Tim and Ethan are joined by actor Ethan Suplee (American Glutton, Mallrats) to discuss a wide range of topics, including the latest in the war on Syria, fat people getting the flu vaccine, and more!
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00:02:43.000I really like the colors of that hoodie and Those women better get ready because the United States just bombed Syria, and everyone's talking about a toy potato.
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00:07:12.000It's very simple from the Hill Supreme Court asked to declare the all-male military draft unconstitutional the ACLU issued a new petition saying women should be required to register for enlistment as well They say a new petition issued by the ACLU has made it to the Supreme Court and aims to declare the historic male-only military draft unconstitutional.
00:07:37.000Department of Defense lifted the ban on women serving in combat in 2013, the petition specifies that the obligation for men to register upon turning 18 years old has yet to be applied to women.
00:07:48.000Quote, thousands of women have since served, with distinction, in combat positions across all branches of the military.
00:07:55.000The formal petition reads, The registration requirement has no legitimate purpose and cannot withstand the exacting scrutiny that sex-based laws require.
00:08:06.000Rooted in this argument is the 1981 case Rotsker v. Goldberg, which argued that because American men are required to register under the U.S.
00:08:13.000law and women are not, the male-only draft is discriminatory and unconstitutional.
00:08:25.000Ultimately, the Court held that the Act does not violate equal protection clauses under the Fifth Amendment, and that the government is allowed to develop an army in times of national emergency.
00:08:33.000Now, the petition asks the Supreme Court to overrule Rotsker v. Goldberg, since women are formally allowed to register for military service and in combat roles.
00:08:42.000And just as an aside, I don't want to derail from this story, we have the Equality Act being passed by the House which would add sex to the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
00:08:52.000So as far as I'm concerned, ladies, start lining up and registering for the Selective Service because y'all are going to be drafted.
00:09:30.000Now, they say that the all-volunteer force is more effective, and I think that's true.
00:09:37.000Like, the data shows you get a bunch of people who don't want to be there who are scared and forced into it, you get a really ineffective fighting force.
00:09:44.000I think that's what they learned from Vietnam.
00:09:46.000So my bigger question with all of this is I know there's a lot of guys who are probably laughing and cheering, like, yeah, yeah, finally, because we've seen this before.
00:09:52.000There was another attempt at making this happen, and feminists were outraged.
00:09:58.000They were like, this is not what I wanted when I said I wanted equality.
00:10:02.000I do not want to have to go to war and fight in combat or anything like that.
00:10:04.000And it's like, well, that's what equality means.
00:10:06.000But I guess there's a libertarian question in all this.
00:10:59.000But I mean, obviously, I'm against the draft.
00:11:02.000I mean, I think it's a ridiculous idea.
00:11:03.000You look at the wars that have been started.
00:11:05.000All of them are based on false pretenses.
00:11:08.000All of them are based on benefiting the military-industrial complex that is now getting their lunch with the Biden presidency, especially with the latest attacks that happened tonight, but also even before that.
00:11:17.000When you look at Raytheon, for an example, which, by the way, a board member is now our defense secretary of Raytheon.
00:11:35.000Yeah, they talked about diversity, but not his Raytheon past.
00:11:39.000Now, you look at what the Biden administration is doing with Raytheon.
00:11:42.000Raytheon just got an $85 million weapons deal with Chile, a $197 million weapons deal in Egypt, $245 million weapons deal with the United States and another $1.2 billion weapons deal with U.S.
00:11:56.000That's what Raytheon just got under a Biden presidency.
00:11:59.000Wait, you said missile defense systems?
00:12:01.000Upgrading and working on the military defense system.
00:12:04.000But will there be women forced through conscription to be manning those?
00:12:07.000That's the big Well, right now there was a... I remember just a few years ago there was a crisis with trying to enlist people in the military.
00:12:17.000But now with how robotic everything is becoming, especially with the onset of things like drone warfare, the United States military doesn't need as many people.
00:12:26.000And with the recent economic downturn, more people are volunteering.
00:12:29.000So right now the United States does not need to use The draft but if there was a bigger conflict Let's just say with Russia which of course the United States is positioning itself with especially with tonight's actions bombing a Syrian You know a Syrian facility that's used by the Iranian-backed rebels You have to wonder that this is this is something that might play a big role in the future.
00:12:52.000I I wonder if one of the reasons we're seeing this, it's not the first time it's happened, in the past few years there have been attempts to get women into combat roles and to sign up for, it's not the draft specifically, it's the Selective Service, I think it's called, is that what it's called?
00:13:44.000Like, just like printing money like crazy?
00:13:46.000So I wonder if they're basically saying we need to start preparing and putting together this database in the event that we gotta go fight some people.
00:13:53.000You know, I'm really anti-war and really, really dislike the draft.
00:13:58.000I would have been in Vietnam, one of those guys that fled to Canada probably because I didn't want to go.
00:16:54.000And also push self-destructive tendencies and also push things that ultimately destroy a nation to destroying their youth.
00:17:01.000And if you look at our youth, I mean, I did a video about this today, record high suicides, especially in places where there's the most strictest lockdowns.
00:17:10.000And there's even court cases of major people arguing we need to bring back the schools because kids are going to keep killing themselves in record numbers like they already are, which is absolutely... The lockdown stuff's getting real bad.
00:17:55.000If these structures, I think that the way to dissolve them isn't through war and violence, for real, it is just to convince people.
00:18:05.000That's exactly what fifth generational war is.
00:18:07.000Yeah, but I think, like, if you look at how the USSR kind of dissolved, and it got really rough immediately following the dissolution of the USSR, and there was a lot of scary stuff happening over there, but people just went like, I don't want to do this anymore.
00:18:27.000I'm worried about that for here in the U.S.
00:18:29.000You know, like, if people stop believing in the legitimacy of government or of institutions, it's not about whether or not they oppose them.
00:18:54.000And well, if people view it as not honest and they come to oppose it, the opposition is still rooted in the idea that the government holds power and is legitimate.
00:19:01.000But let's say there's a system that people find they're indifferent to, so they outright ignore.
00:19:06.000That's when government actually collapses.
00:19:10.000Well, the thing is, there's a lot of people losing confidence in the system because of all the dishonesty.
00:19:16.000There was a great article, I forgot who wrote it, I forgot where I read it, but it said the reason we have things like, you know, theories about, you know, government, I can't, can we even say that word?
00:19:33.000I was trying to think of another word for it.
00:19:38.000I threw it to you because you're great at that.
00:19:42.000But when you look at a lot of the conspiracy theories, they're kind of rooted in a lot of the bigger government lies, and there wouldn't be as many of them if the government was just honest with us.
00:19:52.000And let's be honest, they're not honest with us in so many instances, in so many different ways, whether it's war, whether it's health, whether it's diet, whether it's the food chain, whether it's big industries like the sugar industry.
00:20:04.000We have a lot of problems with mainline institutions that profit off of our suffering and talking along the lines of fifth generational warfare, I think it's very fair to say that a lot of people have been convinced to make very bad decisions for themselves.
00:20:19.000And I think that's an understatement when you look at our modern-day society and where it's heading right now.
00:20:23.000Well, let's play devil's advocate and say, you know, when talking about the draft and specifically, refresh me on what your point was, because I want to make sure I get it correct.
00:20:33.000Well, the larger point is people are making really bad decisions for themselves and they're hurting themselves for the benefit of the very few that have no allegiance to the United States.
00:20:42.000So just like, playing devil's advocate, if we did end up collapsing and people did lose confidence, you know, Ethan, you just mentioned things got really bad post-Soviet Union, you know, the oligarchs came, isn't there a benefit to having, even if it's bad?
00:20:56.000And again, playing devil's advocate here because I'm not a big fan of big government, but what are the benefits to having a system in place that may be oppressive but still functions?
00:22:43.000I do want to bring up though, when you mentioned the blue and gold thing, one of the biggest drivers of that was people at different phones with different color schemes.
00:22:51.000And with the Laurel and Yanny thing, people had different speakers.
00:22:58.000And somebody's going, no, I hear Yanny.
00:23:00.000There's a really amazing thing someone did where they took both the blue and gold and the white, the white and gold and the blue and black, and they cut a piece out and they moved it left and right to show you it was the same.
00:23:10.000Or, or, or, yeah, like, like, uh, but it was based on shadowing, like shading made, it was like, that really looks like, that's crazy how that works.
00:23:18.000And then there's another thing that's really funny.
00:23:19.000There's a meme where it was, I think, seven different phrases, but it was one soundbite.
00:23:25.000And so whichever one phrase you read, you would hear.
00:24:16.000That's like a good example of what we're experiencing right now and it's causing people to like want to punch each other in the face.
00:24:20.000Yeah, I also get a little hung up with the idea of should.
00:24:25.000When we think about all of this stuff, and I hear people saying, this is how it should be, I kind of go like, well, that's how you want it to be, but really, what does should mean?
00:24:35.000You know, even when we're talking about science, science doesn't have values.
00:24:41.000So anytime somebody is saying something should be a way, I'm kind of like, Okay, maybe you and a bunch of people don't want it to be that way, or you and a bunch of people do want it to be that way.
00:24:52.000And I think it's really interesting to listen to people who say, here's this problem that I perceive, and here's a solution that I'd like to try and enact.
00:25:01.000But like, that's a rational conversation.
00:25:04.000But you know that meme where it's like the guy goes, I'm angry and he says, here's a solution.
00:26:16.000She didn't get canceled, but they got really mad because she, she had lost all this weight.
00:26:20.000And, and, and again, you know, just for everybody watching, it's like, I think, I think a core component of your podcast has to do with your, you know, health and wellness and weight loss transformation stuff.
00:26:31.000Uh, uh, I think Adele was a hell of a lot more famous than me, so that's a tick against her for, like, she's already on more fragile footing.
00:26:41.000Also, I'm a dude and we have to deal with that stress in much different ways than gals do.
00:26:53.000I really like Lizzo a lot and what Lizzo talks about, but I think Adele meant something to a lot of people, so when she stepped out of it, it was crushing to them.
00:27:04.000But I think Adele should be able to do whatever the heck Adele wants.
00:27:08.000Well, I mentioned this to you before the show that I knew people when I was younger that were big fans of you.
00:27:13.000You know, you're in these movies and you were very, you know, overweight or obese.
00:27:33.000Uh, that, that phrase, um, not it really just like the pointing it out anyway.
00:27:38.000But I knew people when I was younger that were fans of yours because you represented them.
00:27:41.000They looked to the movies and they finally saw, hey, this person's like me.
00:27:44.000And I think that's really interesting, especially what you mentioned with Adele, because it was probably the same thing.
00:27:50.000There are a lot of young, overweight women who see that she's famous and successful and talented, and then she sought to lose weight, probably because she wanted to be healthier and take care of herself and live longer and all of these things make people feel bad, I guess.
00:28:02.000Yeah, I've definitely had some people say I preferred you fat and I just don't care because I want to be the way I am.
00:28:14.000I had been wanting to be the size I am now for so long that how you want me to be doesn't really matter.
00:28:23.000And then I will say, the flip side is there are a ton of people out there who also have goals that maybe they haven't achieved, that they look at me and go like, I wasn't even necessarily that heavy.
00:28:48.000And how did you get to where you are now?
00:28:49.000Well, interestingly enough, when we think about this in political terms and the idea of forcing people to do things they don't want to do, I was placed on diets starting at five years old.
00:29:01.000And I never wanted to be on a diet at five.
00:29:07.000The moment I woke up and went, I want to be on a diet, I want to lose weight, was the first time in my life that diet started working and I was 22 at that point, but I was also 550 pounds.
00:29:21.000Also, it had nothing to do with health.
00:29:23.000Like, that was not a metric I was using.
00:29:26.000I, you know, sitting in this chair when I was, even today, I come in and I'm testing the chair, like, is this chair going to collapse under me?
00:29:36.000Waking up every day with swollen, sore feet, you know, having real knee issues.
00:29:43.000Sweating as I'm toweling off from a shower that I had cool so I wouldn't overheat.
00:29:49.000These are the issues that I was like, I'm done doing that.
00:29:53.000Health never entered into it and I was very unhealthy.
00:29:56.000Once I got my footing and I started to become more healthy, I went, oh, this is really cool too.
00:30:02.000Now I'm going to apply this metric as a goal and that's been something.
00:30:07.000But I don't think any of it works if you're if you're trying to force somebody to do it.
00:30:13.000So there's a real weird conversation happening right now in the world where there is one team going obesity or overweightness or whatever word is appropriate is not a metric in health and then there's another team going as a reaction to that almost you're just lazy you need to lose weight and so there's these two bizarre battles And I personally don't think either is right.
00:30:43.000I think we live in a day where there isn't a lot of physical activity required.
00:30:52.000Certainly we're not out hunting and gathering food.
00:30:56.000Even the job, the workplace has gone down as far as physical abilities.
00:32:16.000You know, at the end of the day, all, almost all, you know, even if you're, even if you're not hyper focused on it, the principle behind diets is thermogenesis.
00:32:42.000Taking an entire food group and demonizing it and cutting it out of my life, that's also extreme.
00:32:48.000A few years ago I found like if I just spend some time Counting calories and figure out because I actually had no idea what my body required I would cut out carbs and Then after a while, I wouldn't lose weight anymore because I was eating too much Steaks and avocado and butter right and then I would just have to start reducing that Without thinking about it, but I'm going like if I want to lose weight I have to eat less and
00:33:17.000And then I start losing weight again, which is kind of against the principle of the keto diet, where you're supposed to just be full from eating a bunch of fat.
00:33:26.000But at the end of the day, the way your body consumes excess fat is by feeding it too little.
00:33:34.000Now if you go really extreme, The vast evidence is that you're going to relapse.
00:33:43.000Very few people go very extreme, do it very quickly, and then have that as a sustainable achievement.
00:34:09.000Yeah, and you know, the other thing is, there's just a lot of nuance in here.
00:34:16.000I can also empathize with the idea of like, when you're ready to do it, and you wake up one day, and you go, oh my god, I can't be this weight anymore, it's hard to breathe, you know, I'm sweating all the time, my feet hurt, my back hurts.
00:34:36.000It's very hard to like, take a step back and go, this is going to take a lot of time and a lot of hard work.
00:34:43.000That's a really hard proposition to make for people.
00:34:45.000And also rewinding a lot of the kind of establishment conditioning that's brought on to people that starts off as their children in school.
00:34:53.000If you look at a lot of the school lunches, they are absolutely horrible for you.
00:34:57.000If you look at that food triangle that the government recommends for you, it is absolutely horrible for you.
00:35:03.000If you look at a lot of the fat that's being banned and not used in large supermarkets, that's because of a sugar industry banning it for you and then the larger consequences of that are not even talked about.
00:35:15.000What do you see, though, is you see a lot of McDonald's commercials, you see Pepsi commercials telling you to get a COVID test, you see government officials telling you wear a mask, social distance, but that's it, predominantly.
00:36:02.000But no, I remember when I was younger, I'd be watching someone eat this really awful food, and they would go, oh, I feel so... I can't move.
00:36:10.000And then they would take the two-quart cup of Coke or Pepsi and then chug it and be like, now I feel good.
00:36:17.000I'm like, yeah, caffeine is a stimulant.
00:36:21.000You guys ever see those commercials where it's like a really big fat guy and he's like eating a giant pizza with his friends and then he goes, and it's like, do you have heartburn?
00:36:34.000Nonstop commercials and all these other supplements take that.
00:36:37.000I remember being in Kentucky once and seeing at a diner, this morbidly obese family.
00:36:44.000And instead of like regular, like drinks, you know, like regular drinks, just standing on their table, they had those huge soda bottles and they had an infant baby and the infant baby was obese too.
00:36:54.000And they were literally giving the baby the Woka Cola.
00:38:16.000It's just so good He's talking about the government shouldn't regulate drugs because the government can't make you a good person you have to choose and Then at the end he's talking to some guy and he goes he's like the government's not gonna make you a good person Why does how about the government puts you on a diet?
00:38:31.000You're a little overweight and then everyone the audience is like boo boo, and I'm like what he's making a good point Well, but they also shouldn't maybe shouldn't subsidize drugs like that's sugar industry the aspartame industry and if the government's gonna get involved there's gonna be an underground mafia market of people selling large sugary drinks everywhere and prohibition doesn't work it never did work no matter what it is every time government gets involved it screws people over let's just be honest with ourselves
00:38:58.000What we do need is personal responsibility and not the government intervening, telling you about food triangles that are absolutely wrong, not subsidizing and running with big sugar industries and other industries, not running with GMOs and Monsantos that has a revolving door within the FDA.
00:39:13.000Maybe without government, we wouldn't have so many people that are so dependent on these chemicals.
00:39:17.000It's true, but you've got to protect the kids.
00:39:21.000There used to be Joe Camel, the cartoon character, and the government had to ban those because the market wanted to get them hooked earlier.
00:39:27.000More importantly, there was medical doctors telling you to smoke because it was good for your health.
00:39:33.000Okay, so keep that in mind, especially when you have medical doctors now, because medical doctors could be bought and sold just like politicians could be bought and sold, and people need to remember that.
00:39:43.000Let's get into the government stuff as it pertains to this, because we have this story from... This is from The Advocate, and they say, Now, I wonder if they have the actual tweet.
00:39:51.000are suspended over fat-shaming vaccine tweet.
00:39:54.000Blake McCoy tweeted that he was annoyed obese people were getting access to vaccines.
00:39:59.000Now I wonder if they have the actual tweet.
00:40:02.000He said, let's see, okay, let me read the story and we'll try and get to the, he says,
00:40:07.000I'm annoyed obese people of all ages get priority access before all essential workers.
00:40:13.000McCoy, who works for WTTG, a local Fox affiliate, tweeted Tuesday, When most stayed home, we went to work every day last March, April, May, and every day since, putting ourselves and loved ones at risk.
00:40:24.000Vaccinate all essential workers, then obese.
00:40:27.000This is a really interesting point, because when we talk about universal healthcare, I actually, deeply and emotionally, and I understand that's not logically, love the idea of universal healthcare.
00:40:37.000Like, just think, you know, look, I know so many progressives that are like, we have to do this, why don't we?
00:40:45.000Wouldn't it be great if we lived in this wonderful world where everybody was just cured of all illness, and we had these robots come, like in Elysium, and they have these things you lay in and it cures your cancer?
00:42:53.000So I know anytime something like that happens.
00:42:56.000You're going to have a ton of people going, she's fat, she's lazy, and this makes me feel like, ugh, that's not fun, right?
00:43:03.000As a person who spent most of their life overweight, that's not a fun conversation that's going to be brought up over and over and over again, which this was when it came out.
00:43:13.000The other thing is, that gal might be healthy.
00:43:52.000Well, that's one of the biggest hurdles to universal healthcare.
00:43:54.000You know, and Ian brings this up quite a bit, because I should consider this more often, but...
00:44:01.000If we're going to say we're going to be allocating a trillion dollars in a certain amount of time period to fund healthcare, and then you have a lot of people who are morbidly obese, eating too much, not exercising, and riding around on rascals, that's going to strain the healthcare system.
00:44:17.000And so everyone else has to then pay for that.
00:44:19.000So you'll hear a lot of people say, listen, I'd love to pay more taxes to provide for better healthcare for everybody, but does that mean I'm going to be paying for people and incentivizing bad behavior?
00:44:29.000Well, in that scenario, would people who smoked be relegated to a lesser tier of health care?
00:44:37.000I think that's where things get scary, because people say, you know, you create second-class citizens.
00:44:42.000Now, I think more worryingly would be if you adopted Bernie Sanders' plan, which is to abolish private health insurance.
00:44:49.000I think we need, like, a base-level care.
00:44:51.000A lot of people say we have it, but no, there's medical bankruptcy.
00:44:54.000We need a base-level care, and then we need supplemental private insurance.
00:44:57.000But I think a lot of people would argue you can't have universal health care and then tell people they're not allowed to have access to it.
00:45:41.000And then you'll find there are fit people who are like, dude, just because I like riding my bike, now I'm at risk, and...
00:45:45.000Then you're just talking about taking the private insurance that already does this and turning it into a government institution and getting rid of competition, which in the end doesn't make sense.
00:45:54.000And destroying everything and making it worse for everybody by making a DMV-like system.
00:45:58.000I remember a few years ago hearing a story about a teachers union planning to put teachers
00:46:04.000on Fitbits and these like health watches.
00:46:07.000And they had to have a number of steps per day and to have a number of physical activities
00:46:12.000per day if they wanted their medical insurance.
00:46:14.000And if they didn't, they wouldn't get medical insurance, a part of the larger teachers union.
00:46:18.000So I remember hearing stories about that.
00:46:20.000And that's more likely what's going to happen with the larger kind of technocratic overlords
00:46:26.000that are becoming our rulers of our daily lives.
00:46:29.000And you're going to have to probably tell the gospel of Dr. Fauci.
00:46:33.000You're going to have to do five Hail Marys to how beautiful and amazing a government is.
00:46:38.000Then you're going to have to do probably a mile walking, doing hard labor in some of the gulags, and then you'll get free health insurance.
00:46:44.000So my prediction for the future is that, personally.
00:46:48.000Well this is, I googled it, CS Monitor says, this was back in 2018, a proposed, uh oh, it's telling me, let me see if I can refresh it, there we go.
00:46:56.000A proposed change to West Virginia's public worker health plan would have asked teachers to download a mobile fitness app called Go365 and earn points on it using a Fitbit or other fitness tracker designed to monitor the user's steps taken, heart rate, other metrics.
00:47:09.000Those who declined or who complied but failed to earn enough points would face a penalty of $500 each year.
00:47:18.000Yeah, because they did this at my workplace.
00:47:20.000So I worked at a hospital and they were able to offer us health insurance at a discounted rate.
00:47:24.000You would go in and they would take your measurements and if you were within the parameters for cholesterol, for weight, for blood pressure, for all these different things, They would give you a discount.
00:47:33.000So it was subsidized through them and then it was even less expensive if you were healthy enough.
00:47:39.000If you were over, they would help you find a way to solve your problem.
00:47:59.000They're the robot people who are like, resistance is futile, you will be assimilated in Star Trek.
00:48:04.000Data wasn't to board. No, no, no, he was an Android. And so the board character in Star Trek is basically, it's this
00:48:10.000big cube, they have cube ships that fly around. And they enter,
00:48:13.000they'll, they'll see like other, you know, humanoid aliens, and
00:48:16.000then say, your technology and culture will be assimilated into
00:48:18.000the board collective. And they're all a hive mind of like non individual. The story, the backstory is I understand it,
00:48:25.000I could be not a good enough Trekkie on this one is that they
00:48:27.000were a regular human like species. And they kept implementing medical technology to improve their well being
00:48:35.000and linking themselves and networking until eventually it
00:48:37.000formed a hive mind and they became this zombie like collective that consumes people.
00:48:43.000So, you might think it's silly when Luke brings up the Elon Musk brain chip stuff, but they very well could do in the future say, listen, If you want access to the healthcare, we need to be able to track your health.
00:49:23.000Well, already we live in a society where insurance companies data mine social media posts in order to deny people coverage on whether it's health or real estate or even cars.
00:49:32.000So there's already elements of this that are extremely creepy, especially when you look into the metadata that Facebook has on you, that Twitter has on you, that Google has on you, that is absolutely frightening.
00:49:43.000And when you calculate society to such a controlled level, it is bound to become dystopian and out of control and something that there's Hollywood movies made about.
00:49:54.000But when it's happening in real life, people are going to be like, oh, this is good for you.
00:49:58.000Ethan, did you know that Facebook knows when you poop?
00:50:09.000If you're my friend and I have your number in my phone, Facebook has your contact, has your information, has you databased in their system.
00:50:44.000Now they have your mom's information, your sister's information, your brother, your kids, your grandparents, your cousins, all of these other people, your best friend who has your name in his phone book.
00:50:57.000There's other ways they collect your data.
00:50:59.000Through going to websites that have the Facebook login.
00:51:01.000You'll go to a website and they'll say, log in through Facebook.
00:51:03.000Facebook has an app that's tracking your data.
00:51:06.000So the interesting thing is, They'll take your phone, your phone number, when you log into Messenger, not you specifically, but someone, and they'll find a phone number that says Mom.
00:51:16.000They'll then find that someone else has that phone number listed as Janet.
00:51:20.000They'll then have that phone number listed by someone else as Secretary Assistant.
00:51:24.000And now they know, you know, Ethan's mom is Janet.
00:51:27.000She's a secretary assistant or whatever.
00:51:29.000And then we can look at the area code so we know where the phone is from.
00:52:15.000And you gotta understand, they know the other things you're doing.
00:52:18.000You know, private things at home, in the bedroom, they probably know.
00:52:21.000The craziest thing is, you might not realize this, but there's little things you do that you don't understand correlates with certain behaviors.
00:52:29.000So you might go on your phone and look up, you know, 3D illusion sailboat, And they know that people who do that actually correlate with people who like eating pepperoni pizza.
00:52:41.000And you have no idea how one day you get an advertisement that says, extra large pepperoni, and you're like, how did they know I wanted that?
00:52:47.000Well, it's because you did a Google search for a 3D illusion sailboat.
00:53:01.000What they did was, they asked men and women random questions.
00:53:05.000And then they found a pattern in the answers women would give and the answers men would give.
00:53:13.000So one of them was, choose one of the objects below.
00:53:17.000And it would be like a roller skate, a green circle, a picture of a surfboard, and a picture of a steamboat.
00:53:25.000And for some reason, men would choose one and women would choose something else.
00:53:30.000And then what they do is after 10,000 people did the test, they find 70% of women would choose this one and 70% of men would choose this one.
00:53:37.000And we have no idea why, but with that data, they could then determine whether you are a man or a woman.
00:53:43.000So it's really crazy how we don't understand, you know, deep down these differences.
00:53:48.000But with that, they can track everything you do.
00:53:52.000They know more about you than you probably know about yourself.
00:54:08.000The mountains and the woods and all that stuff.
00:54:09.000I mean, but, you know, honestly, With everything that's been going on, it's one of the reasons why I decided to get away from these cities and move out to the middle of nowhere.
00:54:59.000This is crazy to me, that people are doing this stuff.
00:55:02.000And it was funny because, as I mention this often, I learned from the best, Michael Malice, on how to properly tweet.
00:55:09.000You tweet in ways where you leave it ambiguous enough to where it can be interpretable, but you still express your either disdain or support.
00:55:17.000And I said, if people are doing this, you know, this is, you're insane.
00:55:20.000But, you know what, at this point, I don't care what you do, do whatever you want.
00:55:23.000I'm gonna go over there in the middle of the woods, and I'm gonna, you know, get a little, I got a bow and arrow.
00:55:30.000I kept saying this, you know what, I'm gonna go buy chickens.
00:55:32.000I tweeted, and then I bought some chicken coops, you know, we'll get some chickens.
00:55:36.000And I look at the stuff, it was funny when I had a bunch of people say like, you're so dumb, Tim, do you think the students should spit on each other?
00:55:42.000And I'm like, they should not go to school.
00:55:45.000If it's seriously that bad, don't put them in this ridiculous, this is aw, this is so ridiculous.
00:55:49.000I gotta say, I hear this and I think, God, thank God some kids get to go to school.
00:56:27.000Wired actually had a very good article today that I was reading and it's titled, It's ridiculous to treat school children like COVID hot zones and they pretty much came to the conclusion that it's not and that this is all pandemic theater and I absolutely agreed with them because there's a lot of preliminary science and statistics and reports showing how there's absolutely very little threat of COVID in schools and children transmit the virus very differently than adults do.
00:57:22.000And why, you know, I read this really interesting blog post, I can't remember, it was a while ago.
00:57:27.000And it was from an older person who said, I don't understand why you're asking the younger generation to sacrifice their lives for the older generation.
00:57:35.000The older generation typically sacrifice their lives for the next generation.
00:57:48.000And then the elderly volunteered to go into the plant to try and stop the leak and solve the problem because they were like, well, we're going to die soon anyway.
00:57:58.000We will sacrifice ourselves for the youth.
00:58:01.000I actually know somebody, Luke and I, knew somebody who was older and lost her life providing tours to journalists in the media tub to get the word out and explain what was going on in this area.
00:58:33.000And I think ultimately it's the choice of the older generation.
00:58:35.000I want to keep them safe and protected.
00:58:36.000I don't want to force anybody to sacrifice anything.
00:58:39.000I just think it's interesting that we've decided as a society that it's better to sacrifice the kids' well-being for, you know, a 99 point... I believe for the people above 70, it's a 99.5% survival rate.
00:58:50.000No, no, I'm sorry, 97.5% survival rate.
00:58:52.000I just think there's some kind of imbalance there.
00:58:54.000Maybe we need to address the harder questions about, you know, how we deal with this.
00:58:57.000Maybe we need to make sure that the elderly are protected.
00:59:02.000I think maybe Andrew Cuomo needed a lesson in that regard that he never got.
00:59:06.000Not just him, but these other governors as well.
00:59:10.000I just, I think these kids, you know, when you look at the masks, you look at the schools, they're kids who are now spending a large portion of their lives, over a year, not seeing strangers' faces.
00:59:24.000When you look in a person's face, you know, people can tell when someone's faking a smile because a real smile, your eyes actually, you know, smile as well.
00:59:54.000If it were me, I wouldn't even go to these schools.
00:59:56.000When I was 14, I went to high school for about two months, and then I just one day was walking to school, stopped, turned around, and went home, and that was it.
01:00:03.000Do you kind of want to hear what it sounds like when they're playing in the tents, though?
01:00:26.000Thanks for reminding me, but still, I try not to think about that.
01:00:29.000But when we talk about these school children, you know, a lot of them who do get the chance to go back, they're forced to social distance, they're forced to mask, but they're also, in some schools, forced to wear tracking beacons that go off if they get too close to other students.
01:00:45.000And they get in trouble and they get punished by standing or walking too close to other people.
01:00:52.000Imagine going to a school and your developmental years are authoritarians screaming at you not to be close to another human being or in some instances like in Buffalo telling you that all white people are racist.
01:01:05.000You know just like the story that we covered yesterday.
01:01:07.000That's why again I'm a big proponent of homeschooling.
01:01:10.000Homeschooling networks are something that people should look into.
01:01:13.000I know it's very difficult for people to raise children independently but there's networks out there that let you do this In a way that's very cost effective, that saves you a lot of time, and also lets you be a part of a community that teaches your children the values that you believe in personally, rather than, of course, having a government come in there and scare the other crap out of your children.
01:01:38.000I think everybody here seems to be fairly on the not-big-fans-of-government scale, I suppose.
01:01:52.000Like, they found COVID in an ice cream factory in China.
01:01:55.000There was news that, I don't know, thousands of ice cream tested positive for COVID, that it was living in the fat cells.
01:02:01.000And you're saying that the greatest comorbidity is obesity, where there's a lot of fat cells.
01:02:07.000That they're obsessed with the air and transmitting it through the air when there's evidence that it's in the food is completely driving me insane.
01:02:15.000You have to breathe it in though, right?
01:03:26.000In the beginning, we didn't know what was happening, and it was real scary, and we didn't leave my house.
01:03:33.000I have two kids in college on the East Coast.
01:03:35.000They came home, and we just kind of hunkered down, and then we figured out how to live.
01:03:43.000I think, as a person who Doesn't do well with the imposition of somebody else's rules I also look around and recognize that there have always been rules and
01:03:58.000The happiest I ever feel is when I'm just trying to succeed despite them, if that makes sense?
01:04:07.000Everything's not the way I want it to be, but it's kind of just like a new game to navigate.
01:04:12.000I think that's one of the smartest ways to look at it, too.
01:04:15.000One of the ways I've always treated it is, I'm not super concerned.
01:04:18.000I'm definitely concerned when we see the rise of authoritarianism.
01:05:15.000For the most part, I think you have, but I think you could look back through history and pick any of the things we call atrocities that are atrocities and go, somebody had in the beginning the intention to keep some group of people safe.
01:05:39.000And what happened was, I could be messing this story up.
01:05:41.000I guess the intention was to help mining.
01:05:43.000You basically, instead of having people get trapped, and you put the bombs there, and you walk away, and then kaboom, and then there you go!
01:06:57.000And I tell people, you realize that when the U.S.
01:07:01.000is going to war in Middle Eastern countries, you'll hear a lot of left-wing activists say, Americans just want to blow up kids and stuff like that.
01:07:09.000I'll joke and say something like that, like, oh, who else is going to do it?
01:07:14.000The reality is these special interests want money and resources.
01:07:19.000They want to build the Qatar Turkey pipeline to deliver cheap gas into Europe to dominate the market, make money, but also offset the prices for the people who live there.
01:07:29.000They're not doing it because they're mustache-twirling villains who are like, nyahaha, let's blow up a country!
01:07:34.000They're saying, I want something that's going to benefit my team.
01:07:38.000And they're willing to do horrifying things to do it.
01:07:40.000And I look at that and I'm like, I am not interested in funding you blowing up and destroying a country so you can get cheap gas into Europe, man.
01:08:57.000Before they actually put the bill out, it was like, would you like to invest government resources and taxpayer dollars into advancing green technologies to make the United States more environmentally friendly and energy independent?
01:09:10.000And I was like, that sounds like the coolest thing ever.
01:09:12.000And then they actually released the Green New Deal and it's like, would you like social equity to give, you know, women of color access to college and healthcare?
01:09:18.000And I'm like, look, I appreciate the attempt to help people.
01:09:22.000But please don't use my ideals for environmentalism to push your critical race theory.
01:09:31.000And the Green New Deal became about changing the economy and not about developing this technology.
01:09:35.000So it was like a slap in the face to people who actually thought we got a good thing going, and then the people who are supposed to be proponents of this environmental technology.
01:09:42.000Like, seriously, the second page of the bill was all critical race theory, social justice, had nothing to do with the environment.
01:09:48.000We're going to provide college and healthcare, and I'm like, wait, wait, wait, what?
01:09:51.000I thought we were gonna build a fusion reactor!
01:10:06.000Where the fusion happens and then the reaction outputs more energy that's put in.
01:10:09.000So like, you know, ignition like a fire.
01:10:11.000Well, another thing to really kind of consider here is that the U.S.
01:10:15.000dollar is going to collapse inevitably, especially with its money printing, especially with its money supply.
01:10:22.000And there's some people arguing that if we end the wars in the Middle East and this reckless spending, that the debt wouldn't be as high and we would postpone this inevitable collapse because we are already indebted to such a way where it's impossible to pay back.
01:10:38.000And this is something that of course is going to fall in on itself eventually.
01:11:30.000But also, he also had a big priority on energy, where America became the number one energy producer in the world when Donald Trump was in power.
01:11:40.000So yes, it's pretty much run through the military-industrial complex.
01:11:44.000But when you look at the larger kind of foreign policy mishaps, not just the chaos, but the money spent, They don't serve any purpose and in the long run, in my opinion, they're going to be hurting the United States because they could enforce the trading of oil on the dollar in many different ways, but entangling ourselves in Afghanistan and spending so much money there recklessly and just wasting it away is not going to ensure that.
01:12:13.000But, but, Ethan hit the nail on the head.
01:13:28.000The worst that'll happen is that China will take over.
01:13:31.000And then, within a matter of time, you, living in the woods, thinking you're minding your own business, will eventually be under a global authority of Chinese rule.
01:13:39.000dollar will collapse and that the Bitcoin will become the new currency of the United States, and there'll be a whole uprising of a wealth class that were like 20-year-olds, you know, five years ago.
01:13:49.000No, I mean, we're in the meme economy already now.
01:14:38.000I asked, like, how does your bank know you have money?
01:14:42.000When I go to the bank, when I go online and use a credit card, when I spend money from my bank, there's no actual money being transferred anywhere.
01:14:51.000Someone just writes a number down in a book, and then someone writes a different number down in a different book.
01:14:58.000It's the interesting thing about all this is that cryptocurrency is actually a cryptographic code that can't be stolen.
01:15:05.000I mean, if you can break the cryptography, you can totally unwind the network, the blockchain, but...
01:15:10.000The idea is, because it's an encryption, you have your private keys, there's a public key, and they can't replicate what you have without the private information.
01:15:56.000China, what they're doing is kind of a different way with their Belt and Road Initiative.
01:16:01.000Diplomacy, trade, investment, where essentially they're in proxy becoming new colonizers, as they were described to me in Africa, with them buying up all the natural resources, all the national property.
01:16:15.000And China also is building their own cryptocurrency, which they're going to be using as a global currency.
01:16:31.000What happens when China launches a crypto, or they heavily invest in Bitcoin, gain access to the most powerful and dominant cryptocurrency, the petrodollar will be meaningless.
01:16:44.000trying to figure this out, simply because when you see them roll out big, like, California alone had $50 billion worth of fraud on the loans.
01:18:46.000And I think one of the problems right now is, you know, Biden is saying, we're going to give $1,400, not $2,000, because it's supplemental to the $600 you already got, and it's going to be means-tested, meaning only people who make under a certain amount, and then you start to lose it.
01:19:08.000But so long as the American people are borrowing from themselves, OK, well, I guess we have to, because the economy's been grinded to a halt.
01:20:25.000So we're talking about an average person now having their life completely destroyed, losing their home, getting kicked out because they can't afford that small check.
01:20:33.000I'm not necessarily saying definitively give rich people more money.
01:20:39.000I'm just saying we need to consider the fact that someone who makes $70,000 a year is not a rich person.
01:21:00.000All this money is balanced again by the external dollars that are kind of keeping this and we're going to reach a point where we have now put too much inside and it's going to tip it and it's going to be a disaster.
01:21:14.000I don't know if you guys have seen this chart.
01:21:16.000We really got to get some monitor set up so you can see it.
01:21:53.000In December 2019, $3,978 billion of dollars.
01:22:00.000And then, in about February to March, it starts to hockey stick, and then from April to May, it goes up more, and then from April to May, it jumps dramatically.
01:22:13.000Now, some people have pointed out that they changed the way they calculate this in May, and that may contribute.
01:22:19.000But there's also other charts, the M4 money stock, and other charts from the Financial Times showing, regardless of the way they changed it, the same thing happened.
01:22:26.000They started mass printing money with these stimulus checks, and we went from, you know, in March, 4,000, what is it, 4,257, to, what do we got here, July, 16,803.
01:22:49.000I can't tell you the nitty gritty of the M1 money stock.
01:22:51.000Some people have said it doesn't necessarily matter, because it doesn't, you know, it's just money in circulation or something like that, but I'll tell you this, this chart and the other charts I've looked at, many people are pointing out it's unprecedented and we have no idea what's going to happen when you dump that much money into the system.
01:26:11.000I think they already did, where all the Bitcoin that was mined in China went, because that would be a very interesting perspective.
01:26:17.000There's also a lot of talk about a lot of whales having a lot of control of Bitcoin.
01:26:21.000That's one of the talking points that a lot of the alternative cryptocurrencies are making.
01:26:25.000So, again, a lot of people are also saying, and I've been saying this from the very beginning, Bitcoin could be NSA honeypot from the very beginning.
01:26:44.000Every transaction is tracked and they have AI that know exactly who's spending what.
01:26:49.000So we've seen all these stories where they're like, we know the far right is spending money here and doing these things and here's what they bought because they can track every account in the blockchain.
01:29:08.000You need a few clues, and then you can solve the puzzle.
01:29:10.000For those that aren't familiar, it's like, you know, you got, it's 3x3 grid, and you gotta do 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and it's got, you know, you can only have one digit in each row, and you gotta figure out where it is.
01:29:19.000You give someone a few clues for a few starting numbers, and you solve the puzzle.
01:29:24.000A supercomputer's gonna look at the Bitcoin blockchain, and they're gonna have just one teeny bit of information.
01:29:29.000This account is a common, is a high volume account in New York City.
01:29:35.000And from there, they can find out who else is in New York City.
01:29:39.000They can create a data visualization because this one wallet only interacts with, you know, 50 accounts in New York and only a few others outside of it.
01:29:46.000Therefore, the person's likely in New York City.
01:29:48.000Then they can look at who's interacting, they can see that person, and they can create an entire heat map of geographical locations to the best of its, you know, like with high probability.
01:29:58.000They'll know who you are, what you're buying, where you're going, what you're doing, everything.
01:30:02.000They've already done it with the far right, and they've said, we know who's donating, and who's donating to who, and they published it.
01:30:09.000They were like, this French guy has just given a million dollars to this alt-right guy, and they just know.
01:30:15.000Because they can look at the wallets, they know.
01:30:17.000The moment you say, hey, here's my key, send me Bitcoin, they know who you are, they know where you are, they know what your wallet is, and they can use that information to figure out who the other people are that you're transacting with.
01:30:40.000If they start paying them in Bitcoin, that means that people with the Bitcoin are going to be running the military, not the U.S., not the taxpayers.
01:30:46.000I don't think we're anywhere near that happening, though.
01:30:49.000And another point to put out is, you could pay them in Bitcoin, and then when some, like, 21-year-old with a few thousand Bitcoin who's super rich shows up, and he says, I'm gonna control the military because I have all the resources, they pull out their gun and say, no, you're not.
01:31:02.000But what if he's like, just, I'll pay you three times as much to do the same work for me.
01:31:07.000The special interest says, we are legally allowed to cause physical harm to your body.
01:31:42.000If you step in front of the petrodollar, don't be surprised when you no longer are alive.
01:31:48.000Most of the countries that are in the news, that are looked down upon or getting crapped on, are doing that.
01:31:55.000It's like Iran, Russia, Korea, Cuba, Russia also.
01:32:01.000But also very interesting, there was a lot of comments by the kind of establishment types, especially Janet Yellen, Biden's Treasury Secretary, Elon Musk, and also Bill Gates recently that made, according to some people, made the price of Bitcoin go down because Bill Gates said that we should definitely get rid of Bitcoin.
01:32:19.000Janet Yellen said it was extremely inefficient, which is absolutely hilarious coming from the former Federal Reserve Chairman and very duplicitous and extremely hypocritical.
01:32:46.000I play that clip of him saying that he was at the meetings and they told them the plan that they're going to invade all of these countries.
01:32:52.000And he brought it up on an interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now.
01:32:56.000They were doing a live segment, sitting down, talking about it.
01:32:59.000I talked to him and he was he literally freaked out and he turned white
01:33:24.000But I think that misses the broader point that there are lots of countries with humanitarian things to be done but are not monetarily beneficial.
01:33:33.000And I'm kind of a realist because I enjoy living here.
01:34:01.000I want to make the world a better place.
01:34:02.000And I was like, you're using a laptop that was made of Foxconn laboratory where people are committing suicide and mess.
01:34:08.000And she had a realization that, no, you're not fighting for the world because while you may be more affected with a laptop, That product is the result of all this suffering, so it's a moral trade-off.
01:34:22.000I do become disappointed sometimes when this conversation becomes, the moniker isolationist is hung on it.
01:34:33.000I grew up in Los Angeles around a lot of left people, and there was always kind of an anti-war bent.
01:34:40.000And somewhere, 15 years ago, that shifted and we were humanitarians.
01:35:40.000The idea comes from a good guy slash mentor of mine named Tom Kier, who I actually played a character based on him in the television show Chance.
01:35:51.000And through conversations with him, he has this philosophy that he uses to train combat people.
01:36:21.000Join my cult says Tim looking dope tonight.
01:36:23.000Oh, they seem to really like your hoodie, huh?
01:36:25.000Brent Saigon says, Hey Tim, I mentioned on your stream on the first that my brother Grant has watched you for years but didn't become a member and I asked you to bully him.
01:36:34.000I humbly request you up your bullying and call him out by name so I have a sound bite to play him.
01:36:39.000I assume he has the same last name as you.
01:36:59.000Mike G says, on your vid earlier on GameStop, the current market has more to do with current government bond interest rates, not GameStonks.
01:37:20.000Allegedly, these are the official sources of what we're hearing right now, at Iranian-linked facilities that were backed by some of their militia.
01:38:10.000I don't know if you'd call it moronic.
01:38:13.000The liberal economic order of the British and the Americans that are trying to dominate the globe with military bases are losing the plot if they think that the world will not unite against them.
01:38:50.000There's another one that says Biden tweeted America is back, and there's an image of a Syrian child saying, oh good, oh God, with the drone being LGBTQ friendly.
01:39:02.000All right, well, we'll get into a little bit more with more Super Chats, but we'll read some more.
01:39:06.000Cirilio says, first saw you in My Name is Earl, but mad props to you, sir, for breaking the typecast you were pigeonholed into.
01:40:21.000Yeah, it seems unlikely there has there was a Jason Lee and Greg Garcia, the creator, went and talked to some streaming platforms about doing more episodes.
01:40:40.000But I think with stuff like Full House and Will and Grace and the shows that did come back, there was such a There's a huge outpouring of like, please do this show.
01:40:52.000So we need 43,000 people to tweet right now.
01:41:21.000And I know it might be a little cliche to say, because he's the godfather of street skating, but when I was younger and started skating, I watched Rodney Mullen videos.
01:42:21.000All right, we got Jay Manial says, Canada didn't need conscription to get 1 million people to volunteer in time of trouble during World War II with a population of 11 million.
01:44:22.000Let's jump to... Raymond Field says, so our dumb president already is launching strikes in Syria and is promising action on the Second Amendment.
01:45:17.000I think that for me, the most important things that helped for long term were the idea of allowing it to take time, not needing it to be immediate.
01:45:30.000And figuring out stuff specifically with exercise that I could do every day and wasn't going to be something that I either wound up hurt or so exhausted by that I couldn't do it.
01:45:43.000So I now exercise for an hour a day, six days a week, and they're workouts that I could do forever.
01:46:00.000Colonel David Hackworth handled draftees in Vietnam and he said they performed well too.
01:46:05.000All depends on the quality of leadership.
01:46:08.000Draftees question chain of command more than volunteers.
01:46:10.000Yeah, you know Luke, wasn't it true that the NYPD said they only hired dumb cops?
01:46:16.000I remember hearing something about that.
01:46:17.000I don't know if it was specifically with the NYPD, but I remember if an officer scored too high on the intelligence portion.
01:46:25.000And it wouldn't surprise me because if you want people to take orders and not question them, you usually have to lower the IQ of your candidates.
01:48:14.000The same amount of people have died in gender reveal accidents and shootings as the amount of people that died in the Capitol insurrection.
01:52:54.000Yeah, I mean listen, again, to play the devil's advocate, when you do a television show for a big company like that, you sign a morality clause, and it's not even defined.
01:53:10.000If you do something that they find immoral, they can get rid of you.
01:53:13.000I did mention this when, when she got canceled, I did say, listen,
01:53:17.000while I recognize, I thought it was absurd. She got canceled because what she said was,
01:53:20.000don't demonize your neighbor. She didn't say anything about Republicans. She didn't
01:53:22.000compare Republicans to anybody. She said they demonize their neighbors in Nazi Germany.
01:53:26.000I said, but listen, the reason why they hire actors is like, you're, you're, you're an advertisement.
01:54:02.000The problem is, you could drop an ice cream cone on the ground and then people are going to scream at the top of their lungs to try and get you fired.
01:55:05.000But I think it is fair to point out, and I definitely did, like right away, like, if you work for Disney and you post something, That's why a lot of actors keep their mouths shut.
01:55:16.000That's why I think it's rad that you came on the show, to be honest.
01:55:18.000There's a lot of people that I know and respect who are like, I'm really worried I'll get in trouble if I, you know, come on the podcast and we talk politics.
01:55:27.000It's really, you know, I'm disappointed for sure.
01:55:30.000But, you know, I talked about this with a lot of people.
01:55:31.000It's hard to tell someone, will you sacrifice everything in your life now that there's a political battle?
01:55:37.000My personal answer is like, I will always stand up for what I believe in.
01:55:40.000I understand why people might be, you know, worried or scared.
01:55:44.000We don't even need to talk about politics.
01:55:46.000We kind of choose that path, but there's so many other cool things to do and talk about, like health.
01:55:51.000I definitely think we need to try harder to focus on some positive things in life as well.
01:55:55.000Entertainment, like just, I mean, your presence, your aura and your history, like the power of that industry is so, I don't know how you would say it, immense.
01:56:04.000I mean, that's one way to phrase it, but like just pervasive.
01:56:17.000When, when, when Ethan walked in, everybody was gushing.
01:56:20.000And I'm just like, it's funny that we can have these really high profile political figures that we listen to every day that inspire people.
01:56:58.000People are saying, here look, check this out, uh, Y-Doc says, bro, Remember the Titans is my all-time favorite sports movie.
01:57:03.000Shame it's only on Disney+, I had to go out and find the DVD.
01:57:06.000Like, the fact that, you know, we watch these movies and we're inspired and we feel good, it's, it's, we need, we need to bring that back into pop culture.
01:57:14.000Because, you know, I was talking to a, uh, uh, like a podcast network recently, And they were talking about politics and news and stuff.
01:57:23.000We talked about Sonic the Hedgehog a year ago and Birds of Prey, but when the movie industry kind of stopped and COVID happened and everything went up when election and politics became pop culture, it got so intense and everyone started fighting.
01:59:56.000All right, we got Philip Aboody says, 584 pounds here, and I have been on opioids for eight years, and the dosage was slowly going up and up until I started to remove carbs, sugar specifically, and I started taking vitamin C and D, I think Mg is magnesium?
02:00:40.000So right now, what we're doing with the website, we have just like extra segments we'll do.
02:00:45.000We reserve the more like, the things we're not supposed to say on social media.
02:00:49.000Because we can say on the website, we can swear, we can do all that stuff.
02:00:52.000But what we want to do with TimCast.com, but maybe a bigger brand, maybe we'll start with TimCast.com, is actually original shows.
02:00:59.000So other podcasts, but even fiction stuff, that may be down the line.
02:01:04.000I think we might start with mini-docs and man-on-the-street interviews and just get more and more content and really, you know, bring some, you know, bang for your buck.
02:01:33.000Yeah, I mean... Well, they kind of have accepted that the human population is... there's too much, and that people are gonna die regardless, so they're trying to, like, get ahead of the curve on that or something?
02:01:41.000Well, the human population is going to go down, according to many statisticians and scientists, by the year 2044, according to some estimates, or even sooner, because a large swap of the Western populations are declining in numbers rapidly.
02:01:54.000and there's a big huge loss of sperm count.
02:02:22.000Well, yes, that's why Western countries and Japan are dealing with this, but each country is different.
02:02:27.000China is different because of their one-child policy that a lot of Establishment elites like Ted Turner call for in the United States.
02:02:34.000Individuals like Prince Philip and Bill Gates kind of advocate for depopulation as well.
02:02:39.000So there's a lot of different variables.
02:02:40.000The population in China might normalize.
02:02:43.000The population in Africa is going up dramatically.
02:02:46.000Alright, we got Ryan Curie says, Hey Tim, I love your show.
02:02:49.000Been watching Luke since the old days.
02:02:51.000Wondering how you think a right-leaning moderate like myself should go about debating emotional leftists and people who believe everything CNN and mainstream media tells them.
02:03:05.000When I have a lot of conversations with my lefty friends, and I'll say something, I try to be calm, they'll get agitated.
02:03:11.000Because it's like, if there's something they're confident in, but they actually don't know about, so they'll say something like, you know, oh, I think Biden is better than Trump because he's gonna get us these checks, and then I'll say, well, it's been, you know, how many, 30, 31 days, he hasn't got the checks to anybody.
02:03:26.000If they get really mad, I'll say something like, Hey man, I'm sorry.
02:03:56.000Because you're not going to solve anything if people are screaming at each other.
02:03:59.000So it just really depends on what your goal is.
02:04:01.000Sometimes people have told me they intentionally try to keep engaging with someone who's getting angry because they want other people to see it.
02:04:09.000So one thing I often do is I try to be overly polite in any conversation I have, particularly on Twitter.
02:04:14.000Because my attitude is, look, someone is watching this conversation and they're going to see me saying, I didn't mean any harm.
02:04:50.000Yeah, I don't know who to tell, but the creator of that was one of the writers on My Name is Earl, so I think it was in the same universe somehow.
02:04:57.000I got to say, I'm not, I don't, I don't know if I have the clout in any capacity with, you know, with the audience to actually get My Name is Zerl to trend and come back.
02:05:07.000But I would say it would be like the coolest thing ever if like, you know, it happened.
02:05:12.000And it's just like, Ethan went on this show and they were talking about political issues and cultural issues and war.
02:05:17.000And then the audience was like, we want My Name is Zerl.
02:06:12.000It's Brett Novak's Killian Martin a skate escalation hands down He's a friend of mine, but the music so good and Killian Martin an amazing skateboarder You guys should check that out on on on his channel Brett Novak It was one of like a super famous video went mainstream viral.
02:06:28.000So that's it was crazy to see regular people who didn't skate Watching the skate video like wow, so super cool All right.
02:06:38.000DJ Mederos says, Tim, I once read an issue of Popular Mechanics in the late 90s.
02:06:42.000In it, there was an article that said all the UFO technology from Area 51 and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base was moved to a base in northwest Utah that's 200 square miles.
02:07:28.000So we are actually working on a bunch of new tech for the website.
02:07:32.000We're going to be redoing the graphic design and building everything out.
02:07:35.000And one of them is going to be essentially what you've just said, as well as other technology we're going to open source and provide to other people so they can have the same access as we do.
02:07:43.000And, uh, I don't know if that, what does that make me?
02:10:35.000I think, you know, it's this odd thing in Hollywood where sitcoms are kind of looked down upon a little bit because multi-camera shows came out and were so kind of creative and interesting that people kind of stopped thinking well of sitcoms.
02:10:56.000As a human being, sitcoms are much easier to make and you live a better life.
02:11:03.000So, I mean, that's what I have to say about The Ranch.
02:11:21.000Well, we're planning on doing a gaming channel and everything too.
02:11:24.000We actually got a streaming rig set up, so we're getting there.
02:11:27.000I guess the main challenge is we can only work as hard as a human being can work and we need more human beings.
02:11:33.000So I will tell you, I think I'm looking now for like two journalists and probably some developers, but we still have to suss out what the full plan is going to be before we can get to that point.
02:11:43.000Tim actually got me a little Magic the Gathering gift.
02:11:54.000One of the core components are called land cards and they took Bob Ross paintings for the art on the cards and it's got Bob Ross's name and it is beautiful.
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