On this week's episode of the podcast, we discuss the latest in the latest news involving the CIA and China, the latest on Scott Adams and his comments on a poll, and more. Plus, we introduce a new show that we launched last week, The Culture War with Tim Pool.
00:01:06.000Woody Harrelson, however, on Saturday Night Live, he made a really funny joke about how Big Pharma, no, I'm sorry, he didn't say that, he said the cartels, bought up all the meat and all the politicians and locked everyone in their homes, and they could only leave if they did the cartels' drugs over and over and over again.
00:01:25.000And Scott Adams is apparently getting cancelled from everything.
00:01:28.000Dilbert, his comic, is being cancelled because he was commenting on a poll from Rasmussen that said 26% of black people who were polled Disagreed with the statement, it's okay to be white, and then he commented on that saying, you should stay away from these people, among other things.
00:01:44.000But we'll get into the details of what he said and get specific with it, because I'm sure people on all sides are offended by what's happening.
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00:03:10.000Joining us tonight to talk about this and so much more is Justin from Phoenix Ammo.
00:03:50.000We had a disclaimer on our website for about a year and a half that we didn't want to sell to people who voted to ban guns and ban our way to do business.
00:04:00.000Yeah, from our hands to yours, we're the farm-to-table version of the ammo industry, and that's who we are.
00:04:05.000Right on, and we can probably eventually talk about the pistol brace ban that's going into effect, because actually, a lot of people, if you're not into guns, you're not concerned about this, the crazy thing about this story is, to put it simply, a federal agency has just enacted, or is about to enact a law, without Congress, where they will jail you by decree.
00:04:26.000And that's, I guess, the scary version of the story.
00:05:40.000Here's the story from the New York Times.
00:05:42.000Lab leak most likely caused pandemic, Energy Department says.
00:05:46.000The conclusion, which was made with low confidence, came as America's intelligence agencies remained divided on the origins of the coronavirus.
00:05:52.000I love they have this picture of the virus factory in Wuhan.
00:05:56.000Seamus Coghlan tweeted, remember when a virus emerged in the city next to the virus factory and they told you you were crazy for claiming that the virus may have come from the city with the virus factory?
00:06:25.000It says, Tom Cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus conspiracy theory that was already debunked.
00:06:30.000The Washington Post reported this February of 2020.
00:06:32.000They said, Senator Tom Cotton repeated a fringe theory suggesting that the ongoing spread of the coronavirus is connected to research in the disease-ravaged epicenter of Wuhan, China.
00:06:43.000Cotton referenced a laboratory in the city, the Wuhan National Biosafety Lab, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:06:54.000should, the New York Times. Senator Tom Cotton repeats fringe theory of coronavirus origins.
00:06:58.000In an interview on Fox News, the Arkansas lawmaker raised the unsubstantiated possibility
00:07:04.000that the new coronavirus originated in a high-security biochemical lab in China. And the New York
00:07:09.000Times, February 17th, 2020, called it a fringe theory. And today, or so this is a couple
00:07:17.000days ago, this is 26, yesterday, lab leak most likely caused pandemic.
00:07:21.000What's it called when you say a bunch of stupid things and then have to, New York Times and the Washington Post have edited those articles to remove their stupidity from them?
00:07:33.000Because, uh, yeah, everybody's basically saying, well, uh, the virus probably escaped the place that make coronaviruses.
00:07:40.000I remember seeing this on Tucker Carlson right around that time.
00:07:44.000It was either the same day he made that statement or the day after, and thinking to myself, this makes the most sense.
00:08:10.000I mean, that was a big thing for a while.
00:08:12.000They were building one in Fort Detrick.
00:08:15.000You don't get to make all these movies where the scientist gets pricked through their suit and they go, Oh God, and they run out and then have people think these labs are completely safe.
00:08:25.000Yeah, Lyme disease was found near Lyme, Connecticut.
00:09:48.000government came out definitively across the board and said, we have direct evidence that they were breaking international law with gain-of-function research and they caused the global pandemic.
00:09:58.000I think so because a lot of people know that Fauci was working with EcoHealth Alliance to do the research.
00:10:09.000So I think that that will be a loud noise being made and statement that's repeated like Fauci was involved in this.
00:10:16.000And so what I'm asking Yeah, see, actually, I think it's the opposite, Ian.
00:10:27.000I think that's the reason that conservatives wouldn't support it, because, like, for me personally, I would say, well, why are we going to war with China until Fauci is put on trial?
00:10:37.000And until everybody in the United States that had any part in this is dealt with, then we can talk about China.
00:11:41.000We pay you to pay him to pay him to do it for me. It's virus laundering or something.
00:11:46.000I think really what this is is just the long tail set up for their plan for the 2024 election.
00:11:52.000And I was thinking about this a year and a half ago, where especially if Trump runs again, they're going to put COVID and the vaccines and all of it on Trump.
00:12:05.000I think they're going to say, Hey, he left Fauci in office.
00:12:09.000He pushed the vaccine through too quickly because he wanted to puff his chest up and show how good he was and look at all these people that died as a result of Trump's ego.
00:12:22.000It's going to be just like, you know, projection is their only tool.
00:12:27.000What if they come out and they say, we have now confirmed Wuhan was doing a legal gain-of-function research with the assistance of Anthony Fauci through circuitous funding, and thus, we will be filing subpoenas and criminal referrals for Anthony Fauci, and then said, after they arrest him, we are going to go to war with China.
00:13:36.000Didn't we just get out of the Middle East in some respect?
00:13:39.000And we're already spending more money in Ukraine than we spent in Afghanistan.
00:13:42.000I just can't, you know, it's so, there's so much media now that, you know, these, the days of like the Gulf of Tongan and these things where they can stage an event.
00:13:52.000and they can get people riled up and they've got this like dead zone
00:13:56.000before the truth really comes out and then you get momentum going and people
00:14:00.000are so afraid to go back on what they said you know they're like it's like the
00:14:05.000sunk cost fallacy i just think that that time is coming to an end these days i
00:14:09.000think everything's on video i think the u.s i don't i don't know maybe they're
00:14:14.000just realizing they can't keep lying about this because any sane person john
00:14:18.000Jon Stewart goes on Colbert's show and says this makes the most sense.
00:14:22.000But I'm wondering, I guess I should put it this way, my prediction would be in the event the U.S.
00:14:27.000does want to go to war, China invades Taiwan, the U.S.
00:14:30.000comes out and says, oh heavens, oh the lab leak, that was China's fault.
00:14:34.000The majority of the MAGA side of people.
00:14:38.000Which includes some libertarians and independents.
00:14:42.000And then your McCarthy's and your McConnell's, your Lindsey Graham's are just like, everybody was ragging on China just 10 minutes ago and we can't allow this.
00:14:50.000You can't change your mind and act like they're the good guys.
00:14:52.000And then the Democrats are going to come out and be like, China's always been the bad guy.
00:14:56.000Conservatives, you're such, you're always defending Xi Jinping.
00:14:59.000Hillary Clinton's like, I loved Vladimir Putin all of these years!
00:15:02.000Well no, they'll still hate Russia, but they're gonna come out and be like, why won't you support our wars?
00:15:07.000And then every journalist, every news outlet's gonna come out, every poll's gonna be like, we surveyed 5 billion people and found that 95% want war with China, so if you don't agree, you're a weirdo!
00:15:17.000And then you're gonna get a bunch of normie people in cities being like, oh yeah, okay, I guess, World War III or whatever.
00:15:23.000I bet if they, that if they were to be like, and by the way, Anthony Fauci is involved, something, something, Anthony Fauci would be like, and by the way, I have documents of Barack Obama being involved, Bill Clinton being involved.
00:15:35.000I have evidence of the Clinton Foundation being involved.
00:15:38.000Fauci is the nexus of this stuff and he knows everybody that's working on this.
00:15:42.000I mean, he's, he's very specifically NIH, but it would be funny if just like some guy no one ever heard of shows up and then he just starts putting out all this evidence on all of these people.
00:15:52.000And it's like, The government's actually run by someone like some shadow government no one ever heard of?
00:15:58.000I mean, because the reality is that there's probably some big corporate lobbyists, shout out to Woody Harrelson, he's talking about these cartels, there's probably some big corporate lobbyists that you've never heard of, BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard, whatever, who come to these people, these politicians, tell them what they need in exchange for funding, and you've never heard of these people.
00:16:18.000Yeah, and they'll send someone to talk to the politician so the politician doesn't even know who the people are.
00:16:23.000So it's not even like shadow government conspiracy level stuff.
00:16:26.000It's like we know these big investment firms exist.
00:16:28.000We don't know who's doing the principal lobbying.
00:17:01.000All the money being given to Ukraine will justify the U.S.
00:17:04.000owning the whole thing, or I should say Europe and NATO owning the whole thing.
00:17:07.000Because in the event that Russia loses, Vladimir Zelensky is going to be like, yay, freedom!
00:17:13.000Now don't forget, you owe BlackRock $100 billion, and you will never pay it back.
00:17:18.000Well, just like China has the Belt and Road Initiative, right, where they're subsidizing the building of infrastructure in third world countries, especially in Africa, they're paying for the cell towers and the freeways, and that's because they can get the data from the cell towers in particular.
00:17:35.000Yeah, they want them to be beholden, and I think that's sort of what we do is we go in and destroy everything first, and then we rebuild it in the way that we think we want to, in the way that benefits our investors and these big capital firms.
00:17:49.000So, you know, we're fine to watch Ukraine get shelled into oblivion.
00:17:53.000which is what's happening, right? I mean, uh... Because not only do they have the $100 billion
00:17:57.000in debt already, but after the war ends, our firms, or I shouldn't say our, but international
00:18:01.000firms come in and say, okay, now you're going to rack up another $500 billion in debt as we
00:18:05.000rebuild your country for you. Yeah. And we will own you forever. They don't, they don't, they're
00:18:08.000not going to have the infrastructure left at the end. So the fact of the matter is, they can't
00:18:13.000rebuild their country without concrete plants and, you know, steel, uh, fiber optics, all these things
00:18:18.000that they're not going to have the capability to make so we can go in there and do it for them and
00:18:23.000And that's really the profit motivation for those companies.
00:18:27.000Build a smart grid to track and database the people.
00:19:53.000So we're going to liberate you by—we are going to install the Second Amendment, the First Amendment and the Second Amendment, and then we're going to leave you to your devices.
00:20:20.000You go to a place where it's like authoritarian religious fanatics and give them a bunch of guns, then you're going to get 15 different sects just shooting each other nonstop for 50 years.
00:20:29.000I'm not saying we should go there and change things.
00:20:31.000I'm saying cultures need to develop and get to that point.
00:20:34.000There's perhaps diplomacy that we could employ that might help Doesn't exist though without the second amendment.
00:21:07.000And also they may pick a system that we don't like, right?
00:21:10.000Like, if communism is what ultimately Cuba decided would work, I'm not saying it did, but that was what came out on top when they were allowed to pick, you know, I would not, if I were, you know, John Kennedy or whatever, I would not want to be like, ah, yes, Cuba, you just have your communism and hang out over here while we have democracy.
00:21:28.000But on the other hand, do you just keep going in and saying like, no, you have to do it our way.
00:21:34.000Especially like we were saying before, if there are countries that are dominated by cultural or religious pressures that are so dissimilar to what we were founded on, like we don't have the same kind of basic needs that other, other civilizations do.
00:21:47.000I was talking to Ali London on the Culture War podcast with Tim Pool.
00:21:52.000Check it out on Apple and Spotify at youtube.com slash timcast.
00:21:55.000One of the interesting things he said to me, shameless plug, was that in Korea they all get surgery to look like European people.
00:22:01.000Like they'll get their chins shaved down and they'll get their noses,
00:22:06.000they'll get nose implants to make their noses bigger.
00:22:07.000And they'll get their eyes made to be wider with surgery so they can look like white people.
00:22:12.000And it's a normal thing for all of them.
00:22:14.000We thought it was like, we talk about how crazy it is
00:22:16.000that a British guy would wanna get surgery to look Korean.
00:22:19.000But to him, he said he was living in Korea, that was normal.
00:22:22.000Everybody was there was getting surgery to look like the specific thing.
00:22:26.000So he was trying to look like they were.
00:22:28.000I don't think the US occupying South Korea, whatever you call it, whatever you want,
00:22:47.000It's tough to talk with confidence about life in Korea because I've never been.
00:22:50.000But from Yunmi Park's first-hand perspective, she's a North Korean defector, I guess you call it.
00:22:55.000She was able to escape the country because you can't leave freely.
00:22:58.000I believe that North Korea is absolutely one of the biggest pieces of hell on earth of any nation.
00:23:04.000Well, in South Korea, yes, there are Western beauty standards that become a part of culture.
00:23:11.000But on the other hand, like America has never generated anything like the K-pop industry, right?
00:23:16.000Producing K-pop stars who then go through plastic surgeries to look American, like, we- we didn't- we never mastered- like, Korean culture is still strong, and it has some interpretations of Western influence, but I would never say that it's lost its culture to a Western identity.
00:23:31.000I went to, uh, a shopping area in Seoul, and they had this advertisement for, like, Chicago pizza, and then one of the pizza varieties was black squid ink, and I'm just like, we don't- we don't have that in Chicago.
00:23:43.000But, you know, it's- it's tourist stuff.
00:27:02.000He read a script where the biggest drug cartels in the world get together to buy up all the media and all the politicians and force all the people in the world to stay locked in their homes.
00:27:10.000And people can only come out if they take the cartels' drugs and keep taking them over and over.
00:28:00.000They buy ads like crazy, they sell products, they lobby politicians.
00:28:03.000Woody Harrelson wasn't saying any kind of conspiracy theory.
00:28:06.000He was making a joke about... every joke has its truth.
00:28:09.000Big pharmaceutical corporations lobbied government and the media to try and convince people to take their drugs.
00:28:15.000It's a product, they got no liability contracts, made a lot of money off it.
00:28:18.000Now they're calling Woody Harrelson a conspiracy theorist, but I'm not here to talk about the negative.
00:28:23.000And I don't want to sit here and just rag on media like we always do.
00:28:28.000I want to praise Woody Harrelson and say, hey look man, people are pushing back.
00:28:32.000This is a mainstream celebrity hosting SNL, talking about we should not let massive multinational corporations dictate what we can or can't do.
00:28:46.000I just think it's funny that they're like, you're a conspiracy theorist, like, if you weren't, if this wasn't a direct comparison to what you were doing, you wouldn't be so threatened by it.
00:28:55.000Like, if you weren't doing something shifty, don't freak out, right?
00:28:58.000I just think his monologue First off, like, it wasn't the funniest monologue in all of SNL history.
00:29:05.000It's just that he came close to a subject that makes them uncomfortable.
00:29:09.000Yeah, he touched the third rail in it.
00:29:10.000And then everyone lined up exactly like you thought they would.
00:29:13.000Like, the Washington Post, everyone else is like conspiracy theorists.
00:29:16.000Maybe because he was saying people were locked in their homes.
00:29:19.000In the United States, I'd have never heard of anyone being locked in.
00:29:22.000There were in China, I heard they were being welded into their homes, so locked in.
00:29:44.000They took away anything that would be worth leaving your house for.
00:29:47.000But I like how in Australia they went to indigenous areas and neighborhoods and literally kidnapped children and then brought them to camps.
00:29:58.000And then there was one viral story where some teenagers jumped the fence and escaped and ran for it, and they got hunted down.
00:30:03.000And they got picked up at a bar they were hanging out at that night.
00:30:05.000And I'm like, these are concentration camps.
00:30:07.000And then people like Claire Lehman of Quillette were like, no, no, it's not.
00:30:11.000The government taking people and concentrating them in one area without charge or trial is not a concentration camp.
00:30:26.000I think that Woody making this joke and talking about this publicly on one of the most popular television shows on earth and being one of the most popular actors on earth, alongside with the government's acknowledgement that it was made in a laboratory, most likely, or You know, they've concluded that it was probably done in the lab.
00:30:42.000I think it's all happening at once, and it's great.
00:30:44.000Can I just, uh, I wanted to say something, because, you know, I have this here Coca-Cola in a glass bottle that I just drank before the show.
00:30:50.000And I don't drink a lot of soda, if at all, if, you know, ever.
00:30:53.000But we do have guests who do like soda.
00:30:55.000And so, you know, I don't want to get cans.
00:31:03.000With real sugar, real cane sugar, and of course everyone knows this is the famous Mexican Coca-Cola.
00:31:08.000And I was just drinking this and I thought to myself, that's kind of crazy that in Mexico you will get a glass bottle, no phthalates, no PCBs, no endocrine disruptors, made with cane sugar, no high fructose corn syrup, and it's probably cheaper in Mexico in terms of buying power.
00:31:24.000So, in terms of the Mexican economy, how much you have to work to get a Coke is probably less work than in the United States, but in the U.S.
00:31:30.000you're getting plastic garbage with endocrine disruptors and high fructose corn syrup.
00:33:39.000But then they're going to be like, you pull up to a 7-Eleven parking lot and the doctor goes, don't move, hits you in the arm, and you're like, oh, I feel great, doc.
00:34:27.000The thing about materials is they'll be used for good aid.
00:34:32.000The nuclear program was so amazing because it ended up winning us the war, World War II, but also so devastating because it gave people access to nuclear weapons.
00:34:42.000Yeah, it'll be remaking roads, buildings, rails, all that, but people will be making new weapons with it, tracking.
00:34:48.000Yeah, I mean, that's the history of the fight.
00:34:49.000I mean, the reason that we have such a robust defense and in particular firearms industry here in this country is because we won the revolution.
00:34:57.000And now all of a sudden we're on our own.
00:34:59.000The French were our allies only insofar as they want to, but now they see us as a young, potentially vulnerable nation.
00:35:08.000We were buying all of our weapons from our allies, or what we took over with us from Britain.
00:35:14.000And so we basically had to recreate our own weapons manufacturing.
00:35:18.000I mean, this is, of course, back in the day when everything was made by hand, right?
00:35:21.000I mean, lock, stock, and barrel, that was the old saying.
00:35:28.000That's why it's such a big industry here.
00:35:32.000They think, how did that culture develop here in the U.S.?
00:35:35.000But it was because we had to create it literally from scratch to be able to defend ourselves.
00:35:41.000The corporate press says no graphene oxide in the vaccines.
00:35:46.000I wonder if what people are confusing is that they used graphene oxide in the manufacturing process that is not in the vaccine, because some of the things I'm seeing are people talking about fetal cells in the vaccine.
00:35:59.000Fetal cells are used in the development of these.
00:36:02.000in like testing and production, but the final product doesn't contain the cells themselves.
00:36:07.000I'm not—like, I actually think that's an argument. What we saw a lot of was people
00:36:11.000saying they didn't want to take it because they used fetal cells to make the vaccine,
00:36:14.000and then the media was like, no, there's no fetal cells in the vaccine. Well, hold on.
00:36:17.000That's not what people were saying. They were saying that to make the product, to invent it,
00:36:21.000to test it, you used fetal cells, you know, so we're not okay with that. It's like, you know,
00:36:43.000A lot of times, that's a big problem with the food industry.
00:36:44.000They'll show you the ingredients of the food, but they don't show you what chemicals were used in the treatment of the machinery before the food was processed a lot of times.
00:36:51.000And sometimes you have toxic chemicals used to clean metal or something.
00:36:54.000And how do you completely get that off, especially for food manufacturing, right?
00:37:00.000You know, Justin, you were talking about the weapons manufacturers in the United States.
00:37:03.000I'm wondering, from your perspective, as a weapons manufacturing company, or CEO, you're the executive, what are your thoughts on the military-industrial complex?
00:37:12.000Just because lately, I used to think I didn't know anything about them.
00:37:15.000Then 2007, I was like, they're the villains.
00:37:18.000Now I'm like, wait, we have the military-industrial complex in the United States.
00:37:22.000If it was in another country, we'd be, Well, I think they've become that in many ways.
00:38:53.000It's something that I can't even fathom.
00:38:56.000These are people that are connected with politicians and they're making Backroom deals and they're writing the legislation they're deciding where we're gonna fight the next war all of those things so it I think it's an unfortunate product of
00:39:14.000Of reality, you know, when you have an industry that makes money off of the development of weapons technology, eventually somewhere along the line, you know, like the development of the nuclear bomb.
00:39:25.000So somebody looks at the atom and says, oh, we could make a bomb with this.
00:39:29.000And if that's the guy that gets all the money and all the funding, then we're going to make a bunch of bombs.
00:39:34.000And so in the military-industrial complex, you have some guy in there at one point that says, hey, we could actually make a lot of money if we just started our own wars, right?
00:39:46.000Instead of waiting for the next war to happen and then figuring out which side we're going to supply.
00:39:51.000I mean, I think that's probably gone on forever.
00:39:54.000People have been supplying both sides of every conflict going back forever.
00:39:59.000Have you seen Sherlock Holmes' Game of Shadows?
00:40:02.000The movie plot is basically—spoiler alert for this, you know, 15-year-old movie or whatever.
00:40:07.000Moriarty is, he owns portions of all these different companies and manufacturers in different
00:40:12.000countries and he wants a world war to start so that he can be the financier and have debt
00:40:17.000in all of these different places and own everything.
00:40:19.000And like I guess the premise of the film is the industrialization of war and they like
00:40:23.000the first machine pistol and he's like, whoa, it's like, what is this?
00:40:44.000And then we tell other countries, well, you can't develop your own.
00:40:51.000Whichever side you are on, you know, so Iran is trying to build a nuclear weapon.
00:40:57.000And we've decided that we can't allow that to happen.
00:41:00.000And so not only do we have these large companies here in the U.S.
00:41:06.000that are making all the weapons, but they're actively lobbying along with politicians to not allow that kind of weapons technology to be developed anywhere else.
00:41:16.000So, I mean, of course it's going to be concentrated here because we won't allow that industry to grow.
00:41:21.000I mean, imagine if You know, pick a country.
00:41:27.000Pick a country that we don't really like.
00:41:28.000You know, we're going to do everything that we can within our power.
00:41:31.000I mean, we really can't tell China what to do, but some country that we can actually exert influence over, we're going to do everything that we can to prevent them from growing a weapons industry because we don't want that to impact the companies that we've got here.
00:41:47.000Yeah, which are five of the six largest are American.
00:41:55.000And you might laugh and be like, duh, but literally what they've done is they've broken it into six companies that are technically different companies, but they're all American-British manufacturing.
00:42:05.000There's Raytheon, Lockheed Martin's the number one, then it's Boeing, Raytheon, BAE is the British one, then there's Northrop Grumman and General Dynamics.
00:42:47.000Probably like 90-95% of the weapons manufacturers on Earth, something like that, are American-British.
00:42:51.000Then you get to Leonardo, which is Italian at $8.8 billion.
00:42:54.000And Almaz-Antey in Russian, $8.5 billion.
00:42:57.000That's the first Russian manufacturing.
00:42:58.000So yeah, I think that there is a monopoly on weapons manufacturing controlled by the British Empire, American industry being the weaponization arm of the British Empire.
00:43:15.000I'm not a warmonger, but I understand the value of war and the necessity of it at times, so... Yeah, and obviously those companies have developed a lot of this technology that have civilian uses and civilian purposes, and some of those things started off maybe with, like, a lot of the things that came out of DARPA have had, you know, Anything having to do with lasers, for example.
00:43:36.000Lasers have a lot of scientific research uses.
00:43:39.000They also have use for offensive weaponry.
00:43:45.000You know, the internet, all of these things, a lot of them are products of weapons development and DARPA and the government investing in things.
00:43:55.000And you have some aspect that's going to be useful for civilian purposes, and then you're going to have some aspect that's going to be useful for military purposes.
00:44:40.000And so I was looking to get out of that industry and I had developed an affinity for what they did.
00:44:47.000I saw these guys that, you know, they were building whatever, widgets, parts, and on the worst day of their lives, you know, their wife could be divorcing them, they could be having the crappiest day possible, but they could look at the product that they made and be satisfied that they put their craftsmanship into it.
00:45:32.000There was a big boom in the firearms industry as a result.
00:45:35.000You know, there was a lot of regulation that people were afraid of.
00:45:38.000The cost of ammunition was really high because the demand was very high.
00:45:42.000And again, at that time, the whole ammo industry was controlled by a small group of companies, you know, Winchester, Remington, Federal, these big players.
00:45:53.000So you had a lot of small companies starting to get into the business of making ammo because they saw a market for it.
00:46:00.000And so the guy who owned the company that he worked for passed away and it was like a side business.
00:46:06.000He was like a rich guy, had a couple of other businesses.
00:46:09.000So my brother called me and said, hey, I think we can buy this equipment for not that much money.
00:46:15.000I know you're thinking about wanting to do something else.
00:48:03.000So we got up and running and then obviously the election didn't go the way that people thought and so there was a bit of a struggle for the first couple years while we tried to figure out, you know, the demand is dropping so you can't just be the guy with the ammo that people are gonna buy at any price.
00:48:19.000You have to find a niche and so that got us into competitive shooting in particular, people that do training classes that are big consumers, high-volume consumers, are willing to pay a little bit more for a premium product.
00:48:31.000So it was actually great for us in that sense.
00:48:33.000I mean, if Hillary would have won and we would have been able to just sell whatever because people would buy whatever, we wouldn't have been able to develop the brand the way that we have.
00:48:46.000And so I'm kind of thankful for that, I would say, in retrospect.
00:48:51.000Let's jump into this next story we have from NBC.
00:48:53.000People, I see people are super chained about this.
00:48:55.000Marshals Service suffers major security breach that compromises sensitive information, senior law enforcement officials say.
00:49:02.000The incident did not involve the database involving witness security program, blah blah blah.
00:49:06.000But they're going to say, sensitive information, the affected system contains law enforcement sensitive info, including returns from legal process administrative information.
00:49:14.000personally identifiable information pertaining to subjects of USMS investigations, third parties,
00:49:20.000and certain USMS employees. Wade said the incident occurred February 17th, when the
00:49:25.000Marshals Service discovered a ransomware and data exfiltration event affecting a standalone USMS
00:49:30.000system. It's got me thinking. In the event of war with China, you know what I think they're going to
00:49:35.000do? I I think they're gonna release everybody's private info.
00:49:42.000One of the most powerful cyber attacks you can do is not a nuclear... One of the most powerful acts of war would not be a surveillance balloon or even a bomb.
00:49:51.000It would be taking everybody's data and publishing it.
00:49:56.000People would, you know... We've talked about this before.
00:49:59.000A lot of people said that when the Soviet Union fell and everyone's secret files got released, everyone just agreed to shut up and not bring it up because everybody had bad stuff in there.
00:50:08.000But yo, it's gonna get crazy when some leftist teacher's DMs get released and they're saying a whole bunch of racial slurs.
00:50:17.000So I was seeing this story and I'm just thinking about to what extent are some of these cyber attacks acts of war?
00:50:23.000Think about it for... Okay, so maybe it's embarrassing if someone publishes your web browser history or something, right?
00:50:27.000But what if a foreign nation publishes all the criminal court proceedings and all the communications from investigators just completely disrupting our legal system?
00:50:39.000Especially if they weave in falsehoods within these huge dumps of truths.
00:50:45.000And then they could pick specific little things where a piece of data is slightly skewed to make someone look guilty or someone not look guilty.
00:50:55.000I find myself imagining when you get those calls, it's like, we want to call you by your extended warranty.
00:51:00.000Like, what if they stole everyone's data, they leak it, and then you just bombard every communication system so there's no way to get actual information across?
00:51:07.000And that sounds a little bit ridiculous, but if you made it so that no one wanted to pick up their phone, no one wanted to, you know, check their email, no one wanted to communicate with you at all, they couldn't trust that their identity hadn't been stolen.
00:51:40.000And they're like, we wrote a program that takes fractions of a fraction of a penny from these transactions, so over a long period of time, we'll make a bunch of money.
00:51:46.000China's probably looking at it in a similar way in terms of war.
00:51:49.000I'm not saying these phone calls are coming from the Chinese government, maybe.
00:51:53.000If a phone call disrupts an individual worker in the United States by 0.0001% of their daily productivity, it means nothing to the individual.
00:52:02.000But as a collective, the entirety of the United States, that could be seriously damaging.
00:52:06.000It could, you know, stack up to the point where all of that, it's like strapping a weight to the ankle of the American economy.
00:52:20.000and they give into these scams and give money away, now they're actually stealing resources
00:52:25.000they can then use in their war effort. Yeah, yeah, you shoot a $400,000 missile at a balloon
00:52:32.000and you wasted $400,000, but if you spend... It wasn't way more than that? Well, it was per
00:52:37.000missile, I think. Oh, okay. And they shot two, so it was $800,000 total. But... Well, all right.
00:52:41.000But yeah, you spend $800,000 on missiles or you spend $800,000 putting together some,
00:52:48.000you know, algorithm and what's your cost? Knock out the internet. Your cost is the data,
00:52:52.000basically. That's your only cost and it can just run in the background and disrupt whatever you
00:52:56.000want. When the US has the internet knocked out.
00:52:58.000We all go, oh geez, the internet's out.
00:53:00.000But how much economic activity is disrupted by that, slowing US growth and allowing, and then China carries on as, you know, nothing happening.
00:53:20.000I mean, it went on for like two, the outage was, I think, 24, maybe over.
00:53:25.000that and uh the the chaos that ensued it took a long time it took several weeks to recover from because the city was just not prepared to lose the internet and with china stealing and releasing data it in particular it's challenging to think about because you just don't know how much data has been released and collected by china i mean i know we saw all it was like 26 states now have specifically banned tiktok on government issue devices and government networks Because part of TikTok's policies is that it collects not just information on your phone, but also your browsing history and on your keystrokes and all of these things.
00:53:59.000Like, if you had that, but you were a government worker, and so you were on the DMV Wi-Fi, and so you have all of this information, and you've been looking up different things for people, like, that's a lot of very sensitive data that's just sitting in this app's purview to swipe.
00:54:13.000Yeah, China, if you're listening, name your price for Eric Swalwell's browser history.
00:54:21.000I think Fang Fang was watching, you know, they were probably working on that together.
00:54:27.000Plus, like if someone's got, I think kind of along the lines of what you're saying, if someone's got TikTok on their phone, and then they got my name and number and email address on their phone as a contact, now the CCP has my email address.
00:54:39.000But it's something Facebook's already been doing.
00:54:40.000I mean, Facebook collects your browser, your, like, if you have a Facebook Messenger open, it can read all your other tabs on your computer.
00:54:45.000So, there's no way to put it back in the bottle.
00:54:48.000Wait, wait, Facebook Messenger can read all the tabs on your browser?
00:55:23.000Wasn't the CIA working on some program, you know, about tracking the life of every single person, and then they canceled the program and then Facebook launched around the same time?
00:55:35.000I think the people in the chat will know that the CIA or something was working on some program called LifeTrack or something like that, and they wanted to create profiles on everybody, and then all of a sudden they just canceled the program.
00:55:48.000It's like somebody probably went to the boss and said, why are we going to do all this work tracking people when we can just convince them to do it for us?
00:55:54.000They'll beg us to post their photos and share.
00:55:57.000Do you feel like we're on the defensive?
00:55:58.000You know, they're saying there's a security breach.
00:56:14.000I think, you know, part of that's a product of when you got into the tech age.
00:56:18.000I mean, I'm 37, so I had a phone when I was 12, but I wasn't allowed to use it unless it was an emergency.
00:56:25.000Phone plans at that time had 500 texts a month and so it was just a different age.
00:56:32.000I'm kind of like a Bitcoin guy and so there's a whole segment of the Bitcoin industry that's really into the security side of it.
00:56:47.000It just depends on how you started, right?
00:56:50.000Once you start going down a path, you're unlikely to shift.
00:56:55.000So people who have started using technology before thinking about security as being something that they should think about are probably unlikely, or in some cases, it's not even really possible for them to go all the way back to square one And build security from the ground up.
00:57:13.000Like if you're doing 10 things that are unsecure and then you decide, well I'm going to start taking security seriously, well it's probably already too late.
00:57:20.000Unless you're going to get a new phone number, you're going to completely get rid of anything that you used prior and you're going to start from scratch.
00:57:28.000So I think your average person is just very unlikely to do that.
00:57:32.000So you have to think about where does it make the most sense.
00:57:36.000So for me, when I got into Bitcoin, I was kind of a neophyte in it at the very beginning.
00:57:43.000I was just paying attention to what was popular in the media.
00:57:47.000And then I actually went to a conference called Guns and Bitcoin last year.
00:57:54.000I mean, like, I was the dumbest guy in the room.
00:57:56.000Honestly, these guys were some of the smartest people I've ever been around.
00:58:01.000But it was funny how much we had in common with them, which was kind of the point of the conference.
00:58:05.000It was a lot about 3D printing guns and Bitcoin and, you know, self-sovereignty and two different groups looking at the same problem from a different perspective.
00:58:14.000And so thinking about, okay, well, if you're gonna have your own Bitcoin, like, well, are you really in control of it?
00:58:31.000So, in that case, yeah, I'm pretty confident that I've done the right things in that one area of my life, but are there a bunch of other ways that I'm probably deficient from a security perspective?
00:58:43.000Well, the majority of people, like you're saying, just never think about that.
00:58:45.000I mean, like, in the gun community, a big thing has been, like, we know that Facebook and Instagram and the tech companies are developing ways to pull the serial number off of Photos of guns so if you take a photo of a gun and they can see the serial number They are digitizing that just like you do you you know character recognition OCR and so that's a big thing That was a big thing for a while you got you can't show your serial number on the internet because then they'll know that it's yours and then they're gonna build this shadow registry and
00:59:18.000That supposedly they are not allowed to do but we all know that they are So like in my case, I mean, there's so many pictures of my guns out in the internet Like what can I do at that point?
00:59:29.000Yeah now going forward I could make sure that I don't do that with anything that I don't want them to know that I have but once you've once you've let that cat out of the bag, it's pretty hard to put it back in and Let's talk about Scott Adams.
00:59:44.000Ladies and gentlemen, we have this tweet from Scott Adams.
00:59:45.000He says, My publisher for non-Dilbert books has cancelled my upcoming book and the entire backlist.
00:59:52.000Still no disagreement about my point of view.
00:59:57.000I'm not sure what he means by still no disagreement about his point of view, but here's the story.
01:00:02.000Because there's a lot of people disagreeing with his point of view.
01:00:05.000Hundreds of, this is from hot air, hundreds of newspapers cancel Dilbert comic strip, accuse Scott Adams of racism.
01:00:11.000There is some nuance to the conversation being had here that the media is overlooking in what Scott Adams said, albeit I disagree with what Scott Adams' prescription for the issue is.
01:01:06.000So if nearly half of all blacks are not okay with... According to this poll, not according to me, according to this poll, that's a hate group.
01:01:21.000And I don't want to have anything to do with them.
01:01:24.000And I would say, based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from black people.
01:01:49.000I went to a neighborhood where, you know, I have a very low black population, because unfortunately, you know, there's a high correlation between the density.
01:01:59.000This is according to Don Lemon, by the way.
01:02:01.000So here I'm just quoting Don Lemon when he notes that when he lived in a mostly black neighborhood, there were a bunch of problems that he didn't see in white neighborhoods.
01:02:14.000So even Don Lemon sees a big difference in your own quality of living based on where you live and who's there.
01:02:23.000So I think it makes no sense whatsoever as a white citizen of America to try to help black citizens anymore.
01:03:17.000I mean, first of all, he's very, very wrong.
01:03:20.000He makes the point about Don Lemon saying, even in his neighborhood, something like, yeah, Don Lemon did say that.
01:03:24.000Don Lemon did this thing in 2013 where he was like, if you live in the black community, stop littering, start doing these things.
01:03:30.000And then I just brought up, like, I don't know about these other cities.
01:03:33.000I know that in Chicago and Hyde Park, which has double the black population than the country's average, It's actually very wealthy and very nice and has University of Chicago and you walk around and everything is beautiful down there for the most part.
01:03:46.000And you go to other neighborhoods like where I grew up and there's a bunch of scummy white trash, white people with, you know, cars with no tires in front of their house and trash like that.
01:03:54.000So I don't know, maybe it's just me because I'm in the mix of it.
01:05:01.000I think it's all bad, but it's clearly double standard.
01:05:05.000I think he's been sort of on a slow cancellation anyways.
01:05:07.000Like this is maybe the nail in his public coffin but he got dropped by a big publisher who has like 70 newspapers earlier last year because he had this character who's black but identifies as white and he was making some joke about like ESG scores and got contacted by a publisher for like I think it was 73 newspapers and they're like we're not gonna run your comic anymore.
01:05:28.000I understand why this is like uncomfortable and shocking and I don't think that he's right about the way he's interpreting all of this data.
01:05:34.000But I think that he has been sort of a growing target for cancel culture anyways.
01:05:41.000You're right that about the way he's interpreting this data is wrong.
01:05:44.000He took a poll of a thousand people and then he said something about all of Americans and that people should run away from black people because of this thousand person poll that isn't even confirmed.
01:05:55.000I don't know if it's actually 72 percent.
01:05:57.000Rasmussen said that they poll online so people elect to take it and that it's nationwide, so theoretically people come from a cross-section of society.
01:06:47.000Your question of trust is not a question of the argument, Ian.
01:06:51.000makes a definitive claim based on this unverifiable poll.
01:06:55.000And if it is verified, it's a thousand people.
01:06:57.000If this is true, that's what the poll says, then therefore... Then he extrapolates, then therefore the entire world is that way and we must make decisions based on... Big mistake, Scott.
01:07:06.000Ian, you're not actually answering what Hannah-Claire was talking about.
01:08:18.000And you're like, what in the hell kind of dreary, boring- You don't want to have mine because this comic's boring?
01:08:24.000I liked Dilbert because my dad is a software engineer, and he is like- It is one thousand American- I mean, it was just, it was very similar.
01:08:33.000I just hope that Calvin and Hobbes guy stays out of this whole discussion.
01:08:35.000I don't know how you guys feel about it.
01:08:41.000If Scott wants to come on, I don't know if you guys are even interested in talking to the guy, but I think, you know, I don't like seeing people get canceled in general.
01:09:18.000You'll get these polls that the anti-gun lobby puts out that says 90
01:09:22.000percent of gun owners support universal background checks.
01:09:27.000And the question is always, okay, well, how did you phrase the question and who did you pull?
01:09:31.000I'm 100% confident that if I walked into my jujitsu gym and I talked to every single black person who trains there, they would look at me like I was growing a second head if I asked them this question.
01:09:44.000And I just, it's like, If you go outside and touch grass, get out into the real world, get away from these polls.
01:09:54.000Stop letting these polls run your life.
01:09:57.000I can empathize with the fact that if that was really true, would your advice be valuable?
01:10:06.000I mean, maybe, but... Is that really the way to resolve that issue?
01:10:12.000We have the polling data right here from Rasmussen, 1,000 Americans.
01:10:15.000The question they asked was, do you agree or disagree with this statement, quote, it's okay to be white?
01:10:20.000Now, I think one of the things that people need to understand here, especially Scott Adams, is the people who responded may have already seen the media campaign that claimed the phrase, it's okay to be white, was a racist dog whistle.
01:10:32.000In which case, that 26% may be like, I saw that in the news, that the white supremacists were putting that stuff out there, so no, I don't agree with it.
01:11:27.000Are you talking about the nonprofit or the general concept?
01:11:30.000Whatever, we're not going to tell you, because then what we're going to do is, once we get the answer we want, and most people say yes, we then put out our answer saying, when surveyed, most respondents said they did support the organization Black Lives Matter.
01:11:43.000And I would get when I was doing a lot of administrative minds, I'd have to look at like, is this too hot for TV kind of stuff?
01:11:49.000And stuff would come in and say, it's okay to be white.
01:11:52.000And then it would show like this white woman with like long blonde hair in a field with like an Aryan race symbol on the on the picture.
01:11:59.000And it's like everything about that's legal.
01:12:00.000But I know what they're trying to say.
01:12:18.000I mean, I like talking about the difference in genetics of races and historiological I think the problem is that we don't want to implement government based on race.
01:12:26.000We don't want to implement policy based on race.
01:12:27.000but if you're gonna make your life future choices based on what happened in
01:12:30.000the past that's a mistake but don't or based on what skin color people have
01:12:33.000that I think I think the issue is I don't I think the problem is that we're
01:12:38.000we don't want to implement government based on race we don't want to implement
01:12:42.000policy based on race we don't want to give out loans or anything based on race
01:12:44.000we want to judge people It's okay to hate.
01:12:46.000based on the content of their characters.
01:12:47.000If an individual holds a belief, I don't know if that's not okay or okay.
01:14:25.000So at this point, I'm kind of like, I don't know, if a guy came out and was like, I'm here to mow your lawn, but I'm also a hardcore communist and the money you give me... Yeah, I'd probably turn that down.
01:14:48.000I think a better way for him to phrase it would have been, look, if this poll is right and if 26% of people have an opinion of you that's obviously not going to change and is an untenable opinion, then maybe you should think about How you organize your life to avoid those kinds of people, people who think poorly of you.
01:15:12.000Now, you can take that for what you will.
01:15:17.000I mean, it doesn't mean that you have to move away from black people.
01:15:19.000It means that you don't want to be around people who think that you're a bad person.
01:15:23.000I mean, I don't want to be around people who think I'm a bad person either.
01:15:25.000I'm not going to hang out with people who know are critical of me being in the gun industry and you
01:15:31.000know tell me that you know your business is built on the backs of dead kids or
01:15:35.000whatever I mean I you know I'm not gonna have a beer with that guy yeah but you
01:15:38.000know there are plenty of people in my gym I train with who are Democrats and are
01:15:43.000on the liberal end of the spectrum and and you know but but we get along
01:15:48.000Like, we can tease with each other and, you know, we're friendly enough that we don't have to separate ourselves.
01:15:56.000But I think if you're going to do something like what Scott Adams did, like, you better have all your ducks in a row because you are going to get canceled.
01:16:05.000He'd already said it in advance, and I think the issue is that he's almost right in that If you're talking about a group of people that outright say they don't think it's okay to be a certain race, like you don't want to live near those people if you're of that race.
01:16:19.000So if you take the racial context out, that Scott Adams said black people or white people or anything like that, and say If 26% of a racial group said it is not okay for you to be that racial group, would you want to live by them?
01:16:35.000Imagine if it was the other way around.
01:16:37.000Imagine if the poll was white people asked, is it okay to be black?
01:16:40.000And a black guy said, you got to get away from these people.
01:16:43.000Well, the reality is they say it all the time.
01:16:46.000These activists, not all black people, leftist activists say all the time, get away from white people, whiteness is bad.
01:16:52.000There was one of the editors, a guy who was editor-in-chief of Art Fusion had his Twitter banner that said, down with whiteness, with a bunch of black fists.
01:16:59.000And I'm like, all of that stuff is widely acceptable in the corporate press.
01:17:02.000It's widely acceptable to these newspapers.
01:17:05.000ABC News funded a Disney corporation, Univision Corporation, was absolutely 100% okay with their editor-in-chief putting up a Twitter banner saying, down with whiteness.
01:17:16.000Okay, so when Scott Adams comes out, forgive me if I roll my eyes a little bit and don't care that much that a guy has an opinion I don't agree with, because I am swimming in the psychotic racism of the left for a decade or longer.
01:17:30.000It just reminds me of the conversation that we've had about a national divorce, right?
01:17:34.000Whether or not we actually formally enter a war, culturally people are pulling away from each other because they feel as though they're being pitted against one another, which is ultimately extremely destructive.
01:17:45.000But you can't blame someone of any race if you're told this race hates you or this race is constantly oppressing you.
01:17:51.000Why would you want to live next to them, right?
01:17:53.000If you're fed that constantly, it's meant to keep you apart.
01:17:56.000I'm not surprised that Scott Adam, who seems extremely depressed in this video, is like, yeah, I don't want to be around someone of this race who apparently doesn't like me.
01:18:04.000But what kind of short-sighted mind would look at a poll of a thousand people, I don't even know if he knows how many people were in the poll, would look at a poll and then make a life decision about all people based off that?
01:18:16.000That kind of mind does not belong in the forefront.
01:18:18.000It doesn't sound like it's based off this one poll because he already has moved away, you know what I mean?
01:18:23.000He is showing signs that this is confirmation of something he has already felt, and now you're just seeing it in hard numbers.
01:18:29.000Like, if you have a feeling about something, and then it gets confirmed in the data, even if the data is not the best source, it's hard not to then be like, okay, I made the right decision moving away, because he's talking about it in the past tense.
01:18:40.000I don't know, that's just my perspective on it.
01:18:41.000I think that he seems like this is confirming something that he is already upset about.
01:18:46.000But it's like, what kind of data is he using to confirm his suspicions?
01:19:12.000He's just going at anybody he disagrees with and saying exactly what he thinks.
01:19:15.000Even when everyone's yelling at him, he's like, that's what I think.
01:19:17.000In the very beginning of that video, he was like, the thing is, all blacks, the thing about blacks, He's not even like black people blacks.
01:20:23.000So there are historical neighborhoods that were, by policy, created to be racially segregated, but for the most part, these days, it is all self-segregation.
01:20:32.000I understand wanting to be around what you're familiar with, but to run away from someone is, to me, is absolutely just...
01:21:24.000I mean, like, that's not just something that you're going to ask your neighbor when you move in.
01:21:27.000So, you know, he's taking it to the extreme and saying, well, because they're black, and that's something that I can visually see, that I'm going to decide to self-segregate from those people.
01:21:38.000When in reality, you know, if you had a conversation with everybody on the street who was black you know probably almost nobody would actually have that opinion but he's unfortunately taking it to the extreme remember that uh not having the conversation that guy was being interviewed and uh it was like it was it was a guy and a woman and the woman says well you don't understand because you're white and he goes what he's like i'm black and she's like you are and he's like yes and then she was like i didn't know and she genuinely thought his opinion that was like david webb yeah he's uh yeah conservative
01:22:08.000talk show host. Yep, and she didn't know who he was, so she accused him of being a white guy,
01:22:12.000and he was like, what? It's like, what are you talking about? These people on the left,
01:22:16.000they live in a world where race is a political viewpoint.
01:22:19.000So if you have a conservative political viewpoint, that means you're white. But I mean it literally.
01:22:32.000And I'm like, okay, you're basically just saying people I disagree with are white.
01:22:36.000You know, in Scott's defense, his behavior right now is a result of five years of racialization of people saying whiteness is evil, blackness is evil, whiteness is great, it's okay to be black, like all this crap, this identity crap.
01:22:49.000You get people like Scott, things like that coming out of people like Scott's mouth.
01:22:52.000That corporate companies profit off of.
01:22:54.000If you went to Target during February they had all kinds of like black is beautiful like merch and stuff.
01:23:00.000Which like is great if you're trying to make sure that like young black kids in America feel empowered, right?
01:23:06.000But also it does set a weird tone where you're saying like Let's talk about race constantly and constantly say, you know, don't forget that white people did this bad thing.
01:23:14.000It's feeding critical race theory even when you want to avoid it, when you want to treat people to look beyond skin color.
01:24:08.000When you start looking at people as people, start calling Morgan Freeman a man, and not even registering his color when you're talking to him, then you're not a racist.
01:24:17.000That's when you're actually out of it, I think.
01:24:19.000I think people spend too much time worrying about if they're racist or not.
01:24:22.000I feel like you don't spend enough time getting to know the people around you.
01:24:24.000You're so obsessed with how your accents are perceived, right?
01:24:28.000Like, you should be more comfortable with your neighbors than how the internet's gonna label you, right?
01:24:33.000The crazy thing is how Republicans have historically been the not caring as much about race.
01:24:39.000Like, the first black member of Congress I think was Republican, obviously.
01:24:45.000The Democratic Party has consistently done things that just cause massive damage to the black community and the black family, even to this day.
01:24:51.000And so, look, forgive me if I just think, like, the Democrats are substantially more... Well, I don't think Republicans are racist at all.
01:25:00.000I think everyone's got racism to a certain degree.
01:25:02.000You see it in those charts I was talking about where white liberals don't like white people, white conservatives have a slight in-group preference, Latinas have a slight in-group preference.
01:25:10.000That means, like, for the most part, A white person, a black person, a Latino person, they're not going to care about any of this stuff.
01:25:15.000They'll live next to you, they'll go to your barbecue, but there's a small percentage that prefer to be around their own race, and then white liberals, a small percentage too, prefer not being around their own race or whatever.
01:25:59.000Culture that I'm never going to understand and So I can't speak to the things that he can speak to and so the more that you get to understand like hey We're all coalescing around the same thing Which is we believe that everybody has the right to self-defense and you have some people that are gonna focus like yeah You know a lot of these gun laws are based on racism 100% true now They know much more about that topic than I do, so it's great for me to be around them and kind of learn their origin story and learn how they came to be part of, you know, the self-defense culture and the gun rights movement.
01:26:35.000And so that, to me, is just a benefit.
01:26:40.000We went to XCAL a couple weeks ago when Luke was still here.
01:26:43.000You ever hear of them? It's a really fantastic shooting range in Virginia.
01:26:47.000And we're in the range and there's people of all different races.
01:26:51.000I see a couple of black guys are shooting, some Mexican guys.
01:26:54.000The guys right to our right are Arabic of some sort.
01:26:56.000And I was like, look at everybody coming together, laughing and smiling.
01:26:59.000They watched the full auto and they're all laughing and smiling.
01:27:03.000And then one of the guys, he's like an Arabic accent, he's like, he's watching one of our people hanging out with us is firing a suppressed FN-57 or something like that.
01:27:19.000I work with a guy who runs a group called Guns for Everyone, and he's of Mexican descent.
01:27:25.000And one of his big things is that he prints his newsletter in Spanish.
01:27:29.000And his aim is to try to build gun culture in Mexico where it literally doesn't exist.
01:27:34.000I mean, you just can't get a gun there.
01:27:36.000So the culture Doesn't exist, but he sees that as a gap that that he can bridge like that's that's his niche That's where he can provide value that other people aren't and and it's only to the benefit of all of us
01:27:49.000I remember on Twitter, I love this one story, someone tweeted something like, Tim Pool wants to give all the crazy right-wing nutjobs guns, but wants black people not to have them.
01:27:59.000And I was like, the hell are you talking about?
01:28:02.000I think every Black Panther should be marching down the street, chipped with a sidearm and an AR-15, because it's their right to do so.
01:28:08.000And it was like some lefty Antifa guy, and he responded with, based.
01:28:12.000And I'm like, why would you assume I think they shouldn't have guns?
01:28:47.000Yeah, a good workout carrying those things.
01:28:48.000Have there been advancements in lightweight guns lately?
01:28:52.000Yeah, I mean, you know, polymer technology started in the 80s, you know, the Glock was like the first brand to really start, well, actually let me backtrack, you know, that actually the AR-15 and the M16 was the first weapon that really started to use polymers and plastics.
01:29:09.000So that was a bit, and that was in the mid 60s, but it took a while.
01:29:13.000There's a lot of tradition in the, you know, people like steel and wood, they see it as real and what have you.
01:29:20.000Over time, now pretty much every handgun in the $500 to $700 range is going to have a polymer frame and a steel slide.
01:29:28.000So yeah, the advancement in technology, we're developing better polymers, we're starting to use more carbon fiber things to try to make barrels lighter in particular.
01:29:39.000With high precision rifles, the big problem is the barrels are very thick.
01:29:43.000And so there's a lot of material in the barrel and they tend to be very front heavy.
01:29:48.000So what they're doing instead is using a steel liner with a carbon fiber outer wrap.
01:29:54.000And that will provide the stiffness and the accuracy without creating something that is unwieldy.
01:30:01.000What's that, um, uh, it's a fully auto M321 or something like that.
01:32:10.000And so they developed—General Electric developed an autocannon, they call it, and so it's actually shooting a 30-millimeter round, which is enormous.
01:32:22.000And they're coming—I can't remember the rate of fire off the top of my head, but I think it'll deplete the entire ammunition in something like 20, it only has like 20 or 30 seconds of sustained fire.
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01:33:29.000I'm Not Your Buddy Guy says, It's a very black pill when you realize the only question is who will be running a technocratic enslavement with a social credit system, China or the U.S.?
01:34:03.000It's a whole bunch of white people marching around burning down black neighborhoods, so... Well, I guess maybe then what they're saying is true.
01:34:09.000Those white racist Antifa people should avoid the black neighborhoods they're causing damage to.
01:34:23.000I've only ever been mugged by a white guy.
01:34:25.000Like, literally had two white guys, and it was funny, the story is I was in Lincoln Park, I think, and two white guys, one guy was trailing, they did it for security, and then a tall white guy tried mugging me, and then it turned out they lived like, I don't know, five or six blocks away from where I lived, because they go to other neighborhoods to rob people, the criminals do, Maybe because you left the city, you were running away.
01:34:48.000But I think you're an example of someone that goes where you want, as opposed to flees from what they don't like.
01:34:53.000Also, should you stay somewhere and prove that you're tolerant?
01:35:07.000The problem with people who are mad about a race is it's like, Why is the race the issue when there are clear examples of people of that race who are some of the smartest and best people in the freedom movement?
01:35:21.000I just don't understand why the race is the component.
01:35:39.000If there's a black guy who's pro-two-way and conservative, and he's got an American flag, and he's waving it with sunglasses on, I'd be like, that's a base MF.
01:35:46.000You know, and if you're feeling racist, just stare at eyeballs.
01:35:49.000Spend some time, spend the next couple years staring at eyeballs.
01:35:52.000Look at people, look at their eyeballs.
01:36:23.000It'll probably make it worse, to be honest with you.
01:36:25.000Yeah, they'll use the violence as an excuse to implement more harsh lockdowns, and then most people will be too passive to do anything about it.
01:36:33.000If you have one world power instead of two world powers, then... And you have to think critically, like, if they say it'll end whatever, Don't believe them, it's not a guarantee.
01:37:51.000Right now it's large caliber, but small caliber is being affected too.
01:37:54.000I'm already hearing about European primer manufacturers that are starting to hold back their supply because they know that there's money to be made in Ukraine.
01:38:04.000Colt, Zipriani says my girlfriend was adamant that she never wanted kids until the day she got off birth control.
01:38:25.000That's- I mean- But, like, the idea of the mass medication of a society where they're just like, take a drug for no reason without any real reason.
01:38:31.000And I know that there are a lot of teen girls who are told, oh yeah, you should take it, you've got hormonal issues, your hormones haven't leveled out, and they put you on birth control, but the issue is then you never address the hormonal issue, right?
01:38:43.000Taking birth control doesn't reset your hormones.
01:38:45.000When you come off birth control, you still have issues.
01:38:48.000I think the problem is that people go on birth control and don't think about the alternative of exploring because it's simpler for a gynecologist to prescribe birth control than to do a lot of testing.
01:38:59.000I'm saying that birth control is a literal medication that doctors over-prescribe.
01:39:03.000There are certain circumstances where any medication can be properly prescribed.
01:39:06.000But what we're seeing now a lot of is like 16-year-old girls go to the doctor and they're like, why don't you go on birth control for no reason?
01:39:37.000But then there are, like, the majority of what we're seeing is just, like, every single person is being told to go on hormonal drugs.
01:39:43.000Yeah, there's always a case for medication, but I just think that we aren't talking about the consequences.
01:39:48.000If it's the right choice for your body, you should be able to know why, not just that this is the easiest solution, that you'll avoid, you know, more minor inconveniences that perhaps your doctor should explore more seriously with you.
01:40:00.000TechRoo2024 says, China admitted it was an accidental lab leak when they suggested someone caught it from something they ate.
01:40:07.000Saving face is an element of Chinese culture where they admit they screwed up by making a lame excuse and everyone is expected to shake their head sadly and drop the subject.
01:40:15.000Like with Fukushima, when they kept saying, everything's fine, everything's fine, don't worry, and the disaster was getting worse and worse and worse.
01:40:21.000And then, you know, in the U.S., we're really frustrated, like, just admit it's not so we can fix it!
01:40:27.000But they have honor culture, so they have to keep saying everything's fine even when it's not.
01:40:32.000Yep, well, you know, this is what happens.
01:41:06.000Do you mean like you don't sell to the department or like if an individual cop walked in off duty and wanted a gun?
01:41:11.000We have no problem selling to individual police officers but we stopped selling to police departments and the reason for that is the Novi Police Department came into my business And wrote a report that resulted in us getting fined by the health department for not wearing masks in our own building during the COVID craziness.
01:41:33.000And at that minute I just said, I'm done with this.
01:41:37.000If it wasn't obvious before, it's obvious to me now and it should be obvious to all gun owners.
01:41:43.000Again, not to put labels on groups, but I try to live my life by the 80-20 rule.
01:41:52.000So the bottom line is 80% of police officers are there to work a job.
01:41:58.000And so whether it's enforcing mask mandates or enforcing gun confiscation, probably 80% of people are going to just do what their boss tells them to do.
01:42:13.000And I just found that to be an untenable situation.
01:42:16.000And so, you know, it wasn't a big part of our sales anyway.
01:42:21.000Maybe it was 10% at the time, but I could see the shift and I I'll be honest with you, most of the individual police officers I work with agree with me on it 100%.
01:42:43.000It was also surrounded by a bunch of non-U.S.
01:42:46.000Republic-based countries which immediately started destroying and exploiting it.
01:42:49.000You can't... Solving a problem of, you know, crime and these issues that, like, Liberia faced is... You've got an entire continent of warring tribes and different factions.
01:43:02.000It is a massive amount of power and influence over specific areas that you can't just come in and, like, a small colony and be like, okay, you're good, we gave you the documents, because it takes only, like, a couple decades for outside influences to come in and start ripping apart those resources.
01:43:32.000It's been a long time since I've talked to people from there.
01:43:34.000So you can take the best part of Liberia and then compare it to the worst part of America and make America look really, really bad.
01:43:42.000The real question is, Function of government, corruption levels, crime levels, you know, in the bigger picture, which is ultimately where polls do come in.
01:43:50.000We're trying to extrapolate data from, you can't literally ask every single person in the country, it's impossible, so we do our best to try and figure out what is causing these problems and I think the answer is, well, The one thing I find funny about people who, you know, would say that race plays a huge component in all of this as opposed to like ideology.
01:44:11.000I'm wondering why it is that it is predominantly white Europeans that are opening up their borders and allowing people literally to walk into their country and just start...
01:44:21.000You know, causing the problems these people are claiming, right?
01:44:24.000So in Japan, Japan's outright, like, closed borders, hard immigration.
01:44:29.000And then it turns out to be mostly white people who are like, we're multicultural and everyone can come here and do whatever they want.
01:44:34.000And then it's other white people complaining about the fact that white people are doing it.
01:44:36.000And I'm like, does that mean that white people have a very serious submission problem and they're very weak and ineffectual people, incapable of defending themselves?
01:44:56.000I'm Not Your Buddy Guy says, Will Ferrell as George Bush was funnier for opening.
01:45:01.000Yeah, Woody Harrelson's opening was like rambly and like, it wasn't that good until he made that political point that was kind of funny, you know?
01:45:06.000I don't know what he said this for, but he did play Biden on several SNL sketches, so I find it ironic that he's the one who's now like, making this point about the cartels and drugs.
01:45:18.000All right, yeah, but Trump says, Tim, you missed something about South Korea surgeries.
01:45:21.000It's actually weird if you don't have surgery of some sort.
01:45:24.000It's the current plastic surgical place in the world.
01:45:27.000Yeah, it's kind of crazy that North Korea goes, you know, starvation, hardcore, like, authoritarian, and then South Korea goes full-on capitalist plastic surgery for everybody.
01:45:40.000And it's not just plastic surgery, they're one of the top beauty industries.
01:45:44.000So any kind of treatment that you want for your skin or for your hair or whatever else, South Korea is a leader in that field.
01:45:51.000So they are now, if you know anyone who does K-beauty, they get special moisturizer or whatever else, they're exporting this industry that they have cultivated and developed to everywhere else in the world.
01:46:01.000Is it technocratic in that are they turning into cyborgs more there than other countries?
01:46:57.000Yeah, like you freeze for like 10 seconds and then they stop and they hold it and they look around and they walk over to the garbage and put it in.
01:47:03.000On the TV a big thing appears showing your picture and being like tried to litter.
01:47:06.000You could get people to drop to their knees.
01:47:08.000That's an easy thing to do to their brain.
01:47:10.000And then just to face the imperial palace on their knees and just bow like this.
01:47:14.000I would worry that the guy who tries to litter is feeling pain through your neural link to get you to stop doing it.
01:47:23.000I can't remember who was saying this, but they said, the real scary thing is that, and I think it was Phil, maybe it was Phil saying this, that when you get Neuralink, it'll do the tiniest bit of dopamine when you do something they want, and it'll give you a negative reaction, tiny, tiny bit.
01:47:36.000And so over time, it just feels good doing what the machine tells you to do.
01:47:41.000But then there'll be situations, exactly what social media apps do.
01:47:46.000No one will need to tell you not to litter.
01:47:48.000You'll just start doing it because you'll get a dopamine hit every time you throw your garbage in the garbage can.
01:47:52.000And then there'll be situations where you're supposed to litter, like, rarely, you know, like, whatever, you're under command to do it or something, and it'll hurt.
01:48:14.000That's legit what's gonna be there's gonna be people like picking up pulling dirt out of the ground and throwing in garbage cans because their neural link breaks and they're getting a dopamine hit from picking it up because their brain thinks this is garbage.
01:48:25.000There's gonna be groups of people who are gonna be like scratching and getting that high and they're gonna be like I need that hit man and the government's gonna be like we need this house built and they're gonna be like I'll build it and as they're building like it feels so good to build.
01:48:52.000Sleeping on the streets of L.A., covered in, you know, garbage, and doing drugs and then dying, or that person Building houses and doing construction and getting the same high.
01:49:04.000Dopamine's not free because you need to eat.
01:49:05.000So you do need to acquire and consume to get dopamine.
01:49:08.000So if you could do it in other ways, that'd be terrifying.
01:49:34.000That meme about not all lines attack originated, I'm pretty sure, with feminists who said, if you have a bowl of M&Ms and 10 of them are poisoned, not all M&Ms, right?
01:50:14.000If I saw a group of black dudes waving Proud Boys flags and wearing the Proud Boys shirts, I would—and then I saw on the other side a bunch of people with Antifa flags, I would choose the side with the black people.
01:50:26.000Because the ideology is the real issue.
01:50:28.000If I was walking down the street in Chicago, and I saw a bunch of black men wearing nice business suits
01:50:33.000and carrying briefcases and talking on their cell phones, I'd be like, whatever.
01:50:36.000And then if I saw a bunch of white dudes, with guns, baggy pants, and like,
01:50:40.000prison tattoos or something, I'd probably be like, well, I know what- honestly, I'd probably just walk past
01:51:05.000And so if Scout Adams' solution is to move away, like, fine, have a good time.
01:51:09.000If my solution is to get to know my neighbors and know them on a better level, then, like, also acceptable.
01:51:15.000But if I had a neighbor that thought I was bad, I would rather engage with them and get to know them and override that preconception than to flee.
01:51:30.000I don't think that you should have to move, but like, this is the thing that Scott Adams is coming up against, right?
01:51:35.000Like, if he doesn't want to have to figure out Which quarter, which one in four of these people think that he is fundamentally not acceptable the way he is, then yeah, okay, move.
01:52:24.000I actually think that would be a better thing for the Culture War podcast, where it's like a long form conversation specifically on this one issue, as opposed to like topical news of the night.
01:52:41.000It's cool that you have like two different ways to do that now because not everyone is you can talk about the news, but not everyone is in that format.
01:53:52.000That's where data can be easily manipulated by starting with an answer in mind and then developing questions.
01:54:00.000Or going to a specific group of people, right?
01:54:04.000If you go to the like county meetup of red cars and everyone's like, yes, we have a red car and you conclude everyone in America has a red car, obviously that's a terrible base set of data.
01:54:13.000The Real Hydro says, I have a clip of Ian saying that when he was in food service, he said that when people of color came in to eat, he never expected them to tip because they are poor.
01:55:10.000Yeah, I mean, I would say most gun companies are part of that, you know, military-industrial complex in the sense that their customers are really government and law enforcement.
01:55:20.000And so for us, our customer base is 100% individual U.S.
01:55:26.000citizens, you know, the people who the Second Amendment was written for.
01:55:56.000So I said earlier, In my video on Scott Adams, I do believe that there's a combination of nature versus nurture.
01:56:02.000And the people who tried arguing that race plays no role in physical characteristics, like, they're just wrong.
01:56:10.000But I believe that nurture plays an outsized role.
01:56:15.000We'll have a bigger role on whether a person behaves or does certain things as opposed to the family or genetics that they have in the long run.
01:56:23.000I think what I'm trying to say is humans of all different races are substantially more similar In that, social functions will have a larger impact on them, regardless of their race.
01:56:35.000That being said, people in Sweden tend to be taller than people in Thailand.
01:56:40.000That's going to have an impact on whether or not people in Thailand can play professional basketball in the United States, versus people from Sweden.
01:56:46.000Because people in Sweden are more likely, because they're much taller.
01:56:49.000And then you actually have in the United States, I think... What is it, like... What is the percentage of the NBA that's black?
01:58:07.000Because people are arguing, they're your kids and you're a genius, therefore your kids are geniuses.
01:58:10.000And I'm kind of like, I don't know, man.
01:58:12.000I think if you take a Nobel Prize winner's newborn baby and drop him off in Somalia, he's going to end up not being too healthy.
01:58:23.000He'll be more likely to be malnourished.
01:58:25.000There's civil war, there's conflict, there's crisis.
01:58:27.000You put him in a very wealthy, pristine area where he's getting access to nutrients and food and all the best education, and he's going to That's gonna have a bigger impact on anything else.
01:58:38.000Nutrition, I think, is the number one thing.
01:58:41.000That if you take any person of any racial background and you give them garbage food to eat, plastics and other nasty trash, they will not function properly.
01:58:52.000Yeah, it affects the development of your brain.
01:58:54.000Yeah, and everything else, your muscles, your height.
02:00:26.000Where I grew up, culture more than race on everything.
02:00:30.000Gang members came in all different sizes and colors.
02:00:34.000So it really was about the culture that was around everybody.
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