Elections Have Consequences. They Shouldn't - Ep 2956 の全文書き起こし

the ballot initiatives 74 00:04:25.019 --> 00:04:29.060 purposely confusing your voters over there. So is the word trans. 75 00:04:29.540 --> 00:04:32.319 If you say it like it is, should boys play 76 00:04:32.339 --> 00:04:32.819 against girls? 77 00:04:33.639 --> 00:04:33.740 No. 78 00:04:34.860 --> 00:04:35.120 Right? 79 00:04:35.420 --> 00:04:38.040 And so they take this word. They do the same thing. 80 00:04:38.459 --> 00:04:42.019 They're talking here in keeping these secrets from parents. Here's 81 00:04:42.050 --> 00:04:46.129 how they put it. Should children have healthcare privacy? Should 82 00:04:46.230 --> 00:04:48.949 a girl be able to talk with a doctor and 83 00:04:49.069 --> 00:04:53.029 a trusted adult about issues of sexuality without having to 84 00:04:53.149 --> 00:04:56.370 fear their parents' reprisals or being outed? This is another thing. 85 00:04:56.410 --> 00:05:00.329 I saw this in the Seattle Times. Um, Should so-called 86 00:05:00.389 --> 00:05:04.949 trans kids be purposely outed by the schools? Should same-sex 87 00:05:04.990 --> 00:05:09.120 attracted kids be forcibly outed by the schools? This is 88 00:05:09.180 --> 00:05:11.439 what the proponents of this bill want. They want to 89 00:05:11.519 --> 00:05:15.449 dox and out these kids. They want to force them out. 90 00:05:16.209 --> 00:05:18.629 They should be able to have these discussions with trusted adults, 91 00:05:19.209 --> 00:05:21.629 and they do the same thing. It's appeal to authority. Well, 92 00:05:21.949 --> 00:05:24.269 most pediatricians say that some kids are born in the 93 00:05:24.310 --> 00:05:28.500 wrong body. The experts in the school, they say that 94 00:05:28.540 --> 00:05:30.759 we should not force kids to come out, and that's 95 00:05:30.779 --> 00:05:32.420 what these people want. They want to force them to 96 00:05:32.480 --> 00:05:35.699 come out as so-called trans or as same-sex attracted. That's 97 00:05:35.740 --> 00:05:38.079 how they phrase it, as if the parents aren't the 98 00:05:38.139 --> 00:05:42.509 first people who should know. That's how they do it. 99 00:05:44.439 --> 00:05:48.279 When you look at the suicide rate of trans kids, 100 00:05:50.199 --> 00:05:54.180 how in the world would you justify not disclosing that 101 00:05:54.220 --> 00:05:57.519 they are going through that to anybody that is the 102 00:05:57.600 --> 00:06:00.319 legal guardian of that child? 103 00:06:00.350 --> 00:06:02.089 That is insanity. 104 00:06:02.850 --> 00:06:07.290 How you justify that, we might offend them versus we 105 00:06:07.350 --> 00:06:09.310 might find them hanging in their closet. 106 00:06:11.009 --> 00:06:12.000 Yeah. And. 107 00:06:13.439 --> 00:06:16.699 You go back to appeal to authority. This is, to me, 108 00:06:16.860 --> 00:06:18.839 where so much of this resides. And this is the 109 00:06:18.879 --> 00:06:21.779 same thing that happened in your ballot measures. Now, there 110 00:06:21.920 --> 00:06:24.939 are going to

be massive economic consequences to this. I 111 00:06:24.959 --> 00:06:29.139 want to look at the cultural impacts of this. You 112 00:06:29.189 --> 00:06:32.230 guys now, you live in a state, and everybody who 113 00:06:32.269 --> 00:06:34.829 doesn't live in Washington, I beg you to understand, if 114 00:06:34.850 --> 00:06:39.009 you watch the blue wave, understand they have all watched 115 00:06:39.089 --> 00:06:43.180 Washington State. They have all watched California. They are watching 116 00:06:43.220 --> 00:06:46.600 the outcome of this. You, Zach, now operate in a 117 00:06:46.639 --> 00:06:48.980 state that has no law. 118 00:06:49.939 --> 00:06:50.610 Right. Yeah. 119 00:06:51.069 --> 00:06:55.550 Because the income tax is expressly illegal in this form, 120 00:06:55.550 --> 00:07:00.149 100% unconstitutional, unquestionably so. And yet there it is. It exists. 121 00:07:00.750 --> 00:07:03.490 They put a confusing ballot process together. You had to 122 00:07:03.529 --> 00:07:07.699 vote no to vote yes. And then- they described it 123 00:07:07.879 --> 00:07:10.100 as cutting a budget that hasn't been created on a 124 00:07:10.139 --> 00:07:14.329 tax that won't be collected until 2029, I believe, or 2029, right? 125 00:07:14.350 --> 00:07:17.930 They lied. Huh? They lied. 126 00:07:18.410 --> 00:07:19.350 They lied, yeah. 127 00:07:19.470 --> 00:07:23.100 You live in a state that now, I'm not hyperventilating, 128 00:07:23.250 --> 00:07:26.660 I'm not exaggerating, there is no law, there is no constitution. 129 00:07:27.160 --> 00:07:29.120 What's the immediate economic impact of that? 130 00:07:32.360 --> 00:07:32.720 So, I mean. 131 00:07:33.529 --> 00:07:36.360 It's, and that's the crazy part about doing this. I've 132 00:07:36.389 --> 00:07:39.620 referred to it as economic sepuku, right? Where you're just 133 00:07:39.699 --> 00:07:41.500 gutting yourself, meaning. 134 00:07:42.439 --> 00:07:43.259 You see it already. 135 00:07:43.300 --> 00:07:45.980 I mean, we're talking about, I believe we've just crossed 136 00:07:46.079 --> 00:07:50.810 over 40% vacancies in commercial real estate. So now remember, 137 00:07:52.470 --> 00:07:54.910 here's a crazy one. This will blow your hair back. 138 00:07:55.629 --> 00:08:01.209 You're talking about 43% vacancy And Amazon and Microsoft together 139 00:08:01.310 --> 00:08:04.810 are sitting on 2 million square feet of office space 140 00:08:04.829 --> 00:08:05.449 that is vacant. 141 00:08:06.829 --> 00:08:09.350 Put that into perspective for people. 2 million sounds like 142 00:08:09.370 --> 00:08:11.370 a huge amount of real estate. 143 00:08:13.149 --> 00:08:15.870 Don't quote me on this, but I believe it amounts 144 00:08:15.949 --> 00:08:20.360 to something like 20%, 25% of commercial real. 145 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:23.769 Estate in Seattle. Okay, so you're talking about a ton. 146 00:08:24.279 --> 00:08:31.490 So if and when that hits the market, So the 147 00:08:31.550 --> 00:08:34.240 other thing is, and I tried to warn people about this, 148 00:08:36.120 --> 00:08:38.799 virtually no businesses will get funded here because of what 149 00:08:38.840 --> 00:08:41.980 you said. And it's not people thought that this is 150 00:08:42.000 --> 00:08:45.399 like a vindictive thing. And you go, that's because you've 151 00:08:45.440 --> 00:08:48.259 never signed the front of a paycheck. Why am I 152 00:08:48.299 --> 00:08:50.879 going to move or start a business in an area 153 00:08:51.039 --> 00:08:54.480 or a place where I legitimately do not know what 154 00:08:54.539 --> 00:08:56.440 the law is from one day to the next? 155 00:08:56.620 --> 00:08:57.210 Because there is one. 156 00:08:58.269 --> 00:08:59.009 Because there isn't one. 157 00:08:59.070 --> 00:09:01.409 What do I do in a place where I have 158 00:09:01.509 --> 00:09:06.860 documented cases and I've got personal experience of legislators using 159 00:09:06.960 --> 00:09:12.379 the apparatuses of government to go after political opponents who 160 00:09:12.460 --> 00:09:17.490 are legal tax paying law abiding citizens in the state 161 00:09:17.509 --> 00:09:18.110 of Washington. 162 00:09:18.129 --> 00:09:18.970 That's where that happens. 163 00:09:19.509 --> 00:09:27.129 So it's mind numbing and the economic impacts are going 164 00:09:27.149 --> 00:09:30.259 to be devastating. And they're going to be devastating because 165 00:09:30.299 --> 00:09:35.779 we don't have 300 days of sunshine. We were a 166 00:09:35.779 --> 00:09:42.549 tech hub. But what made us a tech hub was 167 00:09:43.110 --> 00:09:46.250 being on the West Coast, the proximity to the actual 168 00:09:46.289 --> 00:09:52.500 tech hub, and the fact that we were an income 169 00:09:52.559 --> 00:09:56.230 tax free business friendly place to be. So we were 170 00:09:56.269 --> 00:10:00.440 like kind of the B team for San Francisco. where 171 00:10:00.600 --> 00:10:06.179 let's face it. And I'm generally speaking here, but a 172 00:10:06.259 --> 00:10:10.019 lot of your younger folks in the tech game were, were, 173 00:10:10.120 --> 00:10:11.320 were kind of up here, right? 174 00:10:11.399 --> 00:10:15.049 It was like most of your a team in the tech. 175 00:10:14.870 --> 00:10:16.629 World was still down South of California. 176 00:10:17.179 --> 00:10:18.700 But a lot of them, the cost of living didn't 177 00:10:18.720 --> 00:10:20.240 matter because they're getting paid so much. 178 00:10:20.899 --> 00:10:23.539 So kind of more of the economic working class, kind 179 00:10:23.559 --> 00:10:25.360 of the blue collar of tech. 180 00:10:25.750 --> 00:10:30.289 Was up here in Washington. Cheaper real estate, friendlier taxes. 181 00:10:30.809 --> 00:10:32.830 I mean, they're making good money. Don't get me wrong. 182 00:10:33.450 --> 00:10:35.190 But they're all probably more in the $ 400, 000 to $ 700, 000 range. 183 00:10:37.419 --> 00:10:38.940 where a lot of the big cats. 184 00:10:38.860 -->

00:10:41.019 In the, in the, in the important player, the swingers, 185 00:10:41.059 --> 00:10:43.559 you know, in, in, in, uh, in the tech game, 186 00:10:43.580 --> 00:10:45.860 we're down in the Silicon Valley range, Bay area. 187 00:10:45.899 --> 00:10:49.279 That kind of stuff. Um, you've just nuked that. 188 00:10:49.879 --> 00:10:53.350 There's no reason to be there, you know, for that now, um, 189 00:10:53.870 --> 00:10:58.210 Starbucks has left Columbia banks left or is leaving. They've 190 00:10:58.250 --> 00:11:01.490 moved their executive team to Arizona. The articles of incorporation 191 00:11:01.509 --> 00:11:02.169 are soon to follow. 192 00:11:02.370 --> 00:11:02.549 Yep. 193 00:11:03.350 --> 00:11:06.269 Um, It's going to be devastation, man. 194 00:11:06.470 --> 00:11:10.080 And the crazy thing is, is that it's when you 195 00:11:10.139 --> 00:11:13.399 say it's going to be devastation, all you're doing. And 196 00:11:14.879 --> 00:11:17.460 I'll give you a quick little visual aid. You know this, 197 00:11:17.539 --> 00:11:21.529 but all you're doing is you're looking at the trend. 198 00:11:22.029 --> 00:11:22.230 Right. 199 00:11:22.250 --> 00:11:22.919 So you're up. 200 00:11:23.440 --> 00:11:25.539 You started going down and you're like, okay, I think 201 00:11:25.580 --> 00:11:29.779 it's going to keep going down. We're not predicting. 202 00:11:30.059 --> 00:11:30.980 It's happening right now. 203 00:11:31.059 --> 00:11:33.179 You've got a record number of houses over a million 204 00:11:33.230 --> 00:11:35.049 dollars that have been put up for listing. 205 00:11:36.830 --> 00:11:43.769 Inventory in that part, it's just ripping. I mean, you 206 00:11:43.809 --> 00:11:44.730 can see it all over the place. 207 00:11:44.769 --> 00:11:46.740 I was talking to a buddy of mine who's a 208 00:11:46.750 --> 00:11:49.840 state legislator and also owns a cabinet-making business. 209 00:11:50.360 --> 00:11:52.720 And he goes, I think my business is going under. 210 00:11:52.919 --> 00:11:53.559 And I said, why? 211 00:11:53.580 --> 00:11:55.519 And he goes, I had four people cancel their orders 212 00:11:55.600 --> 00:11:58.519 just today because they saw the way the tax was trending. 213 00:11:58.559 --> 00:12:00.500 And they went, you know what? Instead of remodeling, we're 214 00:12:00.519 --> 00:12:01.279 just selling and leaving. 215 00:12:02.480 --> 00:12:03.580 Yeah, yeah. 216 00:12:03.840 --> 00:12:05.820 And then that's all over the place. 217 00:12:05.840 --> 00:12:11.019 I mean, listening to these people exaggerate the economic damage 218 00:12:11.080 --> 00:12:13.120 that this is going to do. And to be fair 219 00:12:13.200 --> 00:12:17.539 to them, I think the vast majority of them believe 220 00:12:17.559 --> 00:12:20.679 their own BS, like they believe that it's actually not 221 00:12:20.710 --> 00:12:23.370 going to be this bad. They believed that we were 222 00:12:23.379 --> 00:12:27.490 all bluffing. I don't think they got it. Now, I 223 00:12:27.529 --> 00:12:29.990 think a few at the top do. But, you know, 224 00:12:30.009 --> 00:12:32.129 this gets into the deeper aspects of it, which is 225 00:12:32.570 --> 00:12:35.509 I don't actually think that this was a measure that 226 00:12:35.549 --> 00:12:37.070 Bob Ferguson thought was a good idea. 227 00:12:37.090 --> 00:12:37.490 Governor. 228 00:12:37.549 --> 00:12:37.710 Yeah. 229 00:12:38.399 --> 00:12:39.259 Yeah, I really don't. 230 00:12:39.899 --> 00:12:43.230 And I think he got, I think the SEIU put 231 00:12:43.259 --> 00:12:46.009 his feet to the fire. Actually, I've been told this, 232 00:12:46.789 --> 00:12:49.750 that they said, you do it or we'll primary you. 233 00:12:50.730 --> 00:12:53.710 And they hold all sorts of power in that separate country, 234 00:12:53.769 --> 00:12:56.690 which is one party. And they have been the money 235 00:12:56.730 --> 00:13:00.919 laundering device. Hear this around the country. The SEIU is 236 00:13:01.139 --> 00:13:04.360 a one thug machine to force people to stay in unions, 237 00:13:04.480 --> 00:13:07.250 even though it's legal for them to leave. they won't 238 00:13:07.289 --> 00:13:09.230 let you do that. They'll do everything they can to 239 00:13:09.269 --> 00:13:12.950 harm you. Secondly, it's a money laundering machine for Democrats, 240 00:13:13.009 --> 00:13:16.470 and it has become a culturally leftist thing. This is 241 00:13:16.529 --> 00:13:20.340 what's so insane. Most people who work for the SEIU 242 00:13:20.399 --> 00:13:24.039 don't know what a cultural leftist godless mechanism it is. 243 00:13:24.120 --> 00:13:25.080 It's purely godless. 244 00:13:25.899 --> 00:13:28.320 No, and here's what people around the country need to understand. 245 00:13:28.960 --> 00:13:30.960 Again, I knew it was bad. 246 00:13:31.200 --> 00:13:33.799 Getting involved in this fight against the income tax really 247 00:13:34.309 --> 00:13:36.210 taught me a lot, opened my eyes. It was one 248 00:13:36.230 --> 00:13:39.190 of those deals where you're like, yeah, we probably have 249 00:13:39.210 --> 00:13:40.970 some termites, you know, and then you bust open the 250 00:13:41.009 --> 00:13:41.590 drywall and you go. 251 00:13:41.830 --> 00:13:45.470 Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. Get a tent over 252 00:13:45.549 --> 00:13:48.100 this house as quick as you can. We got work 253 00:13:48.139 --> 00:13:48.440 to do. 254 00:13:48.519 --> 00:13:51.360 Right. But here's a perfect example of what happens with 255 00:13:51.440 --> 00:13:54.960 one party rule. So now I'm going to butcher some 256 00:13:55.000 --> 00:13:56.940 of this, the numbers I'm going to get right. 257 00:13:57.360 --> 00:13:57.679 Okay. 258 00:13:58.399 --> 00:14:02.549 So there was in the infinite wisdom of the state 259 00:14:02.590 --> 00:14:06.019 of Washington, they decided, That to improve, and I believe 260 00:14:06.059 --> 00:14:11.860 it was education, but to improve the educational

process in 261 00:14:11.899 --> 00:14:16.299 the state, to improve outcomes, to improve student outcomes, we're. 262 00:14:16.139 --> 00:14:17.720 Going to pass this new designation. 263 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:21.490 Because we're always a training or a designation away from 264 00:14:21.519 --> 00:14:22.210 fixing something. 265 00:14:24.830 --> 00:14:28.340 Which I laugh every time I see that because I'm like, Yes. 266 00:14:28.620 --> 00:14:31.159 So tell me once again that our government is filled 267 00:14:31.200 --> 00:14:33.860 with a bunch of bureaucrats who have never actually accomplished 268 00:14:33.919 --> 00:14:34.840 or done anything really. 269 00:14:35.379 --> 00:14:35.500 Right. 270 00:14:35.519 --> 00:14:37.620 Because only you could believe a designation would make a difference. 271 00:14:37.679 --> 00:14:38.500 But here's how it works. 272 00:14:38.940 --> 00:14:41.820 So we develop this new designation and then we go, OK, 273 00:14:41.879 --> 00:14:44.309 who's going to administer, teach this designation and put it 274 00:14:44.330 --> 00:14:44.730 into place? 275 00:14:45.110 --> 00:14:50.750 Well, the WEA, Washington Education, which is just another form 276 00:14:50.769 --> 00:14:51.529 of the SEIU. 277 00:14:51.549 --> 00:14:53.590 And I believe it's just the Union for Teachers, where 278 00:14:53.610 --> 00:14:56.090 the SEIU is the union for all state employees. Right. 279 00:14:56.330 --> 00:14:57.480 But but it's like Team A. 280 00:14:58.289 --> 00:15:01.190 Team 1A, Team 1B. It's all in the same deal. 281 00:15:02.029 --> 00:15:05.429 And so we're going to hire the WEA. So they 282 00:15:05.470 --> 00:15:10.610 determined or estimated that putting this new designation into place 283 00:15:10.929 --> 00:15:14.629 and educating the people properly would cost. 284 00:15:14.149 --> 00:15:20.039 $ 83 million. No, no, hold on. It gets better. Do 285 00:15:20.059 --> 00:15:21.519 you know how many people got the designation? 286 00:15:22.480 --> 00:15:22.679 Eight. 287 00:15:23.559 --> 00:15:23.779 Twelve. 288 00:15:24.299 --> 00:15:26.100 Twelve people. $ 83 million for 12 people. 289 00:15:27.799 --> 00:15:30.779 So here's the scheme. Everybody looks at that and goes, 290 00:15:30.820 --> 00:15:35.679 government's so inefficient. And I go, no, you're naive. This, 291 00:15:36.279 --> 00:15:40.429 what do you, where do you think the WEA and 292 00:15:40.450 --> 00:15:45.330 the SEIU got the money to throw three to four 293 00:15:45.669 --> 00:15:49.049 X at the income tax? What the rich guys put 294 00:15:49.129 --> 00:15:49.690 up in the fight. 295 00:15:50.409 --> 00:15:51.730 They got it from that. 296 00:15:52.240 --> 00:15:57.659 They're illegally pilfering tax dollars and awarding them in these 297 00:15:57.860 --> 00:16:01.799 nonsensical ways where if you look at it, it's almost 298 00:16:01.899 --> 00:16:05.620 like they're, not almost, they are, they're using the veneer 299 00:16:06.220 --> 00:16:10.659 of government inefficiency to cover out and out corruption. 300 00:16:11.970 --> 00:16:15.950 And that's what they're doing. Think about that. How could 301 00:16:15.970 --> 00:16:18.789 a government be so wasteful? Great question. 302 00:16:21.049 --> 00:16:25.399 Do you really think Bob Ferguson is so stupid that 303 00:16:25.460 --> 00:16:29.259 he would allow that kind of waste versus the other 304 00:16:29.379 --> 00:16:30.559 things that he, right? 305 00:16:30.580 --> 00:16:32.509 Because liberals never have enough money. 306 00:16:33.330 --> 00:16:37.970 If they spent 83 million on 12 designations, trust me, 307 00:16:38.529 --> 00:16:41.889 they know it and they deemed it worth the cost. 308 00:16:41.889 --> 00:16:45.960 $ 6 million per person. But yes, then they launder the 309 00:16:46.000 --> 00:16:49.679 money back. They fight you guys, your public disclosure commission, 310 00:16:50.370 --> 00:16:53.850 They waive the spending rules magically about 20 days before 311 00:16:53.870 --> 00:16:56.750 the election. The spending cap is off. You guys would 312 00:16:56.789 --> 00:16:59.870 have to go raise money, not the unions, because they 313 00:16:59.909 --> 00:17:03.460 have it, because they take it from the taxpayers through theft, 314 00:17:03.620 --> 00:17:05.880 and you shall not steal. This is why one of 315 00:17:05.900 --> 00:17:09.170 the reasons I call them godless. We would be wise 316 00:17:09.230 --> 00:17:11.900 to remember the costs other people have paid. Christ paid 317 00:17:11.920 --> 00:17:15.160 the ultimate cost willingly for us in perfect submission. Other 318 00:17:15.200 --> 00:17:17.900 people were willing to die for us for these ideals 319 00:17:18.420 --> 00:17:25.619 and your right to vote. Tim Cruikshank is celebrating that brand, 320 00:17:26.200 --> 00:17:27.740 and he's doing that with the Spirit of 76. It's 321 00:17:27.740 --> 00:17:28.940 100% Colombian medium dark roast. 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Their cultural values are expression of things like 351 00:19:16.220 --> 00:19:19.049 their spiritual values. You have talked about that. You've gone 352 00:19:19.069 --> 00:19:22.329 through this case of this illegal income tax. They changed 353 00:19:22.509 --> 00:19:25.029 every rule to keep it in place, every rule to 354 00:19:25.069 --> 00:19:27.269 get people who thought they were voting to do away 355 00:19:27.289 --> 00:19:30.329 with it, to actually vote for it. All the confusion, 356 00:19:30.509 --> 00:19:34.410 all of it. You've talked about the economic impact and 357 00:19:34.470 --> 00:19:37.220 people are fleeing, businesses are fleeing. It's going to be ruinous. 358 00:19:38.140 --> 00:19:41.180 What does it say about the deep culture of the 359 00:19:41.240 --> 00:19:43.960 separate country of Washington state? I know what I think 360 00:19:44.000 --> 00:19:45.809 it says because I used to live there and I 361 00:19:45.869 --> 00:19:48.609 still have deep, deep roots there. What do you think 362 00:19:48.650 --> 00:19:51.700 it says about godlessness? or godliness? What do you think 363 00:19:51.740 --> 00:19:53.400 God's plan is in this? What does it say about 364 00:19:53.420 --> 00:19:54.160 the immediate culture? 365 00:19:58.039 --> 00:20:00.640 Look, I don't mean this to be hyperbolic at all. 366 00:20:00.799 --> 00:20:05.450 I think it's a very accurate description. To me, it's 367 00:20:05.470 --> 00:20:06.109 the equivalent of. 368 00:20:06.109 --> 00:20:09.410 Sodom and Gomorrah. And when I mean that, I don't 369 00:20:09.470 --> 00:20:09.950 mean that. 370 00:20:12.150 --> 00:20:18.329 Um, I mean, I'll coin a term here. I mean, 371 00:20:18.430 --> 00:20:21.130 I think sexual profligacy is obviously part of that. 372 00:20:21.150 --> 00:20:21.710 Yep. 373 00:20:22.410 --> 00:20:25.329 Um, but what I mean by that is I think 374 00:20:25.369 --> 00:20:27.130 we are now a state that has been written off 375 00:20:27.170 --> 00:20:28.690 and it's just waiting for the ax to fall. 376 00:20:29.880 --> 00:20:31.000 It's, it's all over, but the. 377 00:20:30.940 --> 00:20:35.539 Crime there there's, and this was literally the last stand, meaning, um, 378 00:20:36.940 --> 00:20:40.410 what this income tax after being followed by the cap, 379 00:20:40.490 --> 00:20:43.190 the estate tax, which was illegal as well, which was 380 00:20:43.309 --> 00:20:46.430 being followed by the Supreme court overruling the will of 381 00:20:46.450 --> 00:20:48.990 the people via the natural gas bill that passed that or, 382 00:20:49.150 --> 00:20:53.630 or shot that thing down by 66% Supreme court overrode it. 383 00:20:54.109 --> 00:20:55.910 It's I'll just tell you being on the front line, 384 00:20:55.970 --> 00:20:59.910 talking to these people, the people that stayed like me 385 00:21:00.069 --> 00:21:02.930 and agreed to participate in this fight, we did it 386 00:21:02.990 --> 00:21:06.089 on one condition that this was the last go round. So, 387 00:21:06.960 --> 00:21:09.650 And here's what, and pardon me for saying this, here's 388 00:21:09.670 --> 00:21:12.289 what the idiots in the state just refuse to listen to. 389 00:21:12.769 --> 00:21:14.950 I actually had one of them clap back to me. 390 00:21:14.930 --> 00:21:16.250 On Twitter today and. 391 00:21:16.190 --> 00:21:20.470 Go, well, if they try to pass this income tax 392 00:21:20.490 --> 00:21:23.250 to everybody else, what you guys have proven is the 393 00:21:23.309 --> 00:21:24.950 initiative process is pretty easy. 394 00:21:24.970 --> 00:21:27.049 We can just file initiative and stop it. 395 00:21:27.059 --> 00:21:30.680 And I go, buddy, all the people that paid for 396 00:21:30.720 --> 00:21:32.369 the initiative are gone now. 397 00:21:32.960 --> 00:21:33.960 We're all leaving. 398 00:21:34.450 --> 00:21:37.990 I will not drop another dollar in a political fight 399 00:21:38.029 --> 00:21:38.529 in this state. 400 00:21:38.650 --> 00:21:40.630 I'm done. And I said it from the beginning. I 401 00:21:40.650 --> 00:21:41.930 was like, this is my last fight. 402 00:21:42.029 --> 00:21:42.309 Why? 403 00:21:42.650 --> 00:21:45.390 You're throwing good money after bad at this point. And truthfully, 404 00:21:45.529 --> 00:21:48.630 I did that already. Why did I do it? I 405 00:21:48.690 --> 00:21:53.339 believed it was my personal responsibility. I believed it was 406 00:21:53.390 --> 00:21:55.130 the right

thing to do. My wife and I prayed 407 00:21:55.170 --> 00:21:57.000 about it a lot. And I believe that's what God 408 00:21:57.039 --> 00:21:57.700 wanted us to do. 409 00:21:58.140 --> 00:22:01.720 I still do. But- No more. 410 00:22:02.400 --> 00:22:06.309 And and what he what they don't understand is you 411 00:22:06.369 --> 00:22:10.509 just chased out the last vestiges of any heads you 412 00:22:10.549 --> 00:22:14.940 have against them in the government. And and they're so clueless. 413 00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:16.599 I want to look at him and go, who's going 414 00:22:16.619 --> 00:22:20.299 to fund the initiative, buddy? And I go, or you're 415 00:22:20.319 --> 00:22:22.640 going to trust the governor that's saying there's no way 416 00:22:22.680 --> 00:22:24.480 he'll lower the threshold without a vote. 417 00:22:24.819 --> 00:22:27.119 I go, you didn't get to vote on the tax 418 00:22:27.160 --> 00:22:29.299 in the first place. Well, we're voting on it now. 419 00:22:29.619 --> 00:22:29.940 Yes. 420 00:22:30.380 --> 00:22:31.119 Thanks to the. 421 00:22:31.079 --> 00:22:33.599 Millionaires and billionaires who you have villainized. 422 00:22:34.339 --> 00:22:34.539 Right. 423 00:22:34.579 --> 00:22:37.319 Like, yeah, we got to vote on it, not. 424 00:22:37.180 --> 00:22:39.640 Because of anything the government did, but because we stepped 425 00:22:39.740 --> 00:22:42.329 up and put $ 10 million of our own money toward 426 00:22:42.369 --> 00:22:44.450 the cause and brought it to the ballot. 427 00:22:45.420 --> 00:22:46.980 Nobody's there to do that anymore. 428 00:22:47.240 --> 00:22:51.259 Good luck. You started to say, this reminded you of 429 00:22:51.319 --> 00:22:55.460 Sodom and Gomorrah, sexual profligacy has something to do with 430 00:22:55.500 --> 00:22:58.640 that for sure. Here's where I would compare these things, 431 00:22:58.920 --> 00:23:02.180 is you had, in Sodom and Gomorrah, you had men 432 00:23:02.200 --> 00:23:05.549 who'd become so convinced of their own godhood that they 433 00:23:05.569 --> 00:23:07.789 would go to the house of a righteous man lot, 434 00:23:08.589 --> 00:23:11.910 and there's men visiting, and they bring them out that 435 00:23:11.950 --> 00:23:15.109 we may know them. meaning sexually, that we may abuse 436 00:23:15.130 --> 00:23:18.049 them sexually. And they were angels, and Lot offered up 437 00:23:18.089 --> 00:23:22.230 his daughters, which is just insane and bizarre. And I 438 00:23:22.269 --> 00:23:24.859 think Lot was counting on God's grace. God won't let 439 00:23:24.890 --> 00:23:26.779 this befall my daughters. He won't let them. 440 00:23:27.000 --> 00:23:29.680 Todd, no parent rights. No parent rights. It's not that different. 441 00:23:29.859 --> 00:23:30.039 Right. 442 00:23:30.160 --> 00:23:32.779 And now, right. So we look at that. You look 443 00:23:32.819 --> 00:23:35.859 at that situation. These men had appointed themselves gods. And 444 00:23:35.900 --> 00:23:39.380 of course, God found what, with Abram's help and prayer, 445 00:23:39.950 --> 00:23:41.869 I forget the number of people he found who were righteous. 446 00:23:42.009 --> 00:23:43.430 I mean, it was a lot than his family. That 447 00:23:43.450 --> 00:23:43.700 was it. 448 00:23:43.990 --> 00:23:44.329 That was it. 449 00:23:44.390 --> 00:23:47.140 That's who he found as righteous. You are going to see, 450 00:23:47.299 --> 00:23:52.400 I think, culturally here, righteous people leave, because righteous people 451 00:23:52.440 --> 00:23:54.519 have already left. There are great Christians who are going 452 00:23:54.539 --> 00:23:56.609 to stay and fight. God bless them. God is everywhere. 453 00:23:57.109 --> 00:24:00.990 God's not giving up. God still wins. And you guys 454 00:24:01.150 --> 00:24:05.609 that fought a righteous battle leave Washington State, the separate country, 455 00:24:05.670 --> 00:24:09.450 becomes more unrighteous and more godlike. I just, I shut 456 00:24:09.490 --> 00:24:12.650 my eyes. Honestly, Zach, I shut my eyes, and I 457 00:24:12.730 --> 00:24:15.529 pray for people who are left there, because I see 458 00:24:15.569 --> 00:24:21.160 the hands of one-party politicians just absolutely grabbing now everything. 459 00:24:21.220 --> 00:24:25.440 There's nothing they can't grab, because law is meaningless. And 460 00:24:25.500 --> 00:24:26.500 what now matters? 461 00:24:26.579 --> 00:24:27.000 Power. 462 00:24:27.660 --> 00:24:30.720 The crazy thing about God Almighty, one of the crazy 463 00:24:30.740 --> 00:24:33.710 beautiful things is, The restraint he shows. Do you know 464 00:24:33.769 --> 00:24:36.269 how many cups of wrath have filled up in heaven 465 00:24:37.009 --> 00:24:39.450 over what we're doing and how we're continuing to vandalize 466 00:24:39.490 --> 00:24:42.670 his thoughts and people turning against him? There's cups of wrath. 467 00:24:42.710 --> 00:24:45.339 We'll see that on Judgment Day. But look at his restraint. 468 00:24:45.460 --> 00:24:49.240 Satan doesn't know restraint. Your state's going through a process 469 00:24:49.279 --> 00:24:52.240 here where there's going to be no more restraint. They 470 00:24:52.279 --> 00:24:54.920 can give your kids drugs at school and not tell 471 00:24:54.940 --> 00:24:56.660 you as a parent. You could have your kid in 472 00:24:56.680 --> 00:25:00.009 an emergency room and the doctor could say, oh, you know, okay, 473 00:25:00.029 --> 00:25:02.529 we need to know right now, are they on any medications? 474 00:25:02.569 --> 00:25:06.910 We don't know. The school won't tell us. That's what 475 00:25:07.029 --> 00:25:11.779 I see culturally. So you're talking about capital flight. I 476 00:25:11.859 --> 00:25:13.700 am talking about moral flight. 477 00:25:14.779 --> 00:25:18.759 No, yeah, I'm using that as an example because the 478 00:25:18.819 --> 00:25:22.359 same thing that's driving the capital out, you said it's driving. 479 00:25:23.559 --> 00:25:26.720

And that's the other thing people don't understand. It's not 480 00:25:26.819 --> 00:25:30.480 just the millionaires. It's everybody seeing what you're saying. So 481 00:25:30.519 --> 00:25:36.460 you're losing, you know, it's the, you know, that old, 482 00:25:36.480 --> 00:25:41.450 I can't, I'm forgetting who, I'm forgetting who wrote, who 483 00:25:41.490 --> 00:25:45.190 said this. But it's a poem about the widening gyre, 484 00:25:45.650 --> 00:25:47.859 and it talks about how the middle cannot hold. 485 00:25:49.079 --> 00:25:53.680 The space gets too large. The middle just broke. And 486 00:25:53.700 --> 00:25:56.980 what I mean by that is the last vestiges. 487 00:25:56.420 --> 00:26:01.160 Of any cultural or political hedge that was in the state, 488 00:26:01.680 --> 00:26:05.099 it just got broke last night. And you are seeing 489 00:26:05.220 --> 00:26:10.180 probably two people leaving for those reasons for every one 490 00:26:10.200 --> 00:26:11.559 you're seeing for capital flight. 491 00:26:12.230 --> 00:26:12.630 Really? 492 00:26:12.940 --> 00:26:15.960 You think it's that profound that people now recognize the 493 00:26:15.980 --> 00:26:16.460 state's gone? 494 00:26:17.259 --> 00:26:18.000 I know it is. 495 00:26:18.420 --> 00:26:21.160 I can't tell you how many clients I have that 496 00:26:21.220 --> 00:26:21.940 left the state. 497 00:26:22.160 --> 00:26:23.670 Already? 498 00:26:24.049 --> 00:26:27.109 Yeah, that the millionaire tax doesn't apply to. They're doing well, 499 00:26:27.150 --> 00:26:28.549 but they're not making a million a year, and they 500 00:26:28.569 --> 00:26:30.630 weren't even close to it. But they got out of 501 00:26:30.690 --> 00:26:34.559 it for social reasons, for religious reasons, for spiritual reasons. 502 00:26:35.039 --> 00:26:36.819 So what you're doing. 503 00:26:37.519 --> 00:26:42.000 And it's classic human behavior. Give us a king. We 504 00:26:42.039 --> 00:26:44.480 want the exact opposite. Make us the golden calf. 505 00:26:45.480 --> 00:26:48.940 What they have done unwittingly because they've bought into these 506 00:26:48.980 --> 00:26:50.259 lies is they. 507 00:26:50.160 --> 00:26:52.849 Have pushed out the hedge. They've pushed. 508 00:26:53.480 --> 00:26:55.430 And at some point, like you and I know, and 509 00:26:55.470 --> 00:26:59.809 this is just historical certainty, when government does this, when 510 00:26:59.849 --> 00:27:02.450 the rule of law no longer matters and government has 511 00:27:02.789 --> 00:27:05.809 unrequited authority and control and all that kind of stuff, 512 00:27:06.549 --> 00:27:10.009 It is only a matter of time until it steps 513 00:27:10.170 --> 00:27:13.009 on the people that put it there. And so they're 514 00:27:13.029 --> 00:27:15.539 going to get trampled and there's going to be no pushback. 515 00:27:15.619 --> 00:27:18.099 There's going to be nobody to ask to come in 516 00:27:18.140 --> 00:27:20.839 and rescue it. There's going to be no

hedge of protection. 517 00:27:21.180 --> 00:27:21.640 It's over. 518 00:27:21.920 --> 00:27:22.740 Yeah. 519 00:27:23.359 --> 00:27:29.250 And I don't, I, you know, there's another historical line is, 520 00:27:29.450 --> 00:27:33.200 you know, what, what is it? That's, That's how, you know, 521 00:27:33.299 --> 00:27:35.619 it's the line from Star Wars, I think, but I 522 00:27:35.680 --> 00:27:38.059 believe he was quoting somebody and it was Plato or something, 523 00:27:38.079 --> 00:27:40.579 but that's how democracy dies with applause. 524 00:27:42.079 --> 00:27:44.680 That's a liberty dies with applause, says Alex, who is 525 00:27:44.700 --> 00:27:45.980 an absolute expert in all things. 526 00:27:46.019 --> 00:27:46.619 Senator Amidala. 527 00:27:47.589 --> 00:27:50.609 Senator Amidala says Alex back there in the background. Yes, 528 00:27:50.890 --> 00:27:53.910 thank you, Alex. We need to get that Alex mic up. Yeah, 529 00:27:54.269 --> 00:27:54.849 that's a liberty dies. 530 00:27:54.869 --> 00:27:57.849 The wisdom of Star Wars, right? But no, but it's true. 531 00:27:57.890 --> 00:28:01.470 And they're all excited and happy and you're like, okay. 532 00:28:02.210 --> 00:28:03.829 Now you reap the whirlwind. 533 00:28:04.150 --> 00:28:04.470 Enjoy. 534 00:28:05.319 --> 00:28:07.500 When you look at this, then also, if you step 535 00:28:07.539 --> 00:28:09.119 back and you talk to the people who've come here, 536 00:28:09.180 --> 00:28:11.160 you're on one end of the battle. You're talking to 537 00:28:11.180 --> 00:28:13.380 the people who are leaving. I'm sure you and your 538 00:28:13.420 --> 00:28:15.359 wife now are praying about, do we move the business 539 00:28:15.440 --> 00:28:18.950 out of here? Do we relocate that? Because you're perfectly 540 00:28:18.990 --> 00:28:21.769 free to do that for now. Because they've already said, 541 00:28:21.809 --> 00:28:23.789 by the way, they already told you, and I bet 542 00:28:23.809 --> 00:28:25.970 you this bill is coming, that they're going to put 543 00:28:26.009 --> 00:28:28.339 an exit tax on. They've already said that they want 544 00:28:28.359 --> 00:28:31.140 to put an exit tax on people who leave, like 545 00:28:31.400 --> 00:28:33.940 a 25% exit tax if you leave. They've already floated 546 00:28:33.980 --> 00:28:34.339 that out. 547 00:28:35.420 --> 00:28:40.059 Yeah, so I actually, I'm not that worried about that 548 00:28:40.099 --> 00:28:42.059 because now maybe I should be. 549 00:28:43.700 --> 00:28:45.640 No, there's no question that they're going to try to 550 00:28:45.700 --> 00:28:46.079 do that. 551 00:28:46.720 --> 00:28:48.819 I just think the Interstate Commerce Clause is going to 552 00:28:48.880 --> 00:28:50.880 make that really difficult. 553 00:28:51.369 --> 00:28:53.309 I can check and see, but I think the Democrats 554 00:28:53.369 --> 00:28:55.230 won and swept the nation. 555 00:28:56.930 --> 00:28:58.930 Well, they did, but they don't own the Supreme Court. 556 00:28:59.450 --> 00:29:03.109 So the Interstate Commerce Clause, I don't think you're ever 557 00:29:03.150 --> 00:29:05.170 going to see those exit taxes hold up. 558 00:29:05.250 --> 00:29:05.650 I hope so. 559 00:29:05.650 --> 00:29:08.170 I just don't see it. You are on the other 560 00:29:08.210 --> 00:29:10.369 side of this where you're talking to people who are 561 00:29:10.410 --> 00:29:14.690 leaving or have left. I'm on the catching end. And 562 00:29:14.809 --> 00:29:16.750 what you would be fascinated to see, and we should 563 00:29:16.789 --> 00:29:20.069 actually be making a documentary about this. We have church 564 00:29:20.150 --> 00:29:22.269 members at Real Life. Have you been to church with 565 00:29:22.309 --> 00:29:23.890 me yet? Next year, come over. Please come and go 566 00:29:23.910 --> 00:29:25.200 to church with me. Thank you. 567 00:29:25.890 --> 00:29:27.210 Hey, I might be coming to church with you a 568 00:29:27.250 --> 00:29:29.509 lot more often. I know, right? 569 00:29:29.970 --> 00:29:32.819 Like I said, my realtors and such. What's your friend's name? 570 00:29:33.079 --> 00:29:35.920 Zach Abraham? Oh, hey, wait. 571 00:29:35.960 --> 00:29:36.480 Yeah, no, no. 572 00:29:36.529 --> 00:29:38.710 Let me drive over and see him. He's that Zach Abraham? 573 00:29:39.029 --> 00:29:39.970 He's the one with the yacht? 574 00:29:40.259 --> 00:29:41.440 Yeah, he's got a bunch of yachts. 575 00:29:41.500 --> 00:29:41.720 Oh, God. 576 00:29:42.200 --> 00:29:42.779 Yeah, I know. 577 00:29:42.900 --> 00:29:45.500 No, no, I didn't tell him. We are on the 578 00:29:45.559 --> 00:29:47.480 catching end. Do you know, have I told you that 579 00:29:47.519 --> 00:29:52.250 we have a team that is specifically designed to catch refugees? 580 00:29:53.369 --> 00:29:53.549 No. 581 00:29:54.069 --> 00:29:54.369 Truly. 582 00:29:54.549 --> 00:29:56.390 At our church, we have people who are trained refugees. 583 00:29:57.359 --> 00:29:59.859 to come down and meet with people who drive overnight 584 00:29:59.960 --> 00:30:04.319 from the separate countries of California, Oregon, and Washington, because 585 00:30:04.400 --> 00:30:08.200 there's a pattern. They walk in, they look around, and 586 00:30:08.359 --> 00:30:12.589 they're meek and confused. And we have people who reach out, hey, 587 00:30:12.769 --> 00:30:15.190 I haven't seen you here before. My name's Todd. I'm 588 00:30:15.210 --> 00:30:17.069 one of the ambassadors. Great to have you here. Can 589 00:30:17.089 --> 00:30:19.509 I answer any questions? And it often goes like this, yeah. 590 00:30:20.089 --> 00:30:23.769 And they look around, we've never been to a church before. 591 00:30:25.319 --> 00:30:28.799 We just arrived from Oregon and something is so wrong. 592 00:30:29.819 --> 00:30:31.859 And we just, we don't even know what it is, 593 00:30:31.920 --> 00:30:33.859 but we thought maybe you guys could help us understand. 594 00:30:34.839 --> 00:30:38.380

And we have a team, they call and they have 595 00:30:38.440 --> 00:30:41.480 worked with so many people in these circumstances. They come 596 00:30:41.549 --> 00:30:43.180 along and say something along the lines of what you're 597 00:30:43.200 --> 00:30:47.470 feeling is real. And what you're going through is scary. 598 00:30:48.289 --> 00:30:50.750 We're super glad you're here. This is a safe place 599 00:30:50.789 --> 00:30:54.750 for you. And they will consistently take them upstairs and talk. 600 00:30:55.230 --> 00:30:57.849 And you'll have people from Washington, Oregon say, you're going 601 00:30:57.869 --> 00:31:01.220 to think I'm insane, but they're threatening to take our 602 00:31:01.279 --> 00:31:04.680 kids away because we do not agree our kids are 603 00:31:04.700 --> 00:31:05.579 the opposite sex. 604 00:31:06.500 --> 00:31:06.680 Right. 605 00:31:06.880 --> 00:31:09.359 And our people are trained to say, yeah, that's scary. 606 00:31:09.480 --> 00:31:14.049 And no, you don't sound insane. I will tell you this, Zach. 607 00:31:14.269 --> 00:31:16.289 I think God uses money in a lot of ways. 608 00:31:17.150 --> 00:31:21.970 I think he's driving the capital exit. I think he's 609 00:31:21.990 --> 00:31:26.210 going to starve these people. economically. After all, it's his money. 610 00:31:27.170 --> 00:31:30.309 I think he's starving them of good people. I think 611 00:31:30.349 --> 00:31:33.329 he's saying, I'm going to take the separate country of Washington. 612 00:31:33.509 --> 00:31:36.009 I'm going to put it on display. Here's what it 613 00:31:36.089 --> 00:31:38.509 looks like when I turn you to your own perversions 614 00:31:38.970 --> 00:31:40.970 and your own devices. Because how many times has God 615 00:31:41.009 --> 00:31:44.210 done that in the Bible? He's allowing your state to 616 00:31:44.250 --> 00:31:46.470 be taken over by its enemies, and its enemies are internal. 617 00:31:46.589 --> 00:31:47.950 Does that sound like hyperventilating? 618 00:31:49.589 --> 00:31:49.789 No. 619 00:31:49.809 --> 00:31:49.869 No. 620 00:31:50.599 --> 00:31:51.319 No, I don't. 621 00:31:51.500 --> 00:31:53.200 I don't even I don't think there's a bit of 622 00:31:53.240 --> 00:31:55.960 hyperbole or hyperbole in that statement. 623 00:31:55.980 --> 00:31:57.920 I mean, it's just an observation of fact. 624 00:31:58.180 --> 00:31:59.400 Yeah. Yeah. 625 00:31:59.920 --> 00:32:02.960 No, it's I couldn't agree with you more. 626 00:32:02.980 --> 00:32:06.740 And, you know, one of the things that I think 627 00:32:06.759 --> 00:32:09.539 you and I talked about through this process is the 628 00:32:09.819 --> 00:32:13.240 only real contention and the only real. 629 00:32:13.099 --> 00:32:15.619 Doubt I had about getting involved. 630 00:32:15.220 --> 00:32:21.430 In this fight was the underlying belief that. It's either 631 00:32:21.490 --> 00:32:24.369 time to dig your heels in and fight one more time, 632 00:32:25.269 --> 00:32:27.029 or it's time. 633 00:32:26.849 --> 00:32:29.029 To pray for wrath. You know what I mean? 634 00:32:29.150 --> 00:32:30.109 Pray for wrath. 635 00:32:30.750 --> 00:32:35.170 Yeah, meaning it may be past the point of rescuing. 636 00:32:36.549 --> 00:32:39.190 And the one thing that gave me a lot of 637 00:32:39.309 --> 00:32:43.359 peace last night and really settled my soul was the 638 00:32:43.440 --> 00:32:46.660 idea that you got your confirmation. This is beyond, you're 639 00:32:46.680 --> 00:32:50.390 beyond that point. This is not about saving or rescuing 640 00:32:50.430 --> 00:32:56.009 at this point. It's about the trajectory is certain. The 641 00:32:56.029 --> 00:33:01.170 people are not turning from their evil ways, their wicked ways. Therefore, 642 00:33:01.549 --> 00:33:03.750 our prayers will not be heard from heaven and he 643 00:33:03.829 --> 00:33:07.910 will not heal the slain. I've got that verse hanging 644 00:33:07.950 --> 00:33:12.789 up my house right over there. And the funny thing 645 00:33:12.829 --> 00:33:16.349 about the Bible is everything in it is true. And 646 00:33:16.549 --> 00:33:21.029 if you inverse everything, it is also true. Meaning God says, 647 00:33:21.089 --> 00:33:25.029 if you will humble yourself and seek my face and, 648 00:33:25.410 --> 00:33:26.910 you know, I will heal your land, right? 649 00:33:26.950 --> 00:33:30.480 And turn from your wicked ways. Flip that around. If 650 00:33:30.559 --> 00:33:32.319 you don't, I won't. 651 00:33:33.599 --> 00:33:35.519 And what we did as a state was we stood 652 00:33:35.579 --> 00:33:37.380 up last night, flipped him the bird and said, we're 653 00:33:37.420 --> 00:33:38.200 not changing a thing. 654 00:33:38.299 --> 00:33:39.279 Yeah. Yeah. 655 00:33:39.319 --> 00:33:42.079 Mary said in the Magnificat, God has done a great 656 00:33:42.119 --> 00:33:45.740 work with his arms. He had scattered those who have 657 00:33:45.859 --> 00:33:48.640 pride in the thoughts of their own hearts and exalted 658 00:33:48.680 --> 00:33:52.759 those who are humble. He's scattered those with pride in 659 00:33:52.779 --> 00:33:54.359 the thoughts of their own hearts. And that's what you, 660 00:33:54.740 --> 00:33:56.700 I think, are dealing with at the core of the 661 00:33:56.759 --> 00:34:01.500 problem of states like yours. In California, there is a massive, 662 00:34:01.559 --> 00:34:04.059 massive pride issue. And I don't just mean that in 663 00:34:04.119 --> 00:34:07.759 terms of sexual pride and pride in being gender rebellious. 664 00:34:08.199 --> 00:34:11.400 I mean pride in look at our power. And I 665 00:34:11.539 --> 00:34:14.329 was reminded this morning in the book of Daniel, Daniel, 666 00:34:14.349 --> 00:34:17.090 in his prayer, thanking the Lord for revealing to him 667 00:34:17.159 --> 00:34:18.739 the dream so he could share it with the king, 668 00:34:18.760 --> 00:34:22.860 the meaning of the dream, he says, all wisdom and 669

00:34:22.920 --> 00:34:27.139 power belongs to the Lord. And these people, the comeuppance 670 00:34:27.159 --> 00:34:30.530 they have, Zach, that I believe, is your rulers, and 671 00:34:30.550 --> 00:34:34.710 they're rulers. These are not officeholders, they're not public servants. 672 00:34:35.889 --> 00:34:38.349 I so want to be there when they see it 673 00:34:38.510 --> 00:34:42.110 taken from their hands. When they kneel before God Almighty 674 00:34:42.269 --> 00:34:45.349 and Jesus says, you remember that power that you thought 675 00:34:45.369 --> 00:34:49.670 you had? That's always been mine. And you're without it now. 676 00:34:49.849 --> 00:34:53.139 And that may sound like I'm seeking revenge. I just 677 00:34:53.179 --> 00:34:55.719 don't want to see justice in this. And from time 678 00:34:55.760 --> 00:34:57.300 to time, I'll get notes. I got one the other 679 00:34:57.340 --> 00:35:00.179 day about the anti-aging process. A woman wrote me from Florida. 680 00:35:01.099 --> 00:35:03.280 She and her husband are thinking of going to Renew 681 00:35:03.519 --> 00:35:05.900 during the Christmas season. Great time to go to Puerto Vallarta, 682 00:35:05.920 --> 00:35:08.760 by the way, for the anti-aging process. They've, in fact, 683 00:35:08.780 --> 00:35:13.360 had conversations with one of the patient's advocates and ambassadors there. 684 00:35:14.280 --> 00:35:16.679 They came back to me and said, are you certain 685 00:35:17.980 --> 00:35:21.099 that they don't use stem cells that came from abortions? 686 00:35:21.139 --> 00:35:23.559 And I wrote back and said, not only 100% certain, 687 00:35:23.739 --> 00:35:26.619 I can show you interviews with the people who work 688 00:35:26.659 --> 00:35:29.199 there as to why they don't do it, primarily because 689 00:35:29.860 --> 00:35:36.449 they are Christian. Secondly, because those stem cells don't work well. Third, 690 00:35:36.550 --> 00:35:41.070 because they don't have to. Because they help parents in Mexico, 691 00:35:41.250 --> 00:35:43.690 women give birth, they get to track the health of 692 00:35:43.730 --> 00:35:46.969 the babies and the mother during the process of pregnancy 693 00:35:47.449 --> 00:35:50.710 and afterwards. That informs them about the stem cells. And 694 00:35:50.750 --> 00:35:53.309 because they only use the Wharton's jelly portion of the 695 00:35:53.349 --> 00:35:55.639 stem cell, which you're not going to go out and 696 00:35:55.659 --> 00:35:57.820 get any good sense in abortion. So the answer is 697 00:35:57.980 --> 00:36:02.579 a absolute no. And the reverse aging process does this. 698 00:36:03.719 --> 00:36:07.219 They look at your biological age versus your chronological age. 699 00:36:08.250 --> 00:36:12.670 If your biological age is greater than your chronological age, 700 00:36:12.849 --> 00:36:17.030 you're too old for your body, for time. They reverse 701 00:36:17.090 --> 00:36:19.829 that by putting stem cells where they need to go 702 00:36:19.929 --> 00:36:25.130 to reverse that, including organs. They'll concentrate on that, tissue, muscle, etc. 703 00:36:25.510 --> 00:36:28.389 Go to Renu, R-E-N-U-E.healthcare. Tell them you're part of the 704 00:36:28.409 --> 00:36:32.610 Todd Herman Show family and know that unlike America, you 705 00:36:32.670 --> 00:36:35.860 are making sure that the stem cells come from healthy 706 00:36:35.980 --> 00:36:40.619 and godly sources. I want to ask you one economic question, hardcore, 707 00:36:40.800 --> 00:36:44.039 off the topic of Washington state. And it has to 708 00:36:44.099 --> 00:36:47.800 do with the continuing movement towards AI. You guys have 709 00:36:48.019 --> 00:36:50.960 a webinar coming up. This is, gosh, this is perfectly themed. 710 00:36:51.059 --> 00:36:53.659 A lot of your webinars have great themes. The focus 711 00:36:53.699 --> 00:36:57.739 of this is called taking control because there's a lot 712 00:36:58.309 --> 00:37:00.650 that we, and the midterms revealed, man, a lot of 713 00:37:00.690 --> 00:37:03.489 people feel lack of control. There's a battle for control 714 00:37:03.590 --> 00:37:06.059 over something. I don't think people recognize how vital it is. 715 00:37:06.500 --> 00:37:10.699 This is Sam Altman. He's the founder of OpenAI. And remember, 716 00:37:10.739 --> 00:37:13.679 that's a nonprofit, Zach. Set up as a nonprofit just 717 00:37:13.719 --> 00:37:15.679 to help the people. And then all of a sudden 718 00:37:15.739 --> 00:37:18.139 it got really wealthy and now it's very much for profit. 719 00:37:18.219 --> 00:37:21.949 Sam Altman, he's talking about local inference. And what he 720 00:37:21.989 --> 00:37:25.210 means is local compute on our own local machines. But 721 00:37:25.250 --> 00:37:26.090 listen towards the end. 722 00:37:27.210 --> 00:37:28.730 Oh, I think there are like all of these ways 723 00:37:28.769 --> 00:37:33.949 where the supply chain, it's just like super non-obvious. An 724 00:37:34.010 --> 00:37:39.980 example of this is, People, a lot of people want 725 00:37:40.019 --> 00:37:42.559 local inference and somehow they assume that like the problem 726 00:37:42.639 --> 00:37:44.929 is solved now because we're going to have open source models. 727 00:37:44.949 --> 00:37:46.340 We're going to be able to run them on our computers. 728 00:37:47.139 --> 00:37:48.190 And so we're not going to need all the stuff 729 00:37:48.210 --> 00:37:52.989 in the data center. But from like a global allocation perspective, actually, 730 00:37:53.030 --> 00:37:56.090 it's quite terrible to have everybody like have a bunch 731 00:37:56.130 --> 00:37:58.809 of the world's limited supply of DRAM sitting in their 732 00:37:58.829 --> 00:38:03.550 own computer and being used 5% of the time. Like 733 00:38:03.570 --> 00:38:05.909 you want maximum utilization in the cloud if you're trying 734 00:38:05.929 --> 00:38:08.690 to like deal with this very supply constraint environment. And 735

00:38:08.730 --> 00:38:11.170 somehow everyone's, many people's intuition is the opposite of that. 736 00:38:11.489 --> 00:38:14.070 So what I think I hear him saying, Zach, is 737 00:38:14.929 --> 00:38:17.230 there are startups and you were the one who taught 738 00:38:17.250 --> 00:38:20.210 me this. There are AI startups who are eating the 739 00:38:20.269 --> 00:38:24.550 lunch profit-wise, growth-wise against these guys. They have much better margins. 740 00:38:24.590 --> 00:38:26.670 They don't need the big data centers because they figured 741 00:38:26.690 --> 00:38:29.070 out how to push the storage and processing down onto 742 00:38:29.150 --> 00:38:31.619 our devices and But the other thing that I hear 743 00:38:31.659 --> 00:38:33.780 him saying is, I want to own your family photos, 744 00:38:34.199 --> 00:38:39.460 your music, your living will, your business plans, your documents, 745 00:38:39.519 --> 00:38:42.389 your spreadsheets, your P & L, your personal secrets. I 746 00:38:42.429 --> 00:38:45.170 want to own those. Am I off on any of 747 00:38:45.210 --> 00:38:45.829 those analyses? 748 00:38:47.150 --> 00:38:47.369 No. 749 00:38:47.449 --> 00:38:50.369 And I think what he's, I mean, and this is 750 00:38:50.389 --> 00:38:53.909 why I think it's so important that we as conservatives 751 00:38:53.969 --> 00:38:55.340 need to maintain a. 752 00:38:57.340 --> 00:38:58.599 Balanced view of things. 753 00:38:58.659 --> 00:38:58.820 Yeah. 754 00:39:00.010 --> 00:39:04.230 Especially if we're fiscal conservatives and free market people, because 755 00:39:05.289 --> 00:39:08.989 when you let corporatism, for lack of a better term, 756 00:39:09.929 --> 00:39:13.769 run amok unfettered, it will do what it always seeks 757 00:39:13.829 --> 00:39:18.179 to do, which is to vertically integrate, right? And if 758 00:39:18.219 --> 00:39:21.579 they can vertically integrate society, and for those people that 759 00:39:21.659 --> 00:39:23.800 aren't familiar with the term vertically integrate, what I mean 760 00:39:23.860 --> 00:39:28.090 is it's the ultimate inefficiency, right? Meaning instead of having 761 00:39:28.119 --> 00:39:29.909 to buy this from this people and buy this from 762 00:39:29.929 --> 00:39:32.630 that people and buy this from them, we build all 763 00:39:32.650 --> 00:39:35.030 of those parts into our supply chain so we can 764 00:39:35.050 --> 00:39:37.489 be our own supplier. And so what we're doing effectively 765 00:39:37.530 --> 00:39:39.789 is cutting out the margin that we'd be paying somebody 766 00:39:39.829 --> 00:39:43.289 else for these parts, therefore drastically increasing the net margins 767 00:39:43.329 --> 00:39:44.469 of our own products, right? 768 00:39:44.780 --> 00:39:49.360 We're vertically integrated. Well, that's a really smart move for 769 00:39:49.380 --> 00:39:50.019 a business, right? 770 00:39:50.550 --> 00:39:50.750 Right? 771 00:39:51.929 --> 00:39:54.690 Not the best move for a society, right? Especially one 772 00:39:54.710 --> 00:39:55.590 that values freedom. 773 00:39:56.130 --> 00:39:59.829 Because the way you vertically integrate a society is you 774 00:40:00.630 --> 00:40:03.349 fit people into the vertical integration process. 775 00:40:03.829 --> 00:40:07.030 Therefore, they're not free, right? So you cannot have your 776 00:40:07.070 --> 00:40:09.860 own processing. Why? It's inefficient, right? 777 00:40:10.460 --> 00:40:16.760 People having individual choice is inefficient, right? Democracy is inefficient 778 00:40:17.280 --> 00:40:22.949 by design, right? And so this is where you watch 779 00:40:23.010 --> 00:40:27.989 the world, not moving, sprinting toward all of the wrong 780 00:40:28.050 --> 00:40:32.159 things because we worship money. We're blinded by, well, if 781 00:40:32.199 --> 00:40:33.840 this worked in the business world, it's going to work. 782 00:40:34.119 --> 00:40:38.199 You didn't look, the USSR was really vertically integrated. 783 00:40:38.900 --> 00:40:40.559 There were no products from outside. 784 00:40:41.300 --> 00:40:41.500 Yeah. 785 00:40:41.840 --> 00:40:44.940 Mao Zedong, big believer in vertical integration. 786 00:40:45.079 --> 00:40:45.780 Yep. Okay. 787 00:40:46.119 --> 00:40:49.199 Culturally speaking, be very careful what you ask for. 788 00:40:49.519 --> 00:40:49.739 Yep. 789 00:40:49.820 --> 00:40:53.510 Right. And the guys like this that are what we 790 00:40:53.530 --> 00:40:58.429 are now referring to as post-economic, remember, they have the 791 00:40:58.530 --> 00:41:04.050 financial and liberty, financial freedom and actual liberty to back 792 00:41:04.110 --> 00:41:07.690 these kinds of causes because when they go wrong, they 793 00:41:07.710 --> 00:41:08.489 don't pay a price. 794 00:41:09.289 --> 00:41:10.280 They're already made men. 795 00:41:10.300 --> 00:41:10.739 Yep. 796 00:41:11.139 --> 00:41:11.360 Right? 797 00:41:11.699 --> 00:41:14.239 Like if the whole world implodes, Zuckerberg is going to 798 00:41:14.300 --> 00:41:15.980 retreat to his Hawaiian island. 799 00:41:16.699 --> 00:41:18.519 Or the one in New Zealand or the one in 800 00:41:18.539 --> 00:41:20.000 Zimbabwe or wherever. 801 00:41:20.489 --> 00:41:20.650 Right. 802 00:41:20.849 --> 00:41:21.570 Or, yeah. 803 00:41:21.590 --> 00:41:23.809 Or, you know, if I was him, I'll tell you 804 00:41:23.829 --> 00:41:25.670 what I would do. If I was him, I would 805 00:41:25.710 --> 00:41:30.179 build my bunker or my lair inside of an underwater volcano. 806 00:41:30.199 --> 00:41:31.219 You know what I mean? 807 00:41:31.260 --> 00:41:31.400 Yeah. 808 00:41:31.679 --> 00:41:33.659 And that and I would have a couple of skinless 809 00:41:33.679 --> 00:41:36.199 cats running around or furless cats. 810 00:41:36.579 --> 00:41:37.079 Yes. 811 00:41:37.139 --> 00:41:37.420 You know. 812 00:41:37.780 --> 00:41:38.340 Right. 813 00:41:38.420 --> 00:41:40.360 And I would only the only way you could get 814

00:41:40.389 --> 00:41:42.469 in and out would be through a submarine. 815 00:41:42.789 --> 00:41:44.610 Just because that's like the ultimate villain. 816 00:41:45.030 --> 00:41:47.699 I often think that these homes that they have, these 817 00:41:47.719 --> 00:41:49.760 are the decoy homes. I mean, because we look at 818 00:41:49.800 --> 00:41:51.440 that and go, what are you talking about? It's a 819 00:41:51.420 --> 00:41:53.699 $ 20 million mansion. And Mark Zuckerberg can look at you 820 00:41:53.719 --> 00:41:56.219 and go, you don't understand the law of big numbers. 821 00:41:56.219 --> 00:41:59.489 $ 20 million doesn't matter to me. He could build a 822 00:41:59.530 --> 00:42:00.070 hundred million. 823 00:42:00.269 --> 00:42:01.949 Then he looks at his watch and he's like, oh, 824 00:42:01.949 --> 00:42:04.769 20 mil? Stock's up a quarter of a percent. I 825 00:42:04.789 --> 00:42:06.539 just made 60, so that's just paid for it. 826 00:42:06.710 --> 00:42:07.530 Right. Yeah. Right. 827 00:42:07.570 --> 00:42:10.559 Paid for three houses like that. I look at Altman, 828 00:42:10.679 --> 00:42:12.440 and here's where I get happy. It's back to the 829 00:42:12.480 --> 00:42:14.840 peace of the Lord that transcends all understanding. You have 830 00:42:14.889 --> 00:42:17.909 the desire of human beings to provide services and to 831 00:42:18.070 --> 00:42:20.769 use their talents and to care for their families, and 832 00:42:20.789 --> 00:42:24.110 you have these scrappy startups that don't have a billion dollars. 833 00:42:24.550 --> 00:42:27.659 They've got six, eight million dollars in initial capital, and 834 00:42:27.699 --> 00:42:29.860 they've figured out a way to take open source AI. 835 00:42:29.900 --> 00:42:32.639 They didn't have to invent it. It exists. Move it 836 00:42:32.679 --> 00:42:36.019 down onto people's machines, and all of a sudden, you 837 00:42:36.039 --> 00:42:39.079 have now, to me, the beautiful vision of of Sam 838 00:42:39.159 --> 00:42:41.840 Altman having to make a ham-handed argument as to why 839 00:42:41.980 --> 00:42:44.619 I shouldn't be allowed to own my family photos. Because 840 00:42:44.659 --> 00:42:47.110 that's exactly what he's saying. That's the way to put it, simply. 841 00:42:47.489 --> 00:42:50.110 Does it remind anybody of the whole adage, you will 842 00:42:50.170 --> 00:42:51.389 own nothing and you'll be happy? 843 00:42:52.110 --> 00:42:55.349 Hey, you should trademark that. No, that's the World Economic Forum. 844 00:42:55.389 --> 00:42:57.829 You shall own nothing and you will be happy, but 845 00:42:57.869 --> 00:43:00.369 we'll own you. That's what they think. 846 00:43:01.070 --> 00:43:04.269 Well, and this is the thing that just blows my mind. 847 00:43:04.610 --> 00:43:06.369 I look at him and I go, you know, anybody 848 00:43:06.429 --> 00:43:09.309 that hears that statement, I'm like, Yeah, guys, it's called communism. 849 00:43:10.670 --> 00:43:12.909 Like, hey, we, and yeah.

850 00:43:13.409 --> 00:43:16.980 And watching the people pivot toward that or think that that's, 851 00:43:17.340 --> 00:43:19.039 here's the one other thing I will say. 852 00:43:20.199 --> 00:43:22.079 And this might ruffle some feathers, but it's true. 853 00:43:23.260 --> 00:43:28.199 Every election gets completely, now here in the state of Washington, 854 00:43:28.260 --> 00:43:33.210 different story. But I think every election gets overblown by 855 00:43:33.269 --> 00:43:34.710 whichever side loses. 856 00:43:35.170 --> 00:43:35.289 Yeah. 857 00:43:35.980 --> 00:43:39.699 And and the the side that wins thinks. 858 00:43:39.460 --> 00:43:42.760 That all of their ideas and all of their philosophies 859 00:43:42.820 --> 00:43:45.280 just got rubber stamped and now are the way it's 860 00:43:45.320 --> 00:43:45.679 going to be. 861 00:43:46.119 --> 00:43:46.280 Right. 862 00:43:46.320 --> 00:43:48.869 Like there are a lot of Democrats out there that go, OK, 863 00:43:48.949 --> 00:43:50.090 we flip Texas blue. 864 00:43:50.110 --> 00:43:52.929 We got Texas. No, they don't. They don't have Texas. 865 00:43:53.469 --> 00:43:56.070 We have friends of the show in California to this day. 866 00:43:56.250 --> 00:43:59.429 Alan Soaps is in California. Alan's Artisan Soaps dot com. 867 00:43:59.969 --> 00:44:02.539 Go there and buy soap that's made in America by 868 00:44:02.760 --> 00:44:07.369 actual actual soap experts. And they're immigrants, by the way, 869 00:44:07.889 --> 00:44:11.769 three generations ago. They came over from Europe where they 870 00:44:11.809 --> 00:44:15.800 had made soap there, legally here. They make soap in 871 00:44:15.840 --> 00:44:19.340 America with absolutely no additives, no chemicals. The facility that 872 00:44:19.360 --> 00:44:22.380 they use is literally a quick walk from their house. 873 00:44:22.440 --> 00:44:24.599 They don't want a bunch of formaldehyde and stuff there. 874 00:44:25.420 --> 00:44:28.139 And if you go visit them at Allen Soaps HQ 875 00:44:28.219 --> 00:44:30.719 in California or where they make the soap with this family, 876 00:44:31.090 --> 00:44:34.130 There's no illegal immigrants hiding. There's no buses buried in 877 00:44:34.150 --> 00:44:36.050 the ground with chemicals. They don't do that. It's like 878 00:44:36.150 --> 00:44:38.289 a mess shop. But if you go see how soap 879 00:44:38.349 --> 00:44:40.210 is made by some of the big companies, it bears 880 00:44:40.349 --> 00:44:42.889 a lot in common with mess shops and slave labor. 881 00:44:43.949 --> 00:44:46.070 There's a reason that people making the soap are wearing 882 00:44:46.380 --> 00:44:51.159 hazmat suits, not in Allen soaps. And we do do 883 00:44:51.519 --> 00:44:54.440 value young Allen working there, 14. He's been through these 884 00:44:54.440 --> 00:44:57.960 18 operations. He's nonverbal. His brother Ian is impacted by autism. 885 00:44:58.329 --> 00:45:00.929 We love employing kids like that. We love soap that's

healthy. 886 00:45:01.050 --> 00:45:05.949 Perfect Christmas gift, by the way. Allensartistandsoaps.com. Don't hold them 887 00:45:05.989 --> 00:45:08.429 against them that they're in California. Allen needs that given 888 00:45:08.449 --> 00:45:09.510 what he has to do in school. 889 00:45:11.309 --> 00:45:13.369 What we have seen over and over in elections in 890 00:45:13.409 --> 00:45:17.510 this country is that by both sides, when you run 891 00:45:17.710 --> 00:45:21.489 on a platform and you do the opposite when you 892 00:45:21.570 --> 00:45:25.030 are elected, the voters are going to throw you out. 893 00:45:25.610 --> 00:45:30.050 And they don't care. Literally... James Tallarico is to Trump 894 00:45:30.309 --> 00:45:31.469 what Trump was. 895 00:45:31.269 --> 00:45:33.530 To Hillary in the establishment when he was first elected 896 00:45:33.550 --> 00:45:33.809 in 2016. 897 00:45:33.809 --> 00:45:34.210 Yep. 898 00:45:36.489 --> 00:45:39.230 If you don't do the Iran move, and I'm not 899 00:45:39.250 --> 00:45:41.409 trying to get too political, and I'm not anti-Trump, voted 900 00:45:41.449 --> 00:45:43.610 for him three times, but if you don't do the 901 00:45:43.650 --> 00:45:46.659 Iran move and you follow through with your pledges against Epstein, 902 00:45:47.019 --> 00:45:48.599 Tallarico is not a senator today. 903 00:45:49.320 --> 00:45:49.719 Full stop. 904 00:45:50.480 --> 00:45:54.039 I totally agree on the Iran front in particular, and 905 00:45:54.099 --> 00:45:55.880 I said it at the time, and this sounds like 906 00:45:55.940 --> 00:45:59.400 I told you so, Maybe it is. It's just me saying, 907 00:46:01.800 --> 00:46:04.980 I hope that you'll understand when I criticize the president 908 00:46:05.019 --> 00:46:07.760 and Zach does, it's not a go gotcha or orange 909 00:46:07.800 --> 00:46:11.099 man bad. When he, I think he got rolled. You 910 00:46:11.139 --> 00:46:13.139 said he rolled himself into the Iran war. 911 00:46:13.860 --> 00:46:14.300 He did. 912 00:46:14.320 --> 00:46:16.760 I believe he also got rolled the same way he 913 00:46:16.800 --> 00:46:17.960 got rolled for COVID. 914 00:46:17.980 --> 00:46:18.199 I agree. 915 00:46:18.880 --> 00:46:21.460 And in COVID it was, you know, 30 million Americans 916 00:46:21.519 --> 00:46:23.179 are going to die from this flu. You have to 917 00:46:23.239 --> 00:46:25.909 do this. You have to do this. And, hey, Iran 918 00:46:25.969 --> 00:46:27.650 is two weeks from having a nuclear bomb. They're going 919 00:46:27.670 --> 00:46:29.730 to blow up American cities. And you're watched. 30 million 920 00:46:29.750 --> 00:46:30.710 Americans are going to die. 921 00:46:31.630 --> 00:46:32.949 President Trump. 922 00:46:33.210 --> 00:46:35.010 There was a quote, and I can't source it, but 923 00:46:35.030 --> 00:46:37.190 there was a quote where Reagan, after he left. 924 00:46:37.070 --> 00:46:40.489 Office, talked about how Israel tried to get him to 925 00:46:40.530 --> 00:46:41.369 go in on Iran. 926 00:46:41.469 --> 00:46:43.130 And he said it just didn't sit right with him, 927 00:46:43.170 --> 00:46:46.050 that it just, you know, I mean, this is not 928 00:46:46.090 --> 00:46:46.820 a new story. 929 00:46:46.980 --> 00:46:48.059 Right, right. 930 00:46:48.480 --> 00:46:52.619 You had people, smart people like Mark Tyson, who was 931 00:46:52.659 --> 00:46:55.510 writing pieces about why Trump... No, I was writing pieces 932 00:46:55.590 --> 00:46:59.130 about how there is literally no downside to the Iran war. Literally. 933 00:46:59.730 --> 00:47:02.110 There's no reason to not do it. There's literally no downside. Well, 934 00:47:02.130 --> 00:47:03.650 there's loss of life. There's that. 935 00:47:04.789 --> 00:47:08.869 Here's the other thing, man. You know what we desperately 936 00:47:08.909 --> 00:47:11.969 need as Christians, especially as Christians? We need to start 937 00:47:12.030 --> 00:47:14.969 talking about wisdom again. We need to start talking about 938 00:47:15.070 --> 00:47:16.110 wisdom and discernment. 939 00:47:16.510 --> 00:47:16.769 Because. 940 00:47:17.500 --> 00:47:19.639 I went, and I am not, you know where this 941 00:47:19.699 --> 00:47:22.320 is coming from. I am not, I voted for Trump 942 00:47:22.500 --> 00:47:25.199 three times. This is not coming from an I got 943 00:47:25.219 --> 00:47:27.619 you where I was right moment. The minute we moved 944 00:47:27.679 --> 00:47:30.500 into Iran, the very next show we did, I told 945 00:47:30.539 --> 00:47:33.820 you that my fear was that this was going to 946 00:47:33.860 --> 00:47:36.329 go on way longer than anybody thought because I did 947 00:47:36.369 --> 00:47:38.469 not think we'd be able to open the strait. I 948 00:47:38.530 --> 00:47:41.409 thought higher rates of inflation would be hitting our shores 949 00:47:41.750 --> 00:47:43.849 in the two to three months leading up to the election, 950 00:47:44.230 --> 00:47:45.489 and it would cause a blue wave. 951 00:47:46.869 --> 00:47:47.090 Definitely. 952 00:47:47.449 --> 00:47:48.050 Here we are. 953 00:47:48.070 --> 00:47:51.889 And it isn't me saying I'm always right. It just 954 00:47:51.929 --> 00:47:55.829 comes down to wisdom and discernment. He's going against his 955 00:47:55.909 --> 00:47:59.530 election promises in a part of the world that is 956 00:47:59.610 --> 00:48:03.710 a mess. This is not good. There are no upsides. Oh, 957 00:48:03.750 --> 00:48:06.489 the upsides are us not getting bombed. We haven't been 958 00:48:06.530 --> 00:48:10.989 getting bombed. And these talks of them to get to 959 00:48:11.030 --> 00:48:12.070 take a nuke to L.A. 960 00:48:12.159 --> 00:48:13.199 Or Britain or England. 961 00:48:13.969 --> 00:48:18.829 Anyway, I I look. I voted for the guy three times. 962 00:48:18.989 --> 00:48:22.059 When somebody walks into the room naked, I'm not going 963 00:48:22.079 --> 00:48:23.000 to compliment their robe. 964 00:48:23.300 -->

00:48:23.760 I agree. 965 00:48:23.800 --> 00:48:24.690 I'm just not going to do it. 966 00:48:24.840 --> 00:48:27.460 We as Christians, you talked about wisdom and discernment is 967 00:48:27.500 --> 00:48:30.539 something people really need to pay attention to. What does 968 00:48:30.579 --> 00:48:32.920 that mean? And in a case of going into a 969 00:48:32.940 --> 00:48:36.469 war with Iran, we as Christians should be thinking, you 970 00:48:36.510 --> 00:48:38.570 shall not murder. You shall not murder. You shall not murder. 971 00:48:38.949 --> 00:48:41.210 Last resort. Is it the last resort? Is it a 972 00:48:41.250 --> 00:48:44.489 just war? Are our backs against the wall? Are we 973 00:48:44.530 --> 00:48:47.289 willing to go do this? Is this something God can bless? 974 00:48:47.769 --> 00:48:49.389 And I think God is going to make it fairly 975 00:48:49.449 --> 00:48:51.969 clear if he can bless a thing. And in this case, 976 00:48:52.130 --> 00:48:54.869 I don't think he can bless this because we weren't 977 00:48:54.969 --> 00:48:57.590 backs against the wall. And yeah, but they're Muslim and 978 00:48:57.630 --> 00:48:59.869 we're Christians. Well, yeah, there's a bunch of cultural Christians 979 00:48:59.889 --> 00:49:02.130 here who don't really believe in Jesus. I mean, they 980 00:49:02.150 --> 00:49:05.389 think he existed and he was cool, but that's no 981 00:49:05.449 --> 00:49:07.469 difference from someone who's worshiping a false god. And that 982 00:49:07.489 --> 00:49:09.739 would get me back into the Tallarico path. So I 983 00:49:09.780 --> 00:49:13.239 totally agree with you, brother. You obviously are welcome here. 984 00:49:13.719 --> 00:49:16.199 I talked to the mayor of Post Falls. He set 985 00:49:16.239 --> 00:49:18.789 aside a key to the city. There's a war, bidding war, 986 00:49:18.829 --> 00:49:21.900 a sandbox. said no no no it's two keys to 987 00:49:21.920 --> 00:49:24.559 the cities um they're looking at giving you um you 988 00:49:24.579 --> 00:49:27.179 know a mountain of your own so dude the the 989 00:49:27.219 --> 00:49:28.900 world's over yours over here in idaho and by the 990 00:49:28.940 --> 00:49:31.639 way all our all our races uh went the right 991 00:49:31.679 --> 00:49:34.570 way just saying Well, we're. 992 00:49:34.489 --> 00:49:37.840 Going to have a lot of disappointed people, uh, when 993 00:49:37.860 --> 00:49:41.639 they realize the realities of me moving over there, meaning the, 994 00:49:41.820 --> 00:49:44.099 the advertisement is going to be far more attractive than 995 00:49:44.119 --> 00:49:50.199 the reality. Uh, but no, I, I, like you said, man, we're, we're, we're, um, I, 996 00:49:50.239 --> 00:49:54.309 we're looking that way. Um, Lake Ponderay is looking very 997 00:49:54.369 --> 00:49:56.449 attractive to us. Parts of Lake Coeur d'Alene are looking 998 00:49:56.489 --> 00:50:00.110 very attractive to us. Um, And it might be a 999 00:50:00.150 --> 00:50:03.170 little bit. I'm meeting with lawyers next week to go 1000 00:50:03.230 --> 00:50:07.099 over the implications of the tax side. Because the only thing, 1001 00:50:07.980 --> 00:50:09.840 as soon as my youngest has gone to high school, 1002 00:50:09.900 --> 00:50:10.719 I'm out of this. 1003 00:50:10.800 --> 00:50:12.320 Or as soon as he's through high school, I'm out 1004 00:50:12.340 --> 00:50:14.079 of this. I'm out of here for sure. 1005 00:50:15.500 --> 00:50:17.039 But one of the things I want to be really 1006 00:50:17.079 --> 00:50:21.280 certain of is, and I haven't heard an answer one 1007 00:50:21.300 --> 00:50:24.639 way or the other yet on this, is Um, I, 1008 00:50:24.719 --> 00:50:26.500 I don't want to trust my own read on this. 1009 00:50:26.739 --> 00:50:27.260 Yeah. Right. 1010 00:50:27.460 --> 00:50:29.280 My, my, my gut and my spirit are telling me 1011 00:50:29.300 --> 00:50:31.719 to get out of here. Um, we do a lot 1012 00:50:31.739 --> 00:50:33.800 of work here. We're involved in a lot of charities. 1013 00:50:34.119 --> 00:50:37.119 I coach youth football. There's a lot of people's lives 1014 00:50:37.179 --> 00:50:38.179 that we're connected to. 1015 00:50:38.889 --> 00:50:42.409 Um, and I am, I am wide open. I just, 1016 00:50:42.429 --> 00:50:44.670 I want to be where God wants us to be. 1017 00:50:44.869 --> 00:50:47.070 Well, you could always locate the business and put all 1018 00:50:47.090 --> 00:50:47.989 your nonprofits over there. 1019 00:50:48.449 --> 00:50:51.489 Just, uh, just, well, they, The business is getting domiciled 1020 00:50:51.530 --> 00:50:52.219 in a different state. 1021 00:50:52.260 --> 00:50:56.260 That's happening. Those wheels have already started spinning. Okay. 1022 00:50:56.300 --> 00:50:58.460 And when that's done and a done deal, I want 1023 00:50:58.480 --> 00:51:00.340 you to make what will become a viral video of 1024 00:51:00.380 --> 00:51:03.969 you going to a Bob Ferguson speech and just said, hey, 1025 00:51:04.090 --> 00:51:06.469 just want to let you know, my business is gone. 1026 00:51:06.510 --> 00:51:08.949 We're one more. Thanks, Bob. Have a good day. 1027 00:51:10.190 --> 00:51:14.099 Or I'll look at Katie Wilson and go, bye. 1028 00:51:14.679 --> 00:51:16.780 Bye. Seattle. Bye. Yeah. 1029 00:51:16.800 --> 00:51:17.260 All right, brother. 1030 00:51:17.280 --> 00:51:19.340 Great to get wise counsel from you. Zach Abraham, Chief 1031 00:51:19.360 --> 00:51:24.760 Investment Officer, Board of Capital Management. KnowYourRiskPodcast.com. This is the 1032 00:51:24.820 --> 00:51:27.550 Todd Herman Show. Please go be well, be strong, be kind, 1033 00:51:27.590 --> 00:51:29.909 and please make every effort to walk in the light 1034 00:51:29.929 --> 00:51:30.289 of Christ.