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00:00:54.000And then I started thinking about this.
00:00:55.000I'm like, if they're reusing this terminology in a new way to reduce energy, this was completely predicted by tons of people.
00:01:02.000That the next move was going to be locking down for climate change.
00:01:04.000And lo and behold, we're getting something akin to that.
00:01:07.000Surprise, surprise, ladies and gentlemen, we're in the Rat Hope experiment.
00:01:10.000They put us in the cylinder, we swam and struggled, they took us out, dried us off, put it back in, now they expect us to swim twice as long.
00:01:17.000I think, I think it's gonna get a whole lot worse.
00:01:20.000The only difference between the Rat Hope experiment and what we're going through is that we have an election coming up, and we might get new leaders who say no to all of this, so it should be interesting.
00:01:27.000So we're gonna talk about that, plus the riots and protests that are erupting because of the energy crisis.
00:01:33.000California facing rolling blackouts, well, good for them.
00:01:36.000Gavin Newsom was seen wearing a sweater amid a record heat wave, and a lot of people were like, what is he doing?
00:01:43.000Yeah, he's probably blasting the AC while telling you to suffer.
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00:06:07.000We're going to be adjusting the audio as we go on the fly, like we do.
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00:06:14.000All right, check out this first story from TimCast.com.
00:06:17.000EU to impose mandatory electricity cuts to flatten the curve, reduce peak energy demands.
00:06:23.000European Commission head announces Russian price gaps as Putin threatens to cut Europe off from all energy deliveries.
00:06:29.000The European Union has announced plans for mandatory electricity rationing, with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen telling reporters the EU must flatten the curve of peak energy prices.
00:06:41.000Her announcement highlighted a five-point plan the EU is preparing to enact to address local energy markets.
00:06:47.000Europe has faced an energy crisis following Russia cutting off supplies of natural gas.
00:06:51.000The funny thing is, Russia's now selling gas to China, who's driving it all the way back to Europe and cranking up the cost.
00:06:58.000And now people are looking at like 500% energy increases.
00:07:01.000Italy, you've got bars and restaurants with candles.
00:07:05.000And when you look over at California, And they're doing the exact same thing.
00:07:09.000It kind of feels like what's happening there is going to happen here, and we're just a little bit behind.
00:07:13.000But I know, Amala, you live in California, right?
00:07:16.000Unfortunately, I do live in Los Angeles.
00:07:17.000So last night I was chilling in my apartment and got a notification that says, you know, due to our overwhelmed electrical grid, your electricity might go out at any moment.
00:07:26.000And you're going to have to deal with that for an hour or two.
00:07:28.000We'll rotate it across our different circuits.
00:07:31.000And welcome to the New World Order here.
00:07:33.000But it didn't, your power didn't go out?
00:07:35.000It didn't end up going out, but I guess they're putting out warnings that through this continuous heatwave that we're going through right now, that there's a very good possibility that it's going to happen.
00:07:43.000And in other regions of California, they're doing those rotating brownouts.
00:07:54.000Maybe he's like a, you know, it could be that he's a lizard person, you know, and then it's like, it may be hot, but yes, he still needs to ignite when the sun goes down.
00:08:02.000He's got like really crazy tattoos of late and he has to hide them.
00:08:07.000He rips his sleeves off and he's just got...
00:08:19.000You turn off your what everything except for your large appliances Yeah, they're saying basically try not to use a see if you can help it cool your house or your apartment beforehand Don't turn on any larger or major appliances anything like that and certainly don't charge your electric cars even though we're gonna start banning gas vehicles in the coming years and Have you heard of passive cooling?
00:08:37.000Have you ever studied any of that stuff?
00:08:38.000They make, like, these, uh, I don't know if they're made out of wood or out of cork, and then they'll, like, make all these little, like, cuts through the cork, and then you just pour water into the cork, and then through—it only works in really dry environments, but through, um, I don't know what the— Evaporation.
00:10:19.000I love my job so much, so it's totally worth it.
00:10:21.000Don't get me wrong, but leaving the freedom state of Florida to go to L.A., which has just been disintegrating in front of my eyes, has been an interesting experience.
00:10:32.000I'm just imagining you, you're at home in Florida and you tell your family and you like salute them and you're like, I'm going to the front lines.
00:10:39.000And then you go to California where it's really bad.
00:10:42.000Which it's hilarious because my mom is a super radical left-leaning person so she would love to have switched from Florida to move over to Los Angeles and we've sort of taken our opposite path.
00:11:23.000And I totally fell for it hook, line and sinker.
00:11:26.000Graduated high school, started working as a youth organizer and door knocking and telling people who they needed to vote for.
00:11:32.000I worked on the Andrew Gillum campaign in Florida.
00:11:36.000Yeah, we all know how that turned out.
00:11:38.000Like, luckily, my efforts went unnoticed on that and eventually just recognized so much hypocrisy that I had to leave and started looking at other views.
00:11:47.000What made you realize, like, what was the moment that you realized something?
00:11:51.000Yeah, so I grew up with my white family and I was constantly going to work and hearing about how awful white people were and there were several instances where it was just the most blatant racist rhetoric you could hear regarding somebody all towards white people and I would go and work on these projects and then go home to my white family that had taken care of me my entire life.
00:12:09.000And I eventually confronted one of the VPs at the organization and said, I don't get it, man.
00:12:27.000I wonder, because I have a similar experience.
00:12:30.000I come from a mixed-mixed race family, so I'm a quarter Asian, and my experience was similar in that I go out and I hear these lefties saying things like, white people are bad, and I'm like, hey, wait a minute, like, I got white family and not white family, and I'm pretty sure you're full of shh, you know what I mean?
00:12:48.000Yeah, like, and then what I end up actually seeing growing up Is the policies they put in place they claim help racism actually just end up hurting my family.
00:12:57.000And my family was the epitome of like opposing racism.
00:13:01.000I went through the exact same experience.
00:13:02.000I actually grew up in a really rural, conservative, small town.
00:13:06.000Never truly experienced an ounce of racism in my life, but was so dedicated to the idea that I was oppressed in this country that I like fought people about it.
00:13:14.000And I basically labeled myself as a victim and went around the world telling everybody about how victimized I was.
00:13:21.000So when you go to your family and you're like, hey, I don't believe this stuff, because like, you know, we're a mixed family and clearly the white people in my family are good people.
00:14:11.000Yeah, I went through something similar with my mom and I realized after like five or six years that it was more about the tone that we were communicating.
00:14:17.000It was more about, you know, less about trying to be right or just listening.
00:15:04.000Because, like, the libertarian left, in my opinion, doesn't really exist.
00:15:08.000Like, they do, but it's such an impossible political standard that most people on the left abandon it, but then claim their libertarian left to try and win votes so that it can then enslave you, you know what I mean?
00:15:20.000Yeah, I mean, with all the policing you want to do of people's speech and how they act and what they do, it's hard not to be authoritarian in that sense.
00:16:56.000If you were woke and you were libertarian, you'd say something like, you know, I think, you know, critical race theory and these things are good.
00:17:04.000How can we, you know, work with each other on trying to implement what I agree with?
00:17:08.000And then they say, I disagree with you.
00:17:09.000And it's like, oh, okay, well, we disagree.
00:17:11.000Let's figure out how to live together.
00:17:12.000See, I totally get along with those people.
00:18:20.000Look, you want to come at me and say Tim Pool's right-wing or whatever, I'll bet you can make an argument about center-right or something, even though I'm like in the middle.
00:18:27.000But Jimmy Dore, He's like, universal health care and like all these other left policies.
00:18:31.000But then he goes, the Democrats and the Republicans are corporatists who are selling you out.
00:20:18.000And they say things like they're always trying to redefine what left and right is in order to justify why you are not left or whatever.
00:20:24.000So I'm just like we got to be careful about putting people in camps.
00:20:27.000That's what that is is the first step on the path to putting people in camps is giving them labels and putting them in a consciousness box when it comes to I think.
00:20:34.000I know it's a strong word, but it's a good word because as soon as you start to deviate on even one single issue, they throw you out and label you as something.
00:20:41.000And language is so powerful for the woke left in particular, the way they manipulate it, the way they utilize it in order to put people in certain groups and label them.
00:20:50.000And as soon as we go, you know, I'm not going to accept the label and I'm not going to take that.
00:20:54.000I think it's when we start changing the game a little bit.
00:20:56.000You know what's interesting is I think it's like the snowball effect, the snowball rolling down a hill.
00:21:01.000So I'd imagine for you, as for like a lot of people who start questioning wokeness, you probably said something small like, hey, I kind of don't agree with you on the white people thing.
00:21:11.000And then they immediately start shoving you as hard as they could out.
00:21:15.000I had, so I'll tell a quick little story.
00:21:17.000I was working on a project called The Groveland Four back in Florida, and it was about these four black men had been wrongfully accused of sexual assault.
00:21:25.000And there was a documentary that we were showing, and I was trying to get all these college and high school kids to come and say, you know, this is America.
00:21:32.000They shove them through the criminal justice system, even when they have nothing.
00:21:36.000And in the background, Brett Kavanaugh gets accused of sexual assault and that whole firestorm starts happening.
00:21:43.000And I'm working on this project, watching Brett Kavanaugh just completely break down on camera, and I brought it to my boss and I said, you know, why are we treating these two situations differently?
00:21:53.000Why is he completely just getting obliterated by the media and by the work that we're doing here?
00:21:58.000yet when these four black men get wrongfully accused, we're giving them all the grace in the
00:22:01.000world." And he said, well, he's a white man and I don't care and he clearly is the frat boy type,
00:22:06.000so he did it and he should hang. Wow. Yeah, just when I tell you the most dramatic rhetoric you
00:22:12.000could possibly hear, I was hearing day in and day out. I don't know how I didn't leave sooner,
00:22:16.000but eventually it was just, you can't stand it. I kind of feel like the left hates mixed race
00:24:27.000What I think happened there was that This dude internalizes the racism and sees everything through a lens of you're being racist towards me.
00:24:37.000So something as simple as my friend asked me to grab him food because I was already going that way turns into a racist attack on him.
00:24:46.000Well and I think white guilt is something that people are introduced to at a really young age.
00:24:50.000I saw a friend over the weekend and she's moved to New City and she told me That she specifically picked her yoga studio because it was in the historically black neighborhood and she liked that it was owned by a woman of color.
00:25:00.000And if that's your preference, totally cool.
00:25:02.000And then she said, I also think it's really important that they offer classes for free to black people only and I think it's better because I should be paying for it.
00:25:10.000It's okay if I have to pay and other people don't.
00:25:12.000And I was like, you're describing discrimination.
00:25:32.000They define racists in a different way, but who cares the way they... Look, I'm not trying to win an argument with them over what words mean.
00:25:38.000To me, my basis for racism is that they want racial discrimination, that they believe certain races are inherently one way or another, something like that.
00:25:47.000Whereas I'm kind of like, you know, if I went to a restaurant and they had signs about like only serving white people or somebody said to me that they liked a restaurant because it catered to white people and offered free food to white people, I'd be like, that's kind of messed up.
00:26:10.000It's fascinating when I talk to people and tell them about how Dearborn, Michigan had the, did you see this one, the POC and the non-POC digital events they did?
00:26:18.000I've seen a lot of places doing this stuff.
00:26:31.000I mean, you know, Ibram X. Kendi, who we all know and dislike, Talks about, you know, the way to fix past discrimination is present discrimination and how that lands with anybody, I just don't understand.
00:26:42.000And I think a quick thought exercise that anybody can do is to sort of look at these headlines and what these woke people are doing and swap out people of color or black or Hispanic for any other race and see how you feel about it.
00:26:58.000I think part of it is people feel like they are They are doing the right thing by making things, by overcompensating, you know, by saying like, oh, well, we'll pay more now because at the time you were wronged.
00:27:11.000And I think we forget that we can acknowledge that past wrongs were committed without needing to, you know, push a bunch of other people down in order to make this unstable system we're trying to build up on.
00:27:34.000I think it's because, you know, I was thinking about, I saw these memes about how the Christian right were mean and they hated people, and I'm like, yeah, that's not been my experience, you know, for the most part.
00:27:45.000But I wonder, because I know that they exist, and I wonder if what it really is, is that they're a group of people that, or I should say a certain amount of people tend to be
00:27:58.000They don't actually believe anything. They just do whatever the dominant social group says,
00:28:03.000and they adhere to it with force and aggression. And at one point when this country was dominated
00:28:10.000by Christians, those people claimed to be Christians and gave them a bad name.
00:28:14.000Now that the country is moving towards secularism, these people are now the same people they've always been, but now just along with the woke, giving them a bad name and making them look like garbage.
00:28:25.000But the problem is they're the prominent ones that are pushing this stuff.
00:28:28.000Obviously there's like regular people who are like on the left and think racism is bad, but the dominant voices have all become these like despicable, weird authoritarians.
00:28:36.000And I think they make it such a gray area where it's like, well, your instincts on what is racism and what feels wrong to you is wrong.
00:28:44.000You don't have a true understanding of this because you don't have this knowledge and context that we, especially in the realm of academia, say you must understand and go through to really get.
00:28:54.000Yeah, and I think another underlying factor with why they do things like the vaccine mandates and jumping into war with Ukraine, when I was working for the left, there was this constant idea of radical compassion.
00:29:04.000So you identify a problem, you identify what you think would be the compassionate thing to do, and you do that to the most radical extent that you possibly can, which means hopping into war with Russia, which means mandating vaccines for everybody.
00:29:16.000If you're, if you wants people to be able to come into the United States and immigrate here.
00:30:21.000And you can switch out the race thing for gender or sexuality, but that's constantly the underlying factor is how can I be a savior towards X community?
00:30:30.000It's funny that I think there are different conspiracy theorists, factions, that all will blame one group of people for their problems.
00:30:40.000So, like, you've got the groups that, you know, will say, like, the globalists, you know, you know, the more Alex Jones-oriented conspiracy theory types.
00:30:47.000Not referring to him specifically, but...
00:30:49.000You've got people who hate Jewish people and blame them for all the problems.
00:30:53.000You've got the woke who blame white people for all the problems.
00:30:55.000You've got Occupy Wall Street that blames the 1% for all their problems.
00:30:58.000It's like if you want to figure out where you fit in, which group do you hate the most?
00:31:01.000Blame for all the problems and you found your friends.
00:31:04.000To me it's creepy because obviously this planet and society is extremely nuanced.
00:31:09.000And it's not so simple to say there's one group that's causing all the problems.
00:31:29.000I mean, it's so weird that we've reduced ourselves down to things like race and gender, which are just things you can see to the human eye.
00:31:34.000And then we've just decided, oh, because I can see it, that must be the rule of thumb here.
00:31:38.000And there must be one ultimate villain in every single case for every single problem.
00:31:42.000It's unbelievable how simplistic our brains work.
00:31:45.000I don't like the black and white thing because we're not black and white.
00:31:48.000That's very obviously a wrong way to describe things.
00:32:40.000That means Republicans will do nothing.
00:32:43.000If you vote for Republicans, and they win, and she says there will be a civil war in that capacity, well, Republicans aren't going to start a civil war after winning legitimate power.
00:32:52.000The Democrats would have to start fighting with them, otherwise they're in power.
00:32:55.000She's actually implying Democrats will start a civil war.
00:33:28.000I saw her try to work it back and say, you know, if the Democrats are in power, they'll be able to hold off the MAGA Republicans from starting some sort of war.
00:33:35.000That's what I meant by the tweet, but I don't think that landed.
00:33:38.000So she's implying that the MAGA Republicans get elected, are handed the keys to the castle, and then they're gonna go, They just start running around and smashing things?
00:34:23.000She's a D-List Celebrity, so I've never heard of it.
00:34:24.000So, you know, she really does need people to notice her whenever, whenever possible.
00:34:28.000So I feel like, again, she's somewhat political openly a lot of the time, but also, you know, she has to stay part of the relevant conversation.
00:34:34.000As somebody who's, you know, half of their tweets are completely nonsensical and hilarious, uh, yes, I'm saying my jokes are funny.
00:34:41.000I feel for Kathy Griffin if she's taken out of context.
00:34:43.000The only issue is she took a photo of herself holding a faux severed head of Donald Trump.
00:34:52.000Like, you know, look, I think my tweets are funny because I'm intentionally trolling and screwing around.
00:34:58.000And the fact that some people believe, so I'll tell you this, I tweeted, When the left was ragging on the song we put out, I said, the success of Only Ever Wanted proves that deep down Americans crave powerful emo music, but the globalist corporate elite are conspiring to suppress it.
00:35:15.000And they started sharing the tweet on Reddit and other posts being like, Tim Pool literally thinks this.
00:35:19.000And I'm like, that was so overt in its nonsense that no sane person would believe I was telling the truth.
00:35:28.000If you were to look at what Kathy Griffin is saying, and you think she's joking, then I think you're being equally dishonest.
00:35:34.000I think this is the, this year's Democrats Get Out the Vote campaign.
00:35:37.000Like, if you don't vote for us, it's gonna end in civil war, and they want you to believe it's Republicans, but as Tim is completely right in pointing out, it's Actually, the Democrats being like, we will riot.
00:35:47.000We've been doing it for a little while here.
00:35:48.000Everyone's cool when we do it, not when any Republicans do it.
00:35:52.000You know, it's kind of crazy that she can post this, it can stay up, and she's going to be like, no, I'm in the right to say it.
00:36:17.000And, you know, a lot of Republicans are like, oh, it's gonna be a red tsunami and we're gonna win.
00:36:21.000And I'm like, yeah, you better operate under the assumption it's gonna be a blue wave and get out every single person you can.
00:36:27.000Because I'll tell you, even if you do win, the likelihood the Republicans, you know, the Republican leadership will do something is low.
00:36:33.000So you need to make sure the win is overwhelming.
00:36:36.000So that, look, if in swing states, you get moderate Republicans who win, Then they're going to jam things up and be like, no, no, no, listen, you know, we gotta be, we can't play that way.
00:36:45.000We had Rick Santorum on and, you know, I respect the guy, but he was like, we can't play that game.
00:37:15.000And I think if you are a conservative leaning voter, It's much better to look at the tsunami after it's hit than to be like, I think it's coming, I'll just pretend.
00:38:11.000You need to be taking every single possible step you can.
00:38:13.000You need to be getting other people involved in voting.
00:38:16.000And I've been going back and forth with a lot of people about whether we should fight on their level.
00:38:19.000And I think the ultimate answer is that yes, we should as far as lawfare goes, and then as far as like character goes, we need to stick by- see that's where your conservative principles can actually come out, is in your character.
00:38:31.000You don't need to do what they do, you don't need to cancel people as hard as they do, but you can fight back on the level playing ground that is supposedly- There was a poll from the Trafalgar Group I think today that said after Biden's speech, A lot of independents, and I can't remember the percentage, but let's say 30%, swung and were like, this, that speech is like, cool, aggressive rhetoric.
00:38:54.000Obviously, you know, high percentage of Democrats thought that speech was wonderful.
00:38:58.000Lots of conservatives were like, wait, no, that's insane.
00:39:00.000But it was the independents who were like, you're losing us here, Joe Biden administration, the Democratic Party.
00:39:05.000Like, this is not something that we support.
00:39:07.000I think it was like, I should wish I had the number in front of me, like 50% were like, 100% we are against how this presentation and the way this looks.
00:39:15.000I think in some ways the Democrats themselves will show are showing their true colors but I can't stress enough that I feel like the Republican Party's one of their biggest issues is that they become complacent and they're like got in the bag let's all just pack up and go home and that's how you lose.
00:39:28.000No, we need serious asymmetric, what would you call it, I guess, culture warfare.
00:39:34.000Well, lawfare, I'm open to being equal.
00:39:37.000We should be treating the law equally among all people, but if you want to win a culture war against a communist infusion or whatever the hell is happening, you need deep spiritual power.
00:39:47.000You need some sort of imbalance of power to win that.
00:39:58.000The way that we communicate is so different to the way that progressives communicate, and I've learned that a lot just having worked on both sides.
00:40:05.000Their grassroots organizing endeavors are insane, and they're very well run.
00:40:10.000They're in the communities, running around, knocking doors, having conversations with people, and having very emotional conversations with people.
00:40:16.000And I think that's what influences voters.
00:40:18.000Conservatives, we're not very emotional.
00:40:21.000We don't use like a storyline in order to influence people.
00:40:24.000And as far as his speech, he had an amazing opportunity to hop up there and give a message of unity and say, you know, we can coexist.
00:40:32.000There is a way that we can unite out of this.
00:40:33.000And I want to be the president who does that.
00:40:39.000I think the play was, you're gonna fumble, the other team's gonna, but then we're gonna recover it and run it in for a touch, like, it was like, the speech was written as a fumble.
00:40:47.000See, I feel like it wasn't actually about unity because of the lines about the right-wing extremism.
00:40:52.000It was like, under the guise of patriotism, being like, look, I'm in front of Independence Hall, and they've got all these great colors, and look at those Marines, and then it's like, but remember, the MAGA conservatives are the devil, and if you vote for them, you are going to set our country on fire.
00:41:09.000Right now the Democrats are heavily just targeting emotions, hate and fear, hate and fear.
00:41:14.000And I think people on the right, as you were mentioning, they're not very emotional, they don't get it.
00:41:18.000Ben Shapiro, you know, thinks he'll make a logical argument and convince you, but in fact he's only speaking to people who are already logical, and people who are already logical are probably already more right-leaning.
00:41:27.000So I know this from having done street fundraising, and I'm canvassing, where we would go and talk to people on the street way up high.
00:41:34.000They always give you these spiels, and they would be like, say this.
00:41:43.000And of course, that stuff never works.
00:41:45.000And they don't want you to say anything else, like for like legal reasons.
00:41:48.000But I was like, dude, I can get people to sign up for anything without saying a single fact.
00:41:53.000Like, they're worried about you saying something factually incorrect and then giving someone, someone gives a donation and then you've got like a, you know, liability issue or something.
00:41:59.000And I'm like, just tug on their heartstrings.
00:42:02.000Just, you know, so the pitches I would do were often very much like trying to make people cry.
00:42:07.000Just like tell them a story about a, you know, Talking about homeless people.
00:42:12.000Telling them a story about a homeless person that no one loves.
00:42:15.000Imagine what it must feel like that no one's there for you and no one loves you.
00:42:18.000And then when you finally do see someone walking down the street, they look at you with disgust and they spit on you.
00:42:23.000And then people are like feeling bad and then they donate.
00:42:26.000The best sales pitch I've ever seen was this guy selling door-to-door children's encyclopedias, who was like, yeah, I took this opportunity to be out here because my fiance's here, but it's really hard, and they didn't tell you that our wages would be awful, and we have to buy the product first, and we all have to share a van, and I have to sell these, because otherwise I'm in debt to the company, and I watched so many people buy that guy's encyclopedia.
00:42:47.000He might as well have been selling I don't even know what.
00:43:15.000You need to go out and, like, drive emotions.
00:43:18.000Talk, you know, just create a circumstance where you make them feel something, and then point them in the direction of what they... That's what the Democrats do.
00:43:31.000Our best bet is, like, going out there, talking about the state of the economy right now, how American families are hurting, talk about this Defund the Police movement and how it's hurting low-income minority communities, tug on the heartstrings there, and it's not a hard thing to do because it's real.
00:43:44.000People are seeing it in their backyard.
00:43:46.000Parents are getting galvanized because their students are being affected in this public schooling system that's completely failing them.
00:43:52.000If you use those emotional stories and then, you know, plug in the facts there as you need to, people will get behind you.
00:43:58.000I want to pull up this tweet because we were talking about, you know, like law and stuff came up and I was thinking about this in the context of where we're going Civil War wise.
00:44:07.000Marianne Williamson was responding to a Newsweek story about Trump getting his special master, that they're going to review the document seized, and she said, this is terrible news.
00:44:39.000So they ignore facts, they don't do research, and my response.
00:44:43.000The law stopped being relevant when Democrats impeached Trump over Joe Biden threatening the Ukrainian president with illegally blocking U.S.
00:44:50.000aid guarantees, or maybe it was when they fabricated evidence to spy on Trump.
00:44:53.000The funny thing is, people like Marianne Williamson don't know that happened.
00:44:57.000Telling her doesn't matter because it gives her a negative emotional response.
00:45:01.000You were wrong, your facts are bad, and you're on the wrong side.
00:45:40.000So Donald Trump, they seize the documents.
00:45:42.000Trump says a special master should review this to make sure they're not going through private stuff they're not allowed to, like privileged documents.
00:45:48.000And she thinks you should not have due process.
00:45:51.000She's scared that the appointee is going to be somewhat on his side, that they're going to help him out.
00:45:56.000And she's also scared of lengthening this out before he announces whether or not he's going to run for president.
00:46:00.000So if they have a hitter that they can use on Trump before he puts in his candidacy, they want it now.
00:46:07.000Sorry, let me squeeze this in real fast.
00:46:09.000It is so telling to me that they don't want it to be possible for someone to like Donald Trump's perspective.
00:46:38.000A big mistake people are making, I think, is that they're pinning a lot of social distress right now on political parties.
00:46:44.000Is it the Republicans causing this chaos or is it the Democrats?
00:46:47.000But in reality, when you look at videos in Sri Lanka or in Italy where people are rioting on the street and smashing stuff and attacking cops, it's because they don't have heat.
00:47:10.000Vladimir Putin did this interview today where he was like, yeah, Europe is sacrificing all of their people to keep the American globalist elite in dominant power.
00:47:19.000Like, he is saying the exact same thing.
00:47:21.000We are all looking for someone else to blame issues on.
00:47:24.000But like, With all of the sanctions and energy bills are high, you can understand where that line is now going to potentially be persuasive to at least Russians, if not other people who are like, yeah, our leadership is really messing us up here.
00:47:41.000Power structures don't want people to be in power, don't want people to have unlimited electricity, because then they'll have more power than the government and rise up and overthrow.
00:47:49.000So they've kept us in a state of slavocracy, but that's going to cause people to rise up.
00:47:53.000It's like in one of the greatest movie franchises of all time, Fast and Furious.
00:48:24.000Yeah, it's like leashing a Tyrannosaurus Rex and hoping it doesn't realize that it's a T-Rex and you're just a little guy with a leash.
00:48:31.000Well, it's like, uh, there's this famous meme where there's a big elephant with, like, a rope on its foot and a little spike in the ground.
00:48:39.000And someone said, why won't the elephant just rip it out and walk away?
00:48:42.000And they said, when the elephant was little, it struggled and fought and learned that it couldn't get out.
00:48:46.000Now that it's older, it doesn't even bother trying.
00:48:48.000And on top of that, they're also pushing this message of, you need to do this.
00:49:57.000You put us in lockdown, everybody starts losing their minds, and then right before it gets too bad, you stop, you let everybody go back to normal, you bring the movies back, you bring the video games back, the food's back, the pizza's back, the wings are back.
00:50:07.000And then, you give everybody a little bit to relax, dry off, and then do it again, and now they'll last 60 times as long.
00:50:13.000So, if you went, let's put it this way, 15 minutes to 60 hours, we're talking about, what is it, like a 200, was it 20, what are we doing?
00:51:09.000Is there like a form of soft totalitarianism where it's like you are somewhat enslaved but you have all these wonderful amenities to keep you at bay and to keep you docile and you have your streaming services and you have just enough AC to keep your house cool and you know just enough to be fine in the place that you're at and without enough energy to really realize how oppressed you are.
00:51:28.000They have to slowly take away from you because the idea is you will own nothing and you will be happy.
00:52:05.000People get by, they do the work they gotta do.
00:52:08.000We got by just fine, people get by now.
00:52:10.000We are accustomed to technology we have.
00:52:13.000We are not upset that we don't have technology we don't know exists.
00:52:17.000So if they can take it away from you, and then remove it from your thoughts, or the next generation grows up without having it, they won't be unhappy because they won't know it existed.
00:52:28.000Yeah, I forget what podcast I was watching this week, but they were talking about how it's humanity's greatest strength and our greatest weakness that we can get used to anything.
00:52:35.000So there really hasn't been a lot of humans thriving in slavery, but people do get used to it.
00:52:39.000I don't know if you remember, and I'm sure Ian doesn't know, but in the Bible, the Israelites escaped slavery and they were so upset in the desert they were like, why can't we go back to slavery?
00:53:02.000And the way our workforce has shifted subsequently, it's, we are very quickly.
00:53:06.000And you saw, I used to see a lot of content that was like, somebody asked me to get lunch before the pandemic and you're Like running errands, you're doing a ton of stuff.
00:53:11.000And then after the pandemic, like you have one social interaction.
00:54:08.000Social manipulation, social engineering.
00:54:10.000And this would be, I don't want to put too much weight on the World Economic Forum, but I don't know who else they're working with, but the idea that people are going into the pods, that we're creating like a race of bored people, pod people, that our brains are hooked to the machine and we're all kind of seeing each other's thoughts and working as one.
00:54:27.000Because the other option is total chaos and uprisings of people thinking they don't have enough and fighting and killing and destroying.
00:54:35.000I don't want everyone to be blackpilled here.
00:54:39.000I want you to see this story from Bloomberg.
00:54:41.000Thousands protest in Prague over energy crisis.
00:54:45.000Demonstrators gather to protest against the government in Prague.
00:54:47.000I think in Italy they were burning their energy bills.
00:55:52.000If they really cared about this stuff, they wouldn't be doing the things they're doing.
00:55:55.000No, but I think the reality is, is that they want to preserve what they have.
00:56:00.000They probably are worried about overpopulation and political instability, but the reality is, if we can get you to sacrifice, we get to keep our private jets.
00:56:08.000So when they try to implement these control mechanisms, it's like you mentioned Ian, they want to control the energy you get access to because by limiting it, it makes it easier to control you.
00:56:17.000If only the wealthy elites have access to the internet or access to these, you know, flying cars or whatever, they're an advantage over poor people and they can more easily control them.
00:56:27.000So now what we see is people are protesting and rising up saying, we do not agree with this.
00:56:33.000Because if people just lay down and accept this, then you're all gonna be pod people, basically sheep or chickens.
00:56:38.000Internet's kind of helped us to smash class systems.
00:56:41.000Like there used to be the elites and the plebs.
00:56:44.000And all through society there's been better men and everybody else.
00:56:48.000You know, whatever, in the Americas there were the better men that made the government.
00:56:51.000But I think people are, not everybody, but more willing to represent themselves What Tim is saying is reminding me of the criticism of the North America Free Trade Agreement.
00:57:02.000It was like, here's what we're going to do as a collective, you, US, Canada, Mexico, and part of the environmental policies were like, we're going to reduce carbon and do whatever.
00:57:11.000And Mexico never reduced their carbon emissions.
00:57:14.000And so it was like, wait, we were we said we were all in this together.
00:57:16.000And it was like, But why are we staying in this agreement, in this partnership, that's not working?
00:57:20.000I feel like that's the same thing that these people are saying, like, we rely on you to protect us and you are swearing allegiance to a system that is causing us to suffer.
00:57:28.000Like, you are supposed to put our interests first.
00:57:30.000They're realizing their public servants are not serving them anymore and that there is a clear, I think, the class divide is beginning.
00:57:36.000Just so abundantly clear, especially through the internet and independent journalism.
00:57:40.000Like if we weren't talking about this and these independent journalists weren't talking about this, nobody would know that all these separate protests are happening right now.
00:57:47.000But now we're getting videos coming out and different people are jumping on the movements.
00:57:51.000In the Netherlands when that started, sooner or later France jumps in, Spain jumps in, because they all know this is going to be a collective fight.
00:57:58.000I mean, it was the same thing with the Freedom Convoy, right?
00:57:59.000We saw it happening in Canada and people were like, oh wait, yeah, I don't want this either.
00:58:03.000And you didn't see it modeled as heavily anywhere outside Canada.
00:58:06.000I mean, people carried out to a certain extent, but like that reminded everyone that like you don't have to lay down and conform to what's going on, especially if it's harming you.
00:58:16.000You had people using Facebook and Twitter to organize mass protests in these Arabic nations and then, you know, overthrow their governments.
00:58:25.000And then we start seeing that with Occupy Wall Street.
00:58:28.000People start organizing and protesting.
00:58:30.000Occupy, I think, got co-opted by, you know, special interests.
00:58:34.000But the ability to use social media to organize and reject these centralized control systems is extremely apparent.
00:58:41.000And now they're desperately trying to put a stop to it.
00:58:44.000They have to ban people like Alex Jones.
00:58:46.000They have to silence as many of these voices as possible.
00:58:49.000And they first started going for big names, Alex Jones, for instance, Miley Nopoulos, Laura Loomer.
00:58:55.000Then they started going after the smaller accounts, because they were like, hey, maybe we can do it that way.
00:59:01.000Go after a million small accounts that aren't big enough to make a splash if they get banned, as opposed to the big one that makes a big news cycle if you do ban.
00:59:46.000I mean, like, look at China and what's happening there right now.
00:59:48.000There's protests erupting all over China because people can't get their money out of the banks, but there's no... They have such a stronghold on social media and the information that you're allowed to get out to people that it's so hard to stage a protest.
01:00:48.000And then it was after like a year or so, all of a sudden, I mentioned it on the show the next day we reappeared in search.
01:00:55.000But I think it was more that they realized it was so overt people were catching on to their suppression.
01:01:00.000Right now I think it's funny because we put out a song last week, everybody knows at this point I guess, and it was trending number 23 on YouTube.
01:01:08.000Which is funny because this show gets more views and it never trends.
01:01:21.000But it was a good song, so they get that.
01:01:23.000Well, it's like overwhelming thumbs up and positive, but the corporate press is losing their minds.
01:01:28.000When it comes to adminning social networks, politics is kind of a risky admin.
01:01:31.000Because if you decide to let politics run on the front page of your social network, you're basically taking a political stance as a social network administrator, whether you want to or not.
01:01:43.000I used to put that stuff in its own bucket.
01:01:45.000Like, if you want politics, you've got to go look for it.
01:03:10.000I see a lot of left-leaning, not always like a politician or a commenter, but I do see a lot of presentation of, you know, it seems like fun internet content, right?
01:03:19.000all these people but also best fashion but it's always you know you have to look at the people they have certain ideologies they'll talk about how they don't like certain things and it's never from the conservative perspective it's always and i think that's partially because youtube has flagged let's say left-leaning culture as mainstream culture yeah it's moving us towards a left-leaning spectrum when we know that's not actually accurate for most of america Exactly.
01:03:43.000I was just sort of a passive user of social media, but then I started realizing how they curate the content based on your demographics and what they know about you, and I started getting all this stuff about Black Lives Matter and the black struggle and the feminist struggle, and I thought, is there nobody to counteract this on social media?
01:03:58.000And of course they are, but they're just getting throttled left and right.
01:04:02.000Yeah, oh man, I'm going to save something for the next 17-20 minutes to give a quick update on the culture war issue, so I'll save it.
01:04:11.000But yeah, the issue with Facebook and Twitter is algorithmic, and early on what happened was People who ran these big tech companies were naturally left-leaning.
01:04:23.000They think they're the majority, so they would ban what they thought was not normal.
01:04:28.000It's literally exemplified in that meme where it's like, the left and the right, and Bernie Sanders is placed in the middle, and there's nothing on the left, and it's like, watch this space.
01:04:36.000And they're like, it's like, dude, Bernie Sanders literally wants the people to own percentages of corporations.
01:05:06.000But they think they're in the middle, so they ban you.
01:05:07.000Well, it's the tech, you're totally right, it's tech executives, as well as the area that they're in, right?
01:05:13.000So if we think of Hollywood and Silicon Valley as similar areas, both those industries are dominated by people who think, who are already naturally left-leaning, and then they walk outside and their kids have friends at school who aren't in the industry, and they're also left-leaning, and then it gets reinforced over and over again.
01:05:26.000It's why I'm so interested in businesses like Daily Wire setting up in Tennessee, like businesses that want to produce content, especially now that the internet gives us that flexibility.
01:05:35.000I would like to bring you to the world of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
01:05:38.000You know echo chambers their physical echo chambers where people all sort of think the same thing
01:05:42.000I would like to bring you to the world of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in this tweet from Ursula Perano
01:05:50.000She says, AOC on talks about her future ambitions with a heavy comment, quote, Realistically, I can't even tell you if I'm going to be alive in September, and that weighs very heavily on me.
01:06:41.000Maybe she needs like a 5150 or something.
01:06:44.000She needs to be brought somewhere and given an evaluation, because if you tell people crying that you don't know if you're gonna be alive in September, we need to sit you down and ask you what's wrong, because if you ignore this, something bad could happen.
01:06:55.000We want her to be okay, and I know the left is gonna be like, oh, shut up.
01:07:08.000You think that's what she's talking about?
01:07:09.000Yeah, I think she's shook up from the January 6th thing and it hasn't left her mind yet.
01:07:12.000You think that a couple weeks ago, she was sitting there thinking, a couple weeks from now, a bunch of white racists are gonna start a civil war and I'm gonna die.
01:07:17.000She probably thinks that she's a target.
01:07:19.000If something like that were to happen, she'd be like- This is looking- After January 6th, she was like, I could have died.
01:07:23.000But she's not walking around with a security detail.
01:07:28.000The assumption a lot of people make is that she must be talking about, like, what Kathy Griffin is talking about or something like that.
01:07:33.000The other question is, okay, alright, most people are probably going to think it's something to do with political conflict.
01:07:38.000We still have to ask questions about, like, dude, I'm the Civil War guy, I'm, like, ranting and raving about it, and I don't think in three weeks there's going to be a bunch of racists going around hunting down women of color.
01:08:25.000She needs to work out and I'm being a little sarcastic there but also like you are setting yourself up for a lot of scenarios where you feel like at any point your life could fall apart and or be in danger.
01:08:40.000I think we are looking through the lens of the culture war and so we are assuming that someone political like AOC must be referring to what we see instead of asking a very simple question.
01:08:51.000When you hear hooves, it's not zebras, it's usually horses.
01:08:54.000The GQ article says, tears pooled in the corners of her eyes.
01:08:59.000She says, I hold two contradictory things in my mind.
01:09:02.000One is the relentless belief that anything's possible.
01:09:04.000At the same time, my experience here has given me a front row seat to how deeply and unconsciously, as well as consciously, so many people in this country hate women, and they hate women of color.
01:09:11.000People ask me questions about the future, and realistically, I can't even tell you if I'm going to be alive in September.
01:09:16.000Why is the immediate assumption, like, if you started off from a blanket, no reference to any individual, and said, someone says that in three weeks they might not be alive.
01:09:29.000Your immediate reaction would not be, well, they're talking about civil war.
01:09:45.000But I think Look, either she's insane and she thinks that a bunch of crazy extremists are going to come kill her, which that sounds insane.
01:09:56.000Or she's depressed and crying in an interview about how people hate women of color and she doesn't know she'll be alive in September.
01:10:01.000Right, but yeah, her leading with the people hate women of color is the thing that's kind of bringing me into the fact that maybe she's talking about extremism, or... But also, if you grew up always believing that you were the victim, and your job is to overcome, and you've got to do it, and like, you're also the victim, but you're still kind of winning because you got to Congress, but also you're still the victim, like... Either way, I'll mischeck.
01:10:18.000Exactly, what she opened with, like, I hold two contradictory things on mind, like, this
01:10:41.000If she genuinely believes that there's going to be white, racist men hunting women of color, and that's why she'll die, she needs serious therapy.
01:10:50.000I don't know how long, but she needs to get out and she needs to go talk to a doctor, because that's crazy.
01:10:55.000She's I think it's I think it's a fair assessment to say she lives in a world where Biden comes out and says the MAGA extremists are a threat to this country where she hears in the news all day about white supremacists and she genuinely internalizes and believes this is the world she lives in.
01:11:10.000But I also think that is still using our echo echo chamber worldview.
01:11:16.000We know about political problems, so to a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
01:11:20.000We assume that political people must view the world this way, and if she does, that's the real reason, when in reality, it's like, dude, she's extremely high-profile, she gets people shitting on her all the time, maybe she's just, like, not in a good place.
01:11:37.000You know, I will point out again, I know it sounds random, but she did get engaged in April, and I think that the idea that she's moving forward with this high-profile relationship, she's already in Congress, like, where do I go from this pinnacle career?
01:11:49.000I mean, people regularly include her impulse to become president, like, what if she is actually unhappy with where her life is?
01:13:08.000If you're hitting emotional notes in an interview, and then this person's like, I might not even be alive in September.
01:13:15.000You're not having a like, haha, we're joking around, I don't even know if I'll be alive.
01:13:18.000You have to respond to the gravitas of what's going on.
01:13:21.000She's only hitting with serious notes.
01:13:24.000She's got a red-pilling, breaking moment right now.
01:13:28.000I went through that in 2008 and I was suicidal I thought for sure like I gave up I thought oh the world like we've got the Federal Reserve as we've been under this system like there's no hope I had completely given up but I still wanted to have hope I had that other part of my brain like she's saying where I'm like I know everything's possible here's what I want y'all to do right now and just stop a second imagine someone sitting in front of you Think of a random person you know, crying, says to you, I might not be alive in a few weeks.
01:14:27.000Okay, so journalists aren't mandatory reporters like you have in the hospital.
01:14:30.000In the hospital, if somebody said something like this, yes, you are on suicide watch, you don't get to have any cords, you don't have any cutlery, you have to eat finger foods.
01:14:38.000If in the hospital someone told you, I might not be alive in a few weeks, you would report them and... We would put them on suicide watch, which was supposedly what Epstein was on.
01:14:47.000He clearly wasn't because he still had access to sheets.
01:15:15.000I think what you're going to hear is many on the left are going to dismiss this, downplay it, say it's the far right, because they would prefer she be in a desperate and dangerous position if it wins for them politically.
01:15:28.000If she did go and do something to herself, the amount of people who would use it as a story and use it as a way to move forward their political agenda.
01:15:36.000Another possibility is she is a sociopathic narcissist who faked tears and said this to try and win brownie points in the media, believing to herself there's no real threat, and she's just a crazy person.
01:15:47.000Well, and if she is someone whose emotional spectrum is kind of off, she can perform emotions, she knows how to cry, you know, on cue, let's say, but she doesn't actually always feel the weight of her words.
01:15:58.000You know, she can say, like, I might not even be alive and not know what the appropriate response would be.
01:16:04.000Like, if she pictured someone in front of her saying, I might not be alive in September, would she respond with, like, we need to talk about that, are you okay?
01:16:12.000Or would she respond with, like, well, I really need you to vote for me early then.
01:16:24.000We have this story from the Daily Mail.
01:16:25.000Addicted to being sad, teenage girls with invisible illnesses known as Spoonies post TikToks of themselves crying or in hospital to generate thousands of likes as experts raise concerns over internet-induced wave of mass anxiety.
01:16:38.000It's true that young women are getting depressed because of Instagram and TikTok.
01:16:42.000And as far as it goes with AOC, we were just talking about how she said she might not be alive in September, which to me is an indication of depression or severe, I don't know, what would you call it, like paranoia.
01:16:52.000But I also think it's possible that, you know, she's in the limelight in this position.
01:16:58.000If she starts putting out posts, like any other individual susceptible to depression from these platforms, and she's not getting the likes or the attention, she might get depressed.
01:17:05.000And we're seeing this now with teenage girls across the board.
01:17:07.000Well, and she is one of the most followed, like, has the biggest social media presence of any member of Congress.
01:17:13.000I mean, she has really cultivated her brand as being someone who is in touch with her followers.
01:17:17.000She does updates through her Instagram Live and through Twitter and things like that, like, as well as shares her skincare routine and she sells fun merch.
01:17:24.000Like, she is as much an influencer as she is a politician and public figure in so many ways.
01:17:32.000And so in some ways, you know, I could see if she's won reelection and she's had this moment where she was sort of this fun golden girl for the left.
01:17:40.000And if any of those numbers drop, like if she's getting 80,000 likes on a photo instead of the 110,000, she's gonna feel that burn so intensely.
01:17:49.000The same way that, you know, teenage girls are susceptible to it too.
01:17:52.000But like, it is not just her identity, it's also her career.
01:17:56.000You see this throughout the history of YouTube.
01:17:58.000One day a popular YouTuber will make a video saying like, I can't do this anymore.
01:18:02.000And then all you gotta do is look at the views for their past videos and you see them going down and then all of a sudden they snap.
01:18:08.000So people, it's really amazing to me, I remember getting a message from someone, it happens all the time, and they'll be like, are your views down?
01:19:13.000And I think social media has really morphed, too, where not only are we seeking validation through the likes, but your depression and anxiety is affirmed through social media.
01:19:21.000Social media used to be a highlight reel for people's lives.
01:19:23.000You follow these influencers, but you know it's not real.
01:19:25.000Like, they're in Hawaii, but they're probably arguing with their boyfriends behind the scenes, whatever the case may be.
01:19:30.000Now, it's a trend to cry on social media.
01:19:33.000It's a trend to show your panic attacks, and that gets you millions of likes.
01:19:37.000Like, here are my anxiety copes, or here's my OCD copes, or here are these things that I think I'm doing that are actually very strange behaviors.
01:20:14.000It is part of my job, but I kept getting videos of young girls who have Tourette's-like tics, and I kept getting them, and it's multiple girls, multiple girls, and I was getting recommended these videos, and upon watching them, found that several of them had the exact same tic.
01:20:26.000So I started looking into this and doctors talking about it and they actually had doctors saying these girls are being
01:20:31.000so heavily Influenced by a mix of anxiety and tick-tock. They are they
01:20:34.000are developing functional neurological disorders that are real
01:20:38.000That are real. They're not just puppeting and parroting.
01:20:41.000They're actually developing these anxiety induced I'm a huge fan of video games, but man, we are tweaking our
01:20:46.000brains with modern technology The emotional development that teenagers going through it
01:20:52.000like part of being a teenager is looking at your peers around you and figuring out
01:20:56.000What the social norms are so if you're only being fed people who are behaving in you know
01:21:01.000Maybe they really do have Tourette's and they have an issue and they're trying to talk about it or bring awareness, but if you're constantly being served like, I have anxiety, I have depression, I have Tourette's, you are then trained to be like, maybe I do too, and you start seeing it anywhere because that's part of the emotional growth that teenagers are going through.
01:21:16.000We should keep them away from this stuff.
01:21:18.000It's not that we shouldn't talk about mental health or anything like that, but we don't need to shove it down their throats so constantly that they become paranoid they themselves have the issue.
01:21:26.000One of the things that I've noticed is it's not so important how many followers you have, it's the quality of the followers.
01:23:17.000And I remember Facebook came out and it was like all the cool kids started migrating to Facebook.
01:23:22.000And I would see these posts from people that just looked so awesome and fun.
01:23:26.000And I was like, how come they're doing all this really awesome stuff and I'm not?
01:23:29.000And then, you know, it wasn't until later I realized like, oh, they weren't.
01:23:33.000They were faking cool things so they could look cool.
01:23:37.000And like that was their, it was marketing.
01:23:39.000And so we end up seeing this highlight reel of their life of all the coolest things they've done, but they staged a lot of it.
01:23:45.000They try to make it look as cool as possible.
01:23:47.000They try to make their lives look like movies so that you're jealous of them.
01:23:50.000My favorite is, I know girls who have, when they go through a breakup, right, they start posting on their Instagram or on their story all the time because they can't be the one that's at home and, like, sad.
01:23:59.000They have to be busy and cool and having a great time.
01:24:03.000These people don't realize they're robbing themselves of their own actual individual lives for the sake of other people who are viewing from their bedrooms.
01:24:10.000Yes, all they're giving away is their own time, which ends up being their lives.
01:24:13.000And I do want to say, before we move on from all this AOC talk, she's talking about holding two completely different Views in her mind at the same time.
01:24:21.000I think she's about to get red-pilled.
01:24:29.000I truly believed in the possibility of the human race, but at the same time seeing this insurmountable, you know, mountain of impossibility that I was up against and like, how the hell can I overcome a global monetary system?
01:24:41.000But what if also a lot of things that she's been preaching are not working and she's having to reconcile the fact that like there are policies that she is vocally backed that she doesn't actually, she's not sure she supports.
01:24:51.000She isn't just a person, she is a brand and identity that a lot of lefts want to cultivate in their own daughters.
01:24:57.000Like she can't, we talk about this with Jazz Jennings sometimes, like There's nowhere to go from there.
01:25:03.000Like, this person can only continue down this path, and that's scary.
01:25:06.000AOC can't come out and be like, well, that one bipartisan bill seems kind of good, you know?
01:25:10.000She can't, she has to continue down this path.
01:26:08.000But it is massively feminist to do that to take control of your life if you want a baby.
01:26:11.000But that's why I think they intercede.
01:26:13.000I don't know, I mean, how many people you know who are feeling the pressure to decide in your early 20s that you actually don't want kids and make a permanent decision to go past that.
01:26:21.000Like, they are trying to head south past because a lot of times you actually hear it from women who are in their late 20s or in their early 30s who are like, I thought the career was the most important thing, but I've reached this age and I actually would prefer to focus on my family.
01:26:33.000And if you can prevent people from ever having that door, when they hit 30, they have to continue to stand by that they made the right choice to get a hysterectomy when they are 21.
01:26:59.000I saw the story from Jennifer Lawrence, and she was like Roe v. Wade and things like that.
01:27:02.000And then I was like, look, if you support this stuff, like women need to be told this, that if you get abortions, so like, look, use condoms or whatever, try not to get pregnant.
01:27:11.000But if you get an abortion, you are increasingly likely that when you're older, you're not gonna be able to have kids.
01:27:15.000And that's because there's damage that's caused by it.
01:27:18.000It's the same thing with taking birth control for years.
01:27:20.000Like, those have long-term effects on the bodies, but because it's seen as this revolutionary tool that helped many women join the workforce and gain control of their body, like, we're not supposed to criticize it.
01:27:31.000And I actually think that sets us behind.
01:27:33.000I've known a lot of women who have struggled with, you know, anxiety, depression, different things like that, and really had to push their doctors to be honest about the consequences of taking hormonal birth control.
01:27:53.000And then 20 years later, when we have the ramifications of it, we're going to be like... And I wish women would hear that they are willing to sacrifice you and your personal choice and freedom and health to maintain this illusion that the ideology they pushed is worth Having a rest.
01:28:08.000Dude, if you are willing to give up your power to medical tyrannists, they will take it.
01:28:36.000It was the easiest thing in the world.
01:28:37.000And I'm terrified they're going to do the same thing with human hormones.
01:28:40.000Before we go to Super Chats, I want to give everybody an update on the song because it is now officially the end of the reporting period ended on Thursday.
01:28:49.000And there's a bunch of really good news and a bunch of really fun news for those that are interested.
01:28:54.000So the first thing I want to say is Only Ever Wanted, the song we released the 26th of August, is the number two most sold song in the U.S.
01:29:25.000So we're at number one alternative digital sales, number 24 hot rock and alternative, number 21 rock, number 28 in Canadian sales, number one in rock sales, number 21 on rock, and will of the people, which we released two years ago, hit number 17 in alternative digital sales, which is huge.
01:29:43.000And I'll tell you exactly why this mattered.
01:29:49.000I knew that invading the cultural spaces with apolitical content was going to trigger them to an extreme degree, and not only did they produce a bunch of videos ragging on the song, completely getting disproven.
01:30:00.000They're saying, oh, the song is bad, and it's stupid, and we hate it, and...
01:30:04.000It's got like 70,000 likes, 1.7 million, it's got tons of streams, number two digital song sales.
01:30:10.000You can't lie with the billboard charts we objectively placed among some of the biggest songs in the country.
01:30:16.000There are a bunch of bands that I'm a huge fan of that release songs all the time that never chart and I'm sure you know that exactly is the same thing but here's the best part.
01:30:23.000Um, without getting into specifics, when our communications people started reaching out and saying, here's a song from Pete Parada, Tim Pool, and Carter Banks, they got so effing pissed.
01:30:39.000We're gonna, for the time being, until I can do a deeper assessment, not going to reveal the names of these individuals and the things they said, but they were legit.
01:30:48.000F'ing pissed. I hate these people. F you like kind of stuff Refusing to write about it. I love it. It's like does your
01:30:56.000bias to get someone preclude you from doing your job apparently
01:30:59.000Well, here's the best part. They cannot ignore it There are tons of mainstream established rock bands that
01:31:06.000don't chart when they release songs and oh we did So how long are they going to be able to hold out, ignoring the fact that we put out music that lands on all of their charts?
01:31:16.000It's gonna get really funny when after the third time we chart, they're like, we're still not gonna write about this!
01:31:21.000And then people start saying like, hey, wait a minute, man, that song on the radio you're not writing about?
01:31:38.000So, uh, there are some issues with reporting on some of the numbers.
01:31:43.000Just take a look at what happened with Tom McDonald when he talked about how his numbers weren't tracked properly and they wouldn't put him on Billboard and things like that.
01:31:49.000We've, we've, we've, we've bumped into a little bit of that.
01:31:52.000But they can't deny it because sometimes the numbers are too much.
01:31:54.000Based on the metrics we got and where we land on the charts, I am 100% confident that the next song we put out is going to chart substantially higher.
01:32:03.000And they're not going to be able to ignore the fact that we are pushing into the cultural spaces they once owned and don't own anymore.
01:32:09.000It might be the third hit when they start writing about it.
01:32:12.000I said fifth, it might be the third one.
01:32:15.000And so let me just say that behind the scenes, I'm talking with a bunch of other big companies and artists who have seen similar problems and are sick and tired of the woke cult controlling the establishment, controlling the arts.
01:32:25.000And so we're talking and some fun and funny stuff is going to happen.
01:32:30.000And then I'm, look, Number two on Billboard for sales.
01:32:51.000And regardless of that, I'm not saying we came out with the Hot 100 number one hit.
01:32:54.000I didn't expect we would get anywhere, to be honest.
01:32:56.000A bunch of my favorite bands don't even make the charts, and we did.
01:32:59.000They're really pissed off about it, and we're going to keep pissing them off, so thank you all so much for helping us do that.
01:33:05.000And we're going to keep putting up music, and we're going to build that library, and we're going to be signing other artists, and we're going to go for people like, look...
01:33:13.000The Daily Wire brought on Gina Carano when they cancelled her, and boy did the corporate institutions, they got all pissed off.
01:33:23.000They're trying to keep you in fear, so that when you work for them, you don't speak out and you don't speak up because then you'll lose your job.
01:33:30.000When we succeed at producing this, and we plan on moving forward signing more bands and producing more music, How long until another industry executive or an engineer or producer says, you know what?
01:33:40.000I don't need to work for this garbage anymore because I can go work for any one of these other companies.
01:34:35.000Sooner or later, one of the songs we make will chart very, very high, and maybe be a top 40 or something, and it's gonna be really funny when they finally, begrudgingly, with anger in their eyes, write, song by Tim Casson, good, and people really like it, for making me love again.
01:34:53.000Maybe it won't be a song by me, it'll be a song by someone we signed, but the fact is, when we put out this music, and I'm gonna tell you guys how it works right now.
01:36:30.000Do you think it's fair to say that in some ways they are moving to the right because they were so far left and now, was it Chris Lish's name?
01:36:35.000He was like, I don't want as much partisan, we have to get back to being center.
01:36:39.000And so the criticism that they're moving to the right in some ways is true, although, like, not the way they're presenting it.
01:37:36.000I was thinking it's like the victory of a cultural battle, which isn't really victory, it's winning a battle, but what is the overall war score goal here?
01:37:46.000Individuality, freedom, personal responsibility.
01:37:49.000People saying, it is up to me to work hard to live a better life and make a better future for my kids.
01:37:54.000It's people saying, I'm not going to demand the government pay my bills, I'm going to do my best.
01:37:59.000It's not about what my government can do for me, but what I can do for my government.
01:38:07.000We gotta look out for international corporations that take that message of individual responsibility and highlight it on a show for the entire world to watch like slaves to like laud so that that if you've seen a black there's a black mirror episode where they do the stuff like that they will try and co-op the message of individual liberty as well and put it on a pedestal You know, they'll call up any message that services them and that people are willing to pay for.
01:40:36.000Ryan Miller says, missed the live show celebrating my first birthday as a father, but a late birthday gift to myself with a shout out to little Jackson Gilligan.
01:40:56.000So, Bad Thing, it was the extension idea we had where basically you take negative words for the right, like fascist, and it just says bad thing.
01:41:40.000It's not very difficult to get on these charts as long as you do it properly.
01:41:44.000You got to make a good song, obviously, but It's not as hard as people realize.
01:41:49.000You know, one of the things I think we're seeing is these book publishers are going to commentators and, you know, political figures and saying, can we do a book with you?
01:41:57.000Because your brand will market and sell this book in a big way.
01:42:05.000And it doesn't have to be like overtly political, like Tom McDonald and like the Bryson Grays, like your song wasn't.
01:42:10.000And that's, I think, a beautiful thing about it, because it gives us a better view of just not being political all the time and everything.
01:42:24.000But when the song, so like, Only Ever Wanted is just a love and pain song.
01:42:27.000So when regular people start hearing that, we're getting shazams, meaning people are hearing it and then wondering what it is and playing it.
01:42:32.000Those regular people being, are falling into our sphere of influence, and it's pulling it away from the cultural institutions.
01:42:51.000I told Seamus he's got to do a cartoon where I have like a pipe and I'm like bopping about and tooting and like people are following me and like... Towards a cliff.
01:43:29.000I mean, I know he's been working for a while, but he's really good.
01:43:32.000Ian was running for union president against Chris, and everybody voted, but there are employees who don't work here, so we had to wait for the absentee ballots, which came in at 3 a.m.
01:44:21.000Philip Reid says, Tim talking about making a tween pop song reminded me of Spose and his song Pop Song, which was about the big labels telling him he can't make what he wants and that he needs to make this instead.
01:44:30.000You know that song Love Song by Sara Bareilles?
01:45:47.000Waffle Sensei says the left only shows the strawman crazy people on the right, and the right only shows the strawman crazy people on the left.
01:46:00.000It's orienting people to believe that everyone else is polarized and there is no middle.
01:46:08.000Um, to a great degree, but the left is, it's the rule, and the right, it's the exception.
01:46:13.000Many people on the right only show the crazies on the left.
01:46:16.000All of the prominent lefties only show or lie about the people on the right.
01:46:20.000So, you know, for example, we've given praise to several people like Kyle Kalinske and, you know, Crystal Ball, for instance, were fans, and Jimmy Dore as well.
01:46:28.000Highlighting Jimmy Dore, I think, is a great example of showing someone who's on the left, who has socialist policies, but calls out what is false and wrong.
01:47:00.000Same here, and we were like, we could have some common ground, I know we don't normally agree, would you wanna come on and talk about an issue that we can find common ground on?
01:47:06.000She goes on The Young Turks, I hate PragerU, they're disgusting, they're garbage, I wouldn't go on their show no matter how much they pay me.
01:50:54.000When it comes to like... So here's another issue.
01:50:58.000Episode per episode, we're not the biggest, but it's because we do five episodes per week.
01:51:02.000Many of their podcasts do one per week, and they'll get a million hits in that one week, whereas we get, you know, like 10 million or something per week, but it's split up against all the other episodes.
01:51:49.000So I think part of it is like, if we only chase, like, how can we stay trending and how can we do this?
01:51:55.000We're also feeding the exact same, you know, comply with what YouTube wants.
01:51:59.000Like, I'm really grateful that we're able to talk about things that we're all interested in, but also not have to be like, well, we can't talk about that because like, then we won't Trend or whatever.
01:52:08.000I'm grateful that this has grown past that point because I'm sure in the beginning it was extremely helpful to trend.
01:52:37.000And if someone doesn't talk about it, that's a big problem.
01:52:39.000But I think, you know, there was a question we had about whether it's news or entertainment, and that news would be less jokey, less trolly, less silly, and very straightforward and very stodgy.
01:52:52.000Like, NPR podcasts would be a news podcast.
01:52:55.000So, you know, this is more conversational, more entertainment than... Personality-driven.
01:53:23.000And I feel like I contrast a lot with the work that we do on the newsroom side of things, where we try to be really accurate and devoid of opinion.
01:53:29.000We try to present things whereas this show is more fluid and it has a different purpose and people come to it for a different experience.
01:53:57.000Augusto Mimoche says, a well-trained horse won't move if you just set the lead of their bridle on the ground because they've been trained that it hurts to pull on.
01:54:09.000It's really funny, like, I don't want to say too much, but some of the reactions from these journalists, they're just really, really angry that Pete Parata is succeeding.
01:54:21.000Well, outsiders and people who push back on the authority, you know, I'll put it this way.
01:54:26.000If you're somebody who is really, really angry that you were forced to get the vaccine for your job, and then you find out other people are succeeding and they didn't, you're probably really angry.
01:55:12.000So my recommendation to people is if you're having issues and you don't trust your doctor, you better just find a good one.
01:55:16.000Like, experimental medicine, this is what I don't like about COVID, is that two weeks to slow the spread, that was the experimental moment.
01:56:40.000I don't want to be too mean to feminists but like I do think that there is this like am I making the right decisions and I think it has to do with policy but I do think the the article is interesting she says like that it was her partner who was like I want to get married by the end of 2022 and she was like I don't know how I feel about that but I don't know that she could have told this article as like the head of feminism Yeah, I really want to get married.
01:57:03.000I want him to propose three years ago.
01:57:05.000This is exactly what I talk about when I say I think she's about to get red-pilled because she's about that age.
01:57:09.000She's about my age and she's probably like, oh yeah, I should really have a family right about now.
01:57:13.000There was a story I saw earlier, a study came out saying that having kids makes you more conservative on all these different issues, and I'm like, yes.
01:57:21.000Surprise, surprise, people are no longer in favor of abortions for the most, like many people, lose their favorability towards abortion when they have kids.
01:57:29.000And then there's a lot of women who are like contemplating and had their kids and said, wow, I'm really glad I didn't do that.
01:57:33.000It's the weirdest thing that it's like, There's like these laws that say if a woman wants to get an abortion, someone has to counsel them on this stuff.
01:57:40.000Because so many women have their kid and then are grateful that they did, that it's really creepy that you have to try and stop someone from explaining that to them.
01:58:13.000They sterilize their kids, they abort their kids, they advocate for not having kids at all, and now they're cutting the electricity and they want to get rid of fossil fuels.
01:58:22.000All of that will result in less food, less people, less babies.
01:58:24.000Well, when you hear these conversations with people being like, oh, I'm choosing not to have children or I'm going to, you know, get sterilized.
01:59:38.000Waffle Sensei says, do not accept them not including your YouTube views.
01:59:41.000Every other artist in the world promotes their own material.
01:59:43.000Not everybody likes every song, but the people bought your music.
01:59:46.000The issue is, so we haven't got an official response yet, but before we made sure that we were doing everything properly so that they could not try and exclude us, And we got some responses from the official tracking companies saying, like, here's what you got to do and you're good to go.
02:01:06.000But most music you'll listen to, most of it, never charts.
02:01:10.000And that's the crazy thing to me, that a lot of the songs that I'm really into, the bands that I like, well I'm not going to name any bands because I don't want to talk about their analytics and stuff like that, but very few songs actually make it to the charts.
02:01:22.000They just put out a ton of music, people find it, buy the albums, and then over a long period of time they make money off of it.
02:01:27.000Right, because charting is about like a small finite period of time and how many views you get in that moment or buys you get in that moment, right?
02:01:34.000So it's like sales and also streams is like different charting methods.
02:02:33.000I mean, they used to sell way more back in the day, now they don't.
02:02:36.000I'm fairly confident, actually I will say this, I know for a fact, that if we did a pre-order on our album with a six month lead time, we'd probably hit the Billboard 200 at the top.
02:02:46.000We'd probably sell a couple hundred thousand.
02:02:48.000Based on the amount of sales we already had.
02:03:23.000If you're a new artist, like, selling 12,500 songs is not an easy task to do, you know, and so I really do appreciate everybody who supported us, but we have, like, we have fans of the show, we have fans of the content we produce who supported us, and so it's a mix of general support, political support, and people who genuinely like the music that we've produced, but I will just say that if that's the case, if what we can pull off in one week, Let's say we sold an album six months in advance.
02:04:31.000He took it down because I think the reason is that he's scared of the left and bowed out and tried to get away from the culture war or something like that.
02:04:54.000If you don't punch them, you're helping them.
02:04:55.000My friends, if you haven't already, You can check out our music on Spotify, search for Timcast, and there's two formal official songs, Will of the People and Only Ever Wanted, with several more to come.
02:05:08.000We've got Bright Eyes, we've got, what do we got?
02:05:12.000I think we're calling it Lockstep because genocide is not a good marketing term.
02:05:15.000We've got Eyes of Advice, we've got A Million to One.
02:05:19.000A lot of these songs you can already see, like, because we played, we jammed them before, words in a book, all of these things are getting ready for release, so thank you all so much for the support.
02:05:27.000Smash the like button, subscribe to this channel, head over to TimCast.com, become a member, we're gonna have a members-only show coming up.
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02:05:37.000Amala, do you want to shout anything out?
02:05:38.000Oh, yeah, you can check out my stuff by typing in Amala Penobi on any platform, I know that's a mouthful, but you can try.
02:05:43.000Also, I'll be at PragerU.com if you're worried about censorship.
02:06:32.000We actually play it fairly often downstairs, because the development version's available, and it's a collaboration with Seamus, so I guess it's a Freedom Tunes video game, basically.