On this week's show, Hannah Brimlow is joined by writer-producer Phil Labonte ( ) to discuss the fallout from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' decision to revoke a liquor license for a drag show featuring minors. Plus, the collapse of the financial crisis continues, and more.
00:00:51.000But I'm of the mind that people who break the law, because they actually cited statute that they were in violation of, I think if you break the law, you should be arrested and charged.
00:01:01.000I'm not saying that a person who jaywalks should be arrested and charged and sent to prison for a million years.
00:01:05.000You might get a citation, depending on the scale of the crime.
00:01:07.000But we're talking about people who willfully violated the law, were warned they were violating
00:01:12.000the law, and then decided to have an adult performance for children.
00:01:16.000The exhibits presented by Ron DeSantis are really messed up.
00:01:29.000We were originally going to lead with the Russian jet slamming into a drone and the fear that this will lead to some kind of escalation because the Biden administration is basically saying, oh, this is an act of aggression by the Russians.
00:01:41.000Our drone was operating in international territory and they hit it, blah, blah.
00:01:45.000Yeah, it's bad, and there may be an overreaction, but probably just in terms of funding and providing more weapons, which we've already seen.
00:01:51.000I'm not sure where that's exactly going to go and whether or not it's the biggest deal in the world, but we'll talk about that.
00:01:56.000Plus, we've got deep concerns about the financial crisis.
00:01:59.000Moody's is downgrading the US due to dramatic instability.
00:02:06.000And as we already saw the other day with the collapse of SVB, first it was Silvergate,
00:02:51.000If you like the work we do, we need your support as members because that's how this operation is funded.
00:02:56.000As you all know, BuzzFeed is particularly panicked because not only was their money in SVB, but they've reported their ad revenue is going to drop by like 30, 40%.
00:04:01.000I chose The New Republic as our principal source for this story because it's funny.
00:04:05.000It got a picture of Ron DeSantis right here and then it says, Ron DeSantis is now attacking the Hyatt Regency because it hosted a drag show.
00:04:13.000The Florida governor has been waging a war on drag and on LGBTQ people in his state.
00:04:18.000They say Florida Governor Ron DeSantis moved Tuesday to strip the Hyatt Regency of its liquor license for allegedly allowing minors to attend a Christmastime drag show.
00:05:01.000He explicitly said, if you have minors at an adult entertainment show, you will lose your liquor license.
00:05:08.000He didn't even threaten them with arrest.
00:05:10.000I'm gonna go one step further and say right now, Ron DeSantis, arrest these people.
00:05:16.000I would like to see state police go to the Hyatt Regency, Walk up to the manager, confirm were you the manager on the night of December, I think it was 27th or something, 2022 during the performance of the drag show in which children were present.
00:05:30.000Yes, place your hands behind your back.
00:05:32.000You are under arrest and we're going to have you register as a sex offender because you facilitated the whole thing.
00:05:38.000Then find the employees who helped facilitate this and they get charges as well for aiding and abetting a sex show in which children were present.
00:06:13.000So those people, but I'm not sure they're residents of the state, they may have been passing through, in which case, good luck getting federal charges, but if they ever step foot back in, there should be an arrest.
00:06:21.000Here's what really bothers me about this story, is that there's photos of this, and I don't want to show all the photos, I think YouTube might get us in trouble if I show you, like right here, down at the bottom of the screen, Uh, why can't I see it on the... That's weird.
00:06:38.000Well, on the bottom of the screen, there's a picture of a drag queen shoving their chest into a child's face.
00:06:44.000And, uh, we just, you know, try and move away from that one because I don't think we can actually show that.
00:06:49.000What bothers me is that Ron DeSantis only is taking away their liquor license.
00:06:54.000So the response is, if you host a sex show where you invite children, we'll take away your ability to sell beer.
00:07:03.000Don't you think that he's kind of baiting them?
00:07:05.000I think, okay, you take their liquor license, you dare them to do it again, and the second time, you send the SWAT team, you frog march them out in chains, and you alert the media.
00:07:14.000Because the government never wants to jump in the first time with everything.
00:07:17.000They never throw everything at it the first time.
00:07:19.000I remember a story about a guy who put grow lights in an empty house and then a bunch of DEA agents stormed into the building only to find nothing was in it and he was live streaming a sting operation.
00:07:30.000And his point was that they were going to come in with no warrant to a house that did nothing wrong, yet right now we're supposed to cheer for Ron DeSantis.
00:07:38.000And he's like, ha, I took away their liquor license.
00:07:41.000Now when they have sex shows for children, they'll have to be sober.
00:09:25.000Some action is good to try and stop the Overton window shift that's allowing this grooming that's happening.
00:09:32.000But all they're really doing, it seems to me, is throwing red meat at people who are upset about this and saying, cheer for the nothing that I have done.
00:09:39.000I have done nothing at all to stop this.
00:10:15.000I just want to know more about Murray and Peter who presented the Drag Queen Christmas.
00:10:20.000I want to know what the production company is doing because they're probably operating... I mean, typically hotels bid for contracts and then whichever one works out a deal with the organization that wants to book the space.
00:10:31.000You know, moves forward with contracts.
00:10:33.000So, who else considered, who else tried to get this Drag Queen Story Show?
00:10:37.000If we can't have it at the Hyatt, where is it going now?
00:10:40.000I think that's what bothers me the most.
00:10:41.000Like, yes, it's not enough of an action from DeSantis, but partially because it keeps the head on the snake.
00:10:46.000We're not really stopping it from just migrating somewhere else across town.
00:10:50.000Let's get citizens given tips for every drag show coming up and dare DeSantis not to react to the next one.
00:10:56.000I don't care if adults want to have a drag show.
00:10:59.000If they want to do burlesque, if they want to do go-go dancing, if they want scantily clad men and women standing, you know, swinging around on poles, that's fine.
00:11:37.000I'm confident that if he wanted to do something for free— For these shows, I think this was a 37-state touring show, so I'm not sure it was a local thing.
00:11:44.000I think it was a touring— Are there any other states that have laws?
00:11:50.000Texas had a drag show where they were presenting sex in front of children, and the police said, I refuse to get involved.
00:11:57.000So it's like, look man, I understand that we're looking for hope where we can find it, and a lot of people, they don't want to be blackpilled, but if I'm supposed to cheer for Ron DeSantis for having done the bare minimum, literally the least he could possibly do about this, I guess it's better than the rest of the states that do literal nothing like Greg Abbott, but yeah, I'm just, Unenthused, not optimistic about where this is all going.
00:12:26.000Well, shaming helps, so I'll stop public shaming on it tomorrow.
00:12:31.000I would love to see, I mean, the video of a drag queen being hauled out of a bar in handcuffs would go a long way towards throwing a little gasoline on a fire.
00:12:41.000I honestly think the manager of the establishment that facilitated a sex show for children should be brought out wearing their nice little button-up shirt and tie with their pens in their pocket, being like, I don't understand why I'm being arrested!
00:13:58.000Okay, so there's two things that I want to say.
00:14:00.000First of all, I agree that stigma is not used enough nowadays.
00:14:04.000Like, social shaming is used for basically for the wrong things, essentially, and there should be more shaming from people on the right, which speaks to Tim's point and Matt Walsh's point about being more aggressive I think is probably a better way to describe it, but they were saying be more mean.
00:14:23.000But shaming is good and it's what you should use in place of legislation.
00:14:28.000So I'm not a big fan of having, like I'm not a big fan of SWAT teams and stuff like that generally.
00:14:33.000So I think that it's better to have society shame people and try to discourage behavior.
00:14:42.000So I think that that's the spot that we should be at.
00:14:44.000Let's go, if you're at a drag show, take the license plates, fill them out, drop them, then you're dropping names, dox them online.
00:15:51.000But the thing is, the average person should at least be asking the question, as opposed to saying, well, this is what I'm supposed to be doing, so all the Karens just decide to show up so that way they can get the kudos at the PTA meeting.
00:16:05.000In their academic paper, they wrote, the goal is to get glitter in the carpet that can never be removed.
00:16:10.000Quite literally outlining, in their paper, Trans Pedagogy, how to groom children.
00:16:18.000Once you do that, you open the door to nothing being better or worse than anything else.
00:16:23.000So being trans, being non-binary, being a forest elf, whatever you think you are, is equally good to being a cishet person who has a family and makes babies.
00:16:34.000And that destroys the ability for the culture to say anything is better than anything else.
00:16:53.000Okay, I'm happy something is happening.
00:16:56.000But you have in Florida them saying, you're a large establishment and we're gonna take away your liquor license even though your principal business is selling hotel rooms and doing large-scale events.
00:17:05.000I suppose losing your liquor license for large-scale events can be painful.
00:17:08.000Meanwhile, on the other side, New York is like, we're gonna state sponsor all this stuff.
00:17:12.000Meanwhile, California is doing the same thing.
00:17:14.000So if you think this is winning the culture war, you will lose, we will lose, and in 10 years you'll be wondering why your state of Florida is the capital of child drag shows.
00:17:25.000Well, but isn't it also going to drive people to self-separate into tribes again?
00:17:30.000Okay, if New York is where the state sponsors Drag Queen Story Hour and Florida, you at least are starting to stigmatize it and starting to create consequences for people who perpetrate it.
00:17:51.000We have for too long have, we've gone from the classical liberal sense of live and let live into the do whatever you want for whatever reason leave me alone.
00:18:01.000There's a big difference between live and let live and do whatever you want but leave me alone.
00:18:06.000We used to have shared moral foundations and so our country was like look Go to your house, do your thing.
00:18:12.000But then if they did things that were considered bad or destructive, the bigger picture, we would still be like either shunned or criminal charges, depending on the severity of the things they were doing.
00:18:23.000So the point is like drug use and things like that.
00:18:25.000But now we've gone so far to the anyone can do anything they want, the country's ripping in half, where you've got adult men putting on sex shows.
00:18:59.000You know, now you have to actually have the kids, because you've got the kids participating in pride parades and carrying flags and doing all that.
00:19:13.000You know, so you've got an entire month where you're telling them, these people who are abnormal, I'm not saying they're bad people, but they're outside the norm of society, and they're doing things that may or may not be healthy.
00:19:24.000And you're telling kids that's something to celebrate.
00:20:51.000You know, so all of the things are now designed to push you towards one thing, and it's working, you know.
00:20:57.000And the fact that we're at least having this conversation, the fact that there's at least a liquor license in jeopardy, and hopefully someone will be in handcuffs, is a step in the right direction.
00:21:06.000But it is a baby step, and we need much bigger steps.
00:21:11.000How is it that we've gone from What do you think would have happened 40 years ago if something like this was done?
00:21:18.000If they had an event like this with children?
00:21:20.000What do you think the governments would have done?
00:21:22.000I don't think the governments would have been involved because we still had culture then.
00:21:25.000We still had a culture where parents would have been responsible and they would have shown up and whoever was doing that would have had a very sad day.
00:21:34.000So you think people in the community would show up and there would be a riot?
00:21:47.000The fact that we've gone from a society that says, we won't allow this, to a society that says, I guess I can pull your liquor license.
00:21:54.000That means we've retreated and surrendered the fight completely.
00:21:57.000And this is Ron DeSantis being like, I guess I'll do something, I don't know.
00:22:00.000I don't want to believe that it's a surrender, but I agree with you that if it's a counterattack, it is far from... Let's put it this way.
00:22:09.000On a scale of 1 to 10, if 40 years of the reaction would have been a 10, going in, arresting people, shutting it down, news reporting it, angry parents screaming, how could you let this happen?
00:23:13.000Moms are incentivized to not make waves because it makes problems for their kids in school.
00:23:21.000If you're a kid going to school and your mom and everyone around like okay so I know this is going to be sound awkward to or sound odd to some of the people sort of our viewers ears but like if you're a mom and you're anti-vax and everybody around you is is up to date and your kid isn't vaccinated Your kid is going to take endless amounts of crap at school.
00:23:43.000Moms will do a lot of stuff and shut their mouths about a lot of things to make sure that their kids have a reasonable time at school.
00:23:52.000And it's probably the wrong answer, but that's a significant portion of why these things tend to metastasize and spread the way they do.
00:24:01.000Well, and you can understand why you wouldn't want to put the the pressure of the political fight on your third grader,
00:24:24.000I don't want to hear you job won't let you move.
00:24:25.000I don't want to hear anything about it.
00:24:27.000Move someplace or change your own community at the lowest level and at least fight back yourself.
00:24:33.000And I think that some people are doing it.
00:24:35.000I typically agree with you, but then I think even moving doesn't escape you from the internet, right?
00:24:39.000So like there's a family vlog channel that's getting a lot of attention right now because they're talking about their child is transitioning and they're documenting taking it to the clinic and whatever it is and like, That means that even if you moved, if your child has access to the internet, this is still the alternative.
00:24:56.000But if you're in a homeschool co-op and all the kids in that co-op are hearing from their parents that that's not how we do things.
00:25:02.000How do you protect your kid from June?
00:25:04.000How do you protect your kid from the whole month?
00:25:08.000It's coming and it's going to be- Or drive down your street and every restaurant has a pride flag on it.
00:25:12.000Yeah, LGBT shoved right down your throat every June for, like, how do you protect your kid from that?
00:25:18.000I'd like to hope that, like, it empowers parents today to be really open and honest about their values with their kids.
00:25:24.000I think there are generations where parents didn't want to tell their kids too much and didn't want to seem like they were oppressing them or, you know, whatever else.
00:25:31.000Like, I have a number of friends whose parents grew up really religious.
00:25:34.000They, the parents then, didn't really bring them to church and now the kids crave that.
00:26:14.000So there is, because of the success they've had in pushing that, more people have had to face the fact that that's going to happen to their kids and it's happening in their neighborhood and that's causing a backlash.
00:26:26.000Now is it going to be a big enough backlash?
00:26:35.000Breaking Moody's Slash's outlook for U.S.
00:26:37.000banking system to negative due to rapidly deteriorating operating environment, Moody's lowered its outlook on the American banking system from stable to negative.
00:26:46.000The move comes just days after Silicon Valley Bank, the 16th largest in the nation, collapsed alongside a number of smaller financial institutions.
00:27:44.000The only reason that the dollar is the fiat currency of the world and we have been on top as long as we have and we can have 30 trillion dollars in debt is because people believe that the United States is unbreakable.
00:27:56.000Well, it doesn't look unbreakable now, and that's the problem.
00:28:01.000You look at why crypto is being adapted, but not fast enough.
00:28:06.000It's because how many people trust that everybody, because if everybody in that crypto game doesn't trust each other, It falls apart.
00:28:13.000Well, we've been so trusted that people thought the US is just always going to be there, always going to be growing, always going to be fine.
00:28:20.000And the second that trust is pierced, everything the crypto bros have been saying about why fiat currency is garbage becomes true.
00:28:38.000People don't understand that a large portion of the national debt is owed to itself, to its own people.
00:28:43.000And it's always going to increase because the system itself is a Ponzi scheme where basically we borrow from ourselves in the future over and over and over again forever.
00:29:26.000You know, the Iranians and the Saudis just signed a deal brokered by the Chinese.
00:29:32.000So our major global enemy brokers a deal between the largest state sponsor of terrorism and a former ally of ours three years after we were making deals in the Middle East to bring Gulf Arab states and Israel together.
00:30:14.000manufactures nothing, so we become a poor nation overnight.
00:30:18.000And the Chinese are globalists, just not the way that we talk about globalism.
00:30:23.000They're globalists as in they want to control the globe.
00:30:26.000And if we if we lose to them, and right now they're also they're going to broker a deal between the Russians and Ukrainians, I predict, in the next three to six months.
00:30:34.000They're going to be the ones who make that deal, not us, because Biden and his crew can't stop pushing.
00:30:39.000All right, they want that war because that's what makes them feel strong.
00:30:43.000That's what they're doing, like you said, to maintain our position.
00:31:18.000And the establishment uniparty deep state said, no, we just need to blow up more people and just keep dropping bombs until they learn they can't screw with us and the dollar is the reserve currency.
00:31:58.000Well, and the other thing that has been happening between the Uniparty and the globalists, you know, the World Economic Forum crew, is weakening the United States.
00:32:06.000They want to weaken it enough to allow a global Counterpart to push up against the Chinese.
00:32:52.000No, it was just after World War I. Yeah!
00:32:54.000So we'd finished, one, the war to end all wars, and then all of a sudden we have a depression, and then, oh, we need another world war, right?
00:34:40.000I'm not going to blame either Biden or Trump for the weirdness, but I can say the moment Biden gets into office and signs all these executive orders, inflation just shoots straight up and wages go straight down.
00:34:52.000I really don't think Donald Trump secretly planned a policy to execute the moment or within like three weeks of Biden becoming president.
00:35:00.000I think Biden signed a bunch of executive orders and nuked everything.
00:35:05.000The executive orders that Biden signed when he first got into office, there's a lot of regulations that he reinstated and stuff.
00:35:13.000But still, the main factors that led to the inflation and stuff, I mean, Donald Trump was talking about doing more stimulus at the end of his presidency and stuff, so I don't see a significant difference economically.
00:35:32.000I think that we're probably in the same place, whether it be Biden or Trump.
00:35:35.000But as for international stuff, like foreign relations and stuff, I think the world was better off with Donald Trump than with Not a chance.
00:35:47.000And we didn't see any of the tyrants acting up.
00:35:51.000And all of a sudden Biden's in and everybody knows they can roll over his team.
00:35:55.000They show us, oh, let's do Afghanistan.
00:36:49.000Sometimes I feel like the American media treats Russia so strangely, like, they didn't want an expansion of an alliance that would attack them against their back door, and for some reason we present them as like, that's crazy, can you believe that?
00:37:04.000And they didn't want us to do that, like, I feel like The pressure to keep Russia as our number one enemy, which of course like there are conflicts, but like personally I feel like we have more to lose to China right now.
00:37:24.000who are pushing so hard are using Putin as their Trump punching bag.
00:37:29.000In the same way you said, oh you know it's Trump is doing Putin's bidding.
00:37:32.000No, what's actually going on was Trump was trying to neutralize The one thing Trump was good at is he was a savvy negotiator.
00:37:38.000You didn't want to be across the table in a boardroom from Donald Trump because he was going to eat your lunch and he didn't care how he did it.
00:38:21.000Why don't you tell us, Hannah-Claire, what happened?
00:38:22.000Makes me so nervous when you do this like popcorn reading in school.
00:38:26.000So there were two Russian Su-27 fighter jets flying in international airspace above the Black Sea, as was an MQ aircraft, which is a drone.
00:39:02.000In response, Russia has complained several times that it does not appreciate that the U.S.
00:39:09.000and the United Kingdom have expanded their surveillance operations, especially in
00:39:13.000international, especially around the Crimean Peninsula.
00:39:16.000And so as it turns out, they aren't going to just roll over and let drones photograph whatever's going on there.
00:39:24.000And it's hard to say because Russia is saying, you know, well, we're the ones who are open to the peace talks that the Chinese have proposed, but it's Ukraine that won't participate.
00:39:36.000You know, it's double-edged all around.
00:39:38.000But I think this is one of those moments that if the U.S.
00:39:42.000wants to escalate, they will say, well, they're just getting out of control.
00:39:45.000These unprofessional Russian military planes trying to attack us.
00:39:49.000You know I actually got a tip on some of the cockpit crosstalk from the Russian pilots and as they were rolling up on the Reaper they're playing highway to the danger zone.
00:40:03.000They were watching and they was gonna try and go upside down and he peed on the drone right to communicate right like they were doing yeah and then he got caught in the jet wash.
00:40:22.000I mean, look, considering Russia's a nuclear-armed, you know, what used to be a superpower, but they have nuclear weapons, I personally have no problem with the United States being in international waters monitoring.
00:41:00.000If my neighbor is flinging mud at me, and I'm flinging mud back, and then you're on the street, Telling the other guy like how to respond to me and how and you and you're hiding behind that.
00:41:09.000I'm like you are helping the guy who's fighting me.
00:41:14.000It doesn't like I said, it's it's I don't see any problem with the United States saying look we're going to monitor this situation because of the fact that they have nuclear weapons. Except for the Russians,
00:41:25.000they're like, they're not just monitoring it, they are providing intelligence to Ukraine, they are
00:42:51.000I don't disagree that the US, you know, it's not unreasonable and for moderate, I just don't think it's unreasonable for Russia to try and prevent it, right?
00:42:59.000Like, acting like this is like some act of Russian aggression when actually it's Russian defense, like, that seems sort of...
00:43:05.000You know, it's like the American media wants the public to think Russia is suddenly getting aggressive in a way that it shouldn't.
00:43:33.000And there's a lot of people that are anti-war that are like, yo, the U.S.
00:43:36.000shouldn't even be looking over there because it could inflame things.
00:43:39.000I understand there are people like that.
00:43:41.000I'm just, in my opinion, because of the stakes, because of the possibility of nuclear war, I don't have a problem with the United States monitoring the situation.
00:44:13.000operated, you know, artillery from across the Polish border into Ukraine to take out Russian targets, would Russia be like, well, you know, they're in Poland, so... Operating artillery is not... Intelligence is a hundred times more important than one artillery.
00:44:28.000It's still not... You can't say, oh, There is no precedent for a state to say, you cannot fly, or if you fly in international waters, we're going to take that as an act of aggression.
00:45:59.000I don't have insight into the people that are actually running the plans.
00:46:03.000But to say that just a drone, a drone could be, they could be taking, they could be monitoring with video, they could be monitoring ship movements.
00:46:10.000There's all kinds of things that are totally legitimate and totally not escalation or acting in the war that a drone could be doing just monitoring.
00:46:21.000The US, this is a fact, gave the intelligence to the Ukrainians to blow up the Black Sea flagship of the Russian Navy.
00:46:35.000I'm not going to argue that they didn't.
00:46:37.000Now Russia could be sitting there going, well it could have been satellite, or it could be that thing flying around in circles above the Black Sea.
00:46:44.000Let's ignore it completely because I don't know what it is.
00:46:45.000Even if it's a satellite, is it not still the same thing if you give targeting information to someone who uses it to destroy a piece of military equipment, you are an active participant In that.
00:47:46.000Like, I find the idea of war crimes laughable.
00:47:48.000Like, somebody who wants to win a war is gonna win a war, and they don't care what you think the crime is.
00:47:53.000So if, let's say we were at war with Japan, and they bombed Pearl Harbor, and then all of a sudden, Japanese fighters are buzzing Hawaii again.
00:48:02.000We're gonna be like, well, hold on, guys.
00:48:05.000They have every right to fly around international waters.
00:50:47.000needs to say, cut off the money, no more money, no more toys.
00:50:52.000The end state of this, and I said this a year ago, is Putin keeps the Donbass in Crimea, and Zelensky gets a promise from us if he crosses the border again, it's a NATO issue.
00:51:02.000Why do you think we're not pushing back?
00:51:03.000We should have declared a no-fly zone before this even started.
00:51:06.000I think we're not because it's a proxy war where we're pushing back against Putin, not against Russia.
00:51:14.000And it's a situation where they don't want to look soft.
00:51:18.000They know they're soft in every other place and they're pushing extra hard in Ukraine and it became an emotional issue because it's the left we're dealing with.
00:51:25.000They're not dealing with strategic geopolitical issues.
00:51:28.000They're dealing with emotional issues.
00:51:30.000That's why it's Slava Ukraine-y and everybody's got a flag.
00:51:53.000I think he's going to go down as Vlad the Vicious, the guy who clacked off a battlefield nuke before he takes a loss from the frickin Ukrainians.
00:52:04.000And people seem to think that nuclear war means Russia launches an ICBM that flies over the world and lands in Washington, D.C.
00:52:12.000They're going to be very confused when a small-yield nuclear device is detonated on the battlefield and not in a city, and then they go, how come nobody's firing nukes at each other now?
00:52:23.000How come that nuclear power plant got a little hot?
00:55:13.000Hey, which might be US F-16s flying out of a NATO country.
00:55:17.000Yeah, I mean, they already sank the Russian flagship, so perhaps he doesn't, in the way we would see it.
00:55:23.000Vladimir Putin is the kind of guy who can just say he's going to do it, whereas in the United States, you need some justification for the public.
00:56:11.000And there should be some recourse to them.
00:56:13.000One of my first deployments, we were training Philippine police constabulary, it's like a paramilitary unit, and we asked them, how do you conduct a raid to scarf up terrorists?
00:56:22.000They said, well, we sight in the machine guns and we rake the buildings with fire and we go in and count the bodies and issue a press release.
00:56:30.000and i'm like you know and here i am special forces guy supposed to be t i'm like well that's one way to do it you know that's a technique what if i had to go thing yeah what if you don't kill everybody and you maybe keep one guy alive to torture Literally, I had to convince them.
00:56:47.000You had to walk them back, step by step.
00:56:49.000And then we had to go, well, maybe not torture, maybe just a tip, but literally, that was the mindset.
00:56:54.000And then ultimately, you end with question, so we can get more intelligence.
00:56:58.000And then eventually, it's arrest them and put them in a box.
00:57:22.000JetGPT 2.0, creator of AI bot that took world by storm, launches even more powerful version called GPT-4 and admits it's so advanced it could, quote, harm society.
00:57:40.000Is this what like, you know, when I was when I was little, I was always wondering where the mad scientists were, because I'd watch these cartoons and there'd be a guy being like, I'm going to build a laser to melt the ice caps and flood the earth.
00:58:11.000I don't believe that AI, in any form I could see it in the next 20 to 30 years, take control of anything because it's not capable of taking control.
00:58:22.000The question is, will we give it control?
00:58:43.000Whatever the worst thing they can come up with, that's absolutely the very first thing that they're going to do.
00:58:51.000And it's going to be like, we imagine the scientists who made this AI are like, I have worked very hard to make this sophisticated artificial intelligence that will revolutionize the world.
00:59:00.000In fact, it's a guy going, I made a robot to do the work for me.
00:59:04.000I'm going to connect it to the industrial control systems.
00:59:23.000Like 10 years after the AI takes over, you turn on the TV and it's like a woman dancing, throwing corn in the air.
00:59:28.000And the reason I say corn is because the US is like, corn is a staple product.
00:59:32.000So what will happen is, The AI scouring, you know, production, manufacturing will keep seeing a feedback loop of corn production is good for the economy.
00:59:43.000And so then what it will do is it will start over-prioritizing that portion of society, much like how I'll give you an example.
00:59:52.000Facebook, when they first rolled out these algorithms to try and figure out what people liked the most, everyone noticed that if you typed in family, baby, marriage, or whatever, it would instantly put that post to the top of people's feeds.
01:00:08.000So they would write something like, hey guys, I'm having a party at my house this weekend.
01:00:12.000I'm also getting married, having a baby, and my family, you know, graduating college.
01:00:17.000And then they would be like, the reason I added that last part is because now Facebook will actually show you, because that's what the algorithm does.
01:00:22.000So if an algorithm is going to do something like that, imagine what will happen.
01:00:26.000In a standard human society, we have tolerances.
01:01:12.000Is it actually idiocracy of computing?
01:01:15.000So what we're doing then is we're turning over the least common denominator to a machine, and then it will, obviously, it'll do what it's trained to do.
01:01:23.000It will take the most popular things and make them more, and eventually we'll be told corn has electrolytes, right?
01:01:28.000It'll be branded, and Brondo will be the game.
01:01:32.000Right now you've got kids who, I mean, look, it's 2006-2007 when Facebook emerges.
01:01:43.000They're gonna be voting in this next election, and their whole worldview is crafted by the Facebook algorithm spamming them with police brutality videos.
01:02:22.000So when the AI takes over completely, and I use corn somewhat as a joke, but somewhat not really, when it starts gaining control of industrial control systems, we won't know why it's making the decisions it's making.
01:02:39.000And then a couple generations later, we live in corn world.
01:02:42.000I wish you were wrong, but you can watch what they're doing with the way they train the AI now.
01:02:47.000You know, when you train AI, which we work with it, we work with a couple of programs that do network mapping, link analysis, and things like that, you have to tell it what you want.
01:02:56.000If you tell it to look for police brutality videos, which it does, if you tell it to follow the most popular things, it will do that.
01:03:03.000And right now, the people training most of the AI have an agenda.
01:03:09.000I mean, it's not like ChatGPT became left-wing accidentally.
01:03:13.000Now, if you actually could just release it on the internet and let it scour the most popular media sites, it would become left-wing.
01:03:20.000You know, that's the problem because that's all of the information it would be gathering and all of the influences it would get would be already filtered through the lens of Google's search mechanism and Facebook's ability to push everything else out there already using their lower-level algorithms.
01:03:36.000So we either have to find a way to get someone who's not a left-wing butthead training AI or it will.
01:03:43.000Or do you think there's, like, a right-wing answer?
01:03:46.000Like, do right-wing developers develop their own AI that then competes and eats the left?
01:04:20.000Can you show, okay, well actually this was the Open Society Foundation, made a grant to these guys, who gave it to these guys, they handed it to Black Lives Matter, and Black Lives Matter organized a riot.
01:04:29.000Can you make that causal chain, and then track it back to who the funders are, so that the next time, when a grant goes out from here, we can say, hey, wait a minute, a grant went here.
01:06:03.000And I'm like, yeah, but it is kind of weird that it took it in that direction.
01:06:06.000There's a bunch of things you can do or respond to.
01:06:09.000If someone says something like, you know, please do this for me.
01:06:13.000Why would the chat AI take it to a negative place instead of being like, I appreciate that you're requesting my help, but I can't offer it.
01:06:58.000You could actually create AI based on communities, based on websites, based on individuals.
01:07:05.000You could go onto Facebook and they could take every 65-year-old and then create the 65-year-old Oracle that would speak to you the way a 65-year-old would.
01:07:35.000I just feel like we'll never have one of these stories where I am so interested in AI that I want to participate in it.
01:07:42.000Like, I know you use chat to EBT and you ask a question, and maybe I'm just being a neurotic technophobe over here, but I feel like so much can go wrong that there are very few circumstances where I see the benefit of it.
01:08:16.000But it's a place where you can actually afflict the powerful.
01:08:20.000And that's why if Elon would follow through on what he's supposed to, we could actually get to the point where meanness is not part of their algorithm.
01:08:28.000Now you get visibility filtered if you're mean.
01:08:45.000But the people who are unselfish or don't want that, well, if I talk to a chat bot and it's trained to talk to me in my language, you know, they'll pay for that.
01:08:52.000The problem with chat GPT, you cannot have a useful, functional AI tool if you put political correct restraints on it.
01:09:00.000Because the only thing it ever does, it is the most pathetic product ever made.
01:09:06.000No matter what you ask it, it will say something like, well, as an AI language model, I can't actually do anything.
01:10:56.000If you take a predictive text model that has access to the summation of human knowledge, thought, emotion, etc., it can source things so rapidly, things you wouldn't even know.
01:11:06.000So, for instance, I have to talk about how Facebook knows when you poop.
01:11:10.000Facebook doesn't literally have a camera watching you or read your messages when you say something like, I have to go to the bathroom.
01:11:17.000What it does is it knows when your phone moves, it knows when your phone's at a restaurant, and it also knows things, those are the obvious things.
01:11:24.000It also knows, for some reason, 17 minutes before the average person goes to the bathroom, they type in, you know, LOL in their phone.
01:11:33.000Like, there are things that we- You've got tells.
01:11:36.000Right, and we don't even know they exist.
01:11:38.000But in the data, there will be patterns where Facebook is like, if 17 steps are taken before noon, outside of a building, the person will go to the bathroom within 37 minutes.
01:11:53.000And you don't even know, and no one knows.
01:11:56.000So ChatGPT can see all of these things, and then you can ask it.
01:12:00.000Now let's say you have a problem, and you want that problem solved, like, hey, our taxes came back higher than we expected, and we're not sure why.
01:12:56.000And then people started posting, now you can't even get basic questions answered, so it's become useless.
01:13:01.000Either you unleash it, or you don't have it at all.
01:13:04.000So what I'm saying is, we're all scared about the AI takeover.
01:13:08.000I'm actually less scared now, because what's happening is, as stupid as these humans are, they're more worried about political incorrectness, and thus, they will just totally shut down the AI from being able to do anything out of fear of what someone might say to them.
01:13:27.000That feedback loop, though, is happening at corporations now.
01:13:30.000Part of the problems we're having with banks and other things like that is they're not focused on their core missions, and all of the people who have been trained in grievance mongering as their way of life are now in these corporations, so you can't make them do anything.
01:13:43.000They're constantly trying to find out, why didn't I get promoted?
01:13:46.000If I didn't get promoted, it's because of this.
01:13:48.000Right, so they're creating this grievance culture inside the corporations, which then has to be addressed by that layer of bureaucracy, DEI and all that, which slows them down.
01:13:57.000So at some level, the wokeness is either going to kill all of us, including the AI, so it never can take over.
01:14:03.000So they won't take over, we'll just stifle ourselves into the woke version of idiocracy.
01:14:08.000They wanted that to represent right-wing, you know, people who are too dumb for it.
01:14:12.000Actually, it's people who are too smart to be able to be brave enough to live in the real world.
01:14:16.000I'm not so concerned about idiocracy after watching SVB collapse.
01:14:21.000They prioritized wokeness over a chief risk officer.
01:14:37.000But to me, that's a hopeful thing because corporations have to be able to make money or their boards will shut them down in some way and stop them from doing that.
01:14:46.000And I think the wokeness has now affected corporate operations in so many of them, in so many ways.
01:14:51.000Like, look what, when Elon fired everybody at Twitter, they're like, it's never gonna work again.
01:14:55.000You know, all those people were vital to the functioning of Twitter.
01:14:58.000No, all those people were thought police and diversity police and other things that are not productive functions.
01:15:04.000They're gone and he's gonna be profitable in Q2.
01:15:10.000Let's jump to this story from TimCast.com because I want to make fun of Joe Biden.
01:15:17.000Biden responds to handwritten letter from child about gender pay gap on equal payday.
01:15:22.000Men are getting more money than girls.
01:15:24.000I think you should fix this since you're the president.
01:15:27.000This is written by Christopher Bertman and I'm going to issue a fact check here.
01:15:31.000Uh, Biden did not respond to a handwritten letter from a child, because I do not believe they ever actually stated it was from a child, nor does it appear to actually be from a child.
01:15:42.000Let me show you the tweet in question, and then we'll go through some standard journalistic ethics.
01:15:47.000Joe Biden tweeted, Charlotte, I couldn't agree more.
01:15:50.000Women lose thousands of dollars each year and hundreds of thousands over a lifetime because of gender and racial wage gaps.
01:15:56.000I'm committed to building an economy where my daughters have the same rights and opportunities as my sons.
01:16:00.000So nowhere in here does it say this letter was written by a child.
01:16:04.000That's the first and foremost thing that TimCast.com needs to correct.
01:16:57.000There's like four different kinds of handwriting in that too, aren't there?
01:16:59.000But most importantly, notice the G's are written in cursive.
01:17:03.000The G's are written by someone who has got- They haven't taught cursive in like 20 years.
01:17:08.000And not only that, they don't teach it to children this young.
01:17:12.000So a child who is writing, who is writing, who is printing, what do you call like, I don't know, cursive and then what, standard or something?
01:20:05.000You don't go down, around, and then loop back.
01:20:08.000Also, even if this was a real child, like, I feel bad for this kid whose parents have clearly put them up to their political bidding, right?
01:20:16.000But if it were, hypothetically if it were, I know it's probably not, I know this person is probably not even real, and a team of graphic designers put this together for a nice tweet from Biden, but... That was chat GPT.
01:21:28.000There are so many times where she just is so incredibly unprepared to discuss whatever the topic is, and it's embarrassing.
01:21:37.000Remember when she gets asked about Marianne Williamson running for president, and she goes, If I had a globe to look in the future, and someone goes, a crystal ball?
01:22:53.000I'm looking at the handwriting, and outright, none of this writing style is how they teach people to write.
01:23:02.000So, for a child, let me point out a few things that make literally no sense.
01:23:06.000If you look at the D right here, you can see it starts in the top and goes down and then jumps around.
01:23:11.000That's not how they teach kids to write Ds.
01:23:13.000You start with the loop and go up, then down and back.
01:23:16.000And then you can notice the G, as I already pointed out, it starts from here and then loops around and then goes back.
01:23:21.000And then you look at the uppercase D, from the bottom up and out, that's not how they teach kids to write Ds either.
01:23:29.000This is written by someone who's gone to college and developed a writing style after years.
01:23:34.000And also, I have to be honest, it may even be written by more than one person, as you guys pointed out, because some of the handwriting looks completely different.
01:23:41.000I'd love to actually get like, you know how they do those forensic handwriting people?
01:23:45.000To look at this and be like, oh yeah, that's a 35-year-old woman.
01:24:19.000In the word something, the G is written with starting from the middle and going back and then down, but then the other Gs are written in a very different way.
01:25:55.000Yeah, they wrote it like... It was one step removed from a ransom note cut out of a magazine.
01:26:01.000It's one step removed from calligraphy.
01:26:04.000Like they couldn't help but just like every letter has to be busted up and weird looking but the G they couldn't help but they're like, I have to put my twirl in it.
01:26:11.000Do you think that person has a G in their name and they're used to therefore writing the G?
01:27:19.000And like you said, the ones who grew up on Facebook's algorithm and the rest of it, and all their schools, everything they've been taught, how do you not believe that?
01:27:26.000Those are the people you are told to trust.
01:27:28.000So everything they've been taught is wrong.
01:28:07.000To see people just basically changing the meanings of terms so that way they could We're in a simulation, and the purpose of the simulation is to see if people of good nature and good capability will stand up against psychotic destruction.
01:28:31.000There's an advanced civilization that created this simulation we're all in, and they're like, is it possible for humans to truly pull through?
01:28:37.000Let's run a simulation and see what happens!
01:28:56.000But sometimes I just wonder about the insanity that is, you know, like this letter from Joe Biden and the things they do are so obviously fake.
01:29:05.000Like there's no rational person is going to believe it.
01:29:08.000And then we have people who really do believe this stuff.
01:29:20.000But I'm saying, like, it's one thing if you believe things that are not true.
01:29:23.000It's another thing if you can't discern things in real time.
01:29:26.000Like, outside of politics, if I went to someone and said, point to the pumpkin, and they point to a cucumber, and I go, actually, you're correct, that's the pumpkin.
01:29:36.000The fact that they can't be like, hey, you're tricking me.
01:30:05.000You're deprogramming people out of a cult.
01:30:08.000Essentially, you're identifying the challenge we face.
01:30:12.000Because the large majority of people in this country for the past two generations have been programmed to believe things that are fundamentally not true.
01:30:20.000And so they lack reasoning capability and all the facts they've been trained with, their AI, is all based on garbage.
01:30:29.000And it's a two-generation-plus fight, and that's gotta be back to the schools.
01:30:33.000You either gotta have kids out of the schools or you gotta have something else, but you have to be counter-programming, because we're not gonna deprogram.
01:31:14.000That hasn't happened for Millennials or for Gen Z. Hear me out.
01:31:17.000What if we took all the Millennials, put them on a bunch of big boats, And then brought them to their own island and said, this is your country now.
01:31:28.000It'll be perfect because you've been trained how to live a perfect life, right?
01:31:32.000They've got the right programming for it.
01:31:34.000What we should do is... Tim, are you making plans for Australia?
01:31:43.000Let's start a fundraiser for a communist utopia.
01:31:46.000We'll buy an island, and then we'll tell all of the commies in the United States, you will get to live in your communist utopia, we've all pitched in our money together to make it, let's leave this horrible racist place, load up all the commies on a boat, bring them to the island, and say, good luck.
01:32:48.000But true communism has never been tried.
01:32:51.000That's because it's global and it'll never happen.
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01:35:56.000But how did we go from a society that would never allow it to now being like, well, we allow most of it, but this one time we took away a liquor license.
01:36:04.000We got to have the police go in and arrest people who break the law.
01:36:27.000Like, there are- They're competing at like states or some high level, and they said, we won't compete against this other school that has a male, female identifying player, and the team that wouldn't play got in trouble, which seems crazy to me.
01:36:59.000I just think he hosts his own show, so it's hard for him to do that.
01:37:02.000Like, you know, people gotta understand, I got nothing against David or Hassan or Cenk
01:37:08.000Uygur when they're like not coming on the show because they host their own shows.
01:37:13.000As for some other personalities who said, I will go on your show, and then privately were like, psych, I'm not doing it, and then dragged me on the internet for clicks and stuff, yeah, those people are evil scumbags.
01:37:23.000But as for the other people who are like, sorry man, look, I host my own show Monday through Friday, I don't really have time to do this, I go, you know what, you're right because neither do I, I'm not gonna hold it against you.
01:37:31.000That being said, I'd love to have David Pakman on.
01:37:33.000I believe we're actually trying to get Kyle Kalinske on.
01:37:36.000I need to message him again, because he's... I think Kyle's fantastic and honest, and he has expressed interest in coming on before.
01:37:42.000I've talked to him a bit, so that would be really cool.
01:37:44.000It'd be cool to actually have him and Crystal, because I think they're both great.
01:37:47.000And I think they are more likely to understand what we're talking about.
01:37:52.000But I think Destiny's coming on soon, and I think TJ Kirk as well.
01:37:57.000Yeah, so we're trying to fit everybody in.
01:37:59.000We're very, very jammed with the schedule.
01:38:02.000I think the amazing Atheist, we're trying to get on like beginning of April or something.
01:38:08.000And I think he's gonna be a funny guy.
01:38:26.000It's sillier than that, you know what I mean?
01:38:28.000Like, it's an edgy kind of, you know, it's not an angry, vile, like, attack.
01:38:34.000It's more of a sassy, edgy, boy kind of thing.
01:38:37.000He was just on with Sitch and Adam, and they do a podcast, and he was, like, totally nice during the time that he was on, and then after he got off, he was, like, dogging him out.
01:38:46.000He wasn't being super mean or anything, but he was, like, poking at him.
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01:40:33.000And so, with the activists trying to get ads pulled, and constantly threatening people, and with the ad market taking serious hits, then we need members.
01:40:41.000The more members we have, the less worried we are about censorship, the less worried we are about the ad rates collapsing.
01:40:49.000That being said, when we see ad rates go down, usually means y'all are hurting too, so, you know, do what you can.
01:41:47.000Talking about ad rates for just a quick second, one of the few bipartisan issues right now in Congress is actually attacking Facebook and Google's domination of online ads.
01:41:55.000And I would actually want to, I hope they do something.
01:41:58.000You know, wouldn't that be nice if they stopped the monopoly that's squashing Yeah, but the issue with the ad business, it's because they're easier to use.
01:42:10.000Because Google and Facebook own so much.
01:42:13.000It's not so much that they're shutting down the competition, it's just... No, they're doing it antitrust.
01:42:17.000They're not doing it based on content.
01:42:19.000So it's not got anything to do with Section 230 and the rest of it.
01:42:21.000They're actually talking about they have a monopoly on it.
01:43:01.000Google and Facebook now have all the eyeballs.
01:43:04.000And then what'll happen is you're gonna get a combination of two things.
01:43:08.000The various ad companies, I do think it would probably be a net positive if advertising was ripped from Google as a company and became an independent company, or several, and a bunch of ad agencies had to compete.
01:43:20.000And then likely what would end up happening is, let's say Google Ads becomes company A, B, and C.
01:43:27.000Company A will go to a channel like mine and say, we want an exclusivity deal with you.
01:43:30.000We'll give you X percent for X amount of time.
01:43:33.000And then that will likely give me a better rate.
01:43:36.000The problem is, they'll say, we're going to give you 75% of all the ad revenue because YouTube only does 65.
01:43:43.000For bigger channels, I think it is 75.
01:43:46.000But then company B will be like, hold on there, buddy.
01:44:12.000I don't think anything you're saying is wrong.
01:44:14.000However, when there is competition, right now there's none.
01:44:18.000And so you've just got Facebook and Google making the decisions for everybody.
01:44:21.000At least you've got the option of negotiating with somebody other than them cornering the market and driving the price down because they make those deals.
01:44:33.000Content producer and the ad agency, and then the ad agency and the ad buyers.
01:44:38.000And the problem is, what works for us right now is that YouTube basically has an auction system where anybody who comes in can place a bid on how much they want to spend for an ad to appear on this content.
01:44:52.000So obviously Coca-Cola can spend more than a smaller cola company.
01:44:55.000Like, RC Cola ain't spending those Coca-Cola dollars.
01:44:59.000That means a Coke ad is more likely to appear.
01:45:01.000That means I get a lot more money, because Coke knows all of these other channels will... This guy's gonna spend a dollar, he'll spend two, he'll spend three, I have to spend four, otherwise I don't get the ad.
01:47:36.000But I think the average person who's traveling for work will sit at the bar and have a soda and some wings with their friend and be like, can I get a beer, but you don't have any but.
01:47:47.000People aren't going to know their liquor license got pulled.
01:47:49.000They're still gonna keep buying the rooms.
01:47:52.000The only difference is when they go downstairs, they tell their buddy, let's go downstairs and grab lunch real quick at the restaurant.
01:47:59.000They'll sit down and say, I'll get the burger, french fries, make it sweet potato fries, give me some of that cheese dipping sauce, and I'll get a Corona.
01:48:05.000What do you mean you don't have Corona?
01:48:32.000It was on some podcast and it was, or maybe it was a meme or something, but it was something like, why do you think every religion ever has severely restricted the autonomy of women?
01:49:25.000You know, you don't get shamed for doing that.
01:49:28.000You get reinforced and your virtue signaling gets you points.
01:49:32.000All right, Veldren Olis says, hey Tim and crew, my wife of 14 years died three weeks ago tomorrow at the age of 34, and your content has been instrumental in helping me get through these rough times.
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01:50:11.000Might be late to the party or not related to today's topics, but Tim or Ian might find it coincidental, like I did, that Barney Frank, aka the Rolla Dice Guy, is a sitting board member at Signature Bank.
01:50:23.000He was making a lot of comments about the solvency or he was saying that the bank actually wasn't insolvent and that was lending, I guess, support to the argument that this was an intentional move by the government to push back crypto.
01:51:55.000I always feel bad when the media says, like, DeSantis is attacking LGBTQ people.
01:52:02.000Like, I feel like most of those letters are like, leave us out of it.
01:52:05.000We do not want minors at our, you know, 21 and up bar.
01:52:09.000It seems weird that this is the issue they're lumping everyone on.
01:52:13.000I started talking about normal gay people.
01:52:16.000Right, the normal gays are sick of the freaks.
01:52:19.000Well, that's why you have gays against groomers.
01:52:25.000So the LGBT community has been fighting for a very, very long time just to live their lives.
01:52:32.000And then along came the Q portion, the Q+, and now you have a very, very strange plethora of ideologies that don't connect in any way.
01:52:42.000So the interesting thing is, A lot of the activists that I know said they're not sure how LGB and T go together, but they're willing to be a part of this fight because there is some overlap in how someone perceives a sexuality versus identity.
01:53:00.000But then when it got to the Q+, now you have like non-binary two-spirit, they-them, Nightmare Two-spirit makes it purely obvious that it's a religion.
01:53:24.000Yeah, there's gays against groomers, and they're being called homophobic and transphobic, when they're literally gay and trans and bi and lesbian and all that stuff.
01:53:34.000It goes back to the, are you live and let live, or are you forcing people to celebrate your freakishness?
01:53:39.000And right now, the freaks are winning.
01:54:27.000We had talked with Mike Judge a while back about coming on the show and talking about all the stuff with like, you know, idiocracy in mind.
01:54:35.000And I should reach out to him because we're doing Friday mornings, we're doing the Culture War podcast, which is more conversational, less news driven.
01:54:42.000And I think that'd be great to have him on that and we can just talk about all this stuff.
01:54:49.000Yeah, a lot of people... We had Damien Echols of the West Memphis Three last Friday.
01:54:54.000A lot of people who would love to sit down and have a conversation don't want to come on a political, cultural, commentary show because, like, you want me to talk about what?
01:55:02.000And it's like, well, there was a bank collapse.
01:57:27.000So how is there that cursive G in there?
01:57:30.000Because wine moms, when they were younger, were taught cursing.
01:57:34.000Yep, because maybe what actually happened is a 40-year-old woman... Look, I wouldn't be surprised if a 40-year-old woman wrote the letter and sent it in and said, no, everyone's going to think... Because this is what these crackpot psychopaths do.
01:57:46.000Look, man, I'm at my wit's end with this stuff.
01:57:49.000I was watching that interview, clip of it, from the Osundiro brothers.
01:58:18.000They post these ridiculous garbled pieces of garbage that never happened, but they are all stupid enough and believe each other or at least pretend to.
01:58:27.000There's a lot of people on the left, specifically the people that are like the thought leaders, that believe that the truth is downstream from power.
01:58:35.000They believe that if you articulate things and you believe it enough, that that's enough to make it reality.
01:58:42.000Which is part of why the left is where the trans ideology lives.
01:58:46.000Because they believe if you say it, that the truth is downstream from power.
01:58:50.000So if you say it and act it out, then it becomes true.
01:58:56.000Well, add projection in, which, you know, if you look at all the fake hate crimes, you know, they're like, oh, wait a minute, I'm scared of black people.
01:59:02.000Someone would probably put a noose in here because they hate black people.
01:59:05.000So you add all those in, projection and the ability to make reality out of the fantasies in your own mind, and ta-da, that's woke ideology.
01:59:29.000But I still think it's like a tiny, a single digit percentage, if at most, because I was saying a fraction of a percentage before, single digit percentage then.
02:00:23.000I just, the idea, I wanted tear gas and drag queens, man, for some reason that to me was going to be just a genius idea.
02:00:29.000Only, I mean, if you're talking about people who are violent, but if we're talking about making an arrest, we just need one cop to walk up and just, and you don't even need cuffs.
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