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Dan
Hello, it's Dan and Andy here from no Such Thing as a Fish, your favorite new podcast that you haven't heard yet.
Andy
That's right, we are a podcast that's been going 10 years, and each week we bring four of the best facts we've heard that week to the table to blow each other's minds as well as yours.
Dan
Here's a fact, Dan. Did you know that the people of Iceland can use 95% of a COD?
Andy
Okay.
Dan
They're just working on that last 5%.
Andy
If you want to find out how they do that, why they do that, and why we're talking about that, check out no Such Thing as a Fish wherever you get your podcasts.
Dan
Now, I should say, despite my fact having cod in it, this is not a podcast about fish. It's about everything. I just happened to pick one of the worst and most confusing facts possible.
Clayton Morris
Tara. Wake up, everybody. Welcome to Redacted. I'm Clayton Morris.
Natalie Morris
I'm Natalie Morris.
Clayton Morris
And on this show, we try to help you navigate the simulation that it appears we're all living in right now and cover the stories the mainstream media is largely ignoring. Like, one of the big stories of the past few days is this mass, massive act of violence that occurred on the light rail in Charlotte, North Carolina. Of course, this happened on August 22, but it's come to light thanks to social media. Why is the liberal media totally ignoring this story? And we're learning some unbelievable details about the judge in the case who released this individual who'd been there 14 times, arrested. So we're gonna get to the bottom of that story today.
Natalie Morris
Plus, hey, Sugas virus, Chagas disease. The CDC has declared it an endemic and are calling for vaccines. Okay, we're gonna look at that and see whether or not we need to freak out. I'm gonna show you the data on this. Are you. Are you freaking out about it?
Clayton Morris
No, as. But they always want us to have these freakouts. But I am a little freaked out about what's happening right now with the brics. So the BRICS has just convened an emergency meeting in Brazil. Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin there, as well as Lula because of what the United States is doing around tariffs and sanctions. But also, this is a big move away from the US Dollar and away from the US and the swift system. So. And Scott Benson, the Treasury Secretary, said they are prepared to fully tank Russia's economy. So there's an economic war unfolding, and brics just holding this emergency meeting. We're going to talk about that.
Natalie Morris
We're also going to talk about sextortion because FinCEN, the United States Financial Crimes Unit, is saying this is a big deal. We're going to teach you what that is, if you didn't already know. And what you can do about it is basically nothing other than to make yourself strong enough to handle it. All right, so that's what we're going to look at. It's not a fun story. So all of that and more coming up. But before we get to all of that, we want to tell you about our friends over at American Financing. Because if you've been living on high interest credit cards to cover your expenses, groceries, gas, bills, you know those interest rates are brutal. Why keep paying 20% or more to the banks when you can leverage your assets and learn how to do that with our friends over at American Financing. They have mortgage rates in the fives with which is relatively good considering what we've collectively been through in the last five years. They're showing people every day how to keep more of their hard earned money and take their power from the credit unions, credit card companies. Rather. Right now, American Financing is helping homeowners save an average of $800 a month by using their home equity to wipe out high interest debt with no upfront fees and no obligations. Just a 10 minute call to a salary based mortgage consultant. And here's the kicker. You can delay two mortgage payments when you do it. Give yourself some bre. Can you imagine? So don't wait. Call them at 866-890-8434 or go to americanfinancing.netacted one more time. That's American financing.netacted and you know, it takes a lot of study. When you study personal finance, you don't get scared of this kind of thing. You just say, huh, what's that about? Can I learn it? And can I make a good decision on whether or not that's worth it for my family? You don't see every kind of offer like this as terrifying. It's just something new to learn. So strap on your big boy boots and learn this. It's a great leveraging tool. American Financing.net redacted NMLS number for American Financing is 182334 and you can look that up on nmlsconsumeraccess.org APR rates for the fives start in the fives and go up to 6.327 for well qualified buyers. So call them again. 866-890-8434.
Clayton Morris
All right, thank you Grim for Pointing that out or Philip, I forget who said that. Okay. All right. Well, liberal media has ignored the train tack the train attack because it doesn't fit the narrative. A horrifying murder in North Carolina last month is only now servicing happened on August 22 thanks to social media only because alternative outlets have really forced this issue. 23 year old Ukrainian woman Irina Zarutska was stabbed to death while riding the train in the liberal city of Charlotte, North Carolina. You can watch the guy behind her of course pulls out a knife, slashes her right in the head into the artery. A fatal blow, which was a completely unprovoked attack. She wasn't bothering anybody, she was just riding the train. He pulls out a small pocket knife and stabs her in the neck, severing her carotid artery. And then of course she was gone, dead. It's absolutely gut wrenching to watch this. It's horrifying. But what's almost as disturbing, you won't find this story. Actually CNN finally, just right before our show finally reported this story happened August 22nd. The New York Times, the Washington Post, any of the other so called media, legacy media or mainstream media outlets wouldn't, wouldn't report this story. Not a single headline, nothing like they've completely ignored this story, end wokeness, published this and found out. Just go to the Associated Press's website, do a search for George Floyd. You'll get 74,000 results. Type in the Ukrainian woman's name Irina Zarutska and you'll get zero woman killed by this black thug. Zero results. Can't talk about it. Go to the New York Times website, search for Irina Zarutska. Zero results. Matthew Van Swell posted this. Elon Musk retweeted it. Here's a list of all the news networks who have not covered the Charlotte, North Carolina story. New York Times, CNN. Now finally just a few minutes ago did Washington Post, msnbc, npr, USA Today, Reuters, Axios, ABC News, pbs. Every single one of them wrote stories on Daniel Penny. Do you get it yet? He says so now you ask your the real question is why? Imagine if the roles were reversed, if a white man with a history of violent crime who'd been arrested 14 times murdered a young black woman in cold blood on public transit. It would dominate the front pages. It'd be all over CNN. CNN's Abby Phillips would host a whole panel discussion about racism in America. And it's the greatest stain in America is racism. There would be marches, there would be hashtags and wall to wall media coverage of this. But in this case, silence. Or in fact, worse than silence. A spinning of this narrative. Axios did write a story. Here's their story, though. Blaming MAGA influencers rather than the black man who killed a young white lady. Here's their headline. Grisly Charlotte stabbing Video fuels maga's crime message. What's the message from maga? That there's too much of it.
Natalie Morris
So they're focusing on the violence.
Clayton Morris
Heaven forbid we should focus on the fact that there is too much of it.
Natalie Morris
Right. Or the victim, which you would think, you know, she ticks a box. They care about Ukrainians. They still do. So you at least would think that would get her some kind of sympathy or outrage or something like that.
Clayton Morris
And videos, photos published surfaced today of her in her bedroom. Like, just on social media. She's just hanging out in her bedroom. She's got a big Black Lives Matter poster hanging in her bedroom. You think that maybe the liberal media would have been like, hey, it's one of us.
Natalie Morris
Yeah, she's one of us. She's one of us. No, instead it's, if you care about this, you are an extremist.
Clayton Morris
So here's the Axios sub headline here. Here's their. What do you call this? A byline? I don't know what you would call this, but their. Their summary of their article says the gruesome video of the fatal knife attack on Areza Ruska on a light rail car in North Charlotte, North Carolina, is drawing attention from MAGA influencers seeking to elevate the issue of violent urban crime and accuse mainstream media of undercovering shocking cases.
Natalie Morris
But are those things true?
Clayton Morris
That's all. Both of those things are true.
Natalie Morris
Was there a violent urban. Yes. Yes, there was. Do we know if it's an epidemic? Well, we should be looking for that. That's a. That's a worthy question of answering across.
Clayton Morris
Many cities in the United States of America. Go ahead, Philip.
Philip
I was gonna say. Well, look, compare this to. To the. I'm sure you remember the. The stabbing on the Portland train, like, maybe four or five years ago, where there was a white guy that was harassing a couple of. Of. I believe they were Muslim women, and some guys stepped in to get the guy off of him, and, like, he ended up stabbing him and killing one of the guys. And it was like a big hero story, and they stepped up to this racist and all that stuff. Was that. Was that MAGA driven as well, or. I'm just trying to. I'm trying to figure out what boxes to tick.
Natalie Morris
When can we care. Can you just give us a Venn diagram or something?
Clayton Morris
Axios, can you let us know, like, when is it okay for us to call attention to this? And by the way, it's not just MAGA influencers. It's anyone who gives a rat's ass about their cities across the United States. We're not MAGA on this show. We're independent.
Natalie Morris
But to their. If they're trying to hit you with maga. Right. So if. If you don't want to be labeled maga, you're supposed to say, this is fine. That's. This is cool. I'm not worried about this at all. It happened. It doesn't happen a lot.
Clayton Morris
Great. One of those things Gray Sky Media says, hey, redacted, is just reporting about this. So how are they any better? Well, we also didn't have a show all weekend and we haven't had a show since Thursday. And this just surfaced over the weekend. So we didn't learn about this until it happened this weekend or when actually this video started surfacing online. So we didn't even know about this story. But we've been covering the violent crime in Chicago. But of course, that's part of the MAGA message about violent crime. So this happened on August 22nd. Why wasn't this covered on any of the national media? Why didn't cnn? Why didn't cnn, who has a headquarters in the south, feel the need to cover this? They don't have any report. Where are the local news stations, like in Charlotte, North Carolina, and liberal Charlotte, North. Can you believe that? I'm saying that. That North Carolina is now a liberal state, like liberal Charlotte, North Carolina, run by a liberal government there. So all the silence tells you everything you need to know. Totally ignoring the victim, totally ignoring how whites are disproportionately attacked by black people across the country. Why? Hey, that's not racist. That's just a fact.
Natalie Morris
Well, that's who whites are victimized by. But the largest victim group is blacks.
Clayton Morris
Well, black on Black, of course. 100%.
Natalie Morris
We should. We should make that clear. We absolutely care about that, too.
Clayton Morris
Yeah, but the mainstream media doesn't seem to care at all about that.
Natalie Morris
Nope.
Clayton Morris
And they'll call you a racist for calling out that. Why are so many blacks killing so many blacks? You're racist. Okay. Oh, I'm just telling you what the facts are. That's not racist. It's simply the facts. By a 61:6 to 1 ratio, whites are violently attacked by blacks. Can you talk about that or is it you're racist. Oh, but you can't say that because then you'll have a problem. You know, then they'll. They'll jump all over you. But friend of the show Kasayin Asiadu is a brilliant man. He nailed it when the mayor. The mayor even said, we can't talk about this because of the thug's mental illness. Listen to Kaizen.
Kasayin Asiadu
Our empathy keeps getting used to excuse evil and it's literally killing us. Yesterday I showed you how liberal media ignored a black man murdering a white Ukrainian woman and the racial double standard in reporting. Today I saw the mayor's statement. She called this a tragic situation that sheds light on problems with society's safety nets. Said the killer has long struggled with mental health and suffered a crisis. Said we shouldn't villainize those who struggle with mental health and that mental health disease needs to be treated with the same compassion as cancer. There was no mention of the killer's criminal record. This is a textbook emotional argument. When someone does evil, we get told to be empathetic. Emphasis is placed on systemic issues outside of their control rather than the factors within their control. We're lectured about not villainizing them. We get told to call them unhoused instead. Changing the terms instead of fixing the problem.
Clayton Morris
Exactly. So it's racist to point out that this guy was arrested for.
Natalie Morris
You can't be upset about this.
Clayton Morris
You're not allowed to be upset because you had a history of mental illness. You're not allowed to be upset about.
Natalie Morris
This stigmatizing the killer, which we must not do.
Clayton Morris
I don't care if he's white, black, brown. I don't give a rat's ass if he's been locked up 14 times like this guy. Take a look. 14. He's been arrested 14 times. And that's the woman that was killed 14 times. You let him out. Is it racist to point out that the judge who let him out might have also been profiting from letting these mentally ill criminals back on the street? Oh, yeah. Maybe that's a part of the story they won't tell you. Here she is, Teresa Stokes, the judge. She's also apparently moonlighting as the director of operations at a taxpayer funded Second Chance Services, allegedly a mental health and addiction clinic in Charlotte, North Carolina. So do you guys see where this is going? She lets him back out on the street with court mandated services at a clinic that she runs called Second Chance Services, which are paid for by taxpayers of North Carolina. So that's her resume there. She's also a magistrate judge and Director of operations at Second Chance Services. So you see, she's a judge also currently working at this clinic or overseeing. And how is this not a conflict of interest by the way? The court is a feeder program, it turns out for that lets judges like Stokes profit off of these criminals or these clinics profiting off of these criminals. We don't know. We don't know yet how much she money she's made off of it. So don't put them in jail, just put them in your clinic. Let him back out on the streets. That needs to be investigated right now. Harmeet Dhillon at the DOJ just announced they are investigating the city and whether this judge used any sort of race based merit decision system to let him out. Like, hey, lock up the white people. Let this guy out so he can run free and then go into one of our clinics. Elon Musk just tweeted this. Let's change the law between now and then. Name and shame the DA's and judges who enable murder, rape and robbery, but especially shame those who funded the campaigns of DA's and judges that will make the biggest difference, he says. So thoughts, concerns?
Natalie Morris
I don't have a knee jerk reaction to that. I want to think that through. I do know that in Jay Christian Adams book he talked about how the Department of Justice regularly would go and, you know, sue cities that they thought were over victimizing black people and the cities would just fold because it was a Department of justice case and they thought, well, this will be expensive to be sued by the government. So then the DOJ would mandate that these cities donate to these liberal institutions. So it basically was like a wealth transfer to say the NAACP or these homeless shelters. And this has been a scheme that's been going on for a really long time. You know, how complicit are these judges? It's worth looking into. I think that we need a real investigation into. Yeah, why that's allowed. Are they actually. Is it wealth transfer into these liberal institutions? Because it happened ad nauseam and it was really expensive for the taxpayers during the Obama years.
Clayton Morris
Well, good point. And that's what Harmeet Dillon is looking into. So is there. He's arrested. I have a knee jerk reaction. This guy's arrested 14 times and he's allowed to go back out on the streets. And now, I mean, I'm gonna hold this judge accountable. This judge is accountable for this man being free on the streets and killing a woman 14 times. The system failed her. The system failed her family and he should have been locked up and he shouldn't have been allowed to flow back money. So taxpayers are footing the bill for him to go to some sort of mental health clinic.
Natalie Morris
Yeah. I guess what bothers me is I want to think through what is this tactic that Elon Musk is saying name and shame these judges? Is that. Would it work? I mean, a lot of these are elected. If they are elected, vote them out.
Clayton Morris
Well, I don't want any kind. I don't want any kind of violence against any kind of judges. We saw that against the Supreme Court judges and stuff. I don't want anything like that.
Natalie Morris
Right. This is what's giving me pause.
Clayton Morris
But Harmey Dhillon at the DOJ investigating where this money is flowing from. And two, I absolutely want that.
Natalie Morris
Sure. I'm quite like her. I have a big fan.
Clayton Morris
She's. Yeah, sure. Good, good, good people. All right, let's talk about this. You want to talk about this?
Natalie Morris
No, I want to do the next one. You do?
Clayton Morris
Okay. All right. So, hey, I don't know if you guys saw. The French government has just collapsed. About two hours ago, the French government collapsed, and now they are demanding impeachment or the resignation of Emmanuel Macron. The entire country will be brought to a standstill, basically, in the next two days, protests erupting. I just heard from sources a few minutes ago saying it's about to get really bad. And where they are in Paris, it's getting bad. People are taking to the streets to demand change.
Dr. Kirk Elliott
Listen, what we did today, that is overthrow a government is a victory for the popular mobilization during the summer. In two days, we will have a major movement. Tomorrow we will ask for impeachment of Macron. The problem for the country is, Mr. Macron.
Clayton Morris
The day after tomorrow, we will be in the streets to block the country's economy to say this is enough. So the government collapsed following the defeat of Prime Minister Francois Beirut. In a no confidence vote held this morning, Beirut, who had served for just nine months, secured only 194 votes in favor of 364 against, which was all about the budget specifically. They, you know, so the French government opened their borders, allowed illegal immigrants to pour into that country, totally destroying that country, by the way. Thought it would be a good idea then to, at the same time that's happening, propose an austerity package so that the French people would have to face tax hikes basically in order to cover all of the amounts of criminals and immigrants that have poured into the country to support them.
Natalie Morris
It makes me incredibly sad. The hardworking people of France are stolen from every day. And the government makes their life harder and harder. Their most beautiful city has turned into an armpit. And this is a tax on the working class. It continues. And it's. I mean, it's Les Miserables right in front of our faces.
Clayton Morris
Is it shocking that the people wouldn't want an austerity package? Like, hey, you're gonna increase our taxes, but you're gonna cut spending. And also you're gonna eliminate two public holidays. Hey, here's an idea. Why don't you close your borders? Why don't you stop funding a war in Ukraine? Just a few ideas. No, no. So this is why the government's collapsing. It's not gonna work. So Beirut is out. He's scheduled to resign tomorrow. Then President Emmanuel Macron now faces the urgent task of appointing a fifth prime minister in just less than two years. But this is like too little too late for this country. The people have had enough. People across France are already taking to the streets to demand change. So will Macron be out and will Macron's husband be out as well?
Natalie Morris
Well, the CDC is warning about an endemic of Chagas disease and the media has picked it up with mad hysteria. If you haven't seen it already, you're gonna. Here's the CDC's announcement from this study of cases over the last few months. Is it time to be hysterical? Well, let's put some perspective on this. Chagas is a parasitic infection caused by a certain type of bacteria. It's more common in animals than humans, but it can cause heart problems if you do get it as a human and as an animal. Now, first of all, note the timing on this because in March of this year, March of 2025, the Lancet published the this. They're saying we really need a vaccine for Chagas because. But it's really hard to do because there are six main groups of DTUs with this type of disease and various severity. But two things, there are successful treatments with this. If your dog were to get it, the vet would not even freak out. There are human anti parasitics that we can take too. Ivermectin has been shown to be effective against this type of bacteria in mice. Also this paper, if you read it, is calling for vaccine trials on poor people, but notes that it could infect people with heart inflammation. Now, it is admitting here, if you read it, that therapeutic vaccines would be tested on poor rural populations in Latin America. Okay? Because that's where the disease burden is high. But they also acknowledge that some of these participants will have heart Inflammation and stimulating their immune system with a vaccine could make that worse. In other words, they want to trial an experimental vaccine on the poorest and sickest patients, even though we already have effective drugs. So what will they do with that? Well, what they're saying is, we know this could be dangerous, but we really want a vaccine, even though we already have therapeutics. And in order to get that vaccine, we want the WHO to declare that Chagas is an endemic. Well, the WHO has not done that yet, but the CDC did it. They did it on cue. So that timing is very curious, right? Did they need to do it? Well, the CDC is not saying that we have increased cases of Chagas. What they mean by an endemic. And it's interesting that I'm more curious about the word endemic than what Chagas actually is. Because of COVID which was called a pandemic long before the numbers justified that. And then we learned that that confirmed cases was confirmed in immeasurable ways or unreliable ways. So when they say endemic, they mean that it's at a baseline level, it is established in a community, and it kind of stays there at expected levels. But note what the CDC is saying. They're not saying we see more. They're saying they may have observed increasing evidence, but they don't have more cases. So why are they saying this? It's a. It's normal. It's at normal levels. So it's an endemic. And the media runs with hysterics. That's weird, right? So it's worth remembering this when they invite us to panic, which they are doing now. Humans do get it. Now look how the Los Angeles Times is covering this. They're saying that between 70 and 100,000 Californians may have it, and we don't know until they get a heart attack or stroke. That's a lie. I'm going to show that to you in a second. And also, we don't know the case numbers because it's not a reportable disease in California. Only in two counties, Los Angeles and San Diego, do they have to report it. So we literally don't know. They're going off the cuff. Okay? And again, there are treatments and they're scaring us. What they said if we could put that LA Times screen back on. They're saying most people don't know until they have a heart attack or stroke. That's not true. There are symptoms of this. You can get fever, fatigue, swollen lymph nodes. You actually have to be bitten by a bug, and then you're sick after. So that's kind of a clue. You would have digestive problems. It is not a phantom disease with zero signs. Remember during COVID we were talking about asymptomatic carriers, that kind of thing. That should sound now like a familiar scare tactic. And it is. And again, there are anti parasitic drugs like benznidazole and also the wellness company, which one is one of our show sponsors, although this is not a sponsored segment, says that Mebadanzil. I don't know if I'm saying that right. Benzadol and Ivermectin can also kill parasitic worms and has been shown to be an effective treatment in Chagas. In mice.
Clayton Morris
Yeah. A bunch of people in our chat are like, yeah, Ivermectin would take this thing out, no problem.
Natalie Morris
We do have data that that happens in animals. We don't have data that it happens in or I have not seen it in humans. And if you have, please do send it. But again, Ivermectin was a reliable medicine before that we weren't allowed to know about. So can we know about this now while we're still allowed to know about it? And these drugs that the wellness company is saying are not actually mainstream medicine, but they do have research behind them. So again, since we already know that these drugs have been used, it's worth keeping that in mind as the hysteria about Chagas heats up. Now one more thing. Is it Chagas?
Clayton Morris
Horse pace.
Natalie Morris
Oh, okay. Sorry. Yes. Horse paste. Okay, now this is just me being hysterical. I'm going to admit this to you and you decide if you want to join me in this. Because the one thing that does cause me concern is when the CDC says where they find this disease the most is in companion animals, especially dogs. Which is true, because dogs are susceptible to this. But your vet wouldn't be concerned about this. They would just give you an anti pacific parasitic. The fact that they're saying this is what gets my spidey sense up. Because remember in China they took, they tried to kill dogs because of COVID and, and hamsters and things like that. What they're saying is that they need to do advanced studies on domestic animals. And I'm thinking that this may eventually give them license to say, oh, you know, if your dog has Chagas, this is some kind of endemic, we need to take your dog, that kind of thing. There's no indication they would do this. It's just what scares me when the government says here that they want to do some advanced study on animals. And again, your vet could treat this right so why. So look for symptoms. That's one thing you can do. Keep in mind there are curatives. If you want to panic, as the media invites you to do, you can. I'm not gonna. But let me know how you're gonna react to this. I just want you to have the data now that it's out there.
Clayton Morris
All right, Coming up, we're gonna talk about more panic. President Trump just tweeted, actually posted on Truth Social about vaccines and kind of blowing up right now. People can't believe it, what President Trump just said about them posting a video that highlights the poison and toxins that are found in tetanus shots and flu shots and all of that. But we're gonna talk about that, plus RFK going after Tylenol with a big announcement that's coming up. We're going to talk about all of that and more. And plus, we're going to talk about the brics convening an emergency meeting and what that means for the US Dollar. What does this mean for the Russian economy? Actually, we're going to talk about all of that and more. But first, the swamp. Their allies in Big Pharma know that this is a healthy, energized population. It's harder, very hard to control. That's why unelected bureaucrats at the FDA are working overtime right now. This is why you're seeing a big push to get all these people out of the cdc and these people that have been there under Biden and Obama, they're trying to put NMN in the hands of Big Pharma and out of yours. Now, NMN is the nicotinamide mononucleotide, is a natural supplement which is vital for the functioning of 37 trillion cells in your body. Here's Professor David Sinclair talking about this from Harvard. Listen, what is nmn?
Professor David Sinclair
Good question. So let me take a quick step back. So about 20 years ago, Lenny Guarenti and a team of us at MIT discovered a set of genes that controls aging in yeast cells. Just raw yeast, what you find in beer and bread. And those genes are called sirtuins. And there are seven of them in our bodies, five in yeast. And what they do is they protect all organisms on the planet, plants, bacteria, humans, from deterioration and disease. They're like the Pentagon. They sense when we're hungry, sense when we're exercising, and they send out the troops to defend us. So when you. When you put more of these genes into a yeast cell or a mouse, they'll live longer. Between 5 to 20% longer. And so we think that these genes are responsible for the effects of dieting and exercise, which is great. What that means is we can now mimic that with molecules. So NMN is one of those molecules. So is resveratrol.
Clayton Morris
So NMN works So well, the FDA wants to pull it from shelves. And on September 30th, they'll decide whether it stays as a supplement or it gets reclassified as a drug. They want to take it away from you. And Professor Sinclair also explains more about this and why it's key to vitality and longevity. Watch.
Professor David Sinclair
Get this. So sirtuins need NAD to work. Without them, they don't work. In fact, if you don't have NAD in your body, you'd be dead in about 30 seconds. It's a really important molecule, but as we get older, we lose NAD. So by the time you're 50, like I almost am, you have about half the levels of once what you have when you're 20.
Clayton Morris
Now, to stay strong and sharp as you age, you need NAD and nmn. It's the most effective way to boost it. That's why the FDA wants big Pharma to control it. And for the next 48 hours, our friends over at Black Forest Supplements offering you buy one, get one free deal so you can stock up before restrictions hit. Blackforestsupplements.com redacted again. They're coming after it September 30th of this year. For the next 48 hours, buy one, get one free. Go to blackforestsupplements.com.
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Dan
Hello, it's Dan and Andy here from no Such Thing as a Fish, your favorite new podcast that you haven't heard yet.
Andy
That's right, we are a podcast that's been going 10 years. And each week we bring more four of the best facts we've heard that week to the table to blow each other's minds as well as yours.
Dan
Here's a fact, Dan, did you know that the People of ICELAND can use 95% of a COD.
Clayton Morris
Okay.
Dan
They're just working on that last 5%.
Andy
If you want to find out how they do that, why they do that, and why we're talking about that, check out no Such thing as a Fish wherever you get your podcasts.
Dan
Now, I should say, despite my fact having cod in it, this is not a podcast about fish. It's about everything. I just happened to pick one of the worst and most confusing facts possible.
Clayton Morris
Tara, Someone in their chat room just asked, hey, can we cover what's happening in Serbia? We're working on that. In fact, I did a whole. I covered a lot of what's going on there this weekend in Serbia. And they're saying, you know, the globalist takeover of that country. Absolutely. And I, I, the whole point of the video this weekend was that there's the, that is the nexus. That is the focus of everything right now, the Balkans, and it's becoming the sort of globalist playground. So our, our hearts go out to the people of Serbia. I was there not too long ago reporting on what it was like on the ground in Serbia. And so, yes, we have a lot of friends in Serbia, so we will cover that story. All right, well, something big is happening, and the BRICS nations are holding an emergency meeting right now in Brazil to deal with it. Russian President Putin, China's Xi Jinping are attending this meeting. And the focus, we're told, is the BRICS response to Trump's tariffs and sanctions and most importantly, the threat to their new multipolar order. Moving away from the Swift system. The US doesn't like that. The west doesn't like that. Remember, just last week in China, Putin, Modi, and Xi laid out their new plans for a multipolar world order. They're basically done with the US Dollar and the Swift system and so much more. But something else is on Putin's mind. What happens to the $37 trillion debt that the United States is currently sitting on right now? Well, this weekend, Russia started sounding the alarm about what the United States is going to do with all of that debt. Russia says America is going to push everyone into crypto using a stable coin strategy scheme, which we've covered here over the past two years on this show, and then devalue the currency once everyone is, like, moved over to this stablecoin structure. Watch this. This is in Russian, but I'll read that the US Is now trying to rewrite the markets. Remember the size of their debt? 35 trillion. It's actually 37, but gold and crypto are alternatives to the traditional global currency system. Watching nations in this area clearly highlight one of its main goals. As in the 1930s and 70s, US plans to solve its financial problems this time by pushing everyone into the crypto cloud. Over time, with one part of the US national debt is placed into stable coins. Washington will devalue that debt. Well, we've been warning about that for over a year now on this show. Dr. Kirk Elliott has been sounding the alarm for a while now about what's coming. This is an existential moment right now for the US dollar. So you know, you gotta watch people when they're, when that's an existential threat. Dr. Elliott, great to have you here on the show finally. Welcome.
Dr. Kirk Elliott
Well, it's great to be with both of you. Thanks for having me on.
Clayton Morris
Our pleasure. So what is your. First of all, I wanna get your take. First of all, on this BRICS emergency meeting, we're hearing a lot of blustering from the White House. We're hearing a lot of back and forth right now and this movement away from the SWIFT system. So why this emergency meeting and what does it portend for us?
Dr. Kirk Elliott
Well, when you look at why they're doing it is because a Trump is actually being successful in a lot of his tariffs, right? If you look at the Chinese exports to America, they're down 33% since the tariffs started. So it's like, who, who is China in the world and who is America? China is the supplier, America is the consumer. So if you're the supplier, you have to have demand. So they're getting ticked, right? It's like a rabid dog backed into a corner and they're going to start blustering saying we need to safeguard multilateralism, defend fairness and justice, promote common development, right? Everything. Which are the buzzwords to the globalized community, Right. However, has China ever acted that way before? It's like no in action. They don't act like that. But so what's interesting is when you look at what today Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ling Zhang said, and let's listen to this quote, I'm just going to repeat it, say China stands ready to work with other parties to further act on the BRICS spirit of openness, inclusiveness, win win cooperation, promote high quality development of greater BRICS cooperation and jointly work for a more just and equitable global governance system. Does that sound like China? No, it doesn't. Right. So what they're doing is they're mad because they are losing face. Now if you go back two years to the BRICS symposium, the one that started in Durban, South Africa a couple years ago. What was Putin's opening statement then to the world? He said, we're going to de dollarize the world. That's our objective and it's irreversible. Have they been successful in that so far? Well, what's the dollar done so far? Year to date, it's down over 10%. So I would say the demand for the dollar is diminishing rapidly. I mean, literally, this is supposed to be the stable currency of the world. Well, when you look at the amount of stimulus money and debt and unrelenting printing, right? It's like, of course nobody's going to want that, right? So I mean, I wouldn't. So what is a way that Trump could actually counterbalance that? Right? And you're going to see people on both sides argue for and against this, right? But with the issuance of like the stablecoin bill and the genius hack and all these things, right, it's like we are going to actually issue stablecoin, which is a currency backed token on the blockchain, right? So, so you can have a decentralized version of that or you can have central bank digital currency, which is all about command and control with the government in charge of everything that, that you buy and sell and the source of funds and use of funds. And if they don't like you because of your race, your political ideology, your religious ideology, whatever, they can cut you off. This is your digital social profile, your social credit score, right? Nobody wants that. That's Big Brother in your bank account. So going to the decentralized blockchain, it's digital, right? Which is what a lot of people hate. But he's created demand for the US Dollar where there wasn't one before, right? In the decentralized blockchain. So this is what China and Russia are actually pretty ticked about. It's like, wait a second, we want to be the world's reserve currency. We want to bring to the world our system where the BRICS common currency replaces the US dollar. And what did Trump just do? He basically said the stablecoin, which is backed by the US dollar and through these bills that were signed, you've now got the USDC circles version of a stablecoin backed by the US dollar. Tether's USDT, Trump's World Liberty USD1, PayPal, Gemini Ripple's version. They all have the US dollar that's attached to a token. Well, that's creating demand for a dollar that was sinking like a Ship because of government spending that's out of control because of high taxation, because of a faltering economy after the Biden administration. And so it's who's going to want the BRICS currency? Right. Let's just say the BRICS did have a stablecoin backed by their currency. Who would want it? Right. A nobody trusts most of the countries in the BRICS nations. Their economies are falling apart. This is why the US dollar is over 90% of stablecoin issuances around the world. So what Trump is doing, in my opinion, is creating demand for a currency where there wasn't any before. Because it's not just spending right now. It goes back decades or 100 years of unrelenting printing of money to provide stimulus for everything under the sun. And that's devalued our dollar.
Natalie Morris
But it doesn't address the root causes of the things that you just said. Devalue our dollar, like expansive government and government spending and war spending and whatnot. So wouldn't this catch up with the stablecoin philosophy? Wouldn't that eventually put us in the same place?
Dr. Kirk Elliott
Yes, eventually. Because what you have to do is look at both sides of the balance sheet, right? You've got the revenue, the demand for the dollar on one side, and you've got the spending on the other side, right? So if you don't ultimately slow down the spending, you'll ultimately sink the ship down the road. This is what's not happening right now. They are not slowing down the spending train. They're spending like drunken sailors. No offense to drunken sailors, but they're spending way more than them. But creating the demand for the dollar through the stablecoin is actually going to actually lengthen and prolong the time. Hopefully, that demand will overcome the spending. But if you don't cut spending, I don't care how much money you make, ultimately the cost of servicing that debt will sink the ship eventually.
Natalie Morris
Right? Calvin Coolidge famously said, every dollar I spend is something that the American people then have to work harder for. It is a tax on the working class. And what keeps me up at night is that will continue. And we are paying to kill people and to lecture the world about DEI and things like that. And it is making the American workers life harder. And I just can't stomach it. Want to punch the camera, but not you. I'm not mad at you.
Dr. Kirk Elliott
And Putin's representative, what did he say? He said that there's this. This event down the road to devalue the US Dollar and sink everybody's ship that's involved in crypto and in gold. Right. So, so when you look at both the rapid advancement of crypto and gold and silver, right. All, all, what does that signify? They're completely different things. One is tangible, one is digital. But fundamentally they're driven by the same issue, which is we don't trust the government, we don't trust our banking system. We want out, we want out of the Federal Reserve System and they're going into the crypto or into physical gold and silver, which is why gold's up 39% year to date, silver's up 42% year to date. Much of the crypto is up much higher than that. But that to me, that is a bigger underlying issue. It's the fundamental driver in people's psyches, right? It's in their head. They say I don't trust what's been. I want something that's new because I don't trust the government, I don't trust the banks, I want to go this route, right? So if you go digital money, which, let's face it, Clayton, we're going to digital money whether we like it or not, are you going to want central bank digital currency which is complete government control or something that's more private, which is decentralized blockchain. Now pros and cons to all of these things, right? I'm a big huge proponent of tangible assets like gold and silver because they're really is no manipulation to supply in the sense of, yeah, you can short it, you can manipulate it for a while, but ultimately when places like Sony, Samsung, lg, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, all these solar providers need silver or metals to actually build something, they don't ultimately care what the cost is. So they're going to drive the price up because supply is diminishing, it's going away and they're just going to pass that on to the consumer. So I like tangible assets a lot. And when you look at where we are headed, I think the days are numbered for central banking as we know it, for fiat based money creation that's just printed at whim. This is why what you addressed earlier about France, this is one of the main reasons why socialist France, where you pay higher taxes your whole life to get a retirement, they're saying, well, we're going to have to have austerity measures, you're not going to be able to get your retirement right now or we're going to diminish your benefits. Ultimately the people act almost like a parasite on the government money when the Government runs out of money, then you're going to have conflict and riots and protests and looting and everything else.
Clayton Morris
Exactly. And as someone in our chat just said, I, I don't trust, I don't, I don't trust blockchain and central bank digital currencies and all of this. When the power goes out, you can't get your money. I'd much rather trust gold and silver for sure.
Dr. Kirk Elliott
It's a very interesting.
Clayton Morris
We're watching it. Yeah. We're going to see what happens with this BRICS meeting. And Scott Benson, the Treasury Secretary, also just coming out saying they're ready to tank, tank Russia's economy in response. So, yeah, we are in this.
Natalie Morris
Yeah. Gosh, no, I really liked your contribution here. I just want this revolution to happen already.
Dr. Kirk Elliott
I'm mad it's happening and I'm impatient it's happening.
Clayton Morris
Hey, before we let you go, we had some dissent in the chat room saying, hey, we like Dr. Elliott, but I think he's wrong on the world stage right now that Russia's economy is not collapsing and China's economy is fine. But I agree with you on China. I think there's a lot of trouble in the Chinese economy that's not being talked about. But Russia, GDP growing, where do you come down on that? It seems. Are you seeing both of them? Brazil, India, they're all sort of collapsing on the, on the BRICS side.
Dr. Kirk Elliott
None of them are doing good and what they want is cooperation together. Right? So what, what Russia needs to really be successful is exploding oil prices. Right? So, so here's where OPEC gets involved. And many of the OPEC producing nations are now part of brics, or at least periphery companies, you know, countries as part of brics. So what do they do? Sometimes it's like, well, boy, we really want to get to the West. We're going to cut production to cause the prices to go up. When they cut production, they really hurt themselves. Right? So, so here's where Russia is so heavenly or just massively dependent on oil, gas, other raw materials. And so when Trump puts tariffs on Russia on all of these raw materials and these goods, it impacts them greatly. So I would disagree with that. I think Russia's economy is impacted greatly by tariffs, which is why they push back a lot. Right. They're pushing back right now because they want fairness and they want multinational cooperation rather than this unilateral type trade that they view Trump as trying to overtake the world. Trump was just trying to level the playing field because it's been so Unfair for so long that now you've got the global rhetoric happening that. That this is unfair. Trump is taking advantage of the rest of the world where he's just trying to get us back to an equal playing field.
Clayton Morris
Yeah, yeah. I think this is one of the biggest stories of our time and it's being ignored by the mainstream media. What? You know, BRICS holds an emergency meeting in Brazil and like, very few people are talking about it. This is a huge story. Dr. Ellie, great to see you. Thank you so much for joining us here. We really appreciate it.
Dr. Kirk Elliott
It's my pleasure.
Clayton Morris
All right, coming up on the show, we're gonna talk about Trump torching vaccines. I don't know if you saw his truth social post just a short time ago. People were like, no, that's gotta be fake. That's gotta be fake. He didn't just post that. No, it was him. He posted an old video basically showing some of the poisons and toxins that are actually in the flu vaccine and the tetanus shot and all of these things. Yes. As it's tied to mercury specifically and other toxins. Anyway, we're gonna talk more about that, plus what RFK is doing on Tylenol. Steve Kirsch is gonna be here. We're excited to talk to Steve. We haven't talked to him in a while, so thanks for hanging out. Steve Kirsch from the Vaccine Safety Research foundation is gonna be joining us just in moments.
Natalie Morris
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Clayton Morris
Tara. Well, RFK Jr. Is reportedly about to drop a hammer on autism. Connecting Tylenol, acetaminophen, pushed on newborns for decades. That's now linked to over almost more than half of all autism cases in the United States. So get ready for Bobby Kennedy to drop that hammer. The study shows that mothers who took Tylenol while pregnant. I think the number is 300% increase in autism, but it's remarkable. So we're gonna wait on that one. But first, we had some breaking news just a short time ago. Right before our show today, President Trump posted an unbelievable post on Truth Social. A lot of people thought it was fake, but no, it was real. He posted it on his own Truth Social account. A short video featuring a doctor who claims that all vaccines are essentially have some form of poison or toxin in them. They're using thimerosal, essentially mercury tetanus shots, specifically flu shots. Those were called out in the video. People are like, what? Wait, what? What? Trump just posted this video. What is happening here? Steve Kirsch from the Vaccine Safety Research foundation also fell off his chair. Actually, I don't know if that's true. When he saw this. Who's been. Steve has been fighting for truth on this subject for his most of his life. He's given his life to this subject. Steve first on that. Before we talk about RFK and Tylenol, like, what's your thought about President Trump posting this? This video about poisons and toxins and vaccines.
Steve Kirsch
Certainly surprised me. And when I saw it, I thought, could that be fake? It's been reposted on. On X. And yeah, so it's. It's legitimate. And he has a good backing to be concerned, and we'll see what comes of that. But definitely the science is there showing that vaccines can contain things like thimerosal and aluminum, which get into people's brains and they stay there. Professor Christopher Exley has been studying this for decades, and he finds that people who have autism, when they die and they can cut their bodies and look at their brains, they've never seen accumulations of aluminum that are as high as they are in people with autism. So there's definitely a connection there.
Natalie Morris
Well, what the liberal media will say is that it's damaging to say this at all, to ask these questions. They act like vaccines are a protected class, like veterans or lesbians or you can't say anything against those types of things. Things. But vaccines are not a protected class. They were never studied in combination. Doctors willy nilly decide which ones to give at any given time and we have no study behind that. And so what would you say to the liberal media that treats you like a baby and says you can't put these doubts in your head? We shouldn't ask these questions.
Steve Kirsch
Oh, well, you know, science is all about questioning what the facts are. And we should never be taking things for granted as a scientist. And so, so it's just really, really important that we look at the data and we follow what the data says, not what people believe. And for way too long we've been following what people believe. And so, for example, the belief is that vaccines don't cause autism. And yet we have a study that was done by the CDC back in 2004 and we have testimony from William Thompson, the CDC scientist who was in charge of that study, saying he was ordered to destroy all the evidence that linked vaccines and autism. And we're not talking about just regular evidence here, we're talking about statistically significant evidence. And so when the CDC found an association back in 2000 between vaccines and autism, they ordered the scientists to delete. And actually they had a little meeting where they had a trash bin and everybody was supposed to put their documents that showed that vaccines, the vaccines were linked with autism in that trash can so that they could then destroy the contents of the trash can. So that was the way that the CDC dealt with evidence that it didn't like. Now, most people would think that that's not very scientific and they would be correct. That is not the way science is supposed to operate. That is extremely corrupt and no science should be done that way.
Clayton Morris
So, Steve, let's talk about Tylenol. And I can see in our chat room people are confused about this Tylenol segment or specifically what RFK is about to come out and talk about, because people are saying, no, no, no, it probably has nothing to do with Tylenol, it's all about vaccines. But I think what RFK is going to talk about with Tylenol being linked to autism is that they're in tandem, that it's vaccines on the one hand, potentially, yes, causing these problems, but also Tylenol. Yes, the combination of which I don't even wanna think about. So can you talk about that? They're not mutually exclusive. We're not just saying, hey, the problem isn't vaccines at all. Tylenol is just also another huge problem. It seems Right, that's correct.
Steve Kirsch
But Tylenol is not an independent problem. It's linked. So if you were to just get vaccines, you can get autism. If you get a vaccine and then you get inflammation, you get a fever, and your doctor prescribes Tylenol for that, that actually makes things worse. So there's going to be a connection between Tylenol and autism, but it's not the root cause. You can't just take Tylenol and become autistic. The Tylenol is simply amplifying your chances. It's like getting an additional bite at the apple to become autistic. And the Tylenol essentially just raises your chances of becoming autistic within. It's kind of a one, two punch.
Natalie Morris
Time frame of getting the vaccine. If you take Tylenol as a response, because. Yeah, so sorry.
Steve Kirsch
Yep. General. Generally within it, how the. The fever happens within. Within 24 hours after you get the vaccine, you take the Tylenol and that just makes things worse. So it's very temporal to the vaccine. You take Vac, you take Tylenol. At other times, it's much less likely to result in. In autism.
Natalie Morris
Okay.
Clayton Morris
And what's so unbelievable to me is that so many pregnant women are just kind of handed this at the hospital. You know, they're just given this. So when we talk about, like the pregnancy side of this and women who are pregnant, they're given this. Well, what part of that is tied to. I'm just curious, like the vaccine piece of this, you know, because this seems to be a major concern, at least from the reports that it's pregnant women specifically being given this Tylenol.
Steve Kirsch
Well, it's not that the Tylenol is really affecting the child. It's when the child gets vaccinated and takes the Tylenol, it's not so much in a pregnant woman.
Natalie Morris
No, he's saying a child.
Clayton Morris
Okay.
Natalie Morris
Because when you take your child to get a vaccine, they will say if they get a fever, you can give them Tylenol, but don't take an Advil or something like that because you want to have an implant inflammatory response. So Tylenol does not reduce inflammation. An Advil or a motor or something of that class will. And so they tell you specifically that that is an acceptable response to a fever caused by vaccine.
Steve Kirsch
And it's just about. It's basically the worst thing that you can take. And so I think that what's going to be revealed is this connection between autism and Tylenol. But there's no doubt that the vaccines are causing, are the root cause of autism. So he's taking it, I think, one step at a time here. And you know, there are things like the McDowell triplets that there's. I'm not aware of any time in history, in human history, in the entire human history where triplets became autistic within hours of each other. And the only time that that has happened that I'm aware of is, is within hours after taking a vaccine where the, the triplets are vaccinated. They're all vaccinated at the same time. And then without within hours of each other, the triplets all become suddenly autistic, where they were totally normal before. Now. There's no way you can explain anything like that. You know, this is a rare event and it just so happens that it happened within about two hours or so after the triplets were given a vaccine. And it simply defies credibility to think that it's anything other than the vaccines causing that autism.
Clayton Morris
So we have the Tylenol piece and I think you're right. Maybe this is like the sort of canary in a coal mine thing. We're going to get the Tylenol bit out there and I also find it very curious and then we'll, then we'll move on to vaccines. Maybe it seems like that's what RFK is doing here, but I don't know exactly. But I find it interesting, Steve, that back in 2023, Johnson and Johnson spun off Tylenol from their main holdings and formed a new LLC under which to house Tylenol. It's almost as if they knew this was coming. I don't know, I just find it very curious that they decided to spin this off and protect it legal shield liability underneath another llc. Don't you?
Steve Kirsch
I. It's. That's like Deborah Birx going to Texas and having the measles outbreak just happened to be in the town in Texas where Deborah Birx has moved to. So there's some interesting coincidences that happen and we often find that these coincidences are, are not just coincidences, but there's something behind them. So in this case, it seems pretty likely that they did that in order to shield themselves from, from liability, to reduce any kind of liability they might have.
Clayton Morris
Well, can I, can I ask a question really quick? Yeah, go ahead, David. I know, Steve, you've studied the Amish community extensively. Like, do they deal with autism the same, the same way we do?
Steve Kirsch
I don't know how they deal with autism because there's so little of it. In the Amish community. So I traveled to Pennsylvania to talk to them personally and meet them in person, see how they live and get to know them. And I couldn't find an autistic child who is not vaccinated because not all Amish children are fully unvaccinated. A large number are, but there's some children that are vaccinated. But I couldn't find an unvaccinated Amish child who has autism. And so, you know, people should be studying that to say what's different? And should we study Amish children who were vaccinated versus Amish children who were not vaccinated? That study just never seems to get done. But we know because there's a, I know of a clinic and they're located in the United States. I won't say where because they don't want the doctors to have their medical license revoked. But these doctors recommend to their, to the parents, do not vaccinate your child for anything. And every parent that took that advice, none of their kids were autistic, became autistic. And this is over 25 years. And this is in a community where the autism rates are, are the highest in the nation. So how is it that this one little clinic which does one thing differently, which is to say don't vaccinate your kids, they have no autism in 25 years. And of course we can't tell the story about it because they don't want to get outed and have their medical licenses taken away because that would be a disservice to their, to their patients and to the community. So the story basically is not told in the medical literature.
Clayton Morris
That's crazy.
Natalie Morris
I'm noticing again how mainstream politicians are reacting to RFK Jr. Just today, Liz Warren, senator from Massachusetts, is going crazy about indications that RFK Jr might limit access to the abortion drugs. And she says on X, the abortion drug is absolutely safe. And this is misinformation, but there is a lot of indication that Mephistoprone, I think, is how you say it has high levels of complications. Why can she just say this? That's misinformation to say that this is unequivocally safe. The fact that a US Senator can just say this, there's not a community note, as far as I know, on this, on this post yet doesn't it make you crazy, bonkers, bananas that they can say things like this while ignoring real world data of harm?
Steve Kirsch
Well, I would love to appear before a Senate panel and ask them those questions. They tend to switch it around to say, hey, we're asking the questions here. Like when, when Bobby Kennedy, in his hearing, he tried to ask questions of the senators, and the senators simply flatly refused to answer any of his questions that he threw back at them. So that tells you a lot. But, yeah, I would love to be able to question these senators as to what evidence do they actually have where to back these claims that are absurd. You know, the most, the most egregious, of course, is that vaccines don't cause autism and they'll wave these papers saying, well, Mr. Kennedy looked. Or these 10 papers that show vaccines, no link between vaccines and autism. But you see a paper that finds no link is just a flawed study that's unable to find evidence of a link. It's like a detective on a murder scene. He doesn't find a killer. That doesn't mean there wasn't a killer. That just means that he wasn't able to find it. And these studies are deliberately designed not to find a signal. So the studies in Denmark, for example, well, you know, the, the autism, you know, typically it's diagnosed at a fairly young age, but in Denmark, it's diagnosed that a. At a different age. And the vaccine schedule is different in, in Denmark as well. And so trying to thinking that you can replicate a study that was done in the US and then failing to replicate it in Denmark doesn't mean anything. But most people don't know that because most people, people don't know the Danish system. So it looks like, oh, they couldn't replicate, they couldn't find a link between vaccines and autism. It's there and it's there in Spades. I know Dr. Halstead, Dr. Doug Holstedt in California, he had 44 cases of autism in his practice where the autism happened kind of overnight. In other words, the kid is just normal, and then within a day just exhibits extreme signs of autism. And in those 44 cases, in every single one of them, they happened within a week after the child was vaccinated. Not a week before, but a week after. That's like flipping a coin 44 times and getting heads each time. That's not a fair coin. It means that. That something caused that, and the only possible link there is the vaccines. I have yet to find a child who became autistic right before their wellness check.
Clayton Morris
Nicholas Holscher, doctor, he's an epidemiologist, administrator at the McCullough Foundation. I think you know him well. He's going to be at the Senate hearing tomorrow, and he just tweeted that he is about to unveil a long hidden vaccinated versus unvaccinated study and he says it's over for the vaccine cartel. Any thoughts on that before we let you go, Steve?
Steve Kirsch
I tried calling Nick earlier today and he just got his voicemail. So maybe that's the reason. He's probably on a plane to dc. That would explain it. But yeah, he's a great guy, we talk often. He didn't mention this to me. So I guess, I guess they're keeping it pretty under wraps. So this is, I think this will be some pretty damning evidence. But you know, there have been all these studies that, that show that vaccinated kids have higher rates of autism, adhd, chronic diseases, they have sexual orientation issues, and there's a long list of things that are associated with vaccination that people don't realize. The allergies, for example, strongly linked to vaccination. So lots of these things, lots of these chronic diseases are all linked to autism, which is why kids who don't have any, in every single study There have been 10 studies in the peer reviewed literature in 100% of those studies comparing the fully vaxxed versus fully unvaxed. The unvaxxed kids are always healthier on every single metric that they look at.
Clayton Morris
Wow. Well, I think the dam is finally starting to break and you know, obviously with a lot of thanks to you and what you guys have been doing at the Vaccine Research center and being able to get this message out there. Steve, thank you for your continued work on this and you know, with having the Vaccine Safety Research foundation like pushing out like hey, we're just asking questions like why are we not allowed to ask questions? That's at the heart of it, right?
Steve Kirsch
And more importantly is why won't anyone answer them on camera? We can't have a discussion on camera with anyone about these issues. You know, I've got a friend at the CDC press office and I said, hey, I'd like to be able to just. I've got some pretty critical questions that I would love to have someone at the CDC answer as to, you know, for example, hey, what study are you guys relying on where you think that the vaccines are actually saving lives? Because every single study I'm aware of are, are, are extremely fraud flawed. So where's the study that is, that was well done where you actually looked at the non Covid all cause mortality of the unvaccinated to make the claim that the vaccine saved lives? Because I sure as heck can't find one. And I asked for this, the answer to these questions about two months ago, and I've still received nothing.
Clayton Morris
Geez. Well, because they don't have it, right? That's at the heart of it. Steve, you know that propaganda works, though, right? And they'll call you Anti Vaxxer.
Steve Kirsch
Absolutely.
Clayton Morris
Anyway, Steve, great to see you. Thank you so much for this. We really appreciate it. And we'll be watching what happens at the Senate hearing this week, and we'll be watching what happens with Tylenol and autism in September. It's going to be very busy September, so keep your phone ready. We're going to, we're going to have you back on in the next few weeks.
Steve Kirsch
Definitely will be. Which will be an exciting month. Clayton, thank you.
Clayton Morris
Yeah, thanks, Steve. Great to see you. All right. Coming up here. Yeah, go ahead.
Natalie Morris
Yeah, I'll say what's coming up.
Clayton Morris
Yeah, please. I'll take a drink.
Natalie Morris
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Natalie Morris
All right. Sex torsion. Do you know what that is? It's something you should know what it is because the Financial Crimes enforcement network, or FinCEN, is warning that this is on the rise and you should look out for it and warn your friends about it. So what is sextortion? It's when someone tries to explain extort you for money by threatening to publish nude or sexual images or videos of you. The problem with this is you can't avoid it by just having no sexual images or naked pictures because AI will make it for you. So welcome to the future where you can not have nude photos but AI makes nude photos of you, Vincent says. Now this is interesting. Who do you think is the most targeted group by sex torsion? I would have thought it would be beautiful young ladies. That's not true. What the US government is saying is the biggest target is young boys between the ages of 14 and 17. That's interesting. So what can we extrapolate for this, and this is, again just pure extrapolation, is that since most sexual predators are men, they're targeting boys. They're gay, I guess, is what we can. We can make of that what you will. I also have to wonder, though, how did we make young men so vulnerable? Why is this now a vulnerable population? Maybe the constant cultural assault on men has left young boys more vulnerable to predators than ever before. Do you think that has something to do with it? When society teaches boys that their struggles don't matter, which absolutely they do. Read a book called Decoding Boys. How we completely leave boys out of the conversation around puberty and empowerment, full stop. So maybe predators can step into that absence. Happy now, liberals? So here is one account of how this was reported. Earlier this year, this boy was sent AI generated nudes of himself from an anonymous text sender demanding $3,000. The boy then went on to commit suicide. Now, his mother and experts didn't know for sure that that's why he committed suicide, but that wasn't a good thing that was happening to that young man. His mom found this on his phone after he died. We've reported also in Australia, that there was a young boy who took social media images of girls at his school, made nudes out of them using AI and published them when none of these girls had taken nude photos. So now let's look at how prevalent the FBI is saying this is. We can't really know how reliable these numbers are. They're saying they received nearly 55,000 reports of sex torsion in 2024, with financial losses totaling 33.5 million, which they say is a 59 increase from the year before 2023. But we can't really know about those numbers because number one, I generally don't trust government data. But number two, this is the kind of thing that is very prone to under reporting because these are children. My gut tells me this is underreported because sextortion would only work if kids are terrified of exposure. Obviously, they wouldn't want their parents to know. They wouldn't want their friends to see this. Many may either pay somehow or suffer in silence or delete the messages. So can you prevent this from happening? Not really. Again, given that any public image can be manipulated into AI. So you have to tell your friend, your kids about this, that this is a possibility. You can't really stop it. You could report it, but what are the police going to even be able to do if they don't know who is sending these things. I mean, at least in Australia it was clear who that boy was. That boy was punished. All of those young girls were traumatized. I think the best you can do right now is make your kids strong enough to handle it. If it in fact happens, it's not really you. You're gonna have to weather the storm. Right, and know about it and talk to your kids about it. I don't really see how we have any other options. So let us know what you think of this.
Clayton Morris
It's awful.
Natalie Morris
I mean. Go ahead, go ahead.
Philip
This, this comes up actually fairly often in Reddit because this happens a lot. So people will post like, what do I do about this? And the general consensus is just ignore them because nothing ever happens from it. They don't ever release anything. There's there, it's just all threats. So they're just relying. So, so it's like the, the, the general consensus. And I'm not, I'm not saying like I'm an expert on this, but I see this a lot on there and it's just like generally people like just ignore them and nothing will happen and nothing ever happens.
Clayton Morris
Fighting three, fighting 332 in our rumble chat says. Natalie, are you high? Those are not. Those images are US generated. Remember J. Edgar Hoover was the original sextortion communist? Sure.
Natalie Morris
Right, right, yeah. Okay. So that's possible that, that these are coming from the US government. It's also possible it comes from nefarious actors that are not the US government. All of those things can be true. I mean, all of this still to be a problem.
Clayton Morris
I mean, aren't all of the like the porn sites run by like the Israeli government or people associated with it? I mean, isn't that the case? I mean they're all like government people. Like, it's ridiculous.
Natalie Morris
Well, I think at this point, Philip, if someone were to sex tort you, you'd say, where did you get an image of me on the Internet? There's like one total. Right.
Clayton Morris
Someone in our channel.
Philip
I'd be like, yeah, exactly.
Natalie Morris
Yeah, yeah. And then you would say, that's not me. So yeah, I'd say go for it. Yeah, right.
Philip
You want to send, send nudes of me to my family. I don't care. You know, like whatever. If they can't handle that.
Natalie Morris
That. Yes. But would I would just personally Philip, have felt differently about it? That's the problem. Right. 13 year old Philip might have been scared.
Philip
Oh, for sure it would. It would have definitely tear you like, obviously, like, like to somebody that's not. Because, I mean, I've, I've got a few years of, of not really giving a button under my belt to, to say that, but when I was 13, I, I really didn't. So yeah, it probably would have terrified me. And that's why like, it is important to get the message out that they just like that this, this can happen and, and just freaking ignore it.
Clayton Morris
I just take a real picture of myself and send it back to him and say, if you're gonna post this, at least post a real one.
Natalie Morris
And then they're gonna block you.
Clayton Morris
No, at least to say post it accurately. Like, hey, if you're gonna do some AI generation, make sure that you give me a six pack and remove some love handles, you know?
Natalie Morris
Yeah, right. Wouldn't that be funny though, David, if you sent back a real nude photo and then you got in trouble for sending pornography over the Internet?
Clayton Morris
Yeah, that'd be just the way it might look.
Natalie Morris
That'd be the way of it. Right. So yeah, this is yet another thing you're gonna.
Philip
It also works, another, another version of it of the same scam works where it's like they, they kind of like talk to the person, get them like having a conversation almost like as if they're going to be dating and then they'll switch to like, oh, now it's the person's parent and you were just texting with a minor and like any of the images and, and stuff, and then they'll threaten them like that way too is another common form of that same scam.
Natalie Morris
I don't think I get it.
Philip
So, so they would basically like, so, so like if they were going to scam me in this way, so like maybe I meet somebody on a dating site, we start, we start chatting. Then like, you know, like we start texting each other in the phone and then suddenly like that number changes like tone and they're like, hey, this is such and such as father, you've been texting with a minor and you know, I'm going to send the cops to you and blah, blah, blah. And then they, they, they basically try to talk you out of money that way. Otherwise they're gonna send all the evidence to the FBI and stuff like that. And even in those scams that I've seen on Reddit, they're just like, just ignore it. It's not true. None of it's true. It's just a scam.
Clayton Morris
Well, it's like some of those Fidget guy. I think if you're $1 post on rumble says, just don't post photos on the Internet. Problem solved. And fidget guy earlier said that there's zero photos of him on the Internet and that's on purpose. So way to go. Just, you know, don't use the Internet. Don't post that crap. Don't. Don't give your, like, family photos to Mark Zuckerberg. Like, there's a good idea. Like, don't post your family.
Philip
Yeah, but I mean, that's the thing. It could you. Maybe you didn't post them, but have you ever taken a photo? Because if anybody has a photo of you, they may have posted it. You may not know.
Natalie Morris
Right.
Philip
And that's the thing.
Natalie Morris
Do you ever Wonderbook? Right. Somebody could take the school yearbook and, and make something like that.
Clayton Morris
It's true. Do you ever wonder, like, how many photos that, like, you're in of other people? You know, like at on vacation, like.
Natalie Morris
You'Re walking your wedgie or something.
Clayton Morris
You're, like, walking down the beach with, like, a beer and there's like a family photo and you're like, in the background. Like, I wonder, like, I wish there was a way to figure that out. Like, how many photos of me exist in other people's. Is that what you look like when you drink beer? Because I think you're doing it wrong. I just feel like. I just feel like that. That would be like the candid shot as I'm like, walking along the beach and I'm like, turning like, who's that guy? Can we Photoshop that tool out of my photos?
Natalie Morris
Right. For a guy, it wouldn't be picking a wedgie. It'd be like adjusting your huevos.
Clayton Morris
Your huevos.
Philip
Me and a couple of my friends back in high school, when we did, like, marching band and we would. When they would do, like, there was always one event where they would take all of the high schools would take their marching band photos. And we would always, like, when they were doing that, they'd all stand them on the bleachers and we'd be in the background so that almost every, like, marching band photo from, like the early 90s, you're going to see the three of us in their. In their band photo looking at the camera, doing something. Yeah. Just kind of in the background doing something stupid. Like, we just. It was always. Because we just knew the framing, so we were just wearing a lot of them.
Clayton Morris
Eddie Schwab. You're right. I'd be walking down with a Zima in my hand. No, you don't Remember Zimas from like the 90s?
Natalie Morris
I think I do. They were like Bartles and James.
Clayton Morris
Yeah, I was able to get a huge discount. I got a whole case of them upstairs. Plus your secret would be out that you wear an American flag Speedo. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, exactly. And the peninsula of Florida sits, sits at a perfect angle, by the way.
Natalie Morris
What if you just go to a nude beach then you know, like those photos are not manipulated. It's just you and.
Philip
Yeah, those people aren't going to give a shit though.
Steve Kirsch
Yeah, okay.
Natalie Morris
Exactly right. Exactly right.
Clayton Morris
I once did a. I once did a segment on an old show I used to work on years ago at a nudist colony.
Natalie Morris
Uh huh.
Clayton Morris
An old show I used to do years ago called the Daily Buzz. I went to a nudist colony in Florida and they'll, I mean they'll play like full on pickleball and tennis. Like nudes.
Natalie Morris
Yeah.
Dr. Kirk Elliott
Did you wear a mic?
Clayton Morris
So uncomfortable. What's that?
Philip
Did you wear a mic flag?
Clayton Morris
I was, I was clothed but for the segment. But. But, yeah, but, but all the, like, all the people I was interviewing and I was like, like, where do we put the microphone? I guess we'll have to use a boom microphone to interview these people because.
Natalie Morris
You'Re not gonna want that back.
Clayton Morris
You want to move down to Florida and go to a nudist colony and you just play pickleball ball every day all sweaty and nasty with your thing hanging out like, no, thank you. Sorry.
Philip
I've done the. I've done the world naked bike ride a couple times in Portland back when I was a bit.
Natalie Morris
Yes, you've said. I just, I'm very concerned about like pubic hairs getting in.
Clayton Morris
Whoa. All right, now we're going. Okay.
Natalie Morris
In the gears and stuff.
Clayton Morris
The gears.
Philip
Well, that's, that's. I don't know how you ride a bike, but when I, when I ride a bike, my crotch is very, very far away from the chain. So I'm not. Right now, I'm not. For some of us to see how.
Natalie Morris
You go about it, groom your pubic hair.
Clayton Morris
Well, for some of us it just, you know, it just gonna get down there anyway. I don't know.
Natalie Morris
I mean, I just don't do these kinds of things. But if you're ungroomed and the way that the bite.
Philip
How long is your pubic hair?
Dr. Kirk Elliott
That's like.
Clayton Morris
That's the thing I always say when I, when I go to the restroom in the urinal, I always say, damn, that water's cold, Snowden's. Rice says Zima is American for who pissed in my beer. Yeah, I think I tried a Zima one time because I just had to know what this, like, less, like, clear, you know, liquid was. I'm like, ugh, it's awful.
Philip
It's like Sprite that got left out too long, and then somebody poured vodka in it. That's what it tastes like to me.
Clayton Morris
Exactly. My dad drink that for years. Years.
Philip
So. So here's the thing. I was maybe because, I mean, I. I used to go to this neighborhood bar. I haven't been probably five or six years, but I was there one day and like, this younger, you know, maybe the 22, 23 year old come out and they had a Zima. And I was looking and I was like, is that a Zima? And they're like, yeah. I was like, dude, we buried that in the 90s. Like, leave it dead. Like, why. Why are you trying to resurrect that?
Clayton Morris
Leave it alone. Right?
Philip
Yeah, exactly.
Dr. Kirk Elliott
I was like, like, where'd you get them?
Clayton Morris
How did you get them done? Like a Bill and Ted's, like, phone booth all of a sudden. Yo, man, I got my Zima all of a sudden here. All right, I guess we should wrap it up.
Natalie Morris
Yeah, we. We've gone too far.
Clayton Morris
After we've done all of our news stories and we hang out, some people in the chat room are like, you guys got to stop the chit chat. I just need more. I need more news. No, we've done the whole show. This is the end of the show. We're just hanging out, hanging out after the show and just kind of chit chatting, talking about Zima and nude pickleball. Hey, so we have a newsletter and it publishes, you know, whenever.
Steve Kirsch
Stop it.
Natalie Morris
He's giving me a crap because we. So the newsletter is supposed to come out every day the show comes out. And the last few Sundays, I just couldn't get to it for several reasons that my family just. I'm up to here. So. Yeah, it did not come out today. I apologize.
Clayton Morris
Normally it comes out Monday through Thursday, and now that we're back on our Monday, Tuesday schedule, it'll be there. Just go. Unless Natalie's in a mood.
Natalie Morris
Oh, would you like to go over what I did? Yes.
Clayton Morris
So if. If you want to know why. If you want to know why the newsletter.
Natalie Morris
Do you think Natalie was fooling around Yesterday?
Clayton Morris
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Natalie Morris
Why don't you tell them what I was doing yesterday? It was very important.
Clayton Morris
So. Yeah, she was. So we had a. Yeah, it was our daughter. It was our daughter's birthday party. So it was. Our daughter just turned nine yesterday. So we had that. We had a big shindig, a bunch of all the neighborhood kids and all that. So it was a crazy. She was having to wrangle like 20 kids, you know, 20.
Natalie Morris
We invited eight and we got 20, which was. It's wonderful. So many kids here. I was up to here. I had to. Have you ever seen the movie Overboard when she's so exhausted that she just keeps going after so many kids. I could not think about geopolitics. So yeah, I will. I will write a newsletter tonight and have it to you first thing tomorrow. I apologize.
Clayton Morris
J.J. everlove says stop the Israel comments, please. And thank you. I'm just saying we're not funded by apec. We're not funded by foreign lobby around here. And it's hard to. Most of the news you get is funded by foreign lobbies and, and, and billionaires that have an agenda. And I'm just telling you that we're not. So no, I'm not going to. Not going to stop my Israel comments, especially apac, by the way. All right, thank you guys. Really appreciate you joining us today. Thank you so much for your support of independent journalism. And we will be back here tomorrow at 4:00pm Eastern Time. Thank you guys so much and have a great night.
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Date: September 8, 2025
Hosts: Clayton Morris and Natalie Morris
Key Guests: Dr. Kirk Elliott, Steve Kirsch
This episode of Redacted News dives into a series of pressing stories the mainstream media is accused of ignoring or spinning. The centerpiece is the BRICS emergency meeting in Brazil—a high-stakes summit meant to counter US economic sanctions and the move towards a new multipolar financial system. The hosts also discuss violent crime underreporting, the politics of vaccines and Big Pharma, rising public health anxieties such as Chagas disease, and growing online dangers like sextortion scams.
The tone is assertive, skeptical of establishment narratives, and committed to exposing perceived hypocrisy and propaganda in legacy media and public policy.
The episode is packed with alternative analysis on the week’s most contentious stories—media double standards, economic warfare, health scares, vaccine skepticism, and technological threats. The hosts challenge official narratives and urge self-education, resilience, skepticism, and asset protection.
For those short on time:
Hosts’ final advice: Stay independent, question everything, and equip your family for the uncertainties ahead.