On today's show, we have a special guest, Phil Labonte of All That Remains, an anti-communist and counter-revolutionary singer. We talk about his political views, the current political climate, and the future of the alternative music scene.
00:00:24.000I don't think anyone's surprised to hear this news, but it's going to have a tremendous impact on the Senate.
00:00:28.000I'm wondering what this will mean for New Jersey and for the balance of power in the Senate.
00:00:33.000And then, of course, we have that we have a the Democrat mayor of Dallas switches to the Republican Party.
00:00:40.000This is going to be really interesting.
00:00:42.000What we see moving forward in 2024, of course, we've been seeing a lot of interesting things.
00:00:46.000There's not necessarily any evidence of direct correlation, but when you see someone in a Democrat city say outright, we need Republicans, I'm switching, that's it.
00:00:55.000I think 2024 is going to get really interesting in terms of people are insane, there's going to be prosecutions, there's going to be conflict, but we're going to see weird stories in the press.
00:01:04.000And, uh, well, may you live in interesting times.
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00:02:57.000I'm a Gen Z conservative content creator, and you may recognize me from that one Vice panel where the other Asians were going crazy, and I just was very calm, and everyone has seen that.
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00:03:38.000Yeah, so Hassan was doing a podcast and he said Phil was a failed musician and it's like, bro, if you're that desperate and that's the only move you have to make against someone because you don't have an argument to say that a platinum recording artist who just opened for Metallica has failed, I'm like, damn, what success?
00:03:53.000Uh, apparently it's, uh, quitting The Leftovers is success.
00:04:56.000Like, I feel like somewhere deep down, you can have a real conversation, but...
00:05:02.000If someone's built their career off making money, and their whole plan is like, what kind of content can I do to make money?
00:05:06.000There's apparently some scandal involving Dylan Mulvaney related to this, like a video came out.
00:05:10.000But we've talked about it before, where if you look at Dylan's early content, it's like throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks.
00:05:17.000These people aren't going to betray an ideology when the whole purpose of their ideology is to make money.
00:05:22.000And I hate the term grifter, but I've seen Hasan just sit there and he'll react to stuff, and basically just eats food the whole time, says a couple comments, and it sells because it's reaction content, I don't know.
00:05:34.000He's a big boy, he takes a lot of things to do.
00:05:36.000I mean, the real secret is for a lot of these online communities, it's a place to hang out.
00:05:51.000So, New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez has been indicted for bribery, according to a statement from the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
00:05:57.000Menendez is currently the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
00:06:01.000The Democrat and his wife, Nadine, have been under federal investigation since 2022.
00:06:04.000The couple is allegedly believed to have taken $400,000 worth of gold bars from New Jersey developer and former bank chairman Fred Diabas.
00:06:14.000And his associates, Wael Hanna and Jose Uribe.
00:06:18.000In exchange, Menendez reportedly agreed to use his official influence to sway the Justice Department, which had accused Diabes of bank crimes.
00:06:29.000Newly unsealed documents filed in New York accused Menendez and his wife of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes.
00:06:35.000In exchange, freezing Menendez's power and influence as a senator to seek, protect, and enrich Hanna Uribe.
00:06:54.000Well, the first thing I'm gonna say is the federal government, especially the Southern District of New York, gets zero benefit of the doubt from me.
00:08:09.000There probably has to be a reason they're going after him, I'd have to imagine.
00:08:12.000I mean, you've seen the same thing, you said Southern District of New York, right?
00:08:16.000You kind of saw how the political system in New York went after Andrew Cuomo, one of their own, because, you know, clearly something there fell out of favor.
00:08:23.000So I really wonder what the backstory is here, because I couldn't imagine they're just gonna go after him just because, oh, he's a corrupt politician, right?
00:08:30.000So there's probably something more to the story, I would have to imagine.
00:08:34.000All Menendez has to do right now is have a press conference and say that one week ago he began drafting a resolution for the Senate to end the persecution and prosecution of Donald Trump because it was disruptive to our democracy and then all of a sudden he's being indicted and just let her rip.
00:09:06.000But if he came out and was like, I wanted to, I was arguing to end the prosecution of Trump because this is not the way the Democratic Party should be operating, that would actually earn him some benefit.
00:09:16.000He would get political tribalists being like, we'll let you slide on this one.
00:09:22.000I don't really have a take other than, you know, if you can get gold bars, get them.
00:09:27.000I'm very glad you started off the segment talking about the presumption of innocence.
00:09:30.000That's a real important part of the next 20 or 30 years of American livelihood.
00:09:34.000Yeah, but the problem is we, we be good people.
00:09:38.000So I will, I have no problem saying like, I don't know what this guy was involved in, but you better prove it before I'm willing to throw someone in jail or whatever.
00:10:21.000It looks like he actually did this stuff.
00:10:23.000But that being said, you should be innocent until proven guilty.
00:10:27.000You know or you should be treated that way, but it's not like it's not like they're after like it's not like there's there's an attempt to get around the law or circumvent the law Except for on his case his case.
00:10:37.000I don't see that that it's a right-left thing is what I guess is what I'm getting Here's the thing is that I don't even want to use the term Democrats.
00:10:44.000I think it's more so There's a lot of people in the Uniparty who have gotten away with genuine, legitimate crimes that, you know, no one ever indicted, no one ever tried to even investigate.
00:10:53.000So I do think to some degree, considering what they're doing to Trump and, you know, a lot of people on our side for very frivolous reasons very often, I do think in the future, if we ever want to kind of...
00:11:06.000I do think you're gonna have to at some point try to hold the other side or the uniparty I should say really more so accountable for the things that they're just straight-up getting away with that are real crime So I'm not saying obviously fabricate crimes or try to you know, just go after people to go after them but I think you've seen them turn a blind eye to a lot of establishment politicians over the years and I think To balance out the situation now, I think you know I just don't know if I'll trust any of them no matter what.
00:11:43.000And the problem I have is that for a lot of these powerful corrupt individuals that we know about, Any prosecutor could have gone after him.
00:11:52.000There is justification for, when it comes to these politicians and high-profile individuals, they do work in jurisdictions all across the country.
00:12:07.000I was thinking last night, like, if you tear open an evil system and you rip back the curtain and show everyone how evil it is, you're providing a threat for the system's stability.
00:12:17.000Even if it's evil, if you expose it, it can disrupt and then the system could fall apart.
00:12:21.000So what'll happen is people will try and just show you a little bit of it at a time, but that's like...
00:12:27.000Poking a needle into a balloon and trying to stop it from popping, trying to hold it tight.
00:12:31.000And it's like, once evil gets exposed a little, the rest of it just comes pouring out.
00:12:35.000And trying to suppress people's awareness of it is almost doing more damage to the system than just letting it... It's building up.
00:12:44.000There is a postule full of pus on the United States that they just keep slapping Band-Aids over, and it just keeps getting bigger and worse.
00:12:52.000And when this thing pops, ooh, it's gonna suck.
00:12:55.000But man, you can't just keep thinking like, this is what they do in terms of the economy, as we were talking about with debt and war, and one of the theories, there is a theory, I could call it a conspiracy, I don't know if it's a conspiracy theory or a hypothesis, that the purpose of the stimulus during COVID was not really COVID.
00:13:12.000It was, hey, here's our chance to flood the economy with printed money so that we can pay down the debt and kick the can down the road for a couple more years because A monetary system which produces more debt than currency eventually collapses.
00:13:27.000Well, that's something that Austrians and Libertarians and even fiscal conservatives have been talking about.
00:13:35.000I mean, we are in a new paradigm now considering the fact that the government and the Federal Reserve is working under a modern monetary theory.
00:14:19.000The only value that comes from your dollar is from the demand for taxes.
00:14:23.000So we have to get away, or people should try to get away from the idea that we are using taxes to pay for projects.
00:14:32.000And the argument against MMT is it gives the government Unlimited authority to print money and do whatever they want with finances outside of the... Let me read some of this real quick from NBC just to give some context.
00:14:46.000Apparently his wife is also being charged.
00:14:49.000And they say that federal agents said they discovered many of the items, many of these items were, when they executed search warrants in the couple's home, they found more than $480,000 in cash, much of it stuffed into envelopes and hidden in clothing, closets, and a safe, including jackets bearing the senator's name that were hanging in his closet.
00:15:06.000As well as more than $70,000 in Nadine's safe deposit box, the indictment alleges.
00:15:21.000I wanted to ask you, Phil, do you know of any historical examples of a nation or an empire being in the level of debt that we are right now?
00:15:28.000So this is kind of like uncharted territory.
00:15:29.000No, and also MMT is still a fairly new theory.
00:15:35.000I wanted to comment really quickly on Tim's quote-unquote conspiracy theory.
00:15:38.000It's funny, we talk about the Great Reset, living in pods, and very often the natural reaction is people would never accept that.
00:15:44.000But that is the thing, is that when everything becomes unaffordable, when you can't afford a home, where are you going to live?
00:15:49.000You can't afford food, you know, what's the next reaction to that?
00:15:53.000So if it all lined up and that was the purpose of COVID, to basically destroy the current order and traditional American way of life in So that way it gets worse and worse, and now eventually people ten years from now will basically just accept a quasi-great reset.
00:16:08.000I think it's, uh, interesting to say the least, right?
00:16:10.000I- I wanna- I- We got this picture pulled up, and it is... It's a- It's a decent amount of money.
00:16:16.000I mean, let me look- It's probably a couple grand.
00:16:19.000Serious question though, for like, for what reason?
00:16:55.000Like, I think it's very... Crypto's not safe.
00:16:57.000Yeah, they got AI that can track all that stuff.
00:17:00.000This guy's been hard on crypto, actually.
00:17:02.000This guy was notoriously pushing hard against one of the crypto companies, what was it, like a year ago.
00:17:09.000I read that earlier today, and I didn't dig into how bad it was, but it's like, It's like, uh, you know, harmonious that this guy who's anti-crypto is taking bribes.
00:17:20.000So like, what, you know, who's the real villain in this situation?
00:18:28.000Oh yeah, so this is, Menendez was going hard on Venezuela's talk of Okay, now, I just gotta say, right here, nah, this doesn't move the needle for me.
00:18:41.000I mean, he's got a couple grand in 50s.
00:18:44.000He's got 20s right there, and it looks like it might be, like, 1,400, maybe, in 20s.
00:18:52.000If they're super rich, having like a thousand bucks in a pocket somewhere, I'm okay, I can understand that for whatever, but that stack of hundreds, I'm like, for what purpose?
00:19:07.000In the envelopes, because if a drug dealer has like a big block of weed, that's one thing, but if they have a bunch of little baggies of it, all split up, that's intent to sell.
00:21:37.000She has hosted, well, I'm pretty sure she does stuff for them, but, you know, is it any surprise to, like, it's one big happy family tree, everybody.
00:22:35.000I want to jump to this story from CNN.
00:22:37.000Dallas mayor switches parties to join GOP, alright?
00:22:41.000We just covered a story about a Democrat being accused of taking bribes, being corrupt, and I think for most of you who watch our show, you probably don't have a very favorable view of Democrats, nor the majority of the Republican Party.
00:22:54.000But the Democrats I widely view as corrupt tribalists who are just career politicians who are trying to extract what they can from the system.
00:23:09.000Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson announced Friday that he's switching parties and will serve as a Republican-affiliated mayor of the blue-leaning city.
00:23:16.000While the Dallas mayoral office is nonpartisan, Johnson previously served as a Democrat in the Texas legislature.
00:23:23.000He slammed his former party in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal published Friday, blaming Democratic policies for exacerbated crime and homelessness.
00:23:31.000The future of America's great urban centers depends on the willingness of the nation's mayors to champion law and order and practice fiscal conservatism.
00:23:39.000Our cities desperately need the genuine commitment to these principles as opposed to the inconsistent poll-driven commitment of many Democrats that has long been a defining characteristic of the GOP.
00:23:49.000So, to clarify, The mayoral position is not a partisan position, so they usually don't say, like, the mayor's affiliation.
00:23:58.000He ran, you know, in this style, this affiliation.
00:24:02.000Now he's saying he is going to be joining the GOP and will be Republican affiliated as mayor.
00:24:07.000The question I have is, first, If someone is in a Democrat city as a high-level politician, and they're going to switch to the GOP, either they're saying, I'm retiring, or they believe this is their path to maintaining their position and serving their constituents.
00:24:26.000This is a black mayor in a Democrat city saying he's going to vote Republican, and we have more polling coming out from the Wall Street Journal, published in the Wall Street Journal and several other outlets, showing that Trump is polling very, very well among black and Hispanic Americans.
00:24:39.000I'm wondering if this is a component of this as well.
00:24:43.000If this is another individual who is polled and is outright saying, no more Democrat, now a Republican.
00:24:51.000The conditions at the border are a significant factor in why the Dallas mayor is switching sides.
00:24:58.000I can't see, I can't imagine that the people of Texas who are the most immediately affected by the border crisis, I can't see them saying, oh, it's fine.
00:25:09.000I can't see them saying, oh, it's no big deal.
00:25:11.000These people that live in Texas, like they know, they have friends that are in the border region, stuff like that.
00:25:18.000I mean, granted, Texas is a big state, but still like these people are living with it every day.
00:25:23.000And you see videos all the time of caravans of people coming to the border.
00:26:38.000Or like the problems affecting you won't affect us is a better way to put it.
00:26:41.000I wonder what this means for 2024 because obviously if you know anything about Texas and the reason why people are scared it's quote-unquote going blue is two major population growths.
00:26:53.000And so if you're starting to see like Tim said is a possibility which is he's actually maybe doing it for a political reason because he believes that the city of Dallas is going to become more right-wing I could see that translating to the rest of the country too, and I do think you're not going to see Democrats do as well in big cities as they did in 2020, because crime, homelessness, illegal immigration, all of it's adding up.
00:27:15.000So I wonder if there's something of a new urban appeal for the Republican Party, not to obviously win a majority of any of these cities, but at least to crack You know, I'm sure the Democrats need a certain quota, that way they can outnumber the rural areas of a state like Texas, or Georgia, or even Michigan, up in the Midwest, states like that.
00:27:40.000Bring as many people, unlimited, more, more, more, more people, more people, more people, and then all of a sudden you realize you're surrounded by homeless people that don't have food.
00:27:48.000And you know, it's interesting, I'm from Los Angeles.
00:27:50.000You know, most of the family, friends, and stuff we grew up with are Democrat.
00:27:54.000But, I'm noticing a very real trend in the people I knew growing up now trending I'd say more independent Maybe moderate maybe some even just have flat-out become Republicans because they're just seeing it's too expensive Crime, you know, it's it's dangerous homelessness everywhere.
00:28:12.000We just can't do this anymore So like I said, I'm not gonna sell anyone here a delusion that oh my gosh Republicans are gonna suddenly flip LA or California But like I said in swing states where the big city is our problem I think a few points off of popularity for the Democrats could make the difference in one of these states, you know, in the presidential election.
00:28:32.000I don't know if the immigration would be as heavy as it is without the internet.
00:28:36.000I don't know if the internet's played a part in allowing this to happen or if it's just allowed us to see what's happening.
00:28:40.000Because I think if this had happened without an internet, it would be happening without us knowing.
00:28:44.000And then all of a sudden one day we'd wake up and there would be 60 million people from foreign countries in our country we wouldn't know and they'd already be here controlling things.
00:28:53.000Now we can kind of see it in real time and adjust and maybe help prevent a catastrophe.
00:28:59.000And I think people are willing to alter their political parties at the very least if they feel like that might make a difference.
00:29:09.000I'm not, I don't think Republicans are going to come close to winning a majority of the black vote, but I think a lot of these people who they normally bust to the polls and all of that in the inner cities might just say, uh, I don't really care for this right now.
00:29:33.000There are, there are polls showing Conservatives are improving, but I think what you actually see when you look at the bigger picture is that... Disaffectedness.
00:30:08.000They're like, I can't vote for Trump, but I'm not voting for Biden.
00:30:10.000And think about all the people who, you probably know people like this, that say, if it's Trump versus Biden, I'm just gonna leave that blank.
00:30:17.000That helps Trump, because Trump has a base in Biden less so.
00:30:21.000Trump not only has a base, but he has disaffected liberals.
00:30:25.000There are a lot of people who don't like Trump who will vote for him, because Trump's personality issues and ego is nothing compared to Biden's failures with the economy, foreign policy failures.
00:30:58.000And it's like, if Hunter went there and then got bribed to go on an energy board for Burisma, and then Biden just was like, yeah, let's make some money off this.
00:32:15.000And that was being funded by the Russians and the Chinese.
00:32:18.000This is the kind of thing that happens or has happened regularly since the end of World War II because the Russians and the US and Russia can't get into an actual confrontation themselves because it'll likely turn into a nuclear war.
00:32:52.000And it's normal in these kind of, uh, well, it's normal in war and it's, it really does benefit the U.S.
00:33:00.000Strategically, to have Russia engaged in a war and have Russia weakened by, you know, having a bunch of people die.
00:33:07.000It's gotten so dark, Phil, like I'll watch these videos and you see the people gathered around the tablet flying this drone and they're laughing because they're disconnected from the carnage and the chaos they're causing.
00:33:17.000To be fair, though, if you if if someone invades the United States, All bets are off.
00:33:24.000You know, if someone invades your country, like, war crimes are for, like, people that are in, like, the U.S., when they were in World War II, had to worry about war crimes when they were in France, right?
00:34:21.000What's long term happening is Russia is being back now into the corner of China and you know, they're all together now and meeting and there's an alliance there.
00:34:34.000When you look at the history of Russia and China, there's a reason why they've actually been a little bit more isolated and Putin's been nervous about going into China's hands, even when they were both Communist right the Soviet Union and Mao's China didn't even get along And I think Putin's been in this position the past few decades where he's not sure do I want to be Western or Eastern tries to play both sides We could have potentially if not an ally at least neutralized a very strong threat in having Russia not on the side of China in isolating China, but instead what we've done through the whole course of basically in many ways I would argue inciting this war and definitely feeling the flames of it and
00:35:14.000term we have a very powerful axis that we constructed ourselves and now we're
00:35:19.000gonna have to fight at once and maybe they want it yeah maybe they want it
00:35:22.000they create they create a problem yeah that gives them a crisis that they can
00:35:27.000use to exploit and implement new policies plan maybe dick but I'm gonna
00:35:30.000just err on the side of stupidity over malice on this one I agree
00:35:34.000I think that the argument that a weak Russia makes a strong U.S.
00:35:37.000is flawed, and I would argue that with any defense contractor, anyone in the administration, anyone that wants to talk, because a weakened Russia becomes a desperate Russia, and a desperate Russia has nuclear weapons.
00:35:48.000That's not good for American sovereignty.
00:35:50.000A strong Russia has nuclear weapons too, though.
00:35:51.000Unless we're not concerned with their nuclear weapons for some reason.
00:36:47.000I mean, the thing is, if you can get a constellation of satellites similar to Starlink, then you can identify You know, missiles that are being shot from anywhere in the world.
00:36:58.000You can pick them up as they're getting off the ground.
00:37:01.000And the idea is, hopefully, you can shoot them down before they get over the U.S.
00:37:06.000I mean, they have big lasers that they put in C-5As that can shoot down missiles.
00:37:12.000And so, if you can get them before they actually try to deliver their MIRVs or whatever, that might be part of it.
00:37:18.000And low-orbit satellite is the vehicle for these laser interception systems?
00:37:24.000But how would they collect and store enough power?
00:37:26.000Even with satellite, to store enough power for a directed energy weapon, it's insane.
00:37:32.000It's going to be like years of charging up.
00:37:42.000And then, like I said, you put a C5 in the air with a big chemical laser in it and they, you know, because you can scramble, if it's got 30 minutes, you can scramble a C5 in 10 if you have them on standby.
00:37:51.000Get them in the air and get them before they're I kind of feel like they'd probably just go the traditional Iron Dome or THAAD method, which is launching rockets at rockets.
00:38:06.000Yeah, I mean, by the time there's enough power in the laser, at least based on what we understand, The nuke is already in a very damaging radius of whatever the target is.
00:38:14.000But if they have these laser systems, you know, strategically placed far outside of civilian or military areas, okay then, perhaps.
00:38:22.000But if we're talking about a MIRV from Russia, which is going to be in the stratosphere, I don't know, man.
00:38:27.000Send a plane to intercept it and hope that the laser mounted on, you know... That's what I think it is.
00:38:32.000I know that they do, they have tested Lasers on you know mounted in big cargo planes because they're they're massive and they take up a lot of space and their chem their chemical lasers if I understand correctly But again, I'm not an expert at all.
00:38:46.000So this is this is me relating what I've read So but you know, I imagine that that would make you know, Russia less of a threat but I still don't think that I wouldn't trust it anyway.
00:39:01.000Lord, we're three, you're gonna count on your survival?
00:39:03.000Hey, the government built some lasers, I don't think it would happen.
00:39:10.000It says, on its website, SpaceX says Starshield will have an initial focus on three areas, imagery, communications, and, quote, hosted payloads, a third of which effectively offers government customers the company's satellite bus, the body of the spacecraft, as a flexible platform.
00:39:46.000This does remind me a lot of the Star Wars stuff in the 1980s, so I wonder if this is actually a serious idea or just, you know, bluffing like it was in the 80s, obviously, with Reagan.
00:39:57.000He had some, for people who are not familiar, he had some plan, some crazy plan with lasers, whatever it is.
00:40:05.000Yeah, to shoot down Russian nukes and the whole thing was bluff, but the point of it, I guess, intuitively was... What?
00:40:14.000I thought it was just that they didn't have the technology at the time.
00:40:17.000Well, I think part of the reason they talked it up that way was because they wanted to get the Soviet Union to, you know, run up their military budget and basically blow up, yeah.
00:40:33.000Oh, why is it touted as indefensible then?
00:40:36.000They're like, you can't shoot down our hypersonic stuff.
00:40:38.000Because they're talking about missiles, whereas an ICBM actually goes into orbit, and to get into orbit, it's 20,000 miles an hour, is how fast you have to go, something like that, to break Earth orbit.
00:40:49.000Whereas hypersonic would be, you know, what's the speed of sound?
00:40:56.000I think they travel five times speed of sound.
00:40:58.000It has something to do with hypersonic missiles travel low, closer to the earth and are harder to track and respond to.
00:41:05.000So with ICBMs, they go up, they go high, they go fast.
00:41:09.000But the higher it goes with the curvature of the earth, the more the more range we have for detecting them, whereas hypersonics are low and slow.
00:41:17.000The escape velocity of Earth is 33 times the speed of sound.
00:41:20.000So a hypersonic missile is actually significantly slower than an ICBM.
00:41:53.000And that's military, military aerospace dot com talks about the Navy's laser weapon defense.
00:41:59.000And if they're talking about laser weapon defense openly, then they've probably got some nasty laser weapon defense.
00:42:04.000Unless it's like a Star Wars bluff, like you were saying earlier.
00:42:06.000This is basically what my point was, you can see right here in the graphic.
00:42:10.000The graphic that I watched a while ago about this shows the curvature of the Earth and explains why radar detection is limited, and it's because as the Earth curves, the radar goes out.
00:42:20.000And so there's certain areas where you're not going to see anything at the ground level and the hypersonics track closer to the ground and then slam to the target before you realize it.
00:42:27.000The Boeing YAL-1 airborne laser tested weapon system was a megawatt class chemical oxygen iodine laser mounted inside a modified military Boeing 747-400F.
00:42:39.000It was designed as a missile defense system to destroy tactical ballistic missiles while in boost phase.
00:43:01.000You know, one day there's gonna be like some prominent personality who's leading the charge against war or something, and then before anyone even realizes it, there's gonna be a crater where his house used to be.
00:43:10.000And it's gonna be like, we have no idea what happened.
00:43:49.000They're showing right here in this graphic that the signal, the wave, is coming from the ground and going up and the radar can't detect beyond this angle.
00:44:33.000Because they were using cruise missiles.
00:44:35.000Cruise missiles were the first thing I remember seeing when, in the first Iraq war.
00:44:38.000I was 15 years old and, like, they'd started Shoving cruise missiles down Saddam Hussein's neck and and it was it was impressive, you know as a kid be like, whoa That's actually yeah, you know the missile that Trump dropped while he was president the mother of all Moab It was that a cruise missile.
00:46:04.000So they have to fly alongside it and then you tip it with your wing and it's just enough to veer it out off its course.
00:46:11.000Yeah, it wasn't really that effective from what I hear.
00:46:13.000They just had a lot of them and no one else did.
00:46:15.000They poured their research and development into the VTube program.
00:46:18.000That was part of Hitler's problem, is he always wanted to focus on very sci-fi-esque, at the time, futuristic ideas instead of what was practical, and this was one of them.
00:46:29.000It didn't do the damage to London and England that was worth all the money they put into it.
00:46:33.000Yeah, they want to just rocket England all day, every day, and then the nukes got invented.
00:46:37.000So everyone's saying V-1 is the missile that I'm talking about.
00:48:10.000Yeah, if you think about think about the the amount of money that was spent in Iraq like every time that they shot a hellfire at like a goat herder, you know, you because they did because it would just be some random dude that got paid, you know, whatever a hundred bucks or whatever to go up on the hill and with his old 1910.
00:48:30.000Springfield rifle or whatever, take a couple pot shots at the base, because the point is to just harass the Americans, and the Americans' reply was, call in the helicopters, and they just started lighting up the whole hillside.
00:48:42.000Oh, these are those, uh... The Fugo bombs.
00:48:46.000Japan would send up balloons carrying bombs that would ride the jet stream for thousands of miles, and then eventually drop the bombs on the United States in random locations.
00:49:11.000And I remember when I was little, I watched a documentary about it, and it was like, it had this system where if it started to go too low, the pressure in the balloon would be going down, and then it would cause a bag to drop, which would then make it go back up, where the pressure would expand, and then as it started to go back down, it would drop another, go back up.
00:49:31.000Yeah, and they timed it through these mechanisms to drop once it traveled a certain amount of, you know, time to hit the United States.
00:49:38.000Yeah, I watched some video apparently like some kids found a bomb and hit it with a rock and it blew up and killed them or something.
00:49:48.000That's the sad part about what's happening in Ukraine now, too.
00:49:49.000I imagine the mine, they're mining the fuel.
00:49:51.000It's just, not only depleted uranium rounds underground, they're just irradiating the soil, but like, Just the landmines and stuff that have been left over.
00:50:00.000Drones that go rogue, that fly off, and they're like, I don't know where it went.
00:50:12.000May 5th, 1945, six civilians were killed near Bly, Oregon, when they discovered one of the balloon bombs in Fremont National Forest, becoming the only fatalities from Axis action in the continental US during the war.
00:50:22.000That's what I was gonna say, I think it only hit people once.
00:50:25.000Or I guess they didn't even hit them, they found it.
00:50:28.000It's, uh, Reverend Archie Mitchell and his pregnant wife drove up Gearhart Mountain today with five of their Sunday school students in a picnic when Archie was parking the car, Elsie, and the children discovered a balloon and carriage loaded with an anti-personnel bomb on the ground.
00:50:43.000were killed instantly, while Elsie and Joan Patsky died from their wounds shortly after.
00:50:48.000An army investigation concluded that the bomb had likely been kicked or dropped, and that it had lain undisturbed for about one month before the incident.
00:51:14.000I had a friend who went to Cambodia and was working with these, I don't remember the exact story, but he was talking about how there are landmines everywhere, and to navigate these fields, there are footsteps, and you're jumping from footstep to footstep in the dirt, because you know that's the only place, that's the only way you know that you're safe and you won't blow up.
00:51:42.000I was like, yeah, we were thinking of going because there are these people who are doing, uh, what they do is they release goats into these fields and then the goats explode.
00:51:51.000And so I was like, that's a crazy story.
00:52:05.000And we ended up not doing it, but that's the general idea.
00:52:08.000However, the tank buster mines require the weight of a vehicle to detonate, and so those are a lot harder to trigger, and they're huge.
00:52:16.000But for the smaller landmines, they just will get a bunch of goats and, fields all yours, and then boom, boom, boom, the goats are exploding.
00:52:25.000Yeah, they do another thing now where they have these big, they take a big ball and there's a bunch of bamboo sticks coming out with plates on the bottom.
00:52:34.000So it looks like, remember those suction cup balls?
00:52:37.000You'd throw it at the wall and then it would suction cup its way down?
00:52:47.000Yeah, and then they just get damaged and keep going until eventually they fall apart.
00:52:50.000I'm thinking that you could maybe vibrate the soil and trigger them all at once if you could somehow set up, like Tesla was working on sending electrical current through the ground.
00:53:07.000Maybe a plane flying not too high up, just doing a laser sweep or something like that.
00:53:12.000Or like stick metal poles in the ground all over the place and then send a low frequency through or just tweak the frequency Until you hit the trigger.
00:53:18.000Yes, if you can navigate a field to stick holes in the ground that are covered in landmines.
00:54:19.000Minefields are like, there's a significant argument against mines.
00:54:24.000Like, they get left behind, they end up maiming kids.
00:54:28.000You saw it through all kinds of mines that were left behind after Vietnam and stuff like that.
00:54:34.000You know, ruins entire regions, and you have massive amounts of death and dismembered people and stuff, and it sucks.
00:54:42.000But, what do you do when you've got tanks coming at you, you know?
00:54:48.000Like, there's only so many things that can stop a tank.
00:54:52.000You know, if you can knock the treads off a tank with a mine, then the tank's vulnerable, they have to get out of the tank, then you can shoot the guys that are in the tank.
00:55:01.000If you can't stop the tanks, tanks are gonna smoke you and your buddies.
00:55:05.000So, you deal with what you got, you know?
00:55:07.000You have to put mines out to stop them, you put mines out to stop them because, again, war is awful.
00:55:12.000War crimes are only war crimes if you are the loser.
00:55:18.000Yeah, but you know, I guess the issue today is you don't need tanks if you can convince.
00:55:23.000So while propaganda has been a key component of war for the past hundred plus years, propaganda nowadays is, it's a million times where we were a hundred years ago.
00:55:34.000You take a look at, say, a nuclear weapon, a MIRV, 12 warheads, 1,250 times more powerful than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
00:55:43.000You take a look at the explosive power, And then go back in time to the origin of the first, you know, the first time someone ever discovered combustion or combustible materials.
00:55:53.000And it's, it's, it's, what, a thousand plus years or whatever.
00:55:56.000It's like the Chinese, yeah, 200 AD or something.
00:55:58.000Right, they were doing, it was fireworks.
00:56:08.000And then, uh, It took a thousand years to get to the point where we could just blow up an entire city with one bomb.
00:56:13.000You take a look at propaganda and we'd have to drop pamphlets from planes, and in a hundred years we can beam our thoughts into your brain no matter where you are.
00:56:20.000China has a massive apparatus for manipulating the American public in TikTok.
00:56:24.000For the record, it was 1044 AD when gunpowder was invented in China.
00:57:50.000They didn't really capitalize on the potential, though.
00:57:54.000Well, you know, that's what's interesting about, as an Asian I can say this, okay?
00:57:58.000About Asian culture is that very smart, yes, but not a lot of creativity.
00:58:04.000And that's why even today you see throughout also a lot of history, right?
00:58:08.000Chinese invented gunpowder, weren't using it practically, who started using it in a... Because you had to think outside the box, you've never seen this before, right?
00:58:16.000And there's a very Asian culture of, you know, sort of this submissive, hey, follow the strict line, you know, do this, do that, but not a lot of creativity.
00:59:25.000And it just shoots like metal and rocks and stuff.
00:59:28.000They would just use, yeah, just ballista.
00:59:31.000I think George Washington used to do that because they didn't, they're running low on munitions.
00:59:35.000So they just shove whatever they could find into the cannons and just Blast them.
00:59:39.000So you're getting hit with rocks, sticks, pieces of metal, ba-boot.
00:59:42.000I gotta tell you, it is really crazy when you think about- That's like the railway rifle in Fallout.
00:59:46.000All of the stupid stuff that we know from video games and movies would make you a warlord god, like demigod, in 2000 years ago or 1000 years ago.
00:59:55.000You'd show up and be like, oh yeah, I know how to, you know, start a fire, I know how to, like, you know, give me some bat crap and we'll start making some gunpowder and they'll be like, making what?
01:00:04.000And then you'll- Here, eat this mold and you'll feel better.
01:00:07.000They're like, what are you talking about?
01:01:43.000I don't know, I guess you need to get the potassium nitrate.
01:01:45.000But anyway, my point is, to stress, not that I know how to make gunpowder or anything like that, just that we've got a whole bunch of cursory knowledge, like even, just the fact that we know things exist.
01:01:55.000You go to something like, hey, you can make a thing called a compass, where it's like, I don't know how they made it, but it was a piece of metal, and it was on a pin, and it pointed, had an N in one area, and then it would always point north, and then someone's gonna figure it out very, very quickly, relative to how long it took humans to actually figure it out.
01:02:11.000Granted, you probably wouldn't be able to communicate effectively with them.
01:02:13.000You'd say, bat crap, and they'd be like, I have no idea what he just said.
01:02:20.000They'd be like, strangely dressed person.
01:02:22.000Like, if you go back 2,000 years and you show up, like, the first thing that happens is they're pointing spears at you, screaming at you in a language you don't understand, and then they're just like, you're a slave.
01:02:55.000I think that the heroes of Atlantis had the compass, my guess.
01:02:58.000I don't want to take the show into conspiracy town, but I don't see how they could have circumnavigated the globe with the Earth on Atlas' back without the compass.
01:03:09.000The way that they seem to have colonized Earth.
01:03:11.000So, the importance of preserving data, because like we're saying, we have the data if we could go back in time, but they might have had it back then.
01:03:18.000It's the key is to be able to preserve it, probably in orbit, in case a comet wipes out the surface in glass or something in orbit, or in DNA.
01:04:17.000Some, like, people are milling about, nomadic, hungry, they see wheat, and they see horses eating the tops, and they're like, hey look, and they pull out, and they're like, hey, I can eat this!
01:04:26.000They start grabbing a whole bunch of it, bring it back home, and then they have a big, they're like, hey, this stuff's hard, you can't eat it.
01:04:31.000So they pull the, you know, the wheat groats out, put it in a big bowl, and they start eating them.
01:04:36.000Then eventually, someone like, hey, I'm gonna Heat mine up cuz you know, I don't like it cold and we cook like humans figure out cooking then they heat it up Then someone adds water to it.
01:04:46.000Then someone mashes it It's just slowly over time and the first bread is just like mashed grain They put water in it, then it made like a hard flat bread and then eventually somebody let there sit out on accident It's just always one step at a time yeast contamination right into the flower somebody Probably was like, oh, grandpa has no teeth.
01:06:50.000And so they could figure out a way to stop lightning strikes on houses, so they created lightning rods, which would then focus the lightning strikes away from the wood and would stop blowing up houses.
01:07:01.000And, but harnessing it, that came later?
01:07:07.000Well, no, harnessing electricity, I mean, not lightning, just electricity itself when they started making, like, gas power plants.
01:07:12.000I think they had always, I think for a long time there had been a general understanding, but I think people underestimate, you know, humans.
01:07:24.000But I'm pretty sure there was some minor use for a long time.
01:07:27.000I mean, if you go back to the Baghdad battery, what is- what was- what was the, uh, what's the assumption that they were doing electroplating?
01:07:36.000You fill them up with vinegar or something acidic.
01:07:38.000So vinegar, wine, you could use lemon juice.
01:07:41.000And they would put copper wires in it.
01:07:42.000Yeah, it'd be an iron rod sticking around the middle of the pot wrapped with copper wire, and that would produce an electrical charge on its own.
01:07:49.000Because I gotta say, I can understand inventing bread, but I can't understand how someone accidentally makes a battery.
01:07:55.000Like, a battery like the Baghdad battery sounds like someone knew what a battery was and said, Like, I'm trapped here in the desert with little supplies.
01:08:17.000A lot of knowledge has been lost, yeah.
01:08:18.000I think that it's funny when people talk about like the moon landing and they're like, we have Alex Stein on the show and he's like, how did we lose the technology, Ted?
01:08:29.000Like the one reference I have to bring up is that we couldn't build skyscrapers above like eight floors or whatever when we started expanding and building upward because the heat would build up too much and we couldn't exhaust it fast enough.
01:08:41.000And then the air conditioner got invented, and now it's like, now we can.
01:08:44.000But the crazy thing is, there were, there were, uh, like, Native African tribes that had built their, their, uh, Hudson structures to funnel heat up and out to keep the inside cool when it was hot outside.
01:08:55.000And it's like, that technology existed over there, and not over here.
01:09:00.000Now, when we build buildings, they create, like, tunnels that will pull, cause, uh, the hot air's gonna go up.
01:09:06.000So they actually create a system where it pulls cold air from the ground and vents the hot air up through the roof so it reduces energy costs for building skyscrapers.
01:09:29.000We've had such access to it as Americans with libraries and internet now, but like, you lose it once, it's gone.
01:09:36.000Like, you might have a generation of memory.
01:09:38.000Bro, they had to- Humans, but- Like, this is the crazy thing.
01:09:41.000They had to invent the idea of freedom.
01:09:44.000Like, so, no but for real, like, certain ideas don't exist in certain cultures and certain languages.
01:09:51.000There's, um, there was like, I was reading a thing a while ago about words that have complex meanings in certain cultures that don't translate very well.
01:10:00.000So in like one African culture they have a word, they have a single word for The feeling you get when you are longing for someone but you are watching them long for someone else and you know you'll never have them.
01:10:10.000They have like a single word to explain that idea.
01:10:12.000And it's like for us, we just, I don't know, what do you call it, getting cucked?
01:11:31.000Here's the crazy, here's the crazy thing about language.
01:11:34.000How do you, you know, I remember the first time someone told me,
01:11:37.000oh, this word can't be translated, I don't know how to translate it.
01:11:39.000And I'm like, how do you not know how to translate a word?
01:11:41.000It's because the idea in your mind doesn't have words in another language.
01:11:45.000I think they don't have the word for love in North Korea.
01:11:47.000There's no word for snow in, uh, in the, whatever, the Hawaiian languages.
01:11:53.000You know, it's crazy to think about is not just the words, but how you perceive the world based on language, right?
01:11:59.000So someone who speaks, someone can come into this country, for instance,
01:12:02.000and learn English, but if they think in the world and some like non,
01:12:06.000even Western language, they perceive it existing on earth in a totally different way than we do.
01:12:12.000There are different people, like personalities change.
01:12:15.000People are like, I have heard when someone speaks Spanish, they're like, you're a certain way when you speak Spanish, but when you speak English, you're a completely different way.
01:12:21.000So the main reason I brought all this up is...
01:12:24.000The, a lot of philosophical ideas that we take for granted, heck, the idea of zero as a number had to be discovered.
01:12:49.000We grow up, we learn these things, it becomes commonplace to us.
01:12:52.000So, you know, in today's day and age, you look at the philosophy that was written, And these great philosophers who are coming up with these ideas, and we're kind of like, you had to figure that one out?
01:13:04.000Well, it's because we're surrounded by people who generally understand these things that that information is given to us.
01:13:11.000Do you think that we're limited in our ability to think by the language we know?
01:13:38.000Some people think in, uh, they describe it as just like raw thought.
01:13:42.000There's no inner monologue, there's no voice.
01:13:45.000Some people think and multi-track more than one thing at a time.
01:13:50.000I have this weird thing where I can be daydreaming about my plans for a video game while I'm talking.
01:13:57.000And so I can be literally just auto-piloting my ideas and language while I'm imagining what I'm gonna do when I go back to my video game.
01:14:03.000It's like singing and playing guitar kind of at the same time at flow state, or your body just... Right, it's also how you can write a song as you're playing.
01:14:28.000When we start getting all those ideas?
01:14:30.000And it's hard, it's crazy to think that back then, they did not have the concept of like personal responsibility and individual liberty.
01:14:36.000Like, before the United States, for the most part, I mean granted there's Rome, but after this period with European colonialism and European monarchy and stuff, the general idea was that if you were a world leader it was because of divine providence.
01:14:53.000And then all of a sudden you have the Founding Fathers being like, I kind of think we're all equal, and we're all people, and you're just making that up, and we should govern ourselves.
01:15:13.000That was the actual lords trying to get some kind of recognition from the king as equals.
01:15:20.000I don't think the actual peasants were written in the same way that the landowners were, but it was the first step towards all people are created equal in the eyes of God or whatever.
01:15:33.000You know, it really blew my mind the first time I read about the discovery of air.
01:15:38.000Because we are raised in a world where it is commonplace to understand we live in a gaseous atmosphere.
01:15:44.000But there was this dude, and what they would do back in the day is they had these brass balls with holes in the bottom, and a straw that comes up, a tube, and what they would do is they would take it, dip it in water, put their thumb over the hole, pull it up, and then let go, and it would pour the water over him.
01:16:01.000So then this one dude is like, Well, you put it in the water and then cover it.
01:16:05.000What if I cover it and then put it in the water?
01:16:07.000And when he did, no water went inside.
01:16:09.000And he goes, there's gotta be something there blocking the water from going in.
01:16:14.000And that's where he came up with the idea of air.
01:17:46.000I was reading about how the The way we view the human body and the brain is based on the current version of technology that is ubiquitous.
01:17:55.000So before, you know, a hundred years ago, when steam was becoming this prominent thing, the brain was viewed as a pressure machine and it worked through pressure.
01:18:04.000And now that we have computers, it is viewed as a, you know, these liberals are like, we're wet robots, you know, that's all we are.
01:18:13.000And the human brain is probably something infinitely more profound than just to call it a computer.
01:18:17.000It's probably, you know, it's going to be a hundred years from now and we're going to have quantum, you know, quantum holographic, you know, computational reality bending devices and we're going to be like, oh, it's a human brain.
01:18:29.000A human brain is basically just a functioning quantum, you know, refraction device for manipulating reality.
01:19:46.000That's why, in Europe, there was this one really, there was a great story I was reading where, you know, they have the archers shooting at each other.
01:19:55.000So what one side did was they made it so that the, what do they call it, the notches, or the nocks, or whatever they're called, notches, on the arrows were really small.
01:20:03.000So that the drawstrings of their enemies they could not use, but the arrows of the larger spacings in them could be used on their thinner.
01:20:11.000So it's like, all the arrows you shoot at us we can shoot back, but you can't shoot the arrows back at us.
01:20:18.000But the thing about Europe is that you have Mediterranean abundance of food, which leads to population growth, and then you also have a finite amount of space.
01:20:28.000So when you get a large population and then eventually nowhere to go, they start fighting over resources, which leads to rapid competition, weapons and technology and tactical developments, and finally colonization.
01:20:41.000They eventually just build boats and say, we're getting out of here.
01:20:45.000One of the things about the stat living in a status quo society is that taking risks and doing radical, like in a war, you have very little choice.
01:20:52.000You take radical risks, but we're kind of disincentivized to do it in this culture.
01:20:56.000And I understand why, because you want to.
01:20:57.000You know want it to stay balanced. You don't want someone to build new fusion bomb right now because then everyone's
01:21:21.000It's cold, not a lot of resources, can't really do a whole lot, so you got to think creatively, and I think it's interesting how English creativity seems to have contributed a lot to history, and then obviously, you know, largest empire, all that stuff.
01:21:53.000Do you think that like with England it you sure there was great minds there but you know
01:21:59.000with the Internet today we see that just a such jump in information and knowledge amongst
01:22:04.000Do you think the fact that they had such a far-reaching empire, they just brought people together for better or for worse, and that Bringing enough people together is just you shared ideas, you shared food recipes, you know, you shared materials that you might not have had access to.
01:22:19.000And so that was what the jump is in our information as a species.
01:22:23.000I think rather than just England being unique, it's just an empire will do that.
01:22:28.000That kind of when you have different societies mixing together and, you know, interacting Especially if it's a peaceful interaction now granted obviously not all of colonial British Empire was was peaceful But there were plenty of places that were interacting with Britain in their colonies that were not actually the colony so you know like if you're in like the interior of Asia that wasn't you know British colonies, but you did have
01:23:01.000You know the Silk Road and all that kind of stuff and that really does help to facilitate learning from you know because you're interacting with other cultures and one culture that might discover something because they don't have a taboo that another culture does might be able to Pass on the knowledge.
01:23:23.000There's a lot of taboos that cultures have like whether it be types of food or you have to dress this way, whether it be religions or certain behaviors that will get you killed in the Amazon but won't get you killed in the desert and stuff like that.
01:23:33.000So it's like those kind of interactions really do help societies to progress.
01:23:40.000There's this idea that it's not the strongest of the humans that will survive, but the ones that are the most adaptable to change.
01:23:45.000That might actually be a Darwin quote.
01:23:47.000And so I'm wondering, like, the Romans were extremely adaptable.
01:23:50.000They would conquer and take people's technology and then call it Roman technology and then move on.
01:23:55.000And I wonder if we're in a place in the world right now where communism is a technology that people think Maybe is they think that being the most adaptable like we're in a culture war to decide to show people what what they should adapt into I think and communism to a lot of people looks like a good looks like an easy path out and it's like a
01:24:17.000But you were shaking your head immediately when I brought up the word communism.
01:24:20.000You don't think it's the right adaptation?
01:24:21.000I don't think it's the right adaptation.
01:24:25.000The root problem with communism is that it's totalitarian.
01:24:30.000You don't get to have another opinion.
01:24:33.000And if you have the wrong opinion, then you end up either, you know, nowadays it's cancel culture, but back in, you know, so my buddy Zoltan, the guitar player from Five Finger Death Punch, he grew up in Hungary, okay, when it was communist.
01:24:48.000And, you know, he would say something and his parents would be like, shut up.
01:24:51.000You're going to get someone, you know, you're going to get, they're going to come and take you away.
01:25:44.000I think communism in many ways is kind of an example of falling victim to change instead of adapting to it, because you look at even the social situation where communism originates from, right?
01:25:54.000Industrial Revolution, Europe's changing very fast, there's the good, there's the bad, and a lot of people...
01:26:00.000Because, you know, you look at a place like Russia, right?
01:26:03.000That was obviously the first communist revolution there.
01:26:06.000Because they, Tucker Carlson brings this up a lot, because they did not properly adapt to industrialization, the changing world in the right way, what happened, right?
01:26:15.000They fell to the Bolsheviks, the Tsar, you know, fell out of favor and all that stuff.
01:26:19.000And with most communist revolutions around the world, arguably even including our own right now, it really comes down to a failure to properly adapt to change, and then the change basically just destroys you, right?
01:26:30.000And I think with America, you could point to a lot of things, maybe the failure to adapt to the internet and technology, there's an argument to be made there, right?
01:26:37.000That's definitely accelerated the kind of left-wing push of the culture and all that, and probably a lot of other factors.
01:27:06.000These older people keep just maintaining their status quo systems because it's too hard to move their monolithic structures.
01:27:13.000And this happens for a lot of industries, but with communications it results in a generation that speaks a different language.
01:27:17.000And then all of a sudden you're going to get a cultural bifurcation like what we have now.
01:27:22.000The people who believe in freedom use the internet and like posting memes, and the communists who fell victim to the algorithmic manipulation for money, who are now psychotic, and these worldviews can't come together.
01:27:32.000The story of that girl who was raised by wolves or whatever.
01:27:34.000It's not literally raised by wolves, but the wild girl.
01:27:37.000And, uh, she never, she could never learn English.
01:27:52.000And it could never actually have complex conversations because the brain never developed.
01:27:55.000So what happens is, if you have someone who grows up in the communist world of algorithmic manipulation, and someone who grows up in a freedom, meme-loving, bulletin board system world of the internet, the hacker culture stuff, these two worldviews will never come together, and you're not going to be able to explain to the communists why their worldview doesn't work, because their brains are wired to be controlled and be commanded.
01:28:15.000That's why some people are literally NPCs, right?
01:28:17.000We always use that term, non-playable character, but it's true.
01:28:22.000These people have been programmed through schools, and through... I think mostly through school.
01:28:31.000They go to college, so they're spending their life from 5 years old, let's say preschool, 4 years old, till 22, maybe 24, 26, depending on what degree they're getting, where they're always just told what to do.
01:28:41.000And in their life, and their brain, and everything their brain is constructed around, life is, I will be told what to do and I will do it.
01:28:48.000And then you have other people who are like, I will find my own way and figure life out on my own.
01:28:53.000You can't convince someone whose brain is hardwired to be commanded that they should break free and be independent.
01:29:00.000I'm saying it's very, very difficult and it's painful for people.
01:29:03.000That's why Brandon Strock talks about the story of when he finally got red-pilled and realized what was going on, it physically hurt him.
01:29:09.000Dude, it's so interesting to think that every society could get to a point where it needs to adapt to modern tech, and if it doesn't, it falls into totalitarianism, and then it will erupt into a revolution.
01:29:20.000And then it'll just be an explosion of pain and violence until they reform a new society to get to a place where they need to adapt again, and are they gonna make the same mistake again?
01:29:28.000Yo, we should be... First of all, we should be looking at this stuff and be like, oh, this is all able to be spying on me and I'm using it every day?
01:30:13.000I think there's an interesting argument to be made that doesn't every society have that, right?
01:30:17.000Like, how many people in any society, in any point in human history, more than 20 to 30 percent of the population truly thinks for themselves, right?
01:30:25.000I think a lot of times, some people are naturally kind of followers and leaders, that's why you have both.
01:30:31.000I think the problem now is that Now that they have control of, you know, internet and everything like that, you can very easily manipulate the followers now to, you know, go towards a side of evil, whereas say, you know, I don't know, 1950s, whatever conservative decade we want to look at, most people back then probably weren't thinking for themselves either, but you had people... First of all, you didn't have the internet, so manipulation wasn't as easy as it is now, but I think probably you also had a lot of people who, uh,
01:30:58.000We're kind of more responsible, paternalistic, cultural leaders that weren't trying to push the destruction of their own country onto the people.
01:31:06.000But you see Hitler use the radio, for sure, to manipulate and control people and push them towards evil ends.
01:31:44.000But there were competing papers, and the newspapers were getting big.
01:31:48.000But once radio happens, all of a sudden, you know, people start getting these boxes that are telling them.
01:31:53.000And for a long time in the United States, you had only a couple networks.
01:31:56.000And they all marched in lockstep as to what was true and what you must believe.
01:32:00.000And that's the thing, is even in America, it's only been the past few decades where people even question what they see on TV, right?
01:32:06.000When Walter Concrete went out and said the Vietnam War is bad, basically, the country believed it, right?
01:32:12.000During World War II, I don't think anyone really questioned what they heard on the news media, the radio, and so I think even in this country, it's probably still a problem, you know?
01:32:21.000The internet breaks it, and now we're going back to how people, more localized communities, the problem is they're not physical, they're- Right.
01:32:30.000Well, what it is, is you would have a region that would have a culture and a way of speaking and a kind of food based on what was there, and their ideas were based on the world they lived in.
01:32:39.000Now with the internet, you have people, you'll have a conservative living next to a liberal, the conservative has his community online, the liberal has their community online, and next door to each other, they don't like each other.
01:32:50.000Yeah, it used to be geography dictated your culture in a huge way.
01:33:38.000I think it's just part of our evolution, what's got us to where we're at.
01:33:42.000Part of the American dream and part of the Founding Fathers, they all kind of... I like how they would argue and... I guess I have a different take on what is evolution and then, because I don't think that the human race has really considerably evolved in the past 200 years.
01:33:56.000You think I'm kind of off about... I just think that evolution... Just kind of off, in general.
01:34:04.000I think that evolution requires an outside force.
01:34:09.000Evolution is genes that have produced an adaptation to something that is an outside force.
01:34:19.000For so like the way they figure that eyes evolved there were cells that were you know when you when we were without eyes and and stuff in in in the water and stuff the cells that happen to be Receptive to light that could actually just see just light and dark, right?
01:34:37.000Those are the ones that there were ended up being the ones that would could give the more likely to survive Yeah more likely to survive and so without some kind of outside Influence?
01:35:31.000This, maybe it was only a 0.1% increase in the free energy acquired by these cells, but it resulted in them being more successful over a long period of time.
01:35:38.000What ends up happening is, as multicellular organisms evolve, you get dimples.
01:35:44.000Because a dimple allows light to hit from multiple angles, giving you more depth and understanding of where the light is coming from.
01:35:50.000And then you get, the reason there's two is because it creates a depth of field.
01:35:57.000So now you can perceive how far away an object might be.
01:35:59.000So all of these things are just evolved because it's the most natural thing within our system
01:36:10.000And also like one of the arguments against like humans' ability to interact with reality.
01:36:17.000So there's there's there are philosophers that say you can't actually know what's real because you have your brain is actually interpreting the things that you say.
01:37:38.000Are you thinking about things in terms of the most likely thing to happen?
01:37:42.000Or are you thinking about things in terms of there's a 10% chance it'll do this, a 70% chance it'll do this, a 23% chance it'll do this, and a 47% chance it'll do this, and then you're creating contingencies based on the probabilities?
01:37:53.000I usually think contingencies, but I've found people think I'm psychotic if I talk in contingencies, so I've got to pick really quickly the most likely one and kind of flush it out and see if it's psycho?
01:38:03.000What I mean to say is, you will, you need to figure out when it's appropriate to look
01:38:09.000at a circumstance of someone wants to throw a phone at a window, instead of just making
01:38:13.000the assumption it will do X, but to, is to consider what are the probabilities and possibilities
01:38:19.000And then what are your plans in the event of A, B, C, or D?
01:38:23.000But it's not appropriate to do that in every single circumstance.
01:38:26.000Sometimes if you're in a burning building and you're like, let's figure this one out.
01:38:30.000You're probably just going to have to go for the first, the most, like get out of the building.
01:38:33.000But there may be alternate paths with higher rates of success.
01:38:36.000You just don't know, but you've got to- Like it's outside the box.
01:38:39.000I actually tweeted this out yesterday.
01:38:40.000When you're thinking outside the box, have about 60 to 90 Different possible outcomes in your mind you don't have to adhere to any of them But just know that there are those many and that's when you're out thinking outside the box But there are situations like you're just saying burning building.
01:38:53.000You don't have time you're in the box You need to get out so you you do what you got to do with you what you got we're We're going to Super Chats, so if you haven't already, would you kindly smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, share the show with your friends, and head over to TimCast.com, become a member to support our work directly.
01:39:36.000Sounds like, yeah, there's some woke elements, but you said Baldur's Gate's got some of those elements too?
01:39:40.000Well, Baldur's Gate has the... you can create a character who has like a male face, a female body, a deep male voice, but identifies as non-binary and like...
01:39:49.000So, if you try to randomize your character, you're gonna get a purple-haired, masculine, like, dude with boobs.
01:39:56.000Sounds like it's a similar level as Baldur's Gate, but it's fun.
01:40:10.000Well, I guess pansexual is a better way to put it.
01:40:13.000Yeah, because, and it's funny if you think about video games, they have to do it that way.
01:40:18.000Because if the general idea is that you can customize your own character to be anything, and you should have an option to romance your characters, they have no choice but to make it so all the characters are just banging everybody and they don't care.
01:40:28.000I grew up my childhood playing a lot of GTA.
01:40:31.000I've waited now 10 years for the next game, and it's like one of the things in my life that's the last video game I'm gonna play when I'm an adult, right?
01:41:53.000So, I don't want to say too much just yet, but we're currently navigating how we're going to do the live portion of it, and there is a decent probability the live show will just be the whole show.
01:42:06.000Instead of doing the normal Friday night show, it will be a members only for the full thing, but this will include the pre-show, This is a way we can do the pre-show, the comedy, the show, and the after show all in one go.
01:42:18.000But we're not completely sure that that'll be the way we'll do it.
01:42:21.000And then what we would do is we would immediately upload the podcast to all podcast platforms.
01:42:25.000We would then put the clips on YouTube like normal.
01:42:31.000If we're going to have all these awesome people, the last thing we want to do is be like, we're doing the normal, this is a YouTube show, and so here's, nah, we want to have, we want Alex Stein to be able to just like, we want to own the show and not have to worry about anything and make it the most entertaining thing imaginable, which means we probably have to control it.
01:42:50.000The general idea for now was pre-show is not live, it's only at the venue.
01:42:56.000The show will be live on YouTube as per normal, and then the after show is, you know, at the venue only.
01:43:02.000And then I thought, yeah, but members who can't travel, like, we gotta figure something out, so... The idea might be just, like, the whole Miami event will be available for members on TimCast.com.
01:43:12.000Again, we'll have to figure that one out.
01:43:14.000Not 100% sure that's the way we're gonna do it, though.
01:43:53.000We used to carry the monopod with the 360 camera and it would stream, and then you chose what to look at, which is cool, but super low-res.
01:44:00.000It could be cool to do, like, have one of the chairs be a 360 cam.
01:45:21.000I thoroughly enjoyed the show with Matt Gaetz last night, my favorite rep.
01:45:25.000Thank you to you and your team for all that you do.
01:45:28.000You know, we had Ami Horowitz scheduled, and Matt Gaetz's team said, hey, we don't know if there's any availability, and I'm like, oh, yo, Matt can come whenever he wants.
01:45:37.000Not only do we need to get the opportunity to hear what he's talking about with this continued resolution, it's a tremendous opportunity for the American people, I'm a big fan of Matt Gaetz.
01:45:52.000I'm just, you know, as soon as we leave the show, I'm going to my girlfriend and I'm like, Matt Gaetz may have just shut down Omnibus Spending.
01:46:00.000And it's just like, who else is doing stuff like this?
01:46:03.000Now credit to Marjorie Taylor Greene, Thomas Massey, there's a handful of really great people, but I think Matt Gaetz is just doing the most.
01:46:14.000I know, and I'm impressed with his, he is tactful.
01:46:18.000He's even talked about, you know, he was talking about the, he's worked with AOC on, it was the stock, I think it was him and AOC on the stopping stock trading, insider trading stuff.
01:46:31.000But, um, I do feel bad for Ami, because it's always- it's always rough when it's like, you book a guest, and then it's like, the air will be sucked out of the room by this very big, very important show.
01:46:40.000We've got someone coming in who's in the middle of this big news story.
01:46:43.000I will also add, though, I got, uh, a shoutout from, um...
01:46:47.000Richie McGinnis, we were on MSNBC, they used clips of the show to, like, talk about the Republicans or whatever.
01:48:29.000The air, altitude, and the flour they use.
01:48:35.000So there was a place I went to in Florida that advertised New York pizza and they actually said, we import our water and our flour from New York and cook it to simulate the humidity and conditions of New York on average.
01:48:53.000It's really, I think New York is, New York's sea level, but then there's also like the humidity conditions, the average temperature, and so you're in Florida, it's much more humid, you have to control for these things to really try and simulate how New York pizza comes out.
01:49:06.000I have had pizza across the whole country, every state, I guarantee at some point, some club has just thrown pizza after the show, right?
01:49:14.000Chicago pizza is the best, but not, I am not talking about deep dish.
01:49:19.000It's a different kind of pizza than New York pizza, too.
01:49:22.000I am talking about real Chicago pizza, which is, it's a thin-ish crust.
01:49:29.000The crust is probably twice as thick as your average New York, and it's firm.
01:49:34.000I don't really know how else to describe it.
01:49:36.000It is, it is, and it's cut into squares.
01:49:39.000And this is how we had all of our pizza growing up.
01:49:42.000The crust doesn't rise, so you don't get, like on a New York pizza, the back of the pizza is big, and then it's flat, and then, right, it rises a little bit.
01:50:34.000He's like, he does the pizza reviews and he came out and the store owner came out and started screaming at him or something, like, insulting him.
01:50:39.000And then he started talking with people who were outside and they were like, I love Dave Portnoy, he's great.
01:50:44.000No, no, he tried to go to the cops, the business owner, because he was standing on the sidewalk and the cops were cool with him, you know, they were friends with him and stuff, so.
01:51:05.000Here's the thing, too, is even if you give a place a bad pizza review, okay, barstool people on the internet won't go there, but it's not going to hurt your current existing business.
01:52:02.000And she admitted that she was just trying to goad people and then published the story anyway.
01:52:07.000And he's like, it's amazing that the state of journalism, you can get someone on the phone admitting that they're making up the story and pushing it and then still run the story anyway.
01:52:18.000I think now is a good time to quote Michael Malice.
01:52:20.000The job is not done until the average corporate journalist is looked at in the same way that a tobacco lobbyist is.
01:53:23.000It's never a good policy to say, oh, we want to remove voting rights from people, but man, people abuse the hell out of their right to vote.
01:53:35.000They put no actual effort into looking to see if what they've heard on Comedy Central is actually true.
01:53:46.000It is just You know what's so sad about it too is New England and I guess by extension I'm not gonna but that area of the country is where the American Revolution originated from and you can still see some of that attitude in the people in the sense that they're so stubborn and belligerent and you can tell how hey these people's ancestors picked up guns.
01:54:05.000The problem is the energy is directed all in the wrong direction.
01:54:09.000When you think about if New Englander energy of today could be directed toward, hey, you know, I'm not with what's going on in the country, we're going to protect American tradition, but instead it's like, yes, I'm going to stubbornly stand up like the guy in the Dave Portnoy video and fight you over the rights of, you know, gay, black, transgender children to, you know, get mastectomies at 14, you know, but I'll fight you for that, bro, you know, that kind of thing.
01:55:14.000And that's how I view politicians across the board, except for maybe like a handful of libertarians, maybe like one Democrat and maybe like seven Republicans.
01:55:22.000But the SDNY, it's just like, you can't even trust them to be dishonest properly.
01:56:23.000But I'm gonna say it, like, SDNY going after Trump, all the bullshit coming out of New York is so just egregious, I don't believe, I don't trust it.
01:59:01.000And so if a predator comes, if they don't fight, they die.
01:59:05.000So what happens is, so let's say you have a bunch of badgers, and half of them are really nice and half of them are really mean, nice ones are all dead.
01:59:10.000With birds, they fly away, which is why birds aren't aggressive and don't attack you, for the most part.
01:59:15.000But I've seen, have you ever seen a bird attack somebody?
01:59:17.000Those growls, those geese, they can't fly, man.
01:59:20.000But I mean, I've seen someone walk near a tree with eggs, and the bird jumps out and starts, like, flapping around their head and pecking at them and stuff, and I'm like, whoa, bird's pissed!
01:59:28.000I saw a squirrel attack somebody once, too, that was crazy.
01:59:30.000It looks like in 1856, Henry Bessemer developed a method to reduce the carbon content in iron, which led to modern steel production.
01:59:47.000The crazy thing is how long it took to get the modern revolver.
01:59:53.000It's like somebody, so they got muskets, and then some guys like,
01:59:56.000what if I have like a rotating cylinder with, we can preload all of the, you know, the balls and
02:00:03.000the powder, and what the way it worked is, same as a flintlock, and after it fired,
02:00:07.000you would hand crank it and then set it again and fire and then hand crank it.
02:00:12.000And then eventually they developed percussion cap.
02:00:15.000Which is pre-loaded, but then you put percussion caps, little metal caps that have primer in them, and you stick them over the holes, and then the hammer hits it, sparking into the chamber and firing it.
02:00:27.000And then eventually, I think it was some French dude who was like, why don't we just put it all in one thing?
02:00:31.000Like, put the primer and the casing and the bullet all in one, then you can just put it in the gun and shoot it and take it out and put it one in and... And then it... But it was like a hundred years or something, it was crazy.
02:00:42.000Who gets credit- it's the Portuguese gets credited with modern firearms, right?
02:01:06.000Battle of Gettysburg changed the game because the Union soldiers started using, uh, I guess you'd, I guess you'd call it, uh, breech, breech-loaded shells.
02:01:16.000So it had the bullet, It had the powder, and it was wrapped in paper, and you would basically break action, and then they would stick it in the back and then close it, and then they could fire with a percussion cap, and they were ten times faster than the Confederates.
02:01:29.000You know what's crazy is the Union had access to the 1860 Henry, which was a lever-action rifle, right?
02:01:35.000I think one of the first, or the first ever invented.
02:01:38.000And in theory, they probably could have mass-adapted to it, which back then, they'd be like giving every- Are you sure about that?
02:01:43.000Yeah, by giving every infantryman a machine gun.
02:01:46.0001860 Henry is the first major lever action in America, yeah.
02:01:59.000But I guess the Union wouldn't adapt it on a... I think some sharpshooters had it actually, but the Union wouldn't adapt it on a mass level because they were scared people were going to waste bullets.
02:02:11.000Which, you think how differently the war could have gone, and I think... I'm pretty sure that actually carried over to the same logic kinda screwed us up in Vietnam, too, in the beginning, because... Well, there was 1,731 Henry rifles used by the government in the Civil War, and it was a point of pride to have one.
02:02:33.000And the Soviets, early in the war, the Viet Cong actually, I think, outclassed us because they had AKs already.
02:02:40.000But the thinking in the military brass even then was, oh, the soldiers are all going to waste ammo if we, you know, give them... Full auto.
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