Biden backs away from airline masks, Alex Jones files for bankruptcy, Jon Stewart's new show has flopped, and Ron DeSantis pulls math books with critical race theory in them. Plus, we're joined by author and horse trainer Braxton McCoy to talk about it all.
00:00:02.000Biden is officially backing away from the mask enforcement on airlines after a court ruling struck it down.
00:00:09.000Now, the funny thing is, earlier today at the press briefing, Jen Psaki was actually asked about this and she's like, well, we're still going to recommend it.
00:00:17.000And when Peter Doocy was like, you know, why, why would you recommend masks?
00:00:20.000But here in this room, we don't got to wear them.
00:00:32.000That's like going to be the go-to answer now for anything ever in politics is that you don't actually have any expertise, so you can't answer any questions.
00:00:40.000Now, apparently, if you want to fly, if you're ready to fly right now, they're saying they're not enforcing it.
00:00:43.000So it's going to be a shock to a lot of flight attendants and pilots when people all just take their masks off, throw them in the air like it's graduation.
00:00:52.000I wonder how many people are still going to actually keep their masks on.
00:01:14.000Plus, we've got a bunch of crazy stories.
00:01:15.000Ron DeSantis, he's pulling, Florida pulled a whole bunch of math books because they had critical race theory in them, and the left is freaking out.
00:01:22.000But the question is, why do math books have critical race theory in them?
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00:03:17.000Think about how much stuff we could do, but now I'm going to give all that money to the government so they can go blow up kids and stuff like that.
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00:06:09.000Now, let's jump to the first big story, which is not from TimGast.com, it's from the Daily Mail.
00:06:44.000Maybe you can show them this and be like, hey, I'm watching live right now.
00:06:46.000They're saying I don't gotta wear a mask.
00:06:47.000Well, that's what the TSA said, but these private airlines might still want to enforce masks, so we'll see.
00:06:53.000But I just think it's absolutely hilarious that we're at this point now where during the White House press briefing, Jen Psaki is like, regardless of the federal court ruling, we're still recommending masks.
00:10:21.000I'm from the pre 9-11 era and there was no TSA It was very felt very authoritarian and weird when they created that after 9-11 and then when you find out there weren't met weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East and what the heck is this war on terror?
00:10:35.000I don't I don't think yeah No, you got grandma's taking their belts off because we decided, you know invade Iraq or whatever The funniest thing about the airport thing is I was flying a lot when I came out here, when I, when I moved out here for work was, uh, the most, uh, the hilarious part was like, when you look at all the signs and say, you have to wear this, you have to wear that.
00:10:52.000They all had like sponsored by Purell, uh, sponsored.
00:10:55.000It was like, it was like, is that not the most like corporatist thing you've ever seen where it's like all your signs that tell you, you have to do this, behave this way at the airport.
00:11:03.000None of it mentioning COVID, uh, or anything like that, uh, at all.
00:11:07.000I just like to imagine that there's like some, you know, the president of Purell or whatever companies.
00:11:14.000He's like, he's all his hair's all disheveled and he's going through the books and he's like, he calls his wife.
00:11:18.000He goes, honey, we're not going to have Christmas dinner.
00:11:31.000Now he's like super rich and he's got like a Scrooge McDuck swimming through That was one of the memes it says the the creator or the owner of Purell right now It's guys got nine gold chains on and in a bunch of in a ring on each finger It's like that's exactly what it is them and the whoever invented the man whoever's like producing the masks China China My pillow guy making masks and they still hate him.
00:12:00.000That was that because I'm from Minnesota It was really funny like people from Minnesota just hated that guy For no reason.
00:12:06.000They have no idea why they just they've just been told that they have to hate him We got a poll this tweet and you know, let me just preface this by saying I don't I don't normally care to you know mock people who are just not relevant But this woman is apparently an elected representative an elected official this woman Lindsey Sabadosa says, Today, a federal judge called it overreach
00:12:30.000for US health officials to require masks on airplanes and other public transit. And no matter
00:12:36.000how you feel about masks, you should be really, really concerned that the courts are effectively
00:12:41.000taking away power from the federal government. Okay.
00:12:48.000It was a federal judge who issued a ruling on a federal mandate.
00:12:53.000This is more of an, I guess if you think that the courts are taking away the power from the federal government, if she's discussing some kind of like Ouroboros, you know, the snake eating itself.
00:13:05.000Maybe, but I think she has no idea what she's talking about.
00:13:08.000I think she means taking power away from the executive branch as it was intended, and that's what we have the separation of powers for.
00:14:14.000Uh, I don't, I don't, I don't want to rag on her for being, you know, incorrect about this or not understanding how the government works, but I'll, I will, I will say while we try to be nice and respectful, cause she has not, you know, as maybe, maybe she's talked about me in the past.
00:14:28.000But if she said nothing mean to me, I don't want to be mean to her.
00:14:31.000I would just say I have serious questions about her ability to work in government if she doesn't understand what courts, federal courts are and what they do.
00:14:40.000That is a more professional critique, right?
00:14:44.000Trying to keep things respectful, I guess.
00:14:46.000Isn't the whole progressive claim that they're for the people and power of the people and all this and everything they tweet or say or whatever is all about power of the government?
00:15:05.000Some of them may, because it's probably, you know, from authoritarian to libertarian to a certain degree.
00:15:10.000But typically, progressive just refers to, you know, doing what we think is right for the sake of progress.
00:15:20.000So these are people who in the past were eugenicists.
00:15:24.000I don't think the progressive movement has ever been particularly, we want to protect all the people.
00:15:28.000It's more like, how do we control the system better?
00:15:31.000Yeah, and maybe I'm making a mistake of using, like, AOC as the avatar of progressivism, because, like, with her, she's just always talking about the people, you know, the people, the people, the people.
00:15:40.000But in, you know, in practicality, or, you know, in reality, it's always about more power, consolidation.
00:15:45.000Well, yeah, like, you know, I mean, tankies, like, you know, communists and stuff, they're saying, we're gonna help the people.
00:16:09.000And he's busted his ass to get this done, to push back against one of the most, I think Amazon is evil, terrible company, but we're all addicted to it.
00:16:34.000Amazon, Russell Brand just had a video that came out yesterday about like Amazon has like an internal messaging service in there and they're like censoring words like you can't say certain phrases like union or bathroom break and it's just like is that not the most authoritarian thing ever now it's like they want to like reward you by having likes like kind of like how you have like likes on Instagram and stuff like that so it's like you don't want to get a raise you want to get your co-workers to give you likes on your internal messaging service app For your, for your company that doesn't let you talk about bathroom breaks and doesn't allow you to, uh, to unionize because, uh, what did they say?
00:17:09.000They spent $93 million on anti-union, uh, lobbyists or something in the same year.
00:17:55.000And then Psaki just comes out and says it.
00:17:58.000I just want to point out, I was watching Peter Doocy question Jen at the White House press briefing today, and I was offended at how bad she was at this.
00:18:08.000Because I've praised her in the past as being a good spin doctor because, you know, Biden will do something just horrifyingly bad or he'll just like fall asleep in public or something.
00:19:00.000She said he works for a network that provides people with questions that nothing personal to any individual, including Doocy, but might make anyone sound like a stupid S.O.B.
00:19:08.000That's really amazing that the only real questions that come out of that briefing.
00:19:13.000OK, it's not fair, but 90 percent of the real questions come from Peter Doocy.
00:19:17.000There was one guy I saw asking some good questions.
00:19:23.000But I'm sitting there watching this briefing and I'm just like, has there ever been a point in our lifetimes where the White House press briefing revealed any relevant or important information?
00:19:34.000Or are we all just recognizing it's theater, and whether it be Sean Spicer or Jen Psaki, they're gonna say whatever they have to to spin.
00:19:43.000For once, I'd like someone to come out with like a scotch, and it's like, you know, just Donald Trump or Biden, and he's like swirling it, and they're like, what are we doing in Yemen?
00:20:25.000That maybe wasn't giving us real answers about the administration, but it was exposing to the American people how the media was totally full of it.
00:20:31.000Yeah, when this girl, when we talk about how she is good, I think that's come up in the past, that she's good at her job.
00:20:37.000I'm like, well, you can be good at your job and be evil if your job is evil.
00:20:40.000Like Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's minister of propaganda, was good.
00:20:43.000But instead of using the word good, say effective.
00:20:47.000Don't say he was good, say he was... He was effective at his job, which was evil.
00:21:42.000So were the Nazis at what they were trying to accomplish, but they weren't good.
00:21:45.000And so that's, so you can look at what Jen's doing.
00:21:47.000I mean, she's now she's just bad at her job and also doing, I don't know if I want to claim she's doing evil, but I want to, I want to have hope for the American government.
00:21:56.000But sometimes I think like a little transparency goes a long way.
00:22:02.000I mean, they've been forcing masks on little kids in airplanes, you know, kicking families off because a two-year-old won't wear their mask, you know.
00:22:11.000Child suicide rates are through the roof right now.
00:22:13.000Drug addiction is up through the roof.
00:23:50.000Now it's like, I don't know who this guy is, I don't even know what his name is.
00:23:52.000Now there's so many people, and it's so dense, we've just become rigid, and mechanized almost.
00:23:57.000I see ups and downs to both, because if you know the judge and then you commit a crime and the judge is like, I know him, just let him off, that's also bad.
00:24:04.000But if the judge has no idea who you are and they don't take your humanity into account at all, then that's also kind of bad.
00:24:10.000I agree, but I think of it like this still exists in small town America, where if you live in a small town and you're speeding, let's say a 16, 17 year old kid is speeding and the deputy pulls him over, he already knows who it is.
00:24:24.000So he's not worried about getting shot or anything, and he walks up and he's like, Jimmy, why you speeding?
00:24:50.000I'll not pay the ticket, or I'll fight it, or whatever.
00:24:53.000Having that personal connection I think is good because it holds people to account because they're scared of people they know and love getting mad at them.
00:25:02.000So we've got so many people going through the system all the time, it almost has to be mechanical and expedited.
00:25:08.000You really can't add the human element in if you've got, let's say you're a judge and you've got a judge on 50 cases in a day or whatever.
00:25:17.000How serious can you take the individual in each of those?
00:25:19.000I mean, there's only so many minutes in a day.
00:25:20.000Yeah, they're going to, especially not even just judges, but prosecutors, they're only going to see you as a number or as a way to advance their career.
00:25:27.000And it's almost not even like, I'd like to say it's on them, but a career oriented person who goes into a field like that, they're going to be predisposed to looking at people that way.
00:25:36.000And that's just how they they've chosen to get ahead with their career.
00:25:39.000They just happen to take a career That puts other people's lives in, you know, in the balance each and every day.
00:25:45.000Yeah, then you have to ask yourself why they chose that job.
00:28:55.000I think, however, the media is trying to frame it like they're broke and destitute, and most people think bankruptcy means you're out of money.
00:29:29.000And there's something they do at news organizations, media outlets, called A-B testing, where they actually, this is fascinating, they can publish an article with multiple headlines in different regions to see which one does better in real time and then switch it all out.
00:29:43.000Not only that, but a headline, newspapers do this too, this is the crazy thing, you look at like New York Times, I don't know if the New York Times does it, But you'll look at like the California edition versus the Texas edition versus the Utah edition and they'll use different headlines to sell papers because they know.
00:29:58.000I think Time Magazine actually made a different person of the year for different countries I think at some point.
00:34:21.000A newly filed lawsuit alleges that, let me read this, they say, after Alex Jones was sued for claiming, you know, what he did about Sandy Hook, the conspiracy theorist conspired to divert, that's funny, conspired to divert his assets to shell companies owned by insiders like his parents, his children, and himself, reads the lawsuit.
00:34:39.000Which was filed in Austin, Texas by some of the families.
00:34:42.000So they're not saying he has a secret bank account.
00:34:44.000They're saying that he immediately started doing deals, funneling this money away.
00:34:48.000I don't know how you win a lawsuit like that, to be completely honest.
00:34:52.000Cause like, you know, you can sue somebody, but if they haven't lost or owe you anything, they can spend the money however they want.
00:34:58.000You don't get to just say, you're not allowed to spend money anymore because I'm suing you.
00:35:07.000They started the process of going after Alex.
00:35:09.000Maybe at that point he said, alright, you know, I'm gonna do a bunch of deals to pull all this money out of the company, and that way it'll be with people I know, and then I can file bankruptcy.
00:36:41.000They want him to look bad, not just pay out for what he did.
00:36:44.000And that's the difference between actually wanting justice and actually wanting someone to pay.
00:36:49.000And I think those aren't necessarily always the same thing.
00:36:52.000I wonder though, at this point, you know, Alex has said that they submitted their documents and the courts were like, nope, you didn't give us your documents.
00:37:46.000And you know, Alex is like, I'm quitting, I resign.
00:37:49.000I like the idea of him being reassigned by the CIA to a foreign country, like a station chief in some really far away place because they can't use him here anymore.
00:38:29.000He could be like, okay, you know what, fine, shut her down, start a new company.
00:38:33.000And then just talking to a camera, what are they going to do?
00:38:37.000How much do you think, I mean, you're in a position to answer this, how much do you think being removed from Twitter and YouTube and those other platforms is affecting his business?
00:38:45.000I think it probably knocked him down, you know, the majority of the money he was making.
00:38:50.000But here's what people should understand.
00:38:53.000Alex Jones got started on, I think, Public Access TV, and then he made internet video documentaries, and I think he was selling them.
00:39:00.000All I know is people were sharing them for free.
00:39:05.000Before YouTube and social media existed, he was well off and running this big company.
00:39:10.000Then you get YouTube, you get Twitter, you get Facebook, and he gets even bigger.
00:39:14.000He loses all of that, he's back, he's actually still doing better than he was before social media.
00:39:19.000Because he created Band.Video, he's got his own video player now, he gets hundreds of thousands of views still, people, like, you can't take away that level of fame from somebody.
00:39:28.000So that's why I'm saying, even if they destroyed all of his companies, all he's got to do is strap on a loincloth and go in the woods with a cell phone, and people are going to want to watch him.
00:39:36.000I would subscribe to that, by the way.
00:39:58.000You know, now with the Twitter stuff is interesting because it looks like what's, you know, Elon Musk trying to buy Twitter.
00:40:04.000It's just powerful interests trying to block people who are challenging the system or these conversations.
00:40:11.000It just looks like there's evil power at play trying to control, manipulate, People have been talking about parallel systems for a long time, parallel economies and all this, and this move with Elon Musk, and there's been some speculation that maybe Peter Thiel will get involved, and some other of Elon's friends, billionaire-like sort of investors, would get involved.
00:40:30.000To me, it's the first step in an actual Like a sort of a parallel cathedral element, you know, or a competing Cathedral element, you know to attack the actual system that it's sort of is Feels oppressive as the everyman so I'm kind of like Ford I know some people have been like well, you're just cheering on, you know, your own right-wing Caesar type character or whatever Not my first of all, I don't think the guy's right-wing at all.
00:40:56.000But second of all, yeah for sure I totally am, you know, like I'll take anybody who wants to win at this point.
00:41:02.000I I get, I get kind of like, I, I see the pushback he's getting.
00:41:06.000So there's a couple of ways to go at it.
00:41:07.000You can try and reverse engineer the software, get a bunch of developers together that want to work on like a free software system and try and rebuild what's already been built, which takes forever and so many hours of labor for development labor.
00:41:18.000Or you can come from the top by the organization and then free the software code that way.
00:41:23.000But we see with Elon, it's like the Saudi prince is tweeting out.
00:41:26.000He doesn't want to let go of his, his power.
00:41:28.000These people, BlackRock, I think, or is it Vanguard?
00:41:30.000I think Vanguard's in kind of harm's way.
00:41:33.000So it's challenging to take it from the top when you're using their money, the fiat, because they control the fiat.
00:41:40.000And I say they, it's so vague, but it's the Federal Reserve and these giant megacorps that get first dibs on all the money when they loan it out.
00:41:47.000You want to make a guess, Ian, as to who is the largest institutional investor in Tesla?
00:41:53.000Oh, I saw you tweeted that earlier, so I can't.
00:42:39.000Let's talk about DeSantis and see where we're headed in this country.
00:42:43.000DeSantis defends math textbook rejection as Dems seek proof of critical race theory lessons.
00:42:49.000Florida Education Department officials have not yet provided examples from the textbooks deemed impermissible, but on Monday released the list of books that failed to make the cut.
00:43:02.000We want kids to learn to think so they get the right answer, DeSantis told reporters.
00:43:06.000The Florida Department of Education on Friday rejected some 54 math books from state classrooms, a move that drew national attention when DeSantis claimed the proposals from publishing companies contained lessons on indoctrinated concepts like race essentialism.
00:43:18.000The move was just the latest example of Republicans, including DeSantis, scrutinizing what students are learning, blah blah.
00:44:22.000So an example would be those old math problems where it's like a train leaves Detroit traveling 500 miles an hour and a train leaves Pittsburgh traveling at 50 miles an hour and blah, blah, blah.
00:44:32.000And then, you know, that's a math problem.
00:44:35.000What they're doing in these is they're like, Johnny is a young white man who's 15 years old and he gets stopped by the police three times in one month.
00:44:43.000But Jerome is a young black man who gets stopped by the police 2000 times in one month.
00:44:47.000What percentage of stops were... And then you're like, okay, we get it.
00:44:53.000I honestly think, if anything, it doesn't go far enough.
00:44:56.000We, as far as DeSantis' move here, I had to go pick up one of my kids.
00:45:01.000I have one kid in public school and the rest of mine are homeschooled, but I had to go pick her up.
00:45:07.000And there was a class, the kids must have been maybe seven years old.
00:45:12.000And all across the wall is the, you know, rainbow flags and trans flag color.
00:45:18.000Now, nothing said, you know, anything about, but, but the coloring is all the right coloring, you know, and there's like the little sneaky words, you know, like sharing is caring, like care bearers type stuff.
00:45:28.000And this isn't a tiny town in, in Idaho, in the mountains of Idaho.
00:45:53.000I still remember an image in fourth grade on my wall of a horn, like a trumpet, playing music, and it showed the sound waves coming out like this, like round.
00:46:02.000Sorry if you're listening, you're not able to see.
00:46:04.000But then the teacher came in one day and was like, actually, the sound waves are actually like this, and they changed the image to a sine wave.
00:46:10.000And that was, that sticks with me to today.
00:46:12.000That was like 35 years ago or something crazy.
00:46:33.000Where the teacher's like, you start with your sexuality and then you can go as far as you want towards male or female and then you come down to your identity and it can be different.
00:46:43.000And it's like, it's not... The thing is, if you tell a kid, trans people exist.
00:47:27.000These are, these are young kids between, you know, uh, five years old and nine years old.
00:47:31.000They're being told just to draw how they feel and they're like, whatever.
00:47:34.000Don't you think they're going after him for because at that age, they don't understand sexuality all they don't have, you know, they're not they're prepubescent and all this.
00:47:43.000So if you go after him then and you like start talking to him about sexual orientation, of course, like Johnny and Jack are going to say that they like each other more because girls are stupid and icky or whatever.
00:47:53.000So then when they do start to develop actual hormones and feelings, you're just like adding layers of confusion because now they're getting all the, you know, testosterone slowing.
00:48:03.000They're like, well, I thought I liked, you know, Jack, it turns out maybe Jill's all right.
00:48:06.000You know, I've, I've heard some horror stories from these are coming out of conservative states where like someone's kid said that they thought they were pan.
00:48:14.000And their parent was like, why do you think you're pan?
00:48:17.000And they're like, cause I like everybody.
00:48:19.000And they're like, you, you like everybody?
00:48:31.000I'm not saying it's every classroom, but certainly that is happening because these kids don't know what that means.
00:48:36.000And there's no way it gets to that level of teaching that they don't know that they're confusing them.
00:48:39.000And that's the worst part about it is that it's being obfuscated intentionally, partially because they know the kids aren't old enough to really process what that means.
00:48:47.000And partially just everything that you don't say is every bit as important as what you choose to say.
00:48:52.000And what you leave out says almost more about it than what you put in.
00:49:25.000Did you cover the first grade teacher who told the first grade class that when babies are born, the doctor just guesses whether it's a boy or a girl?
00:49:34.000Oh yeah, I think we talked about that, right?
00:49:41.000There's another video from Libs of TikTok where the doctor's basically saying that where it's like, it's typically based on their, their, you know, their, their genetics, their genitals, but usually it's just their genitals.
00:50:27.000How often do you see people publicly acknowledging their suffering?
00:50:32.000Well, I mean, kids that used to have, even though they weren't living on a farm or whatever, they used to know people that were farmers.
00:50:40.000They had a grandfather that was a farmer or, you know, an uncle or whatever.
00:50:43.000And so they were involved with animal husbandry and that stuff at a younger age.
00:50:49.000And you don't have to explain, like kids, ranch kids don't get birds and the bees talks because they've been breeding animals, you know, being, they've been around animals who were being bred since they were very, very young.
00:51:01.000So there's an implicit understanding there.
00:51:04.000Like dad doesn't have to sit down and say, you know, when a mama bee loves a daddy bee, you know, it's like they've been seeing stud horses and mares out in the pasture.
00:51:44.000Like, if you want to teach your kids about farms and petting zoos, you're going to watch that stuff happen.
00:51:48.000Now, maybe if your kid's never been exposed to that, you're going to have to have that conversation.
00:51:52.000But to your point, I was thinking about this earlier.
00:51:55.000I was like, kid who grows up on a goat farm is never going to have that question because they're like a little kid watching the goats do their thing.
00:53:06.000Do they argue against naming them for that reason?
00:53:10.000No, I mean, my stepfather used to hate it, but for me personally, it doesn't bother me at all.
00:53:17.000Yesterday I was at my in-laws getting ready for Easter and then getting ready to come out here.
00:53:23.000As soon as I left, we had one of our heifers calved, you know, and my wife comes home, she's like, oh, look at it, it's so cute, you know?
00:53:29.000I mean, thank goodness I didn't have to pull it or anything, but, you know, she's talking about how cute these little Angus calves are or whatever, and I'm like, yeah, I get it.
00:53:36.000And then, you know, the kids are hearing her talk like that, but they never, they never have a problem, you know, eating.
00:53:44.000I guess when you're raised from the beginning with that, you would just know from the tiniest age.
00:53:48.000Yeah, I think you're just closer to it or something.
00:53:50.000This is interesting because we've asked many times, like, who is going to survive better in the apocalypse or who is more likely to survive, a conservative, rural, or urban liberal?
00:53:59.000And it's like, no one thinks the urban liberals are going to make it, but this is a really good point we've not brought up.
00:54:05.000It's that people who grow up in rural areas are more likely to have been exposed at a young age to slaughtering a pig or a chicken to eat.
00:54:20.000They want to walk into a supermarket where there's just pink slime.
00:54:24.000They can just, you know, cook it and eat it.
00:54:27.000We had a farm, my grandpa's cousin had a farm, Northeast Ohio.
00:54:32.000We would go out there, Alvin, Uncle Alvin, and Cousin Alvin.
00:54:36.000And then you see the thing hanging upside down, like the cattle thing, just all the skin ripped off, and it's like, wow, wow!
00:54:43.000And I don't think I ever watched him butcher it up, and I never saw him kill it.
00:54:48.000I did see my dad kill a groundhog, and that was, well, family friendly, he wounded the groundhog, and it escaped, and I just saw the trail of blood, and it was really disturbing.
00:54:57.000I thought, why hunt if you're not gonna, like, why would you wound it?
00:55:02.000Yeah, you know, there's always a reason, but it was pretty tragic to see it get wounded and get away, because I was like, what's gonna happen?
00:55:07.000And he was like, well, it's gonna die in a hole somewhere.
00:55:28.000Well, imagine you catch it and you're like, oh, I don't want to hurt the little thing.
00:55:31.000So you just bring it to the edge of your property and let it go and it goes to your neighbor's house and knocks a tree down.
00:55:34.000They're going to be like, you released that thing on me.
00:55:37.000Yeah, someone mentioned that about mice.
00:55:38.000They're like, if you don't do something with them, they will come back and they'll get worse.
00:55:41.000And I was going to say that I think that maybe one of the best things about living on a ranch is that you can teach your kids about the circle of life.
00:55:47.000Like if something does crawl in a hole and die, then other things come along and eat it.
00:55:52.000It's all part of like growing plants and all this really, it's actually really a neat cycle that I think kids would benefit from knowing about.
00:55:59.000These things are hard because we have led such like kind of privileged and cushioned lives.
00:56:04.000We can go to the store and get these little pink things that are, They're chicken.
00:56:21.000In fact, this discussion made me think of my friend Shanna.
00:56:25.000She always says that cows are friends and steers are food, which is true.
00:56:30.000Cows have more babies and you eat the steers.
00:56:32.000Keep your replacement heifers and sell some off.
00:56:35.000So anyway, so there is kind of a little bit of bifurcation that's worth talking about.
00:56:39.000The cows themselves are actually occupying a different place.
00:56:43.000It's because you keep them comfortable so they have healthy babies and they produce good milk?
00:56:47.000Well, I mean, you want to keep them all comfortable, ideally, because you want as much pound on the animal as you can when you go to butcher.
00:56:55.000And if they're stressed out, the meat can be bad, right?
00:56:58.000Yeah, I mean, really stress is more just like they'll have a harder time gaining weight.
00:57:01.000At least that's been... Now, like if you're hunting, if you wound something, it's going to get a hit of neuroepinephrine and then your meat is going to be more tense and stiffer or tough.
00:57:22.000Well, yeah, I killed as quickly as possible.
00:57:24.000Like, and then there are some arguments people will make that, uh, like an arrow through, and I've seen it a bunch of times and an arrow through the actual like boiler room with the vitals, the animal almost, I mean, they'll run off, but you can tell that they have no idea what happened.
00:57:44.000You know, they're just like, then they just die.
00:58:01.000I don't know how much, I don't know how much like bro science is going on there, but I mean, it's, I think it's a, it's a viable argument, I think.
00:58:08.000So like when, when, when they realize they're in danger, they tense up and then the muscle becomes stiff and hard and then you try to eat it.
00:58:14.000It's like you got to, Yeah, I think the big hit, just the big hit of adrenaline, you know, going through and stiffens them up.
00:58:21.000And then, you know, of course, like if you hit something in the guts or whatever, then that's a whole nother.
00:58:25.000You kind of see that with factory farming, when they lead the cattle into the bolt thing where they're going to put the bolt in their head.
00:58:30.000And then you watch the one behind it here, the one in front of it die and they freak out.
00:58:51.000So cows are kind of, yeah, cows are the females, right?
00:58:54.000And they are going to reproduce, you know, so you turn your bulls in, depending on your setup, you turn your bulls in for some people leave them in all the time.
00:59:01.000But, you know, you turn your bulls in for X amount of months, and then you know, you pull your bulls out and then Like right now at home most of us are calving or almost done calving, which is just having the babies, you know.
00:59:11.000And then you'll wean cows and calves, you know, later on and that's when they'll go to auction.
00:59:18.000How long does it take for a calf to grow up to become either food or...
00:59:23.000It depends on your setup, whether you're running a cow-calf operation or you're running a feed operation or just like buying ballers or steers and it depends on what you're doing.
00:59:34.000But like, let's just say just for roundabout, let's just say eight months ish.
00:59:39.000Then you go to auction or keep your replacement.
00:59:41.000So if I wanted milk, right, and I bought day one, just born calf, how long until I can, you know, work with the ball to start producing milk and getting the baby and everything?
01:00:52.000Former assistant principal at Virginia Elementary School files lawsuit, says critical race theory teachings created really hostile work environment.
01:01:02.000Emily Mayes, who worked at Agnor Hurt Elementary School in Charlottesville, says she was subjected to extreme harassment for weeks over her reservations about CRT.
01:01:15.000She claims that she accidentally used the word colored instead of people of color during a teaching workshop.
01:01:20.000Despite apologizing continuously, including immediately after the word was uttered, She says that for months she was harassed and berated by other staff, and that the district failed to intervene.
01:01:29.000One black employee who refused to accept the apology began referring to her as that white racist bee.
01:01:46.000Because if they're telling you things based on race, like white people, white privilege, or whatever, they're in violation of the EEOC and the Civil Rights Act.
01:02:17.000That's the difference between the United States and Canada right there.
01:02:19.000How does the, I still, my favorite part about the pronouns thing is it should very rarely be coming up in person conversation anyways, because most of the time you're not using their pronouns when you're actually talking to them in the room anyways, right?
01:02:31.000You're going to call them by their name, or you're going to refer to them directly.
01:02:35.000It's more to control your speech when they're not in the room.
01:02:38.000Like we did a story on Pop Culture Crisis where we were talking about Demi Lovato and Demi Lovato has like they them pronouns and I couldn't do it.
01:02:49.000I kept screwing it up and because because like you said earlier I want to be respectful I try to like some people don't like that like I'm like look that's what they want I understand but I eventually like had to give up on the point that And come back to it like the next day because I couldn't get it right.
01:03:08.000She, they were controlling my ability to speak on them without even being in the room just by virtue of creating pronouns that are different from the normal, you know, the normal set.
01:03:19.000So everybody called out Demi Lovato because Demi Lovato says they are daddy's girl in caption of sizzling Instagram portraits after coming out as non-binary and using they them pronouns.
01:03:31.000You don't get to choose your pronouns.
01:04:14.000To be fair, I think that pronouns are very much a power play, because Brett's right.
01:04:18.000There is no period of time at which you would say, like, he, when Braxton's sitting right there in front of you, or when Tim's sitting right in front of you.
01:04:26.000It's like, could you imagine having a conversation like that where, you know, Brett makes a reference to a Demi Lovato story, and then I just look to Braxton and I'm like, did you hear what he was just saying?
01:04:52.000But I, and it's, so I understand why, but, but then if I, I change my pronoun to a new kind of language or new kind of thought thing, that's a hard one to get.
01:05:12.000Well, like remember when it was on here or was it on Rogan when the Labonte on and he was talking, I was like, yeah, like I'll call you by your pronouns, but I might just not call you very often to hang out.
01:05:21.000Cause you're really difficult to be around.
01:05:22.000Like, I don't mean any disrespect, but like, if, if I have to worry about any point in the conversation, something like this comes up, I'm just, I'm just going to check out, dude.
01:07:03.000Like, female to male is considered a gender in New York, but FTM is also considered a gender, even though it means the same thing.
01:07:11.000This stuff is so difficult to talk about because I am such a generally respectful and do not want to offend or hurt anyone's feelings and I know a lot of people like working here you kind of like a lot of people see that as like a flaw right that you're like you're too weak to to stand up for something but it's like I don't want to offend or upset anybody but some of this stuff is so impossible to process in the moment that if I can't even have a reasonable conversation with you I don't know how to do this without being offensive and I don't want that so it's like I'm being forced to be offensive but only to them like I'm trying not to be but they're making it about that and that's very very difficult for me to process as somebody who just doesn't want to be on the wrong side of people just for general reasons.
01:07:50.000Yeah, talking about someone, then you're taking some risk.
01:07:54.000When you're talking to someone, pronouns are out of the question.
01:08:03.000When you start talking about people, then they're like, whoa, if you're going to bring me into this, bring me into it the way I want to be brought into it.
01:08:08.000And it's like, not in the United States.
01:08:10.000I'm bringing you in because you're part of this.
01:08:41.000If you said, like, Mike and Jane went to a movie, she got angry because she wanted to see a comedy film, but he wanted to see horror, and they ended up seeing horror.
01:08:54.000They were both mad because they didn't see anything.
01:08:56.000But if you said, Sam and Pat went to the movies.
01:08:59.000They were mad because they wanted to see a comedy, but they saw horror.
01:09:02.000It's like, are you, like, they were both mad?
01:09:04.000Which, which, which person is referred to in the they?
01:09:08.000Now, to be fair, in the context of, you know, Sarah and Jane go to the movie and she was mad, you're also like, I don't know which person you're referring to, because if it's two different genders, there you go.
01:09:18.000In which case, you don't need the pronouns at all.
01:09:21.000Sarah and Jane go to the movie, Sarah got mad because she wanted to see a movie, a comedy, but Jane wanted to see horror, and they ended up saying, so you just use the name.
01:09:30.000In which case, this whole discussion is like, I think you're right, though, that it is that it's about being purposely destabilizing.
01:09:36.000As much as it pains me to give him credit, Jesse Kelly calls these guys communists all the time, and I think he's right, at least in orientation and also because it makes him mad to be called communist.
01:09:48.000But the whole, you know, basically, in a sense, the Lenin model is destabilize, destabilize, create confusion and chaos, and then come in and be the person that restores order in the way that you want it.
01:10:05.000But I'm saying who are they looking for that's going to make sense of this?
01:10:09.000Well, at this stage, I don't think it matters because it's chaos stage.
01:10:12.000Because he's like a lot of these people who shilled for Biden who just like he doesn't understand the stuff.
01:10:18.000He doesn't like I would argue that he doesn't really understand any of the stuff that's going on with that type of with that part of the movement.
01:10:23.000But it's like you said earlier, you think it's about destabilizing, and we talked about religion, and you said, I think, like, why does it feel like people are coming more around to religion again?
01:10:32.000It's because they're looking for something solid under their feet.
01:10:34.000And I'm not religious, but I'm one of those people that's like, everything feels so up in the air now that you're just looking for something, anything to hold on to that feels like some semblance of the real world and not this postmodern hell that feels like we're in right now.
01:10:48.000I mentioned that earlier, that in a time when you start to lose faith in reality, you start to look for faith in other places.
01:10:54.000And I see people reverting to religion of the past or to non-binary degenderism or whatever the heck.
01:11:02.000I looked up, there's a meme going around that says they translated non-binary into Spanish.
01:11:27.000And I find that interesting because a lot of people rag that I'm saying like all of a sudden this guy who they say drifted to the right is now, you know, all of a sudden he's a conservative Christian or whatever.
01:11:35.000And the funny thing is, The opposite kind of happens to me, because I've, like, long talked about how I've believed in God since I was, like, 18.
01:11:43.000Like, I was—grew up Catholic, then kind of drifted away, but then I was a teenager, so I, you know, had this, like, realization.
01:11:49.000And now I believe in God, but I don't consider myself, like, religiously theistic or anything like that, not following—I don't follow Scripture or anything like that.
01:12:56.000I've heard him jokingly referred to as, like, the guy who speaks to kids who didn't have dads.
01:13:02.000I mean, maybe there's some truth to that, but I think really, like, he was speaking to a generation that was sort of broken up by new atheism, you know?
01:13:14.000like these these Christian these younger Christian kids or Jewish kids or whatever that fell in love with Dawkins and
01:13:20.000Hitchens and Harris and these kind of guys because they were
01:13:22.000charismatic and really they're attacking the argument level of
01:13:26.000like a teenager or whatever but they you know if you don't know
01:13:30.000if you're not you know well steeped or versed in your faith then it's kind of easy to get you know swayed by someone
01:13:36.000who is as charismatic as Hitchens so that went on for you know
01:15:20.000I think the one thing I can agree on is that there's something bigger and greater than all of us, but I don't know if like, maybe the reality is, Everybody's looking through the a small lens at the bigger picture at the same thing and you know They're looking through it and they see imagine your look.
01:15:35.000This is big mansion I was using example as a ballroom inside with tons of people and they're all dancing and and you look through the keyhole They're like, what do you see what's inside?
01:15:42.000You're like, there's a big woman with a big dress Then ten feet down as a guy looking through the same keyhole and he's like he sees a guy wearing a tuxedo No, it's not.
01:15:50.000It's a guy wearing a tuxedo And they both started arguing like, oh, no, no, no, I'm seeing this.
01:16:24.000I think that it's You have to live in the real world at some point and for me it's like that's the table and let's say I went outside and closed my eyes and I didn't even know, I had no idea you were there.
01:16:41.000You knew I was there but I had no idea that you were there and you threw a snowball and hit me in the side of the face.
01:16:46.000There is no chance that I could deny the existence of that snowball that I did not know existed before it struck my face.
01:16:53.000So, like, obviously we react with the material world, you know, and I do think it's provable, it's just that you have to set up such bizarre experiments to get there that it's... you get in circles.
01:17:05.000This is why people often argue about what objective and subjective is, and it's like, you know, you've got the brain in the vat thought experiment, maybe your brain's in a tube and they're poking it with electrodes, maybe we're all in the matrix, maybe... you at home.
01:17:17.000are the only real person, and everyone else is just some kind of video game NPC.
01:17:46.000And so you can be like, I can prove to you objective reality, the window will break, and you throw it, and then it bounces off the window, and you're like, okay, I was wrong about that.
01:17:52.000Well, it doesn't disprove objective reality, it just means there's such nuance and subtleties to most things that defining reality, like defining objective reality is, is difficult because everyone has a subjective perspective.
01:18:07.000I suppose you just look for the things that everyone agrees upon as being true, which is why we had the argument before about universal objective morality, to which I believe there is one.
01:18:18.000And it's because when we were talking to Jeremy Boring and Michael Knowles, and they were saying, you know, essentially, what's the point of a planet without humans?
01:18:53.000All right, so we can see some things are objective but it's a gradient you get to a certain point where you're getting into physics even and You might say I believe that there are 13 dimension.
01:19:03.000Here's the math to prove it and someone else like you're crazy There's 14 and here's the math to prove it and then you're getting into weird and wacky world stuff because they're both right You know if there's 14, that means there's also 13.
01:19:12.000There's also 12 and Well, but you get my point, like, they'll disagree on the math and, you know, ultimately the fundamental nature of the universe, so how could it be objective reality if the human experience denies what is true?
01:19:35.000It's just that if we can all prove something to a certain degree, and then we can replicate it, we've found our objective, you know, reality to a certain degree.
01:19:46.000It's never completely possible to know everything.
01:19:49.000Why is the objective reality discussion so fascinating?
01:19:51.000Like, I'm literally asking, like, why do you think it is that we always come back to that when we have these discussions?
01:19:56.000Why is it that this focus on, like, I was talking to someone earlier about, we always talk about common sense not being that common anymore.
01:20:04.000It seems like people are taking this...
01:20:07.000Very large-scale view when we've got plenty of problems in the very very real world that we're dealing with now So we have these discussions and I always find that it ends up distracting from actually solving I'd not say that's not important or that there's not value in the discussion There is but I'm saying that it usually comes up when we're discussing real-world issues and these other things So I'm always fascinated how we go back to these kind of more larger scale discussions rather than staying on the topics We were actually discussing beforehand Well, I mean, we're talking about people becoming religious.
01:20:38.000So like, uh, so for me, like when I was thinking about religion, like as somebody who's not, uh, not denominational or anything like that, but I keep coming back to it recently because of an absence of, uh, redemption in the world we live in right now.
01:20:50.000There's absolutely like, whether we're talking about people who are like strong proponents of cancel culture, or if you want to talk about ideological leftists that are pushing these narratives right now.
01:21:00.000They don't really have much of a belief in redemption at all.
01:21:03.000And that's something we went and saw Father Stew, which is like, uh, like we reviewed it for the channel and I was like, I was like, this might've been like a six or seven maybe, but I gave it like a nine just because seeing a story that was so heavily focused on the idea of redemption, uh, even if you exclude all of the religious elements, just that type of, of story is so missing and so lacking in society today when you're not allowed to redeem yourself.
01:21:25.000Once you're, Once you're out, once you're on the outs with the group, you're out forever and you're never allowed back.
01:21:30.000That's why they say you can never apologize, because if you apologize, you're admitting fault and then you're forever that person.
01:22:02.000They just want you broken so that they can mold you or use you or throw you away or whatever.
01:22:07.000And that is, to your point, the redemption arc that religion allows for is Powerful and fundamental and in some ways kind of what separates us from the animal kingdom that we allow for things like that.
01:22:22.000Maybe that's what's driving people back to religion.
01:22:59.000Broke my left tibia, my left femur in three places, and my left hip in two places, and my right hip in one, and my right femur in two, and my radius and ulnar in my arm, My right median nerve got transected here.
01:23:22.000So then I came home, and it ties into this redemption arc.
01:23:27.000I came home and they had me on you know obviously they were having a hard time they didn't know if I was gonna be able to walk again and so I went through all of that the physical recovery stuff and then I got to a civilian doctor out it got out of the military hospital to a civilian doctor and he went through the pain medication that I was on and he was like Braxton I have women old women dying of cancer that are on way less than half of the amount of pain medication that you're on.
01:23:52.000So I was hyper addicted to opioids, didn't know it at the time, but hyper addicted to opioids.
01:23:58.000He started scaling me back and then I went through about two years of physical, well the first stage physical therapy and then I started trying to get off opiates you know and just anyway so I went through struggles with with all of that kind of stuff and speaking to Redemption Arc, I lived like a complete dirtbag for a long time.
01:24:17.000So I'm very, I'm very pro redemption myself.
01:24:22.000So that's a large part of my story as well.
01:24:24.000Maybe that I didn't even really connect that when I was thinking about it here, but maybe that's why the idea of redemption hits me so hard.
01:24:30.000But, uh, I understand that struggle for sure.
01:24:33.000You know, went off and lived in the underworld and now we're doing your best to climb your way out or like as Dostoevsky writes about it as like the underground, but it's, it's the same, you know, the underground man and everything.
01:24:51.000So it's about your redemption not coming back from addiction and injury?
01:24:55.000Honestly, one of my favorite parts about this book has been when I first wrote it, I was looking around and all the war books that I was seeing were just not reflective of the experience.
01:25:07.000I'm not trying to take a shot at anybody, but they were just not reflective of the experience I was seeing around me.
01:25:12.000Seeing my friends, you know, several of them commit suicide, getting divorces, going to jail, losing custody of their kids, you know, having problems.
01:25:21.000And the two choices in literature that they sort of had were either uber hero stories, you know, that are anyway, superhero type stories, or this, this like very whiny, you know, crybaby type thing.
01:25:38.000And there was no one trying to thread the needle and say, look, Yeah, a lot of us are screwing up and you need to quit screwing up.
01:25:45.000And until you stop screwing up, your life is going to suck, man.
01:25:50.000Like you got to get out, you know, and do better.
01:25:52.000So I tried to kind of thread that needle.
01:26:39.000It doesn't work for everybody but just getting myself on to a schedule was a big one.
01:26:48.000So I couldn't run for eight years and then one day I was able to kind of jog a little bit again and I used to be an athlete and so I really I was very excited at the possibility of running again.
01:27:01.000So I went and ran a mile with my buddy who runs endurance stuff and then I decided to transfer that into going and hiking the Mauna Kea in Hawaii.
01:27:10.000And so I had like a goal to train for.
01:27:13.000And that was enormous for me, to have something to orient myself at physically, so that I actually had to take care of my body.
01:27:22.000And I'd gotten off of the opiates before, but then I was just still living like an idiot and drinking too much.
01:27:28.000I want to ask for both of you guys actually, being in recovery, did religion or God play a role in getting off drugs?
01:27:37.000I mean, for me, for sure, it was, uh, I would say the drug part.
01:27:44.000Well, I was so lost still at the time, um, that I'm not sure how much God really, I mean, God, so this is where it gets hard.
01:27:53.000It's like maybe to my own neurotic, selfish, uh, you know, in my own neurotic and selfish mind, God wasn't playing a role.
01:28:02.000But I think, you know, looking back, I think for sure God was playing a role.
01:28:09.000I didn't have, uh, any, uh, such, uh, I don't know if I would have been able to process that type of a concept at the time.
01:28:14.000My brain was in such chaos going through that.
01:28:17.000But for me, it was, uh, and like I said, we, I was just discussing with someone about this, how there's no linear, like everyone looks for that moment where they feel like they're getting better or like, this is the big decision it's in the movies.
01:28:28.000It's always somebody, uh, gets in a car accident and they realize they have to turn their life around.
01:28:32.000But for most people, it's not something that concrete.
01:28:35.000You just have to make that decision day by day and then suddenly find yourself on a path to do so.
01:28:40.000And for me, it wasn't religion so much as it was getting, finding firm footing on something I wanted to do.
01:28:47.000It was, I had been sober for a while and then my mom passed and then that wasn't an event that led to it.
01:28:53.000But it changed things as far as my schedule and my ability to open up my life because I was, at that time, I was taking care of my mom.
01:28:59.000She was in poor health for many years.
01:29:01.000So the ability to get back out and just physical activity played a huge role in that and like you start You know actively getting active again You feel better about yourself and that leads and it all becomes kind of like a snowball rolling downhill And it's just it wasn't God for me, but it was more the ability to take your life into your own hands and push forward was very Monumental when you've been at the mercy of something for so long, the ability to be in control of yourself again is, uh, like I said, I've told that story before.
01:29:31.000Like when I, when I realized that I could go outside without, uh, or like I could get up without being sick.
01:29:38.000And that's because you've now got control of yourself again.
01:29:40.000You're not beholden to something created by a pharmaceutical company.
01:29:43.000Uh, and that's a revelatory experience that goes far.
01:29:47.000Like, I mean, maybe that is, uh, uh, God speaking in a way, but it's certainly, it feels to be akin to that.
01:29:55.000I'm thinking about the brain and all the neurons, and if that's connected to the magnetosphere, the extremely low-frequency band, and if that's God, and are you part of it?
01:30:03.000Yeah, you know, that's what I normally think about.
01:30:06.000Yeah, self-control, I imagine, if there is a God, that it's tightly interwoven.
01:30:10.000I just wonder, because I hear a lot of stories that, you know, a religious experience or something was like pulling people.
01:30:16.000I tell this story about this guy I knew who's on drugs, and then he had a profound experience where a voice told him to get his life together, and it made him very religious.
01:30:26.000Maybe it's just because I talk about pop culture all day, I watch movies all day.
01:30:30.000I'm looking for that movie-like experience that's going to bring me out of the situation I'm in.
01:30:35.000And then one day you just realize that is not the real, at least not for everyone, it won't be the real world, it won't be what everybody experiences.
01:30:42.000And you have to rely on yourself again and maybe it would have maybe selfishly I would have loved to have had that but I still have such a hard time asking those questions about faith like it's very hard for me to put my faith all in something so perhaps he had a different belief system that led him more to find something like you know to find his answers in that and I just hadn't whatever wherever I was on my journey just wasn't there yet so I had to find my way a different way but it's like that's that movie type way you always imagine somebody pulling you back From the brink and that's just that wasn't my experience But I almost would have loved to have had that it feels like that would have that would have been benefit I think at the root of every addict is Fundamentally is in gratitude for being you know, it's like just being angry at being so if you try to cultivate gratitude in your life and yes, you know take yourself and however, you want to think about this bone sack that you occupy and
01:31:39.000If you start to take that seriously, then a lot of your other problems will sort themselves out.
01:31:43.000I used to talk about gratitude as a superpower.
01:31:46.000The ability to show gratitude for, at a certain point, I'm in a very cheap apartment, I'm working, I'm barely making enough money to get by, but I'm skating every day and I'm doing what I love, and if I can go out every day, walk to get around, do what I need to do, do something that I love while having a job, paying my bills, And if I can be extremely grateful for that, that is something that I feel like I feel bad for people that can't find the gratitude.
01:32:11.000You know, like I almost feel like they're missing out on the ability to feel that emotion.
01:32:15.000What's the best way to find gratitude through pain?
01:32:19.000For me, I don't know if I find it through pain.
01:32:21.000I find it through getting through the pain and finding yourself on the other side of it.
01:32:25.000And that's the ability to handle it without help.
01:32:27.000or like without the ability to find yourself through it and still be okay, not without help,
01:32:32.000but like the ability to, you know, to suffer through it, achieve, you know, get out on the other side
01:32:37.000and find out that you're still okay and you can still go on.
01:35:07.000And then we'll read some Super Chats while you Google it.
01:35:09.000I want to know who's going to, sorry, I just want to know who's going to click the gender training, you know, or diversity training when they're filling out their tax form.
01:35:17.000You know, if we go under Ian's system, like how many people are really going to click, yeah, let's fund more of this.
01:37:18.000I saw a really interesting post earlier that said it was breaking down how people's lives were, like in the United States, completely revolving around Christianity, whether they realize it or not, even atheists.
01:37:33.000And one of the funny points was that your favorite exclamation is a call to your Lord and Savior.
01:37:40.000People literally will yell Jesus when they're shocked by something.
01:37:58.000Like, yeah, but the probably the emotion is, Oh my God.
01:38:01.000And so I just said, geez, which is just derivative of Jesus.
01:38:06.000Even atheists in this country will be like, you'll yell Jesus Christ when something absurd, like a car will hit a dog and you'll yell that out.
01:38:14.000I've been wondering why they call him Jesus because it's Yeshua, I think in Aramaic, is that the right language?
01:39:16.000I think people don't understand this, that it's like, for the average person, what is it, like 50 to 55% of your income goes to taxes?
01:39:24.000Because they look at income tax and they're like, that's my taxes, but they don't realize you bought a cheeseburger, a portion goes to the government.
01:39:31.000You bought a house, now you got to pay the government every, you got to pay government rent.
01:39:34.000The other thing, too, is that payroll tax.
01:40:28.000Look, man... How did nobody say, like, maybe we're going, like, just for, like, uh, like, morale's sake, maybe we shouldn't tax them after death, like...
01:40:37.000Maybe the family members might just be a little bit perturbed.
01:40:39.000Just give him that man because you're dead you can't complain like maybe the family members might just be a
01:40:45.000little bit perturbed Well, you guys know I'm I am NOT a taxation as theft guy,
01:40:51.000but at a certain point It's like, you know, I could I can understand a little bit
01:40:57.000but we're we're overpaying It's like imagine if Netflix came to you one day and they
01:41:00.000were like We're raising your rates to $100 a month. You'd be like,
01:41:04.000whoa. Whoa. Whoa, hold on there a minute I'm gonna opt out mmm, you can't and what if I don't want
01:41:08.000to pay for Nevelson more we will lock you in a box It's like, all right, now I got an issue with how much money you're taking from me by force.
01:41:15.000Like, some money I think is reasonable for all this awesome stuff that we end up having, especially security, the military.
01:41:21.000Hey, I'm not completely opposed to... Well, hold on.
01:41:26.000Luke of WeAreChange in the chat saying, why in the world is no one saying taxation is theft?
01:41:31.000Luke, did Luke see the meme that came out on Easter?
01:41:34.000It's the three crosses outside the church and they're all T's and it spells taxation is theft.
01:42:01.000Like, better yet, they charge your bank account without notifying you, and you don't know why they took the money or where it's going, and they didn't break it down.
01:42:09.000And then when you say, hey, I challenge this, you can't do that, they go, if you don't pay it, we're gonna lock you in a box.
01:42:29.000They go around, they take a little bit of the food the farmers make, or a lot of it, unfortunately, and then they protect the farmers from more invaders.
01:42:34.000I get that, and I agree, but my point is, like, up to that point, I'm like, yeah, yeah, no, that's cool, like, I like the military, like, cool dudes.
01:42:41.000But, um, well, I mean, now with all the woke stuff happening, I'm not so sure.
01:42:44.000But, but, when, if, like, someone came to me and said, hey, it's a hundred bucks a month for the security that we're gonna be providing, because we're all pitching in, I'd be like, that's cool.
01:42:52.000If one day that guy showed up to my house and, and, like, smashed a flower pot and says, you gotta give me more money if you wanna be safe.
01:42:58.000I'd be like, I don't think you're protecting me anymore!
01:43:19.000It should be decided from the ground up.
01:43:21.000There's a guy and he's like, so your monthly bill for your road subscription includes a surcharge for killing babies, for blowing up babies overseas, for making the weapons that kill the babies.
01:43:36.000It's like, all I wanted was police and a fire department.
01:43:40.000And they're like, oh, yeah, yeah, but we got all these fees we gotta add on.
01:43:43.000And then you're like, all right, well, can I add health care?
01:43:46.000No, sorry, we don't offer health care.
01:43:48.000It's like, but the roads, but like, that's the thing.
01:43:51.000It's you know, if I could trade a lot of if I could, if I'll tell you this.
01:43:56.000If we could itemize the tax list, I'm sure we could take out a huge chunk and like put it in the garbage and then take like a little tiny bit and you get health care back for it.
01:44:09.000If you guys want to know who's in charge of this or who created this income tax IRS form 1040, it was William Howard Taft from 1909 to 1913.
01:45:40.000Plenty of people that aren't happy with, like, where I work.
01:45:44.000People who just, you know... I've been making YouTube videos since 2006, and yeah, you get the most stupid comments and messages from people if you're putting your face on the internet and speaking.
01:45:54.000It's just part and parcel to the entertainment industry.
01:45:56.000That's why Paramount Pictures has giant walls surrounding their work environment, because people will come knocking.
01:46:01.000Even if it's not, like, a death threat, People coming and mobbing you to say hello is also a sort of threat to your ability to move around, so you need to protect your environment.
01:46:13.000People think, whenever someone comes up, they're like, those leftists, and I'm like...
01:46:19.000I gotta be honest, it's probably just a guy who thinks that I invented the piano, and that I'm hoarding ivory to take over Mount, you know, Bigfoot, and so he's the only one who can save the world from the pending Sasquatch invasion by stopping me.
01:46:34.000Like, just nonsense, like crazy people.
01:46:53.000David Fitzsimmons says, missed last show live, so want to say that, say Daryl Davis is the sun and hate speech laws are the wind in the parable to make a man disrobe his coat.
01:48:17.000I wonder if it gets to the point where somebody owns so many houses and they can't sell any of them because no one has the money or can afford it, and then the houses start to rot.
01:48:24.000So they're like, we need to drop the prices and get these things out, otherwise we're just losing money.
01:48:28.000But you're saying they might demolish it for the resources.
01:48:47.000And the rent is not that high, but the buildings aren't in great shape, but the people have no choice.
01:48:52.000Yeah, you could argue that having corporations maybe should only own a certain number of houses, that any corporation cannot own more than a certain number of houses.
01:48:59.000What if we, like, as a people, like, collective, just, you know, What's the right word maybe seized the means means of what of production?
01:49:12.000Yeah interesting idea I like I like the idea like I think it's funny They call it seizing the means of production because like who is seizing it like we are no you're not it's Caesar dude, and what are the means of production?
01:49:25.000They mean the kulak I mean Well, this is funny, because I got in an argument with a socialist once, and I was like, what does that mean, the means of production?
01:49:31.000And they're like, you know, like, the things to make stuff.
01:49:33.000And I was like, is my camera the means of production?
01:50:02.000Wandering Mage says, What do you think of the belief that we need a complete societal collapse to fix our corruption and other societal ills that there's no cultural change we can make to fix our society in the long term?
01:50:16.000I think that we as a society have become particularly addicted and there's a lot of I don't know, there's a lot of stuff that's ingrained that is bad.
01:50:26.000The issue is, it's not so much about society breaking down to fix it, it's that the, like, two factions have butted off and split from each other.
01:50:36.000I think the left is a destructive, chaotic force that seeks nothing.
01:50:41.000I think it's just power for the sake of power, change for the sake of change, people saying random nonsense things for the sake of fitting in with the current thing.
01:50:49.000And then that's actually separated itself from where we are, which is not overtly conservative.
01:50:55.000It's more like principled, libertarian, conservative-ish with a spattering of different ideologies mixed in, but retaining a baseline of a moral framework and a goal.
01:51:06.000So I don't think Sun needs to collapse, but there may need to be some kind of peaceful divorce where the chaotic destructive force goes off and just spirals out and burns out or something.
01:51:33.000I mean, look, collapse could mean if you're out in the middle of nowhere and you've got a farm, waking up one day to a bunch of hipsters running off with your chickens because roving bands of urban liberal types who don't know how to survive are just ransacking.
01:52:55.000That was a really fun conversation we had with Jeremy Boring and Michael Knowles of the Daily Wire, asking these questions about philosophy and ethics.
01:53:04.000If there's a raging river and there's your dog or a stranger, who would you save if you could only save one?
01:53:15.000The interesting question, the reason that came up is that it used to be that Americans always would save the stranger, but now they save their dog.
01:53:21.000And I'm wondering if that's mental illness.
01:53:22.000I asked the question, no one really could answer that, but is it a form of mental illness that people would protect their pets over a stranger?
01:53:30.000It's definitely mental illness and it's also just reflective of how much we hate each other.
01:53:36.000I think maybe I would describe it as a natural aberration in that I don't think you're ill because you love your pet and you want to save what you care about.
01:53:45.000There's also a point that Humans and dogs survived together.
01:53:50.000So there's an element of survival in an attachment to a dog.
01:53:54.000The issue is that we've come to a point where, in this case, the dog is probably a toy poodle, which is not going to help you survive at all.
01:54:00.000But the emotional attachment comes from the days of humans hunting with proto-dogs, which are effectively wolves.
01:54:06.000Now, wanting to save your proto-dog or your German shepherd.
01:54:11.000Well, it's like, that dog is helping you hunt, sniffing things out, you're surviving.
01:54:15.000Without it, you could be in trouble, so you need your dog.
01:54:17.000But now, we've artificially selected dogs down to, like, chihuahuas, and someone's gonna be like, And they're gonna jump in the river and save the little toy
01:54:25.000poodle and the person isn't gonna make it How many people would save their car or the stranger?
01:54:29.000Let me just say even going back to those periods where it was your dog versus at the person the person would help you
01:54:35.000survive More the reason I'd say it's an aberration is that I think
01:54:38.000it comes from a good place But whatever it is
01:54:42.000This mentality that's taking over will result without some kind of intervention technologically or otherwise in human
01:54:48.000civilization collapsing Because you cannot survive if you don't prioritize your own people, your own species, in the event of a catastrophe.
01:55:06.000I heard a similar one one time really quick.
01:55:08.000It was a psychological experiment they put together and it was if you were wearing your nice clothes or whatever and you saw a kid drowning like you're wearing a suit and expensive shoes or whatever would you just jump in to save the kid or would you take off you know your suit or whatever to do it and it was the the breakdown was like an enormous amount of people were like yeah I would take off my suit or my watch or whatever the heck it was.
01:55:37.000The shoes I'd take off so I could get my webbed toes out there.
01:55:40.000Like if their phone in their pocket, would they take the time to get their phone out of their pocket and check if they have email before they set it down?
01:55:45.000They take out their phone, they selfie them and the kids screaming, and they throw their phone down.
01:56:59.000I have long suggested that we should... He didn't ask me, ask me now!
01:57:04.000We were talking about, I wanted to put the full episode, the video version of the episodes up.
01:57:09.000Originally, I wasn't sure if it was because of YouTube or Rumble or whatever we were talking, we talked about it at one point about long form content.
01:57:18.000Because we do, our show's live, and yours is recorded.
01:57:22.000So I was like, how would we structure that with the clips?
01:57:25.000But for the website, we should just put it on, we should use Rumble.
01:58:07.000Now, what she's been doing is she goes on to the cesspool of Twitter, which I just do not dare to go because I just, I just, I don't, life is too short and I just, I don't Twitter.
01:58:18.000Uh, so she goes and she'll like, like, like, look, look at this is happening today.
01:58:22.000Like she was finding me stuff at Coachella that I would never have, uh, talked about.
01:58:26.000And so she'll curate some stuff for me.
01:58:28.000And we may eventually, uh, turn that into article writing where she can be like, look at all these people are having this discussion, uh, and then write her piece about it.
01:58:35.000And then we can involve that in that process.
01:58:37.000But once we get there, we'll, uh, we'll make that work.
01:58:40.000Megan Cole says, my husband works in customer support for a small jet company.
01:59:04.000So what you do is you turn on the air vent, but you point it down to your right, creating a force field of air that repels their noxious gases.
02:00:14.000I actually do think teachers should talk about religion.
02:00:18.000And the funny thing is the response I got when I tweeted that was they were like, you know, trans people are real and you can't talk about fake things.
02:00:25.000And I was like, when did I say anything about trans people?
02:00:29.000When did I say anything about a specific religion?
02:00:32.000When did I say the teachers would tell these kids that religions were true?
02:00:35.000Quite literally, I think of kids like, someone told me that it's God.
02:00:39.000It's like, oh yeah, well, we should talk about religions of the world.
02:00:42.000Why wouldn't you teach kids about various religions?
02:00:44.000And then if one kid's like, wow, that religion's interesting, it's like, well, you can go talk to your parents about it.
02:00:49.000You know, but like basic understanding of that, I see no issue with.
02:00:53.000And that's where they get you on the LGBTQ stuff.
02:00:58.000Is they're trying to pretend, like, I'm just trying to let them know that people love each other, but then you see the books they're pushing through, and you see, like, the things they're telling kids, and you're like, ah, that's, that's, it's entirely different.
02:01:07.000Telling a kid that there is something bigger than all of us, that's hard for me to explain because I'm not a priest, but definitely talk to your parents about it, why there are people all over the world who do these things, is very different from, like, human sexuality.
02:01:19.000But even still, the point was more facetious.
02:01:21.000Like, if you're gonna ban this, you know, If the progressive parent comes into the school and says, why are you teaching religion in your school?
02:01:30.000You say, I don't know, I'm not a priest.
02:02:14.000Jeremy Lewis says, Brooklyn Democratic Party leaders are trying to prevent, uh, prevent rep your black candidates from serving on the Dem County Committee.
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