. The past caught up with her again in 2016. The closer Trump got to the White House, the more Daniels feared for her life. Going public, she came to believe, would protect her and her family.  I mean, this just blows away. Just imagine that there's a downside to revealing intimate moments that normal human beings would keep quiet. Just imagine there's a downside when you escape from normal moral boundaries. I can't believe that there's a downside when you consistently engage in anti-social behavior. I can't believe there's a downside when you choose to live and to work on the dark side and that this comes with negative repercussions. I can't believe that being a hooker without shame might come with a downside and might predispose you to some dangers. Who knew that sex work could predispose a woman to some unsavory characters? Blows my mind. At least if something tragic happened, a single car crash, an overdose, a gas leak explosion, there would be a record of her accusations. There would be cause for suspicions. Without that, it would be much easier for a woman perceived as a potential optics problem for a potential president to just up and disappear. Daniels made plans to tell her story on Good Morning America. She was on set directing a film when Rodriguez called to say she had to see her and it was urgent. When she arrived, she was just directing a film, a nice wholesome suck-and-puck film, just a nice hardcore pornography film. Like, just the most innocent activity. Like, she's just doing what she loves.  And then everything starts falling apart for no reason. There's nothing that she did wrong. This kills me. Come on. The world has interpreted the fact of the so-called hush money agreement through Trump's perspective. He was the one with something obvious to lose. He was the one on his way to the presidency, already hobbled by then by the access Hollywood tape and a rolling series of allegations of sexual harassment and assault. But the deal was not just financially advantageous for Daniels. It was exactly what she had always wanted. To protect herself, protect her daughter, and shield her husband, who struggled with his mental health, from the truth. I felt like this was a win, she would later write. Got to stay in my home with my daughter and do the work that I love. I won't be defined by Trump. She just wanted to stay home, be with her daughter, do the work that she loved. And she just wanted, you know, some help for her husband, husband number three, husband number four and mental health problems. I mean, she tried to warn us, guys.  Are we listening? Are we listening to the message that Stormy Daniels has for us? I sure hope so. This is breaking my heart. I hate 40 here. So I've interviewed thousands of people in my life. And one thing I noticed is that everybody hurts. Like everybody is sensitive to slights. Everybody feels pain when that which they love and value is diminished. So if you love your kids, you're dramatically increasing your vulnerability in life because if a girl breaks up with your son, right, you feel bad. If your daughter gets fired, you feel bad. If your kid struggles in a class or is bullied, you feel bad. If your kid falls down, the blood he sees his knee, normally you feel bad.  He'd like yank me up by the arm and announce to everybody around me, he's fine. He's fine. But that's because my father loved things more than his kids, such as his public standing and his reputation. And so I was in point to him that we didn't show pain and that we were resilient and that we were masters over our feelings. But if you love the Dallas Cowboys, you're going to feel pain when Cowboys lose. Like, if you love your car, you're going to feel bad. You're going to feel pain when it gets scratched. Like, if you love your garden and gets damaged by a storm, you're going to feel bad. Like everybody hurts. Everybody cries sometime. So when I think about my dad, he'd always proclaim and people around him, his supporters would back him up.   I don't know how to bother me, says Dennis. It does. Like, you can viscerally see it bother him when he's getting more of it, depending who it's from. If it's from people in the Jewish community, of course that hurts more than people in our group. I remember when a variety of conservative rabbis signed a letter condemning Dennis Prager for his stand against same-sex marriage and, I think, calling him homophobic. And, like, that really hurt Dennis. You could see the pain when he came to shul, that sabbath. He was rocked. And guess what? Dennis' best friends, they felt the pain and they were indignant on his behalf and they were outraged. So we all have things that we invest in outside of ourselves. And when those things, you know, they become part of our hero system, normally that's part of our community. So if you're part of the Armenian community and the Armenian community suffers a loss, you hurt.  And you see a bunch of Orthodox Jews convicted for some white-collar crime or there's some legal setbacks against Orthodox Jews saying, Israel, or there's some change in the economy and some segment of Orthodox Jewry is really struggling. Like, you feel pain if there's... Yeah. Everybody hurts. Everybody cries. All right. Up bell, comments. We hope for some singing here. Got a title of a video matching an REM song. I just missed this. Bright Bart website had early on one ex-government official claiming that the young kid who leaked hundreds of pages of military intelligence needed someone much more senior than him to get access. Thus, this whole thing was a government operation, maybe to pass the draconian proposed bill to tame the internet. Maybe the kid's IT position would allow him access to all that info. Zero Hedge reports that 1.25 million Americans have top secret access. Crowd source truth has some ancient intelligence workers that say impossible for a young guy to get this info. And up bell says in the Jerusalem Post, God forbid, Israeli father-daughter arrested for trying to pimp out Ukrainian women. The arrest was the culmination of a four-month investigation by Israeli police regarding Israelis bringing Ukrainian women to Israel to exploit them and to make them work as prostitutes. So I remember I visited the Mount of Olives and Gethsemane when I was in Israel in 2000. And I wanted to see some of the graves there and this very nice Arab man offered to show me various graves for a generous tip. And then he even promised to take me to a brothel where there were some inexpensive but beautiful Ukrainian women. And I declined. I have never paid money for the services of a prostitute. A put-down of traditional Orthodox practices or ways of organizing community, the Orthodox way of life, the divine nature of the origins of the Torah and the whole Orthodox Jewish tradition. Like any put-downs, any criticisms, any cuts or slides to that, you feel pain. If you're a fending of Christian, you believe that Jesus Christ is the only path to salvation. Any claim to the contrary, that's going to cause you viscerally pain. Wow, isn't this beautiful? We've got these flowers, spring has sprung, bro. And these flowers are just descending upon me. So this is just pure delusion that you can love and be invested in things and have a hero system and they're not hurt. So in California, if you get most of your intensive community from being a Californian, if much California falls off the map because of an earthquake or its damage by floods or fires or droughts or the economy in California turns down or develops in a very nasty budget deficit, you're going to feel pain. If you believe that marriage is a heterosexual institution and you have to encounter same-sex marriage, whether it's on the news or in person, you're going to feel pain if you believe that the United States military should be a heterosexual institution. You're going to feel pain at the inclusion of LGBTQ. If you believe that God's greatest revelation to humanity is the Sabbath Abbey's church or the truth as articulated to the Prophet Muhammad or the Mormon church, like any detriments, any put-downs, any suffering by these entities in which you invest yourself, you're going to feel pain.  Like if you love a tree. Right. Everybody hurts. Everybody cries. Right?   It's a lie. Right? When my viewers go from 20 to 15, it hurts. It's like little pinpricks as my viewership drops.   It's just me and my audience here. Right? Or what could possibly go wrong? Well, sometimes you have enough, but you got to hang on, guys. Don't let yourself go. Why? Because everybody cries. Everybody hurts sometimes. Right? When things don't get your way. Right? Criticism hurts. We're all vulnerable. Sometimes everything is wrong. Now it's time to sing along. Sometimes everything is wrong. Now it's time to sing along. When your day is night alone, hold on, hold on. If you feel like letting go, hold on. If you think you've had too much of this life, well, hang on. Because everybody hurts.  Well, hang on. Because everybody hurts. Everybody cries.


From an economic perspective, I'm not sure the federal government needs to put a label or a purpose on it. I don't mind block grant. You need some things like maintenance of effort rules, can't use it for tax cuts, maybe can't use it to fund your pensions or something like that. I think then almost every state's going to get to everything on Josh's list. When it comes to the label, I think there's some economics to the choice of the label, but I think the ratio of politics to economics is even higher. So if people are happier with an unconditional block grant and let the states decide, I'm happy with that. If people are happy, if you call it healthcare or education, I'm happy with that too. Certainly in the transition in 2008, as we were putting the Recovery Act together, we originally had an unconditional block grant. Our political advisors said, oh, you'll never be able to sell that, make it sound better, and we changed the label to health and education.  So I think there's some economics here, but I think whatever message gets the money out is fine with me personally.


What's going on everyone we got a brand new movie review for you guys today and today we're discussing the brand new Animated film the Grinch if needed to tell you what the story of the Grinch is because I think all of us have read the doctors Who's novel at one point in time in our lives was the more thing is this is 18 years after the Jim Carrey version It's a brand new reimagining of that Grinch story Benedict Cumberbatch doing the voice of the grumpy old Grinch this time around and this is the one thing I can say about this movie is that I really didn't have much Anticipation for this movie. I thought it looked cute and I thought the trailer was a little bit adorable, too But I just never was like, okay This is one of my most anticipated films of the year But what I can say is the Grinch did a couple things for me one I wanted this film a little bit tired grumpy at least and just wanting to sleep But I walked out and just like the Grinch's heart my heart grew with this film It's self-having very charming time with this movie And one of the biggest parts about that is not just because the animation which the animation is astounding It is absolutely one of the best animated films of this year just in the animation category When you look at the vibrant colors when you look at the vibrant detail in each and every scene It is outstanding with illumination always Builds up their game and steps it up with each and every feature that they do and that's one thing I can always give to them and give major props to is the way and the Attention to detail they do on every single scene as much as I don't love all their films That's the one thing I can give them and the Grinch is like no bearer to bones with that all this Holly and all the Jolly Charming stuff all around the whole city of Whoville is Beautiful and the fur on the Grinch I mean it is there's one scene where it's panning around. He's on top of a hill looking down at Whoville and it is beautiful like literally one of the best shots of the year and That is saying a lot because considering we've had a ton of great films and a ton of great Photography and a ton of great animation already this year. It's one of the best and I was very impressed by that you're wrong The story in here is very cliche.  It's predictable, but it's a great family feature film It's the perfect film to take your family to perfect film that adults can go into the film Enjoy it with their children and their children aren't gonna get antsy around the movie They're gonna enjoy it. They're gonna laugh They're gonna have fun and a lot of the humor is placed more towards children than adults But there are still some good enjoyable adult humor in here myself laughing and I found myself smiling I never got bust laugh, but I was enjoying myself at the very least and I think that's something that the Grinch did so Well, it might have beautifully animation, but man, I enjoyed myself and it made my heart grow It was a very sweet and adorable film at times with Cindy Luhu being Just the adorable little Cindy Luhu that we know who she is The Grinch's little character arc that we do get in here is charming enough And it's also very sweet enough that it gets you into those vibrant vibes And of course, I cannot forget to talk about the big standout character of this movie or might I say the small standout character And that is Max the adorable little dog now I have a little soft spot for little dogs and movies because I have two little dogs myself, but Max steals a lot of the best moments in the Grinch and that's that's one of the things about this You know exactly what the Grinch is gonna be. It's a charming little family feature film My animation to it Benedict Cumberbatch nailed the voice of the Grinch and I loved it It took a little bit to get in there But once you start hearing it, it just sounds perfectly and fluid throughout it The holiday feels and what I can say mostly about the Grinch is you could be the grumpiest person out there And you could go walk into this movie and your heart will grow just as big as the Grinch is by the end of the movie Walkout smiling Laughing and having a very weird fuzzy feeling down in your stomach. So with all that said, I'm gonna give the Grinch a B It's really surprised by the Grinch overall and I'm curious here guys thoughts down below Do you guys love the Jim Carrey version? Are you guys excited for this new version? Let's talk about it down below in the comments Of course if you guys are new here hit up sandwich on films also down below because right down there We can give you guys into advanced movies games like the Grinch try out some movie news And even some movie reviews while you're here Make sure to like and subscribe button so you guys never miss out on anything over on this channel But guys of course until next time stay classy


as you might see by the slides coming up. So sometimes customers are difficult. They can ask really interesting questions which have difficult solutions. For example, can you not just make the search more like what Google does? We've got to go live in three days. We don't have any budget, and it must behave like Amazon does. That's my usual response. No. But actually, you don't have to worry too much. We're here to try to give you some tips on how you can make it be a little better without having to invest a lot of money. Yeah, so my name is Steven. I'm the head of Drupal at Calibrate. I've been doing Drupal since 2009. I've been here in 2013 as well. I like to describe myself as enthusiast, and passionate in anything I do. You can find me on LinkedIn or around the center, Congress. And my name is Joris. I do Drupal at Calibrate, and I also do some Laravel at Kodana, which is a sister company. And you can find me on Twitter. I'm also a maintainer of the Search API module and the Facets module. Co-maintenor, I should say, it's not a one-person job. It's a many, many person job. And we're here to say, don't panic. Yeah, the idea about the session is we don't want to take the technological approach for enhancing the search experience this time, because there's not any budget left. And we have to go live in three days. Instead of panicking, we're trying to take the creative approach and work with what's already inside the system and what we already have got. And that turns up looking something like in this video. So the way search works in Drupal is it's based on keyword frequency. That means that we're looking up how many times a certain keyword occurs in a text, which is kind of an all-the-way of doing it. It's great for if you're a library and you want to have academic researching stuff. But for users, it's kind of they have a certain intent when they're searching for something. If you go to Google and you search for buy an iPhone, you're not at all interested in all the pages on the internet that contain these two keywords. You're looking to buy an iPhone. So what we try to do for providing a good experience is trying to take into account what the intent of a user is while they're searching. And if you look at how Google does it, here I search for SpaceX. And Google knows that that's a company. So they assume that I might be looking for some company information, so they put a knowledge graph to the right. So that I can immediately see what I'm looking for if I was looking for company information. But they also provide me clear insights on what I can do on the home page of SpaceX. If there were any top tasks that I would want to do there, then I can see them immediately. Also, I might be looking for more information of other people's opinions about SpaceX. And I can find them using the top stories. Frequently asked questions are a great one, because that really helps people find what they're looking for faster. They also have videos about SpaceX. And only then are the regular search results shown. So that's almost completely at the bottom of the search. And the last one that's there is the search suggestions. And I think that's really interesting, because I always put the search suggestions at the top. Because I'm not as confident that my search will be as good, and Google is pretty confident about it. While we're talking about search experience, how do you set that up first and for all? You need to have good search results. And only then can we start looking at the experience part itself. So good search results start with good content to search through. So you have to invest in the content of your application, of your website, before you can actually do a lot of other things. So that's a good first step to talk with your customer, because it's not going to cost them money from the development agency to write better content. It's a good experience for them, because it's free. It's not free because it takes time, of course. But still, it's an easy way for them to improve their search results. And while if you have built a search, it's built up of a couple of different components, one of them being the server of the search. By default, that's a database. There's one thing that I want to point out here, which is the partial matching. So you can match on a whole word or match on parts of a word or words starting with a search keyword. There's a big performance hit when doing the default match on parts of words, but it gives you the most search results. But you have to think about the performance implication that this has. The database backend is a default that's being provided by Search API. It's easier for your operations team, because they know how to scale my SQL. They know how to run it. They don't have a lot of experience with it. They don't have anything new to introduce. It has probably sufficient functionality. As an anecdotal evidence for that, I asked Neil Drum earlier today. And the Drupal.org issue queues run on Search API DB with 1.2 million nodes in them. I'm guessing most of your customers don't have that kind of content or that many items. So it does introduce more stress on both the PHP and the MySQL backends or MySQL container server, whatever, because a lot more processing needs to happen in your PHP logic. On the other hand, Solar is more software to maintain, but it's easier to scale, because it's already something separate. It provides some AI and machine learning stuff, which we're not going to talk about, but know that it's there, and that you can do graph traversal and really interesting stuff like that. And it has Geospatial-based search, which is currently not possible in Search API DB. However, there's a patch, which is being used on croydon.gov.uk, I think that was the URL. So there's people out there using Geospatial stuff with Search API DB. But if you want to have advanced functionality about spatial information, then you need to go to Solar or Elastic or something else, something more clever. So the server defines where is all your data stored. The index defines what data goes into that server. So by default, we provide a lot of functionality already. One thing that I want to point out from this screen is the index items immediately.  Assuming, if you're using Solar, that the index time or the commit time is set to something very small. However, this does mean that your content editors will have some wait time when saving the note. If you disable this, your editors will gain a little bit of performance. But it might take two minutes or three minutes, depending on what time it gets indexed for the content to change to show up in your search. This is something that I cannot tell you which is the best approach. You have to decide together with the customer. Another thing is that we use rendered HTML output most often to configure how the index data goes into the back end. You could select all the different fields, but that's a lot of configuration. And it's a lot easier to just use the rendered HTML. If you do this, and I'm sorry that this is in Dutch, it's a screenshot that I took on the wrong language before noticing it. If you use the full content, I think is the English term for it. If you use that view mode and you have labels, for example, you have an address field somewhere on your page, and the label is address, every single item of that content type will have address in the search. If you make a custom view mode, then you can remove all the labels. And that way, your search results will be a little bit more specific. There's a lot of processors. It has a good default configuration for a database back end. There's a couple of processors that have some notes if you're using it on a different back end that it's not the right way. For example, highlighting is a lot more efficient when used in solar than in the processor. And then there's also boost settings. Here, I have shown that the places bundle type is boosted a lot higher than, for example, news. This is something that you have to talk with your customer with, but it's a good way to already refine what items show up near the top. There's more modules as well. There's not a complete module, which allows you to get not a complete. There's sorting. There's facets. And all of those things allow you to give your user a great experience. And because for me, a couple of years ago, that's where I stopped. I just threw all the search results on a page. And then it ended there with the search excerpt. And that was it. But then I started thinking we can do more about it. So the first thing we did is get the search suggestions all the way up front, even before someone is searching. Because that way, we can get them where they want to be faster. And the simplest way we can do that is just by using a specific search menu that the customer can maintain themselves. You can also use live results when you're using a suggestion. So it doesn't have to be a keyword suggestion. For this site, it really helped them get them to the products faster. And one thing that Google does that I think is really interesting is to group data based on the intent you think the user has. And you can do this by setting content types together or media types. So in this example, the FAQ items are at the top. And the media items are below. And then the actual search comes. And one of the most important things is the search snippet itself. Don't just use the excerpt, but add more relevant content about it. If you have a location, then it might be useful to have the address there. Or if it's just a specific landing page, the breadcrumb of that page tells you a lot on where that page is within the site and helps users figure out if that's part of the site I want to read. There are a lot of things you can define a search snippet on. But I'm going to skip that to go a bit further. This one is the kind of knowledge graph you're trying to do is if there's a location within the search results, we want to show that with the openings hours not to the side of it. And we ended up doing that by adding a search attachment to views. So a search attachment gets all the same view queries and exposed filters as the original view has. So it knows what's being searched. And then we've configured them to only show the location, and in this case also events, and just show one. So with the exact the same search, it just shows the first location or event within it. And then we've set up view modes just so that they're configured a bit different and that an event can look different than a location. The only code that's here is just to expose the search attachment as a block because you can't do that without the specific snippet here. And these FAQ items, they could be just a content type at the top. But if you look closely, I've searched for space, but there isn't actually space within the FAQ answer. So we try to take it a bit further. And the way we did that is by using facets. So the FAQ items there are pretty much the same as if it was a facet like that. So every content can have relations and entity references to FAQ items. They're not shown anywhere on the site just purely for the search results. And then we start at a facet on top. And we say we just want to show five sort by the ones that are found the most. And we use a view mode on the facet to make it look like an accordion item. And we show the raw results because we don't want a link afterwards behind it. So this means you have a couple of search results. And the most relevant FAQ items that are there are shown at the top to help people find where they're trying to go to. The facet view mode is a module I used to be able to select the view mode for each facet item. And there's a code snippet that I used to make the facet act without a link. And I already made a contributed module for the Dev Day. So I should have updated the slide. And I don't want to just stop there because the experience can go further than just the people that are searching and visiting on your site. You can also add search API indexes to add images. We use the search API index as on the media entities. So that allows people to search on every contextual item on the image. So Drupal Core mainly searches on the name of an image. But we have a lot of metadata on top of the media item. And because they're all in search, we can use entity browser and allow people to search for everything that's inside the pictures or any other entity when they're adding content anywhere on the site. So these are only a couple of suggestions of things that you can try to improve your search or the search experience of the user without actually having to do a lot of extra development. It's mainly configuration and some clever thinking that can already create a better solution. So the next time your customer is like, I want to have a search more like Google, we go live in three days. We don't have any money. It must behave like Amazon. You can say, no worries. We've got it. No problem. Or at least you can say, we can think about a solution. Yeah, thank you very much. So we used for our projects to save budget and time Agolia as an external search engine. It's really fast. But your results look really, really, really good. So did you make any experience with Agolia? So it's not that good integrated into Drupal? No, the search API Agolia module does exist. It allows for indexing, but I don't think it allows for viewing modes. But we have used it before mainly in our custom projects. And I think it works really well if you want something really fast without very small time to market. I'm sorry. So you can do this with Agolia as well. Just need some react work. OK, thank you.