Wednesday, 27 December 2023

95: IDK

A masterclass in strategic clarity that deconstructs the psychological maneuvers of the elite using Robert Greene’s military principles to navigate a world of perpetual manufactured crisis.

By Moe Factz with Adam Curry | 4h 7m listen | 44 chapters
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About this episode

Adam Curry and Mo Facts return for the 95th installment of the series to analyze global instability through the lens of Robert Greene’s The 33 Strategies of War. The discussion centers on how modern psychological operations and military doctrines, such as the center of gravity, are being deployed against domestic populations in the United States and abroad. By examining the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the Israel-Palestine crisis, the hosts reveal how historical patterns of warfare are adapted for a digital age where information is the primary battlefield.

Robert Greene provides the framework for a dense exploration of current events, including the rise of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) and the strategic acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk. The analysis links the World Workers Party and Marxist organizing to modern intersectional movements, while Neely Fuller Jr. offers a definition of counter-war across nine areas of human activity. Specific attention is paid to the decline of independent media figures like Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon, the monetization of conspiracy by Info Mavericks, and the potential for military-aged immigrants to be funneled into involuntary service for citizenship.

Mo Facts offers a bold prediction regarding Josh Hawley’s potential rise in the 2024 election cycle while reflecting on the psychological toll of the loneliness epidemic cited by Surgeon General Vivek Murthy. The episode captures the distinct chemistry between the hosts as they navigate the bliss point of the food industry and the strategic necessity of unconditional forgiveness. This deep dive serves as a therapeutic re-centering, urging listeners to climb the mountain of clarity to avoid the snares of manufactured panic.


CHAPTER 01 / 44 Discussion

Mo Facts Episode 95 Introduction and New Internet Connection

Adam Curry and Mo Facts open episode 95 of the podcast, noting the long delay since their last recording. Mo celebrates finally receiving a high-speed internet connection in Northern Virginia after three and a half years of technical difficulties. The hosts prepare to discuss a specific book that will frame their analysis of global conflicts.

adam curry· mo facts· texas hill country· northern virginia· internet connection· podcasting

00:01 What is your style and what is your clan? The soldier uses military style. Oh, so there may be a war. Mo Facts with Adam Curry for December 27th, 2023, episode number 95, just under the wire for the new year. Oh, yeah. Experience the unexpected here. I'm Adam Curry coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country, and it's time once again to spin the wheel of topic from here to Northern Virginia. Please say hello to my friend on the other end, ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Mo Facts. How are you doing, Adam? Oh, Mo. I am not just happy to hear you, but happy to hear you so crisp and clean. You got your new internet finally. We have come into the 21st century.

00:45 It's unbelievable. It's only taken, what, three and a half years for this to happen? Three and a half years and billions of our government tax dollars. I have a feeling they probably thought, well, those guys haven't done a show in two months. Now we can give them the internet. If anything, that's been the enemy that we've had to deal with throughout the past three and a half years. If people only knew how we got to the cusp of doing a show, and it's just like, nah, the internet connection ain't connecting today. Several times. But we're here. Yeah, we are. We are. We are. And you know what? Why don't we? Of course, as everyone probably knows, I have no idea what Mo is bringing to the table.

01:29 And there was definitely something different with the clip list for today. So I'm just going to go ahead and spin it, everybody. There it is. Round and round it goes. The big wheel of topics. Where it stops, nobody knows. Of course, Mo knows because he put this whacked out list together. I cannot wait to find out what we're going to do on this episode of Mo Facts with Adam Curry. The 33 strategies of war. The 33 strategies of war. Yes. Well, which war are we talking about? We got about 15 of them in the world right now, Mo. That's the whole point. That's the whole point of this show. Ah, okay. One question: Are we at war? I mean, you've obviously all in.

CHAPTER 02 / 44 Discussion

Robert Greene, The 33 Strategies of War Book Overview

The discussion centers on Robert Greene's 2006 book, The 33 Strategies of War. Mo describes the 27-hour audiobook and a condensed video version that outlines strategic principles derived from historical military leaders. The hosts plan to apply these strategies to modern psychological warfare and current global events, noting Greene's previous success with The 48 Laws of Power.

robert greene· 33 strategies of war· 48 laws of power· strategy· audiobooks· psychology

02:10 Clearly. Clearly. And I agree on every front. We've talked about these fronts before throughout the life of the show. But I wanted to discuss this book by Robert Green. It came out in 2006. It's the 33 Strategies of War. Can't beat that number. Hey. And the thing was, the audio book is 27 hours long. I gave y'all a day of my life, a little over a day of my life, listening to this book, only to find there's a 27-minute video that explains each one of the strategies, or it just highlights it.

02:53 So what I wanted to, because like you said, the clip list is crazy. I have seven clips I want to play just to talk about the book itself. And then we can dive right into the strategies. You can do dealer choice. You can do it in reverse order, regular order, however you want to do it. Oh, wow. It's the DJ's dealer's choice. Okay, now this is the book Robert Green, The 33 Strategies. I'm putting all of this in the show notes, of course, make sure we have all that. He's more known for his more popular book, 48 Laws of Power. Ah, yes. Okay, now I know who you're talking about. I didn't even know about this book.

03:33 So you can't have power unless you win the war. So what I want to do is you play the clip. You might even have to back it up. You can back it up, listen to it. You know what I'm saying? Little parts of it. And then you just let me know where you think this applies into the world, the war over the worlds today. And we're just going to have a conversation. I'm going to have to work on this one. All right. Not just pushing buttons. Got to think. Okay. By the way, before we start, are you celebrating Kwanzaa? No. No one's talking about Kwanza this year. No, the first lady is. I mean, of course, that's her. That's her jam right there. Not the first lady, but the second

CHAPTER 03 / 44 Discussion

Nature of Warfare and the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

A clip from Robert Greene argues that while technology changes, the fundamental nature of warfare remains constant. The hosts discuss the Russia-Ukraine war, describing it as an antiquated conflict where Slavic brothers kill each other in fields. They critique the psychological operations used to make populations fear Vladimir Putin and the potential for further European invasion.

robert greene· russia· ukraine· vladimir putin· terrorism· military technology

04:16 visit. Yes, the number two in chart. Yes. That's her thing. I don't know why it's this. We got to stick with Kwanza, you know, kind of thing, but she's definitely talking about it. I just wanted to check. Just want to make sure you're still the same Moe. Let me check. All right, it's all good. Yep. All right. So we'll kick this off with this first clip. Yes, number two. Well, there are two schools of thought in warfare and military strategy. One is that essentially nothing has changed since the beginning of time, since wars have been fought for how many thousands of years. And the other is that technology and weaponry has completely altered the nature of war. I'm of the first camp, that essentially warfare hasn't changed. Because you do mention that there were terrorist incidents.

04:59 incidents all the way back from ancient times. There were. And the point I'm trying, I make in the book is that what terrorists are after, and they've been after since it's begun, is to create as much chaos and disorder as possible. It's usually a group of people who are very small in number and who are very desperate. And this is their last means, their last resort. They can't even wage a guerrilla-style campaign. And so they want to create maximum chaos. They try one little kick of a rock and they try to start an avalanche. Okay. Two comments, right? Might as well get it out of the way right off the bat. Okay.

05:40 Matthew 24: there will always be wars and rumors of wars. Kingdom will rise against kingdom, nation against nation. Right. So that's just stuck in my head. I can't help it. The second one is, I don't know why, so I'll just throw it out there, but I was watching some news things on YouTube today about Ukraine and Russia. And I thought, how antiquated is this that you have a big field with some trees on each side, and there's Slavic brothers on one side shooting big hot pieces of lead at the Slavic brothers on the other side.

06:19 Like, this is, yeah, the weaponry's got a little bit more sophisticated and more destructive, but it's the same thing since World War I, as far as I can tell. And it looks dumb. That's my thoughts. And I would add to that and say, what is being done to conjure up people to want to murder each other based off of what? Nationality? Based off of, no, I'm saying on the human level. I mean, because it's like they said, hey, and another thing that brought this up was that the Civil War movie, you know.

CHAPTER 04 / 44 Discussion

Cultural Propagandization and the Civil War Movie

The conversation shifts to how culture primes individuals for conflict, citing the upcoming Civil War film as a potential catalyst for domestic unrest. Mo shares a personal anecdote about being conditioned as a child to hate Russians because of characters like Apollo Creed in Rocky IV. They examine how propaganda targets everyone from children to college students.

civil war movie· apollo creed· rocky iv· propaganda· social media· psychological operations

06:59 Oh, the one that's coming in March. Right. That kind of, like, how do you get people so riled up to the point that, like, yeah, I'm ready for the civil? I was looking on social media as well. I'm just like, these people are, this show is needed. And before we move on, I just want to say one more thing. I saw people that listen to our shows that are feeding into it. Yes. You know, that's it's interesting you say that. This has come across my mind a couple of times. There's no one I know who hates Russians. I mean, we're on the internet. We have discussions with people who are from Russia or formerly from Russia, but whatever.

07:39 It's all Putin. We've been mind-controlled into Putin. Putin's the bad guy, Putin, Putin, Putin. And along with that comes the irrational fear that Putin is, once he gets through Ukraine, then he's going to go all the way to Poland and then into Europe and we're all going to die. That's and honestly, man, after COVID, I'm pretty sure you can psyop at least 30% of the population into anything. And that's what scares me. And you say you didn't know anybody that hated Russians. I could tell you somebody that hated Russians, a four or five-year-old Mo really. Yes, because they killed Apollo Creed and Goose.

08:27 Point taken. Yeah, good one. Good one. And I'll say that jokingly, but I'm serious because the culture, the culture totally told you to hate him for that reason. So I have to ask: what is happening to the children that are looking and listening and being primed to hate whatever? I mean, that goes from children like five-year-old Mo all the way up to 25-year-olds that's on college campuses that are being propagandized. So this is the scope of the show. It's a huge scope. And this is how I want the free flow because we have to hit every nook and cranny of this situation because the virus is spreading.

CHAPTER 05 / 44 Discussion

Terrorism as Psychological Warfare and the Israel-Palestine Conflict

Robert Greene explains that terrorism is the ultimate psychological warfare designed to provoke an overreaction. The hosts apply this to the Israel-Palestine conflict, noting that both sides ultimately appeal to the West for resources like food, weapons, and Iron Dome support. They question the necessity of taking sides in a conflict where both parties rely on the same external powers.

israel· palestine· terrorism· psychological warfare· iron dome· western aid

09:11 But as you heard Robert Green say in that clip, that terrorism has been around since the beginning of time. So this is just to set the clip up again. This is, he was on the Gregory Mantle show, and this is right when the book came out in 2006. So if you hear him talking about the Middle East and the Iraq war, that's what he's referring to. So I guess I'm going into number three. And so your response to terrorists has to be very measured. They want to suck you into a kind of a dynamic where you overreact. And in the overreaction, they have the power. They control the dynamic. Because it's very psychological. Yes. Well, all war is very psychological in India.

09:55 in its basis. And that's the point I make. All strategies are based on kind of working on the psychology of your opponent and putting them on the defensive or whatever. But terrorism is the ultimate psychological warfare. And the only people who've succeeded in history, and there have been those who've succeeded, are those who take a very measured, calculated, rational response and don't get sucked into the dynamic of fighting back with the military or into over-dramatizing it. Oh, but it's only been over-dramatized. In fact, today's terrorists in America is the far-right MAGA white men,

10:34 domestic extremists. That, and now it's that the chosen ones, Israel, they don't have the support that they thought they had. We talked about this on the show right after the election, the 2020 election. And there's a Jewish guy. He was like, y'all think we're chosen, but we're escaping on thin ice. Just to summarize what he was saying. Yes. And I think that's the hyper paranoia that we thought they had, we underestimated it, their situation, because you see now, like the kids are very

11:18 pro-Palestine. Oh, it's not just that. It's not just kids. I mean, I see my very own Noah Jenna family. You know, how many times, if I had to count them all, like, it's the Zionists, they're the fault of everything. Like, okay. You know, it's troubling. There's a lot of that going on. What it is, is troubling that people that have been so aware of everything fell into this trap, right? I mean, we saw COVID coming, we saw all these different other scenarios coming.

11:58 Yeah. But, and I don't know what the draw is to the getting involved and taking a side on Palestine and Israel. Well, that's the issue: is that you have to, some for some reason, you have to take a side. And, you know, this, I don't know, I don't see the, I don't see the argument to me is whose side killed whose other side babies worse. Like, isn't killing babies just in general a bad thing? Right. And I'm just going to keep it 100%, you know what I'm saying? Like I do. Why is the premises in control of all of this? Now, I know people are rolling their eyes, but I want you to ask one question: Who are they asking for a resolution from

12:43 on both sides, Palestine and Israel? Who are they asking to resolve the issue? Who are they asking to resolve the issue? Yes. We need aid. We need food. We need weapons. We need more Iron Don. Who is the request going to? To the West. Thank you. And that's all you need to know. You know what I'm saying? If you're autonomous, you wouldn't have to ask for help. You would just go ahead and take care of business, but Israel has to ask for permission to protect themselves. And Palestine has to ask for food that the basic principle needs. And they're both asking the same person. That's a good point.

CHAPTER 06 / 44 Discussion

Center of Gravity and Global Flashpoints

The discussion explores the military concept of the "center of gravity," which Robert Greene suggests should be the focus of counter-terrorism rather than direct military force. The hosts identify Iran, North Korea, and Taiwan as modern centers of gravity. They discuss how small geopolitical "pebbles" are kicked to start avalanches of chaos across the globe.

iran· north korea· taiwan· center of gravity· military strategy· afghanistan

13:28 And this is not a Palestine show, and this is not an Israel show, but this is one of the bigger wars that people are involving themselves in. And it's just strange. It's like, don't y'all see they're asking the same person for help? Yes. And refugees from everywhere go to the same people as well. Correct. So I don't want to clear that up, but I guess we can go ahead and get into part one now of the clip. How do you deal with terrorism? Which is, I have a chapter in the book, Strategy Number 33, about what is the most rational way of dealing with terrorism.

14:08 And if the point of going into Afghanistan or the point of the post-9/11 strategy was to end the war on terror and terrorism, I make the point in the book that the military way of doing this is often the worst choice. That really the smart thing to do is to figure out where does the money come for these terrorists? How do they communicate to each other? And to be very rational and strategic and knock out what is sort of their base, what we call in warfare, their center of gravity. Oh, you mean Iran? Is that what we're talking about? That seems to be the center of gravity.

14:49 gravity for everything else. That or North Korea. Or Hong Kong. Right. Well, that's next song. I mean, not for me. Shanghai. Taiwan. Taiwan. Taiwan. Taiwan. Yes. They have these little, like he was saying, you kick her on the previous clip. He was like, you could kick one pebble and it causes an avalanche. And you have people standing at the top of the rock pal, like, oh, we're just going to kick this one off. We're going to kick that one off. And it just has people scrambled. I'm serious. Like, I was just been sitting back watching, looking. And another thing, they want to drag black people into this.

CHAPTER 07 / 44 Discussion

Intersectionality, Solidarity, and Marxist Organizing

The hosts analyze how different social movements are linked through intersectionality and solidarity. They argue that Marxist organizations, such as the World Workers Party, utilize themes of colonialism and victimhood to unite disparate groups like Black Lives Matter, LGBTQ activists, and pro-Palestine protesters. This solidarity is described as a mechanism for consolidating power.

black lives matter· intersectionality· marxism· colonialism· lgbtq· solidarity

15:31 Oh, really? Yeah. Let me give you from a not, I don't speak for black people at all. You know what I'm saying? But I can speak for myself being a quote-unquote allegedly black man. So-called black man. Yes. Is that if we want to start talking about history, we can have a problem with both sides. Oh, of course. And slavery. Yes. So you don't want to really get us involved in that conversation, but they're trying to politicize us. Like, oh, you have to pick a side. We're getting it just, you know what I'm saying? Just like everybody else. You have to pick a side. Isn't this exactly why we see the universities, the same people who were psyoped into Black Lives Matter based upon probably 20 years of teaching about bad colonialism, bad colonists, colonists?

16:19 And, you know, that's what I, I mean, just looking at the overview of these protests, it's, you know, Israel is a, you know, it's colonized. You know, they're bad and they're white. You know, ask any Jew, they would not consider themselves to be white either. But it's all about colonialism now. And that, and so that's how that would be the mechanism, I think, to suck you in. Yes. And that colonialism is just a way to mask away from being seen as anti-Semitic. It's like, no, no, no, no. We're against colonists. Yes. You know, now, if they happen to be, you know, is from Israel, it is what it is, or Jewish, it is what it is. But the bigger thing is that

17:05 how do you get, you know, it's the solidarity. That's what the point I want to make. And I'm going, like I said, completely offset. I don't have any, just to let you know, I don't have any notes or anything over here. Me just having the conversation. Just let the people know. What we're witnessing is solidarity. This is intersectionality at play. Remember those terms we used to use three, four years ago? Intersectionality, solidarity? This is the rubber meeting the road. It's like we stood with you and Black Lives Matter. Right. We stood with you with the open borders. We stand with you with LGBT. They stand together shoulder to shoulder. Whatever we're comrades.

17:47 Well, no, you nailed it. You nail it. Because if you look at the big college protests, but also the ones around Europe and in the UK, I'm always looking at the professionally printed signs and you're always going to see World Workers Party, World Socialist Party. It's the Marxists who are at least organizing this, who are taking advantage of it. And you're right. And that's where that solidarity comes into play. Comrade, like we've got to do this. We've got to stand up and fight for our brothers and sisters who have been suppressed like all the other minorities.

18:25 Yes. And that's what, that's the tie that binds is the, is the, we're victims. So your victimhood, you know, is just like my victimhood. Like I said, we got in there with you with George Floyd. Now you have to get in here with us with Palestine. Yeah. And the program is strong, Mo. I mean, it's really, really powerful stuff that they've spread out. Once we get to the strategies, you'll see how it's being done. We're going to see how the sausage is made. Continue. Finish your thoughts. Apologies. No, no, I was, I'm just, I'm seeing this all, you know,

CHAPTER 08 / 44 Discussion

Historical Patterns of War and Population Control

Drawing parallels to the Vietnam War era, the hosts discuss war as a profitable racket used to fix financial systems and manage population levels. They suggest that when a population becomes "useless eaters" or refuses to work, the state historically uses the draft to thin them out. They contrast this with modern methods of social engineering.

vietnam war· forrest gump· population control· the draft· military-industrial complex

19:03 just all throughout society that, but particularly in the universities, how strong this is. And it's so strong that even the presidents of the universities can't really say anything. Now, that's part of legal thing with Title IX that, you know, that also was put into place for this very reason. I mean, it's a total capture. I'm not sure it's reversible. I really don't. There's such a strong conviction about this stuff. Well, we've been here before. I haven't. But we, as a world, we've been here before with Vietnam. And I would like to point people to solidarity right in front of their face. face. I may have mentioned this before on Forrest Gump.

19:48 When they're after the Washington monument scene, they're in that little room. You got the Black Panther, you know what I'm saying, going on and on about Black rights. Then you have her Marxist boyfriend, and she represents, I'm going to say she, I'm talking about Jenny, Forrest Gump's girlfriend or future baby mama. You know what I'm saying? She's kind of like the live-free sexual. She's representing the sexual revolution and they're all cohorts. And who's left out? You know what I'm saying? Who's left out of the picture? Forrest. So we've been here before, but it always goes back to once power or once the war is won. Now we go back to business as usual, just like racism in America during World War II.

20:33 They got black soldiers to fight once it was over. Now we go back to business as usual. So this solidarity thing, it's a shell game that the powers that be will maintain power. This is just a mechanism for them to consolidate and maintain power. Yes. 20, almost 24, no, 25 years of young people have only known the world at war since Gulf War I in 1989, 1990. So you've only known war. You've only, I mean, 9-11 was very traumatic. You know, I can rationalize it being 59 and having looked into it and been, you know, been around it.

21:16 But that, you know, every year we read off the names, ring the bell, you know, never again, et cetera, et cetera. War is a very, very profitable racket. And at the same time, it's always necessary to fix whatever's wrong with the financial system through money printing and all kinds of other shenanigans that do not behoove anybody but a very small handful of people. And it also fixes one other thing: your population problem. Yes. Whenever America gets to the point where they have too many useless eaters,

21:56 a convenient war, and I'm not talking about like the Middle East war or the Gulf War, because those were war of volunteering. That was a volunteer army that went and fought those wars. But we're talking about like in the 60s with the hippies, you know, coming out of the 20s, you know what I'm saying, with the Roaring 20s, going into, you know, with the World War I, you know, even in the 40s. Whenever you have a population that don't want to work and play their part in the system, then we have a way of thinning them out. And that's called the draft. And that's sending them off to war. Yeah, that's the old way of doing it. Now we just convince them to cut off their sexual organs.

CHAPTER 09 / 44 Discussion

Immigration as a Path to Military Citizenship

The hosts speculate on the influx of military-aged male immigrants into the West. They suggest a cynical "endgame" where these individuals are offered a path to citizenship in exchange for involuntary military service on foreign fronts. This is framed as a strategic solution to both border issues and military recruitment shortages.

immigration· military-aged men· citizenship· border security· asylum seekers

22:40 Well, that's a new way. That's a new way of doing that. I can see, and I don't have any, you know, I have historical patterns, but the importing of immigrants. Yeah, since your military, and I've said this on the show before, since you're military-aged men, you know, and it's like people are getting frustrated. Like, what are we going to do with them? And they're going to come up with a solution. Well, I know what we can do with them. You know, we got all this war going on in the Middle East and on the Eastern Front. You want to be an American citizen? Yes, path to citizens. You got to earn it. Yep. Path to citizenship. That's already been on the books.

23:21 That's already been that way for other asylums, asylums and refugees. And Mexicans. It's always been a path to citizenship. The difference would be it would be involuntarily. You're here. You're here where you're not supposed to be. So you really want to have this discussion with me? Now, do you want to be part of the part of America? It's so cynical to think of it that way, Mo, but yeah, I hear you. They never, they always begin with the end in mind. And this is the thing about being effective. When we talk about the seven habits of highly effective people, effective can be negatively effective.

24:06 You know what I'm saying? Like, if your goal is to make the population smaller, you know what I'm saying? You could have things that are terrible, but they're effective. And I think I see it going that way. I was telling my wife, I was like, you could take a plane load of people, men, military-aged men, and tell them, we're sending you back to your home country. And their family at home think they're in America and their family in America think they're back home and they end up somewhere they don't need even need to be so cynical yes yeah yeah you're probably right So, I mean, it just doesn't make when stuff don't make sense, it has to make sense, you know.

24:45 You have to start trying to make it make sense. Like, what are it? It doesn't make sense for you to send now. If they were sending beautiful women from foreign countries, that would make sense. Like, okay, you're important wives, I get it, or you know, saying that kind of thing. It's like, why are you important military-aged men? And if you're saying you're emptying the minimal asylums and prisons, you know, as the talking points go, nobody's going to miss them, right? Right. Okay, that's much better. That's, and by the way, that's much better than the uh, than the uh kind of the narrative: is they're sending military-age men, they're gonna attack us from within.

CHAPTER 10 / 44 Discussion

Neely Fuller Jr. on Counter-War and Economics

A clip from Neely Fuller Jr. defines war as encompassing nine areas of human activity, including economics and religion. The hosts discuss how the U.S. dollar is backed by the military-industrial complex, citing Muammar Gaddafi's downfall as a consequence of challenging the petrodollar. They argue that the "Defense Department" is a euphemism for the Ministry of War.

neely fuller jr· white supremacy· counter-war· economics· petrodollar· muammar gaddafi

25:25 No, no, no, no, no, no, that's not that's not gonna happen. No, that's that's definitely, and we like I said, we'll we'll get deeper into the strategies and we can do parallels and say, Oh, yeah, you know what I'm saying, that makes sense. But before we do, this is Neely Fuller. We always gotta have some Mr. Fuller, yeah, yeah, it's he talks about war and all that counterwar. And I want to make clear: the only thing you can do to war is counter it. You know, you can't, if you fight back, then you're sucked into war. You know what I'm saying? Like, that's the thing. It's like, if you it's like somebody trying to pick a fight with you, if you choose to fight back, then you've done exactly what you want them to do.

26:07 It's like, how do you counter it? So, he's going to go into counting war in all the nine areas. What does war consist of? Many uh military scholars have said war consists of everything, so that would include all nine areas of activity and counter war. If you are against a war that is going on and you want to put a stop to it, which the system of white supremacy is war, and if you're going to counter the system of white supremacy, you would call that according to the code counterwar. So, you do it in all nine areas of activity. So, war would cover all of it, just like economics, the first area of activity.

26:55 War is let's say the ninth area, economics is the first area. But all of these areas, these are just labels that mean the same thing. They're all a part of the war, right? Economics. So, that's where I start is the financial system has problems. We need to have reasons to print money at the same time, also defend our dollar as in our case, as the reserve currency. Everyone, other countries have different reasons, but when it comes to finances, I mean, the full faith and credit of the U.S. dollar is backed by the war machine. You know, you will use the dollar.

27:39 If not, we're going to invade your country. That's the whole point. And if you ever get any ideas going away from it, we're going to kill you. That's called act of war, right? Yes, it is. Yes, that's what Gaddafi got in trouble for. Yeah, he was, he was, uh, yeah, it was. Um, I don't think we want to use your American dollar anymore. The same thing with BRICS, you know, or we're going to get together and we're going to form our own thing over here. I don't. And the way this system works is this: they have to be the victim. So now it's the offense is defense.

28:19 You know, it's if you think about it, we talk about we have defense budget, a defense budget. Yeah, well, you see how the it used to be called the Ministry of War. They changed that, they softened it to the minister, to the uh, the Defense Department. Yes, so the logic is we have to be on the offensive to have a good defense. We have to ramp up, you know, we have to go places and figure out what people are doing and sell their enemies' guns and sell them guns to protect themselves. And now they're both in debt. And this is the system, and it is undefeated. So far, it's the system.

28:57 I've always say, if we could only find out a way to make peace profitable, we defeat this system. But I don't see any way to make that happen yet. Could you make peace profitable? And I don't think it's even profit to them no more. Like when you start looking at the Rockefellers and the Carnegies and you know saying those folks, they made so much money that now it's about it's not about profit, it's market share. It's like I want to own 90% of the railroads, you know, or I want to own 90% of your oil supply or whatever, you know what I'm saying? Whatever it is, it's not about money anymore because. they could easily, you know, saying throw 10K in our bank accounts right now

29:40 if they wanted to fix the money problem. No, it's that worryation that caused when you have money problems and it's like now we're going back to Israel and uh Palestine. Who do you have to beg? Yes, yeah, everybody's begging the same people. Please fix it for us. Yeah, yeah, it's true. It's true. Yeah, EU, UK, USA. No, it's also shifting of market share, shifting it from one place to another, and then inevitably shifting it back. Because the thing is, here's the thing with the scam: we have to run a huge racket, but not look like we're running a huge racket.

30:22 So we're constantly propping up people like Zelensky, right? Oh, he's our guy. You know what I'm saying? Oh, he's going to get those Russians straight. You know, seriously? Yeah, his run's coming to an end. I'm afraid. There'll be a new guy. There'll be a new guy. Poroshenko, probably. Yeah, we know how it ends. You end up in a spider hole. We know how it goes. I'm laughing, but yeah. Why would you take that deal? I mean, you look at all the history, you know what I'm saying? Of all the Saddams and the Osamas and all the way to Hitler and he was another Patsy, you know what I'm saying? For the system, because who'd he learn it from? You know what I'm saying? Who do you learn these bad behaviors from? From the Americans.

CHAPTER 11 / 44 Discussion

Six Areas of Mass Confusion and Perpetual War

The hosts discuss Neely Fuller Jr.'s "six areas of mass confusion," including racial and sexual dislocation. They apply these concepts to the situation in Israel, suggesting the country is entering a state of perpetual war with seven different nations. This environment is described as a lucrative market for selling military hardware and "gold plan" defense systems.

neely fuller jr· sexual confusion· israel· hezbollah· perpetual war· racial classification

31:04 Exactly. From the Americans who were all about that. So, and that's the thing. But it's okay, I'll sign up for it. And then they sign up for it, and you end up, you know, in a bad way. But let's go ahead and get into the second part of the activity clip. Sex is a part of the war. Religion is a part of the war. Economics is a part of the war. Because economics is just means what? The use of time and energy, according to the code. That's the definition of economics. How you use your time, how you use your energy. If you use it non-constructively, that's non-economical. That's anti-economics. Economics is constructive use of time and energy.

31:48 So if you're doing that, trying to replace the system of racism with the system of justice, that's economics. And that is also war. Education is a part of war. You have to be educated to conduct war. Educated in what? In how to conduct a war. Oh, man. And that's going to take a whole lot. In a war, you have to know about logistics, military strategies. Yeah, military strategy. You have to know about. I stopped ringing my bell because I didn't want to interrupt the whole clip. Neely Fuller Jr., man, that guy is a national treasure.

32:28 I love how he just breaks it down and makes it so obvious. So obvious. And it's exactly what's happening. He said back in the 70s, they were going to have men in dresses, specifically black men, but he called it in the sexual confusion. Just to go because he always talks about the six areas of mass confusion. One is racial classification confusion. I did list these down because I didn't want to play a clip for them. The other is racial dislocation confusion. That's what we're seeing at the border. That's what we're seeing not at the border, all borders, where you have, you know, saying this shifting of

33:08 who's native and who's being brought in. All of Western Europe. I saw the scene for the past 20 years. Then you got racial population tailoring confusion. That's when, oh, this group's in, this group's out. And I think Israel is experiencing that now. It's like, well, you know, it's, you know, it's time, you know, we have to do something about this Palestine situation. Oh, I have friends in Israel, and no joke, man. They're like, we're done. We're done. We're going to get rid of them all, all of them. Then we're going to go to Hezbollah, in the north. You know, Israel now claims they're at war with seven different countries, which is probably true.

33:52 And they're just done. There's going to be no ceasefire. There's going to be no agreement, no truce, no two-state solution. No, no, this is it. And then they'll be under continuous attack for the rest of their lives. It's like they're going into perpetual war in Israel. And when you're under attack for the rest of your lives, what do you need? You need money and stuff. What can I sell that person that's under attack for the rest of their lives? A lot of money and stuff. A lot of things that go boom, a lot of stuff. Uh-huh. He looks like you need the gold plan. plan, Dome. You're the silver plan, though. You need to grade.

CHAPTER 12 / 44 Discussion

University Protests and the Illusion of Constructive Action

The conversation focuses on the conviction of university protesters who believe they can dismantle Israel. The hosts argue these individuals are pawns in a larger game and that their actions, such as picking fights at dinner tables, only serve to erode social and family structures, leaving them isolated and more susceptible to propaganda.

university protests· pro-palestine· constructive action· social structure· propaganda

34:33 You need to upgrade to the top level. Yes, and we can bundle today. If you take our ideal today, we'll bundle in, you know, a couple of nukes, you know, a battleship, you know, that, and I'm being facetious about it. Not really. But that's how just, I'm lost. It's crazy. There's no better word than that. It's that, okay, you're signing up for perpetual war. Great. We're in the perpetual war business. Oh, we got all kinds of war machines. What you need? We got it. And what's so insane is that the, you know, Dvorak and I have been following this stuff in the universities.

35:18 There's an actual belief amongst these pro-Palestine protesters, the P3s. There's an actual belief that they can get rid of Israel. They don't understand what's happening. They do not understand the game. They're a pawn in the game. I'm going to ask a question, not to you, but for people to ponder. Two questions. Who made Israel Israel before it was Israel? And who made it Palestine or Palestinian before it was Palestine or Palestinian? Because you guys say it was given to the Israel. It was saying given to the Jews as Israel. Who gave it? Who has that kind of power to say, okay, we're going to cut out this big chunk of land for you, and you're going to be here.

36:01 Well, I can give you the spoiler alert. It was the United Nations. Of course. And who are they backed by? Yeah. But we know what I'm saying. We know who built their buildings. We know who paid for all that. We know who gave the land for their HQ. Right. So it's just like, it just asinine is what it is. But let's go ahead and get into the last and the final part of this clip. I'm sad there's only three clips of Neely Fuller. I could listen all day to that guy. He's fantastic. Food to eat. Yes. You know, there's an old cliche saying, an army travels on its stomach. So if you're not eating correctly, and you're not sleeping correctly,

36:41 that's under economics. But it's also war. See what I mean? If you eat correctly and you sleep correctly and only as necessary, you're conducting more against the racist right there. See, don't get thrown by the label. All of these labels, economics, education, entertainment, labor, law, politics, religion, sex, and war, they all mean the same thing. There's just ways of people doing stuff, you might say. You're always doing something. Even if you're sleeping, you're doing something. You're doing something.

37:20 So this is why his book and his teachings mean so much to me. Part of the name of the book is the United Independent Code. So your actions are independent. My actions, you know what I'm saying? How I interact against the system, how I counter the system. They're independent, but hopefully everybody's moving to be constructive. Right. So whether it's LGBTQ plus, whether it's Black Lives Matter, it's all part of the same movement that is orchestrated. Yes. And I'm countering that because I'm like, well, you're trying to confuse me.

38:02 And people don't, when some, when you feel confused, you shouldn't just accept that. And I'm just telling you what works for me personally. I'm like, hold on, wait. We need to start asking some questions and see if we can find answers to those questions because this is confusing me. But a lot of people, they just go into it. And I'm not saying you could be pro-Israel, you could be pro-Palestine, but how are you being that way constructively? Going online and picking fights with people. That's what you're supposed to do. That's the message. Or at the dinner table over Christmas or Thanksgiving, picking fights, getting mad. Yes, which that erodes the family structure or whatever, your social structure.

CHAPTER 13 / 44 Discussion

Climbing the Mountain for Strategic Clarity

Robert Greene uses the metaphor of climbing a mountain to describe gaining strategic clarity over a "battlefield" of information. Mo explains that the goal of the podcast is to help listeners reach this 360-degree view by digesting information slowly rather than reacting to headlines. They emphasize the importance of recognizing repeating historical patterns.

robert greene· mount olympus· tactical clarity· information consumption· perspective

38:49 Just not just limiting the family. Whatever interaction you have with other people, they want you to erode that away. And then you're isolated so you could be further propagandized. So that's the whole, like, the whole point of it. So I got one last clip. This is how you get above the manipulation and propaganda. And this is from Mr. Robert Green himself. Let's go ahead and get to number eight. This is the battlefield around you. And it's very confusing. There's a lot of fog involved and you don't know. don't know what's up or down or what you should be doing the next day, or whatever.

39:29 Okay. But next to you, where the battle next about you is a mountain, if you climb a few hundred feet above it, you look down on the battlefield, suddenly things look a little bit differently. It's not so confusing. You're beginning to see where the enemy lies, where your own allies lie, the lay of the land. You have a little bit of a sense of it. You can be a little more tactical as opposed to reacting to everything. Go up another 500 feet or 500 yards, and suddenly things begin to be clearer. You're seeing a wider vista. What you thought earlier on was the label. Actually, no, it's a little bit more like this.

40:10 Go up higher, things look quite different. Reach the top of the mountain. You have a 360-degree view of the whole lay of the land. And suddenly, you have immense clarity about what exactly is going on and what's going to be happening in the future. That is the realm of the gods on Mount Olympus. Perfect clarity about the world. So, what is your goal for this episode, Mo? Is it to help everybody climb to the top of the mountain and see from that view what's going on? Well, it's to help people understand how it's beneficial to be at the top of the mountain.

40:50 Like, that is, that's what we talk about: the independent, it's independent of you of how you interact. But I'm trying to, like I said, help people understand why it's beneficial to take your time and climb that mountain. And what that mountain is, okay, if you see a tweet, it's a headline. Maybe you might want to read the article first, right? And then once you read the article, maybe you want to read some more information that counters that article. So you can have, you know what I'm saying, at least a counter-argument to what the article is.

41:26 I'm just walking you through how I go up that mountain. And this is why sometimes, not sometimes, this is why our show is always either way ahead of the curve. You know what I'm saying? Or we don't jump on it to just react, to get into the algorithm. Oh, we need to have a show done by this so we can beat, you know, beat people to market. And that's what it is. You know what I'm saying? A lot of people are just trying to beat other people to the market. What's interesting is that many people who listen to our show, they always want us to do a show about it. Like, can't wait to hear what Adam and Mo have to say about this. What does Mo say? What is his thought? What does he think?

42:09 Which is kind of part of the same problem. I can't give you a thought unless I think. That's the thing. It's like, how can you ask somebody what they think if they have time to actually think about it? And thinking is, okay, I heard your side. I hear your side. And let me sit with that for a minute. And oftentimes, the key is this right here. How we are headed to curve most of the time is that once we see a sign, it's like, okay, I've seen that before.

42:50 I've seen that tactic before. You know what I'm saying? Let me see how this plays out. And then, you know, we seem like we're from the future, which you are. But no, that's the thing. It's just that we have to digest, right? You have to digest it. Well, it's all on repeat. Everything is a repeat. After 16 years of no agenda, the strategies, you see something, oh, okay, I know what this is. I've seen this before. I've seen this done. What is new is, you know, social media was new. That was the first thing that came in. Then we got the timeline because, you know, social media was just microblogging initially.

CHAPTER 14 / 44 Discussion

Elon Musk, Twitter, and the Info Mavericks

The hosts discuss the rise of "Info Mavericks" following Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter. They define the "truth for profit complex," where high-profile figures like Dan Bongino and Jordan Peterson monetize conspiracy theories and "red meat" content. They argue that these figures have been sucked into the very psychological games they claim to expose.

elon musk· twitter· info mavericks· jeffrey epstein· free speech· truth for profit

43:31 And then we got the timeline, which was, of course, manipulated. Is that Rocco? Yes. Do you hear him all the way? That's all right. Does he need something? Do you need to tell me? No, no, no, no. It's probably Amazon or something truck upstairs. Good boy, Rocco. So then it was the timeline. Then the manipulation came into play. And now there's been such an interesting twist. And this has been my thing is we have what I call the Infomavericks kind of spawned from the acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk, who has now gone into, well,

44:09 freedom of speech. Of course, I'm all for that. But now it's like everything's on steroids and everybody feels like they can say whatever they want to say. say because there's no repercussions. There's no quote-unquote adult in the room. And now it's just gotten much, much worse. And along with that, come people who are, you know, there's a whole level of, I think, good people, but they're so into the psych. They've been sucked into it. I'm talking, you know, Dampong Gino, Megan Kelly,

44:52 Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson, you know, the Weinstein brothers. You know, it's like they're all sucked into this. They just become pieces on the game of the playing field where they're arguing about what happened today or yesterday. And they're really just perpetuating the whole concept of it and just making it worse and worse and worse. And now we're all at war online yelling at each other left or right because you got to pick a color. And I think what you're referring to, you said the Avengers of Truth. Info Mavericks is what I call it. Info Mavericks. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I would say the business they're in is the

45:37 truth for profit complex. That's what they really are. Because Truther used to be a, as you know, was a labor of love. When you were on YouTube, you had your small channel. It was like, I'm trying to actually get information out to people. Then you had the big money come in. It's like, hey, we could corner this market of conspiracy theories, you know, the things that used to touch, the Epsteins, the Epstein client list, which we've seen a hundred times. I guess it'll be different this time, I'm sure. Right. But that's where the truth, the profit, the truth for profit complex came in and said, hey, we got customers that are just dying for new content.

CHAPTER 15 / 44 Discussion

The Decline of Independent Truthers and Media Shifts

The discussion covers how YouTube algorithms and big money have phased out small-batch independent truthers in favor of corporate-style alternative media like The Blaze and Tim Pool. They also analyze the career shifts of Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon, suggesting that mainstream media figures often attempt to pivot to the "conservative side" when they see their firing is imminent.

tucker carlson· tim pool· don lemon· youtube algorithms· the blaze· media industry

46:22 We can package it, make it look pretty like Fox and CNN, and they'll eat it up. And that's what you're seeing. And they're just feeding constant red meat. It's not even a conscious decision, though. I think they get sucked in. Well, certainly when it comes to YouTube, it's algorithms. And, you know, and if you're, if you're like, I don't look at numbers ever. I have no idea how many people really listen to anything because I'm more interested in, you know, can we pay the rent? That's good enough for me. It's always been that way. And this numbers game, and YouTube is really good at that. And, you know, you have to keep doing stuff. You have to put stuff out. I've seen that.

47:00 I've seen with friends and family, like, oh, my numbers are down. What am I going to do? But I don't think they're consciously thinking, oh, I'll make more money if I do this. It's just the system. The complex is Tucker Carlson's. Same. He's big. He's at the top of the Info Mavericks. That's my point: those are the ones doing it for profit. Those are the ones that came in and said, you know what? Y'all got a nice little racket going here, but you're thinking too small. You know, we need to go big. You know, we need to get these documentaries going on on the trans kids and whatever flavor of conspiracy you're into, even the aliens.

47:45 Because that would used to get you laughed out of the room. That was when I noticed things start to shift. It's like, we got serious people talking about aliens here. And it's not that they're getting any information than anybody else is getting. I used to do the second half of the show on No Agenda and would be about UFOs and aliens. And I stopped doing it because it's not even entertaining anymore. Everyone's doing this stuff. Everyone's talking about it. Like, I don't even know what to believe anymore. I think it's more bullcrap than anything than ever, really. And that's my point: is that the small channel, the small batch truthers,

48:23 the ones that actually did the digging through the files and putting together these elaborate presentations, they got phased out because it was, oh, you know, it's gold in those hills. And here come your Tim Pools of the world. Oh, another one. Yeah, another good one, Tim Pool. Yeah. Those are the Blaze. These are people that fill up your conservative timeline. The Blaze. And it's like four different people reacted to the same clip from John John Claude Van Dam. You know what I'm saying? Whatever her name is. It's like, oh, and they all repeat the same things.

49:03 That's what I've been talking about, these Info Mavericks. I'm getting emails from people saying, well, you've burned everybody. Who are we supposed to listen to? Like, yourselves. Yes. Exactly. Why are you disappointed? disappointed? Don't listen to anybody. But we need our God. That's what it is. Like, we need our, we need our Anderson Cooper. Yeah, we need our Don Lim. It's just a complete inverse of the other side. I hear Don Lem is available for our side, actually. He has to be because he's burning his bridges for the other side, right? And he, that's what I was saying. Like, he was leaving that door open when he knew, saw the end coming. Yeah. And if you, if you've ever been fired, about to be fired, you can see the incoming.

49:45 You see it. Yeah. He's like, let me open my door, you know what I'm saying? So I can maybe, you know, slide into the conservative side. You know, I'll be conservative. Like, like, he'll go to Fox News. He won't go full woke, but he'll go Fox News. But I think that's what that was all about. Same thing we saw with Tucker. You know, because remember, I kept asking, I'm like, what's up with Tucker? What's up with Tucker? I kept bringing him into the show. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, something's off. He wants to get fired. He ended up wanting to be Kanye, right? Whole nother topic. Whole nother topic. Yeah. So, um, did Kanye get a phone call?

CHAPTER 16 / 44 Discussion

Strategy 1: Declare War on Your Enemies

The hosts begin a sequential review of Greene's strategies. Strategy 1 involves identifying and declaring war on enemies to gain purpose. They discuss how media figures like Judge Jeanine use fear of a nuclear Iran to energize audiences. They also note the strategic timing of films like Oppenheimer and Barbie in shaping public sentiment.

robert greene· iran· oppenheimer· judge jeanine· nuclear war· fear mongering

50:25 I don't know. I look, see, that's the thing. I can't speak on that because I haven't processed it yet. You know, that's why you saw me post on like asking the question because I have the same question that you do. It's like, what is this? Yeah. What is this apology? Yeah, he's apologizing. Yeah. So we're at the strategy portion of the show. So how this is going to work is we can run through 33. Let's do it sequentially because otherwise I'll forget what I've played. Okay. Is that okay? That's that works for me. So let's go ahead and maybe do one through 10 and then we'll take a break. Yeah, good idea. And then, you know, we'll get back to it. And please stop the clips mid-clip if something.

51:07 That's why I want what I'm trying to do here is to see how the propaganda has embedded stuff into our minds. And when something's triggered, you know what I'm saying? It's like it just comes right out. Not, you know, let me figure out how to wrestle with this thing. Because that's, we've all been propagandized. Have heavily forever. You know, that's why I said five-year-old Mo hated Russians. I mean, they've been doing this game for a long time. So I guess we can start with strategy number one. One declare war on your enemies.

51:45 Life is endless battle and conflict, and you cannot fight effectively unless you can identify your enemies. People are subtle and evasive, disguising their intentions, pretending to be on your side. You need clarity. Learn to smoke out your enemies, to spot them by the signs and patterns that reveal hostility. Then, once you have them in your sights, inwardly declare war. As the opposite poles of a magnet create motion, your enemies, your opposites, can fill you with purpose and direction. As people who stand in your way, who represent what you loathe, people to react against, they are a source of energy.

52:30 Do not be naive. With some enemies, there can be no compromise, no middle ground. Yeah, I like the nuclear war because that's always, I mean, especially the last few months or a year, really, that's been in play and it triggers people deeply, particularly Iran. Iran always has a nuclear bomb two weeks from now. Have you noticed? It's always, oh, they're just weeks away. And then, you know, this is a real mainstream thing you'll hear from otherwise perfectly decent people like Judge Janine. In fact, I would say bomb them, bomb them, and then bomb them again. I mean, really?

53:10 It's just unbelievable. How old is Judge Janine, though? She's in her 60s, I think. Yeah, at late 60s. So she's probably been up under a desk or two, right? Yeah, as far as stuck in cover days. Yes. Yeah. So I think this is what I'm saying. Like they are reinstilling fear wherever fear finds you. You know, if you're a heterosexual man and you want your child to be heterosexual, then they got fear there. You know what I'm saying? Right on cue, we had the movie Oppenheimer this past year. Right on cue. Perfectly timed. Yep. Along with Barbie. I mean, could it be better? Along with Top Gun. Yep. CM All triple feature. Yeah. Let's conjure up that Russian hate again.

CHAPTER 17 / 44 Discussion

Strategy 2: Do Not Fight the Last War

Strategy 2 emphasizes reacting to the present rather than repeating tired formulas. The hosts discuss how "rumors of war" are more cost-effective than actual combat. They touch on the death of Henry Kissinger and upcoming leadership changes in NATO as part of a larger global setup, while noting that the public is often distracted by memes and specific flags.

robert greene· iran· palestine· henry kissinger· nato· rumors of war

53:55 You know, let's get, we got to get it cooking. China hate, Russia hate, all of it. Right. Well, because if you watch the new one, then you're going to go back and watch the old one. The thing with Iran is we don't really have, they need to come up with better memes for Iran because the one that's most effective, which they don't really haven't used yet or a lot, is the death to America. You know, we got all those people chanting and the great Satan. Yeah, death to America, death to they haven't used that one yet. They're using it as, oh, well, Iran is using their proxies to fight Israel. It's so far removed from that. I mean, that I can't take them. I don't think anyone's serious about Iran yet because it's just, or they haven't activated that part of it because they're just not pulling in the right memes yet.

54:40 They're not triggering anything other than, you know, it's gotten tired by now. Well, you don't want to distract. This is just, we're wargaming now. You know what I'm saying? We're spitballing. You don't want to distract from Palestine. Right. We got the flag. You know what I'm saying? And it got the red, black, and green on it. You know what I'm saying? So we got that going. We got Kanye. He's anti-Semitic. You know, we want to keep it on Palestine. That's what, you know, and just to go what I asked about Judge Janine. A lot of these professors and everything on the left is pro-Palestine. Yeah. They've been that way for a long time. They even got Vietnam, you know what I'm saying, skeletons in their closet. The people that's in control.

55:23 So this is, they're looking at Palestine like their new South Africa/slash Vietnam. Man, they even killed Kissinger at the right moment, too. Yes, to talk about his war crimes. He's a war criminal. Yeah, perfect. Great timing. Great timing. Which leads me to believe that there has to be some kind of scheduling going. It can't happen this perfectly in a natural environment. That's just my speculation. Well, they're not done. They're not done filling up the West with men of fighting age. They're not done yet. And that takes some time to get everybody on the path to citizenship, get all that set up.

56:06 There will be a new secretary. There will be a new defense secretary of NATO. That's coming. Stoltenberg has to get out. There's even talk of that being the fruity former prime minister of the Netherlands, that he might be the guy. So these changes have to take place, I think, before all that happens, but it's definitely a setup. And the thing is, it's just there's two statements in there that I think you referred to. There's going to be wars and rumors of wars. Rumors of excuse me. Rumors of wars are probably more effective. Yes. Because you can cause rumors and not

56:51 cost you capital. And do not be alarmed, is the end of that sentence. Do not be alarmed by this. Right. That's the whole point: don't feed into it. Be effective where you can be effective. But then, you know, it is what it is. And I think that's what upsets people is that we have a jovial or a less than serious demeanor when we discuss these things. Yeah, because come on, man, they're killing babies out there. How can you not be outraged by this? Correct. So

CHAPTER 18 / 44 Discussion

Strategy 3: Maintain Presence of Mind

Strategy 3 focuses on resisting emotional pulls and staying decisive during turmoil. The hosts credit Donald Trump with mastering this "45 Savage" playbook, using it to unhinge opponents. They discuss how the elite use historical texts like The Art of War to maintain their presence of mind while the public loses theirs over manufactured crises.

robert greene· donald trump· art of war· psychological resilience· media reaction

57:31 I don't know. Like, this is not the point to get too deep into each individual, but that first one was declare war on your enemies. And then it also said, I think at the end, can you play the last like maybe 15 seconds? I thought there was something there. As people who stand in your way, who represent what you loathe, people to react against, they are a source of energy. Ah, there it is. There it is. Yeah. Yeah. That's, and so people get energy from fighting online on fighting on Twitter. They get energy from it. Early in the morning. Yes. I don't ever think I had a social media fight. I'm trying to think. I just don't have the, I just don't have the,

58:16 I don't know, like the interest in it. Like, what is it solved? I've seen it myself, Mo, on No Agenda Social. I've seen it. I've seen this. I've seen this transformation happen with the same limited number of people, 10,000. Although, of course, the people federated come in from other from other servers, but I've seen this. People get energized by it. And even posting memes which say something or are meant to be funny, but horrible about some other thing or something you disagree with. It energizes these people. Incredible energy. I got 10,000 memes on my hard drive.

58:57 I can't wait to post them all. I'm going to own these people. I'm going to dunk on them. That's what I dunk on them. Dunk on them. Yes. Yes. And that's where the, I think that's where the energy starts, and that's what they feed off of is that confusion is uh, and the master confusion: 45 Savage, aka Orange Man Bad. Yeah, he kind of led the way. We got to put, you know, saying Blaine where Blaine was. He was the master of red meat, right? Getting up four or five o'clock in the morning, hasn't it? Throw the red meat out there, and then it just goes crazy. And he's able to do it, you know, without. I mean, he has a Twitter account, he doesn't use it, but he, you know, he's able to.

59:38 And the reason, just think about it. Oh, no, he can come back. Thank you, Elon. Why? Elon's part of it. He's part of the energizing of all this. Yes. And Trump. You got to have two terminals, two ends of the battery, right? The plus and the minus. So he's, I don't know which end he is, but he's he's part of the battery. Yeah, and Trump is very good at it. You know, he'll throw something out there like, I'm going to be a dictator on day one and just day one. Okay. Boom. And how that's heard, and this is something I've been able to pick up: is

1:00:15 being able to hear things through different ears. That, oh, after day one, he kills us all, he won't need to be a dictator anymore. He won't stop there. He won't stop. No, no, no. Once he kills, he's going to kill us all on day one. And he won't need to be a dictator anymore. That's how I believe they hear it. It only takes one day to get, you know, to send the orders. Okay, I guess number two. Two, do not fight the last war.

CHAPTER 19 / 44 Discussion

Strategy 4: Create a Sense of Urgency

Strategy 4 involves placing oneself on "death ground" to force action. The hosts discuss how the peace movement of the 1960s was neutralized with psychedelics because peace is bad for business. They frame the modern climate change movement as a "slow battleship" used to create a sense of urgency and guilt in the individual.

robert greene· john lennon· yoko ono· climate change· manifest destiny· psychedelics

1:00:51 What most often weighs you down and brings you misery is the past in the form of unnecessary attachments, repetitions of tired formulas, and the memory of old victories and defeats. You must consciously wage war against the past and force yourself to react to the present moment. Be ruthless on yourself. Do not repeat the same tired methods. Sometimes you must force yourself to strike out in new directions, even if they involve risk. What you may lose in comfort and security, you will gain in surprise, making it harder for your enemies to tell what you will do.

1:01:29 Wage guerrilla war on your mind, allowing no static lines of defense, no exposed citadels. Make everything fluid and mobile. Oh, that's interesting. So that one was: do not fight your last, do not fight the last war. So I guess sometimes it's better to retreat. And this is, I think, when we talk about the tactics that look like they're taking losses. Right. Like when me and Grump talk sometimes, we that's my good friend. It's we call it the long win, the long W.

1:02:10 It's, you know, and you set somebody up to take the bait because you know at the end, you're going to be right. Yeah, you follow what I'm saying. It's like, so I think that's the method right there: is that they know to when to retreat. George Washington was an excellent retreater. Yeah. Yes, he was. Which, I mean, that's a good thing. And some, you know, but oftentimes people they die on that hill, whatever it is. You know, like you said, I'm going to die on this hill. I'm going to fight this fight. It's like, is it worth that?

1:02:51 Is that the hill you want to die on? That's what my dad always asked me: like, is that the hill you want to die on? Right. Uh, and no, none of these hills. I don't plan on dying on any hill. How about that? Right. Um, so anything else you want to add to that? No, no, no. I think you did it. Let's go into three, three, yeah, three. Yeah. Three. Amidst the turmoil of events, do not lose your presence of mind. In the heat of battle, the mind tends to lose its balance. Too many things confront you at the same time. Unexpected setbacks, doubts, and criticisms from your own allies. There's a danger of responding emotionally with fear, depression, or frustration.

1:03:33 It is vital to keep your presence of mind, maintaining your mental powers, whatever the circumstances. You must actively resist the emotional pull of the moment, staying decisive, confident, and aggressive no matter what hits you. Make the mind tougher by exposing it to adversity. Learn to detach yourself from the chaos of the battlefield. Let others lose their heads. Your presence of mind will steer you. you clear of their influence and keep you on course. Wow. No, this is a 45 Savage playbook right here. That's how he is. That's exactly how he is. And I want to make people clear.

1:04:15 The 27-hour long audio book is just not, these are just a synopsis of each strategy. They go into just different generals, different battles, different scenarios, old texts like Art of War and things like that. So this is what the elite read. Oh, yeah. This is the oh, yeah, this is the playbook. And I think that's what I'm saying: is that Trump has this playbook, understands it very well, has applied it in business very successfully, and we can learn a lot from this.

CHAPTER 20 / 44 Discussion

Strategy 5: Avoid the Snares of Groupthink

Strategy 5 covers the balance between leadership and collective irrationality. The hosts use Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) as an example of a leader who is allowed some latitude but must ultimately "get on code" with the party on major issues like war. They argue that when a figure is no longer useful for a specific narrative, they are removed from the media spotlight.

robert greene· alexandria ocasio-cortez· groupthink· chain of command· political theater

1:04:57 Either how you're being manipulated or how you can do it. Yes, how to counter. Okay, this is how they're going to come to me. How do I counter that? You know, they want my energy. I'm not going to give you my energy. You know, I'm not going to. That's what that's what Dvorak and I caught right away. And with almost all the wars, but the Israel Palace, that Hamas thing, we were saying within a week, come on, man, where's the incubators? And boom, they bring out the incubators. They always got to kill babies and incubators. There's always got to be, you know, the pinnacle of innocence and

1:05:35 exposure and innocence, really. It's like, here's a baby in an incubator born prematurely trying to hatch still. And then they attack those and they always play that one. That to me was like, okay, I've seen the flag now. I got it. This is just another one of those. But it's the flavor. I think why this is different, we're venturing off into holy war. Yeah, surprisingly, they haven't really played that up very much. Well, they can't because you got atheists. You know, when a big block of your support is atheist, you know, no, it's now

1:06:16 God gay. You know what I'm saying? However you want to pronounce it. You know, don't talk about God. And that shows you the solidarity of the intersexuality because you have atheists, feminists fighting on the side in the support of patriarchal, strong believing Muslims. Yeah. It's funny, isn't it? Like, yeah, you wouldn't last a second, really, in Hamas land. But okay, support them. That's the confusion at work. They are so confused and they feel obligated. There's a tone of obligation there as well.

1:07:01 Like, well, they did come out for Black Lives Matter. Oh, well, they did come out for, you know, whatever, LGBT or trans lives. So now we had to step up to the plate. Even though we may not agree with it, we got to step up. Yes, it's the obligation. Because if you're kicked out of the group, where do you go? And I want to bring up one more thing before we continue on because this is something you have been on top of: is the loneliness thing. Yeah. How lonely people are. Yeah. Yeah. This is this is why people want to belong and they're being reminded how lonely they are.

CHAPTER 21 / 44 Discussion

The Loneliness Epidemic and Social Connection

A clip features Surgeon General Vivek Murthy discussing the loneliness epidemic, comparing social isolation to smoking 15 cigarettes a day. The hosts deconstruct this as a strategy to drive people toward "meetups" and demonstrations where they can be further propagandized. They link this to Matthias DeSmet’s mass formation theory regarding the need for authority during crises.

vivek murthy· poppy harlow· loneliness· social media· surgeon general· mass formation

1:07:44 That is that is a definite strategy that we've identified. And even our surgeon general is out there saying, oh, you know, everyone has, ever since COVID, everyone has loneliness and it's real bad. And you need to be aware. You know, you could have this an epidemic. It's worse than it's worse than AIDS. Do you hear that? So if you, yeah, if you're walking alone. No, I haven't heard that clip. You're saying if you want to dig it up, wow. Yeah, yeah. Finish the statement. Okay, let me hear it. Yeah, let me see. This is Poppy Harlow on CNN and talking with Vivek Murti, our surgeon general in America.

1:08:23 A recent surgeon general advisory found that lacking social connection can actually increase your risk of death by 60%. It also raises the chances of dementia, stroke, and heart disease. And it can be the equivalent of smoking 15 cigarettes a day. You have called this one of the defining issues of our time. And usually when a surgeon general declares something an epidemic, we're talking about AIDS, for example, or cigarettes. That is how severe you believe this is for people. Well, I think one of the things it's. that's really important to recognize is we didn't get here overnight. COVID certainly contributed to this loneliness crisis, but it was a problem long before as a result of lesser participation in the community organizations that used to bring us together, rec leagues, churches, synagogues, et cetera.

1:09:09 But also, the impact of technology and social media has not always been positive. It's often diluted the quality of people's relationships, taking them from in-person interactions to online interactions. This is about quality of friendships, quality of interactions, not quantity. I know the age of social media has convinced us that we need thousands of followers and thousands of friends. We do not. We just need a few people in our life who see us for who we are, with whom we can be ourselves and who can show up for us in a crisis. And hopefully, we can do the same for them. Such an important message around the holidays. This, you know, I didn't even deconstruct it the way I'm going to do now when I played this the first time.

1:09:49 He, so he brushes the third rail by saying, you know, church, synagogue, I don't even think you said mosque, but of course, a majority of people go, I don't believe in all that. But then he goes right into go to the meetup. Go to the meetup, man. Go, go hang out. You should go to the demonstration. You got to be with your people. Chant with them. Chant with them. That's what that message is about. Yes. And that is a movie called Higher Learning that kind of, you know, it's about college campus in the mid-90s. And one of the stars of the movie was named Remy. And he first got there. He was like a middle-American white guy and he didn't fit into any group.

1:10:35 And then the neo-Nazis came like, hey, like the kind of thing, because it works on both ways, right? You can, the, the, the quote-unquote white males that don't fit in can be marginalized, and then their group comes swoops in for them. And then the people that are left-leaning, their group, you know, the solidarity group or the intersexuality group can come in and swoop for them. And now we have, you know, the division that we need, which creates more loneliness, to be honest with you. Yeah, that's the scary thing: is that we, but we saw that. We saw that people were lonely at home. And then, you know, as part of Matias DeSmet's mass formation theory, which

1:11:18 goes back to very old theories and has seemingly proven to be true, that which also comes into the Milgram experiments is, you know, when you're in that situation, you just want a person of authority to show up and say, here's what we're going to do. And whether it's all wearing a mask or taking some medication, whatever it is, people will just do it. This is the human experience, human nature. Or not all people, but 30% for sure, and another 40%, like, eh, might as well just go along. And they show up, the people you're talking about, they don't show up with a solution, they show up who to blame.

1:12:02 Yes. We saw this with COVID, right? Who's killing grandma? Yeah. It's the unvaccinated boy over there. You know what I'm saying? You know, in the corner, you shouldn't have came to grandma's birthday party. You killed grandma. And we have families that are divided to this day over that, or politics, or like I said, sexual identity or even just terminology because you talk about this. The no, dad is this. No, dad, pronouns, pronouns. Those are little cherry bombs being thrown into the family structure. So now it's like, dang, I ain't going to say nothing. And then you don't say nothing.

1:12:43 He's reserved. Dad's not the same anymore. You know, that kind of thing is a 360 operation to have going here. And the point of this show is hopefully to change paradigms. Like you said, when you heard that clip, you heard it a different way than you previously heard it. Hopefully, people, when they start to digest media or propaganda, they'll see this. Right. And at least they'll take time. You know what I'm saying? Like, going back to this, I'm going to say this one last thing: is the seven habits. They say you have the stimulus and you have your response. And that time in between those two things where you choose

1:13:28 where your power is. And that's what I want people to have. You don't have to respond. You can look at social media and like, okay, that was funny. That was rude. Okay. I can see which way society is going or how it's perceived to be going. And then put your phone down and get back to life. Yeah. Don't respond right away, at least. Right. Don't. another thing, just another tip: don't respond. And then when you're buying stuff, put it in your car and leave it for 48 hours unless you need it. And I'll bet you you spend less money because it's the same thing, right? It's the same mechanism. Yes, the same mechanism. All right. I guess we go to number four. Four, create a sense of urgency and desperation.

CHAPTER 22 / 44 Discussion

Strategy 6: Segment Your Forces

Strategy 6 highlights speed and adaptability through flexible organization. The hosts discuss how TikTok and social media algorithms segment the population into tailored echo chambers. Adam Curry shares his experience of going viral on TikTok after appearing on Joe Rogan, noting how the platform feeds users exactly what they want to see to prevent counter-messaging.

robert greene· napoleon· tiktok· algorithms· joe rogan· digital echo chambers

1:14:12 You are your own worst enemy. You waste precious time dreaming of the future instead of engaging in the present. Since nothing seems urgent to you, you are only half involved in what you do. The only way to change is through action and outside pressure. Put yourself in situations where you have too much at stake to waste time or resources. If you cannot afford to lose, you won't. Cut your ties to the past. Enter unknown territory where you must depend on your wits and energy to see you through. Place yourself on death ground where your back is against the wall and you have to fight like hell to get out alive.

1:14:54 All right. How do you take this one? Well, this made me think about what you said before about peace being profitable. No, they're always on the cutting edge of something new. It's like that peace thing, that's old. Or it can get old. Because if they brought about peace and justice, you know, there would be no need for war. Wasn't that what? I mean, we had the hippies. There was the peace movement, which I think culminated with the bed in with Yoko and John Lennon with, you know, we're going to stay in bed until there's peace, give peace a chance, et cetera, et cetera.

1:15:35 And they tried that for a hot minute. And what did they do to them? They poisoned them with psychedelics. They killed him. Get rid of this. Not him. I'm just saying that whole generation, they poisoned them with psychedelics. And the people. Temporary and I mean, that's what Molly is. I mean, it's temporary love made by chemicals. Yes. For just a short moment. Because, once again, like you said, these kids have been having war ever since the early 2000s, right?

1:16:16 Since the 90s, really. Yeah. So I think they have the same mindset as the kids after World War II. It's like, we don't want no more war. We got peace. Let's have peace. But that's bad for business. You can't have peace. No. No, because that's a lack mindset of if we don't take it from them, somebody's going to take it from us. And it's that thing where I think one general's like, they would burn the bridges behind them so they couldn't run. Can't run. You know, they would cross the can't run back. Yeah, you can't run back. That's the system that these people have: is that, no, it's always forward.

1:16:58 It's always somebody to be conquered or colonized. That's where the word colonized comes in. There's always some natural resource to be taken because these savages don't know what they're doing with it. And I'm speaking from the white supremacist standpoint. So it's our manifest destiny to go take it from them. God, let us do it to him. Then you must want it done. And that's how they look at it. Yeah, and I'd say the climate change movement is a big underlying part of this. It's like the big, the big, slow battleship that has just been encroaching on the world slowly, bit by bit, over the course of 40 years, really.

1:17:39 It's like everything's because of climate change, and it's all your fault. You, every single person who breathes and exhales carbon dioxide, it's your fault. You're at fault. There's a war on, we're going to start fighting against ourselves. We already have. And when you say ourselves, I'm talking about the individual to himself or herself that I won't reproduce. Yep. That's how I'll solve it. Write exactly what they want. Don't reproduce. That's how I'll solve that problem. And that's literal war on yourself. Number five. Five. Avoid the snares of groupthink.

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Strategy 7: Transform Your War into a Crusade

Strategy 7 involves motivating people through a collective cause or crusade. The hosts discuss Elon Musk's role as a leader "in the trenches" of the free speech war, riling up "Info Mavericks." They describe the return of Alex Jones to Twitter as a "morale boost" for the truth-seeking community and analyze the use of "community notes" as a new form of rank and punishment.

robert greene· elon musk· alex jones· social media· deplatforming· community notes

1:18:22 The problem in leading any group is that people inevitably have their own agendas. If you are too authoritarian, they will resent you and rebel in silent ways. If you are too easygoing, they will revert to their natural selfishness and you will lose control. You have to create a chain of command in which people do not feel constrained by your influence, yet follow your lead. your lead. Put the right people in place, people who will enact the spirit of your ideas without being automatons. Make your commands clear and inspiring, focusing attention on the team, not the leader. Create a sense of participation, but do not fall into groupthink, the irrationality of collective decision-making.

1:19:06 Make yourself look like a paragon of fairness, but never relinquish unity of command. Hmm. This is a tough one to navigate. All right. So the void the snares of groupthink is the title of that. Now, we're speaking from the people enacting war on us. Yeah, the elites, the elite standpoint of view. The bullet. Yeah, so yeah, exactly. And they say what? Don't participate in groupthink because they know the dangers of it. But at the same time, groupthink is a weapon. Yeah. That's that's yeah, no, it's a it's a beautiful weapon.

1:19:48 And I'm convinced that the way you do that is you create the chance. You take you lead the chance. There's always someone with the megaphone. We saw that with the dream machine and how they did We Shall Overcome. Not just the chance, chance. They made the songs. Yeah. The song, you know, to march to, because they said the old song they had, it wasn't easy to march to. So that's what they did with We Shall Overcome. They retool the old spiritual, which we talked about in 43 and 44, the power of those spirituals. That's right. They retuned it so you can march and sing at the same time.

1:20:30 And there you have the group thing. And then, but one thing that came to my memory now, the automatons. Yeah. This is why your quote-unquote leaders seem like rebels and they have autonomy to step outside the bounds. Say AOC, for instance. Yeah. When it matters, you know where she stands. Like, for instance, war. When it comes down, she has to get on code. But then they're like, oh, well, you have some latitude to, you know, certain topics you want to stray on.

1:21:08 We'll let you stray. Funny you bring her up. She hasn't been very vocal lately. She hasn't been getting any exposure. Why would that be? She's not useful right now, I guess. Because she can't pitch war. Right. You know what? They said how they tore her up in New York when she was in immigration. She's kind of ineffective there. She's kind of. Yeah. That was probably the last we heard of her. That's right. She failed. Take her off the bus. So what can she push? Yeah, what can she push? Nothing for right now. Right. And so they'll bring in other pieces on the board to move them around.

CHAPTER 24 / 44 Discussion

2024 Election Predictions and Josh Hawley

Mo offers a "swing for the fences" prediction that Josh Hawley could emerge as a primary Republican contender if Donald Trump is sidelined by legal issues. They discuss Hawley's "Jan 6 credentials" and elitist appeal. The hosts also touch on the possibility of an economic collapse being used to influence the 2024 election outcome.

josh hawley· donald trump· 2024 election· republicans· dnc· political strategy

1:21:52 But yeah, that groupthink. And this is why it's important to have people that can be honest with you to say, you know, I don't agree with you. I don't agree with that, you know. Because if not, then you fall into this echo chamber. And I know it sounds like I'm using a bunch of cliches, but these are terms they're using, their tactics, their war tactics. Yeah. Let's go to six. All right. Six. Segment your forces. The critical elements in war are speed and adaptability, the ability to move and make decisions faster than the enemy.

1:22:33 But speed and adaptability are hard to achieve today. We have more information than ever before at our fingertips, making interpretation and decision-making more difficult. We have more people to manage. Those people are more widely spread, and we face more uncertainty. Learn from Napoleon, warfare's greatest master. Speed and adaptability come from flexible organization. Break your forces into independent groups that can operate and make decisions on their own. Make your forces elusive and unstoppable by infusing them with the spirit of the campaign, giving them a mission to accomplish, and then letting them run.

1:23:14 Yeah, I think this was, when was this book written? 2006. Okay. So I think now it's gotten even easier to accomplish this. Social media and the internet has made it easier, not harder. We think we have, oh, no, we can do whatever we want. We're on social media. Nah. No, no. Algorithms, powerful blue check people. people, um, the constant flow from mainstream media onto YouTube clips onto social media. I think it's only gotten easier and and very really, you can set you can create very small groups or you know, individuals. Okay, we've got the uh LGBTQ, you can cut those up into just the Ts.

1:24:00 Uh, you can cut up uh Latinos, blacks, everything. White people, that's just it's just as useful. Hey, man, there's a war on white people. Uh-huh, there's a war on men. Uh-huh. You can cut them all up. It's easy. So now you, yeah. So now you have it's almost tailored. The propaganda is tailored to the user. Yeah. Yes. You have to choose your own adventure. You get to pick your phone up and you choose your own adventure. You don't even know you're doing it, but you are. Yeah. And they're only going to feed you more of what you look at. You know what's so genius at that? You know what the best social media network is for that? Is TikTok?

1:24:43 Yep. TikTok is totally, totally, it's so good. They don't give you any controversy. No, no, here's more people like you. And the mechanism of a one-minute video, this, this just bam, bam, bam, bam. One minute, one minute, one minute. Now, if you've watched 20 people, it seems like agree with what you're thinking, or you've seen 20 people push a narrative, and now you feel like, oh, I'm, I'm, something must be wrong with me. You know, when I uh, when I was on Joe Rogan last, and I told him I was saved by Jesus Christ, uh, on TikTok, oh man, I thought the whole world had become Christian.

CHAPTER 25 / 44 Discussion

Financial Systems and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC)

The hosts provide a deep dive into the history of the Federal Reserve and the end of the gold standard in 1971. They explain Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) as a tool for total individual control, allowing the state to monitor spending and implement social credit scores. Bitcoin is discussed as a potential "way out" of this centralized financial trap.

cbdc· federal reserve· inflation· petrodollar· bitcoin· financial control

1:25:29 Millions of views and thousands of comments. I'm like, yeah, until I realized, oh, okay, hold on a second. You know, this is and but there was no counter message. It's not like on Twitter where people will go, um, yeah, you know, you believe in your sky daddy or something like that, you know, throwing some kind of comment. Um, but then TikTok was just beautiful. It's just everyone's all on, oh, we're all here. I've never been on TikTok before. I've seen videos on TikTok, but I've never been on TikTok, so I don't know what the experience is like. I loaded TikTok for this very reason because people kept telling me, You're going viral.

1:26:07 And I'm like, I'm going viral. You're going viral on TikTok. So like, okay, I'll load it up and then I loaded it up and then I saw it and it's like, wow, it's incredible. And then the next day, I opened up TikTok and it was like the devil was there. It'll show me all kinds of things. Like, oh, oh, I don't want to see this. Oh, no, no. Oh, you're one of those Christians, huh? Yeah. Take a look at this. Yeah. Oh, but you know, maybe 15, 20 years ago, I'd be like, oh, let me click on that. Oh, what am I seeing? So, you know, it was obvious that's when I deleted it. Because I know, I mean, I know I understand the mechanisms of these types of applications, but it was just incredible.

1:26:53 But my question, my, my question was this: Is it, do you have a TikTok account and the traffic flows to you, or somebody clipped you up and you were trending on their TikTok feed? Um, I well, so I just lost everything I don't care about. I log in through Google because I don't Google is just for the trash. Um, you know, for things I don't really want to sign up for, but have to. So right, I do say I do have a pro Google has a view of me, which is very skewed, I'm sure.

1:27:30 Um, and so you know, you just look at that one video that someone uh told you about, uh, which is a link from an email, and I click on it, and then TikTok is like, whoa, here you go. But you didn't post the video, the original video. Oh, no, no, no, no, it was, it was cut-ups, people cutting up, you know, taking a 30-minute segment and turning it into a minute 30. Right. So, why I'm asking that is, so it's more similar. TikTok is more similar than YouTube. Yeah. Where it's, you see content, but the person is not center of the content. Correct. You know, because, like, for instance, I don't even think you can centralize all your YouTube comments anywhere.

1:28:12 You know, because you're making, you're making comments everywhere on all the videos. Well, I guess your alarm bell up there in the top right, you know, when people comment on something you've commented on, it all shows up. And that's kind of a timeline, but it's not very effective. Right. And then you don't get what the point, the final point I was making was that you don't feel the countering. No. no, no, there's none. There is none. Yeah. No. Because the algorithm is not feeding your interactions. It's feeding you what you like. Content. Whereas on Twitter is feeding you interactions. It's like Mo made a statement.

1:28:48 Let's see how much people like or hate his statement. Right. Whereas YouTube, you look at a comment about content and then they feed you more content that fits that mode. Correct. That's exactly. That's that's it's a big difference. Which, yeah, it isolates you because you die. You think you, if you never hear the pushback, and this is why MGTOW and these things were so big on YouTube because yes, it's the house mine. And you know, when Congress was talking about, oh, we're going to ban TikTok from America. And I knew what that was. It was TikTok is sucking up all the advertising money. So Google and Twitter and everyone, you know, Facebook mainly, they're all paying their lobbyists to come up with rules to get rid of TikTok.

CHAPTER 26 / 44 Discussion

China, U.S. Debt, and Global Partnerships

The discussion refutes the idea of a hot war with China, framing the U.S.-China relationship as a partnership established during the Clinton era. They argue that China buys U.S. debt so the U.S. can buy Chinese goods, creating a pass-through economy. The real "war" is described as being directed against the individual rather than between nations.

china· bill clinton· manufacturing· globalism· trade partnership· national debt

1:29:33 We need to get them out of our ecosystem because they're eating up our ad money. Then I would get emails from people saying, I know why they want TikTok gone. It's because of MAGA. Everyone's a MAGA. MAGA's on TikTok. I'm like, what are you talking about? Because by the same token, I could go and what is all the LGBTQ content on TikTok? If that's what you're into, you're going to see that. And you're going to think that TikTok is only about that. So I knew right away, oh, no, no, this is, and it's actually more of a Chinese, Asian, you know, Eastern model is to have people agreeing over here. Everyone agrees with everybody. And the American media model is

1:30:14 throw in, you know, it's always got to be strife, right, left, red, blue, up, down. It's got to be that's the that's what our politicians do. Those guys are no good. That's what our media does. You know, MSNBC, Fox sucks, Fox, MSNBC or Libtards. That's our model. And then the Asian model is much more, let's all agree over here. And everyone who agrees over there can be over there. And you can argue which one is better, but it does give you it really enables groupthink to a degree where people think all of TikTok is just their interest group. Yes. And in the sense of propagandizing, I think TikTok slash YouTube is better than Facebook slash Twitter.

1:30:59 Because people go there. I've never felt like, oh, I can't do YouTube today. You know what I'm saying? Like you would do with Twitter. Twitter, you're like, I'm not, it's a cesspool. Honestly, I'm going to tell people how I do Twitter. I download Twitter, I'll make whatever post I'm going to make, and then I delete it off my phone. Oh, really? Yes, that and Instagram. Every single time? Yes. That's interesting. Because I control the interaction. You're not going to notify me to pull me into it. No. Right. Yeah. I'm going to spend 15, 20 minutes scrolling Twitter.

1:31:40 Maybe I'll see something interesting or something interesting for the show or whatever. Yeah. But I don't use any use the web version of this stuff. So, and there's no way to alert me and I have to go there consciously. But yeah, I've been around it long enough that I and even I sometimes get sucked in. I'm like, oh man, I've just been doom scrolling for 10 minutes. What's wrong with me? But that does happen. But I don't rarely respond. Well, it's necessary for what I do. I think it's necessary for everybody. So you can at least get a temperature of what's going on or where we're headed. Yeah. That kind of thing. So I don't think, I think it's even danger to isolate yourself.

1:32:25 Because now we get to the lonely thing. It's the either or you're doomed either way. Either you're overstimulated or you're understimulated, which it works for them either way. Well, I think with today's pharmaceuticals, they're two sides of the same coin. You know, you may be overstimulated by social media. You've got the pharmaceuticals to calm your brain down, but then your brain just naturally will ask for more to balance it out or something like that. And so I think you get stuck in a loop. Yes. All right. So let's get out of this loop and let's go ahead and jump into number seven.

CHAPTER 27 / 44 Discussion

Strategy 9: Turn the Tables and Local Resilience

Strategy 9 emphasizes letting the enemy move first to exploit their weaknesses. The hosts apply this to personal resilience, advocating for localism and community-building as a counter to macro-level chaos. They encourage listeners to focus on their neighbors and local food supplies rather than trying to fight the "ocean" of global systems.

robert greene· vladimir putin· localism· community· self-reliance· survival

1:33:10 Transform your war into a crusade. The secret to motivating people and maintaining their morale is to get them to think less about themselves and more about the group. Oh, yeah. Involve them in a cause, a crusade against a hated enemy. Make them see their survival as tied to the success of the army as a whole. In a group in which people have truly bonded, moods and emotions are so contagious that it becomes easy to infect your troops with enthusiasm. Lead from the front. Let your soldiers see you in the trenches, making sacrifices for the cause that will fill them with the desire to emulate and please you. Make both rewards and punishments rare, but meaningful.

1:33:55 Remember, a motivated army can work wonders, making up for any lack of material resources. Oh, yeah. Well, this is our model. This is it right there. This is the money clip. That's it. Everybody's part of the army. You're part of your army. Look what those guys are doing. Oh, no. And there's even infighting because it's, yeah, you're in the army. It's kind of like when the army and navy guys fight. My dad was in the Navy. He is a former Navy guy. And my uncle, he is a former Army guy. And they fight, you know what I'm saying? Over which branch was the best. And you see this now with the social media armies.

1:34:39 Go ahead. Well, and the martyrs or the guys who get killed off, that was the deplatforming. And now they've just moved. Elon Musk has moved that needle. You know, we have the, it's been taken from, oh, man, he got killed. You know, he's, he, he lost his life in the game. He's out. Right. Maybe, maybe he can get back in. You know, he might have to, he might have a timeout for a couple weeks or a couple months or strike, strike. You got to strike against him. Oh, man, that's, that's like a bullet wound. I got to strike. Purple heart. He got my social media. Social media purple heart.

1:35:17 I got a flesh wound here. That's what the community notes are. But once in a while, he's just moved the needle, but you can still get kicked off of Twitter. And now we have the, you know, we'll pull your rank. It's like, oh, your blue check is gone. Oh, oh, man, I lost my blue check. Or I'm a real one. I don't have a blue check. It can go either way. That's me. Yeah, me too. You know what I'm saying? I don't want your blue check. Yeah, I'm a gorilla. I don't need to have no rank. I can do it from behind right here. I'm stealth. Yeah. Yeah. And another thing they said in the clip was: you have to lead out front. Now, I think this is where Elon Musk comes in. And for his side, he hit, I mean, to be the richest, quote-unquote, richest man in the world, which

1:36:02 we can argue that. Yeah. He's the richest man who allows his money to be counted. I will put that. Definitely the richest man in the world. But for him to be so active, he's riling the truth. Oh, here comes Tony Starks to save their Avengers. You know, I'm coming from down on high. Yeah. Oh, look at Elon. Did you see what Elon tweeted? Oh, man. Or he was with the other thing was this thing when Alex Jones came back. He had the Avengers all. Oh, did you hear that call? Did you hear that call when the Avengers all got together? Yes. Oh, my goodness. And he came down from Mount Olympus to crown whoever, you know,

CHAPTER 28 / 44 Discussion

Forgiveness as a Strategic Escape

The hosts discuss the psychological toll of the "vax" debates and the importance of unconditional forgiveness. They argue that holding onto anger over past mandates and social shaming keeps individuals "hostage" to the system. Forgiveness is presented as a necessary tool for maintaining mental health and repairing family structures.

forgiveness· vaccine mandates· mental health· family structure· social engineering

1:36:46 who are the chosen ones of truth. Yeah. And that's what leading out front is. And you see the morale boost that it has happened, has given. Big one, yeah. AJ's back. Yeah. Trump, like Orange Man, he's on his way out. I mean, he may do another four years. We don't know. We'll see how that goes. But we got somebody, you know, this younger, you know, to carry the carry the shield into the future. What do you think? What do you think, just since we're talking about it? What do you think is going to happen in this election?

1:37:26 I'm still thinking Holly. That's that's he's stayed above the fray. Josh Holly. Yes. Wow. The way, like I said, this is just swinging for the fences here. Yeah. But you look at the field who the Republicans had to put up. If he was on that stage, he would beat all of them. Because he has the snarkiness of Vivik, but he has the cultured mentality of

1:38:07 elitist mentality of maybe a Nikki Haley. Yeah. But he also has the Jan 1 credentials of a Donald Trump. He's been a Donald Trump rider ever since he came in. So the way I see this playing out is the Republicans. Republicans may turn Donald Trump over and be like, hey, you can convict him. You can take him off the ballot. Fine. And then we'll have a valiant hero come, you know, to the front and take it from there. That's how I see this playing out. Wow. And the reason why I say that is if you watch Homeland in one of the last two seasons, they had a character like Josh Holly in there.

1:38:50 And you know how they like to project in these TV shows. Predictive programming. Yeah. Yeah. So that's how I see it playing out. Because I don't see anybody on that stage, either that or Elon Musk. But I don't think he wants that job, to be honest with you. That's the demotion for him. So, my scenario, which I'm still kind of forming, and I believe everything is financially motivated. I don't think it's about everything. The world is all about the financial motivation, which is its own ecosystem and system and is supernatural. So it goes above and beyond laws.

1:39:32 I think to me, it feels like the best thing would be for the powers that be. We have due for an economic collapse. I mean, and what that means exactly, will it be like the 1920s, 1930s? I don't know. Maybe a version of that, but the money system is just running out of rope here. And this has been going on for a long, long time. Not even that long. 1971, the dollar left the gold standard, and this has been the problem. And so now people are suffering. They're suffering from inflation. The velocity of money is stopped.

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Strategy 10: Create a Threatening Presence

Strategy 10 involves deterring aggression by appearing "a little crazy" or violent. The hosts discuss the dehumanizing effect of constant media violence, from video game-style war footage to domestic gun violence. They note how the "presence" of threat, such as living under drones or constant crime reports, is used to keep populations in a state of fear.

robert greene· shock and awe· drones· gun violence· dehumanization· media violence

1:40:15 So money is not even moving around the system anymore. People are going to start to have to give up on things. And we could actually go into deflation, meaning everything just financially, everything collapses. This would be, I would say, this would get Trump elected, and he would have to deal with this for four years, and it would be an absolute nightmare. And everybody would be ready for someone new after that. Only thing I say about that, you can't have a dictator in the White House. And I'm saying that tongue-in-cheek, but

1:40:57 I don't think the left is going to go for it. I don't think they're ready for what repercussions that would cause to have Trump back in there. That's a wild card. Now, he may win. I mean, if I'm placing a bet, I'll place it on Trump to win. But the big money parlay is on the scenario. I laid out with Holly. You have to throw some money on it. But I just don't think they, I don't think either side wants Trump. Yeah, but the problem is, people want a daddy.

1:41:41 The people, we've been so mind-controlled into believing that the president fixes everything. And Trump plays into that. I'll take care of it. And we want, hey, look, if you want a daddy, I say, you know, go to church. There's God. He's ready for you. But everyone else is thinking they want a daddy. And that's all I hear. And people say, well, what do you think? What's going to happen? I said, I don't care. I got a community here. I got 15,000 people who live here, 50,000 people on the weekend because we're in tourism. That's all I care about. I care about the kids around the corner. I care about the old people. That's all I can care about, really. As it should. That's what we've done.

1:42:26 I've always stated it: you care for yourself first, then your wife and kids. And if you have time left, your cousins and your nieces and your nephews, and then the kids at church or young people at church or in your community, and then you work your way out. So I think that's the proper way. But I'm just saying, like, what does that look like if Donald Trump is elected again? I'm not saying he can't do it. I'm just saying it from both sides. But that's why. That's why if we're distracted by poverty, destruction, collapse.

1:43:05 And by the way, that's a huge opportunity because the money system is, I still believe COVID was a financial emergency. We needed to fix money going in. We needed to print money. We printed $7 trillion. trillion. We needed that to happen. And when I say we, it's the money system. Immigration is all a part of the money system. As long as we have more people, as long as our population grows, the bankers have told me this themselves. We win from China, hands down. Why? Because our population's growing and theirs are shrinking. Why is ours? Can I just say something right quick?

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Strategy 11: Trade Space for Time

Strategy 11 suggests retreating to gain perspective. The hosts discuss the constant barrage of digital notifications from politicians like Kamala Harris and Greg Abbott as a form of "real-time propaganda." They advocate for turning off phone notifications to reclaim mental space and avoid being constantly "spun up" by the 24-hour news cycle.

robert greene· kamala harris· greg abbott· notifications· propaganda· digital fatigue

1:49:18 Oh, brother. I plan to see it, but did you know it was a spin-off or in the same multiverse as one of my favorite shows, Mr. Robot? I saw Mr. Robot, or at least I saw how many seasons were there? I think it was four or five or five. I've probably only seen two seasons. But it's the same basic idea. But it's made in that multiverse, which that's another show, which that supports your argument about a financial collapse. Yeah. Well, yes. I mean, we're okay.

1:49:57 We're already in financial collapse. I mean, everyone's living on credit. That's just, it's just, it's the fact. But that's that just has to be so, okay. So that would be, and it's all, and it's all a construct. It's all just numbers and computers. I don't actually have money. Well, I have Bitcoin. I consider that to be actual money. But we don't, I don't actually have money. It's just, it's just out there. I mean, this, the financial system is so overconstructed that it would just, I just see that as the right, that would be the thing to do. And then, you know, it wouldn't be like from one day to the next, you're out of your house and you're starving on the street.

1:50:42 But from one tape one day to the next, it'll be like, all right, here's your new money. And here's some money that we're going to give you. And then now you've got to do what we say. And then you get into all the social, you know, credit scores, possibly, and stuff like that. Can we have a quick conversation about the CBDC? Because that's one, just to show y'all, that's one rabbit hole that I didn't go down. Of course. What do you know? Just let people know I pick and choose. You can't be knowledgeable in everything. And it's, I, that was one. I looked at the edge and I was like, man, I'm good on that one. Um, but my question is: this:

1:51:28 this is what my understanding is: they want to have control of the movement of your money so then they can say what you can and can't buy to understand the central bank digital currency. You first must understand the central bank, the central bank and the central banking system. So the central bank of America is the Federal Reserve. And the Federal Reserve sounds like it's part of the government because it has federal in there, but it's not. And this was created in, was it 1913, I think, or 1917? And it was fought, by the way. It was fought by great leaders of this country that said, no, this will be the end of us if you basically let the banks control the money.

1:52:10 And you've probably heard, I think it was Rockefeller or Rothschild or one of those said, I don't care about the laws of the country as long as I control the money. Yes. So now the European Central Bank is again a central bank. It's a collection of banks, but you don't actually know in America, we don't actually know who owns the Federal Reserve. We're allowed to know about the banks and we know the governors of the Federal Reserve, but who's really, you know, it's secret. It is a truly secret organization with a front-facing part to it. And when they say, and their mandate supposedly is to control inflation, and then you have to understand what inflation means.

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Strategy 12: Lose Battles, Win the War

Strategy 12 focuses on "Grand Strategy" and long-term goals over minor victories. The hosts use political "sacrifices" like George Santos and Sam Brinton as examples of figures who are given up to maintain the larger system's appearance of integrity. They argue that the elite are willing to lose small battles to secure ultimate power.

robert greene· george santos· sam brinton· political sacrifice· grand strategy

1:52:55 We've been taught over years and years and years that inflation means the price of goods. But what it really means is how much money do we create every year. So their general idea has always been, well, we'll create two. 2% inflation. That's what you hear. What is inflation? 2%. And they manage, and they measure that by the job market. So right now, and this is the big problem right now, is that from the so-called numbers, there's very low unemployment. None of this is really true, but this is just the construct they've put in place. So it's the Federal Reserve, the Federal, the Federal Reserve that creates the money through their banking system.

1:53:41 And we just had Christmas time. So if you've ever seen It's a Wonderful Life, then you'll know what I'm talking about. Maybe you saw it this Christmas season. So there's a run on the bank, and you think that when you borrow money, you're just borrowing someone else's money who put it, who deposited it in the bank. That's not true. It's much worse than that. When you borrow $500,000 to buy a house, they didn't take that from somewhere else. They literally created $500,000 out of thin air. So the banks make the money and it all flows through the Federal Reserve. Let me make sure I understand this correctly because I want to understand something. So it seems like to me that CBDC will lock you in the casino.

1:54:24 Well, you can't run on banks. Well, you're jumping ahead a little bit. Your conclusion is correct. Now, the problem is that, I mean, so in 1971, we took the dollar off the gold standard. The dollar used to be worth X ounce. One ounce of gold was, I think, what, $15 or something. It was almost nothing back in the day. Right. But it's called a hard money. It was backed by gold. We went off that. And then, and this was during the, well, you won't remember what I do, the oil crisis. The petrodollar and all that. Right. So we went to the Saudis and we said, hey, you Bedouin camel herders here.

1:55:07 We're going to take your oil. We're going to buy all your oil. We're going to price it in dollars. And you can be kings and princes and we will protect you with our military, but it has to always be in dollars. And so that's so the petro dollar, which everyone had to use now because everybody needs oil. We had to use the dollar. That is backed by the full faith and credit of the United States, which is our military, which was always protecting Saudi Arabia. So a lot has happened in that area. But the point is, that's when we just started printing up as much money as we needed.

1:55:44 And to prosper and to move ahead as a country, we had to create all kinds of money and put it into our system. So, you know, when I was a kid, there were no credit cards. Didn't exist. It was not a thing. You saved your money. Maybe you put something on layaway, but there was no credit card. So once that got into play, and now, you know, you've got 16, 17, 18-year-old kids with $10,000 worth of credit card debt. All of that is just money that never existed before. It wasn't someone else's money. It was just all created. So in order to maintain the money to have control over the money, they need to control the money all the way down to the individual level.

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Strategy 13: Know Your Enemy and the Bliss Point

Strategy 13 involves understanding the opponent's mind. The hosts discuss how the food industry uses the "bliss point" to engineer addiction, making individuals their own enemies. They also touch on Kanye West's public struggles and how his "friendly front" was used to mine him for information before his eventual marginalization.

robert greene· kanye west· food industry· bliss point· ozempic· psychological weakness

1:56:31 And that's where the central bank digital currency comes in, which means you're not getting your dollars from anywhere else but through the central bank who controls all the dollars. And depending on what they see in the economy, you will either be given money to spend. There's your UBI, but it'll be money that I don't even need. They'll say, hey, Adam, here's $1,000, but you need to spend it before January 30th or it'll go away. Well, of course I'm going to spend it. So that will be the total control. And then you get into, well, you ate too much meat. So your carbon score, you need to get your carbon credits in order.

1:57:15 It'll just be control of the people, which is what the elites of the world have always wanted. They want to control how many people and they want to control the people. It's just that simple. So it's the petrodollar for the individual, basically. The same rules they ran on. Yes, yes. Oh, yeah. If you want to buy our goods, you have to use our CBDC. Yes. Yes. And like I said, that's what I was saying about locking the casino doors. Like you can't leave the casino. You got to keep playing. And maybe we'll bump you. There's no way out. There's no way. Well, I believe there's one way out, but it'll take a lot more than what it is today. But I think Bitcoin is a way out of that.

1:57:53 Because if we don't have to protect our dollar, which it'll be even worse, because now we'll have to protect it with cyber, because, of course, the BRICS will have their digital currency. currency. And, you know, so it's going to be a fight to who has the who has dominance over the digital currency. And the fighting will just move from battlefields to cyber, and that'll be that'll be horrible. That'll be all kinds of nastiness comes with that. I see it a little different. I think the fight will be on the battlefield where it always has. That's what we had to understand about the system. And when I mean the system, I'm talking about the system white supremacy. The muscle is always there. That's why I was dumb for China to buy our debt.

1:58:37 When you come to collect, how are you going to get it? Tell me how you're going to get what we owe you, China. Well, hold on a second. I think the whole China debt thing is bullcrap. This is an agreement that has been in place since we opened up to China. We opened China up to the rest of the world. The whole point is we have inflated our money supply so much in America that we can't afford our goods here are just too expensive to produce. Our people cost too much. So we move all of that offshore. That started with Clinton, moved it all offshore, moved it all to China. And the way it works is China,

1:59:22 you will buy our debt, and then we'll buy your goods. And with the dollars we send you, you are going to invest and buy real estate in America, buy businesses in America. It's a pass-through. It's a partnership. It is a partnership. That's why I don't believe we're ever really going to go to war with China. Other than there's nobody, from my perspective, there's nobody to go to war with. No. Okay. Except the individual. Yes. Except the individual. I'm with you on that. We're not going to go to war with anybody except the individual. You're right. And this Israeli war may be the last real hot war we see.

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Strategy 15: Control the Dynamic

Strategy 15 emphasizes defining the nature of the relationship and shifting conflict to favorable terrain. The hosts cite Elizabeth Warren and Jamie Dimon's attacks on Bitcoin as a tactic to rile up the community and control the narrative. They compare this to "Fabian Socialism," which uses incremental steps to close the gap on power.

robert greene· elizabeth warren· jamie dimon· bitcoin· crypto· fabian socialism

2:00:02 But yet, still, that's the individual because even they're divided on the country. Big time. So thank you for explaining that to me. Does it make sense? Yeah, I was about 70% sure, but I was certain that it was a catch clause. I'm going to put in the show notes, I'm going to put the history of money. And when you read, because money hasn't always been the dollar or the euro or the yen. I mean, it's been sticks. It's been pebbles. It's been, you know, we still talk about clams. How many clams you sell out for that? I mean, it literally was clamshells in America back in the early settler days in New York.

2:00:46 You know, Wampum. I mean, it's been all kinds of things as long as it was scarce. Gold is great because it's very hard, very nasty business to get it out of the ground. But we can't control where you find gold. No, and gold sucks. I mean, you're moving gold around. It's not easy. And during Roosevelt, it was illegal to have gold. We had to give it up. They literally psyoped us and said, oh, everyone's hoarding gold. We have a depression. We got problems. You got to give up your gold. Give it up or what? Yeah, or go to jail. There it is. Or what? If you don't go to jail. If you don't, I'm not going to jail. Just say that's your take. I'm not going. Then what?

2:01:29 Well, we use violence. Yeah, we're going to bust your door down and take it from you for sure. And that's the whole point. This whole system operates off of, at the end of the day, it can be violent. Do you want violence? No, I don't think you want violence. So everybody's going to sing and dance alone as how it goes. This is a very depressing topic, Mo. No, it's not. It's the realization of what it is. So now, once you know what it is, you know how to operate in the system. The way I see it is like this: this system is the ocean. The ocean is the ocean.

2:02:07 You're going to have choppy days. You're going to have smooth days. You're going to have rainy days. How do you navigate on the ocean? And that's what I hope I'm doing and you're doing and the people listening to us are doing is learning how to navigate with what the system is, the ocean is giving us. It's like, okay, it's rainy today. You know, how do you operate? We can't get off the water. We're in the middle of the ocean now. Yeah. Yeah, I agree. So that's why it's not hopefully not depressing. It's just to understand you better learn how to navigate. And swim. And swim. Yeah, you might get

2:02:54 you might get thrown overboard, better learn how to swim back to the boat, get back on it, and get back to navigating. and and that's the spirit of this show because you see we're just what a in of 33 and how encompassing this system is yeah that it's the it's it can be depressing but one thing they can't take from you is your joy yes all right number nine nine turn the tables moving first initiating the attack will often put you at a disadvantage you are exposing your strategy and limiting your options instead discover the power of holding back and letting the other side move first giving

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Strategy 16: Hit Them Where It Hurts

Strategy 16 involves striking the "center of gravity" or what the enemy most cherishes. The hosts discuss how Trump's ego is his soft spot, while Kanye West and Candace Owens have shifted the "moral terrain" regarding Zionism. They describe Tucker Carlson as the "conservative Barbara Walters," providing the must-see platform for controversial figures.

robert greene· donald trump· kanye west· zionism· tucker carlson· candace owens

2:03:43 you the flexibility to counterattack from any angle if your opponents are aggressive bait them into a rash attack that will leave them in a weak position learn to use their impatience their eagerness to get at you as a way to throw them off balance and bring them down in difficult moments do not despair or retreat any situation can be turned around if you learn how to hold back waiting for the right moment to launch an unexpected counterattack weakness can become strength yeah this to me is what putin's doing this is how putin operates this is how we should be operating no kidding

2:04:23 as far as weakness become your strength we just listed all how we were weak you know we went this kind of how it's kind of sounded depressing but okay how can you use that how can you leverage what we have to counter the system as an individual uh i mean the way i see it is as i said before i'm here to help my local community if you know we um we will manage our own schools we'll manage our own city we'll manage our own food supply if we have to um i think that's that's always the mistake we make is looking at this big macro thing and say well we got to fight against that good luck that's literally trying to fight against the ocean but

2:05:15 and that's what the media shows you right the big macro system all the time all the time i'm always and it makes you want to quit i've been telling john like i want a good news story at the end of every no agenda and it's always a local beautiful story it's never a big grand story of something fantastic no it's always local it's always something that happens somebody helps somebody else out that's that's how you navigate that's how you turn that into into strength just on your look on your local level and everybody has has a skill everybody can contribute um but we're being you know we're being told to be lonely

2:05:51 you're lonely there's nobody around like you have no friends well how about your neighbor go go talk to your neighbor just say hi and meet him see what's going on and we're being convinced to disrespect ourselves and another term for that as nearly fully say is to lie to ourselves yeah that this guy's gonna save us q is gonna save us 45 savage is gonna save us no now it's bobby the op is gonna save us this no only you can save yourself that's it you know you know and you can't even do that because i mean from our standpoint you know god has to save you amen so but but if you don't subscribe to that belief then you have to do something to save your nobody's coming you know it's like that movie uh castaway

2:06:45 right now somebody might come eventually but you better get to uh survival today yeah today and and realize that these people are using all of these strategies to make you feel um like you can't do that like you can't save yourself or there's no saving there's no saving you and that's why i'm telling you i was just sitting at watching and i'm like man everybody has lost it they have lost the plot here because the race thing that's one thing and even the gay thing that's one thing but this war and nuclear war and you know all we need just kill kill kill everybody is killing wants to kill we need to kill them you know the worst to me what makes me so sad

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Strategy 17: Defeat Them in Detail

Strategy 17 focuses on sowing dissension from within. The hosts analyze the public infighting between conservative figures like Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens, and Megyn Kelly as a "destruction before our eyes." They argue that the ultimate "joint" being attacked is the family unit, using divisive terminology to create internal conflict.

robert greene· ben shapiro· candace owens· meyn kelly· internal conflict· family unit

2:07:40 is people who have had big fights in their family or with their friends about uh the vax mainly and and they vow never ever to to live that let them live that down you know i will fight them you know for the rest of my life for what they did to me. That's the forgiveness is the fundamental way out is to forgive because then you can let it go. People have to forgive. It's not, it's like it goes against your nature, but you have to move on. And it's not like I forgive you, but you just got to forgive them unconditionally.

2:08:23 Because you're holding yourself hostage. And on top of that is the fact that the spiking of the football when somebody dies. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That because you, this is how they work. They turn you into them. Yep. You know, just like when somebody would die that wasn't vaccinated, they'd be like, oh, see, you know, they brought it on themselves. And then that corrects the environment. So when somebody that was vax died, you know, it's time to spike the football and say, aha, see, look, they're dead. Aha. Well, you've just not become everything that you claim to hate. So don't do that. But I think you also have to make it clear. I mean, you can't just, I think you have to say to someone, I forgive you for what you did to me.

2:09:09 That's it. You got to say it to them. And if they don't get that, then that's their problem. But you will forever be held high. I see this with people. I see people making themselves sick over that with family. Like, oh, don't do that. Don't do it. Well, the way I do it is I don't, I don't think I ever told somebody, I forgive them. I just go back to where we were at before we had the incidents. You know what I'm saying? No, it's just truly like, okay, you, you offended me. I'm not saying this, but I rationalized it. And like with my wife and me, you know, we do have spats from time to time. We're not never had a fight. Get out of town. Yeah.

2:09:54 But it's like she calls me bipolar because I'm, I wake up the morning, that was in yesterday. Bringing that over to today. Why would I do that? And it kind of throws them off because they're like, thought you were mad. I was then, but I ain't now. You know, that's you said that. So that's kind of a way of forgiveness. Yeah, but I don't, if she did, but she doesn't bring it up. I don't say, you know, I, because that could even be condescending, like, you know, I contemplated what you did to me, and I've chosen forgiveness. I know you wouldn't say that, but some people will turn something as beautiful as forgiving into a power play.

2:10:33 Well, when you, when you get something between spouses, that's just the enemy. And what we do is, hold on a second. The enemy got a hold of me. Tina will say, oh, the enemy got a hold of me. And so that's it. You know, we know what happened here. Let's just stop. Let's back off. And then we can, and that's forgiveness too. It's like, and while we're speaking of the enemy, they'll start outside first, then somebody in your circle, then somebody in your familial circle, and then your spouse. And if they don't bite, then you have an issue with yourself. That's where that self-hate comes in, self-loathing. So, yeah, you even have to be this way with yourself and forgive yourself

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Strategy 18: Attack the Soft Flank

Strategy 18 involves approaching stubborn opponents indirectly. The hosts identify "Buy Now, Pay Later" schemes and the social pressure to own an iPhone as the "soft flank" of the modern consumer. They discuss how "conspicuous consumption" and brand awareness are used to turn individuals into debt slaves for products they don't need.

robert greene· buy now pay later· debt· apple· iphone· conspicuous consumption

2:11:18 and tell yourself you love yourself. And I don't want to make it all mushy sounding, but this is necessary for mental health. Yes. Let's do one more before you take a break. All right, that sounds good. 10. Create a threatening presence. The best way to fight off aggressors is to keep them from attacking you in the first place. To accomplish this, you must create the impression of being more powerful than you are. Build up a reputation. You're a little crazy. Fighting you is not worth it. You take your enemies with you when you lose. Create this reputation and make it credible with a few impressive, impressively violent acts.

2:12:03 Uncertainty is sometimes better than overt threat. If your opponents are never sure what messing with you will cost, they will not want to find out. Play on people's natural fears and anxieties to make them think twice. Wow. These people are sick. Go ahead and take it. Go ahead. I mean, that sounds like so many elites that I know. I mean, this is all, that's also Trump. You know what? Crazy I'm going to do next time. There's a lot of that in there. That's Musk as well. And that's certainly Joe Biden. And Xi Jinping.

2:12:42 Everybody's ramping up. And it's all violence. Murder. Dead bodies, murder, bleeding, bleeding. bombs, missiles, guns. And it's to the point where we dehuman. It's amazing how we can humanize dogs, babies. But then the same scroll, you see 100,000 people killed. And it's like, okay. It's so true. It's so true. As a human, how do they do that to us? I haven't quite figured that out myself. How do they turn that compassion off with big numbers?

2:13:26 It's social engineering. I'm not sure exactly what the mechanism is. It's amazing, though. It's truly amazing. Because if you say a dog got ran over now, oh, that's terrible. Yeah. But we read the horrible news that we read about the children, you're saying whatever abuse they're abusing. Oh, I mean, you know, it's killing has become part of culture. Killing is in video games. Killing is on television. It's in movies. It's it were, yeah, I mean, I'm sure you see less animals killed in all media you consume than you see in humans.

2:14:09 Yep. I'm just stuck on, I'm just stuck on that. It's just that how do you separate a single human life from mass human lives being lost? And it's the same person. It's not like it's different people. Yeah. That they feel that compassion, but that's creating a threatening. Let's just go touch on that for a minute. This is what I'm saying about going around the world. That muscle is, we'll take some people and make an example out of them, whether it was turning Iraq into, what is it, bomb them? This is their favorite term. We're going to bomb them back into the stone age. Yeah. Who thinks like that? Yeah, shock and awe. Shock and awe was the term.

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Strategy 19: Envelop the Enemy

Strategy 19 describes creating relentless pressure from all sides to surround the opponent's mind. The hosts cite Alex Jones and InfoWars as masters of 24/7 engagement. They also mock the public concern over T-Mobile monitoring texts, pointing out that the NSA has already been collecting all digital communications for years.

robert greene· alex jones· infowars· nsa· t-mobile· psychological encirclement

2:14:54 To the point where you were saying something early about living in constant fear. Imagine what living under drones feel like. Yeah. The ever-present, you see your neighbor, like two years ago, their house went up into smoke and powder and dust. And now you know that's lingering over your head at any moment. That's what I'm talking about, the presence that they have. Yeah. In the West, we don't understand that. And we don't. I do. And this is just to take a sidebar away from global politics because this is domestic.

2:15:35 If you count up all the people, this black young male is killed due to gun violence, I think it's like 3,000 people, maybe 4,000 people. Not to take that, we don't want to fall into the same trap, but the living under the constant threat of you could die. It's the same thing. Well, I think we're all getting exposed to that as well. I don't know about you, but if I get caught in a Doom Scroll on Twitter, you know what I see? People killing each other in America. Yes. Shooting each other in the head, you know, robberies, and then some guy gets a neck shot just because he was sitting there.

2:16:18 You get gangs, you know, machine gunning each other down. I see a lot of that. It's unbelievable how much killing there is. And they're using old footage. They don't even have to use new footage. Any footage doesn't matter. Any footage that this is what, you know, like I think you were, I think it was on a No Agenda show. You were saying how they're using like footage from video games. Oh, all over the place. All over the place. This is the propaganda machine. They don't even have to have real people being harmed. And it's only going to get worse with AI. Yeah, I'm not even sure that all this Houthi stuff in the Red Sea is real.

2:17:02 I mean, I'm seeing video. I'm like, okay. This is shot exactly like video games, first-person shooter, GoPros on their chest, on their helmets. I'm seeing all kinds of stuff. It's like, wow, that's not your normal war footage right there. And, you know, what is it really for? It's, you know, it's, again, it's money. It's which way does the oil flow? Does it flow? You want a hot take? You want a hot take? Please. I'm not even sure nuclear weapons are real. Oh, I'm with you on that. I'm totally with you on that. But I ain't trying to find out either. Let's take a little break, Mo. Let's thank some people here. The white man and the black man have to be able to sit down at the same table.

2:17:44 The white man has to be able to. has to feel free to speak his mind without hurting the feelings of that Negro. And the so-called Negro has to feel free to speak his mind without hurting the feelings of the white man. Then they can bring the issues that are under the rug out on top of the table and take an intelligent approach to get the problem solved. That's the only way that they'll ever do it. Well, hopefully, we're exposing you to some of that thinking here. I'm MoFax with Adam Curry. This is episode number 95. It's been a while since we've done a show, but again, a whole bunch of host of reasons. A lot of it technical, but a lot of it just being, you know, there's a lot of work that goes into this. And holidays and everything else. Lots of stuff going on. And we appreciate people staying with us.

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Strategy 20: Maneuver into Weakness

Strategy 20 involves baiting enemies into traps. The hosts discuss the "Senate sex tape" and the George Floyd video as content that people are goaded into watching and sharing. They argue that consuming and propagating such "vile" imagery is psychologically damaging and part of a maneuver to unhinge the public's rationality.

robert greene· george floyd· faces of death· senate sex tape· media consumption

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2:20:49 satoshis to mo says i love this show and here are the sats that jcd told me to boost to adam's other shows this is because dvorak doesn't want to receive any uh doesn't want to receive any uh any satoshis any bitcoin but then he kept on going mo and he came in with two what we call them striper boosts it's the religious number he it's uh 777 777 he did that twice as well a full row of sevens he says i love this show so all told all put together he's at about seventeen hundred dollars for this episode so

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Strategy 22: Know How to End Things

Strategy 22 emphasizes the importance of a clean conclusion. The hosts note how Black Lives Matter was strategically "ended" and replaced by Pride Month narratives. They discuss their own goal of reaching 100 episodes for the podcast, following the principle of "beginning with the end in mind" to ensure a meaningful body of work.

robert greene· black lives matter· pride month· podcasting· 7 habits· closure

2:22:31 bunch of donations quite a few yes uh kyle man with 150 mangus mahingus silver 150 no note. Thank you. Summer Norris, 150. No, no. We thank you so much. Then we have James von Weinsberg. Sounds Dutch. You never know. Mo, AC, thankfully I found your pod for you, AC. Yeah, right. Right after getting hit in the mouth, vis-a-vis no agenda. You're doing yeoman's work to keep us all sane. A little V for V is what I can do for now. Plus the email I sent AC on 10.30 regarding episode 93. Oh, man, I hope I answered that. I'm just going to go back and take a look at that email. Can I get some Mo Karma and a D Dead beating?

2:23:14 Of course. Congratulations. You're no longer a Deadbeat. I'm sending you tons of good authenticity. Take that. Take that. Take that. You've got karma. And James sent 12345. Love that number. Row of sticks from Ryan Tierney, 111.11. Always an exciting surprise when a new episode shows up on my phone. Thanks, Mo and Adam. And this was indeed from September 28th, a day after we did our last episode. My goodness. Amy Mullen, $100 from Dame Slamey. Happy birthday, Mo. Wow, this is going back. Episodes 93 and 94 were phenomenal as always. Can't wait for the next one.

2:23:59 Hashtag GBG. We have a dollar. And those are the executive producers. Now we go to the associate executive producers. Christopher DeBiase, 99. Thank you. No note. Eric Maki says $40 for 94. And that is $90. Not quite sure what that means. David Porras, $70. Never one second. I think you missed two people. One's my fault, and I think one's oversight. Kenneth Weinstock. I'm sorry. Yes, I did miss Kenneth Weinstock. You're $100. Thank you for this enlightening body of work. That's right. And I'll do this one because it's at the bottom of the list. It's Jill Woods. She came also in with $100.

2:24:42 And she said, thanks for being awesome. You and the show will be greatly missed. Yes. Okay. Thank you very much. Well, make sure I put her up at the top into the executive producers. Associate executive producer David Parras, 70. Never underestimate the value for value, the value you provide. I have a captive audience, and your show leads to incredible conversations and ripples outward from here. Thank you and all the best for the real people. For the real people. Is there more to the note? For the real people. Gotcha. That was it. That's the point. Hopefully we're rippling out. Yes, sir. $60 from Carol A. Chase. Is this the same message? That's interesting. That doesn't seem right. Hold on. Let me see.

2:25:27 Somehow the same message for Carol. No, I think. Let me see. You messed something up there. I think I did. One second. Okay. If you have that note. Carol, way at Carol. No. Carol is a no-note. No, note. That's what it is. Yeah. No note. 60 from Dustin Zimmer and 60 from Jennifer Cato. No notes, but thank you very much. We appreciate it. Before we get to the 50s, there's two boostograms, both from Hey Citizen, 5309, or also 123,456 Satoshis. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. And he says, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. Mo, you're the educator the world needs. Name to that. Perfect. Onward with Benjamin Harwood, 50.

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Strategy 23: Blend Fact and Fiction

Strategy 23 involves controlling perceptions by mixing fact and fiction. The hosts discuss the Hunter Biden laptop story and the role of "50 intelligence leaders" in labeling it Russian propaganda. They also mention Taylor Swift as a figure used to control public perception and distract from more substantive political issues.

robert greene· taylor swift· hunter biden· laptop· disinformation· perception

2:26:11 Mo, after being an avid listener for three and a half years, I figured I should finally donate for the deconstruction you and Adam have provided. By the way, this is how value for value works. It doesn't matter when you send it, how much you send it, how often you send it. You send back whatever the value was that you received, and you just put that back into numbers that work for you. So we appreciate all of that. He continues, I was ironically turned onto your podcast by my best friend, specifically the Black Don't Crack episode, who I had turned onto No Agenda back in the 2010s, Circle of Life at Work, I guess. Throughout the 2020 riots, you guys seem like the only sane voices to fall back on, especially as I lived in the hood with a large city that I was fearful would pop off at any moment.

2:26:54 Luckily, it mostly didn't. Mo, I hope that you can continue the show in some form or fashion after hitting the big 100. And Adam, I want to thank you for recent discussions on being born again and serving as an inspiration for my own stepping back into the church after a decade of fence-sitting agnosticism, requesting a D-Deadbeating. And he says, thank you very much. Congratulations. You're no longer a deadbeat. Brother, you are more than welcome back. Welcome back home. Then we go to Ryan Gordon. This will be our last associate executive producer, $50. He says, thank you, Adam, for all the great shows.

2:27:34 shows. And we'll be reading the rest of the donations that came in. We have a nice list to continue in our second donation segment. But thank you all so much for supporting us here for episode 95. We do have four more to go in this series. So please consider supporting us. Go to mofax.com or go directly to the donation page at mofundme.com. And of course, we really appreciate it if you get a modern podcast app because you never know, there might be some live video showing up from Mo in the future. So I'm just saying you want to be prepared. Thank you all for supporting us here. Episode 95 of Mo Facts with Adam Curry. All right, let's pick up where we left off at number 11.

2:28:16 11. Trade space for time. Retreat in the face of a strong enemy is a sign not of weakness, but of strength. By resisting the temptation to respond to an aggressor, you buy yourself valuable time, time to recover, to think, to gain perspective. Let your enemies advance. Time is more important than space. By refusing to fight, you infuriate them and feed their arrogance. They will soon overextend themselves and start making mistakes. Time will reveal them as rash and you as wise. Sometimes you can accomplish most by doing nothing. All right.

2:28:58 How do you place that in today's world? What you were talking about with technology. Yeah. Even for in 2006, that space time is almost instantaneously that they can get a message to you. Before it was about space, TV time, you had a 24-hour cycle. A channel could only show a certain amount of content. Now it's like I said, the propaganda reached you real time. Yeah, people don't take away from it. People, yeah, that same thing. People don't realize it. They don't realize what the some. I think sometimes you're fighting against bots. Don't even realize that.

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Strategy 25: Occupy the Moral High Ground

Strategy 25 focuses on appearing more just than the enemy. The hosts discuss Bill Gates through a "humanized" lens, suggesting he views his eugenics-adjacent goals as a moral crusade to save the world from "Mad Max" scenarios. They compare this cold-calculated math to the fictional character Thanos.

robert greene· bill gates· thanos· eugenics· moral terrain· population

2:33:06 Sam Brinton. Yeah, stealing African women designer clothes. Like, that's the thing. Like, we got to have a sacrifice. We ought to have something that's so in jail or anything. No. And Santos will be on the other side of that. Yeah. No, that's a perfect example. Oh, we'll give it, we'll give him, we'll give that guy up. No, you can have Santos. Nobody likes him anymore. Nobody wants Santos. All right. Onward. 13. Know your enemy. The target of your strategy should be less the army you face than the mind of the man or woman who runs it.

2:33:46 If you understand how that mind works, you have the key to deceiving and controlling it. Train yourself to read people, picking up the signals they unconsciously send about their innermost thoughts and intentions. A friendly front will let you watch them closely and mind them for information. Beware of projecting your own emotions and mental habits onto them. Try to think as they think. By finding your opponent's psychological weaknesses, you can work to unhinge their minds. Wow. Unhinge their mind. Well, this is the info mavericks in my mind.

2:34:26 How so? Well, they're being they're they're they're willing and they i'm sure that they get look just like they get all kinds of information from people you know anonymous but oh i know this guy and he's working there and this is what's really happening and i think that a lot of that seeps through and then you get that into the into the pools of the world and then that yeah that's part of it that's the friendly front and people glom on to that and and you can even see the effect of it you can see the whole the whole message going through the system this one i would like to bring to people's attention is do they know who their enemy is

2:35:08 seriously i know that's that's an open question do you really sit down like okay who means me well who means me harm i think me and you both get in trouble because we go against fan favorites just like i know once i find out or if i find out kanye is is taking the knee i gotta give him the same energy i gave everybody else with the bullet phone i mean i'm not a fan but i know how that's gonna be received too because it's like he's ours you know he's speaking truth to power not really you know i mean if it big if because i know they're already firing up the keyboards

2:35:52 but that that kind of thing do you know who your enemy is and i would say 90 of the time your enemy is yourself yes if not 99 of the time it's a scapegoat everybody else is a scapegoat you know how they say so-and-so lives rent free in your head there it is that's that's how the end that's a very effective enemy with this whole thing with the food and like you are talking about with the ozimpic and that kind of thing yeah you you create you created the proverbial you created a problem that you left for it up to them to solve yeah so can you really blame them

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Strategy 30: Penetrate Their Minds

Strategy 30 involves infiltrating ideas so people think they reached conclusions themselves. The hosts link this to the film Inception and the way social media distorts reality. They argue that people are so focused on recording "iconic moments" for their timelines that they fail to live in the actual moment.

robert greene· inception· persuasion· social media· reality· nostalgia

2:36:34 no at the end of the day you can like what kind of monster are you but you created this problem now we can look deeper and this is when knowing and i'm gonna wrap this up really quickly but this is why knowing your enemy is important because yes food noise is a real thing i i believe because it's nothing but a pavilovian response to food a chip bag generates a pavilovian response does it ever yes the reason why i know this is i own the dog whenever you crinkle that full bag

2:37:11 boom they come running and it's the same thing with humans yeah uh smell sense when we start talking about the bliss point they've engineered food to fire off you know your bliss point and make you a slave to it. Big time. So, yes. In fact, that's all they do now. They don't even put food in food. They just put all that stuff in. Flavor, texture, smell, taste. Right. So if you know who created that food that made you addicted, who's playing with your bliss point? Yeah. And if you stay complicit with them, then you're your own enemy. I can't add anything to that. Right on. 14. Overwhelm resistance with speed and suddenness.

2:37:54 In a world in which many people are indecisive and overly cautious, the use of speed will bring you untold power. Striking first before your opponents have time to think or prepare will make them emotional, unbalanced, and prone to error. When you follow with another swift and sudden maneuver, you will induce further panic and confusion. This strategy works best with a setup, a lull. Your unexpected action catches your enemy off guard. When you strike, hit with unrelenting force. Acting with speed and decisiveness will garner you respect, awe, and irresistible momentum.

2:38:34 I don't know why, but when I heard that clip, I thought of the Democrat person who's working in the Democrat senator's office with the gay sex tape in the Senate. Yeah. What a great move that was. It's the setup. It's the lull. Big time. And this is where I think we shine it. We can see the lull. You're saying, like, oh, okay. That's not the, that's not the play. That's just the setup. Definitely. And people emotionally react to the setup. It's like, oh, did you see that? Oh, did you see that?

2:39:17 It's like, no. Like, I'll give you, for instance, Deion Sanders, which we talked about on a previous show. I told you how that was going to end. They were going to bait him away from the HBCUs, put him in an environment, you're saying, just smothering with praise, and then he fails spectacularly. Now he's marginalized. How did I see that? Because it's the setup. It's not the play. It's the Hegelian dialect. It's problem, reaction, solution. People get so caught up on the problem that they become the reaction.

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Strategy 33: Sow Uncertainty and Panic

The final strategy, Strategy 33, describes terror as a way to paralyze the will to resist. The hosts conclude that in a "war of nerves" where everything is framed as a threat, an individual's rationality is their last line of defense. They emphasize that the podcast's goal is to provide a "therapeutic" re-centering for listeners.

robert greene· terror campaign· rationality· psychological defense· war of nerves

2:39:58 And I'll stop right there. I'm curious to see. And I think that video recording, which a dynamite op that was. The setup is, I think there may even be a second part to that setup. We just haven't seen it yet. There's more coming. You just did it there. It's like there's another shooter drop. To be continued. Yes. I know. It's not over. Go ahead. Sorry about that. 15. Control the dynamic. People are constantly struggling to control you, getting you to act in their interests, keeping the dynamic on their terms.

2:40:39 The only way to get the upper hand is to make your play for control more intelligent and insidious. Instead of trying to dominate the other side's every move, work to define the nature of the relationship itself. Shift the conflict to terrain of your choice, altering the pace and stakes to suit you. Maneuver to control your opponent's minds, pushing their emotional buttons and compelling them to make mistakes. If necessary, let them feel they are in control in order to get them to lower their guard. If you control the overall direction and framing of the battle, anything they do will play into your hands.

2:41:21 What you got? Okay, what comes up for me is Elizabeth Warren going against Bitcoin. I don't know why, but when I heard that, I'm like, oh, yeah. Everyone's reacting. I don't know if you follow that, but I missed that. The whole finance thing, I don't typically get into it. Okay, it's so she's not stupid. There's just no way you don't become a multi-millionaire and in the Senate for all these years by being stupid. Right. Yeah. And getting away with pretending you're Indian and all this stuff. She's not stupid. But she riles up the Bitcoin. I would say,

2:42:06 I don't like the term crypto, but the whole community to such a degree by saying things like, you know, Bitcoin's, crypto is only good for money laundering and illegal activity. And everyone goes off, you know, they just go crazy. And I'm, and I'm so sure that that is done to get people all riled up and focusing on, you know, something that is inherently a dumb thing to say. Because she knows. I mean, the best, the best monetary unit for corruption, for money laundering and for illegal activities, the U.S. dollar. I mean, cash, baby. It's the cash is king. It's universally known around the world.

2:42:46 You know, it's like that. We're not falling for this. Oh, yeah. Oh, boy. It looks like Hamas was financed by Bitcoin. I mean, they throw this stuff out and it distracts everybody from, you know, from their so-called mission of making Bitcoin accepted among it's just they perpetuate it. They retweet it. People, even more people get exposed to that lie. It's stupid. And so that to me is a very, is a tactic that is applied very successfully by Elizabeth Warren and Jamie Diamond from JP JP Morgan. Quickly, what it set up for me is

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Outro and Final Reflections

Adam and Mo wrap up the episode, reflecting on the value of their non-polarizing conversations. Mo reminds listeners to "pay attention to everything and the truth will reveal itself." The show ends with a musical track and a final sign-off as they look toward the remaining four episodes of the series.

adam curry· mo facts· episode 95· truth· podcasting· sign-off

2:43:24 the Fabian socialist. How they take two step forward and one step back. So they don't care about how long it takes to get where they're going. As long as they're moving forward, as long as you're moving forward, just like with the whole population bomb. They saw that bomb, no pun intended, you know, so they took a step back and let's okay, let's take two more steps forward with COVID or whatever. Let's take one step back. You know, it's this constant, they're always gaining space. They're always closing the gap, but it looks like they're in retreat at the same time. Right, right. Oh, and for sure.

2:44:08 Part of that may be this whole World Health Organization treaty, you know, the medical, the treaty they're talking about, which I think is real, but they're pushing and pushing and pushing. They'll draw back and it's been supposed to happen again. They draw back. And every single time they move a little bit forward. Yes. All right. And that's like I said, that's the lock you up for, lock you up and then let you out in the summer. Yes, exactly. We're going to let you take the mask off for the summertime. 16. Hit them where it hurts. Everyone has a source of power on which he or she depends.

2:44:50 When you look at your rivals, search below the surface for that source, the center of gravity that holds the entire structure together. That center can be their wealth, their popularity, a key position, a winning strategy. Hitting them there will inflict disproportionate pain. Find what the other side most cherishes and protects. That is where you must strike. Yeah, I think this is where they get Trump every single time when they tell him that he's not rich, tell him that he didn't have the biggest crowd. And I think that's because whenever he goes against that, everyone gets annoyed by it.