On this episode of the podcast, we talk with Tim Pool about his new bug out van. We talk about how he got the van, what it's like to live in it, and how to get around in it. We also talk about some of the cool things he's been able to do with it and how he's going to be able to live out there in it for the rest of his life. Thanks to Tim for coming on the pod and talking about it! If you like what you hear, please HIT SUBSCRIBE on Apple Podcasts or wherever else you get your podcasts. It helps spread the word about the podcast and make it more accessible to more people! Thanks again for listening and Good Luck Out There! See ya next week! -The Crew Tim Pool Hosted By: Music by: , and . Art: . . . Music: "Goodbye Outer Space" by Jeff Kaale ( ) "Outerday" by , "Pilgrimage" by "Sonic the Hedgehog" by Kevin McLeod ( ) and , and (feat. by ) & by "The Good Guys" by John Rocha ( ) Enjoy! (Music: "Incomptech" by Ian Dorsch & "Outtro: "Outdoor" by Fountains of the Mind" by Tim Pool ( ) - "Outro: "Solo" by The Good Guys (featuring: ) & ( ) by - "Inknight ( ) & "Good Morning" by James ( ) . & ( ) ( ) is outtrope ( ) , ( ) - is out! and "A Good Morning Podcast in honor of the Good Morning podcast , is out on the road! & The Good Morning Crew ( ) ! Thank you for listening to this episode! Thank You, Tim Pool & Good Morning! by: Tim Pool, Thank You & Good Luck! , Good Luck, Thanks Tim Pool! -- Thank You for Listening to Me, Good Luck & Good Blessings, Cheers, & Good Night, and Thank You For Coming Out, Good Bless You, Good Night & Good Rest, by Mr. Tim Pool.
00:00:27.000I told you last year, I was getting the van, and I got a bunch of people on Twitter making fun of me, like, oh, he's going to get a bug out van.
00:02:44.000Yeah, so I went on Google Maps of all places, just because I was like, maybe that's my problem.
00:02:49.000I typed in van modification, and two miles from me, boom, this guy pops up.
00:02:54.000And he does, him and his company, they did modifications for local police departments on like SWAT vans, surveillance vans, and things like that.
00:03:01.000I wonder if I'm supposed to be saying that.
00:05:15.000Is it completely up to the—this is a debate right now, right?
00:05:18.000Whether or not it's completely up to the governors, whether it's the mayors have individual liberty in whatever town and— I mean, I'll tell you what, it sounds like the Constitution doesn't exist right now.
00:05:38.000Protections that are in place to shield the vulnerable people from the pandemic.
00:05:42.000But a lot of folks feel like there's some overstepping.
00:05:45.000And there's a problem with power, man.
00:05:48.000If you give power to people, they do not like to give it back.
00:05:51.000They always think it's better with me in charge.
00:05:54.000There was one documentary I saw a long time ago.
00:05:56.000Some activists went to like the CEO of Shell and he talked to him and he was like, listen, you got to understand I'm trying my hardest with me at the helm.
00:06:04.000I'm doing such good things for the environment.
00:06:06.000They always think they're the benevolent dictator.
00:06:08.000That's why I think decentralization is so much more important in so many different aspects.
00:06:13.000Yeah, that is a weird trait that human beings have when they get into a position like that, right?
00:06:18.000Well, the type of person who would want to be a governor to begin with, the type of person that would want to run the entire state.
00:06:35.000I mean, to be able to be accurate about all the different predictions in this regard, you know, when you're talking about this pandemic thing.
00:06:45.000One of the biggest problems I'm looking at is who determines what's essential and what's not essential.
00:06:58.000So a lot of people took it because there were photos of seeds at Walmart or something where there was like tape saying you can't, you know, this part of the store is closed.
00:07:06.000And so the story went out that you weren't allowed to buy seeds anymore.
00:07:09.000The story actually was that Stores over 50,000 feet had to close off non-essential areas like flooring and gardening and things like that.
00:07:17.000And who's to determine what is and isn't essential about any of those services?
00:07:43.000Good argument for keeping liquor stores open because I was like, come on, liquor stores?
00:07:46.000But someone said, actually, it is to prevent people from going into detox, from having problems detoxing, where they would take up a hospital bed that we need, potentially need because of the virus.
00:09:48.000But what's crazy to me is you had the UN, a UN advisor come out and say, we're looking at 130 million people are going to starve because of the economic shutdown.
00:09:56.000And that's going to be much worse, potentially, than the actual pandemic itself.
00:10:01.000And these kind of facts are ignored because of the tribalism of what's happening.
00:10:08.000I don't think they know exactly what to do.
00:10:10.000I mean, I think there's some educated decisions that are being made by medical professionals, and then they have to adjust those based on new statistics that come in.
00:10:19.000And I don't know if they have adjusted.
00:10:21.000Like, the initial idea was that there was an X amount of people that were infected in California.
00:10:27.000It turns out there's many, many, many more.
00:10:29.000And the most recent thought is that there's somewhere around 400,000.
00:10:33.000Now, there has been some dispute about these studies.
00:10:36.000You know, whether or not these studies are accurate, whether or not the tests are accurate, whether or not you could get it again, whether or not it even matters if you've already had it.
00:10:48.000No one's saying, hey, this is way less deadly than we thought it was going to be.
00:10:54.000This sounds like the problem of government.
00:10:57.000I've never been one of these small government types.
00:11:00.000I'm – as much as people might want to argue with me, I lean a little bit left on a lot of issues like government programs I think are good things.
00:11:06.000It just seems like whenever the government enacts something, it's so slow to fix it if it goes bad or when things change, right?
00:11:12.000So slow to adjust if they need to shift back.
00:11:16.000They tend to just dump more money into it if it's not working properly.
00:11:19.000I want to know why some people just shake this off.
00:11:55.000The crazy thing to me is the people, a lot of Trump supporters.
00:11:58.000I'm not trying to blanket every single one, but there's some high-profile ones that are really acting like since the beginning they've doubted it every step of the way.
00:12:06.000And I'm like, have you looked at the spike charts?
00:12:36.000But what's interesting to me is, well, there's a bunch of parts that are interesting, but what's interesting to me is like who, like Georgia's opened, right?
00:12:44.000And then parts of Montana have opened, there's things that have opened in Texas.
00:12:49.000It's going to be interesting to see what the response is going to be, whether or not they come back online quicker and their economy builds up quicker, or whether or not they get a second surge and they have to shut down longer.
00:13:01.000And it winds up being that maybe you should have waited longer and would have had less infection.
00:13:05.000We just saw a city of 10 million in China enter lockdown again.
00:14:02.000But then all of a sudden, an older commercial pops up.
00:14:04.000I was watching this the other day, and it's like a guy walks up, shakes his buddy's hand, pats him on the back, and then gives his wife a kiss on the cheek, and I'm like, that's an old commercial.
00:14:11.000I can tell it's an old campaign, because they would not do that.
00:14:15.000Most of them are old, because you can't shoot anything anymore.
00:14:18.000I'm curious how they're doing these commercials where they film New York.
00:14:21.000I guess they're going out in New York and filming people actually cheer from their balconies and stuff.
00:14:28.000Look, I think there's a real tough question that a lot of people want to ignore.
00:14:33.000I think there's a lot of Trump supporters who are pushing it because they're in favor of reopening the economy.
00:14:37.000But there's like that equation of at what point is having things shut down more damaging than – so at a certain point, we have to recognize people are going to die no matter what we do.
00:14:45.000Well, there's a Bloomberg – not the mayor, but there's a Bloomberg statistic on – The economy that measures the downside, like when the economy goes down, how many people die because of it.
00:15:13.000But the secondary reaction to that, in fact, because you're closing the economy, might wind up killing as many people as you're trying to avoid being killing in the long run.
00:15:25.000The big story on the UN was that their advisor said 235 million starving in the next year or so unless things kick back into gear.
00:15:35.000Well, hopefully they are going to kick back in the gear.
00:15:37.000California is supposed to open up on May 15th, but the governor has been...
00:15:41.000I don't know if he enjoys it, but it seems like they definitely are comfortable with being the person they get to say, this is shut down and we're going to keep it shut down.
00:16:22.000Bill Gates apparently said, you know, China did a bunch of things right.
00:16:25.000And now what they're doing is they're taking that quote and they're putting it next to pictures of them welding doors shut and barricading people in their homes.
00:16:31.000And then him hanging out with Epstein.
00:17:11.000I know this is going to be really touchy because you've got a large group of really angry people, but they're saying things like, take your vaccines back.
00:17:45.000We've been talking about that quite a bit lately, where I've been saying you can't have massive, overreaching government surveillance as a response to a disease.
00:18:05.000Take a look at the social media, what's going on with Twitter, Facebook.
00:18:10.000The CEO of YouTube – we'll start there – said on CNN basically anyone who says anything out of line with the World Health Organization is – it's bannable.
00:18:19.000It's against our community guidelines.
00:18:21.000The World Health Organization has flip-flopped back and forth several times already.
00:18:24.000Well, they're clearly spouting out Chinese propaganda too, particularly in January when they were saying that according to China, there's no evidence that you could be transmitted from person to person.
00:18:35.000And did you know the AP reported at that time China knew and withheld the information for six days?
00:18:40.000So the day that the World Health Organization tweeted out no evidence according to China of human-to-human transmission, we now know according to the AP that China did know and purposefully withheld that.
00:18:51.000What you've got going on with China right now, I question whether or not we're getting close to an act of war.
00:18:56.000And I know that might be a little exaggerated, but they've got – this is a story that was published in BuzzFeed News.
00:19:02.000Trolls working either for China or within China trying to slow down the response in other regions like Spain, Italy, Taiwan.
00:19:09.000I think the BuzzFeed one was specifically about Taiwan, sowing disinformation so it would slow their response, things like that.
00:20:17.000So this is – I was reading about this.
00:20:19.000The Atlantic wrote about this in 2015. Are we headed for a war with China?
00:20:23.000And Thucydides Trap says that whenever a growing power seeks to upset the dominant power, it results in war.
00:20:29.000And out of 12 out of 16 times over the past 500 years, it has happened.
00:20:34.000So people have been predicting a US-China war for a really long time because of this historical precedent.
00:20:41.000It's not absolute, but it looks like – I'm not going to talk like I'm a historical expert or anything like that, but it looks extremely probable to me.
00:20:49.000I've had a lot of people get mad at me saying that I was fear-mongering by bringing this up, but the U.S. just sent two warships into the South China Sea, which China considers their own territory.
00:20:56.000When you look at what China has been doing in terms of misinformation, clearly lying about the numbers.
00:21:03.000I think it may have been Germany removing China's numbers from the charts saying they're not real.
00:21:07.000So China has been misleading the rest of the world, withholding information on how bad the infection is.
00:21:11.000They sent a strike group, an aircraft carrier, Through the South China Sea near Taiwan, putting Japan on alert, the US's aircraft carrier, Theodore Roosevelt, was disabled because of the coronavirus.
00:22:47.000Venezuelan naval ship crashed into a German-owned private cruise liner.
00:22:53.000They were trying to – my understanding of the story because I know a lot of people are – they're not going to want to provide that analysis.
00:23:18.000And so then sometime after, Donald Trump deploys two US naval vessels near Venezuelan waters, which he says are for drug-related operations.
00:23:27.000I'm not going to – like I know a lot of people are going to get heated saying, you know what you're talking about.
00:24:00.000When you have these nation states shoring up their borders, even within the European Union, that was crazy to me when you see Germany and France and Austria closing their borders to each other.
00:24:10.000Then you get these warships making these movements.
00:25:32.000Now, this could be propaganda because I'm in America, so of course I'm getting this information.
00:25:36.000Maybe the US is trying to build this up.
00:25:38.000But I think you take a look at that kind of behavior, the willingness to do anything by any means necessary.
00:25:43.000And at what point do you get one person who's in charge saying, I will not be the captain of a ship that sinks?
00:25:49.000You know, I look to – well, I don't want to get super political in American history, but I view it as you've got a leader of a country, and as people are looking at him, he says, this will be the year my country ceases to exist.
00:26:22.000I just – I don't trust anybody's decision-making but anybody who won't admit – That he said one thing when we saw it, like this whole injecting, disinfection, maybe a cleaning.
00:26:31.000The fact that he said he was being sarcastic.
00:28:12.000I don't think Trump was going for that.
00:28:13.000I think the guy mentioned we have bleach and alcohol and Trump was like, I wonder if you could, you know, possibly get in their body through an injection as a cleaning.
00:28:21.000I mean, look, well, what's really interesting that came out of this was Twitter banned an account That is a publicly traded biotech account that has a legitimate therapy.
00:28:31.000When someone has been intubated, when they're on a respirator, they can send UV light through that tube and actually kill some of the bad bacteria in the lungs.
00:28:43.000Now, the video that shows how they do it, it shows the tube and this animated thing which shows the lungs.
00:28:51.000They banned a publicly traded biotech company Which is just, I don't know if they banned them because they think that in some way this supports what Trump was saying, or if someone just pulled the trigger too quickly.
00:29:07.000I think you have a bunch of fucking kids that are making decisions whether or not something gets banned or not.
00:29:12.000Something gets reported, like someone report, I'm just guessing, someone reports and says, look, these fucking idiots are saying that Donald Trump's right, you can get lied in there.
00:33:44.000Chris Cuomo then shot a segment for CNN of him emerging from his basement like this is what I've been dreaming of, finally getting out of my basement and seeing my kids.
00:33:51.000But he was witnessed seeing his kids somewhere else.
00:33:55.000So you even had Ben Smith of the New York Times call this out saying – Ben Smith used to be the editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News.
00:34:02.000Now he's a media columnist for New York Times said something to the effect of it's like shocking how CNN is aligning this whole controversy.
00:34:08.000They're pretending like it didn't happen.
00:35:02.000I mean, you just had the Joe Biden thing.
00:35:04.000I don't know if you've talked about this yet, but if you go to Google Play and look up Larry King's show from 1993, you will see there.
00:35:11.000So actually, I checked many of the different months.
00:35:15.000What people noticed was that one episode was missing, August 11th, 1993, the episode where Joe Biden's accuser called in saying my daughter had a problem with a prominent senator.
00:35:34.000So I went through Google Play, and there certainly were other episodes that were presumably missing, typically Mondays, where I would assume that Larry King had a day off or something.
00:36:45.000Now you've got this idea of channeling the rage for the people.
00:36:48.000What that means is it's something I've seen in activist circles where it was explained to me that what people are looking for is someone to strike down a symbol of what they view as their enemy or the cause of their problems.
00:37:16.000Now you get performative journalism where Chris Cuomo pretends to come out of his basement where you get people standing up at the White House correspondents at the press conferences just arguing instead of actually asking questions.
00:37:27.000And then YouTube, Facebook and Twitter say this is the truth.
00:37:53.000David Pakman, for instance, you get MSNBC. Jimmy Dore, Fox News.
00:37:57.000I don't understand why they're going to send Jimmy's lefty followers to Fox News, but they're doing seemingly everything in their power to make sure individuals like myself and other commentators are struck down while channels like CNN, Fox, and MSNBC are propped up even though we know that they put out fake news.
00:38:13.000But isn't that because of the algorithm, though?
00:38:16.000And do you think that algorithm is engineered in order to lean towards those mainstream sites?
00:38:24.000I've looked at my analytics around the time these smear pieces came out arguing that there was a rabbit hole where if you watch one kind of content, it's all you get.
00:38:32.000It's a very, very misleading way of framing what was really going on.
00:38:35.000And I'm surprised that YouTube just bent over for this.
00:38:41.000You basically have YouTube's competition, these media outlets, using their media weight to hurt YouTube in ad sales.
00:39:50.000If you search for a news story, guess who you're going to get?
00:39:53.000If you Google search Tara Reade Joe Biden, you're going to get CNN. Do you think that they're doing that though because they're trying to get rid of conspiracy theories?
00:40:05.000They're trying to get – like I understand what they're saying in terms of – So like the CEO of YouTube, when she said that they're going to go with the World Health Organization.
00:40:14.000I don't think it's a good idea to go with the World Health Organization, because it seems like it's a very corrupt organization.
00:40:19.000But I do understand this desire to go towards respected and established medical professionals.
00:40:34.000And there's a lot of wacky fucks online that are trying to say that it's not a real virus and that it's 5G. All that kind of stuff is dangerous.
00:41:28.000And it wasn't until about a couple weeks ago they overturned these derankings on my channel.
00:41:33.000They told me before they published the guidelines, you cannot say these things.
00:41:38.000One of which was that it may have emerged from a biolab.
00:41:42.000Now we have on April, I think it was the 16th, a former Clinton administration NSC staffer saying that Occam's Razor suggests the most likely place that this came from was breaking out of a Wuhan biolab.
00:41:56.000There was a story by Brett Baer over at Fox News where he said, according to sources he has who have overseen the documents, We're good to go.
00:42:24.000They say, you can't talk about this, Tim.
00:42:39.000I mean, Brett Baer is one of the last true news people.
00:42:41.000I'm not somebody who follows him too much, but he's a straight news guy.
00:42:46.000He put his name on this, and that says a lot to me.
00:42:48.000You don't got to like the guy, you don't got to like Fox News, but CNN also ran the story saying U.S. intelligence now believes, or I'm sorry, they're investigating whether this claim has merit.
00:42:57.000We also had a story from The Washington Post that asked the same question, even got a professor from Rutgers University to say it's very possible.
00:43:05.000The story actually emerged because at South China University in Beijing released a paper saying that somebody was doing experiments on bats with coronavirus and one of the bats spilled blood on him and peed on him and he had to self-quarantine for 14 days.
00:43:20.000Being that the Wuhan CDC, I think it's the CDC, is about 300 meters away from the food market, it seems like that was a likely scenario.
00:43:47.000Some of this has to be the fact Millions of videos are uploaded every day, and they have to keep this disinformation from spreading out of control.
00:43:54.000When you have all these fucking nutjobs, they're saying, this is 5G, it's not even a virus, it's radiation sickness.
00:44:00.000Someone sent me, a guy that I really like, sent me this video of this doctor that seems like he's got schizophrenia or something.
00:44:06.000He's talking about, this is a plasma disease caused by radiation, and I'm like, oh fucking Christ, do you imagine?
00:44:12.000I've gotten so many people hitting me up.
00:44:14.000Tim, you gotta talk about 5G. Oh, God damn it.
00:44:17.000Do you know how many people hit me up when 4G came out?
00:44:45.000If you're saying they don't have any effect and here's why, I go, okay, this is why you don't need to be worried about UHF or whatever different waves that are flying around through the air, Wi-Fi and People are worried about all that kind of shit.
00:45:01.000They're really concerned that this does have some sort of effect on human beings.
00:45:05.000They think that, in fact, cell phone signals have an effect on bees.
00:45:08.000And that was one of the primary theories about the drop in bee populations.
00:46:12.000So first, probably not like that specific, but I do have a partner manager.
00:46:18.000I do have every single video I put out on my – my main channel is reviewed, 100 percent of them.
00:46:26.000They just recently introduced my other two channels.
00:46:30.000So I have a total of three channels under my name where I put out around 10 to 12 separate videos per day for a total of about three hours and 40 minutes.
00:50:01.000If you can clickbait the smartest man in the world fucked up and didn't give the ventilators.
00:50:07.000You want to know what the scariest thing is?
00:50:10.000CNN, any of these networks can make a fake story, get a million views, a day later apologize, retract, and they keep all the money they made.
00:50:56.000So the story from 2017 that Trump talked about putting alligators in a moat around the southern border or something was like – it's ridiculous.
00:51:51.000So, you know, I can't tell you how many stories I've gone through where it's like, you know that Peter Navarro story where Trump said to the journalist, you're a nasty, nasty reporter and everything.
00:52:42.000First of all, that way of communicating is fucking terrible.
00:52:46.000It's second only to the terribleness that in those late night news shows where they have...
00:52:52.000Three different people with the screen separated into three chunks, and this person on the right is arguing with this person on the left, and the moderator is trying to keep everybody in order, and everyone's talking over everybody, and everyone's looking for a sound bite, and everyone's looking to get their shots in before the buzzer, because there's like a bell coming when the commercial runs.
00:53:10.000It is the dumbest way to really explore a complicated idea.
00:53:14.000And second only to that, Is these fucking things where the president stands at the podium and people yell things out.
00:54:25.000These are the people that are supporting you.
00:54:26.000And you find it with like online commentators and Where – what's really weird is when like a person used to be left and then you see them getting a little bit of love from the right and they start kind of like inching over there in their comments and they get more and more attention and then they just jump ship.
00:54:45.000Like people who were leaning towards more right-wing talking points got attacked for it and then immediately came out in support of certain politicians – Yes.
00:56:22.000The only way to access it is to be subscribed until I give your email.
00:56:27.000They've since abandoned that and created a new website, thedonald.win.
00:56:31.000You go there, you're going to hear only good things about the president.
00:56:33.000And while there are certainly things you will – like any rational person would disagree with, I think a healthy discourse tries – you want to see the counterpoints.
00:56:43.000You want to better understand is there a real reason why Donald Trump did something or is he just an idiot?
00:56:48.000And if you're only getting one side of it, your view of the world is just totally … Trevor Burrus Well, Reddit used to be like the Wild West, right?
00:56:56.000It was pretty wild until like 2016. It was very little moderating.
00:56:59.000Reddit is so incredibly easy to manipulate and control, ridiculously easy that I remember – man, what year it was?
00:57:07.000Maybe 2015. Political operatives were seeking ways to prop up politicians manipulating Reddit's algorithms because users have direct control of it.
00:57:17.000I'll just tell you, it's ridiculously easy to do, like insanely easy.
00:57:20.000They've since made it more difficult, but one person with 10 cell phones and you could own the front page of Reddit very, very easily.
00:57:29.000Since then, we've seen accusations of – and I think it's fair to say in my experience, I know that this tends to exist – Sock puppetry, when someone runs multiple accounts pretending to be different people to create the perception of consensus.
00:57:49.000I know a guy who was a moderator at Reddit and told me this one account had nine different people or one person had nine different accounts they were using to attack this guy.
00:58:01.000And you can – so the way Reddit works for those that don't know is you upvote and downvote something.
00:58:09.000If it has more downvotes, it slowly disappears.
00:58:11.000So if you create a bunch of different accounts using proxy servers or other IP manipulation, you can make sure your post is always in front.
00:58:19.000Now, was there a concern that the Donald Reddit site was being manipulated, that they were basically just using it?
00:58:45.000I don't have the evidence to give you a definitive answer.
00:58:48.000I think it's fair to say that Trump supporters will smash the upvote button and make sure those posts always fly to the top because they're very enthusiastic.
00:59:02.000But one of the things that the Donald got in trouble for, I think, was they would do what's called a sticky post.
00:59:07.000So that means if you went there, one post was always on top of their page so the supporters knew to upvote it, guaranteeing it would get a lot of traction.
00:59:17.000But we actually saw – this is the craziest thing.
00:59:19.000The CEO of Reddit manipulated in the database someone's comment.
00:59:53.000Look, there's a lot of arguments you can make about policy and the right way to solve these problems.
00:59:59.000But I go on the front – I open Reddit and I'm browsing through it and I see these comments from people that clearly do not understand what's going on with these protests, that people want the economy to reopen.
01:00:09.000And I try and talk to my friends about it and it seems like they're trapped because I think – it's like you were mentioning how people drift towards what gets them the most love.
01:00:34.000Over here in California, if you're not left-wing, if you don't just instantaneously, when there's an issue, instantaneously side with the left, you get chastised.
01:00:48.000You get called a racist or you get called a Nazi or you get called a...
01:00:53.000You can't even have a rational perspective on things.
01:00:55.000You can't say something like, in hindsight, it was a good idea that Donald Trump closed off travel from China because it was coming from there.
01:01:05.000And a lot of people were calling him racist.
01:01:59.000It's so bizarre that she got to a position of power because she's so disingenuous and so fake in the way she communicates, especially on those shows.
01:03:06.000I mean if you've got a good candidate, I think – I don't care what they look like, what their skin color is, their race, gender.
01:03:13.000I know a lot of people on the left view that as like short-sighted.
01:03:17.000Because – and I think there's decent reasons to talk about how identity plays into how you view the world and the policies you want to implement.
01:03:25.000I just think it's dangerous to create that kind of – Yeah, we're not talking about prom queen.
01:03:30.000We're talking about someone who actually has a real important job.
01:03:33.000You shouldn't pick them based on what part of the world their ancestors are from or what gender they are.
01:03:39.000I would actually say on a scale of 1 to 100, that's not near like the top 50. Yeah.
01:03:45.000But I think it is fair to say that there's a real reason why that would play a factor, play a role.
01:03:49.000Like you've got a lot of people who have never experienced certain things and that includes the left and one of the big problems we have in politics is what we see coming from the left is really based on urban living and from conservatives on more likely to be rural living.
01:04:04.000So when you see people on the left argue for like rent strikes and things like that, well, yeah, you're in cities where you're predominantly renters.
01:04:13.000It doesn't resonate the same with people who live in areas where they primarily own their homes or if you're talking about the Second Amendment.
01:04:18.000Like obviously people in cities, they tend to be liberal.
01:04:38.000I personally would never place someone's like racial identity or gender in the top priorities.
01:04:45.000But I do think it is fair to point out that, you know, a black woman is going to understand things about life in the black community that a white man is not going to.
01:04:54.000That doesn't mean you give him a job because of it.
01:04:57.000You can point out the perspectives will be different.
01:06:51.000A guy who looks at it in terms of problems to fix.
01:06:54.000You can argue there's a similar thing there with Trump being a businessman, but Yang's list, his comprehensive list of policy positions was, to me, I was like, I like it, I do.
01:08:00.000Well, I don't want to speak for her because I'm trying to be very careful, but negative view on nuclear energy.
01:08:06.000Yeah, nuclear energy is different than Three Mile Island or Fukushima.
01:08:10.000We need to understand that … When you're looking at some of these issues that they have with Fukushima in particular, which is kind of an antiquated system that they had set up that they can't really shut off, which I had a whole bit about how crazy that is.
01:08:22.000When you're talking about the nuclear power that they could implement today, it would be a very different system.
01:09:38.000UBI, the way it's framed in general, makes very little sense and eventually – I think we're actually seeing now with the government stimulus – One of the biggest pitfalls to it.
01:09:47.000Do you hear there's a story they ran an NBC, a woman, her employees were like in revolt because she acquired a loan from the Paycheck Protection Program that insured their jobs, meaning they would receive less money because under the CARES Act, they would have received a bonus of $600 per week on top of the salary they'd normally get.
01:10:07.000They actually preferred to have lost their jobs.
01:10:09.000So you have people who are complaining that they're keeping their jobs now.
01:10:17.000But the challenge with just giving people cash is the assumption that the cash has inherent value when the value of it is based upon what you can get for it.
01:10:28.000So one of the lessons I think we learned now with the economy being shut down is – Doctors and nurses got to work.
01:11:09.000So you're comparing apples to oranges.
01:11:11.000You're applying universal basic income to our current situation, which has nothing to do with the reason why he wanted to implement it in the first place.
01:11:18.000He's worried that automation is going to take away jobs.
01:12:02.000You don't want to create any United States of welfare, like an all-encompassing thing where some, you know, these...
01:12:12.000Programs that are in place that automate all of the goods and services, they take some of that money and give it back to the people because no one can work.
01:12:20.000That's a depressing, dystopian future.
01:12:24.000I mean, that's a terrible place to live.
01:13:00.000So they take kids from the back, from the poor cart, and have them work internally in the engine because they have to move things around because parts are missing.
01:13:09.000If they don't, everyone, all human life dies.
01:13:12.000So they literally go in the back and they take children away from their families who scream and reject this.
01:13:17.000In Battlestar, they had children who were also taken for a similar reason to work.
01:13:21.000You had people who had no choice but to work on the fuel processing ship.
01:13:25.000Otherwise, all of humanity would be wiped out.
01:13:27.000I've often thought about – I'm a huge fan of Star Trek The Next Generation.
01:13:30.000How do we get to a post-capitalism world where we still have incentives but we're post-scarcity?
01:13:36.000The problem is as we're in transition, there will be jobs that are essential, which means one of the glimpses we get – I understand a pandemic is different.
01:13:45.000But we still see a glimpse of people who have to work kind of low-skill, boring, tedious jobs like at a grocery store.
01:14:24.000How do we incentivize and compensate, make that worth the people who have no choice but to keep working while the rest of us don't?
01:14:30.000I don't know if it's a keep working while the rest of us don't issue.
01:14:34.000I think it's a problem of jobs being phased out.
01:14:36.000I think the real problem is automation is going to phase out jobs.
01:14:40.000It's not going to be about what's essential and what's not essential.
01:14:42.000I think you're sort of applying pandemic vernacular.
01:14:45.000Well, let's remove the pandemic from it.
01:14:48.000And let's say, you know, right now, one of the things I looked at, and we talked about this a little bit before, I met a homeless guy in Chicago, and he worked at a job that became obsolete.
01:15:25.000I look at that and I say, how do we make sure that doesn't happen?
01:15:28.000This guy should not be punished simply because times have changed.
01:15:31.000But if you scale that up and say it keeps happening in every different sector, eventually you'll end up with 90% of the population saying my needs will be taken care of and 10% saying I still have to work, whatever the industry may be.
01:16:27.000This is what was attractive, but universal basic income to me.
01:16:30.000What if we all agreed that some semblance of dignity is a part of being an American, and then we will provide you with food, we will provide you with housing, everything else you have to fucking earn?
01:16:55.000When people don't have an incentive, and the competition is important.
01:16:59.000And when you look at people that are anti-capitalist, they're really into socialism, one of the things you find is a lot of rich kids It's weird, right?
01:17:09.000It's because they don't understand real struggle because they've grown up without it and they have these ideals like they feel guilty because they've grown up without struggle and they want to help the world and they think capitalism is evil and I never saw my dad.
01:17:21.000So we need to get all these rich people and they need to give that money to all these poor people and we need to balance out income.
01:17:41.000But there's some studies, some research that came out that finds the overwhelming majority of socialists in the United States, they came from upper middle class to upper class families that tended to be white.
01:17:52.000Yeah, and those are the ones that focus so hard on these social justice warrior issues.
01:17:57.000You take a person who's been surrounded by rich white people.
01:18:00.000It probably got a reason to not like them, but then they assume all white people are the same, and you end up seeing this racialization of politics.
01:18:07.000Also, they find themselves in a position of affluence that they didn't earn.
01:18:11.000They want to burn it all to the ground.
01:18:47.000They called me a good example of what's wrong with the system.
01:18:49.000Here's Tim Pool, a high school dropout, mixed race guy, and here he is just sleeping in a dirt park using his phone to tell the real stories of the world.
01:18:56.000After I got featured in Time Magazine, what did they say?
01:18:58.000Tim Pool is white and he was born with a silver spoon, which is not true.
01:19:03.000But the socialist types, the activists, couldn't accept that I had jumped the class system, I guess.
01:19:09.000Their view of the world is rigid, that the rich people keep the poor down.
01:19:12.000There's no chance for upward mobility, and that's not the case.
01:19:14.000You know, you absolutely can become successful from, you know, humble means.
01:19:18.000One of my favorite AOC quotes was her talking about, it's literally impossible to pull yourself up by your bootstraps when she used to be a waitress, and now she's a congresswoman.
01:19:55.000And yes, some people just get four aces from birth.
01:19:59.000Your dad's a multi-billionaire and your whole family's always been rich and you never have to worry about a goddamn thing for the rest of your life.
01:25:02.000Sparring sessions it was critical because you could see how you were telegraphing something and then you got countered you could see how and sometimes you don't think you're doing it then you realize like oh my god I'm dropping my hand every time I do this and then you get caught.
01:25:51.000It's like taking advantage of all the tools that you're given.
01:25:55.000And you can apply that To anything that you're trying to do good in life.
01:25:59.000If you have the time and the energy, like if you're doing a job and during this job, you know, you just show up at work and you try to do your best, then you go home and you fuck off and you do your stuff.
01:26:12.000But if you go and do your job and then afterwards analyze what you did, pay attention to it, write things down, make a diary perhaps, or review your work, you'll get better faster.
01:26:27.000It's a matter of how much time, as long as you don't burn out.
01:27:35.000So I'm doing constant research in between, fact-checking, and then once I get everything in line and I think I'm confident on what I have, and of course I'm not perfect, then I record for about 20 minutes.
01:27:46.000Then I get back to researching, reading.
01:28:41.000That's the difference between someone who's working in a fucking coal mine or someone who's working in a field all day picking strawberries, but they hate the job.
01:28:50.000I hear you, but you know how many people have hit me up?
01:28:53.000You probably get something similar, like, how do I do what you do?
01:28:57.000When I was working for Vice and I was traveling around the world, 10, 20 emails every week from young people saying, I really want to do what you do.
01:29:04.000And you know what they would say to me when I would tell them how to do it?
01:29:42.000And I'll see if I can make any connections on what you find.
01:29:44.000They said, well, the money I saved is for my apartment in Brooklyn.
01:29:48.000And I'm like, right, what's more important to you, having your nice Williamsburg apartment or being a journalist traveling around the world?
01:31:44.000There's a conversation I had with Ari Shafir where he and Robert Kelly, apparently they thought about sponsoring a comic who's up and coming, taking care of their financial needs for like a year, and trying to see how far they could get in their career if they didn't have to deal with money.
01:32:03.000And I said, that's the problem is, the type of person who's going to make it is going to make it not just in spite of the fact that they don't have any money, but because of the fact they don't have any money.
01:32:13.000Those day jobs, those sucky jobs that you need to have when you're struggling, those They fucking motivate you.
01:32:22.000If somebody just comes along and gives you all the money you need for food, you're gonna half-ass it, and some hungry guy on the other side of town is gonna take all the gigs that you would get.
01:32:47.000He knew everything about social media, Instagram and all that, and he started building up a client base where I'm going to run your social media for you.
01:34:26.000You know, so one of the arguments I keep seeing from a lot of people who have more—I don't even want to call them socialists.
01:34:31.000I think they're just regular urban dwelling, like, liberal left-type people.
01:34:35.000There's one viral post on Reddit that said you've got these conservatives or you've got these people out protesting so they can enrich their landlords and these billionaires when they should be demanding that rent be waived, that mortgages and evictions be canceled and that the government take care of their needs and provide them with stimulus or something like that.
01:34:55.000And I look at that like you're very clearly living in a city.
01:34:59.000But what they don't understand is they say things like landlord isn't a job.
01:35:02.000Like I'll argue that there's a lot of very successful landlords who make a ton of money and do very little.
01:35:20.000Rent doesn't just go into their pocket so they can buy a boat.
01:35:23.000But they view it this way and they think that money is what you want.
01:35:28.000When they say these people who want the government to be reopened are simply trying to enrich the wealthy, it's like I think maybe they make things and they want to keep making things.
01:35:37.000You mean the economy, not the government?
01:37:24.000If there's another flare-up two months from now?
01:37:27.000I mean, they're hurting right now and they might take years to recover from these past couple months.
01:37:31.000Well, there was, I think, some health official in California saying they might not be able to fully reopen until there's a vaccine, which could take 18 months.
01:37:44.000So I think there was an MIT Technology Review article talking about how we may have to do intermittent lockdowns, you know, like two months lockdown, one month off.
01:39:56.000Pentagon officially releases UFO... This is the tweet.
01:40:00.000It says, New Pentagon formally released three mysterious UFO videos captured by Navy pilots.
01:40:05.000The already leaked videos showed what DOD insists on calling unidentified aerial phenomenon moving at incredible speeds and performing near-impossible maneuvers.
01:40:21.000It's one of those subjects where people automatically dismiss it because it's been so touted by kooks.
01:40:29.000There's so many wacky fucks that have talked about UFOs that anybody talking about UFOs has to be out of their fucking mind.
01:40:37.000But then when you see these videos and you see them performing these Impossible tasks like these these things are moving in a way that we've never seen anything move before flipping upside down and sideways moving at insane rates of speed Like they don't know what these are.
01:40:58.000What's interesting though is I was reading one of these stories and They passively mentioned that the siding was near a technology and a US naval like technology station of some sort like a top-secret development That could be one of two things.
01:41:11.000Either it's developed by the people that are at that base, or they're monitoring the people that are at that base.
01:41:17.000These aircraft, we call them aircraft, are displaying characteristics that are not currently within the U.S. inventory, nor any foreign inventory that we are aware of.
01:41:27.000Maybe they see this shit that's going down with China, and all the ships being moved, and like, listen, you Fuckheads.
01:41:42.000I mean, the U.S. has probably got some crazy motherfucking weapons.
01:41:46.000Could be, but the Manhattan Project was also, coincidentally, right after they started detonating bombs when the aliens started showing up.
01:42:50.000Now, I had just quit working at O'Hare around this time when the sighting happened.
01:42:54.000So I had friends who were still there.
01:42:56.000I had a friend tell me that when this UFO came down, people on Mannheim Road, which is the road on the side of O'Hare, got out of their cars, like just stopped the light, got up, and were looking and staring at it.
01:43:07.000And that the people who were working, where we worked, we worked for American Eagle Airlines, walked out of the rooms and were just staring at it, float, and then shoot up and punch a hole in the clouds.
01:44:34.000They're like, okay, stop, you know, decloaking or whatever.
01:44:37.000But I want—or I wonder if, you know, why is it there were so many UFOs and then around the time cell phone cameras come out, they're gone.
01:44:43.000Well, I think most people are full of shit.
01:46:12.000Could you imagine, like, seeing, like, a beautiful woman or someone you're attracted to and being like, ooh, look at that, and it's really like an alien decoy just to, like, probe you and, like, better understand you or something?
01:46:20.000Well, the decoy, just the term decoy is weird because decoys are used for hunting.
01:46:29.000And the way that most guys hunt for turkeys, they take a rubber turkey, you put that fucker out in the middle of the field, and then you hide behind a bush with a shotgun and go...
01:46:39.000And then the turkeys, like, hear it, and they come over and they try to get some pussy, and then they get shot.
01:46:45.000So what if, you know, you see some dude, or it's like, for you, it'd probably be a beautiful woman.
01:47:44.000And what's crazy is, Angela Hill, who's a UFC fighter, I had her on the podcast, and after the show, she told me her grandpa was Barney Hill.
01:47:55.000We didn't talk about it during the show, but she wanted to bring it up because she knows I'm kind of obsessed with UFOs, but the account that they have, they get hypnotized and he's recalling the abduction and they have the same story.
01:48:18.000If they only did that occasionally, They only came down once every few years and just scoop some person up in the middle of some rural place.
01:48:26.000Like if you're flying over, you know, I think their instance was in, I believe it was in Maine.
01:48:31.000If you're flying over somewhere like Maine, which is a very low population state, and you see a lone car and it's just traveling along the highway and there's places in Maine where you go from like Portland to Bangor.
01:48:44.000When you're traveling on that road, it's like 60 miles with nothing, not a gas station, nothing.
01:48:50.000If you were an alien and you saw a car by itself, like, no other car, let's move in, we got one.
01:48:57.000Isn't it just easier to think it's the U.S. government?
01:49:01.000Because we don't have the capability of doing something like that.
01:49:03.000I don't think the capability of the scientists working for the government is any different than the capability of the scientists that are working for Project X or – fill in the blanks in terms of like what Raytheon,
01:49:30.000We've seen the little drone toys you buy, they've got four propellers.
01:49:32.000Take that concept, use thinner jets, and surround it in a disk so that it's universally, like it can move in any direction because it's got, you know, because it's omnidirectional.
01:50:39.000My understanding of why we abandoned jetpack technology was that it was inefficient and heavy and you couldn't carry it without it being turned on.
01:50:46.000So they opted for larger, like, you know, like, what are they called?
01:50:50.000Chinooks, helicopters that can carry multiple people at once.
01:50:54.000When you're wearing a jetpack, it has to be on idle, negating its own weight, which means it's burning as you're walking around, which means you get a good 20-minute jump and you've got to abandon the tech.
01:51:04.000And then you don't want your enemies to get it.
01:51:06.000Have you ever seen a guy fly a jetpack?
01:51:07.000Yeah, there's a video on YouTube from a long time ago.
01:51:22.000And he had this guy who was a jetpack pilot.
01:51:27.000Who came in and in the parking lot of the radio studio, and fans of the radio show came and did it too, and watched it rather, and this guy flew in the air for about 15-20 seconds and then landed.
01:51:38.000This guy was so banged up, both of his legs were blown apart.
01:51:43.000He had big braces on both of his knees.
01:51:47.000I'm like, what happened to your knees?
01:53:26.000Do you think that there is something way better than a space shuttle that they just never used?
01:53:30.000That they had and they kept it on the back burner, didn't want to let anybody know, but the way they would use it is they would pick people up and erase their memory and toy with their asshole?
01:54:53.000But the idea is that they've received the signal that we sent out way, way back in the day, actually when the...
01:55:03.000The first broadcast signal was Hitler announcing the Olympic Games, the start of the Berlin Games.
01:55:08.000And this was the first signal they got.
01:55:10.000It was a really controversial moment in the movie, or controversy, you know, in the plot with that, once they were trying to decipher the image that was being sent, they realized it was Hitler.
01:55:21.000The first thing they see is a swastika, and they're like, what the fuck is this?
01:56:02.000Same as a dog doesn't understand other than stay away from it.
01:56:05.000But one of the issues I think is often neglected in the conversation about aliens is the – We assume aliens would be on a very similar planet to us.
01:57:27.000But one of the things that he talked about was a thing called Element 115. That element 115 is an insanely dense element that they use to bend gravity.
01:57:36.000And that the way he described, the way the propulsion system works, it's like putting a bowling ball in the center of a very soft mattress.
01:57:43.000And that all of the other mattress, all the rest of the mass, the mattress bends around the intense mass of the bowling ball.
01:57:51.000And that this is how these incredibly advanced aliens from this other planet use.
01:58:42.000They did some experiments on television and showed that this stuff had made light and fog bend in a way that they couldn't describe.
01:58:53.000Didn't he also claim to see a small alien creature on his way out?
01:58:56.000He said he saw something that was sitting down, but he doesn't know if it was a model that they were using, like if they had created something that was supposed to be the size of a thing that could fit in these crafts, because these crafts, he said, were designed for things that were far smaller than human beings.
01:59:12.000I'm pretty sure in the initial interview he gave when he went public was that he saw an alien and then later on changed it saying, I don't know if it was maybe a model or a puppet.
01:59:20.000Yeah, he said he thought he saw something sitting down and two people standing over it looking at it.
01:59:30.000I mean, look, he said it was literally for like a half a second.
01:59:33.000Like he's walking by a window and he sees something inside of it.
01:59:36.000Imagine being a guy who's in your 20s and you're a propulsions expert and it's been proven that he worked at Los Alamos labs and it's been proven that he did put a fucking jet engine...
01:59:45.000Yeah, it's been proven that he did put a jet engine on a Honda.
01:59:50.000And then you talk to him, he's an incredibly smart guy.
01:59:53.000Now, imagine you get sent off to Area S4, and they show you this thing that you know doesn't even exist, and they tell you about this propulsion method that they don't understand, and they say that they found this a long time ago in an archaeological dig.
02:00:07.000And they want you to back-engineer it because you're a propulsions expert and they're running out of options.
02:00:13.000They've been studying this for decades.
02:00:14.000No one knows what the fuck it is or how you can make it work.
02:00:17.000And then they do test flights with this thing.
02:00:19.000And then he tells his friends about these test flights after he gets fired.
02:00:36.000Because when you have top secret clearance to work on UFOs, I guess they don't want your wife fucking her flight instructor because then you're going to go crazy and you have a lot of...
02:01:26.000Even though people that knew him and knew he worked at Los Alamos Labs, he takes George Norrie of a tour of Los Alamos Labs, knows the people that worked there.
02:02:35.000Let's – the challenge with any theory – I don't like saying conspiracy theory because they're not always conspiracies – is that people want something to be true and so they end up looking for things to justify what they think it already is.
02:02:49.000Instead of starting with what you've got and trying to figure out where it goes from there.
02:02:51.000But, when you start with what you've got, you've got a guy who was living in Vegas, was taking these flights out to Area S4, knows the place, knows it inside-out, can describe it very accurately, also worked at Los Alamos Labs, describes that very accurately.
02:03:23.000What he was told is, this is something that has come from somewhere else, and they're trying to figure out how to work it, how to use it.
02:03:29.000What if we're in a simulation, and this was something that was leftover code, or it wasn't supposed to be placed in this current iteration?
02:03:37.000Or what if there's multiple dimensions that we don't have access to, and that these things do?
02:03:42.000You know what my favorite, I don't want to call it a conspiracy theory, but one of my favorite stories is...
02:03:47.000Humanity emerged on Venus and that we destroyed the planet with a greenhouse effect.
02:03:52.000So we created the Ark Project and took the DNA of two of every animal and loaded up on the last vessel, the Ark, and went to terraform Earth.
02:04:12.000And what people do – again, I'm not saying it's – I think it's a fun story.
02:04:16.000They argue that the Bible was like stories being told and retranslated over hundreds of years to a lost civilization that had only one ship escaped the destruction of their planet.
02:04:48.000If we don't discover a better propulsion than hard chemical energy, we're not going to do it.
02:04:53.000That's why this is so compelling, this idea that they're using some element that apparently is impossible to find here.
02:05:00.000You can only create it with a particle collider, but maybe in whatever solar system they are coming from, you have a very different environment.
02:05:10.000And maybe this element was the primary source for fuel.
02:05:13.000Maybe they figured that out a long time ago.
02:05:16.000I wonder if – I'd love to talk to an actual physicist about this.
02:05:19.000Is there something with negative density?
02:05:46.000But negative density, something that would actually have a push effect in terms of gravity, in which case you could have some kind of object with – where you can control, expand and contract density so that you're pushing and pulling.
02:06:18.000They'd all get radiation poisoning and die.
02:06:20.000They'd never be able to figure it out in a million years if you just left it with them, if you left some sort of a nuclear reactor with them.
02:06:27.000And he said this is really how far advanced he believes these aliens, or whatever you want to call them, are.
02:06:37.000Their science, their technology is indistinguishable from magic because they're so far ahead of us.
02:06:42.000Do you think they'd want to be involved with us beyond just testing us?
02:07:48.000Well, all innovation happens because people are trying to improve on initial designs.
02:07:54.000Now, why do they try to improve on initial designs?
02:07:57.000They try to make things that are better, make things that are more efficient, make things that can do tasks that they can't do without these tools.
02:08:04.000And then their curiosity and their creativity causes them to expand upon these ideas.
02:08:09.000Well, of course, if something's going to be so far advanced that they didn't accept their current place in the universe, they don't even accept the fact they want to stay on this planet.
02:08:21.000Do you know how fucking insanely curious you'd have to be to lock you and three of your other three-foot buddies in a giant fucking flying saucer and propel yourself through space?
02:09:21.000Jumps in the water and tries to go as low as he can for as long as he can before coming back out.
02:09:25.000We would look at that like, that is the stupidest attempt at scuba diving I've ever seen, but oh my god, a chimp just tried to scuba dive.
02:09:32.000So if there are aliens and they're in these amazing technologically advanced ships that can jump, light speed, manipulate gravity, they just watched us strap ourselves to an explosive and fire us off of our atmosphere where we're likely to die and they're like, this is the stupidest attempt at actually going to space.
02:11:54.000But they have a thing called a stack in the base of their – in their spinal column right below their head that stores their consciousness and they call their bodies sleeves.
02:12:03.000And they kind of don't care when they die because they just get – if you're poor, you get really crappy sleeves, right?
02:12:10.000But if you're rich, you get premium access, military upgrade, like high tech, very strong.
02:12:15.000But their bodies just become separate.
02:12:17.000And you can also transport your consciousness interstellar, like to other planets.
02:12:22.000And then you wake up in a body on a different planet.
02:12:42.000If you think about what we look like as opposed to what a chimp looks like, and then you keep going further with that, like, oh, the head will get bigger, the bodies will get weaker.
02:12:50.000And then, look, there's a sort of a trend in this society today to be less masculine, less feminine, More gender neutral.
02:13:02.000Maybe that's all just part of the programming.
02:13:03.000This falls into another one of these conspiracy theories that the goal of the globalists is that in order to get access to alien tech, we have to be a unified planet.
02:13:31.000The point I'm making is there are people online who believe this.
02:13:33.000They believe that if there is some kind of Galactic Federation or at least some kind of recognizable, you know, different cultures that have some kind of set rule base, who do they negotiate with?
02:13:45.000And so the argument, well, one of the theories is that Interests on the United States who have access to the aliens know that they have to do everything in their power to unify the entire planet under one authority so that we can be entered into whatever alien access would exist.
02:14:01.000But so long as we are nuclear-powered competing territorial factions, they can't do it.
02:14:06.000Well, that makes sense if that was the case.
02:14:09.000But you add in what you were saying about masculinity and gender.
02:14:12.000And one of the things that I find interesting is that when it comes to this argument about removing masculinity, there's kind of overlap with this idea of domestication.
02:14:21.000You think about wolves, proto-dogs and dogs.
02:14:25.000Dogs are effectively wolf cubs perpetually.
02:14:28.000So wolves are aggressive, territorial, independent – I mean independent in the sense that like you're not going to tame them.
02:14:35.000They're like – Trevor Burrus You don't teach wolves.
02:15:44.000If aliens came to Earth and most humans agreed, and then over time the humans that got access to life-saving technology, special armor, were the ones that were agreeable and less likely to be aggressive?
02:15:57.000Yeah, they would bitch out just like the wolves bitched out and became a poodle.
02:17:41.000They said something about, like, you need to realize the aliens who would come to Earth aren't the cool nerds who want to, like, talk science.
02:17:47.000It's the rich assholes who, you know, ratfuck their planet and they're dipping out.
02:18:02.000But if they're genderless things from the future, what benefit would it be to get richer?
02:18:09.000They have their giant heads and they can travel to speed of light.
02:18:13.000This is why I really don't like, I think it's Hawking's argument.
02:18:16.000That we shouldn't be excited about aliens because whenever a more powerful civilization approaches a weaker one, they dominate and enslave.
02:18:23.000I don't buy that for two seconds in terms of aliens coming to Earth.
02:18:57.000The way I would view the most devastating...
02:19:01.000Approach would be more like a gigantic vessel coming down and just slicing a skyscraper in half and stripping out all the copper and elements while ignoring the people.
02:19:10.000And when we go to a habitat for animals, we're not going to like, haha, we'll kill all the squirrels.
02:19:26.000So I don't think the argument makes sense that a more advanced civilization would come to Earth and be like, ha-ha, humans, now you will serve us, and it's our land now.
02:19:33.000They would completely ignore us and just start taking stuff and crushing us and ignoring us.
02:19:37.000It wouldn't be – but I don't think that's the most likely scenario either.
02:19:41.000I think any race sufficiently advanced enough to travel the massive size of the universe would have little need for the primitive elements on our planet.
02:19:50.000And it would actually be substantially easier for them to go to any other empty rock.
02:19:57.000Like, this might be an incredibly rare place.
02:20:00.000It's incredibly rare as far as everything we've been able to observe.
02:20:03.000They might come here because they found this Goldilocks planet that has liquid water and incredible biodiversity and more life than any other place on Earth or any other place in the solar system or in the known galaxy.
02:20:15.000You know the Eris planet theory, right?
02:21:19.000Is an interesting website, and I don't know who's right or who's wrong, and I think if you want to go over the Anunnaki and the ancient...
02:21:26.000What's really interesting, and not just about Sitchin, but about Sumer in general, is one thing is...
02:21:35.000They had these tablets, these clay tablets that had a depiction of the galaxy, or the depiction of the solar system.
02:21:42.000Now you're talking about 6000 BC. They have this depiction of the solar system that shows the sun in the center, and it shows all of the planets in our known solar system with a proper perspective in terms of the size of the planet and the proper distance,
02:22:10.000And the take that Zacharias Hitchin had was that they were trying to tell us that they have come from this other planet, and they were trying to explain to us what our solar system is.
02:22:23.000But just the fact that they have this Sun in the center, and then they have all the planets that we know of circling this Sun.
02:22:31.000And this has been criticized, like, oh no, they didn't do it right, they didn't do it.
02:22:34.000First of all, they did it in clay, okay?
02:22:39.000It's so goddamn close that you would have to say, man, that might be what that is.
02:22:44.000And if that is what that is, what are they trying to say with this thing?
02:22:48.000Because there's also an image from a clay tablet of a very large being that has a very small human-like being with a monkey tail on its lap.
02:22:58.000And this is what Sitchin points to as some sort of a depiction of the genetic engineering that took place to turn primitive primates into human beings.
02:23:09.000This is the reason why we are so different from every other animal on this planet.
02:23:15.000And the real thing that when people talk about aliens and alien, what would aliens be doing here?
02:23:24.000What if human beings are the product of accelerated evolution?
02:23:29.000Like what if they came down here, they found this incredibly rich planet that's filled with biodiversity and all these different life forms and then they found these primates.
02:23:38.000And like, oh, we know where these fuckers are going.
02:23:40.000Like, this is us 10 billion years ago, or whatever the fuck it is.
02:23:56.000That's the story that they told Bob Lazar.
02:23:59.000But Bob Lazar said, I don't know if they told me that to throw us off the trail, if it's disinformation, or if it's just some wacky thing that they came up with just to...
02:24:10.000Like, have a crazy story that the scientists couldn't tell anybody.
02:24:13.000So if you do tell people, like, what are you working on?
02:24:15.000I'm working on reverse engineering, a propulsion system from an aircraft that came from another planet.
02:24:20.000And by the way, we are a product of accelerated evolution.
02:24:24.000They came to us and they injected our DNA. Well, think about that story in the context of ancient religions and a lot of the commonalities, notably like Abrahamic, this idea that we were created, that we were told we shouldn't do certain things.
02:24:39.000So I think these are all fun stories, but you could look at the idea of – We're good to go.
02:25:01.000I get a lot of heat from my more religious friends for pointing that out, that I believe the Bible is more likely and an odds base to be about aliens than about the actual creator of the universe.
02:25:11.000And I'm talking astronomical odds, like ridiculously astronomical.
02:25:14.000But I think we actually know some things exist, genetic manipulation, cargo cults.
02:25:19.000We know how primitive life form reacts to more advanced technology they don't understand.
02:25:23.000And that would make more sense to me than, you know, believing in a hard religion about the creator and, you know, carpenter son, things like that.
02:25:30.000Yeah, well, it's also, we're dealing with translations, right, that have gone on for thousands and thousands of years that are a story that was told as an oral tradition for a thousand years before that.
02:25:42.000It's like, boy, saying hard and fast exactly what they meant in the Bible and what this means and what must have happened for them to write that down, to me is just bonkers.
02:25:57.000But what we do know is that the older the stories get, the weirder they get.
02:26:03.000Like, that's one of the weird things about the ancient Sumerian texts is that you're dealing, now you're in like the 6,000 years ago range.
02:26:16.000I saw that conversation with that dude about the Sphinx.
02:26:18.000I think he said it was like 9,000 BC or something.
02:26:20.000Well, this is Graham Hancock or Robert Schock.
02:26:24.000Robert Schock, who is a geologist at Boston University, has actually taken the time to examine the erosion around the outside of the Sphinx.
02:26:34.000See, the Sphinx itself has been worked on a lot.
02:26:37.000There's been a lot of rehabilitation of the pause.
02:26:41.000They've sort of rebuilt it, which is kind of a shame, but it's made out of sort of a soft stone, and it's eroding and falling apart.
02:26:49.000When they found the Sphinx, like when Napoleon found the Sphinx, it was buried.
02:26:56.000So this is a thing that had been buried and re-exposed many times, they think, throughout history.
02:27:02.000And what Robert Shock had found in discovering the temple where the Sphinx was carved and The area that surrounds the Sphinx was these deep fissures in the walls that were indicative of thousands of years of rainfall.
02:27:18.000The problem with that is the last time there was rainfall in the Nile Valley was 9000 BC. Right.
02:27:25.000So they're dealing with, like, and you have to go back thousands of, or 9,000 years ago, it might be 7,000 BC, but you have to deal with thousands of years of rainfall prior to that to create this.
02:27:37.000So that means that this was something that was clearly carved by man.
02:28:11.000Isn't it even slightly, even tiny, tiny bit more likely that humans came from a different planet and after they destroyed it and then receded and we lost our way of life?
02:28:22.000Look, if we're gonna go to Mars, like, what is the fucking origin tale gonna look like 100,000 years from now once we go to Mars?
02:28:29.000Let's take the climate change, you know, global warming stuff to its logical conclusion of rising tides and a greenhouse, runaway greenhouse effect.
02:32:30.000The person who's in charge is in charge.
02:32:32.000And then eventually you build up the colony to a certain point where second in command or one of the favorite lieutenants says it's time to enact democracy.
02:33:11.000I'm not trying to disrespect anyone's religion or anything like that.
02:33:13.000But like what if we tried to apply a lens of – from a futuristic perspective of our understanding of technology to how they may have viewed what was going on back then?
02:33:46.000It would be so funny if we destroy this planet, we go to Mars and repopulate Mars and fix it up and then destroy that place and come back to Earth after we're done.
02:33:53.000Because, like, look at what's going on right now during this pandemic.
02:33:56.000The skies are clearer than ever before.
02:33:58.000The Venice Canals in Italy have dolphins in them now.
02:35:44.000If we could fuck them, they'd be so impressed with you.
02:35:48.000Well, what if we find a spaceship underground with ancient tech and we don't know what it is, and it turns out it's ours?
02:35:53.000The Dogon tribe, the Nomo, and their fascinating cosmic knowledge.
02:35:58.000Deep in Northwest Africa, more precisely in Mali, we find one of the oldest, most fascinating ancient cultures to develop on Earth.
02:36:06.000So, the ancient Dogon tribe is known for their religious traditions, ritual dances, their massive ritual masks, their wooden sculptures, and their architecture.
02:36:13.000However, they're also known for their incredible astronomical knowledge and their fascinating mythological accounts.
02:36:20.000The Dogon have a compelling ancient tradition.
02:36:23.000They mention myths and legends that go thousands of years into the past, predating possibly even their own history.
02:36:29.000Some authors like Robert Schock, who's also the guy from Boston University, he's the geologist that talked about the Spanx, argue that the Dogon were a people who originated in Africa, but who had been forced to leave ancient Egypt due to their religious persecutions.
02:36:44.000It is in his opinion that the Dogon may preserve ancient Egyptian traditions and myths that may even have been carried into the present age, claiming that the Dogon have a powerful cosmic connection.
02:37:18.000Where, you know, in the first segment he talks about the three kings of Orion's belt pointing to the star in the east where the sun rises in the third day.
02:37:32.000Yeah, when you stop and look, if you were traveling across the country as you were, did you get a chance to stop and look in the middle of nowhere at the sky?
02:37:42.000Isn't it gross that we're robbed of that?
02:37:44.000Yeah, and wasn't it—there was a story that I think in Los Angeles, the power went out, this blackout in the 90s, and the police got tons of calls from people who didn't know what they were seeing in the sky.
02:41:06.000If you go back to 2008 – 2008 rather when Obama was elected, the influence of like online media and the ability to pull eyes away from traditional media sources was nothing.
02:41:35.000They have these online platforms where not only are they more viable than the traditional media outlets, they're more accurate, they're less biased, they're younger.
02:41:47.000They're more intelligent and they're not connected to some gigantic media machine that has a very consistent bias.
02:41:53.000I think we're seeing substantially more bias than ever before.
02:41:58.000From online things or from everything?
02:42:02.000From everything, but it starts with people like me.
02:42:46.000It's not entirely fair, but there's no real good answer to how you deal with this, and it's unfair to a lot of independent creators because, like you mentioned, YouTube doesn't know better.
02:43:15.000Now we're being told that our credible news outlets, authoritative sources, they're the same thing as what the YouTubers were.
02:43:24.000Look, I mean, when you get Don Lemon going on the show asking if a black hole swallowed an airplane, how is that any different from the crackpots on you?
02:45:59.000Well, I think he's doing that because, first of all, back then, I mean, this was 2014?
02:46:04.000Yeah, September 2014. I think people were just starting to understand, like, the impact of comments, and they were addressing them, and they were probably trying to silence a lot of the nonsense.
02:46:15.000But then you get a woman saying, a small black hole would swallow the whole universe.
02:46:20.000Yeah, well, I don't think she's a real expert if she said that.
02:50:08.000What was it that AOC said recently that people shouldn't go back to work?
02:50:13.000That they should protest, like not go back to work.
02:50:19.000That to me was one of the craziest things I've ever heard a politician say.
02:50:22.000Like, if anything, we need to get the goddamn economy back on track.
02:50:25.000I wonder if she's going to lose in her primary.
02:50:27.000She's going up against a woman named Michelle Caruso Cabrera, who is a moderate, who actually sounds very reasonable.
02:50:33.000And it kind of breaks my heart a bit because I remember how Democrats used to be.
02:50:37.000Like, you can look at the thing she talks about, and she's a very reasonable – like, she's got, like, a book.
02:50:42.000She was an anchor for some – I think for, like, CNBC or something.
02:50:46.000And she comes off, like – I don't know, kind of like maybe you or me, just how what used to be left before they went became radical activists for social justice.
02:52:58.000Marketing, digital marketing companies overlapped with resistance Twitter, anti-Trump.
02:53:04.000So what ends up happening is big marketing firms based in New York City, based in Los Angeles, very urban areas, much more likely to be blue, have a blue perspective.
02:53:13.000They run commercials based on a left-wing perspective.
02:53:16.000Politicians see what the television is saying, they see what the websites are saying, and they say, this is what America wants.
02:53:35.000But it was exploiting the system, so you end up with someone who has views that don't represent It would be really interesting if what did him in was the Lysol
02:55:06.000Donald Trump has come forward with the economy was booming, lowest unemployment in 50 years, best numbers of our lives up until the pandemic.
02:55:13.000He instituted a travel ban that the Democrats are even agreeing with now at this point.
02:55:17.000If you want to convince me to vote for you, and many people like me, I think you've got to give me an argument as to why Biden is better, but they're not.
02:55:22.000They're saying, stay alive, Joe Biden.
02:55:28.000And I think if the economy does manage to show some signs of resurgence...
02:55:32.000Around November, towards October and September, if he has some sort of a real rock-solid plan and he can show you where it's going, this is what we're planning on doing, we're going to have this by that and that by this.
02:55:47.000And by the way, Joe Biden is not going to get better.
02:55:49.000His cognitive decline is going to increase.
02:55:52.000And it could drop right off of a fucking cliff.
02:55:54.000It might come around to where November is, where the gaffes are constant and they pull him off of the public eye and they never show him.
02:56:03.000If the Democrats want to win, they'll run Michelle Obama.
02:56:05.000We might have a fucking CGI Joe Biden with some – I'm not kidding.
02:56:10.000Or he does it from some sort of a remote location and they CGI the shit out of his face.
02:56:57.000Mail-in voting, I think, will be the downfall of Republicans.
02:57:00.000If mail-in voting does get pushed through Nancy Pelosi, I believe she said she wants to have mail-in voting confirm the next stimulus package.
02:57:06.000If the lockdown persists beyond November and mail-in voting is the go-to way, The challenge – you see a bunch of Republicans saying that mail-in voting could lead to fraud, and it can, right?
02:57:18.000If somebody's mom is like old and just like not paying attention and you fill it out for her.
02:57:22.000But the bigger issue I see for Republicans is that uninitiated and uninterested people will be voted for.
02:57:27.000And that means in big urban areas, you'll have a mom and a dad telling their kids who normally don't care to vote, just fill it out, just fill it out, just vote for the guy.
02:57:35.000And that could potentially hurt the public.
03:01:18.000So if BuzzFeed News runs 100 stories and we find that 63 have some kind of violation of the code of ethics, we give them the score of 37 out of 100. And then people can see how we rate these agencies.