In this episode of the podcast, we discuss the latest in the world of politics and pop culture, including Joe Biden's response to a question about whether or not the U.S. would use chemical weapons on Russia, the Don t Say Straight bill in Florida, and the controversy surrounding Muse's new song, "Will of the People."
00:00:21.000troops going into Ukraine, that the U.S.
00:00:23.000would use chemical weapons, and that Joe Biden wanted regime change in Russia, and Biden's like, that never happened, what are you talking about?
00:00:30.000This is an absolutely crazy news cycle, because not only did he deny it, He then doubles down on calling for regime change in Russia.
00:00:39.000And then when Ducey says, like, what do you mean you'll respond in kind to chemical weapons?
00:01:07.000Of course, the media and the left have been framing it as a don't-say-gay bill, but we'll get into all that stuff.
00:01:10.000And then, ladies and gentlemen, we have an extra juicy bit of drama tonight!
00:01:15.000You see, on November 2nd, 2020, I released the first song in a series called Will of the People, where you see a ground shot of the base of a statue moving up with cables thrown over it under an orange sky, and then people pull the rope down while saying, this is the will of the people.
00:01:36.000Muse, on my birthday, March 9th, published a video for their album Will of the People and song Will of the People, That starts with a ground shot, and then you see a foot come in, and then it shows a low view up to a statue with cables hanging from it under an orange sky, while people are chanting Will of the People.
00:01:55.000And I've gotten a lot of questions about it, and a lot of people are asking me, what does it mean?
00:02:05.000This is a crazy story, and I feel like I'm in a very difficult position here, so I'll just give you just a brief, a quick mention.
00:02:11.000Most of you who have been following the show know that we've invested a significant sum of money, six figures, into our Will of the People universe.
00:02:20.000I've mentioned repeatedly we have a sequel.
00:02:21.000We actually have several because this is part of a concept universe following these ideas that we talk about in the show in song form.
00:02:28.000We've talked about graphic novels and I shouldn't have to reveal our plans for these characters.
00:02:34.000We've already storyboarded out two sequels to the song as part of the series.
00:02:38.000We've already had plans for... We've already discussed film.
00:02:44.000And so we're very heavily investing in cultural development.
00:02:47.000So we'll get into all of that, but suffice it to say, This is a serious problem for us.
00:02:52.000But we'll talk about what it means, and I'll show you guys what it is, because some people have questions about legal issues.
00:02:56.000And I'll just add one last thing to let people understand.
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00:09:53.000He's been great this entire regime so far.
00:09:56.000He's going to be really important next couple of years too.
00:09:59.000Yeah, it's crazy how the guy from Fox News is the only one questioning the president.
00:10:05.000Look, when you have a President Trump, you get a journalist who's like, Trump, I gotta push back, I want some questions answered.
00:10:11.000I'll be like, you know, we should have journalists pushing back, no matter what it is.
00:10:15.000If Trump could come out and give a good answer and a journalist is like, I'm gonna push back and I want you to answer these concerns, I'm fine with that.
00:10:22.000Every single journalist was just always spitting and yelling and complaining.
00:10:28.000And very, very unserious lies, manipulations, chasing false stories.
00:10:32.000Now we get Biden, arguably one of the worst presidents we've ever had, who said, when you're there, you're going to see people in front of a damn tank refusing to move.
00:11:37.000I call him Lady G. There was a report a couple years back about Lindsey Graham, Lady G, about how he had relationships with a bunch of men.
00:11:47.000And the establishment would say, Alex, you can't call Lindsey Graham Lady G. It's going to be hard for us to recommend senators to work with you.
00:12:50.000Because the people who fund their campaigns and fund their livelihoods, something called the Military Industrial Complex, they say, no de-escalation.
00:13:12.000You know, the adults who are in charge completely fail to understand that there is a concrete world that exists outside of their rhetoric, and politics doesn't just exist on Twitter or on television, and the things they say to foreign leaders or about leaders are actually going to have consequences beyond their constituents liking them more, or throwing red meat to their fan base, or the right people disliking them.
00:13:33.000I mean, calling for the assassination of a foreign leader online while they are invading another country and tensions are as high between us and them as they've ever been or for the president of the United States to say that the leader of a nuclear power needs to be removed from his position is so unbelievably out of line and insane and irresponsible
00:13:56.000But of course, they're the grown-ups, right?
00:13:58.000And we constantly heard about how Trump had mean tweets, and Trump wasn't responsible with the things that he said.
00:14:03.000Things were somewhat together at that point, and these people are literally not at all different, except Trump's policies were actually somewhat effective.
00:14:12.000I like how Trump was, you know, they accused him of working with dictators.
00:14:17.000And I'm just like, if it brought peace, it was I can't remember who it was.
00:14:22.000I don't want to quote the wrong person.
00:14:23.000But he was like, you got to understand the reason Putin didn't invade Ukraine under Trump was because Trump was doing his bidding.
00:15:06.000In fact, I'm just going to dump out every bottle of vodka I own.
00:15:10.000And if you're not doing stuff to help Ukraine each day, you have to check yourself before you wreck yourself, because Ukraine is like my total everything now.
00:15:57.000I love all the buildings lit up in, like, blue and yellow.
00:16:00.000And I wish people paid this much attention to Ukraine in October of 2020 when it was reported that Hunter Biden was getting paid big money by Burisma.
00:16:08.000But now everybody's Ukraine expert, Ukraine stan, Adam Kinzinger's, you know, fawning over Zelensky shirtless every day on Twitter.
00:16:17.000If you came to me and you were like, Joe Biden actually has a gigantic mind control device and the reason he always seems out of it and tired is because he's like Professor X and he's just exhausted himself and he's mind controlling people into believing fake news, I'd be like, well, you know, There's been so many fake stories and people keep believing it.
00:16:35.000That almost sounds like a plausible explanation.
00:16:39.000Cause I don't, I don't, I don't understand how you can have millions of people in this country, like one day, all of their, all their Twitter accounts have blue hats.
00:16:48.000Then all their Twitter accounts have syringes.
00:16:50.000Then all their Twitter accounts have Ukraine flags.
00:17:57.000One thing I wanted to mention here is when we look at the scenario, when we look at the fact that Trump was called a puppet for Putin every single time he did something that Russia might at the very least appreciate, or which wasn't explicitly aggressive towards them, we were told he was a puppet.
00:18:12.000This is exactly why Russiagate was the perfect lie for the deep state and the industrial military complex to fabricate about a sitting president of the United States, because they've been trying to push for war with Russia for years now, and all you have to say is, well, the current president is being controlled, and anytime he doesn't want to go to war with them, anytime he doesn't want to do anything that would lead to war with them, it's because he's a puppet.
00:18:36.000All right, this guy is a White House national security and Pentagon reporter for the Wall Street Journal.
00:18:41.000He says, Leon Panetta says on CNN that Biden's gaffe in Europe about regime change came about because Biden is Irish, and his instinct to internalize human suffering may have overwhelmed him to the point where he was not careful about what he says.
00:18:56.000Biden needs more discipline, Panetta says.
00:20:13.000I'm just thinking about how we're going to title this thumbnail, this clip, and it's going to be like, Seamus Outrage Responds Outrage to Racism Against Christians.
00:20:20.000CNN claims Joe Biden is oppressed because he's Irish.
00:20:25.000I wrote a book called Anglo Fragility.
00:20:28.000And it's about how if you don't think you have Anglo privilege, it's because you've internalized it more deeply than other people.
00:20:35.000And when I make mistakes and you point that out, it's actually because you are spitting upon the graves of my ancestors for holding me accountable.
00:25:42.000It's a real problem that should not be tolerated.
00:25:45.000I'll leave it alone in a second because I know we've really harped on this, but I just got to say, is it that hard to admit the man's experiencing cognitive decline?
00:25:52.000He makes a gaffe because he always makes gaffes and they're like, you know what?
00:26:55.000So we can say that Joe Biden has failed the American people in terms of foreign policy, but the Joe Biden personal family foreign policy is quite successful.
00:27:03.000I mean, to be honest, though, I could not believe it when he armed the IRA.
00:27:44.000China was obviously doing what they do to unleash the virus onto the world.
00:27:48.000But the foreign policy aspect wasn't really a conversation during the 2020 debate when it was at the forefront of the 2016 one about who's going to destroy ISIS.
00:27:56.000And everybody thought that Trump was going to be the one that actually did it, and he succeeded.
00:28:00.000But this is, foreign policy was a negligent issue in the 2020 debate, and if you could have played that clip of Robert Gates saying that he's been wrong on every foreign policy decision and there's actually foreign policy conflicts, I think that would have had a drastic impact.
00:28:14.000But we're seeing the genius at work here, and what happened in Afghanistan, what's happened in Ukraine, China's going to move on Taiwan, it's going to be nasty, and we got this blabbering fool in the office, and Hunter Biden's secure in the bag.
00:28:27.000They suspended the gas tax in Maryland.
00:28:30.000So a bunch of people, I've talked to people out here in Maryland, and they're like, they're like, no, gas prices went down, things got better.
00:28:36.000And I was like, yeah, they suspended the gas tax, like gas prices aren't going down.
00:28:40.000The government just backed off because they're scared about what's happening.
00:28:43.000And they went, oh, like, yeah, because in West Virginia, it's still over $4.
00:31:29.000This is one of the most insane economic policies that he could try to implement right now.
00:31:33.000First of all, we're not in a place where you can really talk about introducing these, like, radical new measures to socialize the economy.
00:31:40.000First of all, we're not really in a healthy place to look at these sort of more social justice-y, far-left pandering options for policy and try to implement them is ridiculous.
00:31:50.000But also, what this effectively does, Tim, you know, you're using the example of a used car.
00:31:55.000It would force people who are successfully running businesses to the point of making them profitable to sell off their shares.
00:32:00.000So basically somebody who is moving a company in the direction of making it more profitable is forced to give up control of their company so they can pay the tax on unrealized gains.
00:32:10.000And what an unrealized gain is, by the way, is money you literally have not made.
00:32:46.000Can you write off the unrealized losses?
00:32:47.000Yeah, well I'll give this regime some credit for recognizing the moment that we're in.
00:32:53.000I think now more than ever there's an appetite on both sides of the political aisle to kind of stick it to some of these billionaires and on the right they're sick of the woke billionaires who fund all these you know, these non-profits, the Arabellums that help fortify
00:33:07.000elections against us. And so there's an appetite to take it to the billionaire class that our
00:33:12.000people, the Trump base, I mean, we're working class folks. And so the billionaires don't have the
00:33:18.000same luster and we don't have the same party anymore. And so there is an appetite there, I think,
00:33:23.000to get some on the more populist right, to jump on board with something on this nature.
00:33:27.000But, Tim, you bring up a good point where they're not going to stop there.
00:33:30.000If we give the government an inch, they're going to take it down to, you know, the half a millionaires.
00:33:36.000Eventually, anybody that makes under 100 grand will be impacted by it.
00:33:39.000Or in 50 years, when inflation is really, really bad.
00:33:44.000So you're spending 10 bucks on a candy bar.
00:33:46.000You're spending $100, you know, on a couple movie tickets or whatever.
00:33:51.000They also, you know, lowering the threshold and inflation is going to get you closer and closer to that limit.
00:33:56.000Well, I think that the billionaires should wake the hell up, though, especially, you know, the ones that help fund these woke institutions and the woke organizations to, you know, eat their ESG scores higher, because they're losing the people that, you know, historically defended them.
00:34:11.000They're losing, they're pissing off a lot of Republican voters who've always been against the increase of taxes.
00:34:16.000They've been against the, you know, the punishing the wealthy.
00:34:19.000But when you're using your wealth to fund organizations that hate our country, it kind of pisses off some people and they see stuff like that and they're like, eh, well right now it's only for the billionaires so maybe I'll support that.
00:34:32.000I think a lot of the billionaires know that ultimately this tax is going to disproportionately affect wealthy people who aren't lucky enough to be in the exact bracket that billionaires are in and therefore will have a more difficult time avoiding the increased taxes on their net worth.
00:34:45.000I'm sure they'll find all sorts of workarounds and loopholes so that they don't end up having to pay and it will actually make business more difficult for their competition.
00:35:29.000If you're if you're worth if you're making 10 million dollars a year as like the CEO of a company and you're
00:35:35.000paying that percentage, everything after 250 is effectively disposable income for you to invest any way you see fit.
00:35:42.000If you're making $250,000 to $400,000, you're like, this is my chance to grow and become a wealthy American, but they're pulling you down.
00:35:50.000So, the simplest way to explain it is, if you only need, in the United States right now, $150K a year to be considered middle-class median, and that's because of inflation.
00:35:58.000It used to be $77,000, then $80,000, and who knows where it's at now.
00:36:02.000Once you hit that threshold, you're getting a savings, you're building a little bit of wealth, but you're not on track for independent wealth, where you can just dump money into a bunch of funds and then make interest and things like that.
00:36:22.000I still got $5 million where I can spend that on anything I want and generate massive amounts of wealth.
00:36:28.000The richer you get, the less that impacts you.
00:36:32.000So, long story short of it is, these taxes Stop people from becoming wealthy now you tell that to the
00:36:38.000left you explain it and they say good And I'm like no you don't understand it means the billionaires
00:36:43.000will stay billionaires forever And they'll become oligarchs and then no one can rise up
00:36:47.000and displace them and challenge their power. Yeah, exactly Exactly.
00:36:51.000And so another thing that he's failing to take into account here, and of course he is because he's on the left, is a concept known as the Laffer Curve.
00:36:58.000So I've talked about this on your show before.
00:37:00.000And there are some less educated lefties who will say the Laffer Curve doesn't exist.
00:37:13.000So, if you tax at 0%, your revenue will be 0.
00:37:18.000And if you tax at 100%, your revenue will also be 0, because no one's going to work for money that they can't keep.
00:37:24.000So, that means that somewhere between 0% and 100% is the revenue-maximizing tax rate, at which point you can reach it, and then if you tax any further, you're actually going to generate less revenue.
00:37:38.000And so interestingly, federal revenues for the United States as a whole have basically stayed around 20% regardless of what the tax rate has been, which suggests that's probably the largest share of GDP that they're able to pull.
00:37:53.000And when I said 22%, I'm speaking as a share of GDP.
00:37:55.000So that's probably the largest share of GDP they'll be able to pull out of the economy.
00:37:58.000So all they're going to be doing with something like this, if it even is effective at getting these people to sell off their wealth, because again, who knows?
00:38:05.000Many of them are going to be able to circumvent it.
00:38:07.000But let's say it has its, you know, quote unquote, intended effect in that way.
00:38:13.000It's probably not going to increase revenue.
00:38:15.000I would argue that it wouldn't increase revenue because the Trump tax cuts actually led to an increase in revenue.
00:38:20.000The left continually claims that it didn't.
00:38:22.000And Biden talks about this, you know, quote unquote, fiscal mess that Trump left him.
00:38:27.000Federal revenues increased, but our spending growth outpaced the increase in federal revenues, so we ended up with more of a deficit after the Trump tax cuts than we had prior, but that was because of an increase in spending, not a deficit in the amount that we were bringing in.
00:38:42.000Why don't we just print more money, bro?
00:38:54.000Let's go out and get a ground war with Russia like Adam Kinzinger and Lindsey Graham won, and get some more money.
00:39:01.000That seems like the direction things are going.
00:39:03.000I think a majority, what is it, a majority of Americans fear the U.S.
00:39:07.000will get involved in a ground war with Russia.
00:39:09.000It's terrifying, especially I couldn't think about the parents who, you know, have children who are active duty and they all watch what the hell happened in Afghanistan and thinking about the degenerates and the morons who are in charge right now are going to be in charge of the military, you know, the operation on the ground there.
00:39:27.000There's not a whole lot of confidence in their ability to get the job done.
00:39:30.000And so praying that we can deescalate and get peace.
00:39:39.000So you discussed, you brought up Biden bingo, which we played during the State of the Union address.
00:39:44.000And I want to mention that that headline starts with Biden whispers that it's not right, which was on the bingo card that we had for Biden's State of the Union bingo.
00:40:05.000Democrats misleadingly attacked Florida legislation as a don't-say-gay bill.
00:40:10.000I like that Fox News subhead accurately points out that they've been lying the whole time about what this bill does.
00:40:15.000Now, my understanding is the initial inception of it was more so targeting, you know, don't teach about gender identity or whatever.
00:40:23.000After several amendments, they came to, okay, how about we just say, pre-K, you know, preschool to third grade, we don't want you teaching identity and orientation stuff to children, to these four to nine-year-olds.
00:40:37.000After that, it's fine, just keep it age appropriate.
00:40:39.000And for those four-year-olds, As long as you talk to them in a semi-private setting, totally okay.
00:40:47.000In Florida, this bill that was passed by Republicans will still allow a teacher to go up to a four-year-old in a semi-private setting.
00:40:55.000Meaning, if they're in a classroom and there's a bunch of kids running around, and they're playing, a teacher can get up and walk over to a group of kids and say, do you want to learn about being trans?
00:41:07.000And so that's what they've been claiming, and it's just not true.
00:41:09.000Well, maybe we'll make some calls into the Florida legislature.
00:41:12.000Yeah, I mean, again, we were talking about it being an anti-grooming bill, but it doesn't go nearly far enough to even be called that.
00:41:17.000Yeah, I call it the don't-say-straight bill.
00:41:21.000Because the teachers also can't talk to these kids about straight, traditional marriage.
00:41:24.000So, I gotta be honest, the biggest pet peeve I have with this whole outrage is that when I was in high school, just like six years ago, if I said gay in any situation, I'd get detention.
00:41:34.000They'd be like, Alex, you can't say gay.
00:41:36.000And I tweet gay and now, you know, congressmen who hate me, they find screenshots of my tweets from when I was 14 and I say the word gay and they're like, he's a homophobe.
00:41:45.000See, you used to get in trouble if you said the word gay, and now you see these idiots running through the halls of the school yelling gay and getting no pink slips, no detention.
00:41:53.000That's the bone I got to pick with this bill primarily.
00:41:57.000It's just, I grew up in the wrong times.
00:42:00.000Have you seen the meme where it's all the Disney, all the stories about Disney workers being arrested for child exploitation?
00:43:39.000And the only people who won't stand up against this are either really sick perverts or they're complete cowards because the responsibility of adults is to protect children.
00:43:48.000And as it happens, we live in a culture where people are so fundamentally either depraved or terrified and completely weak that they would rather allow children to be groomed than be called homophobic or some other word that everyone's too terrified to be labeled with to actually stand up and protect children against disgusting predators.
00:44:06.000This one might be just, you know, people wishful thinking.
00:44:12.000I don't know about wishful thinking, but like looking for something and then telling everyone it's true.
00:44:16.000So but let's see what Snopes has to say about this Disney thing, right?
00:44:20.000Was a phallus purposefully added to the artwork of the Little Mermaid from 1998?
00:44:55.000It sounds like, yeah, I remember the clip.
00:44:57.000And then also in The Rescuers, there was an example.
00:44:59.000I can't remember if it was The Rescuers or The Rescuers Down Under, but as they fly past the series of buildings, there's actually a pornographic image that's placed inside one of the windows.
00:45:08.000That's our camera for a fraction of a second, but it is there.
00:45:59.000But so anyway, I bring up the Disney thing because it makes sense.
00:46:02.000If these predators want to go to these Disney parks where there's kids everywhere, they're getting caught.
00:46:07.000What's fascinating to me is maybe it's just coincidence that Florida says, hey, we don't want you talking to kids about this stuff, whether it's straight or gay or otherwise.
00:46:16.000And then they're like, oh, oh, harumph!
00:46:18.000I say, how dare do you tell us we can't say gay?
00:46:21.000And then they go around running through the hallways.
00:46:23.000And then it's like, also, there's a ton of predators down there at Disney.
00:46:26.000You know, it's like, is that a coincidence?
00:46:28.000Yeah, well, I mean, we talked about this a few shows ago, but Brian Peck was hired to be a consultant on a Disney film after, or on a Disney project after being found guilty of sexually abusing a child.
00:46:41.000Yeah, there's some really demented people out there and the outrage to this bill, and I'm glad that you brought that point up about how it doesn't go far enough.
00:46:50.000And if I know anything about Ron DeSantis, he's going to want to make sure it's even tougher.
00:46:54.000And he's not going to cower to this outrage.
00:46:56.000He's going to, in fact, probably double down.
00:47:01.000I mean, the challenge is, Republicans are consistently reasonable.
00:47:05.000The Democrats accuse them of being vicious authoritarians, and look what they do.
00:47:09.000They're like, you can still teach kids about this stuff, just not as a classroom discussion.
00:47:12.000And, you know, it's like, why are you giving leeway?
00:47:17.000There's no room to negotiate on this one.
00:47:21.000They shouldn't even be allowed to have a conversation, period.
00:47:25.000Because this whole idea that you can change your gender, that should not be a conversation that we ever normalize nor accept.
00:47:32.000And so the idea that some unqualified teacher who's a creep is going to have this conversation with their child, you can't let that happen.
00:47:42.000I keep hearing from parents who say, I can't speak up because I'd lose my job.
00:47:46.000And I'm just kind of like, it's kind of a scary prospect that you're more concerned about your job than who your kid is around for eight hours every day.
00:48:01.000Imagine being willing to work for the kind of employer who would fire you because you are against sexual perverts trying to groom your child and you're vocal about that.
00:48:46.000And look, I was in high school when gay marriage was legalized, you know, the Supreme Court ruling.
00:48:52.000And I used to be like, what's even the fight about gay marriage?
00:48:57.000You know, the conservatives on their talk radio would be like, well, if we normalize this, what else are we forced to normalize?
00:49:02.000I'm like, oh, they're just big heads or whatever.
00:49:04.000And then five years later, six years later, somebody who was a woman for four days who gets named Sports Illustrated Woman of the Year, Caitlyn Jenner.
00:49:13.000And now we're in this next phase of the transition into normalizing stuff.
00:50:22.000And so I try not to use the term child porn in my rhetoric because you can't, when you're a child, you can't consent.
00:50:28.000And and children can never can can say we can never normalize that and so we have to you're right
00:50:33.000You do have to stand up for the kids And the parents need to wake the hell up
00:50:37.000And and and they need to be vocal. They need to be the ones that stop this
00:50:41.000Yeah I want to make another point here
00:50:43.000Piggybacking off of what you just said about all the arguments that were made by
00:50:46.000Conservatives about gay marriage just a few years ago and where we are in relation to those
00:50:50.000It's not just the case that basically every prediction made by the Christian right about what would happen in America
00:50:56.000after gay rights were legalized and gay rights were normalized happened.
00:51:00.000It's that like the most cartoonist Strawman version of their argument that a left-winger would have come up with ten years ago Has turned out to be what's actually like child drag shows.
00:51:11.000Yes, exactly like child drag shows and also left-wingers like Pink News thinking that it is bad press for the Republican Party for them to go out there and go, did you know that the Republicans are going to try to ban child drag shows if they get elected?
00:51:23.000And expecting people to look at that and go, oh wow, well I'd better not vote.
00:52:49.000But I'm glad that people like Blair and Caitlin are speaking out against this, you know, this crap and we need more, hopefully, well, more like them if there are them.
00:52:59.000But Well, there's just one more thing I want to say here because I hear what you guys are saying.
00:53:04.000I don't think we share a perspective here, particularly on gay marriage.
00:53:07.000I think once a society says that two men can be married and tries to redefine marriage in that way, we've already lost the plot on what gender roles are and so we're open to any and everything happening with the relationship between men and women that doesn't really correspond to reality and what the sexes do and how they're designed to relate to one another.
00:53:25.000That's a long philosophical, moral, and ethical conversation.
00:53:29.000I think it's a libertarian, like right now we're seeing like libertarian versus conservative.
00:53:33.000But let's talk about, speaking of terrible families and abusers, we have a story about Hunter Biden.
00:53:38.000Oh, you're ready for conspiracy theory, conspiracy theories, huh?
00:53:42.000That aren't conspiracy theories anymore because we waited a couple months?
00:53:45.000Not even a couple months, it's been a week!
00:53:49.000Hunter Biden helped secure funds for a U.S.
00:54:07.000And that's where the fact-checkers keep coming in.
00:54:09.000Because instead of saying bio-labs, which we know exist now because Victoria Nuland basically said they do, you say that and the media comes out and says, they talked about bio-weapons labs.
00:54:22.000is trying to stop the threat of biological weapons.
00:54:24.000And I gotta be honest, it actually makes sense.
00:54:27.000These programs, the funding, it all makes sense that they're doing research, not on weapons, But they're doing research on pathogens for the sake of being able to identify and protect against, considering they're right next to Russia.
00:54:55.000They say, a trove of emails on Hunter Biden's infamous laptop found that he played a role in helping a California defense contractor analyze killer diseases and bioweapons in Ukraine.
00:55:07.000I'm going to push back a little bit and say, based on what I've read from this, I still don't see bioweapons, but far be it for me to call the New York Post, who is NewsGuard certified, wrong.
00:55:18.000If they're saying the emails show Hunter Biden did this, and there are other outlets reporting the same thing, then I can only say, I don't know, look, fact checkers, take it up with the New York Post.
00:55:47.000As soon as we first heard that phrase, I joked, why would we ever believe these people when they call something Russian disinformation?
00:55:54.000That's what they call everything that turns out to be true.
00:55:56.000And also, why would we believe them when they said anything about a biological weapons lab being fake news?
00:56:02.000But it's both sides of the political aisle now.
00:56:03.000It's not just the Democrats saying Russian disinformation.
00:56:07.000For example, just last week, Congressman Dan Crenshaw was on Fox & Friends.
00:56:11.000And Rachel Campos Duffy was kind of pushing him back saying, hey, some Republicans are concerned about, you know, just jumping on the Ukraine, you know, bandwagon and giving them everything they want because, you know, we're worried about pushing Russia closer to China, whatever.
00:56:24.000Crenshaw goes, well, we're not funding, you know, when they say you're funding neo-Nazis, that's a lie.
00:57:06.000Is that we have confirmation from Victoria Nuland testifying before the Senate there are biological research facilities in Ukraine or bio labs for short.
00:57:16.000As far as I know, Tulsi Gabbard, Tucker, we're not talking about weapons.
00:57:20.000Now, truth be told, I haven't heard every single thing Tucker said, but Tulsi, she came out, she's like, I never said weapons.
00:57:24.000There's biolabs there, and we're like, Russia might get them, it's a bad thing.
00:57:36.000They always try to change the narrative.
00:57:38.000and they play a narrative game and they can because they have big tech on their side
00:57:42.000and they have every mainstream media publication on their side and so they can move whatever
00:57:46.000hell word they want just to say that we're wrong. But I just, I'm just, what's confusing to me is
00:57:51.000that when you wait a week the story's proven true. So how are there people who still believe this?
00:57:58.000Like, a story breaks, you gotta go, I'm gonna wait a week.
00:58:01.000Then you go, oh, that's what happened, huh?
00:58:02.000But there are people, you know, like Bill Burr, you know, when he was talking to Joe Rogan and said, I just turn the TV on once every two weeks and do what they tell me.
00:58:22.000But no, I think that maybe I'm being a little optimistic here, but the number of people believing them are fewer and fewer with each passing day.
00:58:42.000Hunter Biden was helping secure funding for this contractor.
00:58:45.000It was reported by several outlets, notably the Daily Mail, that Hunter Biden and Joe Biden shared bank accounts.
00:58:51.000This was back, I think, in September they reported this.
00:58:53.000So here you have Joe Biden, whose son is on the board of an energy company where he doesn't have any experience or speak the language.
00:59:00.000There's concerns about an investigation of the founder of that company, Michael Olszewski, and then there's some requests, you know, some emails go to Hunter about like, we got to deal with this.
00:59:08.000Then Joe Biden flies out and says, if you don't fire the prosecutor, then you're not getting the billion dollar loan guarantee.
00:59:14.000Sounds an awful lot like, a lot to me, like Joe Biden uses his son as a proxy for corrupt dealings in these countries.
00:59:26.000He's just a fall guy for Biden, right?
00:59:28.000Joe Biden, it seems like he says to his son, you go work the private company, you get the salary, I can set these deals up because I'm the vice president, we'll share bank accounts, you pay my bills, and we'll have one guy for all of our taxes.
01:00:27.000I mean, I'm just confused by what their system was to be honest.
01:00:30.000And it's also important to know that it wasn't just Hunter and Beau Biden was also involved in the family corruption and nobody wants to talk about that because obviously, you know, Meat passed away and that's tragic and that's sad.
01:00:42.000But Beau Biden ran a foundation and it just came out... Sorry.
01:00:48.000But it just came out in a new report that he was in charge of the foundation.
01:00:54.000They raised like $4.9 million, only $500,000 of that actually went to operating costs, and the rest of the $4.4, $4.5 million went to paying salaries of board members and lobbyists and consultants.
01:01:08.000And so it's a whole family corruption.
01:01:44.000And with all due respect to people suffering from addiction who need help, they do make bad decisions, regardless of whether or not you want to have sympathy for them or not.
01:02:56.000I think it was like a children's thing, but they said that Joe Biden's nickname in high school was Hands because he was so good at football.
01:03:02.000He was really good at catching them, something like that.
01:03:23.000Dude, I always tell this story of the people I knew who were like, posting on social media like, I did my part voting for Joe Biden, did you?
01:03:50.000And Twitter recognizes that, and that's why they started to break the game.
01:03:53.000And they promote, you know, it's stuff like, remember when COVID happened?
01:03:57.000And then they had the trending tab and the news tab, and then they created a whole separate COVID-19 tab.
01:04:02.000They're basically doing the same thing for Ukraine now.
01:04:04.000They're just controlling the narrative, they're banking on people not doing their research, and Twitter has become the thought box for almost half the country, if not more now.
01:04:13.000It's the crazy stuff with Project Veritas, too.
01:04:15.000Overall, like these investigations and the spying.
01:05:52.000I want to let the audience know what I referenced earlier.
01:05:53.000It's from a children's book called Joey, The Story of Joe Biden, where we learned that in high school he was given the nickname Hands, because of how good at football he was.
01:06:30.000Shows an orange sky with statues and cables on it, and they're being pulled down.
01:06:35.000In the beginning of this song, we can see right here what you're seeing right now on the screen, and I'll describe it, is gears, and this is underground.
01:06:44.000I'll lower the volume and just play the intro for you.
01:06:47.000Now what you're seeing is the ground level and the base of a statue as the song begins to start to show you as it moves up.
01:06:56.000You then see the cables at the waist of the statue, under an orange sky, and more shots of the statue with cables wrapped around it.
01:07:09.000I then want to show you the end of the song, which is kind of a spoiler alert for those who haven't seen this production.
01:07:14.000But at the end of the song, you then see the resolution, which is the ground-level brown-orange sky, cables wrapped around a statue, and people are pulling the statue down.
01:07:51.000It is a song and series we're producing, and it begins with a ground shot, the base of a statue under an orange sky with cables pulling it down.
01:08:01.000On March 9th, which is also my birthday, Muse posted this video, which I'm not going to play for copyright reasons, but I can scroll through.
01:08:12.000You see a foot Some point, come in, then you see the base of the statue pointed up with cables hanging down under an orange sky, and then it zooms out as a hooded figure, and people are firing more cables, and they then pull the statue down.
01:08:25.000Now, my initial reaction to the fact that Muse launched an album called Will of the People, and a song called Will of the People, it was on this show that Ian said to me, he's like, hey, did you know Muse has a new album coming out called Will of the People?
01:08:40.000Because, yeah, it's just a title, and Muse being very political, I thought, okay, you know, whatever.
01:08:46.000Then, it was last night, we were driving back from, you know, just out of town a little bit, and I decided to actually take a look, because I hadn't actually looked at what Muse was producing, and sure enough, The way I would describe this is it's a live-action version, shot-for-shot, of the intro and parts of the ending of Will of the People.
01:09:07.000Now, considering this is a promo, we don't know exactly what Muse is intending to do with the full release.
01:09:13.000In this video, they're chanting over and over again, the Will of the People, the Will of the People.
01:09:17.000And, of course, in my song, we say, this is the Will of the People, and they're pulling statues down.
01:09:24.000Um, I've, uh, what people need to understand is I've not said anything in terms of legal stuff.
01:09:29.000I tweeted out, we have questions, but considering we've heavily invested in, uh, we've got, again, I got two songs, you know, I can, I can actually do this.
01:09:37.000I'm gonna do something I shouldn't do because I shouldn't have to reveal this stuff, but I have no problem
01:09:41.000Showing just a little bit of a rough cut So this is uh one of the songs that I don't know how to
01:10:03.000That we've been working on because, and we also have another song, it's on my Instagram.
01:10:07.000So we're absolutely producing in this, and this is an issue for us, so I'm curious, Mr. Lawyer, what your thoughts are.
01:10:16.000Well, you know, look, you know, I had done copyright work for General Motors at one point about the computer code in their cars and attempts by the state of California to grab that.
01:10:30.000So, you know, look, in terms of the basic elements of copyright law, I mean, it looks to me like There's a lot of similarity here and, you know, it'd be interesting if you could uncover evidence of whether there was actual, you know, intent to copy.
01:10:47.000But it looks like it's been, you know, some key elements have been copied and then the issue is, you know, is there originality in your work?
01:11:31.000And then I said, the name, the ground shot followed by the bay shot of a statue under an orange sky with ropes pulling down the statues is pretty much a live action remake of what we made.
01:11:59.000And if I were you, I'd be pretty concerned about, you know, Muse, you know, coming out with something like that right after you've done it.
01:12:08.000There may be evidence that they saw your work, and that would be very troubling if I were looking at that, Tim.
01:12:16.000Considering that Matt Bellamy has praised Alex Jones in the past, maybe I'm wrong, I just want to make sure I can put that out there, but there have been numerous statements, and I listened to an interview purportedly of the lead singer of Muse telling Alex Jones, Alex Jones inspired his music.
01:12:32.000Their songs use a lot of themes of anti-establishment, anti-government, so a lot of people like them.
01:13:32.000A lot of people didn't realize though that they took the name as well as the color scheme, the symbols.
01:13:37.000I mean we have the character in the hood raising his fist and then like it's a whole pulling the mask up.
01:13:43.000So obviously there's a lot of things that exist in reality that you can't individually claim.
01:13:49.000But, you know, my response is like, what if I wrote a book called Star Battles about space ninjas with plasma swords that fought the Imperials?
01:14:01.000Would I get sued for that if I made that book?
01:14:03.000Yeah, I think you would because, you know, everyone would recognize it as connected to Star Wars and, you know, the combination of those elements, right, those creative elements is what makes it, you know, particular work.
01:14:15.000And, you know, I think you'd have, you know, an interesting claim, you know, more than colorable it seems to me that You know, that's infringement of a set of combined ideas that you put together.
01:14:26.000And if I didn't sort of spell out the atomization point, right?
01:14:29.000If you just, you know, take a very narrow slice of some creative work, you can always find that there's some similarity to something else, right?
01:15:17.000Now obviously a lot of people, the first reaction I get was like, everybody basically said to me, actually everybody, a small handful of lawyers, they're like, you know, if someone came out and said, this guy made a similar work to me and put it out on my birthday, they'd be like, well, you know, look, there's 365 days in the year, it's like they're eventually going to hit it.
01:15:35.000But when it's the same name, then it's like, well, you know, I guess it's okay.
01:15:40.000But then it's the same colors, the same theme, similar characters, same story, same name.
01:15:44.000And on my birthday, yo, it kind of sounds like they did it on purpose.
01:15:48.000Well, if you take a number of probabilistic events, right?
01:15:53.000And you start looking at what's the probability of those all happening in conjunction with each other, right?
01:15:59.000You multiply them together and the fraction gets smaller and smaller, right?
01:16:04.000I mean, these kinds of things, you know, those sorts of arguments are launched in, you
01:16:08.000know, all kinds of litigation, but, you know, especially in the criminal law, right? So maybe,
01:16:12.000you know, there's a one in ten chance that a particular fiber, you know, was left at the scene of
01:16:18.000a crime, right? But then if you accumulate it with a piece of evidence about, you know,
01:16:26.000Like, DNA evidence doesn't necessarily rule out everybody, right?
01:16:30.000But you multiply all those things together, you get to an astronomical number.
01:16:34.000Then you start to scratch your head and say, you know, it looks like the odds that it's not this person are very low.
01:16:40.000And so in this kind of analysis, it would be with all these coincidental elements of the work all occurring at once, seems like it's right for you to be asking questions.
01:16:50.000But it doesn't seem like a coincidence.
01:18:28.000What I have to consider is there's a difference between me as an individual business owner and what a corporation with multiple owners would be dealing with.
01:18:37.000There's pros and there's cons to being a partner in a big corporation.
01:18:41.000Let's say you own a company with like four other people, shareholders.
01:18:49.000If some problem happens and you want to stand your ground and say, I will not allow this person to come at me, you've got to consider your other partners.
01:18:57.000You got to be like, who's our investors?
01:18:59.000Somebody invested money in our company.
01:19:01.000If I go to battle and I lose, I'm losing their money.
01:19:24.000And be like, I can't be responsible to investors.
01:19:28.000But as an individual, as someone who's a fan of Muse, I think about, look, we've got a lot of money invested in this project we're working on.
01:19:36.000Already, when you search for Will of the People, it's displaced us.
01:19:38.000But it's not just the name, it's literally the description of what my song is.
01:19:43.000Their description is the same as my description, for the most part.
01:19:46.000Their visual depiction and story is the same.
01:19:48.000If you were going to explain to someone what my music video was, it's interchangeable between the two of them.
01:19:54.000How am I supposed to carry forward with this massive investment to building culture when Muse, a year and a half after me, has published what I view as a shot-for-shot remake?
01:20:03.000of at least so far the intro with the same name of my song.
01:20:08.000And so the question is, it's, you know, I'm a fan of the band.
01:20:13.000I can play most of their songs, you know, but this is a threat to my business
01:21:36.000I have, you know, their songs on my iPhone.
01:21:38.000But, you know, I would be insulted if I were someone who poured my creative energy into something and I saw
01:21:44.000that it was, you know, blatantly being hijacked.
01:21:47.000That's very, that would hurt me personally.
01:21:49.000Let me ask you a basic copyright question.
01:21:51.000You know, a company like Warner, they're going to do a basic,
01:21:55.000like, search for IP and copyright if they're launching a product, right?
01:21:58.000Yeah, I mean, they're going to do any company that engages in anything, especially if it involves a significant investment, is going to do due diligence to see, you know, like, what's out there, who could come after us.
01:22:32.000You don't want to be blindsided by that when you're down the road in the business venture that flows from the creative act.
01:22:38.000You know, I would think that that big, you know, company behind Muse would do that kind of work.
01:22:44.000And, you know, look, it also doesn't... So let's say there was, again, just for purposes of argument, imagine that there was some deliberate activity here.
01:22:53.000It doesn't even look like they tried to make tweaks to things to be able to improve their position, right?
01:23:01.000They didn't change the color scheme, you know, the titles the same.
01:23:05.000Uh, you know, the birthday thing, I think, that would make me wonder whether I was being trolled, but I don't think that's the kind of thing that, you know, that could be pure coincidence.
01:23:14.000But just all of these things together?
01:23:16.000But look, like, both videos start with a ground shot, theirs is slightly different, the shoe steps in, but then it shows, you know, the base of the statue, theirs is pointed upwards, mine's at the base.
01:23:28.000The ropes are already hanging from their statue.
01:23:30.000The ropes are already hanging from mine.
01:23:39.000So look, we have no choice but to ask these questions and pursue it and have these conversations.
01:23:44.000Especially, there's a lot people need to understand about, you know, why we would do a segment on the show about this.
01:23:50.000And it's because there are certain legal questions about your ability to assert your position when you're a public figure.
01:23:58.000Long story short is, if I don't exercise my rights to try and assert my copyright, it could be bad for me.
01:24:04.000And considering we've got two songs nearing completion, and we're reaching out, we're storyboarding the next, we've already finished storyboarding the next series on this.
01:24:12.000I have to be like, hey, this is an issue for us, and we're taking it very, very seriously, and we're gonna be, you know, we need to have a conversation with Warner and Muse.
01:24:20.000So, Warner and Muse, you need to be talking to us.
01:25:07.000I don't care at all about, you know, that event that took place.
01:25:11.000But I think it's important to talk about mental health.
01:25:15.000And, you know, Mike Cernovich has been on top of this, talking about how, you know, it's probably taken a toll on Will, the fact that, you know, he allows his wife to sleep with other men.
01:25:25.000And then, you know, he's totally okay with that.
01:25:30.000And so Will's probably not all there right now from a mental health standpoint.
01:25:35.000And so even I could see how it wouldn't be staged.
01:25:37.000I could see how maybe he just had enough and he had a snap.
01:25:41.000Someone did Super Chedda saying, trust me, it wasn't staged.
01:25:44.000And the way Chris Rock reacted, there's two things.
01:25:47.000One suggests it was staged, one that it wasn't.
01:25:49.000After he got hit, you could tell that he didn't know what to do.
01:25:52.000And he was like, in a difficult position where he was like, and they said, we're giving away documentaries, Oscars, because he's clearly flustered, he got smacked in the face.
01:26:01.000However, When Will Smith cranks up to hit him, Chris Rock doesn't put his hands up, which is a common reflex when you're about to be hit.
01:26:09.000In fact, he does a, maybe it was an accident, but he makes a move that is common in fight choreography where he moves with the hand swing.
01:26:19.000So when someone is fake slapping you, what you do is when the hand is coming in, you move with it.
01:26:24.000So it's a glancing hit and less impact to your face.
01:26:28.000Well, their ratings have been in the tank for the last few years and nobody talks about them anymore and now everybody's talking about it today.
01:26:35.000There's been great memes created already.
01:28:05.000I think that the whole thing smells, and it's the kind of thing you launch when you're in an awards show that no one wants to watch anymore.
01:29:02.000You literally have Amy Schumer and two people I've never seen or heard of before in my entire life singing, you know, protesting Ron DeSantis' bill saying gay, gay, gay, gay.
01:29:11.000It's just so weird that Hollywood would be protesting like the most milquetoast attempt at an anti-grooming bill.
01:29:48.000I guess maybe some small part of me does a little bit just because I very much dislike Hollywood and they do something ridiculous and I want to say, uh, darn Hollywood, but Whether it was faked or not, it's clear that this has had the effect of people ridiculing a specific person at the Oscars rather than the entire ceremony as a whole.
01:30:11.000Because for the past couple years it's been, how unbelievably stupid is this ridiculous patting of oneself on the back ceremony that occurs where they give awards to their friends for doing things that they sit there and pretend is important while the rest of us don't really care.
01:30:29.000Seamus, I would like to award you our first annual Castie.
01:30:34.000So I want to say that we have always been ahead of the curve on TimCast in telling ordinary Americans that they're wrong and need to be more like us.
01:31:28.000What if it was an award ceremony for like most contrived speech and we just went to different podcasters and awarded them based on who gave a really contrived speech at some point in their podcast and then they have to give a contrived speech while they're up on stage receiving it?
01:31:41.000Isn't that the whole point of the award show?
01:31:42.000Someone goes on stage, gives a contrived speech, a lot of people get mad at it, it boosts ratings and people pay attention.
01:31:48.000Wouldn't it make more sense to just cut out the nonsense and give people awards simply for making contrived, nonsensical speeches?
01:31:54.000It is a crazy thought when you realize that nobody watches the Oscars.
01:31:57.000These great cultural moments losing significance and now we just don't care anymore.
01:32:02.000We're talking about it now because some dude smacked another dude, but whether it was staged or not, that's the only thing they have that makes us talk about it.
01:32:08.000Do you know what movie Will Smith was in?
01:32:35.000But, you know, back to the... I'm becoming probability guy.
01:32:40.000You know, back to the combining probabilities, right?
01:32:42.000The fact that the show is failing and the only thing that makes anyone talk about it is this incident, to me suggests that the incident is artificial.
01:34:02.000I don't know though, man, because if, if we were going to fake a fight and that was our whole thing and you were supposed to come up and smack me, I wouldn't be like, yes, I'm going to take the role of the guy who stands there in front of the entire world and doesn't fight back after he got smacked in the face.
01:34:15.000It just seems like a really weird thing to agree to.
01:34:48.000All they care about is sports and celebrities.
01:34:51.000Then 2020 happens and all people cared about was politics, but they didn't know anything about it.
01:34:55.000And so they're like, I just feel like we're in a car, you know, we're in, we're in a bus and everyone's like, we can drive off the cliff or just turn around.
01:35:07.000I'm like, no, no, everybody look at the rabbit, look out the window, look at the rabbit, stop.
01:35:12.000If people want to pay attention to politics and they're passionate about it, then by all means we can have disagreements for whoever we want.
01:35:18.000But if regular people are going like, yo, he smacked that guy, I'd rather have them be more interested in that than going out and voting on things they don't know about and aren't interested in.
01:35:30.000I'm saying if you don't care about it and you're only going out and voting because it's pop culture, that's a problem.
01:35:35.000Let's have everybody go watch sports and pop culture somewhere else.
01:35:38.000And anybody of any intellect or, you know, whatever, you're allowed to vote so long as you want to and you're choosing to take that first step.
01:35:46.000You're saying it consumes their attention span, you know, budget.
01:35:50.000And I guess I got to thank Will and Chris because they were able to shift the news cycle away from Ukraine for a very short moment.
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01:37:38.000He adds those little things afterwards like, you know, yeah, it's like I'm just making a declarative statement He then adds, you know, why don't you think about it?
01:37:46.000Well, we got me and they should and they should yeah, we got the Irish broke from you tonight It comes out to me every now and again because I internalize other people's suffering so often I WhitePaperCat says, you're working on a video game.
01:38:35.000I don't know if we ever said the name publicly or anything though.
01:38:37.000No, I don't want to give too much away about it.
01:38:39.000We've been working on this for over a year, and it's sort of gone through.
01:38:43.000There have been a couple of iterations, but it looks like it's finally getting to the final stage with the actual code that we're going to end up using.
01:39:03.000Now it's a matter of artwork, and I think the only thing we really need at this point is, like, we want to make a ridiculously massive inventory system.
01:39:11.000So, you know, I'm talking, like, weekly updates with new items.
01:40:13.000Thomas Sidebottom says, the only reason the media can get away with saying what he actually meant was, is because Biden literally can't defend against it.
01:40:20.000Also, I mean, they do it all the time to people who can defend against it.
01:40:24.000They just know what you were thinking every time you say something.
01:40:29.000Seriously, JK says, I know I'm a random internet guy, but I have a very close inside Hollywood source with direct connection to two of them.
01:40:36.000Nothing was staged, trust me or not, but this person is super legit.
01:40:40.000But could it be that Will Smith walked up to Chris Rock yesterday and whispered, I'm gonna slap you, do a joke, okay?
01:42:10.000And if you guys are interested, if you watch the cartoon and laugh, if you donate on Patreon, you'll actually be able to see Tim and I recording it.
01:43:21.000So I have two YouTube channels which are like me monologuing and then that becomes one podcast on iTunes and Spotify called Tim Pool Daily Show.
01:43:28.000That's what Brookings was referencing They basically took me saying there are no bioweapons labs and people are wrong, and then made an article saying Tim Pool pushes lies that there are biolabs.
01:43:44.000Archivist says, Tim, I have a prediction based upon my analysis of the Ukrainian war.
01:43:48.000I believe if the UN and NATO do not help rebuild Ukraine for fear of further Russian aggression, the World Economic Forum will for good public press.
01:45:12.000So we're actually working on building a paywall on my website right now, so we can use that instead, but it's still under construction.
01:45:18.000So I switched to Subscribestar for a little while, but unfortunately, even though everyone tells you they want you to use something besides Patreon, when you create something different, you just don't pull in as much through donations, and it got to the point where we were literally going to have to stop making the cartoons because we weren't generating enough revenue to continue, so I just had to go back to Patreon for the time being.
01:45:39.000So basically what we're going to be doing is launching a paywall.
01:45:42.000The normal Freedom Tunes videos, the weekly uploads, are going to stay free, but we're also working on extra content for people who donate.
01:45:51.000I don't want to give an exact date right now, but once we have a solid enough content of library to have a bit of wiggle room, we're going to launch the official website where people will be able to donate for exclusive content.
01:46:01.000So we're working on it now, and I'm pretty excited for that.
01:46:19.000But as I also mentioned, what you are doing is you are essentially saying, if someone is doing such a good job at running their company that the value of their stock increases, they should sacrifice control over their company.
01:46:30.000To people who have potentially never been involved with the business before.
01:46:37.000Winston Alexander says, with an unrealized tax, the government will have to federalize appraisers, local tax assessors, and insurance adjusters.
01:46:45.000Yeah, otherwise how do you actually determine the value of something?
01:47:45.000Yeah, or they like seize your assets because you couldn't afford your tax bill, so they just take your stuff from you without you selling it, you know.
01:47:51.000A bunch of people were arguing over smashing the like button.
01:47:55.000Button the smash like, like the smash button, smash the like button.
01:47:58.000I think people were saying slap the like button earlier in the show.
01:48:19.000It's to prevent ordinary people from becoming wealthy because one argument that the left will always make about systemic racism and redlining is that property ownership is the quickest way to build up wealth and either enter the middle class or upper class and black people are excluded from that.
01:48:31.000But they're fine making it more difficult for literally everyone in the country to amass wealth that way.
01:48:36.000Even though they have acknowledged that it can keep a group of people down and will keep groups of people down.
01:48:42.000Well, it's what you were saying, Tim, earlier about, you know, structural dynamism.
01:48:46.000If all these rules basically lock people, you know, lock the world into a stasis where the rich stay rich and other people can't climb the ladder, then, you know, there's no challenge to that economic power structure.
01:48:59.000And it's just not the kind of system that we should want to have.
01:49:02.000You know, we need to have strong respect for the rule of law and for constitutional law, but we also need, you know, an Adam Smithian kind of economic system.
01:49:10.000Otherwise, You know, you get power monopolies either on governmental power, or on private power, or these days, the combination of private and public power all in one.
01:50:09.000Stock says wait 10 days and we'll know if it's intentional or coincidence.
01:50:15.000What would you recommend in terms of something like this?
01:50:16.000Should you just wait until they publish something that may be infringing, or do you...?
01:50:21.000Well, I mean, you know, it looks to me like you should raise these questions now because you also don't want to wind up in a spot where you sleep on your rights.
01:50:29.000That's what people need to understand.
01:51:11.000Because if there is someone who does a thing that in some way infringes or violates any of our rights and we don't exercise it, we lose claim to it in the future.
01:51:21.000So with this song, our immediate reaction was, we have to exercise all options.
01:51:24.000And in terms of your physical safety, right, you know, with your employees, you owe them, you know, certain duties.
01:51:31.000And, you know, you need to make sure that you, you know, don't just sleep on your creative rights, but, you know, you protect the physical safety of everyone who's part of your enterprise.
01:51:45.000As our company grows, not a day goes by where I'm not wondering myself or realizing this is exactly why all corporations do the things they do.
01:51:57.000Because certain laws exist, regulations exist, and it's really fascinating when I learned you couldn't give people money.
01:52:30.000But there are a bunch of rules that come into place.
01:52:33.000If I want to be able to make music and make money off it, if I want to be able to do this show and make money off it, all of a sudden there's crazy, rigid, legal rules we have to follow.
01:52:41.000When something comes out that people are saying looks like it's a copy, we're like, okay, we have to exercise our rights.
01:52:49.000Otherwise we could, we risk, you know, losing them, uh, in other places.
01:52:53.000So that's why this is, this is why, and I'll let you guys know, this is why I'm talking about it publicly on this show, instead of just going to our lawyers and being like, fire away.
01:53:02.000I was like, no, no, no, we should talk about it.
01:53:03.000Let everybody know what's happening and how, how we feel about it, because we want to be able to produce content and not be crushed by massive conglomerates like Warner or something like that.
01:54:06.000So, if this is a guy who's familiar with this space and he's in politics and he pays attention to anti-establishment voices, yeah, I think it's incredibly likely.
01:54:14.000Plus, the video's got 1.2 million views.
01:54:16.000It's not like it's got no views, you know?
01:55:43.000Lex Avellino says, Shamus, fellow God-fearing brother here, building in the blockchain gaming space, would love to hear more about your game and see if we can add some value.
01:55:51.000Shot you a tweet, I'm in Virginia too.
01:55:54.000Yeah, let's see if we can have a conversation.
01:56:34.000You know, good fences make good neighbors.
01:56:36.000And so, you know, that's one reason why it's important to make sure that property rights aren't Jerome Morrow says you have to aggressively enforce your copyright.
01:56:44.000increasing frequency and it's also a reason if you're the holder of a
01:56:47.000property right even an intellectual property right that you make sure that
01:56:51.000you're aggressive about protecting it. Jerome Morrow says you have to
01:56:56.000aggressively enforce your copyright if you don't not only will you lose your
01:56:59.000right to do so in the future but you'll also be showing the authoritarian woke
01:57:03.000left an effective attack vector to sabotage your future cultural works that
01:57:06.000counter their influence. Yep that's basically it you know.
01:57:13.000Pew Pew Trucker says, you're looking at the Muse song the wrong way.
01:57:17.000They just want to stand with their idols.
01:57:20.000Certainly, one way, a lot of people have said, imitation is the greatest form of flattery.
01:57:25.000That's true, but like, if we have been working on these vocals, and like, I've been screaming into these microphones, writing songs.
01:57:33.000We've been flying out musicians, some prominent musicians.
01:57:37.000We've had, on one of the songs, actually on both of them, it's the former drummer from The Offspring.
01:57:42.000So we're not, like, this is very serious.
01:57:45.000We're actually negotiating with major labels on this stuff for, like, guest vocalists and singers.
01:57:51.000I shouldn't have to be publicly announcing our plans to launch this stuff because of what Muse is doing.
01:57:58.000Regardless of whether or not anyone thinks it's intentional.
01:58:00.000If someone does a cover song, right, you know, a cover version of a song, that's, you know, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right?
01:58:08.000But if they're taking an original idea you have, especially when it's in the kind of launch phase, and ripping it off, that's theft.
01:59:50.000Rye- Ryan Merce With a Mouth says, There is a video labeled as the leaked song from Muse and the chord structure is identical to your song, but it's not actually a Muse song.
02:00:00.000It's a song by Oliver Light called Revenge.
02:00:50.000People don't understand that legal remedies don't necessarily mean lawsuits.
02:00:54.000It could literally be like, when I say, you know, taking action, it could be like, we write a letter.
02:01:00.000Like, hey, can we get on the phone real quick?
02:01:03.000I heard you say that you wanted to raise questions, and I also heard you say that when you said you wanted to raise questions, people immediately hop to the conclusion Well, they didn't steal it from you, which is kind of almost like a consciousness of guilt, or the lady doth protest too much.
02:01:20.000Well, that was the funny thing, because some people interpreted that as, everybody knows I'm a fan of Muse, and they were like, no, he said he wants to chat with him, he wants to get him on the show.
02:03:05.000But now you guys heard it from me before anybody else, because I didn't want this to come out like a press story or something and then have people be like, whoa, what's going on?
02:03:12.000But that being said, my friends, smash the like button, subscribe to this channel, share the show with your friends, head over to TimCast.com.
02:03:18.000We're going to start recording that members-only podcast for you guys, which will be up around 11 or so p.m.
02:04:08.000It's called Winning the Social Media War, How Conservatives Can Fight Back, Reclaim the Narrative, and Turn the Tides Against the Left.
02:04:15.000And we talk about a lot of the stuff that we talked about tonight, including the mass formation psychosis that takes place online, the censorship, Hunter Biden's laptop plays a key role in the rigging of the election.
02:04:25.000And so we lay that out in there very nicely.
02:04:28.000We interviewed Dozens of leading conservatives, including Donald Trump Jr., Charlie Kirk, even politicians like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Senator Rick Scott, was gracious enough to give us some time.
02:05:47.000So one thing people need to realize too is if someone's got the resources and they're just like, I don't like what you're doing, I'll bury you.
02:06:49.000Yeah, and that's what most people that have been subpoenaed by the January 6th Committee have done.
02:06:52.000They've kind of taken the subpoena and they're like, oh my gosh, I want to do what I can and take everything because I just can't afford it.
02:06:59.000And kind of similarly to you, I think a lot of people pick on you because they don't understand how big you are, right?
02:07:06.000It's a substantial I mean, we were just rated the 25th fastest-growing company in the southeastern United States for private companies, and most people go to our website.
02:07:16.000I'm like, oh my God, they have a Wix website from 2018, which we do.
02:07:19.000We just never really cared about our website, and so I'm going to stand up to this commission and tell them to F off because they're dangerous and I say they picked the wrong fight.
02:07:29.000And so now, if you guys can, find the January 6th Committee's phone number, call them and ask them to drag me in for the public show trials because I'd love for them to do that.
02:07:40.000It'd be a lot of fun because I could use some at least free publicity with the tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees I've spent.
02:07:52.000We release one cartoon every week, sometimes two a week.
02:07:55.000We got one shouted out in the comment section here.
02:07:57.000It's a video Tim and I did about Dr. Fauci.
02:08:00.000He's very sad that he's not getting the attention anymore, so won't you go over to Freedom Tunes and watch the cartoons we just uploaded with him in them.
02:08:29.000I just want to say that our guest, Jeff, was a former Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resource Division under Trump.
02:08:36.000I realize that we didn't fully introduce him.
02:08:38.000He's also a lawyer, which is why we were looking for his expertise this evening.
02:08:53.000They were off the air in like a day, which is really kind of annoying.
02:08:57.000But there's another site called redballoon.org.
02:08:59.000It's very small, but on it you can go and find like freedom-oriented employers, people who are looking for maybe unvaccinated employees, which is kind of interesting to me.
02:09:08.000Anyway, that was just what I found over the course of the show.
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02:09:22.000So please follow me on Twitter at JeffClarkUS.
02:09:27.000And also, in light of the issues that Alex was talking about, I have a legal defense fund actually, you know, in terms of the numbers that are being mounted up for my personal legal bills at GiveSendGo.com slash Jeff Clark.