On this episode of After Hours, host Alex Blumbergers talks about all the chaos that has been happening around the world in the past couple of weeks, including: China threatening to shoot down a plane carrying Rep. Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, the House passing an assault weapons ban that s expected to fail in the Senate, and the Tucker Carlson controversy.
00:01:38.000has redeployed a strike group into the South China Sea, so naturally tensions are hot.
00:01:43.000And maybe it's meaningless, maybe it'll just be more bluster, or maybe it's the start of something serious because, I don't know, there is conversation about the fourth turning.
00:02:44.000There's an hour-long members-only show where we talk about a ton of things, not just that.
00:02:49.000I don't want people to think that the full explanation is just the members only.
00:02:54.000But the issue is, well, I can't repeat what was said.
00:02:57.000We try to avoid highlighting these things.
00:03:00.000We don't put targets on our back, but I know that people want some kind of explanation, so we are exacerbating the problem by addressing it live, but that's a reality.
00:03:13.000For people wondering, you know, like, why don't you just go live again or why not?
00:03:15.000It's like, okay, well, after the show goes down, we have to figure out what's going on with the guests.
00:03:20.000We have to figure out where they're going, what we're going to do.
00:03:22.000And considering the volatility of everything, I was just like, we're not just going to restart this.
00:03:29.000Because, you know, Well, I mean, I'll put it this way.
00:03:35.000Every guest is given the walkthrough of, like, look, this is a live show, broadcast to hundreds of thousands of people, reaching over a million people every night, and you need to treat what you say like you would any other live show.
00:03:50.000And I think because of the relaxed nature of it, some people don't.
00:03:53.000And so I'll just, you know, fully come out and say it, like, it's been a stressful couple of weeks, and having that happen, I was just, like, ready to pass out right here.
00:04:01.000And so when we did the members-only segment, it's because people pay for a members-only segment.
00:04:06.000I'm not going to not deliver that for people who have already paid.
00:04:09.000And it was really chill and easy, just like to riff.
00:04:12.000And if you watch the members-only thing, you'll see me basically just venting about the stresses that we're dealing with.
00:04:18.000So, you know, long story short, If someone comes on the show and, you know, we give everybody, like, a 10-minute spiel about, like, here are the things that you will get knocked down for, here's how, you know, like... We're not saying, for the most part, like, don't say things.
00:04:37.000You know, like, we even tell people they're allowed to swear, just try not to.
00:04:40.000But if someone comes out and overtly says something, there's nothing I can do about it.
00:04:43.000It's just like, OK, so here's what we're going to do.
00:04:46.000Because we're idiots, we actually don't have this, but we should, like any other live show.
00:04:51.000There's normally a simple app that creates a lag between the video as it's recorded and then what goes live.
00:05:00.000And all the producer has to do is just press the button, and it just snips the frames So if someone says something super egregious, like a threat, they can just press a button and then it just disappears and the show keeps going.
00:05:13.000And truth be told, it's something we should have had a long time ago, but we're like, I don't know, just winging it this whole time, in case you haven't realized.
00:05:19.000So that's me addressing to the best of my abilities.
00:05:22.000We go into greater detail in the Members Only thing, but only because we're kind of venting.
00:05:26.000It was Brett Dasovic, it was Andy, who's our CTO, and us just kind of talking about life and stuff, and it is what it is, I suppose.
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00:11:02.000There's a lot of research out of Harvard on it, and they'll mix it with intermittent fasting, berberine, or what's it, metformin is a diabetes medicine, but the berberine's the plant they derive that from, and resveratrol.
00:11:13.000And they've even had experiments on dogs, and they find life extension in dogs and stuff.
00:13:56.000So I don't know, 2026 is... I've heard 2026 is when things are going to get absolutely bonkers.
00:14:01.000I just did a piece on this on my YouTube where 200, I think it was Glubb, I forget, like Sir John Glubb, he studied empires, the rise and the fall of them.
00:14:12.000And he said that 2020 or 250 years is the maximum lifespan of a country.
00:14:19.000The United States will turn 250 years in 2026.
00:14:27.000We meet all the criteria for an empire in decline, like, you know, massive complexity that just seems unsustainable, supposedly climate, deforestation, environmental degradation, and then changing relations between friendlies and foes, or heightening tensions between them.
00:15:11.000And there's one other funny thing, going back through Rome all the way through many other empires, apparently in the late stages of it, they all seem to highlight chefs.
00:15:23.000They make celebrities out of their chefs.
00:15:45.000And then also turning like animals into babies.
00:15:48.000Like how many times have you seen little dogs in like cradles, like all dressed up and everything?
00:15:53.000That's got to be a sign of an empire in decline.
00:15:55.000Yeah, the chef celebrities and baby pets.
00:15:58.000I noticed, like, when I watch these survival videos of people, like, carving, building their own house with their axe and stuff, and then it'll cut to them, like, frying really crappy spam or something in a pan, and then, like, cooking and eating it, and I'm like, this is not appetizing.
00:16:11.000Why is this part of the video of them, like, cutting up their meat?
00:16:16.000I guess it's like people want to know what it's like to live out in the woods and hunt and cook your own stuff, but...
00:16:21.000That's that's like the opposite of decline, like watching a video of some super ripped dude killing a deer and then eating it.
00:16:28.000But it'll this will be like he opens a can of tuna and then has some carrots like frozen carrots and he'll be cooking it in a pan.
00:16:34.000Okay, so that's what well, this is like chef in decline.
00:16:52.000Have you seen the video where the guy, he's watching the videos of people like cutting a shampoo bottle on his cake and he looks shocked and then he like grabs his phone and squeeze it and it's cake?
00:17:17.000I think Tim's onto something there that, It wasn't John Perkins, it was somebody else that was saying there's this feeling, whether it's a nation or an empire, that times were great, we were great, but no one's feeling it anymore.
00:17:35.000When you have to start hiring mercenaries for fighting your wars for you, Ben, did you see that they're having serious problems recruiting people for the military?
00:17:43.000They've lowered the education standard, they've lowered the fitness standard.
00:18:01.000Actually, what's interesting, I was in the military from 2000 to 2006, and everyone that, like, when I got basically to my unit, everyone was saying like, yeah, you know, you kind of went through the, you know, the piece of cake boot camp, where they can't touch you, they can't hit you, they can't push you, and like, you didn't need to do, you know, even half as much of the running as we needed to.
00:18:24.000So even back then, about 20 years ago, Apparently, it was like a shell of what it used to be, boot camp.
00:18:32.000We had Blackwater fighting a huge part, or at least if not fighting the war in the Middle East, they were like functioning as administration for a while.
00:19:03.000So like other empires are still around, you know, other like Great Britain's still around, you know, but has the US been an empire for 250 years?
00:19:39.000Really, it was like after World War II, they realized if we don't become a world order, empire, whatever, that we're gonna have World War III.
00:19:47.000So they were like, liberal economic order, which you could call an empire.
00:19:51.000We got military bases all over the earth, sign of empire.
00:19:59.000It's also, this is a different world than all the other empires when we were, you know, like mapping out this 250 year lifespan as well.
00:20:07.000I mean, when you're talking about nations and empires, you're also talking about like major economic blocks, like transnational economic blocks.
00:20:15.000I also want to point out, isn't it that empires last 250 years on average?
00:21:34.000How long did it take for an idea to go from one person to everyone in a city?
00:21:39.000To make it from New York to, you know, Illinois or to, you know, down to Florida.
00:21:44.000Like those ideas to change and then create rifts probably took a really, really long time.
00:21:48.000Well, you look at like the first Persian Empire and one of the biggest reasons they collapsed internally was because of all of these internal rifts they were having, rebellions, they were taking slaves and bringing them into their military and making them mercenaries as we were talking about.
00:22:03.000And now because of technology, like you're saying, we're having this ramping up of that kind of stuff and rebellions like Black Lives Matter internally.
00:22:09.000causing rebellion within the US. All of these. And then we also have information that shows us that you have Russia,
00:22:16.000China potentially pumping money into these internal rebellions
00:22:19.000that we're facing in the West. And you're right. We're gonna have
00:22:22.000basically a repeat of what caused a lot of these past empires to collapse on crack because of the technological...
00:22:35.000Ian's talking about a guy in the woods, like, cracking open an old can of tuna and putting carrots in it, and I'm like, sounds pretty good.
00:22:42.000I wonder if this is actually an American empire, or if it's just the British Empire.
00:22:54.000This one guy, it was an old TED Talks, but he was saying even in a bacterial petri dish, mismatches between resources and consumption cause things like five generations in, or before the decline, the population is doubling every single generation.
00:23:15.000And then five generations before the decline, the food declines by 15 16ths, the next generation by three fourths.
00:23:23.000And it's empty in the next generation, or in the next generation is about half.
00:23:27.000And then the following generation is the mathematical conclusion of it.
00:23:31.000I don't know if that if that Petri dish is a one on one parallel to what we're dealing with, but Well, so you've heard that wealth lasts three generations, they say, right?
00:23:40.000The first generation is, you know, comes up, figures it out, works hard, and then has that within them, this individual.
00:24:14.000You know, I hear stories about people who they're like, I was a college dropout and I was poor and I worked hard and then now they have kids and those kids are children of the wealthiest people on the planet.
00:24:23.000They're not going to learn the same lesson.
00:24:26.000He was like sleeping on couches and floors.
00:24:29.000And then he had that fire within him, and ruthlessness, let's be real, his kids, I don't know, I'm assuming he has kids, but the children of these people don't have that.
00:24:42.000I know it's such a tired analogy, the good men, bad times thing, but they've got another Arab parable that's just like what you're talking about, where it's like, I'll ride a camel, my son will ride in a Toyota, his son will ride in a Ferrari, and then his son will ride a camel.
00:24:56.000And there's a reason that these parables exist, though.
00:25:25.000You know, no, but in all seriousness, what we do is we take the newborn, we put him in the woods for a day, and if he survives, he's strong enough to join the tribe.
00:26:28.000Yeah, so I think this is a really good example, not of disarmament, right?
00:26:31.000A lot of people are saying they're trying to, you know, I think Luke tweeted this, they're going to try and disarm you for their depopulation agenda or something.
00:26:37.000And I'm like, no, I think it's nonsense.
00:26:43.000This bill bans half, it'll, like Thomas Massey pointed this out, the Mini-14 receiver is banned, but the Mini-14 receiver is also not banned.
00:27:19.000It's like, obviously, I'm in Canada, but right after you had the shooting in Texas at the school, Trudeau came out and banned transfer and sale of handguns or proposed a ban the next day.
00:27:31.000We're talking about a shooting in another country using a gun that's already banned in our country, and you're going to put a freeze on sale of a handgun that are rarely used for shootings in Canada at all, where we don't have a problem with this?
00:27:46.000And it seems like the US are doing that too, even though sometimes I feel like you guys have better laws around guns, better understanding, and then every time I think that, your politicians go and do stuff like this.
00:28:31.000But he also had previously complained up in Canada that Canada, with the trucker protest, is that American politics are seeping into Canada.
00:29:09.000If there's a bill that is proposing to both ban and not ban something, you've got to discard that stupid bill or at least remove that section from the bill before you can move forward.
00:29:19.000You can't even vote yes or no on something like that.
00:29:21.000It's going to be really funny when someone gets arrested with a mini 14 receiver and then they like sue and they're like, well, What's the logic there?
00:29:28.000Is the logic that if it says it's not banned, but then it says it is banned, therefore it is banned?
00:30:20.000Interestingly, when Ian chimed in with that one, then you get some unity.
00:30:24.000Everyone's like, yeah, actually, that makes sense.
00:30:26.000But the crazy thing to me is there are so many people responding to Ron Filipkowski just making fun of Lauren Boebert for saying something that is quite possibly the most logical and bipartisan thing ever.
00:30:38.000Yeah, I was actually very pleased with the response to this because like Ron has a Ukraine flag in his profile.
00:30:44.000So there was a part of me that was like, oh geez, should I just assume he's some zealot?
00:31:16.000I'm shocked that that wasn't a rule beforehand.
00:31:19.000Like the idea that they're passing these absolutely critical rules for your country and it's like not even a few days to decompress and think about it.
00:31:44.000Marjorie Taylor Greene pointed out that oftentimes when they're passing bills, they don't even have anybody in the room.
00:31:51.000It'll be like three Democrats and three Republicans, and someone who's not even the speaker will be like, oh, we got a bill here, it says this, and they go, eh.
00:31:59.000And so what they've been doing is the Freedom Caucus has like a watch where they go down and call it's they they call for like a roll call vote or something where they got to force all the members of Congress to come back in and actually vote on these bills.
00:32:14.000Absolutely unconscionable and people have pointed out in this Twitter thread as well that this is something that should have been enshrined in the Constitution from day one.
00:32:21.000Just assumed that they would be reading the bills because that was their intention was like what how could they never how could they not you know as I I would like to see a, I don't know if you guys have any knowledge of like, if you could compare, you know, the beginning of the US, how many bills were being proposed and passed at the start versus now.
00:32:39.000I reckon it's like a mass ramp up and stuff.
00:32:41.000Because it's super easy to just like roll out that rug, right?
00:32:44.000Oh, we can just Pass and do things every single day, but it's super hard to roll it back.
00:32:48.000And I don't think things were initially like the Constitution was put in place for a country operating like this, where it's like, ADHD, let's just pass things and propose things all over the place every day and not even think about it and have this 24-hour news cycle where it's like, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam.
00:33:03.000They also put, like, a thousand things in one bill.
00:33:06.000So they'll call it—the amount of—maybe they have less bills now than they used to, but that's because they've got 500 times the amount of stuff in each bill.
00:33:13.000But let's go back to what, you know, we were just talking about a moment ago.
00:34:18.000I gotta tell ya, I think the US is basically like someone took a figurative mountain and just splattered it all over the place and now it's a big random hodgepodge of nonsense.
00:34:27.000So I mean look, the constitution is swiss cheese.
00:35:14.000But they know that they'll have to be taken to D.C.
00:35:16.000to hear whatever case they have for a few years and they'll get to have a good time there.
00:35:20.000This one guy I was speaking to was trying to get in saying he was attacked by gangs, but Half of them are actually part of gangs and just try to use a bad experience they had with MS-13, despite being a part of it, to get in.
00:35:32.000And he's like, yep, I'm making my way back up again.
00:35:34.000At least I'll get to spend a few years in D.C., you know, waiting on my trial.
00:36:02.000One thing that's really interesting to look at, beyond cat conversations, One thing that's really interesting to look at is there's, I think it's the Syracuse Institute that cover it, the level of what judges allow migrants in versus which ones don't.
00:36:18.000You can look at some of the comparisons and there'll be some judges that accept like 99% of applicants And some that reject 99% and only accept 1%.
00:36:29.000It's like going to a freaking casino, whether you're going to get in or not.
00:36:33.000You can compare, like, female judges to male judges, which county they're in, and it has almost nothing to do with the application that these migrants put in or illegals put in it.
00:36:42.000Everything to do with the judges' feelings.
00:36:44.000Will there be people that come and try and get legal recourse, they get denied, and then they just come back and try to go to a different judge?
00:37:40.000Texas and Arizona could be busing the migrants back to where they came from, to their home countries.
00:37:44.000Sending them to DC is helping the Democrats in the Biden administration with their immigration agenda.
00:37:49.000They are basically saying—so Texas is like, we're going to send these migrants to you, D.C., and then D.C.' 's like, thanks for the help.
00:37:55.000We're going to then distribute, you know, these people around the country where we see fit.
00:37:59.000What this means is— To places we don't live.
00:38:41.000I'm not so sure how it applies here, but I know when I was covering migration issues in Europe, one thing all the migrants would do is they would destroy their passports before coming in and touching ground in any European country because they had basically been told, well, if you don't have a passport, they don't know where they can deport you to.
00:38:57.000And so there are some tactics that migrants will use to try to prevent deportation, so I'm not sure how difficult it is for these states to do that.
00:39:05.000If they are trying to apply legally to get in but don't have standing, it would be much easier to deport them.
00:39:10.000But then if they're going in and claiming asylum status, there still has to be some sort of court case, which is the problem, because they still have to be held somewhere.
00:39:18.000Our goodwill is being taken advantage of.
00:39:20.000People who are coming here are not asylum seekers, they're economic migrants.
00:39:24.000I'll tell you this, I have infinitely more respect for them than the modern American leftist that hates this country, but there still has to be a process for the sake of maintaining what this country is.
00:39:34.000If it's good, and, I mean, our economy's not so good these days, but still better than other places, well then, there's a reason why it is, because there's a system in place.
00:39:41.000If people just come in, start ripping apart that system, it's the decline of empire.
00:39:46.000I mean, actually, wasn't the Roman Empire dealing with immigration crisis?
00:39:51.000It was all the northern, like, I don't know who was it, not the Vandals, people in the northeast.
00:39:57.000But basically, after the empire had spread all throughout the Eastern and the Western Roman Empires, the empire split in half, but then it just like, over the next 200 years, people just kept pouring across the border.
00:40:09.000And then they would set up their new government like their foreign government in Rome in the Roman territory.
00:40:14.000Then all of a sudden you realize it's not Roman territory anymore because it's that other government is now running the show.
00:40:20.000Rome also had like bureaucratic complexity that wasn't sustainable past a certain point and part of that is like... Sound familiar?
00:40:28.000Yeah, and kind of what you're talking about, like when you're saying the culture is part of what holds people together, that's like the story.
00:40:36.000It also lends into why at first you don't need to hire mercenaries because the story is strong and people believe it.
00:40:43.000And then after a while, when you get a certain critical mass of burn it down, this place doesn't, you know, people in the country disrespecting the story of the very country or the nation.
00:40:54.000That's when it starts to come apart is when the belief that this is even a good thing that we're upholding.
00:41:00.000And then what you were just mentioning about like at the beginning of the nation, how many bills were being passed.
00:41:07.000Well, it also feels like that the Constitution was there to say that this is what the government is and that's it.
00:41:15.000And then it just kept growing and growing and growing.
00:41:17.000And then a lot of people, they need to secure their position.
00:41:21.000So keep passing bills, keep making your job position relevant.
00:41:27.000So that complexity grows, not because I believe in it and I believe what this nation could be, but a lot of it is self-preservation.
00:41:36.000So it builds this bureaucratic complexity that just can't sustain for very long.
00:41:42.000A lot of people are commenting saying I'm wrong.
00:41:44.000States don't have the authority to deport people.
00:44:23.000Well, I'll say this wouldn't they be better off being detained or something or in some way organized in such that we can Try and reduce crimes, try and stop criminals, try and vet them in the natural process.
00:44:38.000Like, what I mean is, if we catch a bunch of illegal immigrants, our duty is supposed to be like, okay, let's figure out who you are, what you're doing here, and go through that process.
00:45:15.000Okay, wait, I'm like looking this up to make sure this story is real, but I heard that Israel was doing like re-migration where they were paying people to go back to their home countries for a while.
00:45:25.000I heard that Denmark is doing that because they actually do want to encourage people to go back to wherever they came from.
00:45:31.000Denmark doesn't really want a lot of immigration to their country.
00:45:35.000I guess they've really been overwhelmed.
00:45:37.000Denmark saw what was going on with Sweden with those grenade attacks.
00:45:42.000So when I was covering the Sweden stuff, we were staying in Copenhagen for a little bit, and when you're going into Sweden, they stop you and they check your IDs, because they're worried about the people who are coming in and out of Sweden.
00:45:56.000There was a few months before I had gone there, someone threw a grenade onto a balcony, killing an eight-year-old English tourist.
00:46:08.000My wife is Dutch and she's, I mean, she's been seeing it for years, her and her family, is that the immigration waves, it's really like the cohesiveness that you would have had in these neighborhoods before starts to come apart.
00:46:23.000The story, you know, that binds them all together starts to come apart and it's interesting because also Holland and several other places out there is where the thing with the farmers is happening.
00:46:47.000If you listen to Katherine Austin Fitz, and I know I mentioned her on this show before, She worked under George W. Bush in the 90s, I think doing HUD or something like that.
00:47:00.000But she said she started getting some of her peers telling her that the United States is over, we're removing assets to offshore accounts, and we need a bunch of forward-facing, like public-facing events that will have the public not looking at what the real perpetrator was.
00:47:19.000So, she's been saying this for years, and she's probably one of the most coherent speakers on the topic, as you can get.
00:47:26.000And she was even saying with the BLM riots, I think I might have mentioned this before, it was like 34 out of 37 of the riots happened within just a very small perimeter around the central banks there.
00:47:41.000And her theory was, you know, it just makes it convenient that, like, all this territory can be built up as the smart grid, which is what the whole push is.
00:48:02.000Like, I wouldn't go so far as to say that, you know, but I mean, I wouldn't deny that that might be an angle.
00:48:08.000But this is Katherine Austen Fitz, you know, having worked under George W. Bush, I'm sorry, Herbert Walker Bush in the 90s, saying that she's been tracking, like, where did that well over $21 trillion of the federal budget go?
00:48:21.000You know, she's the one that's been tracking all that, so.
00:48:24.000She was the Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Housing under George W. Bush.
00:48:30.000Some guy was saying, when my rent prices start going up, I'll just go out into the neighborhood and fire a couple shots off to lower the housing prices.
00:48:40.000Where it's like, some guy's like, I rented an apartment, heard a gunshot, ran outside, and the guy next door said not to worry about it, it was him.
00:48:46.000They just tried to keep the rent prices low.
00:49:42.000When I was just down there in December and what's going on is, like, you drive on the highway from Tapachula up to northern Mexico, you're going to run into a caravan every 20 minutes.
00:52:12.000Well, I mean, the truth is that the issue of illegal immigration has been a football that's been passed back between Republicans and Democrats for years, and nothing really changes when it goes back and forth.
00:52:25.000Honestly, something that's not really recognized is the southern border program that Obama brought in place in 2014 was actually massively successful.
00:52:34.000He reduced illegal migration from Southern America by 70% by putting mass funding into Checkpoints, walls, patrols down on the Guatemalan border.
00:52:46.000So there are actually, if you look back and forth between Republicans and Democrats, their policies aren't that different.
00:52:51.000The whole thing is just a disaster that they're all terrified to address in a strong, confident way because no one wants to be seen as the president that stopped all of the poor refugees or children from coming in, whatever the policy will be publicly, but they know they can't just have Millions of people with no jobs, no background checks, nothing, sitting in Texas.
00:53:12.000Remember that story we were talking about the other day where Mexican citizens were getting angry that Americans were coming down and they weren't speaking Spanish?
00:53:19.000Biden's building the wall to stop Americans from escaping.
00:53:23.000He's like, no, they're trying to get out!
00:53:29.000Yeah, the interesting thing is why, even if they want immigration for like, supposed economic reasons, why all from Central and South America?
00:53:39.000Like, there's tons of immigrants from European countries that would love to come here.
00:53:43.000I mean, there's tons of Ukrainians that would love to come here.
00:53:45.000So I have my friends who are in Europe talk about how difficult it is to get a visa to fly to the US.
00:53:51.000And they say, you know, everyone knows you fly to Mexico, you can walk in and you're fine.
00:53:56.000But when you try to do it legally, they make it difficult, like impossible.
00:53:58.000My wife is still going through immigration and it's been since 2017.
00:54:02.000And you said she's from the Netherlands.
00:55:01.000Yeah, there were Haitians walking through Roxham Road up into Quebec, I believe, that felt they were going to get deported by Trump after their refugee status had gone up and they were going to get sent back to Haiti.
00:55:14.000We opened our whole stadium there for them, and it was wild because You could literally just take a taxi to this suburban neighborhood, walk across this pathway, and the Canadian police were sitting there and they'd pick up your luggage for you and just walk you down to the stadium and give you a bed.
00:56:23.000Or, you know, no, better yet, platforms that, when you step on them, it spins a gear which generates power.
00:56:32.000So when all of these people are illegally crossing a border, they're all trampling these things, pushing these boxes down, generating electricity, and powering our grid.
00:56:42.000Sounds like slavery with extra steps, bud.
00:56:44.000A lot of extra steps that we do around here.
00:57:46.000I don't think non-citizens should vote, but if you're a legal resident with the right to work, then congratulations.
00:57:52.000We can hang out, we can crack beers, and then pass your citizenship test, understand what this country means and why it means what it means.
00:58:02.000But just letting anybody come in at any time Nah, man.
00:58:05.000And when your goal is to reduce racism in society or whatever, which is what many progressives claim their goal is, do you really think that's going to happen when the only- if you're living in a poor, you know, white neighborhood growing up and then a bunch of people come in and the only thing they do is they can't speak the same language as you, they only work lowest class minimum wage jobs, like you're creating this perception in society of us and them.
00:58:28.000When you don't have any sort of assimilation that takes place and there's no differences in groups of people that come in.
00:58:34.000It's all just one very low working class, you know, non-integrated group of people.
00:58:39.000That's like a recipe for disaster they're creating and I don't, I hope they realize, I think they realize what they're doing.
00:58:46.000If they do realize, damn, that's dark.
00:58:49.000Yeah, the assimilation part is interesting because, like, if you, I mean, why do people say New York is so lonely when there's so many people?
00:58:57.000It's, I mean, like, I wouldn't go so far as to say that's absolutely true, but when you have people in the same neighborhood that, for one, maybe can't speak the same language, but they don't belong to the same culture, that right there creates separation in the very same neighborhood.
00:59:14.000You know, there's something about, like, that that kind of rips the story apart, that kind of holds together, like, why is this going to be a good neighborhood at all?
00:59:23.000You got to be a part of the same story, and that doesn't seem like that's a care for any of the immigrants.
00:59:31.000It doesn't seem like, you know, come in and, as you were saying, understand what this, you know, nation is, or what bonds us together, regardless of the nation.
00:59:42.000And that's what my wife was saying about Holland.
00:59:45.000It was just this influx of immigration, and there was this rift, not just language-wise, but, like, a lot of the immigrants, as she was saying, and she saw it, just did not care about the culture or the glue that connected the people.
00:59:59.000The Swedish Prime Minister has come out just a few months ago and said, we are living in two parallel societies.
01:00:05.000And this is a left-wing Swedish Prime Minister, not right-wing anyways.
01:00:09.000And she's like, yeah, it's becoming a crisis in our country.
01:00:18.000So I went down to Sweden and I was hearing all this rhetoric from people on the right saying that the refugees were creating all this crime.
01:00:27.000I went there and found, not true actually.
01:00:32.000Like the narrative of migrant refugees burning cars and stuff, some of those things were happening.
01:00:36.000The reality was, the children, Swedish citizens, descendants of Somali migrants from the 90s, were, are the cause of a lot of, are the ones perpetrating
01:02:56.000I do remember in France, like, there were big protests and the trains were blocked off and the cops wouldn't let anyone through and stuff like that.
01:03:14.000I remember when I went to Sweden the first time, this guy was scared to drive in certain neighborhoods.
01:03:18.000Because he was just like, these neighborhoods have become, like, their own... You know, they colloquially call them no-go zones.
01:03:24.000And then the media was like, there's no such thing as a no-go zone.
01:03:26.000Then you look at the definition and it's like, a no-go zone is an area where, you know, there's, like, high crime or police tell you to avoid.
01:03:34.000And like, you either can't go there, you're told to avoid going there.
01:03:38.000And so in these areas, like you actually had Swedish police issue statement saying like, these are high crime areas, but then deny that they were in any way no-go zone.
01:03:45.000And I'm like, my attitude was, I don't care what they're officially, the locals just refer to them that way.
01:03:51.000And the cops too, the cops will say it too.
01:03:53.000They're like, this is a no-go zone, just so you know.
01:03:55.000Oh, but those don't exist, by the way.
01:04:38.000Is it supposed to be like a dangerous area? Is that the...
01:04:40.000Yeah, and it's definitely the lowest economic areas and sometimes they're right next to like a high economic area.
01:04:47.000Those are the most dangerous when there's like a contrast.
01:04:50.000If you go to super poor areas in the world where there's no contrast, there's no like jealousy or like trying to strive for that wealth or whatever, people are perfectly content.
01:04:57.000It's when there's that Like, developing societies are really rough.
01:05:36.000Really, really good story, but it's about how like the children gangs, gangs that were literally like kids from maybe four or five years old all the way up to like 15 with guns were like running some of these favelas.
01:05:49.000You know what you gotta understand, though, is that most people aren't insane.
01:05:57.000No, I mean, there are insane people, but I typically find in my travels having covered, you know, conflict crisis, being in anarchist districts in like Turkey, is that there's a goal, there's an idea, there's like, you can see what they're doing and why they're doing it.
01:06:16.000So like, When I'm in the favelas, they're like, here is likely what's gonna happen, like if someone wants to steal from you, they're gonna take your stuff.
01:06:23.000I was warned when I was in Venezuela, they were like, when you get express kidnapped in Venezuela, they'll give you a ride anywhere you wanna go.
01:06:30.000Like, their goal is to take your money, not to destroy your life, for the most part.
01:06:34.000So, one guy told me a story where he was like, he went to an ATM machine, and as soon as he walked up, guy walked up to him and said, you know, take your money out, and then, now get in the car, they're driving in the car and they're like there's a guy
01:06:46.000pointing a gun and he's like give me your wallet give me your stuff give me your phone give
01:06:49.000me all your cash where can we drop you off and he's like oh you can drop me off here and like
01:06:53.000it was like a 20 minute drive and then they like drove him they're like all right man
01:06:57.000have a go on he's like all right bye that's nice of them well because like there are bad people
01:07:35.000These people, they're doing these robberies, they're not actually prepared to hurt an innocent person, but these people with the guns aren't innocent, so those people are.
01:07:43.000My point is, in my experience having been to a lot of countries, If you just try and understand the people and their motivations, you're typically fine.
01:08:01.000Or at least they're gonna gouge your eyes out or something before.
01:08:04.000Or like, you look at like the situation where those two girls were beheaded in Morocco in the mountains by these migrants who had been sitting there for years trying to get over the, into Soweto, Malia, over the fences and they just, They can't go back, don't have enough money, destroyed their passports, can't go forward.
01:08:52.000Or, you can figure out, you know, are they really prepared to fight with you?
01:08:57.000And if typically you see this in the United States too, they did this study.
01:09:01.000They got a bunch of convicted criminals who had committed armed robberies, showed them videos of people walking, and asked them who would they choose to target.
01:09:11.000Turns out, like over 80% of the time, the people they chose had been robbed before.
01:09:16.000There was something about the way people carried themselves that made them look weaker and susceptible.
01:09:21.000So that's, you can understand these things.
01:09:23.000For the most part, when I would go to like the favelas, you know that almost all people don't want trouble.
01:09:28.000Like, A fox, for instance, will not come onto our property when the dog's around, unless the fox is starving, and it has no choice.
01:09:38.000So most people, like when you come across someone who's like desperate, they might, you know, not want to destroy you, but they'll take your stuff.
01:09:46.000The real scary thing is ideologues, because you know they want to destroy you, because those people are crazy.
01:09:51.000Depending on where you are, there was that one story about the two people riding their bikes through Tajikistan or whatever, and then ISIS just rammed them and ran them over or whatever.
01:10:03.000Some places are dominated by ideologues and zealots, you gotta watch out for that.
01:10:07.000I tell you this, I would gladly, with a smile on my face, walk through any favela in Brazil, going to stores, hanging out with people, and not worry about it.
01:10:18.000But I would be much, much more worried to go to a protest in New York City where there's leftists.
01:10:35.000In a favela, it's people that want to sell you a cheeseburger, man.
01:10:37.000Cheeseburger might have worms in it, depending on who you're getting it cooked from, but No one there wants to be known on the internet as the guy who threw a brick at Tim Pool's head.
01:10:48.000Whereas New York, there's probably a few of those.
01:10:53.000You know what's really messed up, though, is the favela tours they started doing a while ago, where rich tourists will get on buses and drive through poor neighborhoods as a tourist attraction.
01:11:15.000It's a spectacular, spectacular imagery to see the way they build these houses in these communities.
01:11:21.000Well, I mean, they're like, not filled with any.
01:11:24.000Yeah, there's probably no structural integrity.
01:11:26.000Like there's no building codes and whatever.
01:11:28.000Getting, getting from building to building is the craziest thing because there's like zigzagging narrow quarters, like one human body length wide.
01:11:36.000That's so I went to, uh, uh, uh, what was it?
01:12:23.000And he was actually really surprised I did it, because, you know, he thought, like, we do training here, we can handle it, and I'm like, I've been skating for 20 years.
01:13:01.000But they've been doing for a while now something called reclamation or pacification, where they've been sending in these, like, high-powered tactical units, rifles, to just clear out the gangs.
01:13:15.000The gangs were the real government of the favelas.
01:13:42.000You know, there's a pretty euphoric way to get mugged.
01:13:44.000I think it's like Ecuador and Colombia, they use towe or scopolamine where you just like, it's this powder that you can put on a piece of paper and they'll go up to like tourists and they just blow it in their face and it makes you so suggestible that you're like, All right, can you go to the ATM?
01:14:02.000Can you pull out all the cash that you have?
01:14:04.000And now take me back to your hotel or wherever you stay in.
01:14:54.000Like, these stories of people, someone will, like, walk up to them at the ATM, and then do, like, the witch doctor thing, where they go, and blow it in your face, and then you're like, and they zombify you.
01:15:16.000Well, I was just reading this thing in this weird magazine called Thought Nachos about PCP and leading it to cannibalism.
01:15:28.000PCP leading people into cannibalism and how many stories came up with that.
01:15:33.000Oh, when I was in Mexico, something really interesting I was told was that, you know, all the human sacrifices they did in like, what was it, Mayan culture?
01:15:43.000They were telling me that they'd put the people on like shrooms and tons of different drugs, and they actually wanted to be sacrificed because they thought it was like such a noble, important death.
01:15:52.000And when they were on all these drugs, it was actually like this beautiful experience.
01:15:56.000It made people's hearts being eaten a lot more lovely for me.
01:16:03.000You take DMT until you blast off, sending your spirit into the fourth dimension, then they sacrifice your body, severing the tether and keeping you trapped in the fourth dimension.
01:16:35.000Wasn't that like a thing in Vikings 2 where they talk about how it was like a huge honor to be sacrificed to the gods and people would want to get that position?
01:16:45.000I mean, I don't know how much Vikings is, like, referencing historical information, but I just know that's, like, a theme.
01:16:53.000Geez, well, the ancient Lithuanian cults and stuff would do that for sure.
01:17:31.000I kind of feel like there's got to be a YouTuber that's like, today I'm going to get scopolamine.
01:17:37.000Well, Vice, one of the very early things was like, they got some scopolamine and they were like, whoa, and they flushed it down the toilet.
01:18:51.000I just want to point out, there are people who starve for political purposes intentionally.
01:18:56.000Like, bro, I'm pretty sure it's a choice if you want to eat another person.
01:18:59.000But if there's no politics involved, if it's just... Well, okay, what about, are you talking about living people or dead people that are already frozen again?
01:19:06.000My point is, there are people right now who are like, I feel so strongly about the birds.
01:19:12.000I'm not going to eat another chicken until the birds are freed.
01:19:15.000And then they choose to starve themselves.
01:19:17.000So my point is... How many people actually die of that starvation, though?
01:19:21.000Like, people who go on hunger strikes?
01:19:23.000Yeah, that actually, like, go the whole way instead of doing it for, like, three days and then, damn, gonna go get myself some, like, expensive vegan food.
01:19:30.000Maybe it's easy to say when I am well-fed, but I do not believe there's a circumstance where I would eat a person.
01:20:41.000He was this well-respected religious scholar and then at some point he just went nuts and he advocated for violence with the Covington kids and stuff.
01:20:49.000He's posted really insane stuff about punching.
01:20:51.000He was the one who said, punch the kid's face.
01:20:55.000I kind of feel like either Eating the brain did something to him, which I would not be surprised, or the social ramifications of being a cannibal destroyed him mentally.
01:23:09.000Cuz I was reading something about it, how dogs, like I was reading about countries where they eat dog, and the behavior that dogs have towards people, and I'm like, if dogs can smell cancer, if dogs can smell a seizure before it happens, I'm pretty sure a dog can smell that you've eaten dog.
01:23:56.000Up in Northern California, my friend's got like a thousand acres and there's wild horses all around it and he's protecting them.
01:24:05.000And he said everybody he brings there, if you eat meat, it doesn't even have to be horse meat, if you eat meat at all, the horses won't come near you.
01:24:17.000They say, like, when the special forces or whatever were training to go in, or I don't know which division, you have to eat local foods because you don't realize how much you smell of the food that you eat.
01:25:09.000Myos appeared in court charged with killing and then frying and eating another man.
01:25:12.000In one of the most extraordinary trials, the self-confessed cannibal admitted that he had met 43-year-old Berlin engineer Bernard Brandes after advertising on the internet and had chopped him up and eaten him.
01:25:23.000So I think he put an advertisement on the internet that he wanted to eat someone and the guy responded?
01:25:31.000This is what the internet does to people.
01:25:34.000Like, normally a guy who wants to be eaten would never find someone who would want to eat him, but now the internet... Now there's someone for everyone.
01:25:41.000Now you can swipe until you find the right one.
01:26:41.000Normally somebody who thought they were a giraffe would just sit there and they're quiet being like, I think I'm a giraffe.
01:26:46.000And then they would never act upon it.
01:26:48.000But now with the internet, they find a bunch of other people who are like, yo, I think I'm a giraffe too.
01:26:53.000And they're like, let's have a giraffe convention.
01:26:55.000Then they all get together walking around going, and eating leaves.
01:26:59.000And it's, it's like, it's creating communities that normally wouldn't exist, you know?
01:27:04.000I think humans used to be way more racist and willing to slaughter that which they hated, and we've become very accepting, for better and for worse, because we've become much more tolerant, which obviously is fantastic for a communicative society, but at the same time, How would those people survive in nature if they just want to be giraffes all day?
01:28:17.000I mean, like, I love Charles Eisenstein's way of looking at this, and he says, like, you know, there's this old story that it's not like, you know, some emperor or some group writes it per se.
01:28:29.000It kind of is an amalgamation of a group, an entire group, but over time it kind of
01:29:04.000And the way Charles Eisenstein is talking about it is like, this is precisely what we need to get back to.
01:29:10.000More of the real story that unites us being this thing where there's nothing I can do to the outside world that doesn't eventually have its consequence back at me or in future generations.
01:29:22.000So I think those are the kinds of stories.
01:29:24.000It's not like, you know, something that you can write down in a preamble to a constitution or something like that.
01:29:30.000I think it's more of like the amalgamation of what people end up believing under a certain kind of rule, under a certain kind of economy.
01:29:39.000We talked about the eight types of Greek love a couple nights ago.
01:29:43.000Agape, you actually mentioned, is the love of the community.
01:29:46.000And I think people have fallen, maybe in the United States, out of touch with it because of this isolationist ease of like air-conditioned, you know, internal Well, you get to be separate.
01:29:56.000You get to look at everything through a screen now, whereas back in the day, you would gauge your threat level by looking into nature, and now everyone is getting the same amygdala-teasing effect by just staring at a screen, but you're supposedly safe inside this little bubble, but you're cut off from your actual community.
01:30:17.000We've got to figure something out, us humans, because, you know, we developed and evolved based on the natural ecosystem.
01:30:26.000Like, the simplest thing is sugars are few and far between in nature, so when we find it, we're like, this is amazing!
01:30:32.000Because your body uses it really quickly, and then you don't have it for a long time.
01:30:35.000Then we refined it, now we have endless supplies of sugar pumped into our bodies, poisoning us.
01:30:41.000These things are one of the biggest threats to everything that is to be human.
01:30:49.000We want to make a better future for our children.
01:30:51.000We want to explore, develop, become smarter, and live, and be happy and healthy.
01:30:56.000But now, it's like we've found a way to electrocute our nerve, to stimulate it, and we just got the thing cranked up to 11, and we're sitting there with movies, video games, porn, Mountain Dew, Taco Bell, chocolate ice cream, Ben & Jerry's, whatever you want to call it, and it's just massive overstimulation.
01:32:00.000I don't know if it was like a panic attack or something, but I had to go to the hospital once for it because I was like having so much trouble getting air.
01:32:07.000I felt like such a loser because he was like, there's nothing actually wrong with you.
01:32:11.000Just how you're breathing right now is your lungs are full and you're only going You can't get anything in so you're never feeling like you're getting a full breath and that sounds like exactly what you're describing.
01:32:22.000Like if you start at the bottom, you're always getting these full breaths every single day.
01:32:27.000And yeah, you just don't want to constantly be hitting that peak.
01:32:31.000It was like I don't know if I feel like such a loser because I thought there was something like severely wrong with me But yeah, I was like an anxiety thing or something and I just had to chill for a bit I've told this story before a friend of mine who became a millionaire at the age of 16 I think he was like 16 said that in his experience every person he's ever met who became wealthy had an existential crisis for most of these people They weren't intending to become rich.
01:32:57.000They developed something, instantly became rich, and then had accomplished their goal, and did not have to work anymore.
01:33:04.000And so that left them sitting there depressed and aimless.
01:33:07.000Because like, if their goal was, I'm gonna, you know, work on this computer program, and they just kept improving it over time, They'd have to keep working and paying their bills and then finding ways to make money, but for the small amount of people who solved the computer problem instantly, made 10-15 million dollars, now they don't gotta work, they're like, what is my life now?
01:33:26.000I've already accomplished the thing that I'm good at, I have money, I don't have to work anymore, what do I spend it on?
01:33:31.000Everyone else is too busy working, they can't, I'm just, you're outside of the system at that point.
01:33:36.000There's an interesting thing, there's like two spiritual elements to this that I want to bring up is that one, I bet you those people would be happier if they like woke up to this wealth and then they realized everybody else is free as well.
01:33:51.000But when you wake up and all of a sudden you're outside of this rat race where you have to like, you know, work your ass off in this dog-eat-dog world, So you wake up and you're outside of that, you don't have to work anymore, but every one of your friends, you can't solve all their problems for them, so you're watching them stuck in this machine that you were just in, and it might feel lonely outside of that.
01:34:12.000And that's actually what they call the Bodhisattva in Buddhism and Hinduism.
01:34:18.000Are people who reach nirvana, which is like enlightenment, pure bliss, but they're like, like, I realize I don't exist for me.
01:34:25.000So they enter themselves back into the world of suffering so they can help other people.
01:34:30.000And what you were saying, like, breath is a part of every single spiritual tradition.
01:34:34.000And when you're at the top of your breath all the time, it leads to anxiety.
01:34:38.000You know, but what does this look like?
01:34:40.000It's like, you know, the bottom of your breath all the time.
01:34:43.000People who they're not inhaling and getting that full inhale is more like depression.
01:34:51.000Conflict is a huge part of life that makes life enjoyable.
01:34:55.000And it's unfortunate that sometimes that conflict is war.
01:34:59.000But you know, going back to like the first thing we're talking about, the decline of an empire, is that when the narrative of God and country wasn't working anymore, your country's falling apart.
01:35:07.000People, a country succeeded because people were like, we are a strong country.
01:35:11.000We believe in each other and that bond.
01:35:14.000You lose that, there's, you know, people just conflict with each other, everything falls apart.
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01:39:30.000I don't know, maybe they have to get Ben Shapiro to play me because all we would have to do is be a little bit more liberal, but we both talk really fast so I think he'd be able to pull it off.
01:39:39.000People liked fast talkers, hey, in media.
01:41:35.000My point is, as it's always been, for one, I respect your opinion if you think that's the case.
01:41:40.000I will stand by saying, YouTube is the biggest platform.
01:41:45.000I do not think it makes sense for large and prominent personalities to retreat from the central battlefield of ideas for some principled reason.
01:41:54.000I agree with principled reasons if it's like, you work for a company and they're doing something really bad.
01:42:00.000And you're like, I don't want to do that thing for you.
01:42:03.000On YouTube, we're doing the opposite of bad thing.
01:42:05.000We are calling out bad thing, we're calling out the problems, and we're using the most powerful and prominent platform to, one, address those issues, and then also create a pathway to alternates.
01:42:17.000We shout out The Daily Wire frequently, because I think what they're doing is equally as important, creating alternate paths.
01:42:24.000We shout out Parallel Economy, we use them.
01:42:28.000My point is, When I say don't cancel your Disney or Netflix, if you really want to, go ahead, I don't expect people to abandon the establishment machine where it provides for them in certain ways.
01:42:40.000We have to create a machine that does better.
01:42:43.000So, simply put, When Jordan Peterson got suspended on Twitter, I said, I think he should delete the tweet and then go after Twitter on their own platform and use it to the best of his abilities.
01:42:54.000I don't think you accomplish much by, you know, it would be like being in a battlefield, taking some casualties and then being like, all right, that's it.
01:43:26.000Maximizing central battlefield to the best of our abilities, so that YouTube continually promotes these conversations to regular people, and then we can create paths to a whole bunch of personalities.
01:43:37.000To put it even more simply, You may not like that we use YouTube, but how else do we get the likes of Alex Jones and Steve Bannon in front of regular people when they've been banned?
01:43:46.000We still have an ability for regular people to see things.
01:44:13.000Battlefield Retreat's a cool conversation, because sometimes you do want to retreat from a battle, even one maybe that you're winning, because you can pull the enemy into an ambush.
01:44:21.000Sometimes, when you start to take fire, you cannot retreat.
01:44:24.000You have to keep pushing, otherwise your whole unit's gonna get wiped out.
01:45:37.000Yeah, it's like if you armed a slave rebellion with weapons from the very empire it's rebelling against, you know, they still, they're empirical weapons, but the slaves will use them to overthrow the empire.
01:45:47.000I just think, you know, I, I have to wonder, you know, it's like, there's a lot of people who want us all to work for free.
01:45:54.000And I'm like, it's a weird concept to have people who identify as like capitalists to be like, but you should give me free stuff.
01:46:13.000As long as they have an internet connection, yeah.
01:46:15.000Well, yeah, I mean, like, we are not charging people to watch this live show.
01:46:19.000This is, yeah, this is a problem I've run into.
01:46:20.000I put every single one of my documentaries I've done out for free, but then every time I want to make a new documentary, it's always, I have to It takes forever to try to fund again.
01:46:29.000It's a whole challenge, and I don't know if I can make another one next time.
01:46:33.000So, yeah, being able to fund your work makes it continually possible, but you have to charge something.
01:46:39.000There's something we pointed out in the membership yesterday that I think is important for people to understand as well.
01:46:42.000Right now, we have about 32,000 concurrent viewers, and we are streaming at 6,200 kilobits per second.
01:46:50.000Multiply that by 32,000, and that's how much kilobits is going down.
01:47:01.000This is what people need to understand.
01:47:03.000We would not be able to do this show without free service.
01:47:07.000Rumble does offer free service, but my thing is, can we build up Rumble's audience by telling people on YouTube about Rumble, or do we just stop informing the largest platform?
01:47:58.000I felt like doing that the first sip I took, too.
01:48:00.000It's funny that they call it aspiration when you breathe in liquids, but they also call being in spot... No, aspiration is like a thing you can have.
01:48:27.000It wasn't that Wikipedia did it, it's that there was an edit battle between people over what recession was, and then some higher ranking Wikipedia person locked it so you couldn't change it anymore.
01:48:38.000That is the fifth generational warfare.
01:48:40.000That there's a there's a battle over reality.
01:48:57.000We need to tell Matt Walsh to make What Is A Man.
01:48:59.000I think that- Is it not- Okay, I think it's kind of obvious that there is a recession happening right now, and it doesn't- You don't have to wait to be told?
01:49:07.000Like, just live your life accordingly?
01:50:06.000If you're gonna get this many people who are like, you should be giving us the content for free, you shouldn't expect us to pay for it, you're bending the knee, we don't respect your strategies, and I'm just like, then why am I fighting for you?
01:50:16.000Yeah, I mean, anytime you get criticisms like, hey, this person that I'm not lifting a finger to be involved with is doing something I don't like, like, okay, do it then, dude.
01:50:57.000L says, Lauren, I watched The Whole Truth and I was honestly blown away.
01:51:00.000My question to you is, if you can stay out of the hot seat, could there be more about the stars of the right that you interacted with that you'll put out?
01:51:08.000The Whole Truth wasn't about, like, exposing people's, like, personal problems, or this person did that drug, or this person slept with that hooker.
01:51:15.000It was literally just about the situations I encountered that kind of led me to be black-pilled about politics, and then realizing it wasn't really about this whole movement, realizing You know, people are flawed and you can't put your faith in man.
01:51:29.000You can't put it in these other people.
01:51:51.000Also, one thing I've always made a point of is Tim, I didn't talk about you in The Whole Truth at all, because you were just a damn hard worker the whole time.
01:51:58.000Like you were just saying, you worked freaking harder than anyone I knew during that 2016 to now period.
01:52:05.000You're one of the few people- okay, simping too hard, but yeah, I think you earned it all.
01:52:09.000I don't- I don't know, I mean like whenever there was like a big story, we like- I'm going to cover the same story you were going to cover.
01:53:05.000We have an event coming up that we're planning in Austin and we should definitely get a bunch of Coffee Brand Coffee to serve at the event.
01:55:58.000Well, it's almost better keeping them in states where you're going to have judges that are, you know, not going to be so biased towards progressivism.
01:56:04.000What if they sent them to Alaska, but then the bus got lost?
01:56:11.000It's like, hey, get on this bus to DC and the driver's going like, whoops, I accidentally turned towards Mexico.
01:56:18.000All right, Liam Madden says, Vermont's very close election means your support makes a huge difference to elect Congress's first anti-two-party pro-Second Amendment, economically populist USMC vet who led USA's largest anti-war organization of Iraq vets.
02:00:25.000What are the candidates on your ballot that you're voting for?
02:00:29.000And you just you put a few fake ones in there that are like Mr. Magoo or whatever and if someone guesses that their vote doesn't count because they don't even know who the hell they're voting for!
02:00:37.000What are you talking about for voters?
02:02:35.000I was shocked when I heard it, because I write songs like, typically write on acoustic guitar, and it's like folk, rock, acoustic, and then he took it.
02:02:42.000The song is weirdly mostly backwards, like the instrumentation, and he made this really amazing song.
02:02:48.000So we're gonna be releasing that, um, then we've got a couple other songs we're gonna be releasing as well.
02:02:52.000We should have an album coming out August 21st.
02:02:55.000I think it will have eight or nine songs on it.
02:02:57.000We do have like 30 or 40 in the pipeline, but in this day and age, I don't know if that makes sense anymore.
02:03:24.000I like the idea of doing a song every time it's ready, and then when the ninth song is done, you release an album with all nine songs on it.
02:03:32.000I was just gonna say what some music groups are doing is they'll record, they'll release like six or seven singles and then have a little grace period and then an album with like 10 or 11 songs.
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