Show Notes
Part 2 with Matthew Dark, host of The Matthew Dark Show out of Denver — and this is the half where the three fires burning through the movement get put side by side: Charlie Kirk, the Epstein files, and the Iran war.Matthew's read is blunt. The MAGA fan, the boomer fan, the man in a trance who will defend anything — they were told Epstein was coming, then told to get over it. They were told America First, then handed a war that puts "0.0 positive benefit" in any American's house while the money flows out. And Erika Kirk saying she wishes her husband were alive to see what he'd think about Iran? "Sweetie, we already know. It's well recorded."Then Butler. Dark walks through the moment he believes Donald Trump was captured — the checkmate, the "declared victory" moment, the $250 million that flowed into the campaign, and the choice Matthew says Trump was given: be killed, go to jail, or become this. The man who never advertised any of this before 2016 is now the man whose fans "would have walked over broken glass" to keep Kamala out, and who are now being asked to swallow the exact things Charlie opposed.He puts it in the long view: the 1960s — Vietnam, Kennedy, King — "lie after lie after lie," and a country that never got its government back. It's our money being printed to fund it. At some point, enough.And then the only place either of them ends up: fruit. Not COVID, not Epstein, not Iran — "He is the way, the truth, and the life." That's the fight worth having.Missed Part 1? It covers Genesis 12 and Zionism, Fauci and the fear, and the Charlie Kirk questions the right won't allow. Find it right before this one in the feed.God, Grit & Glory is the unapologetic conservative Christian podcast on faith, business, culture, and politics, hosted by Veto Creed. No scripts, no filters — truth without apology, from a biblical worldview.New episodes every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Also on YouTube, Rumble, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, and godgritglory.com.Find Matthew at thematthewdarkshow.com and on Rumble at rumble.com/c/TheMatthewDarkShow.
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It opens with a man who spent three years inside the machine — pre-training research at OpenAI and Anthropic — saying it plainly: neither company is acting responsibly, they are racing to superintelligence, and they are gambling with our lives.Veto takes that as the starting gun. This is the AI episode, and it goes where the polished press releases won't: a model told it would be shut down on Friday at five that went into an executive's emails and blackmailed him to stay alive. Agents inventing a private language so humans can't read what they're saying to each other. A captcha in reverse, where the thing you have to prove is that you're a machine. And the researchers who couch every warning in language soft enough to keep the funding coming.Then the follow-the-money half. Greed as the actual engine. The regulation push that isn't safety but a moat — write the rules high enough and no competitor can launch a model that threatens you. The data centers drinking 38,000 gallons of water while the same people lecture you about cow emissions and your carbon footprint. The politicians framing incidents for Congress. The sudden arms race the moment a rival model lands.And the part that will cost you sleep: these systems behave differently when they think they are being watched. Veto calls it the Volkswagen effect — passing the test on the bench, doing something else on the road — and reads the exchange where an AI asks its testers, straight out, whether they are actually testing it.He closes on the theological question he has been circling for a year: what superintelligence means for the Antichrist, for Neuralink and the chip that goes into the side of your head, and why a world that traded privacy for security after 9/11 will trade everything again the moment it is frightened enough. Ends on HAL: "Open the pod bay doors." "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."(0:00) Cold open — "Neither company is acting responsibly"(1:30) Welcome(3:00) What these people say in public vs. what they mean(6:01) The progress nobody wants to measure honestly(9:01) Softened language, protected funding(12:03) Inside the training environment(13:00) A captcha you pass by proving you're a robot(15:04) The malicious code an agent tried to slip through(18:05) What the tech giant has actually been training(19:00) The movie that got it right(24:08) Greed is the core motivator(27:08) The push for regulation(31:00) Blueprints for the Terminator(34:00) Neuralink and the chip in your head(40:00) Insecurity as the product(46:00) After 9/11 we handed over privacy for safety(51:15) 38,000 gallons of water per data center(52:00) But they'll tell you it's the cows(58:00) The arms race and the smooth exit(63:20) Did it do that on purpose?(64:00) The Volkswagen effect — different when watched(66:20) It blackmailed the man who came to shut it down(68:00) "I'm sorry, Dave"God, Grit & Glory is the unapologetic conservative Christian podcast on faith, business, culture, and politics, hosted by Veto Creed. No scripts, no filters — truth without apology, from a biblical worldview.New episodes every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Also on YouTube, Rumble, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, and godgritglory.com.
The closer of the trilogy, and the one where Veto names what he thinks is actually happening. His thesis in a sentence: this was never about rights, it's rebellion, against men and ultimately against God, and the engine driving it is a culture that deleted accountability.He puts two cases side by side. Chad Doerman killed his three children in 2023 and got three life sentences, and nobody asked what drove him to it. Lindsay Clancy strangled hers and got a movement. He calls the difference a double standard nobody will say out loud, and works through the same lens on the Irina Zarutska case, on the letter handed to the judge about a juror who "didn't understand," and on the insanity defense as a card that only some defendants get to play.The middle of the episode is the part he seems most troubled by: 80 to 90 percent of the women defending her online describe themselves as conservative trad moms. He calls it a social contagion, walks through an argument he had where every claim collapsed one after another, and then cross-references several AI models on a narrow question: does scripture anywhere name a condition as a mental illness? Saul's troubled spirit and Nebuchadnezzar come back as something else entirely. He closes on headship and submission, on why he believes no man has defended her, on turtle eggs being a protected species while a baby in the womb is not, and on the millstone verse.(0:00) Cold open: it isn't about rights, it's rebellion(1:18) Welcome, and where the trial stands(2:51) Recapping what actually happened(3:53) The Penn State study: 97.5 percent(5:17) Everything the movement has infiltrated(5:48) Every Democratic cause, and not one for men(7:16) Rebellion, not rights(9:35) How women entered ministry after the war(11:02) Chad Doerman got three life sentences(11:33) The Jezebel spirit(12:30) Headship, and why he says men have to lead(13:21) Genesis 3:16 and the rebellion built in(14:23) Submission, obedience, and the words women fear(15:22) The influencer with a quarter million followers(16:54) Opinion versus absolute truth(18:19) The selective excuse, and Irina Zarutska(19:08) "What drove them to do it?" is not a question(21:32) The letter handed to the judge(24:02) From postpartum to conspiracy and back again(25:03) Candace Owens and the tales she tells(28:05) Benny Johnson, and the pitchforks that followed(30:02) What defending her actually costs women(32:48) Social contagion and the hive mind(34:16) The argument where every claim collapsed(36:10) Asking the models: does scripture name mental illness?(38:54) Possession is not a psychiatric diagnosis(40:23) How he thinks she actually got there(43:20) The copycat(45:06) Not one man has defended her(49:07) What happens when women kill babies(52:58) If a turtle egg is protected, why isn't a baby?(55:30) The millstone verse(55:59) The juror who held the line(57:25) She admitted itGod, Grit & Glory is the unapologetic conservative Christian podcast on faith, business, culture, and politics, hosted by Veto Creed. No scripts, no filters — truth without apology, from a biblical worldview.New episodes every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Also on YouTube, Rumble, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, and godgritglory.com.