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- 0:03Unknown: Okay. It has been a little while since I've sat down to
- 0:07talk just directly to you.
- 0:09Business has been growing. My family's been growing and I have had the rare opportunity to just stop and observe what's going on in culture.
- 0:17And I've actually started to notice something that I think is worth bringing up with you. I think it's worth bringing up because
- 0:25I think there's going to be a culture change that's gonna be massive.
- 0:29And I am not here to tell you that this culture change is good or it's
- 0:34bad or,
- 0:35that you should participate in it. I just want you to be aware of it. And I think that the reason I want you to be aware of it is because it's the awareness itself
- 0:46that I think can help you
- 0:48avoid
- 0:49the mob.
- 0:50And
- 0:51long time listeners of the podcast know that that is what I believe to be the greatest threat to all of humanity is always
- 0:58joining a mob.
- 0:59Joining a group of people that are angry and that think that they have a solution.
- 1:04And so they shout and yell and they turn over their animal like instincts to this mob
- 1:10and,
- 1:10they imagine that whatever they destroy in the process is gonna solve their problems.
- 1:15And, I hate that and I think it is very, very dangerous.
- 1:19And so I think one of the ways that you prevent yourself from joining the mob is to make cold observations
- 1:27about what's happening.
- 1:29And I don't think there's just one mob that's gonna come but I I what I wanted to describe is the culture change that I think is coming and then
- 1:37kind of explore, you know, who are these mobs that are gonna that are gonna sprout up, that are gonna be led
- 1:43by emotion and probably fervent leaders.
- 1:46And, and that way, you can make this
- 1:50cold and objective
- 1:52observation
- 1:52about the right thing for you, which I am going to suggest is always
- 1:57to not join the mob.
- 2:00So I think, you know, when Trump got all elected,
- 2:04there was all this talk about draining the swamp and then we're gonna get rid of all these people that are pedophiles
- 2:09in our in our government system. We're gonna we're gonna get rid of all the illegal immigrants. We're going to,
- 2:16stop going to war.
- 2:18And there were all these people that were like, yeah. Finally.
- 2:22Finally, we are going to get rid of this ruling class elites that have been taking from us but not giving.
- 2:29And then
- 2:31none of it really happened.
- 2:33And in fact, even if you look around and you say, well, the they're the illegal is being deported and and we're making these strides in in bringing the economy back.
- 2:44Okay.
- 2:45But I think there are a lot of people that would point to the way that Trump said, if you are still interested in
- 2:52in Epstein,
- 2:53then you're not on MAGA. You are not a part of our team. And I think you can say
- 2:59that is where a line got drawn in the sand and he created
- 3:03enemies
- 3:04from within his own community.
- 3:07Right? And I think there are a lot of older people, boomers, you might say, that are like, that's just the way that it is. Right? This is just the horse trading that happens. He said some things and now he got in there and he realizes he can't do it or there might be other people that are like, no, no, no. This is like five d chess
- 3:24and, you just gotta hang on for a little bit longer. You know, he's he's gonna come around and then we're gonna get to find out who all these bad people were. And then on top of that, there are some people that are like, well, we may not get Epstein but we are finding out that Trump,
- 3:39is gonna go after
- 3:41Obama, somebody that was in office,
- 3:43you know,
- 3:45a decade ago and we're gonna find him for all these bad things that he did. And whoever that's working for, I can tell you that it is not working
- 3:55for young men.
- 3:57Young men that are struggling to find jobs,
- 4:01that know that AI is just pounding on the door to try and break through and make it so they can't earn a living.
- 4:09And these young men who have been told, particularly white young men, you have this privilege. You have all of these advantages and and we need to level the playing field and you're a racist and you're doing all these bad things. So these young men are like, woah.
- 4:24I supported you and now this thing that I said was important, the fact that we were, you know,
- 4:31trading the the sanctity of young girls to be able to create blackmail on leaders and elites
- 4:39that now maybe some other country controls and this is what's determining whether we're gonna go bomb another country and maybe go to war for them and we're gonna send all this money out to them. Like,
- 4:50these young men are are they're not having it,
- 4:53Right? They either didn't go to college or they did go to college. They have huge debt and now they're trying to find a job in this wild economy
- 5:01and they're looking around and they're like, wait a second. I I put my my faith. I put work in for this. I I put my reputation on the line
- 5:09and now you're throwing me out.
- 5:12Will they go start looking for somebody else to to,
- 5:15to to listen to?
- 5:17And I think they are encountering a guy named Nick Fuentes.
- 5:22Now, for anybody that doesn't know, Nick Fuentes is a conservative figure. He's 26 years old
- 5:28and,
- 5:29several years ago when there was this huge cancel culture movement,
- 5:34he was one of the people that was targeted and completely thrown out of social media. Every single platform, YouTube, Twitter,
- 5:41Instagram, Facebook, everybody
- 5:44threw him out and said he has radical ideas. These are unthinkable ideas. He he says things like,
- 5:52I don't wanna live near black people and the Jews are the cause of all these problems.
- 5:58Now, in our society, if we talk about the Overton window, these are unthinkable ideas. These are ideas
- 6:05that if in any part of culture you bring these things up, you are going to be thrown out. You will never get a corporate job. And corporate America
- 6:15went out and said, not only are you we're not gonna hire you. We're gonna make sure that ads that we run don't run anywhere near you and any platform that has you on, we're not going to support. And so he got thrown off on those platforms
- 6:27just like people like Alex Jones did.
- 6:29But it went even further. He got debanked. His banks came to him and said, no. We're we are not going to
- 6:35allow you to run any kind of, credit cards. We're not going to allow you to have people donate money to you. And so he was completely thrown out.
- 6:44And this happened when he was like in his early twenties, right?
- 6:49And,
- 6:50so he kinda went away, right? People didn't hear about him. They didn't know anything about him but he started off on other platforms. He built up his own
- 6:59platform. There's platforms like Rumble.
- 7:02I don't even know where these other ones are. Like, there there are places where you can go on the Internet where you could broadcast and and you could make it so people can send you donations.
- 7:12But Nick Fuentes came back.
- 7:15And as he came back, he was saying things
- 7:18that nobody really was saying out in the world. He was talking about like, hey. Trump is not gonna solve your problems. Hey. When when they get into office, you're being tricked. This is not gonna work.
- 7:29And so now when Trump turned on his base and said, you're not a part of MAGA if you want to come after these Epstein files,
- 7:37People started saying, wait a second. No. That that's not right. And who is it that that was right all along about this? Oh, Nick Fuentes.
- 7:45And so these young people are hearing these ideas
- 7:49and they are now coming to the very clear conclusion
- 7:53that it does not matter who you elect.
- 7:56That even the guy that got shot at,
- 8:00even the guy that the entire
- 8:02establishment came after him, tried to put him in jail, tried to do all these things. When he gets into office,
- 8:07he's not doing anything for us either.
- 8:10So they are not interested
- 8:12in trying to do the Elon Musk path.
- 8:15They're not interested in like, oh, well, let's start a new party and that new party is going to, you know, be some blend between,
- 8:23you know, the left that feels like the left went too crazy and
- 8:27the libertarians and the, you know, Elon Musk is talking about this America party.
- 8:32Instead,
- 8:33Nick Fuentes followers who call themselves Groypers,
- 8:37they're going out there and saying, no, we want chaos in this system.
- 8:42You guys don't want us, to participate in MAGA. You don't want us to be a part of
- 8:48of,
- 8:49you know, the economy and and and making the right decisions about not going to bomb Iran.
- 8:54We're not gonna play in this system anymore.
- 8:57We are going to vote for Democrats. We are going to try and, put as many political memes out into the world that are gonna cause chaos as we can.
- 9:07And I think one of the reasons that the groipers
- 9:11are growing
- 9:12in numbers
- 9:13is that
- 9:15they are
- 9:18they are breaking
- 9:20the narratives
- 9:22that
- 9:23have been used for several generations to describe
- 9:27who are we as Americans,
- 9:29what is our founding story,
- 9:32who is us
- 9:34and who is them and
- 9:37they are coming to conclusions
- 9:39that in the past had been completely unthinkable.
- 9:43You know, ever since maybe the seventies and eighties when there started to be a politically correct culture that would say, hey, banks. You are not allowed to,
- 9:55base your lending,
- 9:57on certain neighborhoods to certain groups of people. You're not allowed to do that.
- 10:02And and then over time, these ideas became entrenched into society and they said, no, not only can you not choose who you lend to based on their race, you're not even allowed to say or make any observations about race whatsoever.
- 10:17And so when Nick Fuentes comes out and makes observations
- 10:21that are,
- 10:22you know, have some basis in research,
- 10:25then people that are,
- 10:27in the regular Overton window say, you are thrown out and the groipers are saying, 'Wait a second. Nobody ever told me this.
- 10:34Nobody ever told me this thing about race. Nobody ever told me this thing about history.
- 10:39And so now what's happening is the narratives that used to hold us together
- 10:45are being shredded.
- 10:48And in The United States, we have,
- 10:51we don't have this like thick
- 10:54cultural history that transcends
- 10:56hundreds of years. Right? We're not all Irish or Hungarian
- 10:59or Russian.
- 11:01We have been a melting pot and this melting pot is based on these ideas about where we came from, who is we, who is them, who should we let in, who should we not let in,
- 11:13And that has been controlled by the dominating force and the Groypers
- 11:19don't believe those narratives anymore.
- 11:22And they are putting out new information that is challenging what people used to believe. And just like COVID,
- 11:29where we discovered
- 11:30the government is absolutely willing
- 11:34to say things that are not true, that they know aren't true in order to get social cohesion, in order to get people to do what they want them to do.
- 11:44And they're saying this is true about, the factors that led us to World War two.
- 11:49The same thing is true of how our political system is is being run by other governments who are using,
- 11:56you know,
- 11:59young women to entrap,
- 12:01powerful men in in sex schemes and then use that power to be able to get them to go to war with other countries on their behalf.
- 12:11And so I bring this up because
- 12:13I think it'd be very easy if these concepts, these people you've never heard of,
- 12:20that when the mainstream media or however you consume news brings them up,
- 12:25they do it with an eye roll. They do it with a dismissiveness
- 12:29that you do not take these ideas seriously,
- 12:32that you think like, oh, those are just crazy people. Those are people far away. This is not something that's going to affect things.
- 12:39I'm here to tell you that it is.
- 12:42I'm here to tell you that the system as we see it right now
- 12:47is definitely
- 12:48cracking up
- 12:50and I'll give you an example.
- 12:51You know, the it's so easy for us all to be like, hey, Facebook, that's young people don't join that. Right? That's for older people. Young people join Instagram.
- 13:01Well, now that is also true now of things like YouTube
- 13:05and,
- 13:06other platforms like Instagram. Wherever wherever
- 13:10people were posting things,
- 13:12well, the new generation
- 13:14is not there. And the reason that they're not there is because those platforms were completely
- 13:20contained.
- 13:21They said these are the ideas you're allowed to hear and ideas that are outside of this Overton window, you're not allowed to hear. So people went on to other platforms and those platforms
- 13:31put themselves forward as, hey, we're we are going to allow you to say what you want. We are going to be a free speech platform And where there is free speech, there are new ideas that people haven't heard. And who is going to flock to new ideas they haven't heard? The younger generation.
- 13:46Particularly, the younger generation
- 13:49that has been
- 13:50pushed around and kicked around and told that, all of the all of the
- 13:55narratives that we have point to the fact that you're bad or wrong.
- 13:59And, I I wouldn't just say that the culture change is Nick Fuentes and the Groypers. He's a big part of it. Another person that I would bring up that maybe you've never heard of is a is a man named
- 14:11Sam Hyde.
- 14:12Sam Hyde has one of the funniest
- 14:16TED talks that you have ever seen although if you watch it and you don't know what you're watching,
- 14:22it is so
- 14:23extremely
- 14:24uncomfortable
- 14:25that I can barely describe it. But
- 14:28so Sam Hyde goes to this,
- 14:30TEDx talk, you know, where people stand up and normally they're citing these, you know, statistics and facts and they they package together a story that makes the audience feel good
- 14:40and, and, you know, is all tied together in a bow. Well, Sam Hyde
- 14:44stands on stage and I don't wanna ruin it for you, but he shatters
- 14:50that narrative. And he does it in a way
- 14:53that only a a complete
- 14:56a person that is so willing
- 14:59to completely
- 15:00embody an idea the way that I I understand Andy Kaufman used to.
- 15:05And so I recommend you go go to YouTube, type in Sam Hyde TEDx Talk and you'll watch
- 15:13truly a different mind do something on stage that is shocking.
- 15:19Well, Sam Hyde, similarly,
- 15:21used to be on mainstream.
- 15:23He used to have a comedy show, on on what was called Adult Swim and he got canceled on there for some of the jokes that he was making and so he went out and created his own
- 15:34comedy platform
- 15:35where they make their own sketches. They do their own reality shows. Now, they are not polished like corporate America
- 15:42but they own themselves
- 15:44completely
- 15:45all the way down to how their payments get processed.
- 15:49And what this has enabled them to do is to say things that you can't say on other platforms.
- 15:56And so now, young people are going there and they are hearing ideas
- 16:00that they've never heard before.
- 16:02And Sam Hyde will, you know, talk about,
- 16:06you know, how to improve yourself, about how to,
- 16:10what why the narrative is stacked against you. I I particularly like he did a video on Bitcoin that actually was one of the best explanations
- 16:20about Bitcoin that I've ever heard. And trust me, I've heard thousands
- 16:25of descriptions of this, but he was talking about it in terms
- 16:29that a young person
- 16:30that is working their ass off and always having their value stripped from them through inflation,
- 16:37he explains it in a way that young person that maybe doesn't have an education
- 16:40could get.
- 16:42In any case, Sam Hyde is also talking about countercultural ideas. He has,
- 16:48things that cannot be said in the normal Overton window
- 16:52and his audience is growing as well.
- 16:55And so as I am seeing ideas that used to be totally unacceptable, they would get you thrown out, have now moved into radical
- 17:03and I would even say
- 17:05acceptable ideas.
- 17:08And I think that these ideas
- 17:10when you first encounter them
- 17:13are going to make you
- 17:16deeply uncomfortable.
- 17:18And you're gonna look around and be like, wait, wait, wait. You're not allowed to say that. And maybe you are and maybe you're not. And maybe you should say it and maybe you shouldn't.
- 17:26You be the decider as to whether these are good ideas, whether they are a benefit to society.
- 17:32But one thing you should recognize
- 17:34is they are breaking in.
- 17:36These ideas are now getting proliferated
- 17:39and they are growing.
- 17:41And
- 17:42this, I believe,
- 17:43is the signal
- 17:45that culture is about to change.
- 17:48And I think that this change
- 17:51is something
- 17:56it's something
- 17:58unexpected.
- 18:01It's it's something where the outcome is not it's not obvious to me what it's gonna be. I think a lot of people right now
- 18:08look at the economy. They they see,
- 18:11you know, the Kobayashi letter say, hey, you know, the amount of debt is going way up and and young people can't,
- 18:17afford their mortgages and they can't buy things and and so we kind of all sense
- 18:22that there is some kind of economic cataclysm that maybe is just hanging right off the edge.
- 18:28And so we sense there's gonna be this big epic moment like a September 11 or like the banks failing
- 18:36But I'm not so sure that's what's gonna happen.
- 18:39What I think could happen
- 18:41is that culture change is happening underneath the surface.
- 18:45What people to believe to be true,
- 18:48what they who they respect,
- 18:50who they are following,
- 18:52this is changing
- 18:54really fast underneath the surface. And if you are only connected to mainstream
- 19:00outlets, even if they're the podcasts that are within that Overton window,
- 19:05you're never gonna hear about these ideas
- 19:08which is why I'm bringing them up. You know, couple of years ago,
- 19:12Kanye West
- 19:14started saying
- 19:15outlandish things about
- 19:18about culture. He was talking about how the Jews ran the media and about how,
- 19:25things were unfair. He he puts out music and and slams Adidas for what they're doing.
- 19:32And he was doing this two years ago when people were like, clearly he's having a bipolar or manic disorder. Something is terribly wrong here.
- 19:42But you know, one thing that I always do is try and watch artists
- 19:47and try and say, like, what is it that they are expressing? Because oftentimes artists, whether they're a singer or a painter or a sculptor, whatever,
- 19:55they can see the future
- 19:58before other people can.
- 20:00And what Kanye West was saying two years ago was totally unacceptable. It was pushed completely out of society.
- 20:08And now two years later,
- 20:10this is in society.
- 20:12This is in platforms.
- 20:14And even though I was saying some of these platforms like YouTube are are becoming kind of old fashioned or passe,
- 20:20even those places
- 20:22have had to open up the Overton window.
- 20:24And now people like Sam Hyde who are talking about things like, oh, this is the Jewish control of the media or these these are
- 20:33the countries that are actually controlling us or this is what's going on with COVID.
- 20:39Even those guys, as long as they bleep out the words that they're not allowed to say, they're allowed to have their ideas on on YouTube. And why?
- 20:47Well, because YouTube is a business.
- 20:49And at the end of the day, they know that if they do not allow these ideas to be published on their platform, people are going to leave in droves from their platform.
- 20:59And so you're watching these ideas that used to only be allowed on Rumble
- 21:03now come on to YouTube
- 21:05and the old way of cancelling these ideas of reinforcing
- 21:10where is the Overton window,
- 21:13those don't work anymore.
- 21:16And
- 21:17I bring all of this up because
- 21:20I see it.
- 21:21I don't know what it means exactly
- 21:24but I can tell you that
- 21:29when culture changes
- 21:31so too does power.
- 21:34And I think
- 21:36the places that people have gone
- 21:39when they felt afraid
- 21:41and when they wanted somebody to lead them
- 21:44are not going to be where they went.
- 21:47I think there are very, very few
- 21:50people under the age of 35
- 21:52that are gonna say, oh, when Trump's term is up,
- 21:56let me let me elect,
- 21:58JD Vance. Let me continue to make sure the power structure and the conservative
- 22:03mindset stays in there. I don't think they're doing that.
- 22:07And so if your worldview is informed by Donald Trump, it just got in good or bad, this is what's gonna come next. It's JD Vance. It's,
- 22:16it's,
- 22:17Dan Bongino.
- 22:18It's,
- 22:19Tulsi Gabbard.
- 22:21I think you're wrong.
- 22:22I think those people are going to be blacklisted in the future society.
- 22:27And so who will be there?
- 22:29What is going to happen?
- 22:31I think there's gonna be a huge,
- 22:35drop off in college education
- 22:37and I think that's not all that profound to say
- 22:41but I do think that that means that the narrative is gonna change much faster.
- 22:45So I don't know, man.
- 22:48I,
- 22:49I find these ideas to be fascinating and wild and interesting and and
- 22:55and I am completely capable of listening to these ideas
- 22:59and being like,
- 23:00I wonder what the other side thinks of these things and I go to the left and I see
- 23:06very few new ideas.
- 23:08Very few people that are getting away from
- 23:11the narrative
- 23:13of what's going on and I can tell you that the young people are gonna go to where it's most exciting.
- 23:18They're going to go to,
- 23:20the ideas that make them feel like they have control
- 23:24and I don't think
- 23:26that
- 23:30I don't think the future
- 23:33three years from now, is going to look anything like it does right now.
- 23:40Yeah.
- 23:41And I wanted to bring that up with you.
- 23:44So this is gonna kinda round out that idea.
- 23:47I I think that,
- 23:49if you want to see the future of culture,
- 23:52you've gotta get out of where you're at and you've gotta find some ideas
- 23:57that you find to be really taxing,
- 24:00to really challenge,
- 24:02who you are and what you think and and what you were taught.
- 24:06And then
- 24:07see why are these people
- 24:09liking these ideas. Is it because they're actually good ideas or is it because it makes them feel empowered?
- 24:15And if I don't like these ideas,
- 24:18where are the counter ideas to these gonna come from?
- 24:23Because right now,
- 24:25the these people like, Sam Hyde, Nick Fuentes, Kanye West,
- 24:30Alex Jones,
- 24:31they are completely uncancelable.
- 24:34The the system is not going to stop them.
- 24:38So
- 24:39you are either going to choose, do I like these ideas or these ideas that I'm going to follow? Are my children going to follow these ideas?
- 24:48Or what will be the counterbalance
- 24:50force?
- 24:51I don't see any other counterbalance force out there. I don't see anybody out there producing anything,
- 24:56anywhere close to as compelling as what they're doing.
- 25:00And so I bring it to you.
- 25:02And I ask you, like, do you see this?
- 25:05Is your Overton window getting opened up and new ideas being put in there? And what do you think the world looks like as inflation gets worse
- 25:15and unemployment
- 25:16goes up and AI becomes,
- 25:19the dominant force in the working world,
- 25:24where do you think people go for ideas?
- 25:27Who do you think they're gonna listen to? Is it gonna be the guy that told them nothing to see here,
- 25:31Epstein didn't happen? Or is it gonna be the guy that says, hey. It's okay. You you know, like
- 25:37like, it's okay for you to choose who you wanna live by. Hey. Did you know these things about world history that you've never heard before?
- 25:46You may not like what I'm saying,
- 25:49but what I'm saying is actually accurate. This this is happening.
- 25:54And I don't know what's gonna happen, but I think it's worth you hearing about. So I bring it up with you. Let me know your thoughts on this.
- 26:02As always,
- 26:04I believe that a really good thing to do in a time of uncertainty
- 26:09is to buy Bitcoin.
- 26:11I,
- 26:13I've heard a bunch of really shitty stupid arguments against Bitcoin lately where, people were just going out on on x and being like, it's a Ponzi scheme.
- 26:22Okay. Well, explain to me what a Ponzi scheme is and then draw out for me what Bitcoin is and explain to me how those two are the same thing. And most of the time people are
- 26:31like, well, you you know what it is. It's that people are gonna pay you. You buy it so that people will pay you more for it in the future. And it's like, yes. That's actually literally everything that you buy
- 26:42that you don't consume.
- 26:43You buy it because you assume that the value of it is going to go up
- 26:47and and so that yes. You're right. Bitcoin is guilty as charged to that. You buy it now in in the anticipation
- 26:54that it is going to be worth more later and you can sell it in the future. But here's the kicker. Here's the thing most people don't realize.
- 27:01I'm not waiting for Bitcoin's price to go up in terms of dollars so that I I can trade Bitcoin for dollars.
- 27:09I'm going to use the price appreciation of Bitcoin to buy the things that I will consume but it will cost me much, much, much, much less in terms of Bitcoin.
- 27:20Other arguments that I've heard, I could go into maybe I'll do an entire session on this
- 27:25But when it all comes down to it, the answer to the chaos that comes from inflation
- 27:32and new ideas in the Overton window being opened up
- 27:36is to provide for you and your family.
- 27:38And the best way that I know how to do that is to develop your skills,
- 27:42offer something that the market wants,
- 27:44and
- 27:45store your value
- 27:47in something that, is not going to be diluted and I think that's Bitcoin.
- 27:52And, if you wanna buy Bitcoin and you wanna support the show,
- 27:56you can do that on river.com and I will, share a link in the show notes.
- 28:01And, otherwise,
- 28:03send me a note. Let me know what you thought of these ideas. Let me know if you've heard of these people and these new ideas, the Groepers,
- 28:10Nick Fuentes, Sam Hyde.
- 28:12And, and let me know if you think I'm totally off base. I'm,
- 28:16I'm always interested in what people see and think.
- 28:20And, and
- 28:22as always,
- 28:23you can feel free to disagree.