April 17, 2025 • 6 mins
Chris delves into the elusive nature of truth, drawing parallels between modern society’s subjective realities and Pontius Pilate’s question, “What is truth?” during Jesus’ trial. Frustrated by lies from figures like Donald Trump—claiming the EU was designed to harm the U.S. or tariffs collect $2 billion daily—Markowski critiques the distortion of truth by politicians and media on both sides, advocating for an absolute truth and pledging to deliver honest insights to listeners. www.watchdogonwallstreet.com
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Watchdog on Wall Street podcast, explaining the news coming
out of the complex worlds of finance, economics, and politics
and the impact that we'll have on everyday Americans. Author,
investment banker, consumer advocate, analyst, and trader Chris Markowski.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
What is Truth? I brought this up before here on
the program, and I gets Okay, it's easter, and I
think it's a good time to bring it up again.
People have been listening to my show, people that have
been following podcasts, my writing over the years. My laser
(00:38):
beam like focus on trying to get to the bottom
of things and to be truthful, and we don't live
in that type of society, which done It's funny it
was in the UK they actually had a Supreme Court
case that was just heard in the UK courts basically
saying a woman is a woman and you can't pretend
(01:00):
if you're a guy to be a woman like you
need a Supreme Court case to actually determine that. But
that's that's the world that we live in, and it
drives me. It drives me crazy. A lot of people
will justify, they will justify bending the truth, lying because
(01:20):
it's a means to an end for them, and I
don't care if it's a Democrat or Republican. I get irate.
I get irate. The guy I voted for Donald Trump
comes out and he says things that are just patently
not true. Oh, European Union was put together, put together
(01:41):
to destroy the United States, take advantage of us. No,
it wasn't. No, you're not collecting two billion dollars a
day in tariffs. These are just lies. But to him,
it's his truth. It's his truth. It's like the Calvin
cl f commercial there that they've got there, the underwear
(02:02):
ads my truth, Mike Calvins and anybody gets to have
whatever truth they bloody want. And it's not supposed to
be this way. I don't read to you something from
something from the Bible. And this is this is when
Jesus was brought brought to Pilot. And you know, Pilot
(02:27):
comes out to Caiaphas and the the the various different
people that brought him, the Pharisee that brought them to him,
and he asked them, he said, what charges are you
bringing against this man? If we were not a criminal,
they replied, we would not have handed him over to you.
And the Pilot said, take him yourself and judge him
(02:48):
by your own law, but we have no right to
execute anyone. They objected. This took place to fulfill what
Jesus had said about the kind of death he was
going to die. Pilot then went back inside the palace,
summoned Jesus and asked him, are you the king of
the Jews? Jesus responded, is that your own idea or
(03:10):
did others talk to you about me? Am I a Jew?
Pilot replied, your own people and chief priests handed you
over to me. What is it have you? What is
it you have done? Jesus said, My kingdom is not
of this world. If it were, my servants would fight
to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now
my kingdom is from another place. You are a king, then,
(03:34):
said Pilot. Jesus answered, you say that I am a king.
In fact, the reason I was born and came into
the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on
the side of truth listens to me. This is where
(03:54):
the line I've used oftentimes on the show Pilot retorts
what is truth? He then went out to the Jews
that were gathered there and said, I find no basis
for a charge against him. But it's your custom for
me to release to you one prisoner at the time,
have passover. Do you want me to release the king
of the Jews? They shouted back, No, not him, give
(04:17):
us Barabbus. What is truth again? It gets debated and
had this discussion the nature of truth and reality. And
(04:37):
obviously pot Pilot is politician. It's a politician, and he's
in charge charge of the Roman area of Jerusalem. And
he knew, he knew that Jesus was not guilty of
any crime to be crucified, you know, capital punishment in
(05:02):
that manner. But his truth was what we else. You know,
I don't want to I want to cause any trouble
in Rome, so I'm just gonna go along with this
and make it go away. This is kind of the
attitude that unfortunately, human beings have when it comes to
(05:23):
an objective truth. We don't believe it to be fixed. Hey,
watch doesn't make a difference whether you're you know what
side you're on, Donkey elephant, you know you're going to
get You're going to get people on Fox News that
will do anything and everything and distort and lie because
their truth is you know, Donald Trump all Trump, everything
(05:46):
but Trump, nothing but Donald Trump, And you have the
exact opposite when you go on to MSNBC. There's no
concern their truth is subjective or relative. And unfortunately, I
don't believe that. I believe that truth is an absolute
(06:12):
It's not a matter of someone's individual opinion, my opinion,
or anything else. And I think we're striving to get
there at that point in time, to get to that,
to at least some of us are some of us
are some of us? You know, like I said, they
put their faith, they put their faith in individuals or
(06:34):
some sort of worldly philosophy or whatever it may be,
and it drives them down the wrong path. We're going
to continue to work hard and strive every single day
to bring you the truth. Watchdog on Wallstreet dot com
The Watchdog on Wall Street podcast, explaining the news coming
out of the complex worlds of finance, economics, and politics
and the impact that we'll have on everyday Americans. Author,
investment banker, consumer advocate, analyst, and trader Chris Markowski.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
What is Truth? I brought this up before here on
the program, and I gets Okay, it's easter, and I
think it's a good time to bring it up again.
People have been listening to my show, people that have
been following podcasts, my writing over the years. My laser
(00:38):
beam like focus on trying to get to the bottom
of things and to be truthful, and we don't live
in that type of society, which done It's funny it
was in the UK they actually had a Supreme Court
case that was just heard in the UK courts basically
saying a woman is a woman and you can't pretend
(01:00):
if you're a guy to be a woman like you
need a Supreme Court case to actually determine that. But
that's that's the world that we live in, and it
drives me. It drives me crazy. A lot of people
will justify, they will justify bending the truth, lying because
(01:20):
it's a means to an end for them, and I
don't care if it's a Democrat or Republican. I get irate.
I get irate. The guy I voted for Donald Trump
comes out and he says things that are just patently
not true. Oh, European Union was put together, put together
(01:41):
to destroy the United States, take advantage of us. No,
it wasn't. No, you're not collecting two billion dollars a
day in tariffs. These are just lies. But to him,
it's his truth. It's his truth. It's like the Calvin
cl f commercial there that they've got there, the underwear
(02:02):
ads my truth, Mike Calvins and anybody gets to have
whatever truth they bloody want. And it's not supposed to
be this way. I don't read to you something from
something from the Bible. And this is this is when
Jesus was brought brought to Pilot. And you know, Pilot
(02:27):
comes out to Caiaphas and the the the various different
people that brought him, the Pharisee that brought them to him,
and he asked them, he said, what charges are you
bringing against this man? If we were not a criminal,
they replied, we would not have handed him over to you.
And the Pilot said, take him yourself and judge him
(02:48):
by your own law, but we have no right to
execute anyone. They objected. This took place to fulfill what
Jesus had said about the kind of death he was
going to die. Pilot then went back inside the palace,
summoned Jesus and asked him, are you the king of
the Jews? Jesus responded, is that your own idea or
(03:10):
did others talk to you about me? Am I a Jew?
Pilot replied, your own people and chief priests handed you
over to me. What is it have you? What is
it you have done? Jesus said, My kingdom is not
of this world. If it were, my servants would fight
to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now
my kingdom is from another place. You are a king, then,
(03:34):
said Pilot. Jesus answered, you say that I am a king.
In fact, the reason I was born and came into
the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on
the side of truth listens to me. This is where
(03:54):
the line I've used oftentimes on the show Pilot retorts
what is truth? He then went out to the Jews
that were gathered there and said, I find no basis
for a charge against him. But it's your custom for
me to release to you one prisoner at the time,
have passover. Do you want me to release the king
of the Jews? They shouted back, No, not him, give
(04:17):
us Barabbus. What is truth again? It gets debated and
had this discussion the nature of truth and reality. And
(04:37):
obviously pot Pilot is politician. It's a politician, and he's
in charge charge of the Roman area of Jerusalem. And
he knew, he knew that Jesus was not guilty of
any crime to be crucified, you know, capital punishment in
(05:02):
that manner. But his truth was what we else. You know,
I don't want to I want to cause any trouble
in Rome, so I'm just gonna go along with this
and make it go away. This is kind of the
attitude that unfortunately, human beings have when it comes to
(05:23):
an objective truth. We don't believe it to be fixed. Hey,
watch doesn't make a difference whether you're you know what
side you're on, Donkey elephant, you know you're going to
get You're going to get people on Fox News that
will do anything and everything and distort and lie because
their truth is you know, Donald Trump all Trump, everything
(05:46):
but Trump, nothing but Donald Trump, And you have the
exact opposite when you go on to MSNBC. There's no
concern their truth is subjective or relative. And unfortunately, I
don't believe that. I believe that truth is an absolute
(06:12):
It's not a matter of someone's individual opinion, my opinion,
or anything else. And I think we're striving to get
there at that point in time, to get to that,
to at least some of us are some of us
are some of us? You know, like I said, they
put their faith, they put their faith in individuals or
(06:34):
some sort of worldly philosophy or whatever it may be,
and it drives them down the wrong path. We're going
to continue to work hard and strive every single day
to bring you the truth. Watchdog on Wallstreet dot com
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