Joe Biden makes an inappropriate comment at a Friday night speech, and teachers start clapping and cheering. Then, a Florida congressman accused of sexual impropriety with a 17-year-old girl comes under fire for a story he said was fake. And then, a conspiracy theory emerges about a conspiracy to keep the story out of the press. This week, we talk about all that and more on this week s episode of the Uncensored Podcast.
00:01:20.000Matt Gaetz was accused of serious impropriety.
00:01:25.000And apparently he was under investigation because they claimed that I think, you know, a few years ago he was hooking up with a 17-year-old or something.
00:01:32.000And so all of these leftists started saying, you know, child trafficking investigation or something, even though it was like a 17-year-old.
00:01:49.000And now the prosecutors are recommending no charges for Matt Gaetz because the witnesses have no credibility.
00:01:55.000In other words, it sounds like the story was fake from the beginning, Matt Gaetz's family was being extorted, and somebody was leaking it to the press because tribalism, chaos, whatever you want to call it.
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00:03:46.000Yeah, so, you know, just recently, I created a documentary called Send Me that was about the fall of Afghanistan, the fall of Kabul.
00:03:55.000And I was one of the the 12 guys in our group, middle aged dudes that went over to Afghanistan, you know, as it was all falling apart to evacuate As many people as possible.
00:04:07.000Prior to that, I've made a couple of Hollywood movies, comedies, dramas.
00:04:13.000And prior to that, I started a company called Ranger Up, which was the first military lifestyle brand.
00:04:20.000Cornered Tim Kennedy in the UFC and Strikeforce for 12 years.
00:04:25.000And before all that, I was an army officer.
00:04:27.000So that's the that's the abbreviated version of my life.
00:04:30.000So you have a lot of stories about what went down when Afghanistan fell.
00:05:11.000I want everyone to imagine sitting down for Thanksgiving and like the turkey's brought out and everyone's smiling and then Luke grabs the knife and he goes, so the government kills a lot of people.
00:06:18.000He's just like... When you hear the stories of like Tim Kennedy, you've worked with Tim, was explaining, I think it might have been on one of Rogan's podcasts like a couple months ago or three months ago.
00:06:28.000When the women were trying to get their babies into the military, into the airport, and they had no choice but to try and throw them over the wall, babies, and then they'd get caught in barbed wire because they didn't know there's barbed wire on both sides.
00:07:02.000It's very funny when a guy makes a joke about, that's a very large age gap you've got there.
00:07:09.000They say, President Biden shocked viewers on his Friday speech to teachers when he recognized an audience member and told the crowd she was 12 and I was 30.
00:07:17.000Biden lit up social media with a confounding and seemingly inappropriate aside.
00:07:21.000He did not say what he did when he was 30 and the win was a preteen.
00:07:25.000You gotta say hi to me, Biden said mid-speech at the National Education Association headquarters in DC.
00:07:59.000And there's a lot of other activity that happened before this, whether it's the Ashley Biden diary, whether it's the bunch of creepy videos that are being censored by big tech social media, whether it's him kissing his granddaughter on the mouth.
00:08:11.000Two times, at least two times that we know on record.
00:08:16.000And him being a career politician, when you're in Washington, D.C., we know for a fact intelligence agencies use sex and use underage children as a form of extortion, as a form of manipulation.
00:11:58.000It's tough to tell because they'll print large amounts of money that'll naturally inflate the Dow.
00:12:02.000Just because there's more capital doesn't mean the economy is doing better though.
00:12:05.000Well, you know, just to put on my conspiracy hat, if I could, just for a little bit, let me dust it off here.
00:12:12.000If you do look at a lot of the Biden policies, they have directly created this economic havoc that we're dealing with for the benefit of the few ruling elites.
00:12:21.000And this is why a lot of people make the assertions and theorize that maybe there is some dirt on Biden that some very powerful people have on him that they're using to, of course, Maybe, maybe, but I think dirt's the wrong way to look at it.
00:12:34.000I think it's more like you can do what you want if you do as you're told.
00:12:36.000working in the best interest of the select few who might have dirt on him
00:12:40.000and they're using that dirt in order to push these policies wrecking the economy.
00:12:43.000Maybe, maybe, but I think dirt's the wrong way to look at it. I think it's more like
00:12:47.000you can do what you want if you do as you're told. You know what I mean?
00:12:52.000Yes, and then there could be an extortion operation.
00:12:55.000I think that's a little bit more likely.
00:12:56.000I don't know, you work in those, you know.
00:12:58.000I think in general terms, I think it's less about stuff like that.
00:13:01.000I just think it's more that large businesses, the elite, have really significant lobbying power.
00:13:07.000And donation power, and you know, their businesses can donate and super PACs can donate.
00:13:12.000You know, if you think about, you know, our GDP and our success, almost all of it comes from small business, because small business and you guys know this, you're a small business, you hire people, you know, you're always growing, you're thinking about how do I do more?
00:13:25.000How do I get bigger, large business thinks about efficiency, offshoring, saving money.
00:13:31.000And so there's nobody that represents the average American, the small business owner, there's nobody that is truly putting money, time lobbying efforts into that.
00:13:41.000And so, you know, you end up with people that are that only care about, you know, significant interests.
00:13:49.000I wonder what Biden does when he like, I think he sleeps most of the time.
00:13:52.000And then they wake him up and give him pills.
00:13:55.000Or, you know, maybe they're, yeah, maybe injections.
00:13:58.000They've got big businesses very much about the stockholders and forever.
00:14:02.000It's been about stockholder value stockholder.
00:14:04.000Now they're adding on shareholder value share.
00:14:10.000Well, that's like the Klaus Schwab thing is like.
00:14:14.000Planetary stakeholders, I think it's stakeholders.
00:14:18.000Now they're going from shareholders, which are the stock owners to us stakeholders as well, which is who has stake in this company doing well, which honestly is up for it's up for debate like If it's a company that wants to clean the water in Portugal, then all of the Portuguese citizens become a stakeholder in that company doing well, and then they can, I don't know enough about it to start going off on it.
00:14:40.000I've actually been starting to read Klaus Schwab's recent book, and I'll definitely let you know more, but it's, you know, it's a way to manipulate, to get corporations, like ESG is like, are you doing well for your stakeholders as well as your shareholders?
00:14:53.000Are you making the world a better place for your stakeholders?
00:14:55.000The ESG stuff is the Communist Party of America.
00:14:58.000So you have the Communist Party of China, and what they do is they get an office in all of these companies.
00:15:02.000You open a company, they gotta have an office there, and they control if you're in line with the message.
00:15:09.000And at some point, some US interests were like, man, that's a good idea.
00:15:12.000We could totally control everything if we just forced this.
00:16:56.000But people don't want to be bashed over the head with it.
00:16:59.000So you've got to figure out what's the next phase.
00:17:01.000And I think the next phase is sci-fi that takes into account like the cosmology and this new physics where we're finding like cosmic microwave background radiation that kind of looks like neurons in the brain.
00:17:10.000And you're like, wow, maybe there is a God.
00:17:12.000And if you can kind of take people in that direction, you know, you can kind of bring God into the conversation and kind of ground it in like morality, but still have cool sci-fi message on top of that.
00:17:23.000I mean the whole thing kind of depresses me because I remember there was a time where there it wasn't like right content or left content you know it was content you like a movie or a show or whatever you know was about you know whatever the topic of the day was or but it wasn't like you watched a show or a host or whatever because they had a specific view it was You know, you came on, you had discussions about complex topics, and people got into it, and they could disagree, and that was acceptable.
00:17:51.000And I definitely feel like, and you know, full disclosure, like I said earlier, I'm moderate.
00:18:00.000I do feel like if you're a conservative, you know, you have fewer opportunities to have your voice heard.
00:20:06.000Career prosecutors recommend no charges for Matt Gaetz in sex trafficking probe.
00:20:12.000Investigators see credibility challenges for two main witnesses in a probe of the congressman's alleged past dealings with a then 17-year-old.
00:20:39.000They start the probe, someone leaks information to the press, and then all of a sudden, it's law.
00:20:45.000The media just says it's happening, and that's what they do.
00:20:48.000So my question is, with everything we've seen with the FBI, the Washington field office particularly, going after their political rivals, how much of this was an extortion plot?
00:21:19.000So I'm starting to lean towards whoever set this up, the investigators, and then whoever was leaking it, they were all in on it.
00:21:27.000What do you think from your information?
00:21:30.000I don't you know to me like I don't have information so like I don't I I'm very careful like I don't like to lobby lob accusations or you know at people that where I don't have real information so I will say that you know I my instinct was that it was true based on the coverage from every major paper you know I believe them and what's that why believe them well so one especially so you know I The last, you know, couple years of my life dealing with some of the some of the things I've dealt with definitely has me questioning a lot more things.
00:22:59.000I mean, you know, and I will say that, I will say that, you know, if when all is said and done, it comes out that, you know, this guy is innocent.
00:23:16.000So, you know, so they just run fake stories in the press, what they play dirty games like these, these liberals tend to think that if you're accused of a crime, you're guilty of it.
00:23:29.000So, like, there's been a huge dynamic shift where, you know, it used to be that, like, journalists took a long period of time to get stories out, make sure that they had sources, confirmed all of them.
00:23:40.000Now, because of the age we're in, where everyone is creating news quickly, you know, including, like, you guys, right?
00:23:47.000It is a race to get the story first, which often means that the story is inaccurate.
00:23:51.000And once somebody launches the story, everybody races to tell the same story, and you end up getting this confirmation bias.
00:23:59.000Yeah, but this is something different.
00:24:00.000I mean, this is people leaking information on a story that had no evidence or credibility.
00:24:16.000And it's important to note here that the FBI has been moving, according to the latest whistleblower's agents, off of those cases and moving them on to the January 6th cases.
00:24:26.000And when it came to this particular case, I did find it interesting because I do follow a lot of these stories.
00:24:31.000I think they're important to talk about, especially when it comes to things like the DC Madam.
00:24:36.000That's a whole other crazy story that if you want to go down a rabbit hole, you could go down a rabbit hole with.
00:24:41.000But I didn't find any evidence here with Matt Gaetz.
00:24:48.000I waited as a journalist to see what was going to be happening, what was going to be developing here.
00:24:53.000But online, all over Reddit, there was number one posts calling him a sex trafficker.
00:24:58.000But I haven't seen anything legitimate.
00:25:00.000I haven't seen any evidence suggesting this.
00:25:03.000But everywhere on social media, especially in leftist circles, he is automatically deemed now a sex trafficker, which I think is a little bit unfair since of course there's no evidence providing this this assertion which was spread out by you know insiders from the government and then regurgitated by the corporate media to smear somebody
00:25:21.000Yeah, I mean, I think there's always a bias against people you don't like.
00:25:23.000If you don't like somebody, it's very easy to believe bad things about them.
00:25:27.000And, you know, and he's extremely far right and, you know, is a continuous target.
00:25:34.000I just can't help feeling like this is a classic case of, we were talking about innocence until proven guilt.
00:25:39.000This is a case of the media choosing whether to decide if someone is guilty or not and going with it they don't care about whether it's actually true and then if it's proven that they're wrong they simply don't talk about it.
00:25:55.000So what happens if they're if it's proven that they've been lying or they've been inaccurate or they've left something out They just stopped talking about it.
00:26:39.000Yeah, I mean, there's traffickers and you know this because there's victims coming forward.
00:26:43.000Epstein had his victims coming forward to the FBI in the 90s and there was people speaking out against this and of course they didn't do anything about it.
00:26:53.000Where's the victims of Gates coming forward?
00:26:55.000Who was that guy who called out Epstein?
00:27:44.000And then he's like, I'm not allowed to say!
00:27:47.000And so then they have to call, like, Sidebar, and the judge actually says, you were right to do that, because he would have to say it's coming from the bankruptcy lawyers.
00:27:55.000So, like, the rulings against Alex are actually inhibiting the plaintiff's attorneys.
00:28:00.000And then there was that other clip that went viral where he said, you know, he mentioned liberals, morals turning on a dime or whatever, and all the Iraqis they killed, their lies.
00:28:09.000Yeah, the lawyer was getting really emotional and he was like, it's emotional when you want to be emotional and it's not when you don't.
00:28:51.000We're getting memes out of it and the videos are funny and it's just all, it's like, you know, I'm watching that and I can't remember who said it, but they said that the January 6 hearings are basically like nightly entertainment for wine moms.
00:29:05.000They're like sitting there going like, Oh, what's going to happen next?
00:29:12.000But it's, it's more because it's like, if the FBI really is moving manpower out of like sex trafficking and going into domestic terrorism, I kind of wonder what you would think about this, Nick.
00:29:57.000Yeah, like, I mean, like, you know, you look at that group and like, you know, these people are not, you know, this is not, uh, you know, like James Madison and, and John Adams.
00:30:08.000I mean, like that, like that's not what you had there.
00:30:12.000I remember those Viking helmets and the face paint, you know?
00:30:16.000Yeah, I mean, you know, it's a big deal and I don't, I think it should be taken seriously, um, but I, I also don't think, I think that the press, this is where I really get aggravated with the press, we talk a lot about civil war, right?
00:30:30.000And I think that these people don't know what civil war is, or they think it won't happen, but they think they can get clicks by talking about it.
00:30:37.000But you know, there are going to be idiots that start believing that there's like a real civil war that's forthcoming.
00:31:08.000And when you when you talk about stuff like that, where you have people that have been driven to a point where they truly believe that like someone is the enemy because they're a Republican or a Democrat, like that's a real problem.
00:31:20.000And the president did just give a speech where he said that.
00:31:23.000Yeah, I thought that was an ill-advised, you know... But don't you, like, don't you kind of think, for one, I'd say, this is what I was saying about Bill Burr when he said, people don't hate each other, it's the internet.
00:31:35.000I'm like, yeah, why would a neighbor want to shoot their own neighbor?
00:31:50.000Um and like actually I have a funny story like one day I answered the door for the pizza guy and I was wearing like a second amendment t-shirt and the dude started I'm crying he's like oh my god like there's there's another like conservative in this town you know I thought that was really funny my neighbors are great they're they're all liberal they're great people they're nice people and so anytime anybody starts talking about civil war I literally ask them like do you actually want to shoot your neighbor in the face Well, nobody wants to, but... But what are you going to do it for?
00:32:18.000Like, what's the... If we have a civil war in America, our life here will never be as good as it is now.
00:32:24.000Your life will be worse, will absolutely be worse for the rest of your life.
00:33:18.000If you, you know, if you were a man and you transitioned to being a woman, like, I will call you by your new name.
00:33:23.000I will always be kind to anybody and I think that's, it's totally acceptable.
00:33:28.000I do get nervous, but I am also not an expert in this.
00:33:32.000I do get nervous anytime you're talking about children, given that, you know, there is a high percentage of folks that begin transitioning and then change their mind.
00:33:42.000Desistence, which is, depending on the study, it can be between 65 and like 95 percent.
00:33:48.000So, you know, I think that you just have to be careful.
00:35:51.000He wears a billboard that says children cannot consent to puberty blockers.
00:35:55.000And when he goes up and he talks about this stuff, plainly, calmly, scientific reports, trusting the science, they scream in his face, They threaten him.
00:36:06.000And then we've actually seen what happens when you go against a lot of this ideology.
00:36:10.000One kid in North Dakota, for being a Republican extremist apparently, and threatening the guy, so claims the guy, he's dead now.
00:36:16.000And the guy killed him and fled the scene.
00:36:18.000So the issue that arises is, in Florida for instance, Ron DeSantis, and I'm sure many people around him will say, hey, schools shouldn't be giving kids sex ed without parental consent.
00:36:32.000Completely lie about everything happening.
00:36:35.000You've got Boston Children's Hospital and this whole hoax around a bomb threat.
00:36:39.000The threat was really called in, it was called into the hospital, but the media was reporting that there was an evacuation when there wasn't, and it's a complicated story.
00:36:54.000They know that the overwhelming majority of American people would reject that and are horrified by the idea that they would do it.
00:37:01.000And so then you have people saying, look, You know, there are people who believe nothing is going to happen.
00:37:05.000Meanwhile, the violence has been escalating consistently for several years.
00:37:09.000You've got Joe Biden coming out on TV only a few weeks ago saying that MAGA Republicans are an extremist threat to this country.
00:37:15.000Two weeks later, a guy kills a kid for calling it and calls him a Republican extremist.
00:37:19.000So you combine these things with even, look, outside of my opinion, it's my opinion is all based on expert testimony.
00:37:25.000A Princeton professor saying that there's a cold civil war coming.
00:37:29.000All signs I should say the history of what we're witnessing today rhymes with what we've seen in say Russia, Spain or Germany.
00:37:38.000So for people to come out, the way I described it the other day is, you know, when Bill Burr comes out and says neighbors aren't fighting each other, we're sitting atop a watchtower Checking the news, reading the news all day every day.
00:37:49.000And we can see pockets of conflict all off in the distance.
00:37:52.000And then we can literally see the president stand up on a podium and yell, they are the enemy and they're destroying this country.
00:37:59.000And then we look down in the ground where Bill Burr's having a beer and he goes, nobody's fighting anywhere!
00:38:03.000There's no civil war over here, you're crazy!
00:38:05.000So when I hear that kind of stuff, I'm like, that was a good Bill Burr.
00:38:46.000the mountain region, I think it was, and found that in the South,
00:38:50.000something like 60% of Republicans want to secede as a South.
00:38:54.000In the Northeast, the majority of Democrats want to secede.
00:38:57.000In the West, the majority of Democrats want to secede.
00:38:59.000In the mountain region, I think it was a, I shouldn't say majority, a plurality.
00:39:03.000It was a majority of Republicans, it was like 60% of the South,
00:39:05.000and then it was a plurality in the East and West of Democrats.
00:39:10.000The Midwest area was surprising, the heartland, I guess they called it.
00:39:13.000The plurality was independent voters wanting to secede.
00:39:17.000Overall, if I did the math, I took each state's population, I took the total number of people polled, broke it all down, 37.2% of people in the United States would favor their region separating from the United States.
00:39:33.000So when you have metrics like that, and consistently poll after poll after poll saying people expect it to happen, at a certain point you're like, yo, we're knocking at the door.
00:40:22.000You think the federal government has enough personnel, especially at record low recruitment rates, to deal with national conflict at this level?
00:40:30.000The Civil War in 1861, the country was substantially smaller, and some of the fighting didn't even reach other territories in the United States.
00:40:39.000And a lot of the fighting was confined to the southeast specifically.
00:40:46.000The American Civil War is not indicative of most civil wars.
00:40:51.000It was a really weird, unique thing where a separate union formed and those two unions went at each other.
00:40:55.000But if you look at the Syrian Civil War, for instance, where you have 12 different factions, now you take a look at the polarization United States and you actually have three or four factions, maybe even more, depending on how far you want to break it down.
00:41:06.000So you have, yeah, I hear what you're saying.
00:41:08.000I just, the economic hit that everybody would take, like lives changing forever.
00:41:15.000And then you have the sub question of, all right, so like, you know, just because, you know, let's say California says we want to secede, right?
00:41:24.000We know California is primarily liberal, but still, you know, it's still like 40% conservative.
00:41:31.000And so now you have all these people that are trapped, essentially, in California.
00:41:37.000It's a bad scene, no matter how you look at it.
00:41:40.000I don't think... There are some people who absolutely want it to happen, but I think the overwhelming majority of people don't want it to happen.
00:41:46.000And even as I, or Stephen Marsh, or... I don't know, who else has talked about this to great degrees.
00:41:54.000I mean, you've got a CBS reporter recently coming out saying Civil War is coming.
00:41:58.000MSNBC on primetime TV says we're in it already a Princeton professor saying we've been in for four years None of them are saying it's a good thing.
00:42:06.000It's not a good thing, but that doesn't mean it's not happening Yeah, so, you know, I would I'd maybe consider that we have you know, what you called it I thought that was good a cold civil war.
00:42:15.000I think there's definitely like some ideological questions happening I do not and I don't want this to sound bad because I love this country.
00:42:23.000And you know, I love I think it's the best country on earth.
00:42:27.000So like I have some, you know, some knowledge of what that means.
00:42:32.000I don't think Americans in general are willing to pay the price for what they believe.
00:42:38.000Right, but like most people fleeing Ukraine, the majority tend not to fight.
00:42:42.000I mean, even in the American Revolution.
00:42:44.000I mean, Ukraine is... But if you look at the American Civil War, that one was particularly interesting because people really were willing to fight.
00:42:52.000On the North, you had people who wanted to preserve the Union who were fighting just because they were enlisted, but there were a lot of abolitionists.
00:42:59.000Hans Christian Hegg wasn't even American.
00:43:01.000He was like, I'll fight and stop this stuff.
00:43:02.000Yeah, and that was a uniquely American thing.
00:43:07.000You know, Our spirit is different than the rest of the world.
00:43:11.000I don't see that in the average person anymore.
00:43:15.000I mean, if people are mildly inconvenienced... The average person doesn't fight, never has in any war.
00:43:31.000A lot of people have been, you know, thought through social media that emotions, you know, matter more than, of course, any kind of logical thinking.
00:43:41.000Frederick Nietzsche has this great quote that I talked about a couple days ago on the show.
00:43:45.000He says, in individuals, insanity is rare, but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.
00:43:51.000So I think it's worth noting that we are on the precipice where our mindsets are being controlled by big tech social media.
00:43:59.000There is, I would say, a divide and conquer agenda.
00:44:02.000I would say people are acting against each other more and more.
00:44:06.000I think a lot of this is deliberate and it doesn't have to mean states go against states.
00:44:10.000It can mean groups and organizations go against other groups and organizations.
00:44:14.000I just think, you know, you got a case in Texas where a man and woman get divorced.
00:44:20.000The mother claims the kid is trans, the father claims the kid is not, and the state awards the kid to the mother.
00:44:26.000You don't think that you're gonna get to the point where a father just says no?
00:44:30.000Sure, but that's not a civil war, that's an individual matter.
00:44:33.000No, that's like, civil wars don't start because one guy... No, I understand.
00:44:38.000Civil wars start when an ideology becomes persistent.
00:44:42.000When the state begins taking children away from parents, and they are now, And you're seeing this in, you know, conservatives, of course, are calling it out.
00:44:51.000They're saying, this is actually, I can't remember who I was watching, but there was a conversation happening.
00:44:56.000They said, parents are afraid that if they speak up, their children will be taken from them.
00:45:01.000Schools in many places are telling the children not to talk to their parents.
00:45:05.000Teachers are posting videos saying parents have no right to educate their children or know what's going on.
00:46:17.000We're talking about, in this book, Gender Career, sitting right here on this table, there's a depiction of someone, several depictions of sexual activity.
00:46:24.000Amazon lists it as 18 and plus, 18 and over only, but they're putting it in school children's libraries and they've done it several times.
00:46:31.000So it is a persistent ideology and that's why it's become so shocking and such a powerful political issue.
00:46:38.000That's why even Bill Maher addressed the concept just last week saying Democrats need to stop this.
00:46:44.000And that's why it's so crazy that Matt Walsh He highlights Vanderbilt University bragging about how much money they're gonna make doing these irreversible surgeries.
00:47:24.000Letitia James couldn't even get criminal charges on Trump is now filing a civil suit against them.
00:47:29.000The power of the federal government is being used against Trump supporters to the extent that the president would go on TV and say half the country are an extremist threat, and then someone would run over and kill a kid.
00:47:39.000So I'm telling you so no, like, I'm totally with you.
00:47:42.000That speech, that speech was inappropriate.
00:47:45.000I do want to just go back to the like, I have a much more optimistic view of the world than you do.
00:47:52.000But what's what's pessimistic about what I'm saying?
00:47:54.000Because I think like with this book, right?
00:47:57.000I 100% think that there are bad people out there that want to, you know, get their worldview across.
00:48:03.000I think most people, You know, whether it's this book or other books.
00:48:07.000I think most people are trying to be empathetic to kids that might be different.
00:48:14.000Whether, you know, they're gay or they're bisexual or they're figuring it out or whatever.
00:48:18.000And I think that this generation is very empathetic compared to my generation.
00:48:22.000When I grew up, You know, like if somebody was gay, they got made fun of.
00:48:26.000I do want to finish the thought, right?
00:48:32.000And so it's entirely possible people are looking at this and, you know, most people are bad at their jobs, right?
00:48:38.000Like, I mean, at best, most people are average.
00:48:41.000And so, like, they might have looked at this and said, like, you know, oh, this is one of the school books that's out there, not read it, not looked at the material, and thought, hey, this is an empathetic book.
00:48:50.000Like, I'm not saying that that's the case.
00:48:52.000But I just do not believe that there is, like, a universal group of people that are trying to show kids pornography.
00:49:01.000I think that in general terms, People are trying to say like, Hey, you know what?
00:49:05.000Maybe like, you know, when we were younger, we did not treat people that were different.
00:49:10.000Well, and we would like to, and maybe they're not doing their job.
00:49:13.000Well, they're not looking at, they're not doing their homework.
00:49:15.000They're not making sure that it's age appropriate content.
00:49:18.000We should always be respectful of other people and their differences, of course, obviously, but what are the consequences of these actions in our schools?
00:49:27.000What are the consequences of what's happening in Canada right now where these policies have led to children being taken away from their parents because their parents aren't transitioning their children?
00:49:36.000And we have to be careful what we say here.
00:49:39.000How is it empathetic where in Canada right now parents are having their children taken away from them because they don't transition them?
00:50:20.000So why are there people actively defending that and calling Matt Walsh an extremist for saying, hey, maybe we shouldn't do that?
00:50:27.000Like, listen, my point here is, it doesn't matter whether you agree with it or don't, the concept of sterilizing a child or permanently removing the breast tissue of a 13, 14, or 15-year-old girl is considered an atrocity.
00:50:43.000We used to have huge stories about female genital mutilation being wrong.
00:50:47.000Now you have universities actively promoting it.
00:50:50.000So if you can consider that a conservative did not leave that space and Vanderbilt University is saying there are instances where we will mutilate the chests or secondary sexual characteristics or give other puberty blockers and chemicals that aren't approved for this to children, We're in the territory now where there's a group of people for whatever reason doesn't matter are advocating atrocities against children.
00:51:13.000Yes, so I'm with I think you always are going to have a problem with Extreme capitalism.
00:51:21.000And what I mean by that are, you know, there are people that are willing to make money doing anything.
00:51:27.000And so, you know, when you, again, I'm not educated on the story, so I want to be very careful with what I say here.
00:51:33.000But, you know, if that is the case, if there is a organization that is excited about making a ton of money, you know, providing those services, that's obviously a problem.
00:51:48.000I also agree with you, like, as I said earlier, you know, I don't think children should be making these decisions.
00:51:53.000I, you know, I certainly don't think, unless there's abuse from the parent or something, if it's a situation where the parent is, you know, ridiculing the kid or something because the kid is trans, or, you know, believes that, you know, he or she is trans, then I think that is a different problem.
00:52:08.000So, like, I think you have to look at every case individually.
00:52:11.000If there are bad people involved, that's one thing.
00:52:13.000Now, if it's just, you know, a parent that doesn't think that it's appropriate, you know, I think that is a, that is a much different situation.
00:52:23.000Are you okay with the drag queen story time in the videos that are coming out showing, you know?
00:55:05.000Maybe when, you know, a few thousand far-left extremists set fire to a church and tried to firebomb the White House and the president's forced in a bunker, maybe the ideology has reached a point where we're getting dangerously close to a civil war.
00:55:32.000FBI agents blowing the whistle, calling out the actions, the corruption and the political bias in the DOJ.
00:55:39.000And then you actually have the FBI that's being called out acting at the behest of Democrats towards political ends.
00:55:46.000So, Maybe it's just a bunch of wild, crazy extremists fighting each other in the street.
00:55:51.000Aaron Danielson getting shot twice in the chest.
00:55:53.000Far-left extremists firebombing churches and, you know, pregnancy centers all over the country.
00:55:59.000Oh, actually, they're in the DOJ, and they're using the power of the federal government, and then when that doesn't work, you get the AG in New York attempting to file charges against Trump.
00:56:08.000When that doesn't work, they go after a civil suit.
00:56:10.000What we're experiencing is not just Cold Civil War, it's fifth-generational civil war.
00:56:14.000The fact that YouTube, two weeks ago, announced they're going to be suppressing information they deem borderline is election manipulation.
00:56:20.000The fact that the FBI said, whistleblowers pointed out, they were instructed not to investigate Hunter Biden's laptop.
00:56:40.000I will start with the part that I 100% agree with.
00:56:43.000I think that we're at a situation now where big tech has too much power.
00:56:48.000And, you know, I can't give you the clean answer to what should happen there.
00:56:52.000But I think that the second that you are editorializing social media, There is a there is a problem.
00:57:01.000And, you know, I mean, look, I'm fine with I'm fine with very hard, you know, like, hey, I don't I don't want like Nazi propaganda on any of these things.
00:57:10.000I don't want, you know, like the like those viewpoints out there, because I think I think that's problematic.
00:57:18.000But outside of that, you know, what about communist viewpoints?
00:57:24.000Yeah, I mean, like, communists are great at killing people.
00:57:33.000You know, it's a valid question, right?
00:57:35.000I think that I think people need to be able to like, I would much rather have more voices out there.
00:57:42.000And more of those voices are voices that I hate and despise and think are the worst people on planet Earth, then have a giant corporation decide who is good and who is bad.
00:57:53.000Because even if you're a good person, like even let's just let's just assume that Facebook is trying to do the right thing for a second.
00:58:02.000Their opinions are not going to be your opinions are not going to be my opinions.
00:58:05.000And so now what we have is we have a group of people that are all essentially from California that grew up with a certain viewpoint that are deciding what is appropriate speech.
00:58:16.000Now, I 100% understand that these are private companies and they're, you know, they are not um regulated by the first amendment that being said you know when they essentially control everyone's voice i mean like if you if you take facebook instagram youtube google i mean that is a huge chunk of the internet
00:58:40.000So we know now that the federal government has been working directly with big tech to censor their political rivals.
00:58:47.000And I, you know, the Facebook thing was, I'm not going to say it was shocking, because, you know, the last, you know, year and a half of working around government, I definitely, any dream I had that our government was the West Wing is gone.
00:59:24.000And then what I ended up hearing from all these conservative pundits was that it would never happen because the federal government wouldn't allow it.
00:59:29.000Well, lo and behold, the federal government has completely bifurcated at this point, with whistleblowers coming out accusing the DOJ of corruption, 20 plus, and the DOJ itself overtly engaging in partisan political activities.
00:59:40.000I do think, and you know, this is one of your things, the Uniparty, right?
00:59:45.000I think when it comes to certain things, the Uniparty reigns supreme.
00:59:50.000I don't think it's in either major political party's best interest to allow a civil war.
00:59:56.000And so I think that that is an instance where you would have solidarity.
01:00:29.000So, my fears are that what might end up happening first is that Two guys in a small town in Nebraska, seeing what's going on, just walk up and put up a checkpoint.
01:00:47.000Feds have no authority to intervene at all.
01:00:50.000One by one, you start seeing more instances like what happened with the Bundys and the Bureau of Land Management.
01:00:55.000More and more people in more rural areas start saying no, but it's always an internal issue and the feds have no authority.
01:01:01.000So the federal government actually can't intervene when it comes to state's issues.
01:01:04.000Well, also, the DOJ has been politicized.
01:01:07.000The military could be politicized as well, and many times when there's historical, global, civil conflicts internally, it's the military fighting other military forces, you know, society is bifurcated.
01:01:19.000But I'm curious, on that point, how the United States would stop a civil conflict or civil unrest, especially with its history in Vietnam, and let's not kid ourselves, also Afghanistan, where they have failed Tremendously when it came to fighting the Taliban, which is now only that much stronger and better well equipped after trillions of dollars and 19 years of our soldiers going over there.
01:02:01.000I just think there is a huge jump between Intermittent violence, you know that is being largely I think Pushed by media personalities because it's a hot-button topic.
01:02:13.000Everybody wants to talk about civil war I think just you know Constantly having this conversation is even problematic because the crazy people start believing that this has to happen I do not think most Americans have the stomach or desire for it.
01:02:29.000I think fundamentally like but you're right And I think because of that reason, I do not think we will have, you know, a, I don't want to say real, but a real civil war.
01:02:42.000I don't think... How did the Syrian civil war start?
01:02:45.000I mean, it's always balkanization of people.
01:03:26.000The government started shooting at protesters.
01:03:29.000When the government tried quelling the unrest, it became a civil war.
01:03:33.000So if we started getting widespread rioting and protests on a greater scale, well, it's entirely possible considering the size of the United States, if the government did try to intervene, it would actually be the catalyst for the civil war like it was in Syria.
01:03:46.000I think the problem Americans have is that they think, for one, like you keep saying, Americans don't want war.
01:03:52.000No one in any of these countries ever wanted war.
01:03:54.000But small political factions started one, and then people had their homes blown up, 90 plus percent of people just flee, and then the country crumbles.
01:04:03.000So what I see as being a terrifying possibility is hyperpolarization happened.
01:04:09.000Because of COVID and because of the social and political polarization, we're now seeing geographical polarization.
01:04:14.000For one, I left New York to South Jersey, he left South Jersey to West Virginia.
01:04:21.000What's happening there is that red areas are becoming redder, blue areas are becoming bluer, and this has actually been happening for 30 or 40 years.
01:04:27.000The geographical alignment for a civil war has been occurring for decades now.
01:04:32.000Now you add on hyper-tribalization with the president actually saying 74 million people are an extremist threat.
01:04:38.000The powder keg's been primed and ready to go.
01:04:41.000I mean, you can't look like a president coming on TV and giving an address and they're cheering for it.
01:04:46.000These progressive and liberal personalities are celebrating saying good and they're calling for the weaponization of the government of law enforcement to go after their political rivals.
01:04:56.000Meanwhile, the equivalent crimes committed by their faction go unanswered.
01:05:02.000I mean, we're sitting on the edge of something.
01:05:05.000But the fear I have, there's an article written by The Bulwark, and I certainly don't agree with these guys, but they wrote that it could even be as soon as November 2022.
01:05:15.000Now, part of me wants to have optimism bias and say it's not possible, or a normalcy bias.
01:05:24.000But their argument is that Don't you think that all of these Trump supporters and Republicans, I believe it's two-thirds of Republicans who believe the election was stolen, don't you think they're going to go out to these polling locations and they're going to be surrounding them to certain degrees, just watching, making sure nothing bad happens?
01:05:40.000And don't you think Antifa will also, in kind, show up to protest?
01:05:44.000Won't that lead to fighting at polling stations?
01:05:46.000What happens if one fight happens at one polling station and they're forced to shut it down and then a large faction of people aren't able to vote?
01:05:52.000What happens then when a court challenge escalates and they say the vote is illegitimate because we weren't actually able to vote?
01:05:57.000And the court says we don't have a full tabulation because a whole county of 400,000 people didn't vote.
01:06:06.000That's in line with people saying, oh, we know the Proud Boys and Antifa fight.
01:06:09.000Okay, what if they fight at a polling place in November?
01:06:11.000Like, you could end up with even five polling locations shutting down, and lawsuits just halting everything, and then us getting no real clear answer on the election.
01:06:32.000I just think that there are a lot of people in press that are profiting by talking about this stuff and I don't think it's as widespread as, you know, the articles and social media would have you believe.
01:06:46.000Like, I do not think that this is where we're at right now.
01:06:49.000I think that politicians are incredibly disappointing right now across the board.
01:06:53.000I don't think anybody right now has a vision of the future.
01:06:57.000I don't think anybody's trying to say, this is where I want to take America.
01:07:00.000This is how, you know, we, we kind of rise above it.
01:07:05.000I think that the easiest thing for everybody to do is to just tell, you know, talk about how the other organization is terrible.
01:07:11.000I agree with you that there is an element of sensationalism to some media coverage, but I disagree with you that this topic is problematic.
01:07:19.000I think this topic is important because I think it's a big problem, and if you ignore a problem, it only festers and grows.
01:07:25.000And I think there is a big problem between the left and the right and Americans that are being divided and conquered.
01:07:31.000I'm not saying that it should be ignored, but it's to the point where it's almost like Civil War porn now.
01:07:36.000Like everybody do you know how many times I've now seen like this is what could happen?
01:07:41.000These are the things that might kick it off like everyone's talking about it in a way almost with excitement, you know, it's great for clicks.
01:07:48.000It's great for you know, sensationalism.
01:08:59.000Except that culminated in January 6th, which was absolutely insane.
01:09:03.000Now you're actually to the point where the president is going on TV and demonizing half the country, and then two weeks later a guy murders a kid.
01:09:09.000It's like, you know, Andy Ngo gets just brutally beaten covering a protest.
01:09:15.000You can see the arrest, the trial of Alex Jones, you can see it in any, any, Seemingly apolitical, and there is a political lens focused on it.
01:09:27.000You can see it in the Ukraine-gate scandal.
01:09:30.000Donald Trump uncovered corruption, rather accidentally, so they impeached him for it.
01:09:34.000Joe Biden actually flies his son in Air Force Two to China for private equity deals.
01:10:03.000Yo, I watch people get the crap beaten out of them.
01:10:05.000I watch people make makeshift explosives and throw them in Berkeley.
01:10:09.000This stuff's been escalating dramatically and now we're to the point I remember telling people, they kept saying, nothing's happening, it won't happen.
01:10:16.000Then a dude shows up in Tacoma with a ghost gun and firebombs and tries firebombing an ICE facility.
01:10:21.000And they're like, that's one crazy guy.
01:10:23.000Then you get a dude walking up to another dude, Aaron Danielson in Portland, seemingly seeking out a conservative.
01:10:29.000And then you hear, we got one, we got something like that.
01:10:31.000And then he shoots him twice in the chest, killing him.
01:10:33.000This guy had a communist tattoo on his neck.
01:10:36.000If you're going to look at all of these things that are happening, the grains of sand being added, culminating with the boulder of the president demonizing half the country, and then a murder following it, I just feel like you're choosing to ignore it.
01:10:49.000I think all of these things are problematic.
01:10:51.000I just think if you look over the history of our country, we've had violence, we've had protests, we've had, you know, all kinds of issues, and we've been able to get through it.
01:11:02.000And I just am I'm more of an optimist about the American people.
01:11:06.000I do not think that we are going to have open civil war.
01:11:10.000I think that we are... I think we have a few more years of very contentious political situation.
01:12:24.000There's a lot of insane people that are getting on the microphones, getting on the major communication highways.
01:12:30.000But sadly, big tech social media also elevates those voices.
01:12:34.000Big tech social media that, of course, has connections to, of course, the intelligence agencies that, of course, works on the behest of the federal government, censors voices and ups voices that, of course, they want to promote.
01:12:51.000They have been promoting the most toxic voices that get the most amount of attention, that get the most amount of clicks.
01:12:57.000Some people say that's because of monetary incentives.
01:13:00.000Some people say that's because of a larger agenda.
01:13:02.000I think that's an agenda that deserves to be called out, no matter what the real reason for it is.
01:13:07.000But they're censoring the right side of the culture war and promoting the left side, regardless of whether it's... On the right, you could make a joke about something on TV that was violent and they'll ban you for pushing violence.
01:13:18.000The left, we see on Twitter, they actually post addresses to organize to engage in violence and they get away with it.
01:13:24.000But I'll throw it back to 2019 when I was on the Jogan Experience with the Twitter people and I said outright, if you keep doing this, it's going to result in something, you know, serious as violence and chaos.
01:14:12.000Yeah, do you think it ends with January 6th?
01:14:13.000Do you think all those Trump supporters are just happy?
01:14:15.000No, I don't think it ends with January 6th.
01:14:17.000I do want to say, like, the difference between January 6th and all of the other violence, and just to be super clear, I think it's absurd any time that we're like, oh yeah, it's no big deal, this violence was because so-and-so felt this way or that way.
01:14:29.000Like, no, you don't get to just destroy property, murder people, beat people up because you're mad.
01:15:17.000You know, and so I think that you have to look at that there's always going to be craziness, you know, and you have, you know, as the craziness escalated over the past decade, Over the past decade, yes.
01:15:31.000Is there any reason to believe that it would stop?
01:15:38.000Yeah, I think that people are tired of the direction the country's going.
01:15:43.000I think that when you look at, you know, I personally think- Trump supporters are going to be like, you know, guys, I don't want to argue anymore.
01:15:51.000No, I don't think that, but I think that- Well, so hold on, hold on.
01:16:08.000Okay, so there's no sign of it slowing down?
01:16:09.000No, I disagree because I think that I think Ron DeSantis is going to win the primary.
01:16:14.000I think he is more moderate than President Trump.
01:16:17.000I think he is less aggressive towards people than President Trump.
01:16:22.000I think people do not want Most people do not want that level of aggression in a president.
01:16:29.000I think that while the far left kind of applauded Joe Biden's comments, I think most people, including most Democrats, were not super pleased with a red background emperor I don't think that's helpful.
01:17:33.000So the MAGA Republican side has actually expanded dramatically.
01:17:37.000Looking at these numbers, looking at the rhetoric, and now the escalation of violence and even statements from the leader of the Democratic Party, Everything has escalated in a substantial way, like a snowball rolling down a hill.
01:17:51.000You could argue, and I think it's fair to say, maybe right now, it all just stops.
01:18:29.000So if we're looking at over the past decade, consistent escalation, and I think a lot of it has to do with the millennial generation getting older and gaining more power in government and in corporations.
01:18:41.000If we've seen escalation, and we see no signs of de-escalation, Then, if you were going to put down your chips and make your bet, it would be on escalation.
01:18:51.000Okay, so maybe it's possible that from here, we don't go to Civil War.
01:19:14.000Because I'll tell you this, you know what I want more than anything?
01:19:16.000Get a lounge, we got a massage chair downstairs, I just want to turn it on, turn the TV on with, you know, maybe like the X Games, maybe some snowboarding, get a big old bucket of chicken wings, and let that be the day.
01:19:28.000Instead, what we get is, I wake up in the morning and I see a story about crime, murders, sweeping these cities, 200% murder increase in Portland.
01:19:37.000There's a crazy video right now, I mean, just after the Summer of Love, seeing all of these bodegas just destroyed, these small businesses.
01:19:45.000Watching these videos of people randomly stabbing people in the street, all of it is dramatically escalated.
01:19:50.000Seeing these videos of people open air drug markets in San Francisco, it's not just that it's political violence and escalation, it's that the economy is even, you know, in crisis.
01:20:00.000We're a year delayed on trying to put up a steel frame building.
01:20:04.000It's just, everything I've been seeing over the past decade, in every way, Food prices, inflation, now we've got the sterling, the pound has collapsed to near dollar parity.
01:20:53.000I think people will find a way to survive and humans will do what humans do best and adapt and keep going.
01:21:03.000But first things, it's just gonna hit the fan, family-friendly show here, I think in some way, and I think there are a lot of ingredients, you know, corporate media, social media, the poor economic outlook, I think all of that, along with the captured institutions, signals some major troubles ahead.
01:21:18.000I hope it gets Figured out, I hope it gets better, but there's a lot of fuel being added to this fire.
01:21:23.000But back to the original point, you know, you were in Afghanistan.
01:21:27.000The United States couldn't stop that conflict.
01:21:29.000How can they stop a domestic conflict?
01:21:31.000But your experiences in Afghanistan were also probably... That's a different situation though, right?
01:21:35.000It's a different situation where, you know, you have a different culture and you don't, it's not, it's not your world.
01:21:43.000You're trying to influence someone else versus this is who you are.
01:21:51.000I mean, they've outright said over and over again over the past two, three decades, they won't abide by federal law.
01:21:57.000They use illegal immigration as a means to bolster their census so they can get extra power in the federal government.
01:22:03.000I believe in the last census, in the last decade, they had one extra electoral vote and seat in Congress due to illegal immigrants that they allow in and block the federal government from enforcing the law.
01:22:15.000So when you're dealing with something like that, I mean, you know what?
01:22:19.000Texas filed a lawsuit, I think it was against Pennsylvania.
01:22:22.000I think 46 states signed onto that lawsuit, challenging the 2020 election.
01:22:26.000I mean, that, my friends, is like dramatic Civil War territory.
01:22:31.000And Clarence Thomas and I think Alito said, it is our responsibility to hear cases in the original jurisdiction, which is the Supreme Court for the states.
01:22:39.000But the other justices said, we will not.
01:22:42.000And so what ends up happening there is the worst possible outcome.
01:22:46.000The people who said we have grievances and we demand a redress of those grievances were told over and over and over again, no.
01:22:53.000So that just makes desperate people take desperate actions.
01:22:57.000JFK said, those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.
01:23:02.000If they, I think the fraud narrative is, is just wrong.
01:23:05.000I think obviously there's questions about certain things that happen.
01:23:08.000There's always some kind of fraud, but I think Trump lost because the media mobilized people because COVID mobilized people because COVID hurt Trump.
01:23:15.000Trump kept Fauci on a lot of things like that.
01:23:17.000But when people come and say, we feel like this is unfair, and it's 74 million voters, almost half the voting block, we say, let's work out what's making you upset and make sure we can come to an agreement on how to move forward.
01:23:32.000Instead, All of the court simply said, no, we won't do it.
01:23:36.000We won't even hear what you have to say or look at anything you're presenting.
01:23:39.000Almost all of the court cases that were brought weren't even on fraud.
01:23:41.000They were on procedure and they were thrown out on standing.
01:23:46.000So these people didn't even get a chance to have someone say, your argument is wrong.
01:23:49.000They outright said, we won't even bother with you.
01:23:52.000That's the kind of thing that results in January 6th.
01:23:54.000And then January 6th resulted in people.
01:23:56.000There are still people who haven't even been charged with a crime who are in solitary confinement.
01:24:00.000That's the kind of thing that results in people losing their minds.
01:24:15.000Let's maybe try to focus on the more positive aspects.
01:24:18.000How can we prevent, from your intelligence and from your understanding, what are some positive things we could do to try to bridge this gap, bridge this divide?
01:24:27.000Is there anything even possible that could help the American people see that they have more in common than they don't?
01:24:35.000Honestly, I'm a firm believer that you invest in your community and don't worry about the national media apparatus.
01:24:43.000And I know that sounds very simple, but you know, I can get online and I can give speeches and I can talk about things and You know, and people will follow me and some people will hate me and you know, whatever it is, but that just becomes like the noise of the day online.
01:25:00.000What I can affect is I can donate my time coaching, I can donate my time to NGOs, I can invest in my family, my children.
01:25:10.000My friends, you know, help people, be part of the community, make the people around me better.
01:25:16.000I think fundamentally when people focus on those things, life gets better.
01:25:21.000And when people spend, invest a lot of time arguing online, things do not get better.
01:25:27.000Because arguing online gives you the impression that like everything is life or death.
01:25:35.000You end up spending two hours arguing with some idiot on Twitter.
01:25:40.000You know, and at the end of it, you're like, you're amped and you're, you know, you're frustrated and you're like, well, what did I just do?
01:25:47.000You know, and you get this impression that like people are your enemy.
01:25:57.000But, you know, but in person, I've literally never had these kinds of aggressive, you know, and I'm in a town where almost...
01:26:06.000Everyone disagrees with like my viewpoint, you know, certainly on, you know, like the Second Amendment and some of the other things, but I've never had these aggressive conversations.
01:26:17.000The conversations are always reasonable because they're in person.
01:26:19.000You're looking at somebody, you're reading body language, you realize that this person is, you know, is coming from a good place, you know?
01:26:26.000So if we're, you know, I think in I think personal investment in your community is the best thing you can do.
01:26:35.000And it doesn't it doesn't feel the same.
01:26:38.000It doesn't feel like, oh, I'm changing the world.
01:26:41.000But the truth is, you're going to change the world more doing that than trying to put out some, you know, message to like, save the day.
01:26:49.000I certainly agree with people should be taking care of themselves, their friends, their families working on themselves eating right exercising, and that'll dramatically change their world for the positive.
01:27:03.000No, but it's needed to have these conversations.
01:27:06.000I think, you know, your perspective, your point of view is important to get into and to talk and to have civil conversations about.
01:27:12.000And I think the more civil conversations we have, the better.
01:27:15.000How do we, you know, address the problems coming our way?
01:27:17.000I think, you know, they're very severe and they are going to take us being the best versions of ourselves, being the healthiest, the most strongest versions of ourselves.
01:27:26.000Because again, financially, you know, the situation is also getting very bleak.
01:27:29.000A lot of people are going to get very desperate.
01:27:32.000And the thing that's going to protect people is themselves as individuals and their family.
01:27:37.000The economy goes bad, people are unhappy.
01:27:39.000I mean, just in I'll say one thing, too.
01:27:43.000You know, earlier in that point when you were saying that you think people are talking about this because it gets clicks, my rebuttal was, maybe it's because it's actually happening.
01:28:05.000Yeah, hopefully the end result is people, you know, chilling out.
01:28:09.000One of the things that we're doing with our website, TimCast.com, is we only have one political show.
01:28:15.000Technically two, but it's like TimCast IRL's Conversation and then my morning show and the shows that we're creating outside of this are, you know, Tales from the Inverted World is true crime, mystery, history.
01:29:44.000That's why I'm asking if a stripper showed up, but didn't actually remove any clothing, would you be okay with the stripper reading to your kids?
01:31:10.000What I'm saying is that what the media has called drag has not necessarily been that, which is why I'm trying to be very specific about my language.
01:31:18.000I don't know any instance that you're talking about.
01:31:21.000So there's specific events that are called Drag Queen Story Hour, and that's what we're talking about.
01:31:41.000There's a Seattle library created white-only spaces and colored-only spaces.
01:31:45.000It was the weirdest thing ever and deeply offensive.
01:31:48.000And then, I'm sorry, people of color is what they call it, but I feel it's deeply, it's the same level of offense.
01:31:53.000And then Dearborn, Michigan did the same thing.
01:31:54.000So, you know, you have that across the board, and I think we all just outright disagree with it.
01:31:59.000Yeah, I think the problem is the ideologies of the disparate culture war factions are so distinct now that there is no middle space that people can occupy.
01:32:10.000Yeah, and a lot of times... It is hard.
01:32:12.000I've seen the opposite problem, because I've seen, you know, media talking about it, but then the actual photos and videos of it are way worse than I could even imagine, personally, from what I've seen online.
01:32:20.000But my question was more centered towards the solution aspect.
01:32:23.000You know, when we talk about a community, you wouldn't bring your children there, but would you get involved or try to prevent this from happening?
01:32:32.000Or how can a community safeguard against those kind of bad influences that Yeah, so, you know, I haven't been in that position, so it's hard for me to answer.
01:32:43.000I worry, like, I worry about my children.
01:32:46.000So, you know, if other parents think it's appropriate for their children, then they can make that decision.
01:32:51.000My kids won't, will not be involved in something like that.
01:32:58.000I think one of the challenges with this whole debate over kids and this kind of stuff is where people think the government should be intervening in what parents are showing to their kids.
01:33:11.000And so, right, in the Bible there are things that are considered adult.
01:33:16.000But of course, you know, people who are religious want their kids to read the Bible.
01:33:19.000I think the issue is just parental consent.
01:33:22.000If the parents decide, but there's also got to be limits, I suppose,
01:33:25.000because I think everybody agrees like no school should be handing hustler to some kids.
01:33:29.000And so where is the line on those values is a challenge because,
01:33:33.000you know, in the book Genderqueer, the right says it's sexually explicit and shouldn't be shown,
01:33:40.000And that's where they don't agree on the values.
01:33:42.000But to a conservative, you're basically putting porn in front of kids.
01:33:45.000But do you really think that the left, when you say that, like it gets very murky, right?
01:33:50.000I don't think that most Democrats think that, you know, their teenage kids should have A book, you know, be handed a book in high school that shows blowjobs or sexual... Well, these are great schools.
01:34:41.000I agree with you, and I tell people all the time, the one thing you should say to your neighbors when you're talking about politics, if you really wanna just say, look, I don't know about any of that Trump stuff, I just think we shouldn't be giving children sex change surgery.
01:34:52.000And they're going to say, overwhelmingly, that never happens.
01:34:57.000And then my response to them is like, you know, Jazz Jennings has a show, I think on AMC or some other, or I don't know what channel it's on.
01:35:03.000Like, yeah, they give kids sex changes.
01:35:05.000I just, I don't, I think it's probably wrong.
01:35:08.000But there are people who just either won't believe it, refuse to listen to evidence.
01:35:12.000Larry Elder came on the show and said that he had a friend who believed the hoax about Donald Trump.
01:35:18.000I think it was the Very Fine People hoax.
01:35:19.000And he said, he pulled up the transcript and says, here, just read it.
01:35:30.000But I mean, my experience, you know, because I will sit on Facebook and I'll see these memes from all these like Occupy Wall Street people I know.
01:35:38.000And so I'll just post pictures and then they'll just delete the comment.
01:35:42.000You know, they'll say like, this that or otherwise happened.
01:35:45.000And then I'll just post a news story and a picture and they will delete the comment so no one can see it.
01:35:51.000And the response that I got was that I'm breaking consensus reality because that's more important.
01:35:55.000And I was just one person who told me that, but I think that exemplifies it.
01:35:58.000I think there's people who just want everyone to fit in.
01:36:00.000Yeah, I think it's always good that that you, you know, one of the things that I respect about you is that you push back, I don't always agree with you.
01:36:07.000But I think it's I think that you structure your thoughts the right way.
01:36:11.000And that you come at things with the intention of coming to the truth, you know, now, we might have different, we might come at it from a different angle.
01:36:23.000And we might disagree on some of the different pieces.
01:36:26.000But I think that having conversation is incredibly important.
01:36:30.000And I think it is harder and harder to have conversation, not only because like you and I are having this conversation, but I know that as a result of you and I having this conversation, I am going to get a whole bunch of people that like me and a whole bunch of people that hate me.
01:36:49.000Just because I came on the show, and that is so different than how I grew up.
01:36:54.000I think this is a great discussion, you know, as much as I probably talk too much, but having pushback on the stuff we frequently talk about is one of the most important things we can do.
01:37:11.000So they'll probably disagree with you, but a lot of people have been agreeing with you and some people have been insulting me and stuff like that.
01:37:54.000All right, so this is one of the wildest things that has happened to me.
01:37:58.000So Tim and I got back, we left Afghanistan to UAE, and then from UAE we had to move 300 people that were being hosted by a non-profit and all of this had been coordinated with State Department and the Albanian government and this NGO and so Tim and I are going to bring these 300 people to Albania so we leave UAE on a plane full of full of Afghans
01:38:32.000And, you know, we land, you know, it's like 2am and like all this press is there, there's all these people.
01:38:40.000And, you know, we're supposed to be meeting everybody at the resort where all of these Afghans were housed the next day.
01:38:50.000And so we get there, and it's amazing.
01:38:52.000Afghan, like, one of the happiest moments of my life are, like, you know, some of these kids that were literally, like, laying on the tarmac.
01:39:00.000Their lives had just been in jeopardy.
01:39:03.000And the next time I see them, they are playing tag, and they're drawing pictures, and, like, literally tears in my eyes.
01:39:12.000And then this woman who we had been kind of, you know, speaking with was like, Hey, you know, um, Alex wants to meet you guys.
01:39:21.000Like, you know, he wants to, and I have no idea who we're talking about, just like her boss, Alex.
01:39:26.000And so, you know, this limo pulls up and, and we're, we're going to go get lunch with Alex.
01:39:32.000And, you know, so Tim and I get in the car.
01:39:34.000There's two bodyguards in there and there's this dude and we're sitting there and you know we're talking to him he's perfectly nice and Tim just leans over and he goes I think I think this is Alex Soros.
01:39:51.000And I was like, bro, I think it is Alex Soros.
01:40:17.000So, um, so then Kennedy goes, he just, he does this, he looks around, looks at both the security guards, and he just goes, hey man, uh, Nick and I could totally kill you if we wanted to.
01:40:29.000He does he does he goes he's like and and he goes like that guy's the only guy in the car with a gun and I'm gonna grab him and while I'm grabbing him Nick's definitely taking out the other guy and then it's me and Nick against you and Alex go to his credit like stone-faced.
01:40:49.000He's like any Tim's like no, of course not you like, you know, you're very nice and you're doing a great thing for these Afghans He's like good, but then his other security guard this English guy is like I told you we needed more security I Take it more as of him giving a warning to him like you need more security.
01:41:08.000That's what it was It was it was all in good.
01:41:10.000Nobody actually like he wasn't threatening anyone Wow, that's a crazy story.
01:41:14.000But it was, it was like, we got in this vehicle and we just, we had no idea.
01:41:49.000I want to know what happened with that.
01:41:50.000Because that means there may be some innocent people in jail.
01:41:52.000I mean, some people who should be aren't.
01:41:54.000All right, we got Catherine Gillen says, in the UK, the TCs have changed our bank accounts.
01:42:02.000Quote, if there is an unstable economy that affects the banking markets, we will limit your funds, and if you have too much money in your account, we will charge you.
01:42:11.000Wow, can someone look that up to see if they're reporting on that?
01:43:02.000So a while ago, I had an animated cartoon called the damn few when I was when I was still running when I was still running ranger up and it's like It started off like two minute videos and then by the end we were doing full like 30 minute episodic animations So that was a lot of fun As London has a big hand in the world's financial markets with LIBOR, this is really bothering me as it looks like they might try to freeze our bank accounts.
01:43:30.000They have already done this in Greece before.
01:43:32.000Everyone check your bank's terms and conditions.
01:43:36.000You know, Catherine, I really do appreciate the British pounds you've sent.
01:43:39.000It's just, you know, the values drop so much.
01:44:18.000And the banks are saying, we're not going to give it to you.
01:44:19.000There was a famous guy who had to pay for his father's surgery, couldn't pay for it, literally got a gun, became a national case.
01:44:26.000And those cases are becoming more common all over the world.
01:44:28.000This is why the first thing I did when the end of the year comes in, profits roll in, is I took $250,000 and lined the inside of a banana stand that I have.
01:45:18.000So we, you know, we travel with a bunch of American cash every time that we're over there.
01:45:24.000Yeah, I remember when I was covering news in Kiev, and we had a bunch of British pounds and dollars, and we were paying people with British pounds and dollars, and they were just, like, shocked, because the exchange rate's nuts, like, people there get the equivalent of a couple hundred bucks a month for their salaries, and then here we come in, these, like, you know, Westerners covering news, this was back in 2014, and we were just, like, to us it was normal to be like, oh, here, grab some food, hand them 20 bucks, and they're going, whoa!
01:45:50.000Like, you don't need that much, but thank you, and we're like, okay, that's cool, man.
01:45:54.000I remember landing in India during their currency reset.
01:45:59.000All the money was just devalued right away.
01:46:04.000I was in the former Soviet Union right after the collapse of communism as part of the Eisenhower program, so I was like 16, 17.
01:46:16.000And spent a few months in Russia and at the time, you know, only a few years prior it was close to one-to-one and it was like a thousand rubles to the dollar and I was like a rich high school kid.
01:46:32.000I was like, this is amazing, you know?
01:46:35.000Came back with all kinds of like art and stuff that I never would have been able to afford.
01:47:12.000And, you know, um, filmed, you know, uh, what was going on.
01:47:17.000And then, you know, when we got back to UAE, did some interviews and then spent, you know, over the last year I've interviewed everybody again that was there.
01:47:25.000And we put together a documentary that kind of told the real story of how bad it was because the U.S.
01:47:30.000media, You know, kind of made it seem like, you know, the Taliban are working with Americans and everything's fine, you know, or meanwhile, like on the ground, you know, people are, the Taliban are, you know, shooting people anytime any, anything got people got riled up, they would just, you know, fire an AK into the crowd.
01:47:50.000You know, one of my friends, you know, was, you Trying to get this woman out, you know, she wasn't this wasn't part of our group part of a different group and They they murdered her right on the hood of the car.
01:48:03.000There was nothing they could do about it you know just like I mean really horrible stuff was happening and You know, nobody nobody stateside was really telling that story.
01:48:13.000It was just like oh, this is a peaceful You know, and they they were, they were not attacking Americans, but they were certainly attacking Afghans.
01:48:23.000And so we just tried to tell the honest story of kind of what happened and what it was like.
01:48:29.000And we thought it was important that the American people see it.
01:48:34.000It's on Amazon Prime and, you know, any funds that come into it get donated to the organization that, you know, Tim Kennedy, Chad Robeshaw, Sara Verardo and I founded called Save Our Allies.
01:48:47.000Now is that all proceeds or just profits?
01:49:18.000Um, so just any time that you make, uh, like a movie, you want it to be its own LLC, just like there's, you know, this, like, you know, like it, they want us every song to be its own company.
01:49:31.000Potential lawsuits, potential problems, but you know, like in, when you're, when it's a, when it's an NGO, there's, There's so many more rules about a 501c3, the things you have to do.
01:49:43.000So this way it's just like, hey, like whatever money comes into that thing, we just cut a check over.
01:49:51.000Specifically to save our allies, which is...
01:49:53.000You know, in the wake of Afghanistan, you know, a good chunk of the people that were part of that, that evacuation, stood up this 501 c three, you know, to continue doing that work.
01:50:06.000And so, you know, and that work has gotten more and more frustrating, because it's harder and harder to move Afghans.
01:50:13.000But, you know, so we're still helping Afghans.
01:50:15.000And then we also have a another part of the organization that is doing work in Ukraine.
01:50:21.000All right, Steve Cohen says, saw Luke in that HBO documentary, The Anarchist.
01:50:25.000Felt like they may try to drag you guys soon with that.
01:50:53.00011BravoNRD says, For Nick, with inflation going on, does my Ranger Up 5-Year Challenge coin only get me an 8-ounce beer instead of the full 12-ounce beer?
01:52:39.000So for a few years we had this show called the Bad News Network and basically it was like kind of a comedic look at the news but we covered serious topics like we went in depth on every topic but we did it in a way that was Manageable.
01:52:56.000So the show was usually 20 to 30 minutes.
01:52:58.000We did it once a week and it was like a recap of the big stuff that happened that week.
01:53:03.000But it's technically owned by Ranger Up and so when I sold the controlling share of that, I stopped doing it.
01:53:11.000We're in the process of coming up with a different show, so there will be something new soon.
01:53:16.000Free men die free says Blueanon has embraced all the pillars of totalitarianism.
01:53:21.000Civil war will be the end result because it is incompatible to our libertarian foundations.
01:53:27.000Or, you know, I think one possibility that would potentially avoid war is if we start building up culture.
01:53:35.000This guy, Vivek Ramaswamy, is that his name?
01:53:39.000Investor goes to Disney and says, stop getting woke.
01:53:41.000If these companies actually start rejecting this, then you'll see a lot of these weirdo cult people break out and be like, oh, I never supported that stuff.
01:55:45.000No, I think it's actually like way less than most people do.
01:55:48.000But it could be that, you know, whatever system you're listening on or on the back end for these platforms, they could be doubling up or something, I don't know.
01:56:44.000They're taking everything away with inflation.
01:56:47.000I would say figuratively killing your kids or there's a major detriment happening to the future of this country in that your kids will have substantially less than you did.
01:56:55.000I wouldn't be surprised if your grandchildren don't have air conditioning or refrigerators.
01:57:46.000Pinochet's Helicopter Tours, interesting name, says, as a retired Army 11B myself, to pretend government has a monopoly on force and is always in the right seems contrary to the oath I took and history.
01:57:57.000But I do think there's a lot of people who are in the armed forces who will just follow orders.
01:59:23.000So I mean, you know, Kent State, you had National Guard members that are that, you know, had at the time that National Guard then was not the National Guard now where there was like real training that hadn't been in, you know, any kind of aggressive situation before.
01:59:39.000And they had people throwing rocks at them.
01:59:41.000And it was an aggressive, you know, they think that can't happen now, though.
01:59:46.000Like, I mean, people are, we're all, we're fancy monkeys, right?
01:59:50.000So like, you know, I mean, you know, if, you know, if you're not trained and you're afraid, you're going to make bad decisions.
01:59:59.000And so like, you know, everything that you talk, Tim Kennedy always talks about training, you know, like if you are used to being in crisis, if you're used to, Yeah, but the military chain of command is a lot smarter.
02:00:13.000I mean, they have people literally on their computers dropping bombs on weddings, on American teenagers, and American soldiers are doing it without any problems.
02:00:51.000And it could be some dude playing GTA in his living room.
02:00:54.000I, you know, as, as a former military officer, I have a lot more confidence, you know, not only in the officer corps, but explicitly in the non commissioned officer corps.
02:01:07.000But this is no disrespect to the soldiers.
02:01:10.000It's a statement of the impossibilities.
02:01:14.000If you have a commanding officer who says, look, we've got a group of guys who've been plotting some kind of terror attack on a bridge.
02:01:59.000There is no, if, if you, if you, if you served in the military, you realize how hard it would be to do some of these things that you're, that you're describing, like where, where you're going to get.
02:03:32.000So if they came down and said, we got another Whitmer style plot, and the local law enforcement is unable to handle it, they're calling in the National Guard, their insurrection act.
02:03:57.000Yeah, but they're- But then you could have a group of guys who are just basically like marching around demanding a petition, but they're there armed legally.
02:04:04.000So these guys roll up and they see a bunch of dudes and they jump out and they're like, don't move!
02:04:33.000I know I'm going to make more enemies, but I have to stick up for Millie.
02:04:37.000I mean, like, I'll tell you right now.
02:04:39.000I don't know that anybody other than than Senator Tillis leaned forward more to help with the extraction of the folks in Afghanistan.
02:04:52.000You know, it's, it's important, I can respect, it's, it's, it's important to remember that, you know, one, Millie is not the president, he serves at the The benefit of the president and to he is not a commander, you know, he he is in a purely advisory role.
02:05:13.000You know, so like... Distracted by the cat.
02:05:17.000You know, I know for a fact that he was not, you know, he, he did not support the decisions that that were made around the extraction of Afghanistan.
02:05:27.000And so like, hey, listen, if you want to criticize him for other things, I mean, like, you know, there's certainly, you know, as with all people, there's good and bad, but I will tell you that like, he gets a lot of heat.
02:05:37.000But he was one of the only people fighting for the Afghan people during the extraction.
02:06:00.000Vote locally, focus on your schools, focus on your neighbors, meet your neighbors, talk to your neighbors, organize with your neighbors, and really, if everybody at the grassroots worked towards their community, then we'd have one big beautiful community up top.
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02:06:30.000Apparently this past episode people are saying is their favorite because we had a bunch of crazy cameos like Viva Frey, Viva Frye.
02:06:58.000Tremendous organization that, you know, obviously I'm biased.
02:07:02.000I, you know, I was one of the founders, but You know, we've helped 17,000 plus Afghans thus far, and we're doing incredible work in Ukraine in, you know, medical evacuation, logistics, you know, helping a lot of people that are suffering.
02:07:34.000We didn't agree with some stuff, but that's okay.
02:07:36.000Thank you for at least having a conversation, and I think the conversation is definitely worth having, and different perspective and viewpoints are always welcome.
02:07:43.000Thank you for expressing those and being yourself.