WEBVTT 00:00:15.288 --> 00:00:21.768 Ho, ho, ho. Merry Christmas. Happy New Year. Welcome to New World Next Year, 2026. 00:00:22.228 --> 00:00:24.008 I'm James Corbett of CorbettReport.com. 00:00:24.728 --> 00:00:28.748 And I'm James Evan Pilato of MediaMonica.com. Merry Christmas to all of you. 00:00:28.848 --> 00:00:30.668 This is our special year-end show. 00:00:30.908 --> 00:00:36.148 The big difference is we dress up a little bit and we don't know what the other 00:00:36.148 --> 00:00:37.148 one are going to talk about. 00:00:37.468 --> 00:00:40.548 Usually, always on your New World Next Week, we've got our three stories. 00:00:40.648 --> 00:00:42.768 We know what we're going to talk about. We know where the points are, 00:00:42.848 --> 00:00:45.148 and we've been doing this for 15 almost years. 00:00:45.468 --> 00:00:49.428 This is the only episode of the year where we do not know what the other is going to talk about. 00:00:49.568 --> 00:00:54.988 And for probably about the last decade, our New World Next Year 2026 episode, 00:00:55.528 --> 00:01:00.488 we look at the year past and we make a trend prediction for the upcoming year, 00:01:00.488 --> 00:01:01.988 and we usually take turns. 00:01:02.128 --> 00:01:06.568 And James, I'm going to trust that I went first last year, so you go first this 00:01:06.568 --> 00:01:08.948 year, man. What was your story of 2025? 00:01:09.928 --> 00:01:13.108 Good question. Well, in casting about for a story of the year, 00:01:13.208 --> 00:01:15.988 there are many possibilities that present themselves. And here's one that I 00:01:15.988 --> 00:01:17.588 know that you will appreciate, James. 00:01:18.008 --> 00:01:23.948 Here in Japan, every year there's an association that chooses the Japanese character 00:01:23.948 --> 00:01:26.248 of the year to describe the year. 00:01:26.388 --> 00:01:29.568 And this year's character was the character for bear. 00:01:29.848 --> 00:01:34.168 So that tells you something about the situation here in Japan. 00:01:34.168 --> 00:01:39.468 But I cast my net a little bit more broadly than that. So I decided on a different 00:01:39.468 --> 00:01:43.128 word that I think encapsulates the word of the year. 00:01:43.328 --> 00:01:46.608 And people who are Corporate Report subscribers who watched my recent subscriber 00:01:46.608 --> 00:01:50.728 exclusive video will have seen that me and Sean picked a Japanese character 00:01:50.728 --> 00:01:53.508 for our character of the year. Mine was a bit of a cheat. 00:01:53.648 --> 00:01:58.368 I used the two characters, Heiwa, which means peace, but not peace. 00:01:58.568 --> 00:02:05.348 It's peace in quotation marks, because my story of the year is the peace before the storm. 00:02:06.128 --> 00:02:08.028 So what do I mean by that? Okay, well... 00:02:09.104 --> 00:02:14.024 We could go back right to the beginning of the year and the Trump and change 00:02:14.024 --> 00:02:19.504 revolution that took place there in the United States for Secretary Pete Hegsatz, 00:02:19.684 --> 00:02:22.364 formerly Secretary of Defense, now Secretary of War. 00:02:22.584 --> 00:02:26.904 His first message to the force of this year, where he said, quote, 00:02:27.044 --> 00:02:30.664 the president gave us a clear mission, achieve peace through strength. 00:02:31.286 --> 00:02:35.866 Which led to this bizarre thing where even Carolyn Levitt and other Trump minions 00:02:35.866 --> 00:02:39.626 were trying to claim that Trump had invented that phrase, peace through strength. 00:02:39.826 --> 00:02:41.246 Now, I've been hearing that my whole life. 00:02:41.666 --> 00:02:43.966 I don't know what you guys are talking about. For those who want, 00:02:44.046 --> 00:02:45.686 there is a fact checker article about it. 00:02:45.826 --> 00:02:48.906 Peace through strength, the origin of the phrase used by the Trump administration 00:02:48.906 --> 00:02:51.486 that points out it goes back to at least the 1960s. 00:02:51.626 --> 00:02:53.806 So yeah, no, Trump did not invent that phrase. 00:02:54.106 --> 00:02:59.006 But yeah, peace through strength. In other words, the Orwellian version of peace. 00:02:59.006 --> 00:03:03.346 And I think that's what I'm getting at with my choosing peace before the storm. 00:03:04.106 --> 00:03:07.766 So what does that look like? Peace in Gaza. We got peace in Gaza, 00:03:07.906 --> 00:03:10.686 guys. The genocide's over, but not really. 00:03:11.866 --> 00:03:17.066 We have this headline, for example, Israel has killed 339 Palestinians in Gaza 00:03:17.066 --> 00:03:20.446 in ceasefire violations, according to the health ministry. 00:03:20.566 --> 00:03:23.966 And that was last month's numbers. Who knows what they are now? 00:03:25.086 --> 00:03:28.626 And of course, the worst joke ever, one that we covered here on New World Next 00:03:28.626 --> 00:03:33.326 Week, Trump's son-in-law to help run Gaza with Tony Blair. 00:03:33.646 --> 00:03:39.646 Yay. Wonderful. But don't worry, guys. Blair won't be on the board of this board of peace. 00:03:39.846 --> 00:03:43.126 He's going to be on the executive board underneath that board. 00:03:43.266 --> 00:03:47.086 So don't worry, guys. He's been dropped from the big boy's chair. 00:03:47.566 --> 00:03:50.366 Of course, he'll actually be running it. So it's probably even worse. 00:03:50.566 --> 00:03:54.746 Anyway, well, peace in Gaza, not quite. Peace in Ukraine, right? 00:03:55.066 --> 00:03:59.086 We got, I mean, Trump said he was going to have this all solved in 24 hours. 00:03:59.326 --> 00:04:04.786 It took a little bit longer than that, but we got the 28 point peace plan, right? Yeah. 00:04:05.426 --> 00:04:09.066 Except of course, now, of course, Zelensky definitively shuts the door on Trump 00:04:09.066 --> 00:04:11.026 peace plan, won't cede territory. 00:04:11.726 --> 00:04:16.526 Putin says ready for war against Europe if attacks on Russian tankers and energy continue. 00:04:16.966 --> 00:04:21.206 Russia rapidly gaining territory in Ukraine ahead of Downing Street Summit, et cetera, et cetera. 00:04:21.566 --> 00:04:25.046 Obviously, we have seen nothing approaching peace in Ukraine. 00:04:25.546 --> 00:04:29.226 And it seems like we're not on the verge of it either. So... 00:04:29.494 --> 00:04:34.194 What else? Oh, yeah, we had the Peace Prize going to Machado this year, right? 00:04:34.314 --> 00:04:39.534 For bringing peace, or at least asking for peace love bombs to rain down on Venezuela. 00:04:39.594 --> 00:04:43.294 If you don't know about that story, you might want to see my earlier podcast 00:04:43.294 --> 00:04:46.634 from this year, the Nobel War Prize Strikes Again. 00:04:47.114 --> 00:04:51.614 And, oh, by the way, it just so happens that the giving of that peace prize 00:04:51.614 --> 00:04:55.574 to the warmonger Machado actually literally breaks Sweden's own laws. 00:04:56.154 --> 00:04:59.694 But that's a side note. I'll throw the link into the gray zone story covering that. 00:05:00.594 --> 00:05:05.034 But hey, guys, Trump may not have won the peace prize directly, 00:05:05.034 --> 00:05:07.874 but he won it indirectly. He won the consolation prize. 00:05:08.394 --> 00:05:15.874 President Trump wins inaugural FIFA peace prize. Remember that from last month? Just nonsense. 00:05:16.414 --> 00:05:20.674 So, yeah, there's a lot of peace to go around. But of course, it isn't peace. 00:05:20.914 --> 00:05:25.014 And we know that there is there's trouble everywhere around the world right 00:05:25.014 --> 00:05:30.974 now. And perhaps the best reflection of it is, as I said, we went into this this year with the U.S. 00:05:31.094 --> 00:05:34.954 At least claiming, at least pretending it was a Department of Defense. 00:05:35.314 --> 00:05:40.874 But now they are spending two billion dollars to rename the Department of War. 00:05:41.034 --> 00:05:45.074 So I think that is the type of piece that I'm talking about this year. 00:05:46.761 --> 00:05:52.861 I think it's a return to some bit of truth in advertising. It was originally the Department of War. 00:05:53.221 --> 00:05:58.741 That's if there's anything to like about the Trump era is that it really – it 00:05:58.741 --> 00:06:02.401 becomes a more truthful empire, James. 00:06:03.801 --> 00:06:09.201 I think Carlin makes a joke about peace with honor, something about that. 00:06:09.301 --> 00:06:12.181 And so, yeah, it at least obviously goes back to the 60s and 70s, 00:06:12.241 --> 00:06:16.281 that same. And did you catch Hegseth's weird AI message? 00:06:16.581 --> 00:06:23.041 Make AI your friend. It'll be in your battle. Like, make it a part of your daily thing. 00:06:23.541 --> 00:06:25.961 Pretty strange. And he says, Godspeed. 00:06:26.521 --> 00:06:31.641 So that actually helps me lead into my story of 2025. 00:06:32.001 --> 00:06:35.621 First, I'd have to say, I think I nailed my 2025 prediction. 00:06:36.061 --> 00:06:40.181 Media monarchy turned 20 years old, and it is still the best radio show around. 00:06:40.881 --> 00:06:45.761 And, you know, I always bring the high strangeness. For my story of 2025, 00:06:46.081 --> 00:06:49.681 Brock asked me a couple days ago, you know, we always have our rolling message 00:06:49.681 --> 00:06:51.901 about how to plan and work on all these episodes. 00:06:52.041 --> 00:06:55.061 Brock asked if there's, hey man, can you give me some ideas about what your 00:06:55.061 --> 00:06:58.681 story of the year might be so he can start collecting the assets to build the 00:06:58.681 --> 00:07:02.081 video that you are now watching? And all I could say in the moment was. 00:07:03.244 --> 00:07:06.884 AI music is awesome. And I think that's my title. 00:07:07.084 --> 00:07:11.784 Since stand-up comedy and punk rock killed each other in a murder-suicide pact 00:07:11.784 --> 00:07:14.684 about nine years ago, AI music is awesome. 00:07:14.864 --> 00:07:19.264 It never told me to vote or what medicine I need to take to go see them in an overpriced concert. 00:07:19.284 --> 00:07:22.964 It doesn't sell me bad religion COVID masks. 00:07:23.524 --> 00:07:28.964 I almost wish I would have bought some of those just to have them for, you know, the era. 00:07:29.184 --> 00:07:32.604 To clarify then, I think we've said this on this show before. 00:07:33.244 --> 00:07:39.344 I don't need to hang out with AI or ask it questions or act like it's my friend, 00:07:39.624 --> 00:07:41.064 father figure, confessor. 00:07:41.284 --> 00:07:45.924 But it's been fantastic all this year. Plus, it doesn't go to Saudi Arabia for 00:07:45.924 --> 00:07:50.064 a paycheck while acting like it's speaking truth to power as a court jester. 00:07:50.244 --> 00:07:54.364 It just speaks and nothing can really stop it. 00:07:54.544 --> 00:07:57.764 I've already started Joe's. I'm like, oh, that wasn't, I didn't say that ish. 00:07:57.844 --> 00:07:59.424 That was AI. That wasn't me. 00:08:00.584 --> 00:08:05.464 Almost Vinyl is maybe my favorite band of the year. AI comedy songs, 00:08:05.624 --> 00:08:07.284 but they're not cover songs. 00:08:07.744 --> 00:08:11.744 They're satire. It's not parody. You know, parody is like SNL, 00:08:11.864 --> 00:08:15.704 easy bull plop for TV people. Satire is harder, but can be more rewarding. 00:08:16.224 --> 00:08:20.704 Almost Vinyl has basically built a roster of artists. 00:08:20.964 --> 00:08:24.844 They write backstories and plots and all the liner notes for the singles and 00:08:24.844 --> 00:08:28.764 talk about the producers and have studio anecdotes. all fake, 00:08:28.944 --> 00:08:32.744 all completely made up, almost vinyl, the forgotten hits of the past, 00:08:32.924 --> 00:08:34.864 present, and future back again via AI. 00:08:35.084 --> 00:08:38.764 It's almost good. It's almost music. It's almost vinyl. 00:08:39.024 --> 00:08:43.324 They have songs like Marty Waterhouse's Waffle House Gunfight. 00:08:43.524 --> 00:08:47.344 He's like the Marty Robbins kind of old cowboy character. Booker Sharps, 00:08:47.504 --> 00:08:51.644 what has the mofo got to do to make it in this world? It's like Marvin, fake, and gay. 00:08:52.124 --> 00:08:56.844 They are often filled, filled with swears because that's what you do when you're 00:08:56.844 --> 00:08:58.784 playing with a You say, hey, can we make this say boobs? 00:08:59.904 --> 00:09:03.944 Other hit songs like I Think My Cat Wants to Kill Me, Jesus is Never Coming 00:09:03.944 --> 00:09:05.624 Back because You Won't Stop Touching Yourself. 00:09:05.744 --> 00:09:09.564 On Halloween, they put up a song called Talking Ish to Ghosts. 00:09:10.524 --> 00:09:14.644 Comedy has to, I think, sort of continually push things forward and find where 00:09:14.644 --> 00:09:16.184 that line is and step over it. 00:09:16.844 --> 00:09:18.544 And it seems like the Bill Burrs 00:09:18.544 --> 00:09:22.524 of the world weren't really doing that anymore. So now this kind of has. 00:09:22.804 --> 00:09:27.484 And we've said for 20 years here, randos on the internet are funnier, 00:09:27.764 --> 00:09:32.244 faster, and sharper than any multi-million dollar writer's room filled with 00:09:32.244 --> 00:09:33.884 a bunch of Ivy League agendas. 00:09:34.524 --> 00:09:38.884 And there is a biggie, kind of wedged right into the middle of all of this, 00:09:38.924 --> 00:09:42.584 the year that was The Kanye Show, a.k.a. Yay. 00:09:43.284 --> 00:09:48.284 He made a song you may have heard about called Heil Hitler, and besides it being 00:09:48.284 --> 00:09:52.984 hated and scorned rightfully so, it was immediately, as many things are, 00:09:53.104 --> 00:09:58.144 just sort of sucked up into this world and parodied into something better. 00:09:58.144 --> 00:10:01.724 The big band version, the classical version, the Motown version, 00:10:01.884 --> 00:10:04.604 the super racist Chinese version, then... 00:10:05.324 --> 00:10:10.264 Kanye said he was done with Nazism, and he put out a new version and called it Ninja Hallelujah. 00:10:11.104 --> 00:10:14.804 So that was kind of strange. So that might also be a little bit of the honorable 00:10:14.804 --> 00:10:19.144 mention Barry Leeds story of the year, too. They call it The Great Noticing. 00:10:20.184 --> 00:10:25.824 Luigi, The Great Noticing, and AI music is awesome. Those are kind of my three biggies of 2025. 00:10:26.164 --> 00:10:30.564 And the Luigi story, Luigi Mangione murdered Brian Thompson, 00:10:30.844 --> 00:10:35.484 CEO of UnitedHealthcare, over a year ago. That was how we were wrapping up 2024. 00:10:35.944 --> 00:10:42.224 It's fascinating because Luigi is the spoiled rich kid he hated Brian for becoming. 00:10:42.544 --> 00:10:45.364 After Brian worked his butt off, he grew up on a farm. 00:10:45.524 --> 00:10:50.064 Yes, health scare is a giant scam, but that dude worked his way up on a farm. 00:10:50.204 --> 00:10:55.524 He was not a rich urban Nepo baby like Luigi, but still crowdfunded assassinations. 00:10:56.144 --> 00:11:01.024 Fascinating. But back to my artificial instrumentals. What do I say? 00:11:01.024 --> 00:11:03.804 They steal the real and sell you back the fake. 00:11:04.044 --> 00:11:07.644 There's another channel called Hard Archive on YouTube as well. 00:11:07.784 --> 00:11:13.144 They mostly only do racist stuff, like I Feel Like Saying N-Word Tonight and 00:11:13.144 --> 00:11:16.264 Robert Zimmerman's Zionist Ode Everybody Must Be Stoned. 00:11:16.424 --> 00:11:22.264 But when you're always just kind of at 11 with that, there's no really where else to go. 00:11:22.544 --> 00:11:26.804 Hard Archive, waking up at the crack of noon to cook up hilarious tunes. 00:11:26.804 --> 00:11:32.184 I have said on air all year, if I was a Bilderberger, Spotify, 00:11:32.644 --> 00:11:37.884 baby buying, orb staring AI guy, I would roll out a roster of AI bands like 00:11:37.884 --> 00:11:40.524 it was a season of TV shows or a line of comic books. 00:11:40.664 --> 00:11:45.884 I mean, like, hey, these are fake computer bands, but we think the songs are 00:11:45.884 --> 00:11:47.384 pretty sweet and you might, too. 00:11:47.984 --> 00:11:53.004 Recall the movie Simone, a fake CGI pop star controlled by Al Pacino. 00:11:53.004 --> 00:11:59.264 We watched F for Fake in the Monarchy the other night as part of my year-long Orson Welles deep dive. 00:11:59.404 --> 00:12:01.564 You know, huge Orson Welles fan and student. 00:12:01.804 --> 00:12:05.784 It's all about art and hoaxes and forgeries and fakes. Today, 00:12:05.904 --> 00:12:08.584 we would call it NFT for Fake. 00:12:10.014 --> 00:12:12.574 And I hear what you're saying. I hear what you're saying. But Top Jimmy, 00:12:12.994 --> 00:12:17.994 surely AI couldn't replicate the artistic genius of Pollock or Rothko or the 00:12:17.994 --> 00:12:21.754 Asian aping ultraviolence of Quentin Wu-Tang Weinstein Tino. 00:12:23.014 --> 00:12:26.534 But maybe I can. It gets better. There's a monarchy member that started making 00:12:26.534 --> 00:12:31.534 AI songs on a platform called Suno, which was already a drone metal band. 00:12:32.314 --> 00:12:36.594 I've had a joke slash astute take on news media. 00:12:36.814 --> 00:12:40.914 I could hit up Horace, that's his handle in the media monarchy kingdom, 00:12:41.154 --> 00:12:42.674 Marty, and he can make it happen. 00:12:43.194 --> 00:12:48.554 Casmod and I riffing about what would an anarchist barbershop quartet be? 00:12:48.634 --> 00:12:52.814 And because I knew of the group Rockapella, I was like, boom, Anarchapella, bam. 00:12:53.434 --> 00:12:58.274 Rad-ass song lands in my lap. An Arcapella's The Invisible Hand Harmony. 00:12:58.334 --> 00:13:00.874 I'll include the links to all of these songs I'm talking about. 00:13:01.014 --> 00:13:02.374 And then we just kept making more. 00:13:02.854 --> 00:13:08.534 Door Slam. What? About Maxine Waters trying to get into the ice facility without a proper appointment. 00:13:09.034 --> 00:13:12.834 Grow Coffee in Dead Malls. That is one of my ideas about America. 00:13:13.294 --> 00:13:18.074 Isolationism. Growing hydroponic organic coffee in Dead Malls so we don't have to import it. 00:13:18.614 --> 00:13:22.734 Let's get re-narded in here for my gnarly Thursday shows. 00:13:23.014 --> 00:13:26.394 And the topper, maybe, don't hate the media, become the media. 00:13:26.654 --> 00:13:31.114 From West Virginia Hills to Portland Rain, it was like my instant theme song. 00:13:31.254 --> 00:13:32.974 It's going to be on my best of the year. 00:13:33.154 --> 00:13:37.834 It's basically my career story, and it is strangely touching. 00:13:38.254 --> 00:13:42.574 When the narratives controlled by fear stream the truth from your new Hexaco 00:13:42.574 --> 00:13:45.534 frontier, brought to you by you, my dear. 00:13:46.074 --> 00:13:51.114 And again, this isn't something AI just spits it out like a can of soda. 00:13:51.114 --> 00:13:54.194 Almost vinyl hard archive horse they all 00:13:54.194 --> 00:13:57.254 write all the lyrics you write the entire song you're 00:13:57.254 --> 00:14:00.354 not all ai come up with some funny words for me you feed 00:14:00.354 --> 00:14:04.934 it all of that stuff first and then you tell it what style and you adjust all 00:14:04.934 --> 00:14:10.414 that stuff uh late 70s temptation soul not disco but kind of like the miracles 00:14:10.414 --> 00:14:14.774 if they were marvin x we kind of went deep on this and trying to figure out 00:14:14.774 --> 00:14:19.434 sort of how this magic trick was done with the other media mavens in the monarchy and. 00:14:20.313 --> 00:14:25.093 And plus, they won't have overpriced garbage concerts I have to be MAGA-jabbed for. 00:14:25.573 --> 00:14:31.493 I'm exaggerating. I love that some of my favorite real-world bands with real 00:14:31.493 --> 00:14:34.533 people made improbable new albums this year. 00:14:34.653 --> 00:14:37.873 Pulp, Stereolab, Tortoise, Sloan, Cheap Trick, Suede. 00:14:38.853 --> 00:14:44.133 And that's all. I'll just wrap it up that way. My best of 2025 mega music video 00:14:44.133 --> 00:14:45.413 show is this Saturday again. 00:14:45.533 --> 00:14:48.353 Media Monarchy is the best damn radio station you've never heard. 00:14:48.353 --> 00:14:53.393 AI music is hilariously awesome and is, at least as far as 2025 goes, 00:14:53.513 --> 00:14:54.893 James, is going to be a part of that. 00:14:55.809 --> 00:15:00.749 But it already is a part of it, because as we know, AI bands and artists are 00:15:00.749 --> 00:15:03.589 now topping various billboard charts, etc. 00:15:03.789 --> 00:15:07.089 So it's happening, whether people know it or not, or whether they care or not, 00:15:07.169 --> 00:15:11.629 whether they like it or not. So, yeah, it is absolutely an important story this year. 00:15:11.969 --> 00:15:17.329 And you know what occurs to me when you're laying that out is what was punk 00:15:17.329 --> 00:15:21.389 back in the day, back in the 70s when it was kicking off? what was it? 00:15:21.509 --> 00:15:25.429 It was a giant middle finger to the institution and the musical establishment 00:15:25.429 --> 00:15:28.549 and everything surrounding it, the industry as it existed. 00:15:28.749 --> 00:15:32.569 It was a, we don't even need to, we don't need to learn more than three chords. 00:15:32.789 --> 00:15:36.189 We're just going to play this loud and we're going to celebrate it. 00:15:36.349 --> 00:15:41.169 And in a way, I guess this is a sort of extension of that revolution, 00:15:41.169 --> 00:15:45.449 as in a big middle finger to all the establishment and the industry and all 00:15:45.449 --> 00:15:48.449 of the million dollar pop production garbage. 00:15:48.469 --> 00:15:51.609 We don't need that. We can just type it up on our computers in a few seconds. 00:15:51.789 --> 00:15:54.589 We don't need you anymore. So I appreciate that spirit. 00:15:54.949 --> 00:15:59.869 However, I will still, I'm still on team humanity and I'm still waiting for 00:15:59.869 --> 00:16:05.249 the, I think the real revolution is when people say, screw all this technological garbage. 00:16:05.249 --> 00:16:08.789 We do not need your computers and sitting in our rooms. We're going to go and 00:16:08.789 --> 00:16:12.969 make real music with real instruments in the real world and it's going to have 00:16:12.969 --> 00:16:15.309 nothing to do with your music industry as it's become. 00:16:15.529 --> 00:16:20.409 But I'll hold my breath on that revolution and we'll see if I make it. 00:16:21.369 --> 00:16:26.769 I honestly think that's why the resurgence the last several years in country 00:16:26.769 --> 00:16:32.349 music, not just because of Trump at all, but it's because there's humans playing 00:16:32.349 --> 00:16:35.349 instruments passionately together live. 00:16:35.629 --> 00:16:40.429 They did the country music awards on TV, CMAs a couple weeks ago It was fantastic 00:16:40.429 --> 00:16:42.209 I was messaging with my mom. 00:16:43.089 --> 00:16:46.289 She's like, this doesn't really seem like country, she said about one of the 00:16:46.289 --> 00:16:50.569 bands. It was like, I think that's what happened. It's almost like country is the new rock. 00:16:50.909 --> 00:16:54.349 And that's why, of course, they've all come for it. And it's all being sort 00:16:54.349 --> 00:16:59.549 of exploited and blown up, as is always going to happen to anything real that starts up. 00:16:59.709 --> 00:17:04.749 The system that, of course, can't create that kind of stuff itself. It needs that. 00:17:04.889 --> 00:17:07.729 So, of course, it's going to come to it and it's probably going to infect and 00:17:07.729 --> 00:17:10.549 it's probably going to ruin it for a little while. and then it'll fall apart 00:17:10.549 --> 00:17:14.189 and then it'll revive and turn into something else. 00:17:14.409 --> 00:17:18.289 And that is the way it keeps going on and on. Yeah, three chords in the truth, 00:17:18.449 --> 00:17:20.769 I believe somebody made some reference to, James. 00:17:21.309 --> 00:17:27.249 So I throw it back to you now and we are going to put on our prestidation hats, 00:17:27.709 --> 00:17:32.289 and look into the future for our, not again, these aren't predictions of I'm 00:17:32.289 --> 00:17:35.969 saying that on March 3rd, this building's going to blow or anything like we 00:17:35.969 --> 00:17:37.829 make sure to use the word trend. 00:17:37.829 --> 00:17:42.289 We're going to see what these sort of trends and what do you see for 2026, James? 00:17:42.869 --> 00:17:47.169 Good question. And you mentioned Luigi Mangione. You might or might not remember 00:17:47.169 --> 00:17:53.769 my prediction for 2025 was this is how they do it. Talking about the Luigi Mangione killing. 00:17:54.009 --> 00:17:56.729 And what if that was to become something this year? 00:17:56.829 --> 00:18:00.409 What if there was a high profile assassination or something along those lines 00:18:00.409 --> 00:18:05.609 was my prediction trend for 2025? And so I was dutifully keeping track of all 00:18:05.609 --> 00:18:08.649 the Mangione stories that were going through the news wires all year. 00:18:08.809 --> 00:18:12.329 And I was going to assemble it and go, see, you know, it did kind of come true. 00:18:12.489 --> 00:18:16.049 And then Charlie Kirk happened. And I thought, well, OK, there it is. 00:18:16.489 --> 00:18:20.469 OK, so that's, you know, that set the horrible precedent for going forward. 00:18:20.469 --> 00:18:23.089 And I hope that that really isn't going to be. 00:18:23.807 --> 00:18:27.567 A trend going forward. But anyway, that was one grizzly prediction that I did make. 00:18:28.187 --> 00:18:32.267 One that I could make, I mean, hey, now that you're talking about the AI music. 00:18:33.167 --> 00:18:36.147 Change that has occurred this year, well, now I'm thinking, well, 00:18:36.167 --> 00:18:40.807 a good safe bet for 2026 is coming for the movie industry next and TV and all that. 00:18:41.387 --> 00:18:46.227 But I don't have to go so far out on a limb or think too much about this. 00:18:46.327 --> 00:18:51.467 If my story of the year was the peace before the storm, then clearly the trend 00:18:51.467 --> 00:18:53.127 for next year is the storm. 00:18:53.567 --> 00:18:56.967 So my Corbett trend for 2026, the storm. 00:18:57.127 --> 00:19:01.687 What do I mean by that? Well, as I say, we've got all this fake peace all over 00:19:01.687 --> 00:19:06.667 the place, but it's not really peace and there's problems all over the world. 00:19:07.187 --> 00:19:11.367 And that's reflected in this crazy geopolitical situation that we're in. 00:19:11.467 --> 00:19:15.687 For example, is NATO breaking up from globalresearch.ca? 00:19:15.907 --> 00:19:20.467 Talking about the fissures that are happening in NATO between US and Europe 00:19:20.467 --> 00:19:24.167 and within Europe itself and different takes and things. 00:19:24.667 --> 00:19:27.607 Yeah, well, NATO, as we have known, it may be breaking up. 00:19:27.787 --> 00:19:31.267 I'm not thinking the world empire is breaking up, but maybe there's just going 00:19:31.267 --> 00:19:33.547 to be a reconfiguring. But anyway, some big moves there. 00:19:33.967 --> 00:19:39.647 We have this story. Russia, China agree to thwart efforts to revive Japanese militarism. 00:19:39.747 --> 00:19:43.727 So I don't know if people on that side of the Pacific have been and keeping 00:19:43.727 --> 00:19:47.587 track of it, but over here, it's been a big story about the various. 00:19:48.187 --> 00:19:51.427 Interesting incidents that are now taking place seemingly on a weekly basis 00:19:51.427 --> 00:19:56.207 between Japan and China and target locks on fighter jets and other such things 00:19:56.207 --> 00:20:00.467 that bring us closer and closer to the brink of some sort of outright warfare. 00:20:00.867 --> 00:20:05.627 There's this story, a return to nuclear testing looks inevitable, here's how to manage it. 00:20:06.187 --> 00:20:12.507 Well, thank you, MSM, that's what I wanna know. How do we manage nuclear testing since it is, 00:20:13.076 --> 00:20:17.596 inevitable now. Or how about this one? New York Times editorial board urges 00:20:17.596 --> 00:20:20.256 US to prepare for future war with China. 00:20:20.456 --> 00:20:23.356 Well, there it is. I've been talking about this for years and years and years now. 00:20:23.556 --> 00:20:30.976 I think it's clearly US versus China is going to be the big US versus USSR of the 21st century. 00:20:31.456 --> 00:20:34.736 And obviously Russia's involved in that, Iran's involved in that. 00:20:34.916 --> 00:20:38.496 There's all these different pieces on the table, but I think that's going to be the centerpiece. 00:20:38.896 --> 00:20:43.316 So I think 2026, I hope it isn't, but it could be the year of the storm. 00:20:43.616 --> 00:20:48.236 However, I'm not going to go out and say absolute all out World War III hot 00:20:48.236 --> 00:20:52.096 war between superpowers quite yet. I think that's 2027. 00:20:52.396 --> 00:20:58.096 But for 2026, we're definitely going to start seeing all of the pieces being 00:20:58.096 --> 00:21:03.216 put in place for that 2027 or later event. And I think we're going to definitely 00:21:03.216 --> 00:21:05.696 notice that the storm is here once it starts to hit. 00:21:07.252 --> 00:21:14.252 Isn't it interesting? I actually, I have a pretty brief 2026 trend prediction as well, James. 00:21:15.692 --> 00:21:20.432 And I want to clarify, actually, because you mentioned the AI songs sort of 00:21:20.432 --> 00:21:22.352 sneaking their way onto the charts. 00:21:22.792 --> 00:21:27.712 I'm into the ones that tell you right out the gate, this is a, this is a joke. 00:21:27.892 --> 00:21:32.532 We are making funny, funny jokes because it seems pretty disingenuous. I don't know. 00:21:32.672 --> 00:21:35.452 It seems a lot weirder for the ones to try and sneak it 00:21:35.452 --> 00:21:39.072 through and ha ha ha you didn't know i gotcha yeah 00:21:39.072 --> 00:21:43.172 i don't really i don't like that part about it my trend 00:21:43.172 --> 00:21:46.252 prediction for 2026 maybe kind of echoing my 00:21:46.252 --> 00:21:49.052 trend prediction for this year is something i 00:21:49.052 --> 00:21:55.072 know is gonna happen but i'm calling it the u.s real pre-tribulational semi-quincentennial 00:21:55.072 --> 00:22:02.752 say it with me it is fun to say united states semi-quincentennial will be the 00:22:02.752 --> 00:22:07.592 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence. 00:22:07.912 --> 00:22:11.352 Festivities will mark various events leading up to the Declaration's anniversary 00:22:11.352 --> 00:22:15.572 on the 250th Independence Day, July 4th, 2026. 00:22:15.932 --> 00:22:19.612 Official planning for the celebrations began in 2016 with the Congressional 00:22:19.612 --> 00:22:23.552 Nonpartisan United States Semi-Quincentennial Commission. 00:22:23.812 --> 00:22:28.212 This year, President Donald Trump created the White House Task Force on celebrating 00:22:28.212 --> 00:22:32.612 America's 250th birthday to also promote and plan events. 00:22:33.012 --> 00:22:40.092 So all I would basically say is I would read every seemingly staged news event 00:22:40.092 --> 00:22:43.852 through, as maybe you'll always do anyway, watchers of New World next week, 00:22:44.232 --> 00:22:46.112 through a synchro mystic lens. 00:22:46.252 --> 00:22:48.492 I mean, it's going to be jingoism. 00:22:49.509 --> 00:22:52.709 Patriotism nationalism of the highest order again 00:22:52.709 --> 00:22:55.809 but with all the dinosaur media and civil 00:22:55.809 --> 00:22:58.729 war movies they've been ginning up a lot 00:22:58.729 --> 00:23:01.489 of division lately and does kind of feel 00:23:01.489 --> 00:23:06.769 like both fake sides have gone insane it seems like everybody's on ssris and 00:23:06.769 --> 00:23:11.829 smartphones and it's become really easy to despise everybody all part of the 00:23:11.829 --> 00:23:16.989 show folks international cokes and pepsis all fight about how the other's bad 00:23:16.989 --> 00:23:19.669 for doing what they do but when they do it again it isn't bet. 00:23:20.329 --> 00:23:25.389 Now, I had a guy tell me back when I first started doing Media Monarchy 9-11 00:23:25.389 --> 00:23:27.869 Truth Radio show in 2006. 00:23:29.089 --> 00:23:33.349 He agreed, knew all about so-called conspiracies. But what he said then always 00:23:33.349 --> 00:23:36.029 stuck with me. He said, I'd save my breath until you were underwater. 00:23:38.031 --> 00:23:41.911 Meaning, nobody's going to listen to you, and it's not going to matter until 00:23:41.911 --> 00:23:43.831 maybe everything gets hot. 00:23:44.391 --> 00:23:50.231 So it's USA 250, and what, maybe also, this is the part that all ties in, 00:23:50.371 --> 00:23:52.871 the beginning of the end of the state of Israel. 00:23:53.391 --> 00:23:59.171 The Bible that they give us, without the giants and the super psychedelic freakouts 00:23:59.171 --> 00:24:03.331 and stuff, says nations will turn away from Israel. I've always heard this. 00:24:03.411 --> 00:24:08.551 I grew up in the church. I grew up in the satanic panic, and I grew up with the rapture. 00:24:09.371 --> 00:24:15.931 Nations will turn away from Israel. But I think we're seeing exactly why right now every single day. 00:24:16.131 --> 00:24:21.491 Again, this is bigly on the end times, and I think Zionists trick Christians 00:24:21.491 --> 00:24:23.411 into supporting a lot of this. 00:24:23.551 --> 00:24:25.931 I don't feel like the rapture was ever really around. 00:24:26.091 --> 00:24:29.671 It's something that kind of showed up in the last 100, 200 years by Darby and 00:24:29.671 --> 00:24:31.891 Schofield, and it kind of all seems like a trick. 00:24:32.351 --> 00:24:37.531 That's a little bit far afield, but that's really what I have for my 2026 trend prediction. 00:24:37.751 --> 00:24:41.611 I would also argue, as you just said, it's already happening. 00:24:41.851 --> 00:24:46.311 We're already soaking in it, Madge, and it's going to go all the way through 2026. 00:24:46.531 --> 00:24:52.451 So just try to think of like these sort of sync events, like with Boston Harbors 00:24:52.451 --> 00:24:57.751 and taxes, of course, and maybe new declarations of dependents and such. 00:24:57.851 --> 00:25:01.411 And hell, maybe we'll all have a come together moment where Cokes and Pepsis 00:25:01.411 --> 00:25:06.171 and Magas and trans atheist fetuses will all do an income tax revolt. 00:25:07.207 --> 00:25:11.347 I'm calling it the U.S. real pre-tribulational semi-quincentennial. 00:25:11.607 --> 00:25:12.907 James, get ready to party. 00:25:13.567 --> 00:25:17.907 Just don't make me say that three times in a row very fast. But yeah, good call. 00:25:18.067 --> 00:25:21.247 I had forgotten it was the 250th coming up this year. 00:25:21.407 --> 00:25:26.107 I am assuming Trump is going to have some kind of party planned. 00:25:26.327 --> 00:25:29.927 I don't know. I mean, it's going to be over the time. It's going to be over 00:25:29.927 --> 00:25:31.147 the time. It's going to be crazy. 00:25:31.667 --> 00:25:35.127 Anyway. All right. Cool. Well, that is quite the trend. And I, 00:25:35.227 --> 00:25:38.407 you know, I think there's a lot of overlap with what we're saying here. 00:25:38.587 --> 00:25:43.867 You know what sticks out with me, though, is that I take I have the exact opposite 00:25:43.867 --> 00:25:48.227 take on the the breathe. Hold your breath until you're underwater. 00:25:48.547 --> 00:25:53.687 No, no, no. You got to scream and shout and make a noise before you go underwater, 00:25:53.707 --> 00:25:56.407 because once you're underwater, ain't nobody going to hear you. 00:25:56.567 --> 00:26:00.907 You're going to be drowning. So I have the opposite take. And I I feel that 00:26:00.907 --> 00:26:05.627 I feel we may be underwater at this point because I feel that it's getting harder 00:26:05.627 --> 00:26:08.647 and harder to reach people with new information at this point. 00:26:08.987 --> 00:26:13.627 So, you know, I think the time for spreading Johnny Appleseed about 9-11 Truth 00:26:13.627 --> 00:26:18.047 was 20 years ago and the time for holding your fire for when people are ready 00:26:18.047 --> 00:26:20.607 to listen, maybe, you know, at the time we're at. 00:26:20.707 --> 00:26:24.967 But anyway, yeah, it's clearly going to be a huge year in a lot of different 00:26:24.967 --> 00:26:27.947 ways. And I think we both touched on different aspects of the same thing. 00:26:28.993 --> 00:26:32.553 So that is, as far as the canon of New World Next Week goes, 00:26:32.593 --> 00:26:37.413 that is episode 613, but we call it New World Next Year, 2026. 00:26:37.773 --> 00:26:42.193 And just like normal, I always get to play the exclusive audio of these New 00:26:42.193 --> 00:26:47.293 World Next Week episodes on my Thursday morning show at MediaMonarchy.com slash listen again. 00:26:47.913 --> 00:26:53.013 It's not for everybody, but if you are a fan of passionate old school radio, 00:26:53.233 --> 00:26:57.093 again, I got letters back at, I used to run my college radio station. 00:26:57.093 --> 00:27:00.333 I got letters there from people 16 to 60 years old and be like, 00:27:00.473 --> 00:27:02.213 this station sounds amazing now. 00:27:02.533 --> 00:27:06.833 It's my main favorite thing I love to do. I love to curate news and music for 00:27:06.833 --> 00:27:10.493 people and get them the media and the things that they like. 00:27:10.953 --> 00:27:14.473 James, I've joked before about trying to be some sort of media concierge, 00:27:14.553 --> 00:27:18.113 but I don't know if there's any call for that anymore in this day and age. 00:27:18.333 --> 00:27:22.533 Or there's never been a bigger call because there's never been a bigger pile 00:27:22.533 --> 00:27:26.433 of mess for people to go through. But if you tell me, hey, I kind of like this 00:27:26.433 --> 00:27:28.273 and that, I'd be like, man, you got to check this out. 00:27:29.133 --> 00:27:32.633 So if you like to check it out, come check it out at MediaMonarchy.com. 00:27:32.813 --> 00:27:35.153 I, again, have been doing it for over 20 years. 00:27:35.353 --> 00:27:37.933 I started out doing the mooring announcements in high school. 00:27:37.953 --> 00:27:40.713 I ran my college radio station. I got a big mouth. 00:27:40.773 --> 00:27:43.793 I got lots of breath, but I got lots to share and lots to give. 00:27:44.213 --> 00:27:47.273 So that's it, James. New World Next Year, 2026, buddy. 00:27:48.366 --> 00:27:51.966 Awesome. Thank you for another year at all of this. 00:27:52.066 --> 00:27:55.306 And thank you to all the people who are out there supporting this work. 00:27:55.466 --> 00:27:56.686 Again, we couldn't do it without you guys. 00:27:56.866 --> 00:27:59.986 So newworldnextweek.com is the store if you want to buy our merch, 00:28:00.166 --> 00:28:05.986 our swag, our DVDs, our USB sticks, our digital downloads. 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Thank you. 00:29:39.223 --> 00:29:43.843 That's why you got to put your punk rock vest on and try and hopefully have 00:29:43.843 --> 00:29:46.863 some fun and laugh in the face of the new world order. James, 00:29:47.083 --> 00:29:48.403 I love you, man. Thanks. Yeah. 00:29:48.763 --> 00:29:52.663 Merry Christmas. I love you. I send my love to Cassie. Thank you guys for doing 00:29:52.663 --> 00:29:54.523 what you do. And let's do it again next year. 00:29:55.143 --> 00:29:57.103 Yep. Take care. Take care.