Venezuela. There was a weapon used a sonic weapon that took out many of the Cuban bodyguards that were used to to defend Maduro. Lots of people saw the details about that weapon and were concerned. Is that something that Americans should be afraid of? [00:00:15] Something the United States is combating? Yeah, it's something I don't want to. Nobody else has it. We have weapons that nobody knows about. And I say it's probably good not to talk about it, but we have some amazing weapons. That was an amazing attack. So that is Donald Trump with an interview with Newsnation's Katie Pavlich, [00:00:33] where he confirmed the use of a new kind of weapon that was used in the raid to get Nicolas Maduro. And I would just have you bear in mind that he was asked by Katie Pavlich, should the American people be worried about this? And he did not reassure us that we should. That will be fine. [00:00:49] He just skipped over that part. Jake, what's your $0.02? Yeah. So we'll come back to that. One is we have weapons that no one knows about. Well. Until now. Okay. Yeah. But okay. [00:01:04] Kidding aside, sent to this is a deeply problematic weapon. And even if we're the only ones that have it now. Tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick. Within weeks, months, whatever it is, the others will have them. So wait till you find out what this weapon is. [00:01:20] This is kind of a disaster, and I'm super worried it's going to lead to authoritarianism throughout the world. Yeah, well, let's jump into what we know about it. Not just from Trump's interview, but from, Carolyn Levitt, who two weeks ago had shared, [00:01:35] an alleged eyewitness account from a bodyguard that was loyal to Nicolas Maduro, talking about the effect of the weapon. So she tweeted this stop what you're doing and read this with a bunch of American flags for some reason. And, so this is a security guard talking to an interviewer, and, we don't know [00:01:51] exactly where this interview comes from, apparently had been shared by Mike Netter, the conservative vice chair of the Rebuild California campaign. And so I'm going to read the excerpts from the interview. And as I do this, let's play a little fun game. [00:02:06] Imagine you were a propagandist for the Trump regime. Try to find a way that you would change this, to make it be more what Trump would want. And I defy you to find a way to do that. So, the Venezuelan security guard supposedly said on the day of the [00:02:21] operation, we didn't hear anything coming. We were on guard, but suddenly all of our radar systems shut down without any explanation. The next thing we saw were drones. A lot of drones flying over our positions. We didn't know how to react. The interviewer says. And then the battle began. Security guard? Yes, but it was a massacre. We were hundreds, but we had no chance. [00:02:40] They were shooting with such precision and speed, it seemed like each soldier was firing 300 rounds per minute. We couldn't do anything. Interviewer says in your own weapons, didn't they help? Security guard says no help at all because it wasn't just the weapons. At one point they launched something. I don't know how to describe it. [00:02:55] It was like a very intense sound wave. Suddenly, I felt my head was exploding from the inside. We all started bleeding from the nose. Some were vomiting blood. We fell to the ground, unable to move. The interviewer said. And your comrades, did they manage to resist security guard? No, not at all. Those 20 men without a single casualty killed hundreds of us. [00:03:14] We had no way to compete with their technology, with their weapons. I swear, I've never seen anything like it. We couldn't even stand up after that sonic weapon or whatever it was. And then the interviewer says, so, do you think the rest of the region should think twice before confronting the Americans? Security guard without a doubt. [00:03:30] I'm sending a warning to anyone who thinks they can fight the United States. They have no idea what they're capable of. After what I saw, I never want to be on the other side of that again. They're not to be messed with. Okay. Come on. Jay. I'm not even saying that that's not true. That that happened. [00:03:49] Maybe they did all this stuff and they killed everybody. Certainly we don't know of any casualties. So, sure, they wiped out 200 people. I'm just saying this is what he said. Okay, so first of all, I enjoyed your dramatic reading. Thank you. Okay. Second of all, I don't know what he means by. They were firing 300 rounds per minute. Okay, that. [00:04:07] Because that's not the sonic weapon. That's just random, right? So that's weird. And then the last paragraph was, yeah, it was too much, right? Like, oh, America is not to be messed with. Now remember, everyone preemptively surrender. Okay. All right, I got it. [00:04:23] But this guy's not the only one saying it. And so I have heard. I don't doubt that they have the weapon. I'm just saying that was written by either Stephen Miller or ChatGPT or both. Which goes to an interesting point, John, which is why are they telling everybody about our secret weapon? [00:04:40] Right. So you've got this that way of kind of advertising it. And then in case you didn't see it, Caroline Leavitt, the press secretary, goes, look here at our secret weapon. Right. And then Trump confirms it. Okay, I get it. They want the world to know. And why do they want them to know? [00:04:55] It's actually pretty easy to figure that out because they want to intimidate them and they want to say, hey, don't fight us. We're, you know, you have no chance. On the other hand, I have heard from several different sources about the sonic weapon. Okay, so again, until it's confirmed. [00:05:11] Until you see it, you never know for sure, right? But it sounds like we do have a sonic weapon. And so that the part that is relevant in that is the description of it feels like an implosion inside your own head. The bleeding from the nose, the vomiting of the blood, etc. [00:05:27] And you're completely incapacitated. And that doesn't begin to explain. How do we go into a compound with about a hundred guards and with 20 guys, or however many it was, and we don't lose a single guy? That is very improbable, right? [00:05:42] Even if they're the greatest fighters in the world, it's there's too many guys. So so they clearly had some massive advantage that we are not used to. Okay. And so my best guess is that the sonic weapon is real. [00:05:58] And so now what happens when China gets it okay. Now that's an issue. What happens when terrorists get it. What happens when Israel gets it? But what happens when Iran gets it or Hezbollah gets it right. [00:06:14] So if it's real, then people are going to start using it everywhere and it's going to turn into a disaster. And by the way, the most important part of that is not the invasion of each other, right? And yes, for a while, while we have an advantage or Chinese or the Israelis [00:06:30] have it and they have an advantage, they'll attack everyone. I don't know about the Chinese. They have not actually not been very warlike. But Israel will attack every Muslim country on earth right, with that weapon or make us do it. Right. But that's not the biggest problem. The biggest problem is you're going to protest your own government [00:06:48] wherever you are. They bring out the sonic weapon. Well, there goes the whole protest. Yeah. They'll say it's, it's non-lethal. Sure, you're vomiting. Blood, but that's just libs exaggerating. Yeah. And, you know, maybe you'll die a couple of years from now from whatever brain damage we caused. Right. But meanwhile, everyone's incapacitated. [00:07:05] So that's a like we're about to enter an era, guys. And I don't want to scare you too much, but, And I'm the hope guy. So I'm the last guy to say everything is doom and gloom, right? But super worried about it. [00:07:21] Like, even if it's not this, the robots are coming, right? The Pentagon is showing us the robots they're working on that are lethal. ET cetera. Then you've got the drones. Then you've got Palantir and the surveillance state. The walls are closing in. Soon the powerful will have an ability to surveil all of us at all times. [00:07:40] And then if you get out of line, they make your head seem like it's imploding and you're vomiting blood. So how do you beat that kind of machine? - So I don't know. - I'm I'm I'm super worried about it. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe a good time to catch up on some classic cyberpunk literature, [00:07:58] because this is basically how it works, and also the form of government that ends up producing it. We allowed corporations to buy everything, and the rich own literally everything and all the politicians. And what do you know, they're acting out cyberpunk all over us. Every time you ring the bell below, an angel gets its wings. [00:08:13] Totally not true, but it does keep you updated on our live shows.