This week, Alex Jones is back on the pod, but Elon Musk is still refusing to reinstate him. We talk about why this is a huge deal, and whether or not we should be mad at him for it. Plus, we talk about the latest in the Alex Jones saga.
00:00:32.000Elon Musk also reinstated the Babylon Bee, Jordan Peterson, and Kathy Griffin.
00:00:37.000But he is outright refused to reinstate Alex Jones, even going so far as to respond to Viva Frye saying, too bad.
00:00:46.000And that's actually fairly brutal, because I can understand, you know, Alex Jones has issued a response already saying, don't blame Elon, you know, he's the most controversial guy in the world.
00:00:54.000No, no, no, I get that, and I would agree, but I don't understand why Elon is taking it upon himself to kind of rub in that he doesn't actually believe in free speech, and he's kind of just, you know, Spitting on us in that regard.
00:01:25.000He could have just ignored the question or he could have said something like, we have to have a review process.
00:01:30.000He could have been honest and said something like, you know, Alex Jones is very controversial, so we're going to have to have a deep look at that and it may not be possible or something like that.
00:01:42.000Why should I advocate for anyone spending money on Twitter if we are not going to actually have free speech?
00:01:47.000Viva Fra actually pointed out, if Elon does not reinstate him, then do not expect anything different than what we saw with Vijay Gadde and Prague Agrawal.
00:01:59.000Now the Democrats won an FTC investigation, so the whole thing is just, it's insane.
00:02:04.000I gotta, I gotta say, I don't understand why Twitter has garnered this much attention, except for the fact that it's probably used by intelligence agencies to manipulate the American public.
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00:04:50.000And I hit you up because you were posting about, I mean, this is going to sound cliche and tribal, but a series of studies showing that many on the left are driven by envy, hatred, violence, greed, etc.
00:05:05.000Because you hear that kind of rhetoric all the time on the right and from the left towards the right, that the other side, of course, you know, dichotomistic partisanship of the other people, they must just be evil.
00:05:16.000But what I found when I looked into the data was more or less that What is evil?
00:05:22.000I guess you can be defined by whoever is defining evil.
00:05:27.000But the greed, and the anger, and the hatred, and more than anything, the envy.
00:05:32.000It's just, they're so consistently envious.
00:05:35.000It did even shock me, having done this for years.
00:05:37.000Yeah, I kind of feel like everybody listening is like, yep.
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00:06:47.00062% say yes, 38% say no, and I find it kind of silly.
00:06:54.000Like, why is a former president, whether he's allowed to speak in the public town square, being brought up to just, like, a poll from the CEO?
00:07:04.000It seems very strange, especially given that this is supposed to be how Twitter operates going forward.
00:07:09.000Like, do we get to vote on everyone from now on?
00:07:11.000I would probably use Twitter if this was the democratic process.
00:07:16.000Well, unfortunately, then you can have very likely to invoke mob rule kind of stuff.
00:07:22.000Mob rule consensus of people can then just get together and it's just the way that anything works in terms of banning people from other sites.
00:07:27.000You get a group of people together, you incite them into saying, oh, we need a mass report, demand that Twitter remove this person or vice versa, demand that they reinstate somebody.
00:07:36.000So democratizing Twitter can be potentially harmful in its own way.
00:07:41.000Who the hell would have thought that the former president of the United States, who's running to be the next president of the United States, is having his future of his speech being determined by a freaking Twitter poll?
00:07:54.000That absolutely makes no sense at all.
00:07:56.000It's absolutely ridiculous, and it really shows you how Elon Musk is really failing here.
00:08:04.000He should make a decision that is based on principles, not on mob rule.
00:08:09.000And that's essentially what he's depending on here, which is ridiculous.
00:08:12.000I think Elon is this strange character because we, especially conservatives, want to rally around him.
00:08:17.000He says interesting things, things that we feel like are right, but also he doesn't operate 100% by conservative values and he doesn't hide it, right?
00:08:27.000Like Tesla is, from what I understand, the only car company that operates without a state-owned partner in China.
00:08:47.000So all car companies, if you want to manufacture in China, again I'm not an expert but this is what I've been reading about it, they have a partner to help them with their distribution and manufacturing in China.
00:08:58.000Tesla is the only car company that operates without this kind of partnership.
00:09:02.000The car companies in China are owned by the Chinese government.
00:09:24.000I think he saw an opportunity to make money because it seems clear when you're active on Twitter that the majority of people want jokes, want to have fun, but you can't.
00:09:34.000And what was happening is slowly over time, Twitter was being compressed into a really boring and awful space.
00:09:39.000And it was resulting in, I mean, here's what I think.
00:09:42.000Elon's like, why are there so many competitors to Twitter emerging?
00:09:44.000Why is Twitter losing so many customers?
00:09:47.000And it's because they're censoring everybody.
00:09:48.000He probably thought, you know what, I'll buy it.
00:10:51.000I just feel like Elon Musk knows that he's ultimately trading in public popularity, right?
00:10:59.000So, I don't actually know and he could be a devout free speech purist.
00:11:05.000He loves it, but he recognizes that in modern application it has to be limited in some capacity.
00:11:10.000I don't really know what his philosophy on this is.
00:11:12.000I just know that he's inconsistent in a lot of ways and I As much as I want to admire the things that he's done that are good, I feel like we all have to take it with a grain of salt and remember that he is ultimately serving himself, as far as we know.
00:11:28.000And we don't know what the end of that is.
00:11:29.000I think he's running it like a CEO, like he's run everything else.
00:11:32.000So ultimately, the way he's looking at Twitter is what's going to be most profitable.
00:11:36.000If he ends up getting a huge mass of people who actually do leave Twitter and manage to You want to read it?
00:12:17.000Have they figured out the fake accounts on this particular platform?
00:12:21.000Because again, that was a major topic of discussion with Elon Musk previously talking about how many people were gaming the system, manipulating this big tech social media platform.
00:12:32.000To the point where, of course, a lot of this stuff was illegitimate.
00:12:34.000So how do we know that this poll is actually going to be legitimate?
00:12:38.000How do we know that other systems, other people, other groups won't be gaming this poll for their own personal benefit, which still hasn't been cleared up to how many accounts are real, how many accounts are fake?
00:12:48.000How is this platform being used for the sinister purposes of a lot of powerful people?
00:12:53.000That's a question that I think a lot of people are still waiting to be answered that might never be answered because we're still waiting to find out what's going on here.
00:13:01.000And if Elon Musk is just taking this approach just to make money, it's not going to be incentivized for him to be honest with the people about how many people are fake on the platform.
00:13:10.000No, and I would say that's what is Twitter, Blu, doing nothing but, you know, putting certain people forward.
00:13:15.000It's just being a little bit more honest about it than Twitter's been in the past.
00:13:19.000It's what you're going to see, because you pay us for it.
00:13:21.000And there are people who are so addicted to Twitter that they will, I think, probably stay there and keep doing it, at least for the time being.
00:13:27.000They created this rumor last night that Twitter was going to shut down, and it's very clever organizing on the part of the left.
00:13:33.000Basically, the idea is make people fear they're going to lose their followerships or whatever, and then you'll get them to leave the platform.
00:13:43.000They say, oh no, no, no, Twitter's going to shut down by tomorrow, quick!
00:13:46.000And then everyone says, everyone quick, follow me on Mastodon, and they're trying to create a surge, a tsunami, an inflection point where enough people jump ship that they'll actually start using the other platform.
00:13:56.000I wouldn't suggest Mastodon for people on the left.
00:13:58.000It's totally, you know, unfederated or defederated.
00:14:13.000I'm sure there's some way to censor it.
00:14:14.000I mean, they ban anything that's illegal in Germany, apparently.
00:14:17.000Uh, I know that when there was a big Twitter surge or, you know, they were, all these hashtags moved, it was like Twitter exodus a couple weeks ago, and then immediately they moved to Macedon and couldn't believe all the racial slurs and anti-Semitism, and then they were like, oh no, my safe space.
00:14:35.000So, um, I mean, it was really funny, but that's about it.
00:14:38.000I mean, that's the reality of a decentralized network.
00:14:40.000They're not going to have the resources of a major corporation.
00:14:50.000I don't trust it now that Elon's there.
00:14:52.000I know that it's sort of a personality thing.
00:14:55.000Some people live or die, but I really feel like in some ways, I'm on it professionally to get news releases as they come out because so many people have converted it into this tool for the PR.
00:16:16.000I'm not rooting against Elon on this stuff.
00:16:19.000I'm looking forward to some improvements, but I'm going to lean back a little bit.
00:16:24.000You know, I was leaning back last week or two weeks ago.
00:16:27.000Then we heard last week that he had reinstated some accounts, and I was like, okay, so it looks like he is going to start improving things.
00:16:33.000And I said, okay, you know, I'll get Twitter Blue, but I'll get it only for Tim Casters.
00:16:37.000I'm not going to buy for my personal just yet.
00:18:38.000Seriously, if you're gonna do something like this, violate free speech for an individual that is controversial while allowing other controversial voices to be on there.
00:18:47.000If you're allowing Kathy Griffin to be on there, but not Alex Jones, at least explain yourself.
00:19:10.000There's a lot of people who just laugh and say, no, they deserve it, Alex was right, and it's like, I don't care, you're allowed to like that, fine, it's free speech and all that, but I don't like it.
00:19:18.000And I certainly don't think he should have been banned for doing it.
00:19:21.000If you're in public and someone's mad at you and they confront you, there was no security threat or anything like that.
00:21:03.000It's the same thing with now the 230 ruling though, right?
00:21:06.000That maybe you could make the argument that Elon is worried that, you know, Alex comes back and because he's being sued for three trillion dollars now, which is, I believe it is three trillion, which is just a little bit under twice.
00:21:30.000I just looked up today that it's twice the DoD's annual budget.
00:21:33.000So yeah, three trillion dollars is on the table.
00:21:35.000They're trying to fund the war in Ukraine.
00:21:37.000The money's got to come from somewhere.
00:21:40.000So maybe you could make the argument that before this decision comes down about Section 230, is that maybe Elon is worried that, well, if, you know, they're going after Alex Jones for the GDP of France, that then they'll come after him in some way.
00:21:53.000But if Section 230 is no longer going to apply to make it so that you can sue the platform for what someone on it says, then it doesn't make any sense.
00:22:01.000People are bringing up that Alex Jones issued a statement saying Elon shouldn't bring him back.
00:22:06.000He's the most controversial person and Elon's going up against everybody and so he's got to do what he can and I don't care.
00:22:13.000Alex, I understand what you're saying, and I get it.
00:22:18.000But either Elon is going to... There's a couple ways he could play this.
00:24:19.000Because what else are we left to speculate here?
00:24:21.000Because otherwise, there's no other rational conclusion than him, as you, Tim, mentioned, specifically showing off to the powers that be, saying, I could play ball, I could play game.
00:24:31.000Uh, you know, just tell me what to do and I'll follow those orders.
00:24:34.000And that's not a platform that I believe in.
00:24:35.000That's not a platform that I want to be on.
00:24:37.000I want to read this super chat from OldStickKeyTaint.
00:24:40.000He says, Voting for Trump's unbanning is a smart move.
00:24:43.000Force the advertisers to justify why they want to, uh, what do you say, pause advertisements, pull advertisements when the majority of their target audience wants him on.
00:24:52.000Actually, yeah, that's a really great point.
00:24:55.000What Elan needs to say to the advertisers is, You are being attacked by activists who are lying to you and costing you money.
00:25:02.000Once we get rid of those bots, you will be able to actually target your audience who like people like Jones or Trump.
00:25:10.000That's probably the move he's making in that regard.
00:25:13.000They'd have to publish or at least actually conduct some real internal research that they could show to their shareholders on that and the people they're selling advertising space to.
00:25:28.000Because he does have people who are holding privately.
00:25:33.000But people that they're selling advertisements to then, they would want to be able to tell them that, look, that your advertisements are being shown to real people and that those people, when they are given internal, when they're given polls, because, you know, you can take these exit polls on Twitter.
00:25:45.000So they send you an email and you say, would you like to take this poll about your experience with Twitter?
00:25:49.000You get Twitter blue for a month for free or something like that.
00:25:52.000So you can try it out if you finish our survey.
00:25:54.000There's all kinds of ways to incentivize people to give you data that you could use.
00:25:58.000And then take that and say, here, to the advertisers, people say they want Trump to this certain degree, and actually have something to sell them and say it's not all bots anymore.
00:26:07.000I tried advertising on Twitter, because they're giving the double verification to everybody.
00:26:12.000So I tweeted, Hey, Elon, how much do I got to spend to get the official tag?
00:26:16.000And I don't expect him to actually respond to me.
00:26:18.000But so I decided to take out an ad on our Trump Going Super Saiyan shirt, which is available in the chat.
00:27:00.000How do they determine what's political?
00:27:01.000Because I've only used the promotion feature once on YouTube and it was, or not YouTube, on Twitter, and it was to promote a YouTube video that was not largely political, but it was.
00:27:09.000There were politics involved in the video.
00:27:11.000So how do they determine what's political?
00:27:15.000They didn't want a cartoon of Trump that makes him look good?
00:27:18.000They don't want to take the money for that or something?
00:27:19.000Well, my video was an hour long, and it was political at some points, but they, I guess, didn't want to watch an hour long video to figure that part out.
00:27:25.000The image isn't even pro or anti-Trump.
00:27:29.000It's Trump with, you know, spiky blonde hair.
00:27:32.000Now, there's a couple things to consider, especially with this poll with Elon Musk asking if Donald Trump should be reinstated or not, because on October 3rd, Mashable has this article that I think is worth revisiting right now that's titled, in Elon Musk's words, it seems Twitter bots are always to blame.
00:27:49.000Now, there hasn't been any kind of reckoning with the bots.
00:27:51.000There hasn't been any kind of discovery.
00:27:53.000There haven't been any kind of major bombshells surrounding the bots on big tech social media platforms, especially Twitter.
00:28:00.000But Elon Musk was complaining about the bots after he did a poll on his own Twitter account specifically on October 3rd asking if there should be a Ukrainian-Russian peace deal.
00:28:11.000After their response, he specifically said, this is the biggest bot attack I've ever seen.
00:28:16.000So why, after not dealing with the bots, are we deciding if the former president of the United States, who's running to be president in 2024, will be able to have any kind of speech?
00:28:26.000Also, if you remember, he also tweeted earlier today that he believes in the policy of freedom of speech.
00:28:31.000No, he doesn't, but he says he does, but he doesn't believe in the freedom of reach, and he says negative content is going to be de-boosted, de-monetized.
00:28:47.000He's following along and doing horrible things, like not allowing free speech on the platform, which he promised, which everyone now feels backstabbed about.
00:28:55.000And that's that idiom that you see people on the left use so commonly of, oh, freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences.
00:29:01.000So it's basically coming down to the same kind of thing.
00:29:03.000I feel like at this point everyone should just tweet at Elon Musk, like, give us a timeline on the bot situation.
00:29:09.000Like, didn't Ann Coulter have, like, a countdown every day that Donald Trump didn't, like, do something about the wall?
00:29:13.000Like, where is our, like, the bots are gone countdown?
00:29:16.000Because, I mean, to both of your points, Elon Musk is Putting out polls and then saying they're being hacked by bots, so you already told us it was a problem.
00:29:24.000And also, how are you supposed to give accurate data to any advertisers if they're always being- if you can say at any time, oh, well, the bots got to this.
00:29:33.000I mean, you would think that ideally, if he is working in true capitalism and he wants to make as much money as possible, he would be hounding his staff to deal with the bots.
00:29:43.000Or are the bots a problem that can't be solved?
00:29:45.000That's why I asked earlier, like, do you think he made a mistake buying Twitter?
00:29:48.000Like, is this platform, and I'm not a tech person, but is it so corrupted the bots are something that can't be removed at this point?
00:30:29.000Either a brand account that confirms they are the corporation, and it's really hard to do.
00:30:34.000I don't know if Twitter does it this way, but you have to send them a photo of your Articles of Incorporation with your ID showing that you are the officer, because they're verifying you.
00:30:44.000For everyone else, you can use different photos and stuff, but typically, you have to be the person you're verified to be.
00:30:50.000Milo Yiannopoulos lost his verification because he included in his bio, BuzzFeed Journalist or something like that.
00:31:06.000Now when that implodes, he's like, I'll just give a second verification to big brands.
00:31:11.000And that's what my point was, okay, what constitutes worthiness for getting verified twice.
00:31:18.000I know, it's confusing, and it's weird being on the platform seeing double verification, only the corporate media, which, again, Elon knows the corporate media runs scams.
00:31:27.000If we're going to be fighting disinformation, if we're going to be getting rid of controversial figures that spread disinformation, CNN needs to be gone from the platform immediately.
00:31:36.000MSNBC needs to be gone from the platform immediately.
00:31:49.000But at the end of the day, you take his record and you take it to the corporate media.
00:31:53.000He has told far more truths than, of course, the corporate media that's routinely lying to the American people and running larger psyopsis against them.
00:32:01.000Well, I can at least say I'm satisfied seeing stuff like this from Engadget.
00:33:37.000And so you're like, if I enter this Monopoly tournament, then I'll win the grand prize.
00:33:41.000Only problem is you realize that your opponent isn't playing fairly.
00:33:45.000And so you keep just playing the game even though they're lying about everything that's going on.
00:33:48.000Eventually he's got to say, maybe I should find another way to succeed.
00:33:52.000If everybody just focuses on themselves and ignores this obvious corruption and hypocrisy, I'm not saying don't resist it, don't fight against it.
00:33:59.000I'm saying stop asking them politely to please stop.
00:34:02.000Stop treating them like they're doing this on accident.
00:34:48.000Everyone else complained about it and then did nothing.
00:34:50.000He made some very interesting comments against the World Economic Forum today, which I thought was also kind of very eye-opening, because very few politicians usually talk about these larger key issues that do affect them.
00:35:02.000But again, with this news of this Democratic senator asking the FTC to investigate someone, it's been seven days since FTX went bankrupt.
00:35:48.000government is violating the First Amendment in more ways than one, particularly when it comes to online speech.
00:35:54.000This could be one of the reasons why we don't have free speech, and we won't have free speech on Twitter as announced by Elon Musk today.
00:36:01.000I think that that's probably very likely that there's some, well, with this thing about the FTC involvement, that the federal government might have gotten in conduct with him.
00:36:16.000And so maybe he's just like, I gotta tone things down.
00:36:19.000I just think it's crazy we can, like, threaten Elon Musk, FTX, there's nothing, but Taylor Swift's general ticket sale gets canceled and there's already a DOJ investigation into antitrust.
00:37:04.000And the big thing was, I'm really sad about this, Tim, I actually bought my tickets while I was live on Pop Culture on Tuesday because... That's good content.
00:37:12.000Well, yeah, and the ticket sales got delayed for so long that I, like, carried my laptop up and I was like, look, Brett and Mary, like, I'm here for you.
00:37:19.000I do this every Tuesday, but I have to get these tickets.
00:37:42.000Well, I have people who I bought them for.
00:37:45.000Ticketmaster said that they gave out 1.5 million of these codes, put 2 million people on the waitlist, and then they were expecting 30% of people who got codes to use them, and of those people, like, each buy three tickets.
00:37:59.000I don't know where these numbers came from.
00:38:24.000But the other thing is, like, all of my friends who want to go to this concert were, like, robbed of two years of their 20s because of COVID.
00:39:10.000Well, yeah, but that's just because she couldn't get her... That's That's what I thought!
00:39:15.000I was like, this girl wants to go to the concert.
00:39:17.000I have one more AOC if you'd like to come with me.
00:39:20.000No, but it's this crazy thing where we have this pop star returning to tour after COVID and by Friday after the disastrous sale, There's already an antitrust investigation.
00:39:36.000Amy Klobuchar's granddaughter wants to go to Taylor Swift.
00:39:38.000Didn't get tickets and she's like, bring the DOJ in.
00:39:41.000The second anything in any way negatively affects those in the oligarchy, then all of a sudden they put their feet to the fire and they care.
00:41:07.000We're going a little bit dangerously into idiocracy here, though.
00:41:10.000Yeah, but at this point, I feel like we're going on a water slide, and the only way to get through it is just to roll through it, you know what I mean?
00:41:28.000She is the pop star of an entire generation.
00:41:32.000And to so many people who were raised, especially in the social media era, she has more influence than any politician.
00:41:39.000I mean, AOC has whatever amount of followers online.
00:41:42.000She has also kind of translated herself into an internet presence.
00:41:45.000But really, there are certain people who who capture attention and whether you like it or not Taylor
00:41:52.000Swift is one of them and I respect that she's not everyone's thing. I myself don't like a lot of
00:41:56.000her music but I feel compul- like I have to go to this concert. Think about like just you know for a
00:42:01.000moment bear with me how cool would it be if like Taylor Swift runs and then she becomes like the
00:42:07.000most brutal dictator ever. It's just like extrajudicial extrajudicial assassinations are through the
00:42:12.000roof tenfold what they were under Obama.
00:42:14.000And then it's like, you have like a documentary 50 years from now, President Swift was the most aggressive authoritarian leader any nation had ever seen.
00:42:27.000Running under the campaign slogan, shake it off.
00:42:31.000The IQ deficit thing is really fascinating, which, because children that were born under the, during the pandemic, during the lockdowns, which again, this being the first time people can get out, one study found that they have a 30 point IQ deficit.
00:42:46.000Early for infant IQ tests, which those are not super valid, but if that maintains in the early studies of 30-point IQ deficit, that would mean that the average person born in that three-year period would have an average IQ of 70, and remember average means the middle, meaning the other half is lower than that.
00:43:15.000Well, uh, I feel bad for these kids, but I mostly feel bad for myself because by the time I'm, you know, in my fifties and desperately trying to vote to save this country or planet, you're gonna have a lot, a lot of really dumb people voting.
00:43:27.000And they're going to be like, masks are good.
00:44:22.000It's how you get the young people involved.
00:44:23.000Well, speaking of low IQs, let's pull up this story.
00:44:26.000New York City lawyer sobs in court as she's sentenced to 15 months behind bars for firebombing
00:44:32.000NYPD van with Molotov cocktail fashioned out of a Bud Light bottle during BLM protests.
00:44:38.000Urooj Rahman asked a judge to spare her prison time and give her a second chance to redeem herself for what she called a momentary lapse of judgment.
00:44:46.000Yo, lady, prison is for dangerous people, okay?
00:44:51.00015 months, you're getting a slap on the wrist considering you firebombed a car.
00:44:56.000If it was like she threw a rock and it hit somebody in the head, I might be like, okay, you know, 15 months, don't throw rocks, people, come on.
00:45:21.000Well, you know, midwits are average, you know, like midwits are slightly above average.
00:45:25.000But they're very convinced that they're, usually part of when people get called midwits, it's that they are also part of that convinced that they are very intelligent, which makes it dangerous.
00:45:36.000Midwit is basically, they are a little smart, like a little bit above average, but they're not smart enough to truly understand.
00:45:43.000So they're active players like these journalists, the corporate press, they're midwits.
00:45:49.000You know, there's that IQ bell curve you see all the time where the dumb guy and the smart guy agree on things and the average person is like doing the wrong thing, pro-establishment or whatever.
00:45:57.000This is kind of scary when you think about it, and then you realize that we're going to have a wave of substantially stupider people due to the masking policies and the lockdown policies in these schools.
00:46:07.000These kids are all developmentally stunted, and they're not getting those years back.
00:46:11.000I don't know if you guys ever read about the girl raised by wolves?
00:46:15.000I mean, not the girl, but there's a bunch of stories of, like, kids, they never learn.
00:46:20.000You know, by the time they're adults, there was, like, some story I read about a woman who was, like, seriously abused and locked in a basement until she was 13.
00:46:28.000Her name was, like, Trixie or something like that?
00:46:30.000When she was finally rescued, she couldn't learn to speak proper colloquial English.
00:46:42.000Those foundational developmental years are really, really important for children to become adults or to be able to function whatsoever in society.
00:46:52.000So yeah, a child can survive in the woods being raised by wolves.
00:46:55.000You can survive, but you can't – you're going to have so many developmental issues.
00:47:00.000So with these children who have grown up never seeing their parents' face or very rarely seeing their parents' face, which is a huge part of it, of forming the connection between mother and child and father and child.
00:47:09.000They don't have any of that, so that does explain partially why the IQ deficit is what we're seeing in the preliminary data.
00:47:16.000You ever see that study where they had the mom, they brought in a bunch of moms with kids, and then the mom would not respond to the baby's facial cues?
00:47:24.000The baby, like, tries to get the mom to react, and they, like, they told the mother, just remain stone-faced and do not respond to the baby, and then eventually the baby just starts crying, like, freaking out.
00:47:34.000Yeah, these immune system deniers are absolutely sick and disgusting.
00:47:40.000When we look at the policies that they've implemented, they knew the horrors that this was going to bring.
00:47:45.000And we've seen video after video of these fat, bureaucratic, totalitarian teachers just shove a mask on a child's face as they're literally fighting with them.
00:47:54.000Toddlers, small children in kindergarten were forced to be masked, which is leading to severe Developmental issues that we're going to be seeing the long-term consequences of, especially in the future.
00:48:09.000There was even major politicians that came out and said, guys, I made a mistake.
00:48:25.000It's because people couldn't push back.
00:48:27.000It's because the ideas couldn't be challenged or tested in the public sphere, and we were censored, and we had to continue with this ludicrous, nonsense, bullcrap, insane policy that has hurt children in so many unspeakable ways.
00:48:40.000I interviewed a mom on Long Island a couple months ago when schools were going back and forth over whether or not they would remove their mask policy, and she was just telling me about her experience.
00:48:49.000I wrote about it for the site, But one of the worst parts of it, she told me, was that there was a girl in the school who got sick in class, threw up in her mask, she's like in the second grade, and they made her walk to the nurse's office without taking her mask off.
00:49:12.000There was a little boy who was, like, acting out, so they brought him into a padded room, locked the door, and then just left him there for hours.
00:49:19.000He started screaming he had to go to the bathroom, so they ignored him, and when his parents finally came, they found him, like, with crap on his pants, and, like, a little kid, like, like, I forgot how old he was, like, five or six or something.
00:50:13.000Basically, much of this anti-vaccination sentiment could be attributed to the alleged side effects that are perpetuated across social media from anti-vaccination groups.
00:50:22.000Fear-mongering and misinformation being peddled by people with no scientific training to terrorize people into staying unvaccinated could be causing the side effects in the vaccination process.
00:50:33.000But we're not talking about, like, kids being masked.
00:50:36.000We're talking about... It's in any kind of side effect.
00:50:39.000I just saw this today, but any kind of side effect of anything socially, medically, is because of anti-vaxxers being mean on social media.
00:51:29.000And what his contention, what's his evidence for it later in it, is that, well, women had more myocarditis and different kinds of cardiac events following, you know, exposure to social media.
00:51:43.000And it's because of that that there's this issue.
00:51:45.000I mean, actually, that sounds plausible.
00:51:48.000Women are more likely to have really severe stress reactions to social pressure.
00:51:55.000We talked about that study where teenage girls are getting depressed from Instagram.
00:51:59.000I mean, if you are susceptible for whatever reason, be it COVID or now they have that study that NBC News reported about where Pfizer and Moderna, I think, are doing long-term studies on myocarditis and pericarditis.
00:52:13.000Which they say is very rare, but my point is, if you are susceptible for whatever reason, and you're having heart palpitations because of stress on social media, I mean, I don't think anti-vaxxer makes the most sense, but the idea that social media stress could increase your risk for any kind of heart issue, Just kind of a weird, convenient thing to say.
00:52:38.000We're seeing this increased stress in people, and it is causing them cardiac issues.
00:52:42.000It must be the anti-vaxxers on social media that are responsible for it, which is, again, a convenient way to... Who are not reporting heart issues?
00:52:52.000The fear of being canceled, of not fitting in, of not virtue signaling, is causing people to have heart problems.
00:52:57.000I actually would believe that, too, especially with what we know.
00:53:00.000I think, you know, we've seen a lot of young girls negatively impacted by social media.
00:53:04.000They get depressed when they don't get enough likes.
00:53:06.000But they're younger, so their hearts aren't going to give out.
00:53:08.000But what if you're like a 50, 60-year-old woman, and you're wrapped up in this stuff?
00:53:12.000Like, I don't know if you guys saw the Rosie O'Donnell, Kathy Griffin TikTok they put out, and it's just cringe, like super cringe.
00:53:20.000But I imagine for them, they're a lot older.
00:53:22.000They're active on social media, they're probably getting stressed out bad by this stuff, but they also just have old hearts.
00:53:29.000So, like, I wouldn't be surprised if you came to me and said that Kathy Griffin was having a heart condition, I'd be like, yeah, the lady's strung out on Twitter, like she's losing it.
00:53:36.000Sure, with a problem with a study like that where he's making his contention and his conclusion is that, well, there's competing variables here, there's alternative hypotheses, and you're just contending that this must be the correct one.
00:53:46.000But that one could very well be part of it as well, is that women really are getting more stressed out because of social pressures on social media.
00:53:52.000I think it's fair to say that myocarditis is not caused by mean tweets.
00:53:56.000I think that's the baseline that we should be having here.
00:54:03.000I'll rely on Pfizer and Moderna to tell us what to believe in since they're investigating themselves, so they're very trustworthy.
00:54:09.000But I do think it's a fair point to say if you're susceptible, Sure.
00:54:14.000being stressed out will increase your risk probably.
00:54:17.000Like cortisol stressors cause negative health consequences.
00:54:20.000The point I'm trying to bring up is, guys, I get it, but social media is bad for us.
00:54:26.000The algorithms are manipulating us, they're controlling us into believing stupid political
00:54:30.000nonsense, and young girls are getting depressed.
00:54:33.000Young guys are getting depressed too, but it's mostly young girls getting depressed
00:54:36.000I got no problem being like, I am absolutely willing to throw the algorithms of Facebook under the bus on this one.
00:54:43.000If it means we can, I don't know, do something about it, change it or fix it.
00:54:46.000Well, there were a couple, uh, wrongful death lawsuits going.
00:54:49.000There's one in the UK with like a 12 year old boy.
00:54:51.000There's one in California with like a 19 year old girl who are, uh, They basically are arguing that the algorithms fed them content that they may have been predisposed to anxiety or issues, but it encouraged these mental health issues to the point where at least one of the children killed themselves.
00:55:08.000If it's the 12-year-old boy in the UK that I'm thinking of, then that lawsuit is completely bogus.
00:55:15.000Yes, he was being bullied online, but he had horrible home life, and then it also turned out that, if that's the one I'm thinking of, that his mother, then he had been, he was brain dead and was kept in line on ventilators for three months while he was literally, his brain stem was necrotizing, while she was making money by posting pictures of him on social media in a diaper, and if that's the same story, then... I don't know.
00:55:34.000I know there have been several lawsuits.
00:55:36.000I just find it interesting, and again, maybe not all of them are valid, but I find it interesting that People are choosing this route to say, like, we are experiencing the suffering right away.
00:55:46.000We didn't evolve in these conditions whatsoever, so of course it's overstimulating to the dopaminergic center of the brain.
00:55:53.000I wanna talk about chickens, so I'm just gonna hard segue, and it's Friday, and so we're chillin'.
00:57:15.000The band-aid that they put on the economy to try and save Democrats in the midterms is now losing its effectiveness because a band-aid over a bullet wound can't do much for long.
00:57:37.000It was a band-aid, as you said, and it can't do much for a prolonged period of time to deal with the really disastrous effects of the Joe Biden presidency that were just temporarily ameliorated by this injection of money.
00:58:00.000How are people going to be able to explain that to themselves?
00:58:01.000And also the Trump presidency from the lockdowns as well.
00:58:04.000We have to understand the lockdowns are still having a very severe effect on our economic way of life.
00:58:10.000There's even major shortages of antibiotics that people can't find in the US hospitals where children are left stranded and screwed over because they don't have the medicine because the supply shortages from that lockdown are still affecting our financial markets today, which is absolutely crazy and.
00:58:27.000I think we still haven't seen the rest of it yet.
00:58:29.000These financial consequences of just spending money, giving people $2,000 checks, bringing back the Inflation Reduction Act, which doesn't really reduce inflation, but spends more money on climate and other social justice warrior causes that Bill Gates spurs on, is not going to help anyone.
00:58:46.000We have to understand, we're in for some big trouble, and there's no denying it.
00:58:52.000This is kind of a segue, but Biden's 80th birthday is Sunday, and we did not get an annual physical release this week, which I find to be extremely annoying.
00:59:04.000I know that the Biden administration is not trustworthy, but at least pretend.
00:59:10.000I would have liked to have seen the report that inevitably would have declared that he is competent and healthy and good at stuff.
00:59:17.000Because at least then you are keeping up the premise that you have to pretend.
00:59:21.000I don't trust the Biden administration, and I am now concerned that they aren't even pretending to hide anything anymore.
00:59:27.000They are openly not talking about his health.
00:59:30.000They're not even walking through the... Yeah, they're not even pretending the emperor has any clothes at this point.
01:00:33.000I'm saying make sure you are cleaning your room before you try to change the world, right?
01:00:38.000And then my attitude is, your worst case scenario, if you get in shape, eat right, start, you know, working on yourself, is that if it all comes crumbling down, then you'll be alright.
01:00:51.000And the hipsters will be like, why can't we get avocado toast anymore?
01:00:54.000And you'll be like, because they're grown in Mexico in the winter, and they ship them here, and now there's no energy because you're an idiot.
01:01:14.000It's it's, you know, I've I've said it before.
01:01:17.000If the American people knew how much money these New York media people were getting paid for as little work as they're doing, there would be a revolution overnight.
01:01:27.000Working class people in this country do not understand.
01:01:30.000You walk into that Google office, these people are all six figures, and they do NOTHING!
01:01:36.000There's like, I'm watching people like sit there drinking coffee, reading a book.
01:01:40.000I used to go there and you know, I'd be invited because people, I know people at Google.
01:01:44.000I'm like, so what is it these people are doing?
01:01:47.000It's remarkable to me that when I worked for, I worked at O'Hare, I'm lifting 50,000 pounds of luggage every day for 10 bucks an hour, struggling to make ends meet, couldn't afford it.
01:01:57.000And then when I walked into that vice office for the first time, I just started laughing.
01:02:21.000Where the woman's like, here's a day in the life of a 23-year-old Whatever, it linked in and all she seemed to do was sit around and eat snacks.
01:02:32.000We were talking about the journalist yesterday.
01:02:35.000He was driving a Ferrari in a five million dollar mansion.
01:03:06.000And to see people take advantage of that, and to see people They're pod people.
01:03:09.000want to work hard in this situation not take all the opportunities presented to
01:03:13.000them is just mind-boggling to me personally at least but yeah aha I would
01:03:18.000never want to be advice ever. They're pod people. Yeah.
01:03:21.000They're pod people. They're NPCs like look good times make weak men.
01:03:28.000You got a lot of people who were born into the peak of American gluttony, they do no work, they never had to work, they never had hardship, and now they're thrust into the world.
01:03:39.000And I mean, we weren't, look, we used to say that these woke people got out of college, they're in for a rude awakening.
01:04:02.000To Lewis's point, like, both of my... This is horrible.
01:04:06.000I don't know why we started this, but like, I mean, I know you have a similar story, but both of my parents are immigrants and I remember asking my dad once, do you ever wish that, you know, He had an opportunity to move back in before they had kids, and I remember asking him, like, do you ever wish that I had your accent?
01:04:20.000Do you ever wish I was more in touch with that part of our culture?
01:04:22.000And he was like, no, we knew it was a dying country.
01:04:27.000Like, we left so you would have opportunities that we did not think you would have in the UK.
01:04:32.000And I think that that is a perspective that so many people don't have.
01:04:38.000Like, they Assume that things will always continue to get better and better, and when they're faced with challenges, they aren't willing to think critically about the sacrifices that have been made for them or that they need to make for their future.
01:05:10.000We make reserves and we have reserves that we could eat so we don't have to rely on the communist centralized government force that will give you a piece of paper allowing you a certain allowance of bread of meat that you were given as a ration that everyone was allowed to have which is absolutely crazy you would have your own by being prepared.
01:05:29.000And I think with the government here becoming more centralized, that's something that more and more people need to realize that at the end of the day, you are only responsible for yourself, especially when it comes to the larger crap storm coming our way that the government is creating.
01:05:42.000Well, I feel like you're, Leonard's right, you're responsible for yourself, but also you're responsible for your progeny and your family and your immediate community.
01:05:48.000Like, you choose who you interact with day-to-day and the impact that you have on them.
01:05:52.000Like, don't trust the government to make things better for you.
01:05:54.000That's what I don't understand about people coming out of college who are just waiting for someone to fix their problems.
01:06:50.000There's something called the Whig interpretation of history that may have heard of, and it does rely on this belief system that things are always progressing forward in an upward and onward direction.
01:07:01.000So we have more technology, we have more freedom, whatever that is supposed to mean under a certain circumstance, but because we have more of stuff, therefore everything else about society must be better.
01:08:17.000So, there's another article from the Philadelphia Inquirer that was talking about, the writer was Mexican, and he was saying how, you know, he didn't understand Black Panther and what it meant for the black community, seeing an African country that wasn't devastated by colonization.
01:08:32.000And then he was like, and then I saw Namur and Talocan in Wakanda forever, and then I started to understand, and I'm just thinking like, these woke people, their view of what is good in terms of
01:08:45.000racial, like racial ideology is stereotypes of races, totally segregated, and fighting with
01:08:52.000each other. That was the craziest thing, like Black Panther. Have you seen it? Oh, hell no.
01:09:12.000And so, exactly, I have no... I mean, my character's got an I'm-not-Daredevil shirt, which is not from a particularly good run on Daredevil by Mark Waid, but I have no interest in modern comics because they have no interest in me.
01:09:23.000But what don't you like about Black Panther?
01:09:42.000I mean, I've already spoiled it a million times, but you see, this is judging a book by its cover.
01:09:47.000Wakanda forever, the point I'm making about how racist this is, is a movie quite literally about the most powerful nation on earth, so says Queen Ramonda, with a powerful barrier around their country that no one can breach, and a Mexican guy breaks in by crossing a river.
01:10:01.000Oh, I watched your video about it earlier, and I've heard some other people talk about it, so I'm aware of what happens in the film.
01:10:07.000And they're cheering for it, they're like, this is the greatest movie.
01:10:09.000And it's funny, because we had Dave Landau here, and when we were talking about it before the show, and I explained, it's a Mexican guy, and his back, you know, as he climbs out of the river, is wet.
01:10:19.000And I said, how do you think they defeat him?
01:10:29.000Stereotypes are a simple way of understanding the world and that it's also something called a cognitive heuristic.
01:10:34.000We all rely on cognitive heuristics as mental shortcuts.
01:10:38.000So, for example, if you see a stick in the grass, we have evolved to very quickly make a snap judgment to decide if that is a stick in the grass or a snake.
01:10:47.000It reduces cognitive load to rely upon stereotypes.
01:10:51.000It literally means you have to think less.
01:10:54.000So people like stereotypes for that reason, so I think that maybe in some way they're just like, oh, I can turn my brain off even more during this Marvel movie than I usually would because I can just rely upon stereotypes about other people.
01:11:06.000Now that we've entertained that, and we talked about it before, I have this story from IndieWire.
01:11:11.000John Leguizamo calls out non-diverse Super Mario Bros.
01:11:18.000For them to go backwards and not cast another actor of color kind of sucks, Leguizamo, who starred in the 1993 live-action version of the upcoming animated movie.
01:12:13.000It's a big role, it's big money, and he's mad they're not casting him, so he makes it about race and says it's going backwards.
01:12:20.000Bro, if the argument is that people should only play characters that are their race, then you should be happy that white actors were cast to play white characters.
01:12:30.000The concern was when you had black characters voiced by white people.
01:12:35.000Apparently now the concern is, for the entire time, all these people ever really cared about was empowering themselves and making money.
01:12:42.000As the only person of color here in this room, I think every studio should follow Netflix's protocol and make, you know, all the characters as diverse as they possibly can, no matter how ridiculous or absurd it is.
01:12:55.000The memes are absolutely hilarious, too.
01:15:25.000But I mean, I think this is this strange white guilt that we see cultivated that it's um like he thinks someone will clap him on the back he'll get this media write-up because i mean i don't know maybe this guy is super relevant maybe we hear from him all the time not recently right so the only time he surfaces when he can denounce casting white people like that seems like a weird yeah it seems terrible
01:15:48.000Who's going to say anything against him in the mainstream media?
01:16:28.000I would say, to counter your point, though, Luke, just a little bit, media and culture do actually matter, which is why it's cool that you guys are doing so much of what you are doing.
01:16:36.000And I think that they're aware of that.
01:16:37.000And that's why he made the comment that he did, because he is aware on some level that media and culture does matter.
01:16:43.000And so he has to make his weird virtue signaling statement.
01:16:47.000I'm bringing up this movie as kind of a dig against him.
01:16:51.000Because like, if he wants to act out, I'm going to mention that he starred in the film The Pest, which is like a really, really bad late 90s movie that cost $8 million and only made 3.6.
01:17:18.000That would be... I feel like you could make that now.
01:17:20.000Yeah, today that would be... The funny thing is, like, apparently there's this issue because he claims he's Puerto Rican, John Leguizamo, but his dad came out, he's like, he's Colombian.
01:18:01.000So the trailer made it seem like conservatives get hunted by liberals.
01:18:05.000You watch the film, the liberals are clearly the villains, and they kidnap incorrectly some woman because they had bad information.
01:18:13.000So not only were they evil for trying to hunt and kill, like, middle Americans who just happen to be conservative, the main character happens to have been incorrectly kidnapped and they try murdering her.
01:18:24.000And then in the end, even though the woman knows, like, whoops, you're trying to kill an innocent person, the liberalman still wants to.
01:18:30.000So it's like, they're outright just the bad guys.
01:18:32.000So I was like, actually, you know, Do you think the people who saw that movie were able to catch on to the message?
01:18:46.000They're having a text group, and then someone posts a joke about eating babies or something, and then it gets leaked, and then a conspiracy theory forms about it.
01:18:54.000So they decide they're going to murder, they're going to kidnap and murder anyone who believes the conspiracy.
01:18:59.000They end up grabbing a woman of the same name as someone else online.
01:19:02.000She's totally innocent and has nothing to do with anything.
01:19:14.000But, you know, I thought it was a... I actually thought it was... Maybe the criticism still stands that, like, at a time when there's this much political division, we shouldn't put out movies that are like that.
01:19:22.000But it was not a movie where the message overtly was, ha ha, go hunt and kill conservatives.
01:19:28.000But that's what the trailer made it look like, so maybe they could have done a better job.
01:20:37.000Because it's funny how the woke people are like, yay, this movie's so good, and I'm like, this movie is like super... So you like nationalism?
01:20:43.000Yeah, it's, but like, so the first... That was the problem with the first one, with the nationalism.
01:20:47.000But the first one was a patriarchal, Ultra-nationalist country.
01:21:17.000And then you have part two, where this powerful nation wants to mind its own business, and then Mexicans are crossing through the river into the country wreaking havoc.
01:21:25.000I'm like, who are they making this movie for?
01:21:47.000It was over copyright reasons that he couldn't be from Atlantis.
01:21:50.000I guess the issue was, Brett from Pop Culture Crisis was telling me this, that they didn't want to pay the original creator, or like his estate.
01:21:57.000So by substantively changing Namor to Namor, which was, he was the child without love.
01:22:13.000Yeah, that's all. I didn't understand. I didn't know about that part.
01:22:16.000But this is why I don't watch these movies and I don't watch, I don't watch Lord of, what is it? Rings of Power?
01:22:20.000I will watch other people on YouTube do five hour long reviews of them
01:22:25.000for sure because I find that entertaining.
01:22:28.000I have to imagine, though, with, like, Black Panther, you'll end up with white identitarians and the woke identitarians sitting in the theater together cheering for the same messages.
01:22:38.000I saw that with the first one on 4chan, when the first one came out, there were people, you know, the people who self-identify as Nazis being like, oh, we love this, this is great, we've got this ultra-nationalistic movie, great.
01:22:50.000And they're all cheering for it and they love it.
01:22:52.000And then they're doing that University of California Santa Barbara is doing a black-only screen.
01:22:58.000There could be some CIA reverse psychology here, because if you look at a lot of mainline movies, it's usually going against the big evil government or the multinational corporation or some kind of evil villain that wants to reduce the Earth's population for the greater good.
01:23:12.000I think there might be some kind of psyops here, just again speculating here totally out of nowhere, of them just being like, you know, we're going to put this in your head just so you don't see it in real life, potentially.
01:23:24.000I think there's something to think about.
01:23:26.000What are they trying to put in your head?
01:23:28.000Or they're trying to put that satisfaction of rebellion in your head so it doesn't come to fruition in real life.
01:23:44.000They did an episode, I think it was the finale, where a character based on Milo Yiannopoulos accuses Ron DeSantis by name of sexual assault.
01:23:54.000And in the show, they are saying over and over again, Ron DeSantis is accused, and here's what the guy's saying.
01:24:00.000And I thought it was interesting, so we Googled Ron DeSantis, the good fight.
01:24:23.000And so maybe it's all just one big coincidence, but man, was that very perfect.
01:24:26.000Yeah, that wasn't the craziest aspect of the entire episode.
01:24:30.000At the end, Donald Trump runs to be president of the United States.
01:24:34.000And the whole, and this is before he announced, but the whole premise of the episode is a terrorist attack by right wingers that are surrounding
01:24:42.000this black lawyer firm there's twenty thousand of them outside and then they stage
01:24:47.000an attack on them that's going to assassinate all of them as they're shooting
01:24:51.000machine guns into their building. And that was actually happening in the show?
01:24:54.000That's that's the The plot of the show is that they're working and they wore the same outfits as the Patriot Front, and there's 20,000 of them outside in Chicago, causing riots everywhere.
01:25:07.000And then they stage an attack where they, you know, Make sure that they block all the exits and then they go on the roof and start shooting and trying to assassinate all the children and workers inside of this predominantly all-black lawyer office.
01:25:20.000What year is this supposed to be taking place in?
01:25:21.000This is the last episode of this series that came out.
01:25:26.000And it's the same episode as the DeSantis episode.
01:26:07.000Sarah Palin said, actually, from the westernmost point of Alaska, you can see Russian territory.
01:26:12.000We have to negotiate with Russia because of the strait and trade routes, which is actually an excellent point when you're running for office and explaining that you have to negotiate with Russia now.
01:26:20.000And then Tina Fey made fun of her in a way that made no sense, and now these people believe that was the actual quote.
01:26:26.000So it's called the primacy effect in terms of whatever people see first is what they tend to believe.
01:26:31.000And when you have mass media versus some news, individual news report, people believe what they see first and tend to hold on to that information even after it has been corrected.
01:26:42.000So one of the like really I guess if you want to go along with all of the beliefs about how bad fake news is, the real problem with fake news, such as it does exist, is that it doesn't matter.
01:26:55.000It doesn't matter if you update the news article.
01:26:57.000People will remember what they read first.
01:26:59.000There's a competing theory called the recency effect that people will remember whatever they heard most recently.
01:27:04.000However, it has far less robust support within the data.
01:27:07.000The primacy effect is what we see very consistently, that whatever people hear first or see first sticks within their mind and that's what they recall.
01:27:16.000Is there like an emotional bond because of that first initial reaction?
01:27:22.000There could be an emotional aspect to it, but it's more that people are just taking in information, going, okay, this is interesting or
01:27:28.000funny. And if you make it funny, by the way, it's called instructional humor processing theory. And what that finds
01:27:34.000is that if you're trying to teach something, teach something
01:27:36.000to anybody, make it funny, because it increases recall.
01:27:39.000I love the conspiracy theory that the government funds movies
01:27:43.000to block conspiracy theories like Men in Black, for instance, the conspiracy theory is that Men in Black are
01:28:22.000And Supernatural, that was a plot line in Supernatural, where God was actually sending divine messages to some kooky guy who wrote books about the actual characters in the show and etc, etc.
01:28:34.000So several shows have played with this.
01:28:36.000You were telling us about a lot of different theories that you were studying and looking into before we started the show.
01:28:41.000What's one of the most interesting study that you looked into when it comes to psychology and our current kind of modern-day society?
01:28:51.000Well, my favorite ones mostly deal with parasociality and studying of the internet, how people form fake relationships that they feel are very real with people online.
01:29:00.000And this can also include characters from media where, because we didn't evolve in a mediated environment, It's very difficult for people to be able to delineate what is a real interaction from what is a fake or pseudo or parasocial interaction.
01:29:15.000I love that it's a whole broad field, but the parasociality stuff and particularly now when we have this constant interaction with Twitter and people feel like they know Donald Trump or they feel like they know XYZ person. That can have some very harmful effects as well,
01:29:30.000because, well, what if your internet friend doesn't respond in turn? And there's tons
01:29:36.000of research that's become very, very popular, almost to the point of bringing it up as
01:29:40.000probably trite at this point. But it's cool.
01:29:42.000I've heard a lot of it referred to with family vloggers and like the concept of putting your
01:29:46.000kid in danger because people think they have a parasocial relationship with your child
01:29:53.000who doesn't know anything about it because the concept of the internet is difficult when you're five.
01:29:57.000The idea of family vlogging is horrifying to me because you're putting the child out there and exposing them to this constant deluge of media exposure before they're able to form any kind of sense of self.
01:30:33.000The dopamine system, it actually, the prolonged exposure to this kind of stuff constantly, day after day after day, it causes the parts of your brain that produce and regulate dopamine to become eventually unable to continue to produce it at the same level.
01:30:46.000So people become, just like any other addiction, they become addicted to the substance, in this case dopamine, hit a like, retweet on Twitter, that kind of thing.
01:30:55.000At some point your brain cannot keep stimulating you and feeding you the positive feedback chemical that you want from it, and then it actually physically shrinks in size.
01:31:05.000Parts of your brain physically shrink in size because it cannot keep doing this, but you also need more as your body is less able to provide it.
01:31:56.000Well, it's the same thing with any other addiction, more or less.
01:32:00.000Well, also, there's also very negative effects, especially when it comes to online pornography.
01:32:06.000And I think also with things like TikTok becoming more and more popular, this is kind of the larger symptom of a society getting sicker and sicker, needing a quicker dopamine hit, needing a quicker fix, needing a quicker stimulation, just more and more quicker, quicker, quicker, faster, faster, faster.
01:32:24.000TikTok is completely exemplary of that, in that it's five to ten seconds, you get my stimulus and my output, and I'm good to go, and now next, next, next, and it never stops.
01:32:37.000Where is society heading, and where's the crash, and how does it look like?
01:32:41.000Well, in the experiments they did with rats, which is always a good way to start a sentence when you talk about the future of society, in the studies that have been done with rats, for example, they put an electrode in the pleasure center of the brain in rats, and they gave them a little button, and they could just sit there and push the button to stimulate the pleasure center of the brain.
01:33:00.000They found that much as with the rat utopia experiment, after a while they stopped eating, they stopped reproducing, they stopped having sex, they stopped cleaning themselves, to the point where they would just sit there and press the button over and over again until they'd essentially die.
01:33:12.000So there's the horrifying, there's the really horrifying potential future, but let's go meta, right?
01:33:19.000Thank goodness that company's failing.
01:33:21.000Thank goodness they're losing so much money.
01:34:09.000When they get consumed, so much information so quickly, one thing after another thing after another thing, do they really remember it?
01:34:17.000The recall is not the part of it that matters.
01:34:19.000It's the instantaneous dopaminergic stimulation.
01:34:21.000And again, that's all the hedonia, the eudaimonia, which are things like, again, it's commonly called meaningfulness, of a feeling of accomplishment, a feeling of having done something that's bigger than yourself.
01:34:34.000There's longitudinal studies on human happiness, and what we find produces longitudinal human happiness is not pleasure, it's hedonia, it's having children, it's having a home, it's raising a family, it's having relationships, meaningful ones with other people, and that's not dopaminergically stimulating.
01:34:53.000If you haven't already, would you kindly smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, share the show with your friends, and become a member at TimCast.com.
01:34:59.000I want to point out something really quick.
01:35:02.000Elon Musk's Twitter poll, currently with 3.13 million votes, Donald Trump is winning his election on Twitter with 58% to 42% and that is very significant because Twitter is more left-wing than right-wing.
01:35:17.000There are more leftist active users than right-wing active users, according to tons of different studies and different data.
01:35:23.000This means there are a lot of people on there who are like, yeah, he shouldn't have been banned.
01:35:27.000So, considering that fact, if y'all have Twitter, you should go on to Elon's account and vote for Trump to be reinstated.
01:35:34.000Someone pointed out that because of the size of Elon's audience, these polls are statistically significant.
01:35:46.000It's hard to know if you're doing 500 people, like, where are you targeting and who are these people?
01:35:50.000But with 3.1 million, well, with 116 million total reach and 3.1 million, you can take into consideration the current time of day, and then you can say it will likely be this region, United States, He just posted a few hours ago, so it's gonna hit West Coast to East Coast.
01:36:11.000Might not hit, you know, well, actually, yeah, I think it'll hit the entirety, even Alaska and Hawaii.
01:36:31.000OMG Puppy says we should be upset about Democrats blackmailing advertisers to bankrupt Twitter.
01:36:36.000Elon needs support and time to make changes.
01:36:39.000Now is not the time for perfection, enemy of the good stuff.
01:36:43.000My point is, I totally get all that, but why insult Alex Jones' fans?
01:36:48.000Why insult the culture warriors who believe in free speech?
01:36:52.000He could have just avoided the subject, or he could have just been like, there's a lot more we have to work through before we unban everybody.
01:38:37.000Even if he was, you know, I brought up instructional humor processing theory, but there's also several theories of humor, which illustrate that you have to violate, it's called an expectancy violation, you have to say something unexpected or crazy or whatever to actually make people laugh.
01:40:37.000If he came out and he was like, screw you, Elon, he's never coming back then, you know?
01:40:43.000OldStickKeyTaint says, voting for Trump's unbanning is a smart move.
01:40:46.000Force these advertisers to justify why they want to pull advertisements when the majority of their target audience wants him on.
01:40:53.000I think they've proven they're clearly ideological way past this point, that money doesn't matter as much as the message.
01:41:00.000Well, and I would love if that was how it worked.
01:41:02.000You do the poll, Trump's ahead, but didn't we all just talk about the fact that Elon was like, these polls are not good because of the bots!
01:41:10.000Like, we can't do this until the bots are purged, so really Elon should be focusing on the one thing he needs to do, which is purge the bots.
01:42:13.000And also, when you are on the news team, it's interesting to be here because I'll watch the show in the green room and be like, I know that article.
01:42:53.000I mean, the people at the Daily Wire might be getting to him.
01:42:55.000And asking for, in return, what was done to him, which, you know, this is eye for an eye stuff that I don't think is the way you want to go with it, Jordan.
01:43:03.000Well, when he said, consign the anonymous narcissists and psychopaths to troll hell.
01:44:07.000I mean, the story there is just Trump declares bid for re-election, and they're like, actually, we've really got to buckle down on this investigation that we've had for like a year and a half.
01:44:18.000But again, is anyone surprised by that?
01:45:02.000Isn't Yelp accused of doing something like that, where if you don't sign up, they'll put the negative reviews at the top?
01:45:07.000Well, it's kind of just a ridiculous sort of demand in the first place, because it's like, I mean, would this happen on traditional, you know, media, as if like, oh, you have somebody on, or some show on that a corporation doesn't 100% agree with, so they're gonna, they demand that that show, that person, that episode be pulled?
01:45:26.000I guess it does work sometimes, but it's a big ask, and it depends, I guess, on the corporation.
01:45:37.000I mean, I'm just saying, like, it would be as if there was one very special episode of, I don't know, Pick Full House or something, where then, you know, somebody got cancelled in the future, and they hadn't yet pulled the episode, and then advertisers said, we will not run our ads on whatever said network because of this thing that happened in the past.
01:45:59.000So JimBob says, Tim, would you kindly give me an Ian crystal?
01:47:16.000Yeah, to like sit there for a couple hours.
01:47:18.000My favorite tweets were the ones that was like the Taylor Swift ticket you wanted so badly was just bought by some dad who's only heard of her like one song.
01:47:28.000Runaway25Productions says, Carl Sagan's I have a foreboding, a foreboding called all of this, foreboding feeling, especially the low IQ stuff.
01:47:38.000You ever see that, that speech he gave where he talked about the future and like what was gonna happen?
01:47:42.000He's like just talking about pleasure and stuff and how people are gonna get sucked in and something like that.
01:48:37.000They're not developing a lot of social skills, which, you know, children need stimulation all the time.
01:48:43.000And interestingly enough, then, as you brought up, which is interesting, the brain drain, such as it is, is going to be most severe in the left-leaning liberal areas.
01:48:57.000What if, you know, when he tweeted, we shouldn't go to war with you, we shouldn't be at war with Russia or whatever, and then he saw everyone was like, yes, we should, he said, okay, there's bots.
01:49:05.000Maybe he did something behind the scenes, does this poll, and now it's pro-Trump, and he's like, those are the real people.
01:49:11.000Yeah, but he would be talking about what he did.
01:49:14.000But now, anyone paying attention is like, hey, he said there's a whole bunch of bots on here that are messing up the polls, now he's running a poll.
01:49:34.000Like in 2008, somebody was leaking emails and information from Tesla.
01:49:40.000So what he did was they sent out a company-wide email, and then in actuality, everyone got an individualized email with a double space randomly placed somewhere in the email.
01:49:51.000So they thought it was a company-wide email.
01:50:06.000He's not going to tell you what he's doing.
01:50:07.000Maybe later he will, but it's possible.
01:50:09.000He's going to have to post a video where he's holding his phone up with the date and time before he puts the poll up, being like, this is a test.
01:50:17.000If you are doing a data manipulation or you're conducting a natural experiment, you can't let your subjects know that you're conducting an experiment.
01:50:24.000Well, I mean, when you sign up to take a study or do research at a You have to sign off and say, yes, I know I'm doing this, blah, blah, blah.
01:50:32.000In fact, a lot of times when we do studies, we'll intentionally throw in bogus variables to lead the participant to think that we're studying something that we're not studying so that they get confused and think it's about that.
01:50:43.000There's this really funny video I watched a long time ago where they bring people into a room and they tell them, you're going to do a study, so fill out this paperwork.
01:50:51.000While they're filling out the paperwork, they blow smoke under the door.
01:50:55.000And then people think that you have to trick the person.
01:51:00.000If you told them we're doing a fire, you know, preparedness study, they'd be like, okay, it would change their reaction.
01:51:05.000The funny thing is, when they would blow the smoke under the door, and it was just one person by themselves, they would go to the door, feel it, feel the knob, and then start yelling, there's a fire, there's a fire, something's going on.
01:51:16.000When they put three people in the room and blow smoke under the door, people would see the smoke, look at each other, and then go back to writing their papers.
01:51:25.000And it's that same thing with, the citation is escaping me right now, but where they basically found that if someone is killed in front of you, unless one person elects to decide to go help, the other people will just kind of stand there and let it happen.
01:55:36.000I actually really did like that when he was, the fight scenes in Wakanda Forever, it was cool how they had him like, he was basically jumping on the air.
01:56:00.000People were complaining, I guess, that the actor was a dad bod hero or something.
01:56:04.000I don't know, the weird thing is they were like, the fact that, in this article from the Enquirer, they're cheering for Namor in this movie, he's an outright villain.
01:56:14.000He's a genocidal maniac who wants to murder everybody.
01:57:28.000They're just like, it's gone off the rails?
01:57:29.000The last thing, the She-Hulk show messed with my boy Daredevil.
01:57:33.000He's the only character I really care about.
01:57:34.000So and even then it's just enough for me to go, Oh, cool.
01:57:37.000You screwed up something I like again.
01:57:39.000Is there anything I can do to win you back as like a potential Because if you read the comics, you're more likely to than I guess anyone else.
01:57:47.000They had Black Bolt blow his own brains out in the stupid Doctor Strange movie.
01:57:55.000It is directly disrespectful to me as a comic book reader, and you have been directly disrespectful to me now for half a decade, if not longer.
01:59:49.000We had a guest come on the show, and when I was hanging out with him in the green room, it was like the day that this wager came to fruition.
01:59:55.000He was like, don't worry, one, two, three are great.
02:01:12.000Aiden, do you want to shout anything out?
02:01:14.000Just the video that I'm working on, which is about the dark side of morality, is I think the tentative title.
02:01:21.000And because all of this greed and envy and self-interest, it all comes out of a place of the left, people predominantly on the left, feeling as if they are doing something moral and good for other people, even if it ultimately only really benefits themselves.
02:01:38.000That's a very, very scary, I think, place to be, but that'll be some time.
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02:02:38.000It's a real video, a very serious one.
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