On this week's episode of Tales from the Inverted world, we discuss the She-Hulk catcalling controversy, the fallout from the Dan Price scandal, and why Peter Thiel should be kicked out of the United States. Plus, a new episode of Pop Culture Crisis City.
00:00:57.000Well, we will talk about that, but I kind of felt like it'd be more fun to tackle some cultural issues, because we have this story about this famous leftist CEO named Dan Price.
00:01:06.000He's famous because he raised everyone's salaries to $70,000, and it caused a lot of issues, but also garnered a lot of attention among the left.
00:01:13.000He is now being accused of some very serious Let's just say, Me Too.
00:01:40.000Because you guys know I love Marvel shows.
00:01:41.000But this clip is going viral, where the She-Hulk talks about how she has to control her anger over men catcalling her, and when incompetent men tell her how to do her job.
00:01:51.000I have a lot to say about this, but it's going viral.
00:01:53.000I think Ben Shapiro may have talked about it as well.
00:01:56.000It's become a cultural debate, and I actually watched She-Hulk, believe it or not.
00:02:04.000But I gotta call out this segment, we gotta talk about that.
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00:02:25.000Tales from the Inverted World, of course, is in its second season with new episodes Sunday at 10 a.m., right?
00:02:53.000I don't want to say who our guest was supposed to be, because we're hoping to rebook them, but we are going to get a very high-ranking official from the Trump administration, who unfortunately had to cancel on us, and we needed Will's legal expertise.
00:03:03.000But of course, Will is still here with a lot of stuff to talk about, so I'm really excited for that.
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00:05:04.000Alright, we're gonna jump to this first story, and it's from the New York Times, but we will be leading with a quote from Dan Price, posting on LinkedIn.
00:05:10.000And he said, in the unlikely event that you are falsely accused, remember, that it will
00:05:15.000be much easier for you to overcome false allegations than it will be for actual victims to overcome
00:06:01.000Like, they talk about how he's on The Daily Show and they did magazines with him, but apparently he's been accused of I guess of like drugging a woman?
00:08:33.000Like then they feel, because they have put in the nice coins and they don't get what they're expecting, they get super resentful and angry about it.
00:08:39.000It's like the kind of guy who, there's like a woman and she's got spinach in her teeth and he's like, I'm not going to say anything.
00:08:44.000That's exactly what I was thinking about.
00:09:05.000So, so this guy, Dan Price, I really want to talk about his business because so much of what we see coming from perceived, this really, really grinds my gears.
00:09:55.000I was like, oh, bro's trying to save himself some money.
00:10:00.000When you take profit versus compensation, they're taxed differently.
00:10:04.000This is at least how two different accounting companies I've gone with have explained it to me, so maybe they're not correct, but this is my understanding, is that passive profit is not taxed the same way as employment, income, or direct compensation.
00:10:19.000So when I see this, I'm like, If the dude lowers his salary, he's gonna save a lot of money in taxes.
00:10:25.000Right, that's assuming if he owns or has a major stake in the company that he's running.
00:10:34.000So at the end of the year, if you're only paying yourself 70k, like Bezos does this.
00:10:37.000Bezos takes an $87,000 a year salary and then gets bonuses, and then Justify to the IRS why your salary is so low, but if you're gonna get audited anyway.
00:10:48.000So what I was told by two different accounting companies was if you're a CEO of a company with, you know, like an eight-figure revenue and then you pay yourself something like 70k, you know, you're gonna get audited in two seconds because they're like, that's bull, that's bull.
00:11:02.000You're trying to not pay your employment taxes.
00:11:04.000So when I saw this, I was like, well, how would you get around that?
00:12:02.000But what was like, and I have to say this about Trump too, Is the reasoning behind it that important if they're actively doing something good?
00:12:11.000Because we have to speculate as to his reasoning, but I think it's great that he's paying his staff more money.
00:12:15.000I got an article from Geek Wire about this story.
00:12:18.000He made according to you know, whatever the documents that he made nine hundred fifty thousand in
00:12:23.0002010 nine hundred thousand in 2011, but then when he went on TV told him he made fifty thousand in 2011 when he
00:13:11.000He's like, my salary was only, but he knows in the back of his mind, he made $900,000 in profit.
00:13:17.000It's really disturbing that he made that.
00:13:19.000And he was like, let this be the last lie I ever tell.
00:13:22.000Apparently there were big problems when he did this too.
00:13:26.000So like what happened was, these are just stories that I heard.
00:13:30.000There were some employees that were making $70,000 a year because they were like an accounts manager.
00:13:33.000And then there were some people who were in the mailroom who were getting hourly pay.
00:13:37.000All of a sudden, these mailroom people got bumped up to the same salary as an accounts manager who saw no raise.
00:13:42.000And then they were just like, I've been here for how long and you gave them a $50,000 a year raise and I got nothing?
00:13:49.000And so I read, you know, it's been a long time, I could be wrong, but a bunch of people resigned saying like, it's deeply offensive that we would not receive more compensation.
00:13:59.000But like the idea of a minimum wage meant they got nothing and the people of lower skill and lower time at the company lower seniority got Massive like two or three hundred percent raises.
00:14:09.000Yeah, I would actually be furious Complete stunt if you're one of those people making like 70 80 K for a job that you know requires a college degree And you know you've debts and things like that and then he like bumps up like the the you know intern or whatever the entry-level job up to 70 and you're like Where's my raise?
00:14:26.000The argument was supposed to be that's like you shouldn't be mad that someone else is making more money
00:14:30.000That's what a lot the left was saying like what is it's not affecting you at all and it's like you got to understand
00:14:36.000man When your company takes money from the budget and gives a
00:14:41.000raise to everyone, but you That is like getting punched in the gut
00:15:55.000Yeah, so, like, when I see people like, uh, Dan Price, I'm actually kind of like, okay, you know, like, do your thing, man, like, I'm not gonna complain about a guy, how he runs his business.
00:16:04.000If he's getting attention for raising salaries, it's like, whatever, dude, I don't trust it, but I'm not here to rag on that, you know what I mean?
00:16:09.000If somebody wants to do their business that way, it's, you know, just far be it from me, you know, but surprise, surprise, you know what I mean?
00:16:17.000Like, drug, raping a drugged victim is a crazy thing to be accused of.
00:18:37.000When I'm catcalled in the street, when incompetent men explain my own area of expertise to me, I do it pretty much every day because if I don't I will get called emotional or difficult or I might just literally get murdered.
00:18:53.000So I'm an expert at controlling my anger because I do it infinitely more than you.
00:18:59.000I love this clip for this face right here.
00:19:07.000Spoiler alerts, I don't know how many of you wanted to watch She-Hulk, but I do.
00:20:43.000And we know from the show, because they show her throwing boulders and smashing a cliff with her fists, that a full force kick would have exploded these men.
00:21:12.000When she transforms, she's fully cognitive and lucid of what she's doing, which means when she's sitting there explaining to him that she can control her anger, she's lying, she's also a dangerous, violent psychopath, and immediately after this, she says, I control my anger every day, and then she Hulks out.
00:21:32.000And then she calms back down. And so not only is she lying about controlling her anger in two
00:21:39.000instances here, she's lying. It's the perfect example of feminism.
00:21:45.000Exaggerating the claim, lying about their ability to control it, and then justifying that as why they're a victim.
00:21:54.000Like, this entire program is just, like, secretly putting forward, like, actually, yeah.
00:22:00.000If you, like, I'm watching this, and I see this clip going around, and they're like, say it for everyone in back, and I'm like, yeah, but the context of it is that she's lying.
00:22:07.000Like, it's like three minutes before she says that, she tries to murder some dude.
00:23:21.000In this, Hulk desperately begs her to use her powers for good and she outright refuses and says, no, it's my life and I'm going to follow my career.
00:23:32.000And he says, there's very few people who have the power we do.
00:25:16.000You're saying that a lawful good person can't be enraged, because that would make them evil.
00:25:20.000Well, that was the interesting thing about Hulk, is he was two people.
00:25:22.000Bruce Banner is, like, a good person, and then the Hulk was this evil thing that would come out of him, and he'd be like, no, I gotta stop!
00:25:56.000Um, I have some technical problems with this show I haven't seen it yet But when she in the beginning of the scene she starts to tell him this emotional thing and looks away to the right as she's talking That's really annoying to watch actors do that.
00:26:06.000It's kind of there there you see her to look to the right It's like she's trying to generate fake emotion which he glances to the right right there It's really annoying like you need a director to be like no look him in the eyes when you're talking Well, she's not looking at anybody's eyes.
00:26:16.000She's supposed to be looking at Bruce's eyes.
00:26:18.000No, no, but like she's actually looking at a big X on a stick.
00:26:21.000She might have Bruce in front of him working.
00:26:23.000They might be working a scene together.
00:26:24.000She has to look up, which means they would have Bruce and he would have a stick coming off his back with like a circle, a green circle on it.
00:26:30.000And she has to look at the two dots on the green circle.
00:26:32.000So she dropped the ball there, and then at the end, whoever wrote this script... This guy's just ragging on the acting of it.
00:27:50.000Most lawyers are trying to do good work and serve their clients.
00:27:56.000Maybe they're in a position where their clients are people you might find distasteful, but you don't get to pick your clients if you're a big law firm, for example.
00:28:01.000for example, you know, I mean, I could have, for example, like I had the choice,
00:28:04.000well, I had some choices, but my choices were between Bill Cosby, when I was working at Big Law,
00:28:09.000and there was a guy who had a Dirty Money episode made after him for running a, like, payday lending scheme
00:28:16.000that the FTC sued him for a billion dollars over.
00:28:20.000So like, that's the clients you represent, because those are the clients,
00:28:35.000Um, but one of the, one of the big themes in one of the later seasons is how, you know, one of the protagonist lawyers is representing a bank client and then is also kind of like screwing over that client to help the little guys who the bank is adverse to.
00:28:47.000And it's like, there's like, that's a bad lawyer.
00:28:51.000And that's sort of the point that the show is making is it's like, it's giving you first, it kind of gives you the reason to sympathize with the lawyer and be like, Oh yeah, you know, she's working and trying to, you know, be Robin Hood here.
00:29:00.000But the longer it goes on, the more you realize like, no, no, she's actually doing, she's the bad person here because she is betraying her client and like she eventually, you know, has to leave her firm and all that.
00:29:10.000I know there's a bunch of jokes about lawyers, like I literally made one.
00:29:13.000There's one I can't remember, but it's like a guy goes to hell, and then he's like, you know, or it's like a guy sells his soul to the devil, and then he goes to hell, and he's like, I need a lawyer, and then everyone raises their hand, or whatever the joke is, I don't know.
00:29:24.000But I actually think most lawyers are good.
00:29:25.000I actually think the overwhelming majority.
00:29:27.000In my interactions, I have not actually experienced the stereotype of a bad lawyer.
00:29:33.000Yeah, I mean, most of them are doing their jobs and trying to help their clients.
00:29:36.000They're expensive because there's a cartel.
00:29:50.000Is it you gotta go to the expensive school?
00:29:52.000You gotta go to law school and then pass a bar exam, right?
00:29:54.000And both are usually a requirement in most states, so that's what, you know, I mean, people come out of law school, $150,000 in debt, and they put in three years of work, so it's like the starting pay to just even hire a lawyer is really high.
00:30:34.000So it's crazy like on Instagram there's like, I don't want to call anybody out, but there's like these women who have, let's say they do specific talents.
00:30:47.000Like, they sing, or they're skiers or snowboarders.
00:30:52.000And then it's like, I'll see the video of, you know, them doing their skill, but then every other video is like, you know, busty cleavage showing, or like booty shaking and stuff like that, and those are the ones that get most of the views.
00:31:03.000And it's like, well, duh, you know what I mean?
00:31:05.000I wonder what's the point of even doing the other videos if, like, in the end you realize, like, where the- I'll tell you- I'll tell you a better story.
00:32:25.000Might be the competition on social media.
00:32:27.000It's like when people are mad at certain pop stars like Miley Cyrus or Billie Eilish when they start out as one thing and then they mutate into the sexy thing.
00:32:36.000I think the industry might be pressuring them.
00:33:35.000I think it's what it is in California.
00:33:36.000You can be mentored, but not go to law school, but still have to pass the bar.
00:33:41.000Right, like I don't, I don't think, I don't think, but I don't know, you'd have to look it up if California actually has any requirement about taking, about going to law school, right?
00:34:12.000The third year is a bunch of electives that you don't need to take, basically, and it's a way for the law school to make a little extra money off you.
00:34:19.000Really, the first two years are what you need.
00:34:21.000Sounds like the lawyer should overtake that and just chop it down to two years.
00:34:24.000Well, the lawyers don't care once they've graduated, because their prices are already high and they're making money.
00:34:31.000Once you're in the cartel, you don't have a reason to lower the bar and make it easier for other people to become a lawyer.
00:34:35.000My experience with getting cast for the way you look is really an empty... I felt lousy.
00:34:41.000Whenever I was in Hollywood doing it, if I got a modeling job and they'd take pictures, I'd just feel empty afterwards.
00:34:47.000Especially when they start saying it, and they're like, we just want to promote your Sex appeal, Ian.
00:35:49.000That's the way she monetizes her Instagram, is makeup.
00:35:52.000That, in my experience, leads to emptiness on the inside, but you know, it's a lot of money, so you kind of just pretend like it's okay.
00:35:59.000Well, my problem with... So, as much as, like, in the culture war they would call me right-wing, I'm, like, particularly left, especially when it comes to these ultra-wealthy people who use their money and just keep amassing and hoarding and amassing and hoarding, and they're not doing anything.
00:36:16.000I'm also fairly libertarian, so I'm, like, I'm not gonna rag on them and force them to do anything with their money.
00:36:19.000I just kind of accept the fact that people make money and then they do whatever they want with it, and it's like, okay, well, I wish they would do more.
00:36:26.000Maybe it's better we're better off they don't because Mackenzie Bezos decided to do more with Jeff's money and then she funded a whole bunch of woke garbage.
00:36:34.000So it's kind of like maybe we'd be better off if she bought a yacht with an infinity pool instead of funding woke racist BS.
00:39:28.000We'd probably talk about it, probably be a lot smaller.
00:39:31.000Yeah, like I mean it would just be much more depressing because I remember I don't know if you felt this way but politics and like from during the Obama era Was depressing and it's not just because like Obama was like bad or horrible.
00:39:42.000It was because there was no distinction between him and Romney I guess you guys remember the debates between Obama and Romney.
00:39:48.000No, if there's at some point like a little bit I There was a foreign policy debate.
00:39:52.000It was the last debate of that presidential election.
00:39:54.000I remember it distinctly because I remember posting something like, I have a Mormon drinking game and the drinking game is drink whenever they articulate a difference on foreign policy, right?
00:40:03.000Like, you would just, you'd stay sober.
00:40:06.000It was like, it was a debate where Mitt Romney did not disagree with anything Obama said for an hour and a half.
00:40:11.000They both agreed about bringing jobs back.
00:40:14.000Well, no, the economy stuff is where Romney tried to distinguish himself and did an okay job in that second debate.
00:40:18.000It was the one where he's like, oh, I approve of what you're doing in Libya.
00:40:32.000So yeah, it just would have been so boring.
00:40:34.000And I mean, I think, you know, I'm glad we had Trump for that reason, because now we really have two different parties.
00:40:40.000I've been thinking about Ukraine a lot.
00:40:41.000I want to know what you guys think about this is like right now.
00:40:44.000What it looks like is that the American British French have like troops in Ukraine on the front of Russia.
00:40:52.000It'd be like if Russia had troops all along the western coast of California and blockaded all the sea access because basically Ukraine's blocking Russia's access to the Black Sea.
00:41:30.000You guys saw that video of Marin, the Finnish Prime Minister?
00:41:35.000And she's like shaking it and bouncing it and all that stuff.
00:41:39.000You know, look, I don't care if someone wants to party, but as the Prime Minister, when you are facing nuclear deployment by Russia for joining NATO and you are on the border of this country, And that's your prime minister.
00:41:53.000Like, I got no problem with people wanting to dance and have a good time.
00:41:56.000I do have an issue with having a world leader who is acting more like a 16-year-old girl.
00:42:21.000You know what's something about Israel that's really interesting?
00:42:24.000If you actually look at the pictures of their politicians and their leaders, they're never smiling.
00:42:29.000Never ever smiling they're very very serious because that's sort of like that's the political Israel like you're constantly Defending against a bunch of grungy surrounding you like and you look at American politicians complete reverse, right?
00:42:41.000Yeah, American politicians are always smiling in their profile Have you ever looked at like the evolution of the smile and presidential portraits?
00:43:12.000I'm not a big, I mean, I definitely don't support invasion, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, I'm not a big, but I understand why they did, and I think it's purely to have sea access.
00:43:21.000Because if Russia had blocked off Alaskan, Western, all the coast, and just that was Russia, and we couldn't get boats out, it would be, come on, you don't even have a state if you don't have the sea access.
00:43:31.000The Black Sea is their only warm water port.
00:43:34.000They use that for access to the Mediterranean, and the reason why Syria is an important ally is because they have the military base in Tartus.
00:43:41.000So the actions the US was taking to put a pipeline through Syria and opposing the Assad regime was a direct threat to Russia's naval base, then with Ukraine wanting to go towards the EU.
00:44:26.000This was a huge threat to Russia because they knew they would lose Crimea where they had a base and their only access to the warm water, the Black Sea warm water port.
00:44:34.000So, of course, Russia then goes in and basically takes Crimea.
00:44:37.000The West at the time was very much in favor of the ongoing revolution or whatever you want to call it, the revolt against Yanukovych.
00:44:46.000Russia viewed that as To the outside world in the news, it was a protest.
00:44:51.000It was people protesting and declaring a new government.
00:44:53.000In reality, it was NATO influence, EU influence versus the Russian, the expansion of Russia and their desire for a trade federation.
00:45:00.000Some say Putin wanted to bring back the Soviet Union in some capacity or just outright.
00:45:04.000So this has always been a deeper political conflict that's bubbling up to war, except For when Donald Trump got elected and everything started to simmer down and calm down.
00:45:22.000But Russia was backing off until Joe Biden comes back and then Russia ramps everything back up because Putin knew Joe Biden and the uniparty regime, the establishment, was going to try and destabilize the region and gain more power, control, and expand.
00:45:37.000The crazy thing about NATO's purpose is resisting the Soviet Union.
00:45:41.000The Soviet Union doesn't exist anymore.
00:45:47.000It is a rapid military expansion, now taking in Sweden and Finland, and that is, whether you like it or not, whether it's good or bad for America, a direct threat to many countries in that region.
00:45:57.000And if you're worried, if you look at the expansion of the Soviet Union, if you look at the expansion into Vietnam, this is one of the reasons the U.S.
00:46:04.000wanted to get involved, to stop the communist expansion, the Korean War.
00:46:06.000We understand why militaristic expansion is a bad thing.
00:47:24.000Yet we keep finding ourselves entangled in them.
00:47:27.000It's because we are subjugated by the uniparty that will go to war no matter what you want, and they'll do it without congressional authority like they're supposed to get.
00:47:39.000So a lot of people complain about Trump's increasing of the drone strikes.
00:47:42.000I think it's bad, but you take a look at the fact that he was withdrawing our troops, that he was negotiating peace deals in the Middle East, he was negotiating peace deals in North Korea, and in exchange, you basically got our troops coming back, but drone strikes increasing in some areas.
00:47:56.000And it's not even Obama, I still think, had more drone strikes.
00:48:00.000Three every hour, every day for a whole year in 2015.
00:48:05.000Luke Ricalci was explaining Trump made them secretive, though.
00:49:04.000And so like he's supposed to be this libertarian and they're getting on him for setting up this like surveillance software that really helps the federal government track terrorists and things like that.
00:49:15.000He's like, do you think civil liberties would be better in a world where there's another 9-11 or do you think they will be worse?
00:49:21.000Right, and so I think the counterfactual here is if you don't have sufficient drone strikes to stop terrorism, to deter, and to stop attacks here, do you think, and in a world where there is an attack here, what do you think the end outcome of that will be?
00:49:32.000Like, if you want to keep us out of war, then the argument goes, then you need some sort of, like, low-level deterrence in, like, what's the incapacitation of certain people.
00:49:43.000And I agree only so far as the invasion was wrong in the first place.
00:49:48.000But to get off of that, you can't just pull the troops out like Biden did with surrendering the Bagram Air Force Base and all that stuff.
00:50:41.000That's an old joke too, that's from the Obama era.
00:50:43.000The big problem is people like terrorists or whoever will go into a hospital and use it as a human shield.
00:50:50.000They'll be like, hey, they'll be less likely to bomb me if I'm in here and they'll be firing anti-aircraft from the hospital.
00:50:55.000You're like, well, now what choice do I have?
00:50:57.000Even though we're not technically at war.
00:50:58.000That's basically the entire Israel-Palestine conflict, right?
00:51:01.000Like, that's the Palestinians' grand strategy is to eventually get Israel to attack their human shields to the point that eventually the international community just comes down on Israel.
00:51:13.000Palestinians don't have any other strategy to victory.
00:51:18.000And I think, like, you know, I'm not going to defend everything Israel does all the time, but when you bring that up, it's like they attack you as if you're some kind of, like, Zionist.
00:51:27.000It's like, dude, they're launching rockets out of schools.
00:51:32.000The other thing that's crazy about the drone stuff is just how dystopian it is to live in a place where they're constantly in the sky, like bombing your land.
00:51:39.000I worked at, I was a furniture mover for like 10 years, and we'd get like prayer rugs from places all over the, from the Middle East, and we started to see a lot of prayer rugs that had drones stitched into the border of them.
00:51:49.000And it was just like a thing that would happen a lot.
00:52:30.000And that means I don't want American troops on the corners occupying cities.
00:52:35.000I think that's worse than sometimes a drone is flying overhead and it's being used to enforce security, but I still think it's bad.
00:52:43.000My ideal is that with Afghanistan, Trump negotiated this withdrawal.
00:52:46.000We slowly start pulling troops out, but we make sure we're handing off security to the Afghan security forces and maintaining a light drone presence a little bit longer for security to back them up.
00:52:56.000And then eventually we're gone and you got a stabilized country.
00:53:01.000Instead, Joe Biden evacuates Bagram in the middle of the night without telling the security forces.
00:53:26.000It was something about how when the moment that when Biden withdrew, it wasn't the way that these like remote outpost bases that the government was holding, the Afghan government's holding onto, they were all supported by air.
00:53:39.000They didn't have like convoys go to them.
00:53:46.000air support fell apart, it's like, well, the entire Afghan army falls apart at that point because they were completely dependent on American contractors providing logistics.
00:53:56.000Biden told everyone that he was gonna pull out on that day.
00:54:19.000I mean, Trump brought the Taliban in and had negotiations with them about how this is going to go down and how we're going to leave and what he expects of them in this move.
00:56:48.000Millionaires and billionaires have, first, for the, since, like the stories that are coming out in like 2017 after Trump gets elected, millionaires and billionaires, and I'm talking about like high-level millionaires, not like somebody who's got like 10 million, but somebody who's worth like 750, they're building emergency bunkers in New Zealand.
00:57:05.000They've got, one of the craziest stories I read is that they carved out mountains with landing strips
00:57:10.000so you can fly into the mountain to land, like in Kingsman.
00:57:15.000You guys see Kingsman when they land in the mountain?
00:57:17.000So it's like the bad guy wants to kill everybody because the planet's overheating.
00:57:20.000It's basically like a Bill Gates who started a tech company.
00:57:24.000And then he's like, he's got a list, but he's like, the planet is heating up.
00:57:28.000And so it's going to create a virus, which is climate change, and it's going to kill everybody.
00:57:32.000And so he wants to force, he wants to kill everybody to stop that from happening.
00:58:10.000So anyway, here's I did this as my my 4 p.m.
00:58:13.000Segment, but my question to you guys is we'll expand this conversation are Millionaires are the millionaires and the billionaires are they building this stuff because they know something we don't Or is it because they got money to kick around and they said why not?
00:58:25.000I think some might, but there's also lots of people with lots of money buying places on the coast, and they're also telling us the coasts are going to flood soon.
01:00:02.000That's the last thing I'd be thinking about in my doomsday bunker.
01:00:04.000It's a very, very small, very like trivial insurance policy for like the, you know, hedging against the collapse of the United States or United States becoming particularly inhospitable.
01:01:24.000Someone as rich as Peter Thiel, his net worth will drop to about $500,000 when an apocalypse happens.
01:01:30.000Because his stocks, his investments, all that evaporate overnight.
01:01:34.000If there's a global governmental crisis or collapse and war breaks out, We've not seen something to this extent.
01:01:41.000Like, even in major wars, you'll still have international, like, assets.
01:01:46.000Like, somebody from Britain can put assets in Switzerland and all that kind of stuff.
01:01:50.000It's probably why Switzerland loved being neutral, and people loved that they were.
01:01:53.000But if we actually had a total global breakdown of, like, international treaties and stuff, His net worth is what he can hold in his hands.
01:02:02.000Who trusts him and who's going to back him up.
01:02:32.000Kitts and Nevis, I think it costs $50,000 to be a citizen.
01:02:35.000Yeah, there's there's different like small Caribbean countries that like I think St.
01:02:38.000Kitts and Nevis is like the biggest one And they're and and people the rich people love that island because their passports are better than the American passport Because it's an it's an island nation of like no consequence So their passports are basically accepted everywhere because every country knows you're a rich dude is just gonna come and spend money in your country So like oh, whatever.
01:02:54.000Yeah Wow Yeah, so you can, you can basically, I don't, I've never actually researched this, but I've had friends tell me about people who, that you go there, you put, you give them 50 grand and they hand you your passport, you're a citizen.
01:03:06.000Do you guys have dual citizenship or multi-citizenship?
01:03:22.000And so the German government has a program for people who, like in their view, would have been born in Germany or would have been German descendants, but for the Nazis, that they can apply for German citizenship for a cheap, for a relatively cheap, like a couple grand or something.
01:03:37.000There's actually a bunch of countries that do things like that regardless of displacement.
01:03:40.000Like if you are the grandson or daughter of someone who is a citizen who like emigrated, you can apply and get it.
01:03:49.000I think in South Korea, you can get a B visa if you're the grandson or daughter of a Korean citizen.
01:03:55.000Yeah, my wife could do that with Greece because her dad's from Greece.
01:04:12.000So, you know, that's, uh, and I mean, honestly, it's not really that valuable in the sense of, I mean, well, I can, when I go to Europe, I get to go through the short line if I have my passport with me and conceivably, if I wanted to go work in the EU.
01:04:24.000Other countries though, like what about Iran?
01:04:42.000Their family had, you know, had plenty of, uh, I don't know exactly.
01:04:46.000I actually don't know the story of exactly how she got out, but I assume it's one of those, like she managed to cross the border or she flew.
01:04:57.000But yeah, I mean, it's a simple, you know, that's actually, you know, not an uncommon story where, you know, her family at the time had, you know, businesses and, you know, a reasonable amount of money and they just abandoned it all.
01:05:09.000Showed up penniless in the United States.
01:06:01.000And I wonder, you know, I don't want to compare what's happening in the United States directly to a lot of these other countries and other historical moments because history doesn't repeat it rhymes.
01:06:10.000But I wonder if, you know, looking at the Summer of Love with around 30 deaths, billions of dollars in damage and mass rioting from far-left ideological extremists, I don't think is as bad as what this was.
01:08:23.000So when you hear, like I mentioned, when you hear that the FBI told Trump's people to secure these documents with a padlock, and they do, and then a few months later come in and smash the padlock, it makes no sense.
01:08:34.000Unless you point out, unless the reality is, it was a different group of FBI agents who did it.
01:08:39.000And I had someone reach out to me claiming to be a retired agent who said, you're exactly right.
01:08:43.000There may be, there is leadership, there is leadership at the top, but different, you know, managers or, you know, supervisors in different field offices, in different interests, I'm sure, exactly, are going to be doing things against each other's interests.
01:08:55.000Yeah, I think, well, I was actually looking into this because, you know, a lot of people started talking about defunding the FBI, and I was like, I was actually thinking about what could a president do with just an executive order?
01:09:07.000they could do a lot uh the fbi doesn't have like an explicit much in the way of explicit delegated authority from congress it actually is delegated to the attorney general who then has like the right to appoint officials but the fbi is sort of like implicitly It's not actually mandated by Congress in the same way that other law enforcement agencies are.
01:09:28.000And so, theoretically, a president and an attorney general could essentially just make an executive order that's like, the FBI only does the things that is very specifically mandated to do by Congress, like track serial killers, and everything else we're just gonna shut it off to.
01:09:57.000I read... Or it might fund it, but that's different from saying... So basically you could basically strip the FBI of authority even if you didn't strip it of funding via an executive order.
01:10:08.000There's a meme that's going around that Trump could sign an executive order disbanding it outright because it's got no congressional authority into its existence that it was created by executive order or something like that.
01:10:41.000Bank robberies, when bank robberies were a big deal, that was like a big trigger for, I think that was more like when the FBI really got a lot of its expansion because one of the problems that, it was a huge problem in the Midwest where you have all these states that are pretty small and like, think about something like Kansas City where it's across the border and Kansas and Missouri.
01:10:59.000So you'd have bank robbers constantly robbing a bank in Kansas and then crossing the border to Missouri and not getting prosecuted.
01:11:14.000So when you look at the history of the FBI, it talks about the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, which eventually evolves into the Bureau of Investigation, which eventually evolves into the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
01:11:27.000And there was, it's interesting, it says there were fears the new agency would serve as secret police, as a secret police department.
01:11:33.000Again, at Roosevelt's urging, Bonaparte moved to organize a formal Bureau of Investigation, which would then have its own staff of special agents.
01:11:55.000Like he didn't like, you know, some big corporate interests screwing up the environment in certain states and, you know, getting away with it.
01:12:26.000I mean, there might be other laws or other statutes that are like funding the FBI or Essentially mean, you know the civil service rules that protect the people there.
01:12:34.000Okay, that's all fine But you could you could just strip it of authority and tell them all to go play bridge like, you know, not go kidnap a governor Yeah, right.
01:12:42.000Yeah all that you can stop doing that my animal brain My lizard brain has a hard time with the idea of it erasing the FBI because it's been with me my whole life So I'm like wouldn't that cause chaos?
01:14:54.000I don't know about like, I think the CIA certainly does have, you know, its fingers in some bad stuff, like a lot of bad stuff actually, but domestically it's like, it sounds like it's mostly the FBI.
01:15:03.000Yeah, the other thing, other unique thing you could do is, you know, we are kind of unique among western countries in that we have both the same institution handles both like federal policing and counterintelligence.
01:15:15.000And those are not norm, those are not necessarily like combined functions, right?
01:15:19.000One is like detecting spies and like thwarting foreign intelligence efforts, and the other is like just federal police work, right?
01:15:26.000You know, investigating crimes and helping the DOJ prosecute them.
01:15:28.000If Donald Trump is going to get rid of the FBI, he's got to preserve the X-Files and make sure that they're the one thing.
01:15:48.000Well, if people out there have watched the latest episode of Tales from the Inverted World, they would have seen the letter I wrote to President Carter about me demanding transparency of he, you know, when he was on the campaign trail, he promised to release all UFO documents because Carter saw UFO in Georgia.
01:16:03.000And then he talked about it extensively in the campaign trail promising this.
01:16:06.000And the second he got into office, like most politicians do, he backpedaled and didn't release anything because of national security, quote, unquote.
01:16:52.000But that's a thing, like, it says it's a fictional case deemed unsolvable by the FBI.
01:16:56.000I read somewhere that the show was inspired by something that, like, it's not literally the X-Files, but, like, somebody was reading about how the FBI couldn't solve something, and they're like, oh, we should do a show like that and call it something.
01:17:07.000Well, they have certainly done experiments, like the remote viewing stuff where they'd sit the cops in a room or just bring people.
01:20:30.000Dude, they will get you no matter what, even if you're innocent bystander.
01:20:33.000I just think of when Hillary Clinton apologized to everyone for back in the day when we dose people in Guatemala with syphilis, you know, just random people.
01:20:41.000We'll just get you just because we want to know what happens when syphilis goes through the human body without being treated.
01:22:12.000But I'll tell you some of the craziest stuff I've ever read, I don't know how true this is, that ultra low frequencies are one of the reasons they think people report haunted houses.
01:22:21.000So that when you get hit by ultra low frequencies you can't interpret it as sound, but it hits your body in waves which causes like a sensation of someone being around you, it causes like feelings of dread, heart rate increasing, so people Maybe when they think they're seeing a ghost, it could be hit by ultra low frequencies of energy rushing through them.
01:22:53.000I think that the human spirit is real and like we have these magnetic fields, but also that we're bomb, the humans are experimenting by bombarding ourselves with radiation and mag, you know, low frequencies like harp, H-A-R-P.
01:23:04.000I don't know if you guys studied much of high altitude.
01:23:07.000I talked to some people at harp for a volume one of inverted world.
01:23:09.000And they're, like, firing them up into space.
01:23:10.000I thought they were killing the birds.
01:24:30.000If time is not linear, but if you expand out of, like, our perception of time being linear, but if you then zoom out above it, and it's more of, like, this, you know, moving fabric... What if time is a cube?
01:25:12.000This person, in 2016, walks into a room, and then all of a sudden sees a semi-transparent figure standing before him, wearing clothes from the 1820s, and for a brief moment, looks at them and goes, and they go, they run away screaming, I just saw a ghost!
01:25:29.000The fabric of time between that 100 almost 200 year gap brushed against each other and very briefly that man in the 1820s clothes who saw the figure from the future screamed seeing a ghost.
01:25:45.000They both thought each other were ghosts.
01:25:47.000Then that guy writes down, this house is demonic, it is haunted.
01:25:51.000That story gets passed down and people are like, whoa, a haunted house.
01:25:54.000Then the person in the future goes there and when the time intersects briefly, just for
01:25:57.000a flicker of a moment, they both see each other and create the paradox.
01:26:02.000Two separate existences in two separate times folding into one another.
01:26:25.000But if the building is the same building from the 1800s, but remodeled and just reinforced over time, you would quite literally be standing in front of the person in the same physical space as time brushed past itself.
01:26:36.000And this is like the ghost I grew up with, because I grew up in a house that was built in the 1700s.
01:26:38.000And I think a lot of people died around that time as well in that house.
01:26:43.000But the ghost that I investigated for Inverted World last year, he was, I shared his room, you know, I think, and I think we just crossed paths because we were in the same room, the same kitchen.
01:26:55.000He, I think, was just like he felt comfort living there with us because he lost his family and now here he was with us.
01:27:05.000This is like, I didn't completely make this up because I remember when I did college debate, people would argue, this is like a response to anything on the affirmative and they had no idea whether they, instead, you know, the affirmative would get up and argue for some policy change and they'd be like, and the negative would get up and be like, time is a cube.
01:27:23.000This is a guy who said that all modern sciences are participating in a worldwide conspiracy to teach lies by omitting his theory's alleged truth that each day actually consists of four days occurring simultaneously.
01:27:44.000When people will give you their theories, you've got to keep in mind that just because one theory is right doesn't mean another theory isn't also right.
01:27:50.000Because I think a lot of these different scientific theories, they're arguing about which one's the right one.
01:27:55.000A lot of them are just explaining the system from different perspectives.
01:28:16.000And what I mean by that is we think we know so much and we constantly prove ourselves wrong.
01:28:22.000So there's probably, there's obviously a ton of stuff we clearly know, like we've been able to make glass bottles, mass produce DVDs, build computers.
01:28:30.000We clearly understand very, you know, powerful scientific, powerful science.
01:28:34.000But when it comes to the abstract and theoretical stuff, we probably are getting almost all of it wrong.
01:29:40.000You know, you can see into the future 0.08 seconds.
01:29:42.000So I think when people have like, we ever go to talk to someone and you have like, you get afraid right before you say it, then they react to the fear.
01:29:50.000Or if you're like brave, right before you say it, they react to the bravery.
01:29:53.000That's how Ozymandias caught the bullet when Silk Spectre 2 fired at him in his Antarctic laboratory.
01:30:04.000I think you're right about ghosts being trapped to locations because there's this phantom DNA experiment where they'll put DNA inside of a vacuum, bombard it with photons, and the photons start to spin around the DNA as if it's there with it.
01:30:14.000Then they remove the DNA from the vacuum.
01:30:17.000The photons stay there as if the DNA was still there for like two weeks.
01:30:21.000The photons will stay there and rotate.
01:30:23.000And I wonder if that's just like an example of how long a ghost or a piece of energy could be bound to a spot and like I think time is a cube.
01:31:08.000So the double slit experiment we've talked about before, and then there was another one someone brought up that was even crazier, but you guys are familiar with the double slit experiment, right?
01:32:28.000So people believe that if you will it, it will happen.
01:32:31.000And that the reason why we've lost that ability is because the global elite started putting fluoride in the water so that it would calcify our pineal glands, which are our third eye that grant us the ability.
01:33:37.000No, just like everything that's happened with Trump and the way he behaves and the things that are happening, it's like, how is this probabilistic?
01:33:46.000It should be so exceedingly rare, but so many strange things are happening at once that it seems like we've won the lottery 10 times in a few years.
01:33:53.000Like Brian Stelter and Liz Cheney going out in the same week is like, come on, that's like winning the lottery twice in two days.
01:35:19.000It's like like attracts like kind of idea.
01:35:21.000So I will tell you this of the like the very successful and well-off people I know the majority of them really do believe they have magic powers and you think I'm exaggerating like bro I've sat down with famous actors and actresses and celebrities and they casually talk about their magic and then you look at these people And their wealth and success and I'm like my view is perhaps because you've had an easy life of wealth and success you assume you must have magic and it's actually malignant narcissism.
01:35:50.000But these people actually believe no the reality is that they believe in their magic and that's granted them easy access and easy life.
01:35:57.000And you know, what I can accept about some of that is like, yeah, it really doesn't make sense how you got to this position.
01:36:02.000It's not like you worked really hard and earned it.
01:36:04.000It's like you went to the right place at the right time and then got chosen and all of a sudden you're successful and rich.
01:36:09.000It's like, well, the reality is you were a driven person who sought out opportunity and you had the talent and drive and passing that off as magic is just, you're kind of insulting yourself.
01:36:20.000Well, I mean, it's also a fake humility.
01:38:38.000Whatever it was, maybe it was magic, maybe it was just coincidence, but I cried.
01:38:42.000And when she left, I was like, holy crap.
01:38:44.000And I used that as like a symbol for me to be like, I'm on some kind of right path.
01:38:47.000I think people are like, I guess you call them pattern recognition machines.
01:38:53.000When you're thinking something, your brain activity is creating a neural pattern, whether the eyes might not perceive it, but her brain is perceiving it.
01:39:02.000Whether or not you can see it, I don't think.
01:40:02.000Uh, I think that there's a bit of leftover nuclear waste that they put inside of diamond and then it produces, um, oh gosh, how does it produce charge?
01:40:10.000Is it a neutron pulse that it's sending out?
01:40:12.000Sending out some sort of pulse through the diamond that's, and then the diamond is vibrating and then capturing the energy, I believe, creates a really low power electrical charge for like 10,000 years.
01:40:22.000Never, and it's nuclear waste that you use to make the batteries.
01:40:30.000All right, Augusto Mimoche says, Shane, a good friend of mine and I want to do an on-site investigation into the mythical Dulce, New Mexico alien base.
01:41:15.000You'd need to get there are machines that can find really low like sensitivity, but you need to somehow dampen the outer layer around you like with a Faraday mechanism to not have interference.
01:41:52.000But this story I'm telling you about this guy, bro, I know Short little weaselly dudes who got all the ladies because they're powerful men.
01:42:01.000Because they figured out how to succeed, how to dominate conversations.
01:42:43.000They then took these things and added biographical information.
01:42:47.000And that same guy who was a 9, they wrote that he was a theater manager who made $35,000 a year, and the women rated him a 7.
01:42:54.000They took the guy who was rated a 4, and they said he was a computer software engineer who made $600,000 a year, and they rated him a 7.
01:43:01.000So, like, that stuff matters to women for obvious reasons.
01:43:05.000Yeah, they want genetic superiority for their children, and if they think that you can get them money and safety with your personality, you're gonna be much more attractive.
01:43:51.000I was such a loser nerd in high school and as soon as I got to college I started acting and as soon as I got a good role and like did a good job on stage I got the hottest girlfriend.
01:44:01.000I gotta give a slow clap to Curtis C on this one.
01:44:04.000He super chats, if Uncle Ben had a gun as per the second amendment he probably would be alive but they lived in New York and Ben probably couldn't carry a gun legally and now Peter lives with guilt.
01:45:50.000Yeah, actually, we could look at tons of origin stories and just, like, correct them with, like, sane policies so they don't happen.
01:45:56.000Right, yeah, like, the whole traumatic event doesn't happen and then they end up living some normal, boring life.
01:46:01.000Like, the Joker story is actually, like, really simple, too.
01:46:04.000He gets, like, he gets good health care from a good doctor with, like, a proper health system and then, you know, he just lives a normal life.
01:46:18.000Superman, the dad, could get like a bazooka and blow up the asteroid.
01:46:22.000I don't know, maybe they could use some giant weapon, space weapon that they've been building to blow up the asteroid and save the planet.
01:46:27.000Krypton was destroyed because... Was it an asteroid?
01:46:31.000Well, depending on which iteration of it, it was that they were like overdeveloping and had destroyed the planet's core or something like that.
01:47:29.000I mean, one of the points they made, and I had never actually heard this articulated very well, like, think about, like, a fentanyl dealer and, like, how many deaths they cause as a result of their dealing.
01:49:47.000Being too open-minded, your brain will fall out.
01:49:52.000Gem R says, in the internet age, we're going to have to have to be more accepting.
01:49:56.000We're going to have to be more accepting of politicians being real, whether that's a 36-year-old partying or someone having crap opinions on Twitter at 16.
01:50:06.000You know, I get that, though, but When that Finnish Prime Minister was like booty dancing and stuff, apparently like the guy kissing her in the dance isn't her husband.
01:50:30.000I do goofy stuff and will probably film stuff with with Cast Castle.
01:50:34.000But my point is that when you're looking for a leader, there are people right now.
01:50:39.000Who might goof off a little bit in that way, but world leaders tend to be very steadfast and serious, or at least that's what we expect.
01:50:47.000I was talking about this in a segment earlier.
01:50:49.000Everyone's partying in the city with the city lights going off, and the soldiers at the city walls are standing steadfast to make sure everyone's safe.
01:50:56.000And that's the person you want leading your country, to make sure you're safe as you're dancing.
01:51:00.000Not to have the leader go off and go dancing when Russia's knocking on your door with nuclear weapons.
01:51:04.000Yeah, your military commander should not be getting drunk with the troops.
01:51:09.000Like, think about if you're just a random soldier in the Finnish military, what you'd think of seeing your, the leader of, head of the government acting this way.
01:51:16.000Like, especially with like, you know, you just joined NATO.
01:51:20.000Russia's threatening a nuclear deployment on your border?
01:51:23.000Like, there's a lack of seriousness there that I would be annoyed by, like, if I were serving.
01:51:30.000I don't know if they have the same sort of commander-in-chief structure, but I assume she's the head of government.
01:51:34.000I assume the government would declare war if they ever went to war.
01:51:38.000The government is responsible for setting the rules of the draft and the rules of their service.
01:51:43.000Roberto Lara says, so what Tim is saying is the billionaires are building doomsday bunkers and becoming dual citizens to, dare I say, evading the tax the rich phrase?
01:51:51.000Bro, it is crazy how the rich get away with not paying taxes.
01:51:55.000Yeah, they don't need to go to New Zealand and set up a thing to not pay taxes.
01:52:00.000But it's like, I really do feel like there's no real way to solve the issue of getting people who have massive amounts of wealth to pay taxes.
01:52:10.000And I'm not talking about wealth tax garbage, that makes no sense.
01:52:13.000There's an issue of just how, when you have a ton of money, how you can structure it to where you don't pay money on the income generated, be it capital gains or otherwise.
01:52:23.000Like the Panama Papers, for instance, we know it.
01:52:26.000I'm not a fan of taxes, though, so I'm not entirely sure, like, if the solution is just give the money to the government.
01:52:32.000I'm not opposed to a taxation system if the government wasn't overtly corrupt, so, you know, I'm not gonna pretend to have the answer, so I'm just gonna stand on the fence, how about that?
01:52:40.000It'd be cool if the government was like, here's what we need, and then we paid for that with the taxes, as opposed to them being like, this is how much money we need, then they don't even tell you what it's for.
01:53:02.000Crazy Savior says Lex Friedman had an intriguing conversation with Donald Hoffman about the nature of reality, consciousness, and the future of science and physics.
01:53:17.000Or it was actually like articles in a podcast, but now that we've like kind of changed it, we are like, we need a more podcast element of conversations about this stuff instead of the storytelling stuff.
01:53:25.000We did do a great series of members only interviews and Ian was my first guest and it was amazing.
01:54:54.000Once it launches, we'll show it on the show.
01:54:55.000Yeah, because the way we want to have an impact on the culture, so we were hoping that it charts and does all that normal stuff like, you know, John Rich's progress hit number one on iTunes for like eight days or whatever.
01:55:06.000He was Billboard, I think, Billboard Top 65, which is huge in the Hot 100.
01:55:47.000Mike Gibson says Art Bell on his show did an experiment where he had all his listeners focus on different things, and every time what they were focusing on happened.
01:58:47.000So that's Mary Morgan, co-host of Pop Culture Crisis.
01:58:50.000So the trick is, whenever you're going to hire someone, what you do is you invite them out to hang out, to meet everybody, and then you say, That's a great test.
01:58:59.000run to the grocery store and pick up some drinks and you know some soda and
01:59:02.000some pizzas maybe and then when you go you bring you you bring the shopping
01:59:06.000cart unload it and then you wait to see if they put it back and if they don't
01:59:10.000you don't hire them. That's great test. I always return the cart.
02:02:09.000Jack talks about Pizza Hut nationalism and we were talking about how they had the Bukkit program where if you finished the book report you got a wheel and had coupons on it.
02:02:18.000And then my parents showed me a Dunkin' Donuts, I got a free donut.
02:02:20.000We go to Pizza Hut, you get the free personal pizza.
02:02:22.000And then the next day, it was Pandora actually, I was playing music when I was skating, and an ad popped up and in big blue letters said, book it.
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02:03:51.000We're on episode seven right now, and it's a blast.
02:03:56.000They're killing it, and looking forward to the next volume, which I've already started.
02:04:00.000This is like the we need to get the mobile apps and I know this is the big hurdle for us because we've been talking with some OTT developers about we've got hit by a bunch of a bunch of people have hit us up about making the app.
02:04:13.000This is the best show for when you're like driving home late at night or you're on a road trip and you just play every episode and it's just like.
02:04:20.000That was like one of the best comments we've, we've gotten.
02:04:22.000It was like, someone drove from like LA to, to Vegas, listening to Inverted World.
02:04:28.000This is what I was thinking when I was like, we got to do something like this.
02:04:32.000Cause I remember when I went on a road trip, that's all I want to do is play ghost stories, call-in shows, like, you know, stuff like that.
02:04:38.000I was like, we need something like that.
02:05:09.000And if with that positive affirmation, I will sign off as well.
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