In this week's episode, we discuss the latest in the ongoing economic crisis, including the government's decision to cancel oil and gas leases, the Supreme Court, and much more. We're joined by Will Chamberlain, senior counsel at the Internet Accountability Project and the Article 3 Project, to discuss all of it.
00:01:46.000Senior counsel at the Internet Accountability Project, which fights big tech abuses and pushes for regulation on big tech companies from a conservative perspective, and the Article 3 Project, which previously pushed for the confirmation of Trump's judges and now just generally opposes the left's attempts to put really wacko liberals in the court.
00:02:27.000Right now you have leftists arguing that cryptocurrency is a scam and advocating for all the leftists to get away from it and never buy it, never buy in, never support it.
00:02:35.000And Ian's still like, they're good people, I support them.
00:02:37.000Yeah, I want to help them change their message because cryptocurrencies that don't have a utility are intrinsically, scammishly, trashy.
00:02:44.000But the utility brings value to the token.
00:02:46.000You've got massively funded, special interest, industrial complex funded NGOs screwing over the little guy.
00:02:54.000It's like the wild west of economy before we made laws to make that stuff illegal.
00:02:58.000No, no, I'm talking about the political advocacy against crypto from the left specifically.
00:03:02.000Oh, I can't wait to get into it tonight.
00:03:05.000Sorry, I don't want to bring the tone down, but today's news really kind of infuriated me between the news of the gas leases being cancelled and this formula that Americans actually really kind of need because parents are being forced to drive around with $5 a gallon gasoline to find formula for their children.
00:03:41.000It's where the adults go in the after hours.
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00:04:25.000Quote, due to a lack of industry interest in leasing in the area, the department will not move forward with the proposed Cook Inlet OCS oil and gas lease sale 258, a Department of Interior spokesperson told Fox Business.
00:04:38.000However, there's also the Department of Interior ending two leases for the Gulf of Mexico region because of conflicting court rulings that impacted work on these proposed lease sales.
00:04:50.000So, I'm not going to come out here and try and play some tribal nonsense where it's like Joe Biden arbitrarily just destroyed an oil and gas lease.
00:04:57.000There's actually questions about whether or not these companies are trying to drill for oil.
00:05:04.000But I wonder, When you get a president like Joe Biden, who actually shuts down an oil pipeline at this time, how many companies feel safe investing tons of money in new infrastructure that Joe Biden might turn around and just shudder?
00:05:17.000Overnight, without due process, just executive order, you're done.
00:05:20.000Why would an oil and gas company want to go build in Alaska when the president has already shown he will destroy your investment?
00:05:32.000I'm not a huge advocate of burning unlimited fossil fuel without attempting to recover the carbon, but it seems like maybe he's incentivizing people to get off oil, but it's just a dumb way to do it.
00:05:44.000Like, I'll destroy everything so you stop using it.
00:06:43.000Go build in Saudi Arabia or go build in Qatar and build that pipeline or whatever.
00:06:48.000Yeah, it's basically, I mean, it's really childish, right?
00:06:50.000I mean, there's a reason, I'm not generally like this Russia hawk or whatever, but Russia literally did fund green energy groups in the United States to try and push against domestic oil production, which is kind of an obvious thing to do from their perspective because, hey, that gives them, allows them to kind of corner the market and increases demand.
00:07:05.000for their natural resources, which they're perfectly happy to draw in whatever way they want to see fit.
00:07:10.000And so I think, yeah, I mean, I was looking at some of the information.
00:07:13.000I don't know that the cancellation of these leases was more about them, like, giving up on a couple of, like, ones that had some conflicting court rulings about them.
00:07:22.000And there was, like, even Democrats, and I think there was, like, Tim Kaine was giving a speech about, hey, we really need to increase production here.
00:07:29.000I don't know if you guys are trying hard enough here in the administration.
00:07:33.000I feel like we're in a phase where it's like you've got, I think the White House probably is now, because they're so full bore towards Ukraine and to Russia, they're like, OK, fine, we'll let the oil and gas leases run.
00:07:44.000But maybe the message hasn't trickled down to the bureaucrats yet.
00:08:54.000It is Vladimir Putin and the unprecedented pandemic.
00:08:57.000And it's like, dude, if Joe Biden didn't cancel Keystone, if he didn't ban oil and gas leases on federal lands, if they weren't making the moves they're making now, my point, I'll just summarize it with this.
00:09:07.000If Donald Trump was president, he would be like, you know, he'd be yelling, Get me the head of these companies.
00:10:27.000Oh yeah, I think I know what you're talking about.
00:10:28.000They have a magnet in it, and there's a copper coil, and when you make the motion, it throws the magnet back and forth, which then generates a current, and will charge up the battery.
00:10:38.000So all you gotta do is... That's not piezoelectricity.
00:10:41.000Piezoelectricity is like molecular vibration.
00:10:57.000After you extract the fossil fuels, and everything's crumbling all around you, you just have the electrical generation, and you extract more energy.
00:11:14.000But I mean, your point earlier about the Russian government sending funding towards certain environmental groups to try to discourage the production of oil in the United States is so depressing, and it's just so indicative of how abysmally easily the population and the political system is influenced in this country by people who understand our way of thinking.
00:11:35.000The American government does not really understand the way Russian culture operates, the way Russians think, or the way that the Chinese population thinks, but they actually understand the way we think really, really well, to the point where we are extremely easy for them to manipulate.
00:12:21.000No, no, we send in the troops and then, you know, let's liberate Alaska.
00:12:25.000How am I supposed to do that to California, right?
00:12:27.000You let it secede, you invade it, you occupy it, you turn it into a colony, like an old-school territory with no electoral votes, and we've solved most of the country's problems.
00:12:36.000Yeah, there was a fantastic Babylon Bee headline a while ago.
00:12:42.000It was, Biden gives Alaska back to Russia so they can drill for oil there now.
00:14:27.000No, that was his speech he plagiarized.
00:14:29.000Like, why am I the first Biden to attend college?
00:14:32.000It's hilarious because it's one thing to plagiarize a speech as a politician and take some sort of banal utterance about freedom or equality or these things that usually come up in political speeches.
00:14:44.000He literally took someone's background story.
00:14:47.000There was a British politician talking about him.
00:14:51.000Oh, he was like the first in his family to go to college and they were working class and Biden literally gives the guy's speech with a couple details changed.
00:18:06.000There's historical precedent for that.
00:18:08.000That happened, you know, Woodrow Wilson was president and he had a stroke when he was negotiating Versailles and his wife basically ran the country for the remainder of his term.
00:19:24.000No, there's no short-term solution to a lack of leadership from the White House.
00:19:27.000I mean, they were just going to have to deal with that.
00:19:30.000But we've got like two and a half more years of Brezhnev or whatever, basically, and then, you know, we'll have a chance to actually replace him.
00:20:04.000Well, you know, you sort of mentioned the propaganda arm doing everything they could to make him sound as if he was competent and in good health.
00:20:11.000And they're still doing that with Joe Biden, even though we see footage of the man speaking.
00:20:16.000And it's abundantly clear to anyone who observes it that the man is not in his right mind.
00:20:20.000He wasn't in his right mind during the primaries.
00:20:22.000When I went to Ohio to hang out with my parents over Christmas last year, I was like, yeah, Joe Biden's a mess.
00:20:28.000And they were like, no, Joe Biden's great.
00:20:30.000And I was like, yeah, he's experiencing mental cognitive decline.
00:21:03.000light chain he changed drastically in those four years yeah it's it's a
00:21:06.000sundowning what it's called when you get older like you you start losing it your
00:21:11.000brains in the afternoon as you as you're up you know so here's this guy he wakes
00:21:16.000up in the morning and he's like I'm ready to get it and then you know within
00:21:19.000a few hours like a bar turn on a shop at a pressure yeah so the argument the
00:21:24.000media's tried to make too and I don't hear this as often because I think even
00:21:27.000they realized how ridiculous it was but that he just has a speech impediment is
00:21:32.000something we know quite frequently No, I know, well that's ridiculous.
00:21:34.000Well, I did a cartoon about this called Joe Biden's Speech Therapist, but basically the idea is like, a speech impediment doesn't make you say poor kids are just as bright and talented as white kids.
00:21:41.000That's not how speech impediments work.
00:22:09.000The stutter argument was useful because what it allowed for them to do was pretend like there wasn't a problem, but also call you mean for pointing out the problem.
00:22:19.000So when we acknowledge that Biden can't speak straight, even in his State of the Union address, which was the best he sounded, he sounded somewhat drunk.
00:23:28.000And I think in a real invasion, conscription's fine.
00:23:33.000Like, if we were actually invaded and, like, all of a sudden we're like, ah, you know, this country has stormed the beaches and they're killing people, like, okay, well then everybody rally together, we're gonna die.
00:23:42.000But, you know, then Vietnam is, like, not so good.
00:25:04.000But I think if there were people who were like trying to ban a religion, we'd probably call them anti-religion.
00:25:08.000And if you were on the side of the debate saying that religions should be legalized or normalized or something, they probably would call you pro-religion.
00:25:16.000And that's a hypothetical, but I'm talking about like the actual political issues we deal with.
00:25:20.000And there really aren't other ones that we have the discussion about where we just say like they're in favor of choice and don't discuss what they're talking about choosing.
00:25:27.000Like even when it comes to educational vouchers, we call it school choice.
00:26:30.000And, like, the Washington Post is right above it, and I'm just like... You know, we can all sit here and laugh about it, but it's kind of like...
00:26:37.000You know, with the gas prices story and the oil and gas leases, we're on a big boat that's hit an iceberg.
00:26:44.000And as it's sinking, there are a bunch of people claiming it's not really sinking and you're stupid, or that it's a good thing that it's sinking.
00:26:52.000Meanwhile, the captain and his crew are looting the silverware and jumping into lifeboats, sending all of their valuables to another boat.
00:27:01.000And we're sitting here yelling like, They're all but we're all trapped on this boat. They're
00:27:04.000also finding some people on the boat. No here here Here's some silverware go tell everyone else that
00:27:08.000everything's fine. So then the person's like thanks for the silverware
00:27:10.000They go back onto the boat and they're like, hey guys I guess everything's fine
00:27:13.000and then as by the time they come back the dudes gone with all the rest of the silverware like they're bribing people
00:27:18.000to lie To us right now is the question
00:27:20.000That Kamala Harris when she asks a question like this, is she really dumb or is she conniving?
00:28:19.000When I responded to this meme by saying that I was pro-choice and that men should choose to be able to, you know, Like Dave Chappelle made that joke.
00:28:26.000He's like, if you can choose to kill it, I can choose to at least abandon it.
00:29:20.000At some point, even if they don't do so in the totality of the position, at some point, left-wingers come back around to a right-wing position.
00:29:29.000So, the other day I was joking that they'll say things like, well, if abortion's illegal, then men should be forced to take care of the children.
00:29:38.000They're like, yes, every conservative agrees with that.
00:29:40.000And on this point, when you talk about men in child support, all of a sudden, they're very big fans of personal responsibility and not having sex with someone you wouldn't have a child with.
00:29:49.000There was a bill in Florida to ban abortion for 15 weeks.
00:29:52.000So a Democrat proposed an amendment that would require men to pay child support at 15 weeks.
00:30:02.000They want child support from conception.
00:30:06.000They want familial support before conception.
00:30:09.000Also, like, what kind of insane society do we live in where the political solution is, oh, like, let's legislate that someone should have to pay for his pregnant woman's unborn child.
00:30:22.000Like, there used to be a social mechanism for that, right?
00:30:24.000People would get married and have kids, and a man would be ashamed if he was not taking care of the child that he had created with a woman.
00:30:30.000It's cultural enforcement and cultural decay.
00:30:34.000You have to legislate things that society doesn't do.
00:30:37.000So if people aren't supporting their kids and you're like, okay, we, we got, we got, we have to tell them they have to.
00:30:41.000Culture used to have, you know, as what, uh, Jordan Peterson called cultural... Enforced monogamy?
00:30:48.000And then just like every other circumstance where the left has no idea what's going on, they assume what it means without asking questions or doing any basic research.
00:30:55.000And then they're like, Jordan Peterson wants to force women to marry... Literally not what he's talking about.
00:32:09.000Oh, you know Seamus saying all like his bank personal information Dude I've never had a gaffe like that before so Everybody everybody that was YouTube not us.
00:32:21.000Yeah, not us Yeah, our internet is completely fine.
00:32:24.000And I believe chicken city never went down.
00:32:46.000We were talking about something generational warfare. You know what I don't remember. Let's all go home. We're
00:32:50.000talking about abortion You will house family
00:32:53.000Well, let's talk about the formula shortage you got a story from the Daily Mail is what America looks America last
00:33:01.000looks like GOP-wrapped fumes at pallets of baby formula being sent to border centers for illegal migrants while American babies go without amid nationwide shortage.
00:33:11.000So she posted this picture she said she got from a border patrol agent.
00:33:15.000The first photo is from the Ursula Processing Center at the U.S.
00:33:20.000My favorite thing about it, you're gonna love this, is there are signs that say, I think it says like 84, let me, actually I don't know if you can see it.
00:35:09.000We switched away from Similac to this Amazon house brand.
00:35:12.000Now we're going to have to switch away from the Amazon house brand because that's out of stock, so we're switching to something else.
00:35:17.000And you're just wondering, what's the next thing that's going to go out of stock?
00:35:21.000When is this going to end and they're going to get this plant?
00:35:24.000They shut down the single most biggest production baby formula plant in the country over some health issues and they haven't reopened it.
00:35:33.000And it's like, there's problems, like we've emptied shelves of formula.
00:35:37.000Well, I just found out that cow's milk has no vitamin C, but horse milk actually has lots of vitamin C. Well, thank you for the suggestion.
00:36:00.000Yeah, the answer is wet nurses, right?
00:36:03.000Unless you would go down to the town forum and there would be women who could breastfeed and you would hand your child over to the woman whose job it was to literally breastfeed everybody's children.
00:36:13.000So women need to create breastfeed pods if they have a baby.
00:36:19.000I don't know what else you're going to do.
00:36:20.000If your baby's starving, you're going to do what you got to do, right?
00:36:22.000We have the equivalent, some form of that, in the La Lette League, which is women who donate excess breast milk, which is such an amazing idea.
00:36:30.000This is an international league where you can go to almost any community.
00:36:36.000And you need to hook up with that and see if there's women who are willing to donate because some of them have extra.
00:36:41.000So I think that's probably the best source for people who are really struggling to find formula.
00:36:45.000Pediatricians say not to make it, but I also know that pediatricians get a lot of kickbacks from these companies to recommend these formulas.
00:36:52.000You think a person can live off of nothing but human breast milk?
00:38:27.000So, like, there's only one brand that actually has canisters, right?
00:38:30.000It looks like Enfamil, which is on the top row.
00:38:32.000Then you have, like, that means, so if your kid is used to and tolerates some other formula, like Similac, which is the other major brand, or, like, the house brands, like, You don't really like switching formula
00:38:42.000because your baby tolerates and it works.
00:39:12.000And moreover, it's like, you know, there's not that much on the shelf right there, right?
00:39:16.000Like, you know, the Similac thing, that little, the bottle, that's like nothing
00:39:20.000because the powder is actually where you actually can feed your kid in bulk, right?
00:39:23.000Like, most, the way most people end up making formula is you have, you get the powder in bulk, you add water, and you mix it, and so, like, one canister of powder will last you, like, a week, right?
00:39:33.000That little, like, thing, the bottle on the middle shelf, right?
00:39:45.000So that's, that, that's a serious, that's a problem, right?
00:39:48.000Like it's not that, you know, most babies will probably be able to tolerate one of the formulas that's on the top shelf, but that's not good.
00:40:22.000We invented a process by which we could feed babies.
00:40:24.000And now all of a sudden it's a shock to our system that we don't have it.
00:40:27.000If we were still doing traditional wet nurse stuff, nobody would care about this.
00:40:32.000So it seems like the developments and everything we've had, being ripped away, gas prices through the roof, you can't drive anymore, it's hard to work, it's hard to buy a house, food shortages, diesel shortages, baby formula shortages, cat food shortages.
00:40:43.000It's like we reached this plateau of luxury and now we're being dropped off.
00:40:47.000And I'm wondering, does that happen often?
00:40:50.000It seems like it's part of the system of growth, because I was thinking last night, what if I just disposed of my feces in the woods?
00:40:56.000I'd be like, well, it wouldn't be a problem as a one-off.
00:40:59.000Like, I could do it one time, but it's not sustainable.
00:41:01.000And as the city grows, people, not everyone can just go dump their waste in the woods.
00:41:06.000And I think the same thing... Yo, they used to throw it out their windows.
00:43:01.000I ask, what does that mean for our civilization if planes, for instance, all of a sudden the cost of flying is getting really, really difficult.
00:43:25.000If that goes out, yeah, it's like a Jenga tower.
00:43:27.000If you take out the wrong block at the wrong time.
00:43:29.000Well, you're seeing the blocks of diesel because with diesel going up, diesel is how we get
00:43:35.000all of the products that go on our store shelves.
00:43:37.000You pull out one pin, and I don't think that people understand this because we've lived such fluffy, protected lives for so long now.
00:43:43.000And I remember there was a point in time where you could watch anything on your computer, you could order anything through DoorDash, and you could go to the store and get everything.
00:43:51.000And I remember thinking, this is amazing.
00:44:19.000The entire species is a society, and starvation and famine is prevalent.
00:44:23.000In the 1900s, you not only have the Hold'em War, which is human-caused, you've got the Cultural Revolution in China, which I don't know how many millions of people died from starvation because of that.
00:44:32.000Right today we'll talk about over there where we're bombing in Yemen.
00:44:36.000I think that the Americans are involved in the Saudis bombing Yemen and causing famine.
00:44:41.000So like famine, it's almost always there and if you're on the wrong end of the stick Hopefully you know how to fast.
00:44:50.000While we're dealing with these formula shortages, and Will was able to accurately articulate the problem that parents are facing with this shortage, let's talk about Additional Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations Act.
00:45:02.000$40 billion going to a war in Eastern Europe to aid a country that is not a NATO ally, not an EU member state, but for some reason, we should say, one of the largest war packages in history.
00:47:12.000Well, and look, every single time, every single time the government fails to meet the needs of the American people in some significant way, the response from the left is, if we didn't have such an astronomical defense budget, we could afford to take care of people right now.
00:47:24.000In the midst of all these problems, they go, you know what, let's just send $40 billion
00:47:28.000over to Ukraine to get involved in foreign affairs.
00:48:34.000To tolerate loan forgiveness if we classify the debt as odious and then go at the universities to get the payment back, right?
00:48:42.000I'm willing to use that because there are people who were genuinely exploited by these universities and they got degrees that are worthless and maybe don't need to be completely immiserated forever.
00:49:09.000What's a historical example of an odious debt?
00:49:12.000A debt we would give to, like, an African country under a dictator that we'd later forgive, you know, because the new government took power.
00:49:20.000What do you think about usury, which is basically collecting interest on loans?
00:49:24.000Well, I mean, the general concept of collecting interest on loans is, I mean, I think one, inevitable, and two, good, because otherwise there's never any loans, right?
00:49:33.000And money, there's a time value of money.
00:49:35.000It used to be the way that there was no interest.
00:49:38.000And then it was called usury, and it was punishable by death if someone did that.
00:49:41.000And then all of a sudden, at some point in the banking industry, 1700s with Amshell Rothschild or something, they just started Maybe way or that you know loans are very very old right
00:49:49.000like you're talking you know if you're talking loans I don't even know how old the dead dead is I mean actually
00:49:53.000you know people think barter is like the original Transaction that's wrong dead is yeah favors favors right
00:49:59.000like that's the basis for all right insurance used to be if my house burns down
00:50:03.000I'll owe you one and so then if your house burns down I'll like if my house burns down and you help me in any way
00:50:09.000I am indebted to you And it's the expectation the expectation that I would then
00:50:14.000go and help you in the event of something similar or repay the favor usually
00:50:17.000to clarify as unethical practice of originating alone with an
00:50:21.000unreasonably high interest rate I guess that's a social conversation.
00:50:26.000My concern is you've got Democrats who are in lockstep voting for war.
00:50:32.000And I think the reason they do it is they know their voters don't care about it.
00:50:35.000I don't think AOC ever was anti-war at all.
00:50:38.000I think she assumed her base cared about it.
00:50:41.000Now that the media narrative is, yay Ukraine!
00:50:43.000They're like, okay good, now we can vote for war.
00:50:55.000The rest of your debt, sorry, no dice.
00:50:58.000You got your war, you got your funding, you sent the money that would have paid off your debts to Raytheon, I hope you're happy.
00:51:05.000Congratulations, that's who you voted for.
00:51:07.000Yeah, no, I mean, certainly there should be no talk of debt, of student debt forgiveness now, right?
00:51:12.000Like, from the, and allowing Republicans, like, the idea that they'd allow any of this to go through from Democrats, that they wouldn't, Um, inflict massive punitary measures, right?
00:51:20.000Like, I've heard Biden's thing about doing it unilaterally.
00:51:22.000If that were done, then the next time Republicans take power, they should just simply end the student loan program, right?
00:51:50.000This sort of goes back to a conversation we've had a number of times on this show about the moral foundations and the fact that the two moral foundations that people on the left have are care and fairness.
00:51:59.000And those two values by themselves, not tempered by other values, literally don't mean anything, right?
00:52:04.000So if you're talking about something like loyalty, we can sort of put somewhat objective metrics on that, right?
00:52:11.000I would actually say very objective metrics.
00:52:13.000With care and fairness, the way it's articulated by the left, Especially care that can literally just mean it can literally mean anything like we have to care about other people we have to help other people and you don't have to give a robust argument for why what you're doing actually will help and How it won't be of too much negative consequence to the people who the help is coming at the expense of right and they certainly don't and that produces not only examples like So many senators on the left or I'm sorry so many political leaders on the left who have argued against or sending money to Ukraine
00:52:46.000It's also a huge part of the reason why we had a 4.2 trillion dollar bailout and added an insane percentage of currency to the money supply over the course of two years and have runaway inflation as a result because no one considers the negative long-term effects of any given policy prescription because all they have to say is, see, look at me, I care!
00:53:06.000Look at me, I'm doing the thing that's fair for people!
00:53:08.000What do you think would happen if red areas stopped trading with blue areas?
00:53:12.000Hmm like I don't mean state I mean areas rural, Illinois was just like we're no longer gonna be doing business with the city Well, if rural Maryland decided to stop sending stuff to Baltimore, I don't know what happened.
00:53:24.000It'd be a mess wouldn't be good I mean This is where a lot of this stuff comes from we create a lot of farms around here a lot of cows a lot of grain a I wonder what value rural folk get from city folk.
00:53:37.000And obviously there's like technological advancements, there's insurance companies, there's media and stuff.
00:53:43.000But we're getting so divided at this point.
00:53:45.000And so many people are content with, I mean, we're facing decentralization of the economy, cultural development.
00:53:51.000A lot of these jobs can be done outside of cities.
00:53:54.000What is the benefit for any conservative to do business inside of a city or with cities when they can distribute via the internet or through shipping or whatever?
00:54:02.000Personally, I haven't been to a city in like a long time.
00:54:44.000You set up your headquarters in Chicago because you can walk 10 feet and there's the headquarters of another company that you need to trade with.
00:54:51.000Well now we're doing everything online.
00:54:52.000Well, yeah, I was just thinking I did spend time in Nashville a very centralized active music scene
00:54:57.000And it's kind of like why do we use Twitter when it's we know it's crap because it's centralized and that's where
00:55:02.000everyone's at same With Nashville I go there because that's where they live
00:55:04.000so there's this idea that wealth disappears within three generations when it's inherited and I almost wonder if
00:55:11.000We're asking the same question about many of these large cities in the sense that have they?
00:55:16.000given the world something tremendous in order to start themselves and become centers of wealth and
00:55:21.000And are they now more or less squandering that wealth by doing jobs which are more or less useless and unnecessary because of their position within society?
00:55:28.000Because that's often how wealth leaves a family, right?
00:55:31.000The people are insulated from the realities of what not being productive results in, so they like stop being productive and eventually lose all their money.
00:55:39.000Like, that's actually a very... I mean, we don't... It's hard for us to understand, but Detroit used to be, like, the up-and-coming economic center of the country, the third biggest, you know, city, you know, and, like, one of the... I mean, Detroit shrunk massively, but when, you know, in the heyday of the car industry, pre-Silicon Valley, like, Detroit was the place to go if you were a young person.
00:55:59.000You know, the economic engine of the country, the Silicon Valley of its time, and now it's not.
00:56:05.000I think there's a natural life cycle to these things.
00:56:07.000You have some wildly profitable, powerful, innovative industry in your economic area.
00:56:13.000It allows the government to get away with all sorts of shenanigans and still have the place function pretty well.
00:56:19.000But if that industry declines, things fall apart really quick.
00:56:23.000I was looking at Rogan's Instagram, Joe Rogan, and he reposted this thing from Tim Oliphant, an artist who's an incredible artist, incredible artist, of Elon, Joe, and of Chip flying the ship that they're in, the Tesla ship, spaceship.
00:56:36.000But it made me very sad because what Tim was saying is that I've drawn since I was a kid, graduated from college with an art degree.
00:56:43.000A few years later, I found myself pursuing in a miserable home improvement job, mostly painting houses.
00:56:47.000But Joe inspired him to quit his home improvement job and become a full-time artist.
00:56:52.000And I was like, uh, this is where our society has done to people.
00:56:55.000People don't want to do home improvement work.
00:57:29.000I was going to say, I find it remarkable that we're in this, we've developed to a point where Complaining on the internet is more valuable than building a house or fixing someone's plumbing.
00:58:02.000I just think, you know, Ian, you made a good point.
00:58:05.000People should feel good about doing trades.
00:58:08.000And I just think when we're kids, or at least when I was, the millennial generation, we're told to be the greatest of all time.
00:58:16.000We're told to be rock stars and race car drivers and astronauts.
00:58:21.000Yeah, we have denigrated work so much.
00:58:24.000There was this idea, and almost everyone was told this growing up, not me personally, but so many people I know had their parents tell them things like, you know, if you don't study hard and get that degree, you're going to end up in manual labor, or as a sanitary worker, or something like that.
00:58:40.000For some people, that's what they want to do, and thank goodness, because that's an extremely valuable contribution.
00:58:46.000Yeah, I should be very clear about Oliphant.
00:58:48.000I've never talked to Tim Oliphant before, and he specified that he got offered his boss's job at the home improvement, and he didn't want to climb the ladder.
00:58:56.000And I understand being part of a corporation, and I get it, but what made me sad was just the lack of desire, or just the sociological lack of desire to fix houses and more that people want to paint pictures.
00:59:11.000You might say, well, that's a really prestigious professional job, and I just looked around and realized some of the cases I was working on, okay, this might not be literally working with my hands or something, but I am a cog in a litigation machine.
00:59:22.000I am representing a trust created out of a bankruptcy of a company that is suing 64 of these small issuers out of some mortgage-backed securities, and we're Constructing these briefs in order to extract whatever we can out of these small little issuers to the benefit of this bankruptcy trust which you can literally go and buy shares in and the only thing, you know, the only thing that this trust owns is the rights to the proceeds of the litigation.
00:59:51.000There's no difference between being the employee of a company and running your company.
00:59:57.000Now obviously there are certain differences.
00:59:59.000What I mean to say is I have to negotiate with people I work with all day, every day.
01:00:03.000We've got a bunch of people that are involved in how this company works, from the infrastructure end of things, to the ad sales end of things, and there are disagreements, and there are deal terminations.
01:00:15.000Now, if you have a simple agreement with another person, I'll do this work for you in exchange for this rate, that's the exact same thing we do, that I do every day as someone who owns the company.
01:00:24.000I think people need to get out of the mindset of, I'm a cog in a machine working for someone.
01:01:03.000I didn't just go in and say, I need a paycheck.
01:01:04.000I said, I want these three things delivered to me in exchange for what you're gonna get.
01:01:08.000And I worked for them as an employee, and then once they stopped delivering or didn't provide, I just said, I think of it as, as an employee, you're working for the corporation, so is the owner of the corporation.
01:01:19.000You're both working for the betterment of the corporation, and the owner primarily is working for the people that are buying his goods and services, or her goods and services.
01:01:27.000The problem is when employees don't have incentive to, they don't gain more if the company gains more, and the owner gains more.
01:01:43.000I can see how a guy would want to be an artist and would get more value and excitement out of doing art and seeing it spread around the world than they would out of... I think it's a mix of cultural and human nature.
01:02:01.000We want other people to praise us and say we're doing good things.
01:02:04.000It works really well on a small tribal scale.
01:02:07.000When you are in a village of 50 people and you do something, you come back with a huge boar and everyone's clapping and cheering because they're happy because they're going to eat and you did this great thing.
01:02:17.000It's how grooming works online and in these schools.
01:02:20.000They keep trying to shower you with love and make you feel good because humans crave social acceptance because we are social creatures.
01:02:26.000So what ends up happening is, over time, you will get more praise for writing a good song than you will, you know, saving someone from a burning building.
01:02:35.000Depending on the scale of the burning building, I suppose, like, if you're a guy who's, like, in a plane and you crash into the Hudson River or whatever, you'll be a hero and they'll put you in magazines.
01:02:59.000Cops are demonized to an insane degree!
01:03:03.000Like, I certainly have my complaints about authoritarianism and what the police department can mean in terms of certain circumstances, but we demonize the people who are working the day-to-day jobs to make the system run to save lives.
01:03:16.000You'll get some 20-year-old who will spend 15 minutes writing a song, and I literally mean 15 minutes, They'll be like, okay, we got the beat, we got the hook, we
01:03:26.000got the chorus, send it over to a company who then says we're going to layer it, get it done.
01:03:30.000And then they're like, put it on TV for us. And all of a sudden everyone's screaming and crying and clapping and
01:03:50.000So we have a cultural problem where our culture praises influencer because it's simple.
01:03:58.000Virality is a machine in which we get people addicted and it feels good to get those numbers, to see that number going up, to see those views.
01:04:05.000YouTubers have long talked about how when their viewership goes down, they get depressed.
01:04:09.000I can always tell you, whenever you see these YouTuber burnouts, where they're like, I just can't keep doing this anymore, look at their view count.
01:04:18.000It almost always is preceded by their viewers, like the last five videos they made were lower than normal, and then all of a sudden they have a breakdown.
01:04:27.000Because it feels like you're losing and everybody hates you, and it's being ripped apart, ripped away from you.
01:04:31.000Meanwhile in China, they're like, I really want to be an astronaut.
01:04:36.000Well, and we, in some ways, we become more like the things that we love, and our culture has lost sight of what's really important, unfortunately.
01:04:44.000Well, maybe, and now some kudos to Tim Oliphant.
01:04:47.000Not only are you one of the best artists I've ever seen, Tim, you're inspiring people to become astronauts, man.
01:05:01.000I'm very fortunate to be able to do what I do.
01:05:04.000Everyone who's on my crew who helps me is absolutely fantastic and unbelievably talented.
01:05:10.000But One of the biggest compliments that I receive from people is from folks who are just working regular nine to fives, you know, important jobs, construction workers, plumbers, et cetera, who will say things like, Hey man, your cartoons brighten my day.
01:05:50.000And so part of the reason I think our culture doesn't take pride in its work is because we view it as something which should just be about ourselves.
01:05:57.000And whether you become a literal rock star musician, Or whether you're building houses, if you view what you're doing as just being about you and not for other people, you're gonna be miserable.
01:06:09.000Or I'll put my view very simply for people.
01:06:13.000I think most of the time, if you are driven to become famous and successful, and you think, I've had people say this to me, when I was working for Vice and traveling around, they'd say, I really wish I could do what you did.
01:06:26.000I'd love to travel around the world covering these stories.
01:06:37.000Because it's really easy to buy a plane ticket to Europe and walk around with a cell phone.
01:06:41.000In fact, you know, when I went to Spain and covered a lot of the protests, well, I already owned the cell phone, so that didn't cost me anything.
01:06:48.000The plane ticket was a couple hundred bucks.
01:06:50.000I crashed, you know, at a hostel for like 70 bucks, you know, it was like 70 bucks for a couple days.
01:06:55.000And then I walked around filming stuff.
01:06:57.000You can just do it if you want to do it.
01:06:59.000So, you know, how do we get started on a show like this?
01:07:05.000When we started doing this show, we were getting, you know, like a thousand people watching.
01:07:09.000And I wasn't every day going like, come on, get those numbers up, get those... I was just like, I like talking about these things.
01:07:15.000Something changed in the dynamic of artistry when people gained the ability to control their own distribution channels because Radio basically in television you gained rich artists that never really existed in the past You'd have people that were basically page you'd have they'd have a patron like Leonardo da Vinci or whoever they might have some money But it was usually like a very wealthy landowner Paying them money to work and then they would be their patron.
01:07:38.000And then now all of a sudden we've got rock star, TV star.
01:07:41.000Those didn't exist until a hundred years ago.
01:08:21.000Once we had copyable media, all of a sudden albums could be sold and the song could be performed everywhere all at once and everyone would buy it up.
01:08:29.000Now we have streaming and everyone's losing money.
01:08:31.000You see the age of, I don't like, it's not actual pirating, har har har, but it's like, you know, money, art distribution, copying and distributing it illegally or unethically.
01:08:43.000And it's like, it's almost like we're coming full circle, like we've passed through the age of the rich artist, and now we're going back to like, just be an artist if you want to be an artist.
01:08:50.000And do it in addition to your other things that you do.
01:08:53.000You don't have to only just be an artist all the time.
01:08:55.000And you can, we're actually going back to sort of old school patronage, right?
01:09:00.000You know, you don't own, I mean, you don't necessarily say that you own the rights to anything, but people will be like members to your show, and right, have to, you know, patronize you that way.
01:09:11.000I think it's... I mean, and I think that's probably a good thing.
01:09:14.000I mean, you know, it's not as good for artists in general.
01:09:17.000They can't, you know, control their medium well enough to sell it effectively, like as a track.
01:09:23.000It's extremely good because the patron can't dictate what the artist does now.
01:09:26.000There's so many little patrons that the artist still has autonomy.
01:09:40.000People talked about will a service economy work where people are just providing services.
01:09:44.000We got a manufacturer stuff now We're in the attention economy where people make a living by just getting your attention Now that's scary because people then make crazy content and crazy videos to try and get your attention to make money off of it So we're in the influence space.
01:09:58.000I think we're going to move into a creator economy.
01:10:03.000So influence, I think, can only go so far once everyone has a certain degree of influence.
01:10:08.000And then I think what we're seeing with this art, what we're seeing with YouTube and TikTok is a creator based economy where instead of manufacturing things, you're going to make art.
01:10:20.000You're going to make ideas or something.
01:10:22.000I think computer code is an example of that.
01:10:24.000It's a type of art that translates into a functional object.
01:10:28.000I just wanted to piggyback on what Tim's saying here and ask a question.
01:10:34.000You sort of mentioned us shifting into a creator economy, but I wonder if our economy is going to... I mean, how long is it going to take for it to recover to the point where that continues to really be pragmatic?
01:10:43.000Because if we really start to struggle for resources, I don't know how we'd be able to support that.
01:10:48.000I mean, you could look far ahead into, like, 3D printing food and 3D printing oil and water, like, um... 3D printing oil?
01:10:55.000Yeah, if you have enough, uh, electricity, you could convert plastic into oil.
01:11:00.000Um, if you have enough carbon, if you have the materials... I mean, that's... You're talking about fusion.
01:11:02.000Molecular printing and, yeah, atomic printing and stuff.
01:11:04.000They've... They've worked on molecular printing for medicine thus far.
01:11:07.000But I imagine we'll head towards atomic printing.
01:11:09.000But, I mean, that's... That just comes down to the energy source.
01:11:12.000Are they gonna let us use fusion, or are they gonna keep acting like it doesn't exist?
01:11:26.000I'm not saying a creator-based economy is going to be a bad thing.
01:11:28.000And so what I mean by that is it will be very similar to an influence economy, but it'll be people making art and then just selling it, and you're not going to need Amazon.
01:11:40.000You don't need to go to stores anymore.
01:11:44.000All of those jobs are going away, so the service jobs are being automated.
01:11:47.000People are going to have to find other things that people want to exchange for.
01:11:50.000And I think it's going to be, someone was going to write a song, they're going to make a piece of art, they're going to create things, and then that's going to be how they sell it, or they post it, or NFT, or something like that.
01:12:00.000And there will be a way in which people can acquire resources in a new kind of economy in the future.
01:12:05.000Art is the new currency, or one of the new currencies.
01:12:08.000It's like the old seashells they used to find and give to their wives 10,000, 100,000 years ago, you know?
01:12:13.000And these are the new seashells, these art pieces.
01:12:15.000Well, let me make everything a little bit more pessimistic for you, Will.
01:12:20.000Not only are diesel prices at a new record high, but they're actually predicting diesel shortages.
01:13:14.000But I mean, I'm still you know, there's still a good reason to be generally optimistic about the U.S.
01:13:18.000economy in terms of like finding alternatives.
01:13:20.000I mean, the higher price one thing gets, the more people figure out a way to use different resources or come up with a technological innovation.
01:13:27.000So you're not shorting it, is what you're telling us?
01:13:31.000Shorting the American economy has been a loser's bet for a hundred years, right?
01:13:36.000If you're talking about what has been a bad idea, shorting the American economy has been a historically bad idea.
01:13:46.000Betting on the American economy is the best thing you can do, because in the event the American economy collapses and you live inside of it, who cares?
01:13:58.000This is kind of like the classic answer to people who are buying gold.
01:14:01.000It's like, well, why are you buying gold?
01:14:03.000It's like, well, the economy is going to collapse.
01:14:04.000I'm like, you want to buy bullets and spam.
01:14:07.000If you're trying to hedge against that, you're not hedging with the right instrument.
01:14:14.000I always found this funny when people, you know, Alex Jones would always talk about buying gold and stuff, and then I was like, what am I going to do with gold in an apocalypse?
01:14:22.000Am I going to be walking down the street and some guy's going to have like a sandwich and I'll be like, I'll give you gold for it, and he'll be like, I don't want to carry that, it's heavy.
01:14:28.000Sure, sure, you're going to make a battery.
01:14:30.000There's going to be a guy and he's going to have a wild boar and you're going to say, I have a raw piece of gold you can make a battery with.
01:14:36.000He's going to go, that's a good point.
01:14:41.000If you were walking down the street in the apocalypse and a guy on the left has a bottle of water and the guy on the right has food, or I should, I believe you better.
01:14:50.000If you're walking down the street and there's a guy with a, you know, a big sandwich and you have gold and the guy next to you has a bottle of water, who do you think's getting a piece of that sandwich?
01:14:59.000Yeah, once basic needs are met, it comes down to the metals, like copper.
01:15:02.000Copper because you make bronze with it to make weapons, stabby weapons, so that you can take the food.
01:15:06.000The person with the water bottle is going to walk up to the guy with the sandwich and say, I'll give you some water for some of your sandwich, and he'll be like, deal.
01:15:10.000And you'll walk up, I got gold, and he'll be like, I can't eat that.
01:15:13.000And the other guy's gonna be like, I got this knife!
01:16:00.000I mean, to be honest, though, like a lawyer would probably handle negotiations between other tribes better than, like, it'd be a pretty good job.
01:16:07.000Like figuring out new dispute resolution mechanisms that aren't war.
01:16:13.000I think what's going to happen is you'll go around to other people's compounds and be like, actually, we have copywritten that method of collecting food.
01:16:21.000It would actually be a funny bit where it's like, we choose the lawyer over the animator in the apocalypse, and then the lawyer is like, I've negotiated this really great treaty that will benefit all of us, and they're like, kill him!
01:16:30.000And then the animator walks up and is like, I drew a picture of you and your mom together, and he's like, Mommy!
01:16:35.000What we're missing is the synergy, because if Will brings up the boring law, Seamus can animate it and make it fun for people to understand.
01:17:38.000It's like, you know, the problems we're dealing with are almost like we just, we're worried that government is going to, you know, outrate, essentially be so bad that it overwhelms the benefits that innovation and our general economy will bring.
01:17:50.000And they're making it closer than we want, but I would still, I'd still bet on the economy.
01:17:54.000I'll tell you this, New Jersey, these blue states are really destroying themselves.
01:19:13.000I mean, I think competition between jurisdictions is different now, right?
01:19:17.000If you think about who is New Jersey competing with?
01:19:19.000Well, they're competing with the state of New York and the state of Pennsylvania, basically.
01:19:23.000And those states are not really super business friendly either, in their own right, so they probably didn't think like, oh, you know, we can just be a little better than those two states and not lose business across the rivers.
01:19:34.000New Jersey should be one of the best states for business and wealthiest states in the country.
01:19:41.000Because it's got, you've got New York right there, you've got Pennsylvania right there.
01:19:47.000So you have a real opportunity for the people of Philly and South Jersey to be like, we sell our product in Philly, but we manufacture and run our business in Jersey because they're better for us.
01:19:57.000You've got a real opportunity for the same thing they said in New York.
01:20:00.000We operate out of North Jersey, and then we do business in New York because the customers are there, but the laws are better in New Jersey.
01:20:12.000Do you think they collude, the governments, like the New York governments, like don't make your state too much more likeable, too much better than ours?
01:20:30.000All those, like, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey were, like, working together to have a uniform regulation so they weren't losing people.
01:20:37.000And honestly, that's one of the reasons that it was more robust there than it was in, like, the DMV, right?
01:20:41.000The District of Columbia tried to impose some, like, really restrictive mandates.
01:20:45.000And, like, but they weren't in place in Virginia.
01:20:46.000And they weren't in place in Maryland.
01:22:43.000I'm pretty sure they're just funded by giving good, favorable laws to corporations.
01:22:49.000And everybody's always like, what is it, Delaware and Nevada or something?
01:22:57.000Some states are finally starting to try and compete for incorporation rules.
01:23:02.000It's gotten to the point where even if other states have a little bit better of a financial deal for incorporating in their state, because Delaware corporate law is so well developed, that's where bigger companies want to be incorporated because that's where they can get sued and that's where they have the big intra-business disputes.
01:23:21.000Their law is just better developed, and so that's where corporations are.
01:23:24.000Do you know when it began that they started making it all about the corporation in Delaware?
01:23:28.000I don't remember exactly when it began, but I know it's... Actually, I don't know when that began, but I'm sure there's books written on it.
01:23:36.000It is really sort of an interesting thing that a state like Delaware, which otherwise would not have some big thriving business industry, just really figured out and decided, This is what American capitalism needs.
01:23:48.000A state that really focuses on giving corporations what they want in terms of both, like, a friendly place to incorporate and predictable law.
01:23:57.000And the people who run, I mean, the lawyers they get who end up being on, like, the Delaware Supreme Court are, like, top-tier business attorneys.
01:24:03.000Like, they're super, super serious about it.
01:24:06.000Um, and, and very, very, you know, other places you might get clowns and like
01:24:10.000family members and whatever you, the Delaware Supreme court is notorious
01:24:43.000He has pro-free speech, and he's pushed back, and he's done really great in fighting against a lot of the exes of the wokeness and the left.
01:24:50.000But when he moves to Texas, he brings industry with him and large sums of money, which they're gonna hire more Hollywood producers and L.A.
01:24:59.000types, and they're gonna all flock along with him.
01:25:29.000And in five years, there's a good chance I will just be surrounded by a bunch of woke people who have voted for this stuff because they all followed.
01:25:36.000I look at West Virginia and I'm like, West Virginia is the second most Trump supporting state in the country.
01:25:41.000It is it is MAGA country and nobody wants to be there.
01:25:46.000There's a great so I'll go there and it'll stay MAGA country and then I will hire people who share the values that we have liberty personal responsibility and will create opportunity and bring wealth to those who already agree.
01:25:58.000The thing about West Virginia for me was it's like here's this big open place.
01:26:14.000So that means when we start hiring people, when we start contracting, that's people of West Virginia who share values of personal responsibility who are going to be receiving that wealth, not some woke person who moved to Austin to take that job.
01:26:26.000That's that's the opportunity here go to Florida Florida's great, but I'm like We're gonna we're gonna we're gonna set up and expand the economy in a place where people aren't flocking to it And it already has the values.
01:26:35.000I like yeah, there's like a fake I get the the image of when I think of West Virginia I think like walking through hills, which is like hurts.
01:26:42.000It's exhausting and then I picture dude in a red hat with a gun and I'm like well That's what I think about.
01:26:48.000I know it's not, but that's like the liberal brainwashing.
01:27:26.000What do you do when a bear comes these days?
01:27:28.000Cause that's like, what if the real threat is wild animals and I guess humans are also animals, but like, you just don't let them take your picnic basket.
01:27:48.000He was like a nuisance, and in the reality, if you chased after a bear because he stole your picnic basket, he'd probably just maul you or something.
01:31:44.000Matthew Reckamp says, Tim, if you haven't watched 2,000 Mules yet, then what about a watch-along in the members-only section, Two Birds, One Stone?
01:32:09.000Make a members only thing of like our initial reaction to watching it all.
01:32:13.000And then we could do that thing where we have everybody sitting around and then like the screen changes showing like TimCast and then we have the thing playing in the middle.
01:32:29.000At the very least, I'll ask for his permission, because I know a lot of people are pirating it, but if he was cool with us doing something like that.
01:32:35.000I don't know though, because it's like a members only thing for us to make, like we make money off of it, but it's like his movie, so maybe we could pay him something.
01:32:42.000Or we could put it up for free on the website, just be one of those.
01:32:46.000Well, I don't know if he wants us to give away his movie for free.
01:34:41.000We were talking about building computers just now, and I'm like, no, but we could build microprocessors with graphene conductors, and I just didn't want to, you know, drag you through it.
01:34:48.000Daniel Trinka says, Tim, consider a bookstore on your website where guests can list their books.
01:34:52.000Maybe a 1% listing fee to you or something.
01:34:59.000It's kind of weird because we just finished the song, Bright Eyes.
01:35:05.000It's completely done, and we're working on the music video.
01:35:08.000And we're trying to figure out how do we brand music.
01:35:10.000And then I just, I was thinking like, we're doing a bunch of crazy stuff this year in terms of production, short film, documentaries, music videos, music production.
01:35:18.000And then I was just like, is there any other company that does all of this stuff?
01:36:51.000We got music coming out, we got a video game coming out, we've got so much stuff that we're trying to just crank out and expand upon.
01:36:58.000But you know what I mean to say is, it's like weird and eclectic.
01:37:02.000Like obviously some people start companies and they make those companies the best and the biggest and the possible thing they could be, but this is a weird company.
01:37:07.000Like, we have, our flagship product is a culture political podcast, and then we make video games and music.
01:38:20.000I don't know what exactly the acronym is, but the company's called Trinet, and the way it works is it's like they do this for startups, right?
01:38:29.000Basically, it's like if you're a startup with only a few employees, but you want to offer competitive benefit packages, then it's like You effectively are all part of this massive company for the purposes of benefits, and they handle your payroll and your benefits.
01:38:41.000PEO is Professional Employer Organization.
01:38:45.000So that's a company that handles other companies, just gives them a legal recourse to do bigger company stuff.
01:38:59.000forgiven by the sacrifice of Jesus. I'm curious does that mean you believe Satan
01:39:03.000could be forgiven for his sins? It's an interesting question. So my
01:39:07.000understanding of this is that Satan exists in, I mean he's spiritual right? He
01:39:13.000doesn't have a corporeal form and so just by the very nature of how angels
01:39:18.000exist, the decision they made is permanent so he's fixed in that decision.
01:39:22.000Like by his nature he will not be sorry for what his decision was ever. All right
01:39:29.000I can see how that's like, Satan is a function, and that different people's spirit can become part of that function at different times, but that function will remain.
01:40:02.000Normally, when it comes to Biden screwing up oil and gas leases, you think, OK, that's just the Biden administration being dumb and environmentalist.
01:40:10.000But I honestly think that right now, this is probably the one time that if they're actually deciding to cancel an oil and gas lease, there's probably a decent reason for it.
01:40:19.000Because they really, really want the oil price to come down.
01:40:23.000All right, Samuel Eddie says, Tim's time travel misadventures.
01:40:26.000Tim goes to the future and sees that it's really cool, so he brings Ian with him for the next trip, but it becomes a dystopia.
01:40:32.000Involves an older version of Tim who sounds like Alex Jones.
01:40:35.000Do you understand the implications of what you just said?
01:40:38.000When a person travels from their time to the future, the future they're in has no influence from them because they removed themselves from the timeline to jump forward.
01:40:48.000So if I go to the future and everything's really cool, it means that In fact, without me, the future ended up being really cool.
01:40:56.000If I then go back and take Ian to the future and to Dystopia, that would literally mean Ian made the future cool.
01:41:03.000Because without his influence in the timeline, the future's a dystopia.
01:41:08.000We did a phone call because we're preparing the music video for the new song we did, and some of the best producers are going to be legit.
01:41:17.000I was talking to Robbie Starbuck, who's one of the best of the best, because he used to do music videos.
01:41:21.000And I'm just like, we need to get on the short film train, because I really, really want to do a short film about the legend of Gellert's grave.
01:41:35.000Short version is, old dude from Wales, back in like the 1100s or whatever, goes out to do his daily deeds and leaves his son and his dog back at the cabin.
01:41:45.000When he returns from his daily deeds, he sees his house has been ransacked, everything's flipped over, and he sees his son's crib is flipped over and covered in blood.
01:41:53.000Then he sees his dog, Gellert, walk over, wagging his tail with blood all over his mouth.
01:41:57.000And so, you know, believing his dog just killed his son, he draws his sword and thrusts it straight into the side of his dog, Gellert, killing it instantly.
01:42:07.000And with Gellert's dying welt being let out, all of a sudden he hears a baby crying, and he rushes over to the crib that was flipped over.
01:42:15.000He flips it, and there's his son, perfectly safe, lying next to a wolf who had been killed by his faithful hound.
01:42:23.000And they say from that day, Prince Llewelyn never smiled again.
01:43:14.000Dumb or evil goes as follows if you get repeatedly punched in the face, it doesn't matter why, your duty is to fight.
01:43:21.000Okay, no I don't think I was ever for compulsory vaccination.
01:43:26.000Um, I was generally, broadly, like, pro-vaccine in the sense that, like, I thought they were a good thing, and it seems like the evidence was that they worked, but I don't think I was pro-mandate.
01:43:36.000I think I was very consistent on that.
01:43:39.000Um, so I'd like to find somebody, if you can find a tweet saying different, go for it, but I'm pretty sure I was pro-vaccine anti-mandate from, like, the get-go.
01:44:09.000I kind of, like, I'm not personally religious, so I just kind of, like, see, you know, I think, I see it as essentially a balance of, like, interests.
01:44:16.000Like, it is a profound, there's a profound liberty interest at stake, like, the right, and I think that that interest tilts more and more towards the child as, like, and away from the woman as pregnancy goes on, and so I think The thing Seamus gets wrong.
01:45:03.000They tried just passing a bill that would have given abortion up to nine months.
01:45:07.000And what they do is this manipulation where they say, for the health of the mother, it's like if that was the case, you would say, and every measure must be taken to protect the life of the child as well.
01:45:19.000Like, if a pregnancy must be ended at nine months to save the mother, you're just basically having a delivery of the baby.
01:45:37.000Like, that's just, and that's not even getting into the question now.
01:45:40.000Like, I think it gets, you know, what the arguments I don't like, and I've talked about this before, are sort of the, like, the simple syllogisms of, like, abortion is murder, therefore murder is a life.
01:45:49.000Because I actually think, like, there's, there's sort of an intrinsic problem of you know, if you really are going to make the argument that
01:45:54.000abortion is murder, then you must punish.
01:45:56.000To me, it's like to be con- that- to go- if you're going to insist on that logical consistency,
01:46:01.000then you have to insist on the logical consistency of the punishment, which means women are
01:46:04.000accessories and need to be punished pretty severely. Yeah.
01:46:07.000Like, which I- which I don't think is okay, and so I kind of get to the point that- Yeah, I think- I
01:46:11.000think- but you- I mean- So if someone kills a pregnant woman, they are charged with double homicide.
01:46:19.000But the question is, if someone else killing a child is going to face a legal consequence, why would someone killing their own child not face a legal consequence?
01:46:26.000I think the anti-abortion crowd typically Shows there is a distinction between an abortion and the killing of a baby.
01:46:37.000If there was a story about big buildings where they literally brought babies in and just killed them, you'd have people surrounding it, smashing the windows, and you'd be going... So, there's something... There's a difference in the moral quality of the act, right?
01:46:52.000Versus, like, an abortion versus walking up to someone and shooting them in the street.
01:46:55.000And that's why I don't like the syllogism argument, because I think that the pro-life lobby intrinsically does know that there's a difference because they don't argue for punishment in the same way.
01:47:07.000I want to make sure we can argue as many as possible.
01:49:12.000Like Tesla's taking a beating, for example.
01:49:14.000They're still at a 99 price to earnings ratio.
01:49:16.000Wasn't AMC and GameStop went up or something?
01:49:20.000Yeah, all the sort of meme-y stuff and all the growth, cool, it stocks are taking a beating.
01:49:26.000A lot of the normal companies aren't taking as much of a beating.
01:49:29.000I'm pretty sure, I was looking at SPLV, which is like my index of the boring Coke
01:49:34.000and McDonald's or whatever, and they're down a little, but they're all doing fine.
01:49:38.000I think, you know, we probably are in for some sort of recession because we got a lot of inflation out there, and to stop that you need interest rates to go up, and so that'll create some havoc.
01:49:47.000But that doesn't mean that, like, long-term... I think it's not... the long-term collapse of the American economy is not going to happen, right?
01:49:54.000Like, as a result of this short recession.
01:49:58.000Yeah, I noticed the Terra Luna cryptocurrency.
01:50:00.000I don't know if you guys have been following this, but it was worth like $80 a couple weeks ago.
01:50:04.000It's worth six ten thousandths of a cent now.
01:50:07.000It crashed 99.99999% in like two days.
01:50:47.000We talked a little bit about it before the show.
01:50:49.000I, I, I bought crypto as a digital asset, you know, and the value can fluctuate dramatically, but it is, it is, it's a digital store of value.
01:50:57.000I'm not looking for it to reach 10,000% and make a million dollars overnight.
01:51:02.000I bought in Bitcoin a long, long time ago and there.
01:51:06.000You know, it jumped up to $60,000 and I went, wow, well, I'm not going to sell because that's
01:51:09.000not why I bought it. And then it falls down to $30,000 and I was like, huh, well, I don't care.
01:51:13.000I didn't buy it to sell it. Then it goes up to $50,000 again and I'm like, I don't even check
01:51:18.000the price. That's not why I got it. MuleCoin just hit $2,000.
01:52:33.000I've heard what Kimberly Crenshaw says.
01:52:35.000And then you also have Derrick Bell who, I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure he praised Plessy versus Ferguson and said that Democrats never should have, I'm sorry, that the black community never should have pushed against it.
01:52:51.000The Trooper says, hey Tim, long time fan, on your point of influencers versus blue-collar jobs, I am a fireproofer for construction sites, and all I do is mask windows and walls from overspray and pull hoses all day, and I get 25 an hour.
01:53:35.000You know, I think people should pursue their passions and do their best to be good at it, but also be realistic, too, because sometimes people are passionate about folklore and mythology.
01:53:44.000And it's really cool if you know a lot and you could be hired as a movie consultant.
01:53:48.000You know, they're like, hey, we want to do a movie.
01:53:51.000And we want to have, you know, these gods and these ancient creatures.
01:53:55.000And they're going to need someone who's an expert on that.
01:53:57.000But I really don't think that's going to be, like, a consistent job for you.
01:54:01.000If there is an expert out there, I'd like to know, when the comet struck North America 13,000 years ago, 12,800, and caused the flood that sunk Atlantis, how long between when the comet was in the sky and they saw it, and when it connected, how long was that?
01:55:08.000We're going to show the timestamp of the documentary so you know where our commentary is in the film, so you can easily synchronize it yourself.
01:55:14.000And then if you buy the film, you can hear our commentary along with it.
01:55:17.000Yeah, and then you can turn the volume down.
01:55:44.000Samuel Hess says, Hey Will, not sure if the milk thing was slightly a joke, but I had major colic as a baby, and my mom couldn't make breast milk or anything on the shelf work, so my parents used goat milk.
01:55:55.000Worked great, and as a 36 year old gay man, doing great.
01:56:24.000I mean, there's general supply chain problems everywhere, right?
01:56:27.000Like, I mean, I think baby short formula is particularly impacted because of that plant shutdown, but there's, there's problems everywhere.
01:57:48.000That's why I wonder if this is that Daryl's been radicalized more recently, because we had him at an event and none of this stuff came up before.
01:57:55.000Like I talked to him and he was not talking about any of that stuff.
01:57:58.000Maybe no one's ever given him the opportunity to actually talk about those issues or challenge those issues and hear what he thought about them.
01:58:04.000Yeah, we started talking about reparations.
01:58:06.000It got kind of derailed into money, but he was pretty clear like he doesn't think it has to be a money thing.
01:58:10.000It just would figure out a way to repair the system.
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01:58:39.000And some people are asking about the comments section.
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01:58:46.000And it's like a, it's politics, man. You know, people are trying to get us shut down,
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