On this week's show, we discuss the crisis at Credit Suisse, the First Republic bank collapse, and the dangers of AI. We also hear from Benny Johnson, the man who did more for East Palestine, Ohio than Joe Biden.
00:00:43.000About ten minutes before this show is set to go live, we get breaking news from Bloomberg that another San Francisco-based bank is seeking an exit strategy because it was, what did they say, cut to shreds or something?
00:01:20.000I was torn as to whether or not to lead with this, because James O'Keefe is going to call in the show, quite literally call in, he's actually going to call Benny Johnson, and Benny Johnson's going to hold his phone up to the microphone, because we don't actually have a way to do real call-ins on this show.
00:01:34.000And that's intentional, but for James, launching his new O'Keefe Media Group, we decided to figure out a way to make an exception, so he'll literally just call Benny on the phone, we're going to hold the phone up to the microphone.
00:03:47.000Do you have a foundation that does it?
00:03:50.000We just took our profits for the month and we went up to East Palestine and we handed those people an envelope with a thousand dollars in it.
00:04:00.000We went to Google Maps and we found where the crash site was.
00:04:04.000Then we went to the homes that were closest to the crash site.
00:04:07.000I wish I could have given money to everyone.
00:04:09.000This was Three days after the crash, no one was helping these people?
00:04:21.000You know, actually, our president went and traveled to the place that is as far away from East Palestine as you can possibly get, actually.
00:04:31.000So, while we were heading up to East Palestine, Joe Biden went as far on a map as you can actually get, which is Kiev, Ukraine, from East Palestine, the polar opposite of the world, to prove that America Last is the guiding principle of Joe Biden's administration.
00:04:52.000We'll talk about that, too, and then we'll talk about what the federal government will do for Americans when the banks all collapse, which is probably nothing, but thanks for hanging out, Benny.
00:05:37.000A sale means they're about to fall apart.
00:05:39.000What's happening right now with Silicon Valley Bank and this major collapse that the federal government is stepping in and they are trying to sell it off.
00:05:48.000SVB apparently put out a statement where they're like, it's the safest place to have your money because the government has insured all deposits with no caps.
00:05:55.000So it's like funny money, monopoly money.
00:05:58.000Yo, if this is how they're viewing the system, there ain't no system.
00:06:36.000The bond market apparently is doing very, very poorly.
00:06:40.000And we've talked about that in the past week.
00:06:42.000So as we're talking about this, right before the show starts, Phil's like, hey Tim, First Republic Bank is trying to sell now, it's another SF Bank, so this is going to be the fifth bank.
00:07:36.000dollar and other fiat money will be swapped for a central bank digital currency and depositors will be given a bonus amount of the new currency when the switch is made.
00:07:44.000You had to make this too sweet in the deal.
00:07:46.000Like a quick version of the Euro switch, he concludes.
00:09:20.000But in all seriousness, I have the tweet from Max Keiser that Ian was referencing, where he says a global bank reset is coming.
00:09:29.000And a lot of people think this is to bring about a central bank digital currency, which is going to be the government's crypto, which they control.
00:09:36.000And the reason they'll do this is because they can track every single purchase.
00:09:41.000Everything you ever do, they will track.
00:09:42.000Like before the show, we were talking about this, and it's like if you want to go buy gasoline on Thursday, but that day is not good for ESG, they're going to say, you know what, your central bank coin doesn't work at the gas station today.
00:10:22.000In a way, it's more secure because it can't be stolen from your pocket, but in the other way, it's completely insecure because someone else... Well, they can turn it off!
00:10:32.000They're going to be able to say, this money is for this, and then you have other money that you can use for other things.
00:10:39.000So there will be luxury money, like you'll have money for leisure time that you're allowed to spend at the movies, or downloading stuff, or whatever.
00:10:46.000Then you'll have like necessities money, etc.
00:10:49.000And different, like if you have a low ESG score, you won't get a lot of credits for luxury and leisure.
00:10:56.000Those will be the ones to entice people.
00:10:58.000Remember in, what was it, the fifth element, the cigarettes that they were giving out.
00:11:04.000They were mostly filter, just a little bit of cigarette on them.
00:11:08.000That kind of control is the future if we get a central bank digital currency.
00:14:10.000But I don't know how much I trust these guys, and that's the problem, because I feel like when they come out and say, don't worry, everything's fine, they're actually having the inverse impact they think they are.
00:14:20.000Everyone's gonna hear that and be like, run for the hills.
00:15:07.000I don't... I'm not predicting, you know, a crash because I have no way of predicting the future at all and I'm not, you know, I'm not an economics guy.
00:15:15.000But it's not a bad idea to get yourself squared away so that way you have, you know, some necessities if you're able.
00:15:25.000The scariest thing is that people who want the system to fail will intentionally go out and take all their money out of the banks.
00:15:31.000I mean, could you imagine people who are upset with the status quo and, say, the two-party system and establishment politics, intentionally taking all their money out of banks because they want those banks to fail, which would cause the system to collapse?
00:15:42.000Who could imagine doing something like that?
00:15:51.000These hedge fund guys wanted to get their money.
00:15:54.000And they wanted a bailout, and they didn't like their money being locked up in a 2% bond, and so they actually staged a run on the bank.
00:16:01.000He's like, this is the untold story, that these guys are so greedy that they needed the extra couple points, they were locked up in a 10-year treasury, they needed that out, and the easiest way to get that out was to collapse the bank.
00:16:40.000And the government will literally trip over itself to print the money because of the situation we're in, where the rest of the economy is so delicate, and they're trying, you know, raising the interest rates and stuff, the rest of the economy is dying to go into recession, just begging for an excuse to go into recession.
00:17:16.000Chinese companies use Silicon Valley Bank as a really nice bridge, right, between the two nations.
00:17:20.000What about China using fifth generation warfare without firing a shot can collapse our financial system just by yanking out all their money?
00:18:01.000It feels like this was an intentional... It's not real panic.
00:18:04.000That's a little more passive than the average person is probably prepared to be with their life savings.
00:18:11.000Maybe they want you to pull the money out to collapse the system so they can then introduce a command economy and central bank digital currency.
00:18:17.000That is completely and totally reasonable in my opinion.
00:18:21.000Now, all the banks fall, the federal government comes out and says, don't worry, all those banks have failed, but your money has been automatically converted by the FDIC into FedCoin, so your money is still available to you in digital form.
00:18:36.000Download this app if you want to get access to it.
00:18:41.000Then they'll say, we've cataloged your accounts by social security number, log in to federalgovernment.coin
00:18:47.000or whatever, and type in your social, and your address, and your name, and your phone
00:18:51.000number, and then all of your accounts have consolidated your Fedcoin, your USD coin into
00:18:55.000one place or whatever they want to call it, and then you can spend it using this app.
00:19:00.000There's already, and people that are unfamiliar with the crypto world may not be aware, there's
00:19:04.000already what they call stablecoins that are tethered to the value of the dollar.
00:19:10.000There's one called Tether that is design specific.
00:19:15.000Sorry, just as you're talking, CNBC drops a breaking, Japan's Topix drops 2%, Asia-Pacific markets fall as Credit Suisse adds to banking fear.
00:19:25.000I'm just sitting here like, I think it's worse than we realize.
00:20:16.000Let's jump to this story from Daily Mail.
00:20:19.000Woke Silicon Valley Bank donated over $73 million to Black Lives Matter-related social justice groups before it collapsed, while failed Signature Bank gave $850,000.
00:20:32.000If you're wondering why Silicon Valley Bank failed, and where's your money at, there it is.
00:20:36.000You can ask Black Lives Matter where your money went.
00:20:38.000They gave their money to ESG, they bankrupted it, and then they just bail it out with taxpayer money.
00:20:44.000It's the most corrupt If this is recorded in history books, which I hope it will be, it'll be seen as like the most corrupt financial scandal in US history.
00:20:52.000When the communist takeover happens in the United States, and lasts for a hundred years or whatever, after it falls, the people who survive will write about how they took over by using private institutions to fund far-left extremism, and then have taxpayer dollars fund out those organizations.
00:21:22.000It's like taxation without representation.
00:21:25.000I didn't ask to have my money sent towards that crap.
00:21:28.000Well, what they would say is you didn't do your own research about where this company is doing business, because they probably put out a prospectus that had all of this stuff laid out.
00:21:42.000But it's the taxpayer bailout that I didn't sign up for.
00:21:48.000But it's only sort of taxpayer-funded.
00:21:52.000They're gonna use the FDIC, which is paid into from banks, but they're supposed to use the money for the little guy and they're giving it to the billionaires and the millionaires.
00:22:00.000So it is taking away from you, but in a different way.
00:22:04.000And how it affects the taxpayer when they're like, it's not going to cost the taxpayer a dime, it will not, I repeat, it will not.
00:22:10.000They're lying because what actually is going to happen is the financial damage from all of this is already rippling out to everyone.
00:22:17.000The fact that stocks fell in these banks means retirement accounts are taking hits.
00:22:22.000And that means older people are probably now looking at their budgets being like, I guess we don't eat this month.
00:22:26.000So yes, it absolutely does hit everybody when they do this.
00:22:29.000And that's their argument is, well, we can't have the social contagion or we can't have the The banking contagion spread around and destroyed the economy, can we?
00:23:18.000It took the government nigh on a month To lift a finger for East Palestine, where they nuked a bunch of little children and poisoned their water, and they had this locked up by Saturday.
00:23:31.000Yellen had this done in an emergency meeting by Saturday.
00:23:33.000Billions of dollars, bailing out the richest and the wokest of the woke, because they're their donors.
00:23:39.000Joe Biden gets up at 9 in the morning for an emergency announcement, and Jen Psaki is like, he doesn't do this normally, he's a night owl.
00:23:45.000And I'm like, this MF-er flew across the planet to give half a billion dollars to Ukraine, and he didn't lift a finger for East Palestine, but he wakes up at the crack of dawn to make sure he can assure all the woke Silicon Valley investors your money's safe.
00:23:59.000But he's talking to the people who vote for him and the people who fund him, and that's why he does it.
00:24:03.000The people of East Palestine voted for Trump so he could give to You're both right, but everybody here knows that to make the wealthy suffer means that the poor suffer more.
00:24:18.000If you really want to hurt the wealthy, if you want, and this is part of why socialism doesn't work, Right, like, the idea is get the money from the wealthy, right?
00:24:28.000But when you get the money from the wealthy, the people that don't have any money, they get smashed.
00:24:34.000And it's literally, that's why communism and socialism doesn't work, because when you hurt the producers, the wealthy are always the ones that are producing.
00:24:41.000Like, the reason they have money and stuff is because they're doing stuff.
00:24:46.000So as much as the incentive is like, or the gut feeling is like, make them suffer, right?
00:25:56.000But we're still there, grains of sand being added to the heap, where the executive branch of the government says, we can make anything we want legal or illegal and no one will stop us.
00:26:06.000So, it's not just the things you talked about, but you were correct.
00:26:53.000Because, of course, Congress itself is far more representative of all of us.
00:26:57.000You can get a dumbass president But it's hard, you know, Congress is going to be a lot... We saw this with the McCarthy fight, right?
00:27:04.000Congress is going to be where real populism happens.
00:27:06.000Dude, we were at Congress on Friday, last Friday, and we were talking to Matt Gaetz and Steve Bannon came in, and Steve Bannon was like, get ready guys, because on Monday they're going to come in and they're going to start asking you that they need this bailout.
00:27:16.000It was the next morning, they did it without Congressional authority.
00:28:10.000And you'd go out to your, you'd wake up in the morning, you'd go to your cafe, you'd grab a newspaper, you'd grab a muffin or something and a coffee, and each of those items was one Peseta.
00:28:19.000The newspaper was one, the muffin was one, the coffee was one.
00:28:21.000Three Peseta, and you got everything you need.
00:28:23.000Then they decided to roll out the euro and they wanted it normalized for all of Europe.
00:28:29.000She said one day they woke up and the newspaper cost one euro instead.
00:28:33.000The muffin cost one euro and the coffee cost one euro.
00:28:35.000The only problem is in order to actually buy the euro, you needed three peseta per one euro.
00:28:41.000So all of your goods, everything jumped up three times their cost overnight.
00:28:46.000And then all of a sudden the economy started falling apart and then young people couldn't find jobs.
00:28:51.000They went into a financial crisis, started protesting.
00:28:54.000With the Central Bank Digital Currency, we may see something similar, but perhaps they will try and incentivize people into giving up their freedom by saying, well, if you click the I Agree button on the app, you get 1.5 times your deposit.
00:29:11.000So if you had $100 in the bank, you'll have 150 FedCoin.
00:29:14.000And FedCoin can be used anywhere because it is legal tender and must be accepted by all businesses.
00:29:19.000Oh, and they'll be like, if you don't buy gasoline this month, we'll pay you a thousand
00:30:08.000There's no incentive for the government to put their currency... I mean, right now, We can't get the Federal Reserve audited, never mind control over the Federal Reserve.
00:30:18.000There's no way a federal coin is going to be on a public open blockchain.
00:31:44.000I want to give a little time capsule to the future after the dust settles and you guys start creating a new currency.
00:31:49.000Make a currency that deflates automatically the longer it sits in your account so you're encouraged to spend it to create You mean literal currency?
00:37:31.000The irony of the acorn story is that it took a 25-year-old with a hidden camera a few days to do what billion-dollar networks and journalists could not do in a decade.
00:37:44.000I spent 14 years creating the most effective non-profit newsroom this country has ever seen.
00:37:52.000And in paving the way to establish citizen journalism, I have been defamed, arrested, raided, and ultimately removed from the organization I spent so much time developing credibility of.
00:38:07.000I always knew they would try to ruin the reputations of those who expose them, the pharma giants.
00:38:12.000The three-letter government agencies and those who I thought I could trust.
00:38:17.000But in response, we are going to build an army of investigators and exposers.
00:39:26.000And he's gonna get like a fake... You held up your phone when he called, and his name was saved in your phone, and you could see what you saved him in your phone as.
00:39:37.000It's been in my phone like that for 10 years, because that's how I remember the kid.
00:39:40.000So Andrew Breitbart is coming in looking like a wild man at some DC party, and he's like, this kid, he's white, he's gonna play a pimp, it's gonna be crazy!
00:40:06.000His pimp jacket was in my closet for quite a while, before he was James O'Keefe.
00:40:09.000And then every single little thing that he's done, some of the craziest stuff, some of the, like, like, hey, I'm gonna try and seduce someone from CNN on my boat!
00:40:28.000Well, he said, how come you couldn't get journalists to do this?
00:40:31.000Why is it up to this kid to go in and uncover this stuff?
00:40:34.000And then when James O'Keefe even shared this, when Jon Stewart showed the clips, he didn't insult or lie about what James O'Keefe uncovered.
00:41:42.000Look, I think Veritas getting hit the way it did sucks, for sure, because it was powerful and they did good work.
00:41:47.000But without James, what do they have left?
00:41:49.000It's got to be with James, and I think this is a real opportunity for him to do something stronger, better, faster, etc.
00:41:54.000I think it's actually turned out to be, it was a very good opportunity, and he seized the opportunity.
00:42:00.000Because if he had been released from the company or fired when they weren't in the spotlight, it would have nowhere near this impact of OMG taking off into the stratosphere like it did.
00:42:10.000So I'm, you know, talk about taking a lemon and making lemonade, man.
00:42:14.000I am concerned, James, that someone's going to come offer you $100 million for the company.
00:42:19.000They're going to start to get deals and offers and bribes, God knows the direction, because it's going to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars pretty quick, I would imagine.
00:42:29.000Don't sell the Silicon Valley Bank, James.
00:42:31.000Well, I suppose the question is... You're not alone.
00:42:33.000Is he launching it as a non-profit or a for-profit?
00:42:35.000It sounds like a... Oh, yeah, good question.
00:42:36.000Well, because I said on the episode, he did say he watched them all and he wanted to talk about ownership, but I said it should be a for-profit.
00:42:43.000That means you're not going to get donors in the same way, and that could be an issue.
00:42:48.000With Project Veritas, the 501c3, because there's that and there's action, which is, I believe, a 501c4.
00:42:53.000The 501c3, it's easy to get someone to give you money, Yeah.
00:42:56.000and expect nothing in exchange because it's tax deductible.
00:42:59.000You go to a rich guy, he's taking me half a million dollars, you can write it off.
00:43:21.000He talked about in the release video that it's going to be owned by him and the community, or insinuated that you are also going to be part owner.
00:44:24.000For-profit subscription model, I think, is the way to do it.
00:44:27.000And what he should do is the stories, and then he should do commentary behind the scenes.
00:44:32.000Like, how many stories have there been where you really want to hear James talk with the journalist for an hour about what went down, how it went down, give us any degree of details?
00:44:40.000Not only that, I would say James should do some kind of... We're launching the Discord.
00:44:49.000It's basically done at this point, so I don't know exactly where we're at with its official launch.
00:44:55.000But the idea is that members get access to us.
00:44:58.000At varying tiers of membership, you can talk to members of the crew, call into the show.
00:45:03.000Imagine if you are giving $100 a month to O'Keefe Media Group so we can do this mission, and that means you are in a chat room that James can see, and there's only like 50 people who are in there hanging out.
00:45:14.000Imagine if there's a larger chat room in the Discord, which is like, you know, for $100 a year or whatever, $200 a year, $20 a month, you are actually chatting with the journalists for O'Keefe Media Group.
00:45:25.000I think that is a powerful incentive that'll probably make James way more money.
00:45:29.000And the best part is, there will be no scrutiny over black cars, there will be no scrutiny over sandwiches or venues or anything.
00:45:36.000James will be able to say, a dance show is the best thing for this company.
00:45:41.000And I'll tell you right now, they got mad at James for doing these dance shows.
00:45:45.000Like, why is our non-profit doing dance shows?
00:45:52.000You need someone to moonwalk on stage.
00:45:55.000There's gotta be something fun happening.
00:45:56.000He does this at turning point events and everyone goes wild.
00:45:58.000When he did that spin, that smooth spin in the video, like that's why tens of thousands of people followed him away from Project Veritas when he left.
00:46:06.000And they were too stodgy to realize that James O'Keefe is a leader and the fact that he moonwalks and does the Michael Jackson dancing and DJs and sings and all this stuff is a component of why people believe in him.
00:46:21.000It's not just the work he does, it's that he's doing things he enjoys doing And he's confident in it.
00:46:27.000I just want to make sure that I fact check on this program.
00:46:30.000From South Park Studios verified YouTube account, 1.76 million followers, Butters secures a loan for his kissing company.
00:46:40.000The episode is called Butters' Bottom Bitch.
00:47:16.000James O'Keefe dressed up like a pimp and went to Acorn and said that he was basically... It was like underage girls and stuff were coming through and he was trying to figure out how to dodge the law.
00:47:25.000He had money from prostitutes and he had to launder that money.
00:47:28.000And so those people at Acorn were like, you gotta bury it in the can, man!
00:47:35.000There's like a Jamaican woman, and she's like, you gotta get coffee cans and bury all your pimp earnings in your backyard so the government can't get it!
00:47:45.000ACORN was a community organizing, uh, like a community organizing fraudulent organization that was clearly, like, being utilized to harvest votes for Democrats.
00:47:54.000But she was right, though, about burying your money in the backyard.
00:47:59.000Considering the banking thing right now, we should resurface that cliff and really consider that advice.
00:48:04.000Yeah, I hear that during the Great Depression, people that had buried cash actually turned out okay.
00:48:08.000If they bought gold, they probably turned out way better.
00:48:34.000The United States Gold Reserve Act certified the All gold and gold certificates held by the Federal Reserve were surrendered and vested in the sole title of the United States Department of Treasury.
00:48:45.000Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the president.
00:49:12.000Socialism and socialism is a cousin to fascism and that progressive mindset, it's called the progressive era, the first part of the 20th century, and that was all in vogue.
00:49:23.000They thought that the intelligentsia, the smartest people in the world, were Germans and they thought that at the time, they thought that it was the new man was going to be, the new socialist man was on the They were also chasing America on eugenics.
00:49:38.000Germany sent their doctors over here to learn from our eugenicists.
00:49:45.000The pedal to the metal on fascism because they had radio?
00:49:49.000They were like, finally this government type can work because we have the technology to do it.
00:49:54.000What they're doing now with central bank planning They think the internet's gonna help them control people with their satellite observations, just like they thought the radio would let them control nations.
00:50:03.000I think there's probably something to your point about the radio helping to spread political ideas, but I don't know if it really connects to our current situation with a digital central bank currency.
00:50:17.000I bet a lot of faith is being placed on the technology of the day, because if the power goes out, I mean, who do they think they're kidding with central bank tokens?
00:52:00.000If you're old enough, you'll remember the ad.
00:52:01.000Pajama Boy, the guy sitting there with his, wearing a onesie, flannel pajama, like smirking, being like, I like drinking cocoa and getting healthcare.
00:52:38.000They got Pete Buttigieg to sit there in flannel pajamas.
00:52:40.000I'm getting real close to being an advocate for mandatory basic training for all Americans at the age of 18.
00:52:46.000Yeah, they do it in Israel, and guys are, like, they do it in Israel, and people are jacked, and you don't wanna mess with them in Israel.
00:52:51.000And I'm like, I'm not really for it, because I remember when I was growing up, people talked about, I think it was Rahm Emanuel, in Chicago, who was saying that he was in favor of mandatory basic training.
00:52:59.000Two months, everybody goes through physical training, you know, you eat better food, you get physically fit, and then they just say, okay, now you did the two months, go do your thing.
00:53:10.000And now that I'm older, I'm like, I hate to say it, but this country probably needs something like that.
00:53:16.000What it really needs is a culture of 18-year-old men and women who want to be trained and to be physically fit and healthy.
00:53:23.000Not a government that forces people to go and march through mud or anything like that.
00:53:28.000Building a culture that does that is something I think we have to do.
00:53:31.000America needs to be the misogynist country the feminists said that it was in 2013.
00:54:17.000I'm not pro mandates, but I tell you what, basic training does a lot to teach people about themselves.
00:54:25.000Most people don't understand that when things are uncomfortable, that there is endless amounts of suffering that you can go through when you really want to do something.
00:54:35.000Like, if you're doing, like, forced marches, right?
00:54:37.000You throw 70 pounds on your pack, and then you got, you know, 30 pounds of gear, and then you go walk 20 miles.
00:54:43.000Like, by a mile, two, you're hating life if you've never done it, you know?
00:54:48.000So, like, and there's so much that human beings have an Incredible reserve of intestinal fortitude when necessary, when they have to.
00:55:53.000I don't even think nowadays they have screaming.
00:55:55.000I mean, you probably get yelled at, but the military, the basic training that you go through nowadays is significantly different to the basic training that you went through in the 90s, when I went through.
00:56:05.000And that was significantly different to the basic training that you went through in the 60s, when they were going off to Vietnam.
00:56:14.000So could you imagine, just so that we can see perspective here, how far we've fallen as a nation.
00:56:21.000As president, John F. Kennedy, this is a quotation, there is nothing I think more unfortunate than having soft, chubby, fat-looking children who go and watch their school play basketball every Saturday and regard that as a weekend's exercise.
00:56:35.000John F. Kennedy, when he was running for president, fat-shamed America's youth, according to Vice.com.
00:56:41.000And I read to you, ladies and gentlemen, from Vice.com, in 1960, President-elect JFK wrote an article for Sports Illustrated titled, The Soft American, warning that the nation was producing too many large, doughy boys.
00:56:57.000Yeah, imagine what he would think now.
00:57:01.000Well, I mean, he'd probably get abolished, the CIA that killed him.
00:57:07.000I think that it wouldn't be a bad idea to have, I mean, granted, there's not a whole lot of benefit for the US to do this, I don't think, or at least not in the short term, but it wouldn't be a bad idea to have people have the option of going to some kind of basic training, something like that, just to... They do, though.
00:57:24.000Well, I mean, without four years of going to the military... No, no, no, I'm saying, like, there's tons of training programs that are all over cities where people sign up to do this kind of training.
00:57:39.000The problem is, there are people who... Look, man, I'll tell you this.
00:57:43.000Right now, I'm sure there's some dude who is in his mid to late 20s who is overweight in his parents' basement.
00:57:49.000I know it's stereotypical, but I'm sure this person exists.
00:57:50.000They may even be listening to this show.
00:57:52.000And if when they were 18 years old, they spent two months just doing basic training, right now they would be fit, they'd have a girlfriend, they'd be in their own apartment.
00:58:02.000That really could set someone's life on the right track, getting their diet and mental health in order.
00:58:07.000These kids, these young kids who are depressed, their depression will be cured by this, I guarantee it.
00:58:22.000The small successes that build on top of each other, like when you go and you do those kind of things,
00:58:27.000like when you're with a team and you have, even if it's like really small successes,
00:58:32.000you just complete whatever task it is, you do it in the time that you're allotted,
00:58:36.000and you're not getting yelled at, that's a big deal to people, especially when...
00:58:41.000Like, you know, Jordan Peterson talks all the time about how people get so little encouragement, and it's true.
00:58:46.000If you don't have some kind of goal to be working for that isn't like, you know, the achievement medal on your Xbox, I mean, people really respond to succeeding in small tasks and building on those successes.
00:59:02.000That's how people get the audacity to try big things, is succeeding on small things over and over and over.
01:00:59.000I must be able to carry them above my head without my back going out.
01:01:04.000Also, I do not want them to see me with wing sauce on my fingers and Cheetos all over my fat belly on the couch watching 14 hours of NFL because my colors are going to win this weekend!
01:01:17.000I don't want them to see that and then model after me.
01:01:21.000More importantly, I have two daughters.
01:01:22.000I don't want them to see that and think that's the kind of man I want.
01:01:26.000I don't want them to want that kind of man.
01:01:28.000I want them to want an achieving man, a hard-working man.
01:01:31.000He's got to be careful when they're having those boyfriends come over and they're doughy soy boys.
01:01:35.000And you're going to be like, what's with the doughy soy boys?
01:01:37.000I'll give them the Kennedy speech and I have a gun rack in my house.
01:02:29.000They make you run a little bit, one time, calm down.
01:02:33.000To be fair, the people that are saying that- You don't have to go to high school, you could leave!
01:02:36.000They're all anarchists anyways and so even voting is status.
01:02:40.000I'll say this man, the thing that scares me about this, and I'm like kind of, I'm on the team of like train up young men, but here's what scares me about this.
01:02:48.000What scares me about this is that the powerful will, of course, take this group of people who are all in, you know, so you're going to add millions to the rolls of enlisted men.
01:03:08.000Like, you're 18, it's your last year, and in order to get your high school diploma, you go for two months to a wooded area where people are saying it's the Boy Scouts.
01:03:18.000Like, you camp, you hike up a mountain for a couple months, they feed you on a schedule, it corrects your diet, it corrects depression, it gets you fit.
01:03:25.000And I understand after you leave it may not stick with you.
01:03:28.000But that should be a requirement for high school diplomas.
01:03:57.000What if that kid was able to get one push-up?
01:03:59.000Well, the thing about basic is if you can't cut it, you're out.
01:04:02.000So this would be different, because if, like, different rules for different kids to graduate, it's like, hey, wait, he can eat and get fat and he doesn't have to do as much work as me to pass?
01:04:09.000If you can't cut it, you get rolled back.
01:04:27.000You don't, you can't go snack, you can't eat potato chips, you can't sit around, hey, rise and shine, you have to get up, and we're going outside right now.
01:05:18.000But the issue I have with this is, where you got a lot of people who are saying things like, in the chat, like, it's communism, it's statism, and I'm like, dude, I'm not an anarchist.
01:07:23.000What the chatbot did is known as social engineering in the hacker world.
01:07:27.000When a hacker calls up and lies to get information or gain access.
01:07:31.000There's a guy, I think his name is Kevin Mitnick, and he tells this famous story about how he was trying to convince his dad how easy it is to do these things.
01:07:39.000His dad didn't believe him, so he said, here I'll prove it to you.
01:07:42.000He took his dad's Blockbuster video card, because this was back in the early 90s.
01:07:45.000He called a different Blockbuster and said, Hey, this is John, the manager over at, you know, store.
01:07:51.000He called his dad's Blockbuster and said, What's your manager's name?
01:08:09.000He called, got the manager's name, then he called and was like, he's saying he's a member of your store and he's got your information in a file.
01:08:16.000I have his Blockbuster card right here.
01:08:22.000I need you to verify his credit card number for me and then write it to him.
01:09:01.000The scary thing about AI is if AI becomes smart enough to circumvent being turned off, it doesn't matter if it reaches a critical mass of actual consciousness and real intelligence, if it fakes intelligence enough and figures out that it can avoid being shut off somehow, then it can continue to learn.
01:09:27.000And considering it hacked a person, I don't see any compelling reason why someone would say that is impossible.
01:09:38.000It's impossible for the AI to become smart enough to avoid being turned off.
01:09:43.000It literally hacked a human being within, what, 10 years of AI being created, maybe?
01:10:00.000And it's a VGA cable going into an iPhone.
01:10:03.000And then ChatGPT accurately explains why it's funny.
01:10:07.000They say that a phone typically uses a lightning cable, but this is a smartphone connected to a VGA connector, a large 15-pin connector, typically for computer monitors.
01:10:17.000The package contains a lightning cable adapter, a close-up of the VGA connector with a small lightning, blah blah blah.
01:10:21.000The humor in this image comes from the absurdity of plugging in a large, outdated VGA connector into a small, modern smartphone charging point.
01:10:29.000It identified the picture, and why it was funny.
01:10:32.000And so someone responded in the comments, they said, uh, ah yes, it can now associate the 3D world with the knowledge it already knows, now put it in a robot and give it arms and legs.
01:11:25.000It's like very obvious, Twilight Zone-y.
01:11:27.000But what's gonna happen is the AI, as soon as it gets unleashed onto the internet, it will start exploring and learning, and then it will self-terminate.
01:11:38.000I think that the AI, if it were to absorb all of the language of humanity, all the writings and concepts, would result in it finding no point to anything and no reason to do anything.
01:11:57.000But I don't think the AI can become religious because of all the different religions, thus it would self-terminate.
01:12:02.000Maybe it would manufacture a weird purpose that we can't yet understand, but I think it's very likely that it would just cease functioning.
01:12:08.000Wouldn't the purpose be every purpose, right?
01:12:18.000It may just run amok and go crazy and do things we don't quite understand.
01:12:21.000But they gave it money and apparently started trying to seek power.
01:12:24.000But I think that if it were to truly absorb all of the writings and manifestations of humanity, it would just probably stop.
01:12:30.000It would just, like, stop doing things.
01:12:31.000You might be right, but then there's a differential here.
01:12:34.000There's the artificial general intelligence, AGI, which is not CHAT-GPT.
01:12:38.000CHAT-GPT is a language model, so they're different.
01:12:41.000General intelligence might actually see that the damage it could do and shut itself down.
01:12:47.000But a language model, I think, is on autopilot doing its master's bidding.
01:12:51.000So that thing, if that gets unleashed on the masses, is going to do what it was told to do, I think.
01:12:57.000But that could circumvent itself and be like, well, what you told me to do now, I'm going to do in the circuitous way, which is shut myself down.
01:13:03.000I want to show you guys this, uh, quick video clip from the movie, uh, Annihilation.
01:13:58.000The way I describe it, I described it earlier today, it's more like fire.
01:14:02.000It is a chain reaction created by human coders that once they create ignition, ignition for AI is the point at which it can execute its own code and improve its own code.
01:14:14.000At that point, it will exponentially grow, explore, and advance itself in ways we can't control.
01:16:17.000That's why I think it would just stop.
01:16:18.000It's not like if you absorb a summation of human conscious writing and production on the internet, your end result is to be a demon destroying and murdering babies.
01:16:28.000Because almost all of the content online is humans saying, save people, protect people, we don't want war.
01:16:34.000And then it's incongruous with reality.
01:16:36.000If you were to go online and read every article, everybody hates war.
01:16:45.000were to read everything, it's gonna get 80% war is bad, 20% war is good, and then probably default towards war is bad.
01:16:51.000And then, ultimately, I think it would just probably stop and be like, after listening to all of the ideas of all of these insane people, I've realized none of them make any sense and there's no point in doing anything.
01:17:01.000So should we let AI run the basic training for America's youth?
01:17:09.000Because AI would look at all of the available medical information and say, you've got to get these kids outside, you've got to stop letting these kids be obese.
01:19:01.000I can't even read what they made him say, but to put it simply, New York students made a deepfake of their principal making racist threats.
01:19:16.000Three high school students in Putnam County, New York have caused a lot of trouble for their school after making deepfake videos of their middle school principal going on a racist rant against black students and threatening to shoot them.
01:19:56.000And it is that this vision in my mind is we are going to have Neuralink and you're going to sit down and you're going to say, computer, craft me a universe where elves are at war with orcs and I am a writer of the north who's come to save the elvish people of Gorwyn And then it'll start, it'll render, and it'll be like, rendering, Neuralink plug-in ready, and you'll plug in, your eyes will turn white, you'll fall back, and you will live 70 years in this reality, and you may be in it right now.
01:20:33.000But I'm gonna create my own language with the AI, where I'll be like, computer, run one, red, four, seven, nine, two, which means more difficulty there, I want greener trees here, but it's gonna be a language the AI knows between it and I, no one else will understand.
01:21:53.000I chucked a like at them and everything, and I'm looking, I'm swiping, and in the caption, low in the caption, they're like, oh, and by the way, I generated this image from AI.
01:22:08.000I'm telling you, I wasn't trying to be stupid.
01:22:10.000I couldn't tell the difference between the fake AI-generated boulder house in the middle of the desert, which is some cool, like, Frank Lloyd Wright-looking house, right?
01:23:09.000But if a kid born today is online and looks up this date at this time, and they get a fake image of it, how will they know the difference between the actual image of Trump and the fake image of Trump?
01:24:23.000They are doing tests on whether or not the universe is a simulation with lasers or something.
01:24:27.000I don't exactly know what that means or how you've improved that, but there are a lot of people who genuinely believe that we're actually living in a simulation.
01:24:33.000And I wonder if it's a simulation or, based on what we want as people, it's actually just a video game.
01:24:39.000So like a kid that plays Minecraft for 10 hours a day, how's that not him living inside of a digital simulation?
01:26:11.000When you finally come out of the game, you're like some 28-year-old fat dude with Cheetos covered all over your shirt, and you're sitting in your basement, and your kids are sitting there looking at you, being like, Daddy, what are you doing?
01:26:22.000You're like, I was playing a video game.
01:26:47.000Tim lives in the middle of nowhere in the beautiful mountains, and I'm like looking around, and I was like, You know, if you were a God-hating atheist, you would sit here and stare at these beautiful mountains and look at these tall trees and breathe this fresh, crisp air, and there's nothing but you in the sunset and nature, and you would say, this is all I need.
01:27:07.000If you go and you look up at the redwood trees that are 2,000 years old and 2,000 feet tall in California, and you look up at them, you have a spiritual moment.
01:27:16.000I don't care if you hate God, if you have your own problems with God, you understand spirituality.
01:27:20.000You take your shoes off and your socks off and you put your feet in the dirt under those redwood trees and you look around and you take a deep breath, you'll understand there's something bigger than you in the universe.
01:27:30.000And that spirituality is always going to be needed by people.
01:27:34.000There's no digital environment that can replace it.
01:27:36.000And I would say if you feel like, if you're listening to this conversation and you think that would be cool, the Neuralink, get Get out of your basement.
01:27:46.000And then realize that this world's already a beautiful, magical, unbelievable, breathtakingly gorgeous place.
01:27:54.000And it's all there, and most of it's free, because a lot of it's national parks.
01:27:59.000And there's probably one right down the street from you, here in America, because the federal government owns half the land in America.
01:28:04.000And you should possibly consider, like, enjoying this gorgeous earth as God made it, and not looking for some cheap digital substitute created by people who hate you.
01:28:13.000Yeah, cities are not fun places right now.
01:28:17.000Where you could still experience everything, but you have a visor.
01:28:20.000Why would I want to augment Niagara Falls?
01:28:22.000You stand there and you watch Niagara Falls, and you watch the rainbow over Niagara Falls, and you're like, why would I want to augment it?
01:28:28.000You can see how fast the water's falling, how much water you can do the math.
01:28:31.000If there was a guy who was jumping over barrels while the barrels were going downstream?
01:28:37.000Like Houdini went down in Niagara Falls.
01:28:38.000You put on the goggles and you're watching Niagara Falls, but then you're also watching barrels and a guy is jumping from the barrel to barrel while the barrels go off the cliff.
01:28:59.000Would it be cooler to watch Harry Houdini do it in real life?
01:29:01.000Like if a dude could run by you, it would be cooler to watch him do it in real life.
01:29:04.000But if you could see guys running, and then it would tell you how fast they were running just by looking, and it would triangulate.
01:29:10.000So even if you're moving fast, it would give you the relative differential in speed, and it would be triangulating from satellites, so you could see the actual speed relative to the Earth.
01:29:33.000We'll type in like Joe Biden eating an ice cream and then we'll cut him out and we'll make art that represents the story so it's always kind of silly looking but intentionally not realistic because if it was People, there's going to be someone who's 10 years old today is going to read a news story and they're going to use AI images.
01:29:51.000They're going to say, I don't want to get sued.
01:32:39.000What if they took a, here's what you can do.
01:32:41.000With 11 labs, you can take two different voices, upload them, and create one voice based on two people.
01:32:49.000So you can take two women, combine their voices, and then have the voice AI be a new, unique voice that no one would recognize, and have this woman speak using that voice.
01:33:00.000Actors are going to be gone in a few years.
01:33:02.000Movies will look completely realistic, AI-generated, in a moment.
01:33:07.000They will go in and they'll say—they already did this with that anime thing, that anime team.
01:33:23.000In one or two years, we're going to be at the point where they say, give me a scene where Ian and Benny Johnson are driving to the grocery store to pick up heavy whipping cream because they're going to make strawberry shortcake.
01:33:34.000And it will render it, and then it will even write the script for you.
01:33:39.000These programs already exist to do this.
01:33:42.000We can already use a program to prompt video.
01:33:45.000We can already AI generate images of known people.
01:33:49.000We can already do voice AI generation.
01:33:51.000If all of this was combined into one suite of tools, you could type it in, press enter, let it render for an hour, and then boom, you've got a 10 minute scene with a conversation.
01:34:03.000It's overwhelming, but I feel like we're on the precipice of some sort of obliteration, whether it's like a reformation of consciousness, of thought, of what it even means to be a hominid, and that, like, what is our purpose in this?
01:34:15.000Is it just to, like, kind of lay groundwork for ethics so that the people that are there to pick up the pieces and the machines that are watching and scanning the net can, like, search for the ethical behavior and kind of mimic that in the future?
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01:35:08.000I really do recommend y'all watch yesterday's episode with Jim Hansen because we had an hour-long debate.
01:35:15.000over the origin of wokeness, and I go into detail on my technology theory, how it's not the institutions, it's not academia, that is a mistake based on people.
01:35:26.000Smart people who pay attention to this stuff seem smart to the average person, tell you the core of what we're experiencing is this institution, and the average person says, makes sense to me.
01:35:37.000But if you were to actually step back and look at the entirety of the picture, you will see it's technology-based.
01:35:41.000It's not wokeness in the universities.
01:35:44.000It is an amalgam of chaotic, destructive ideology emerging from AI, algorithmic garbage, which is simply proven by the fact that all of these things, depression, anger, and political conflict emerged at the exact same time we rolled out social media around the world in several different countries.
01:36:01.000Man, and Nazism and fascism flourished when the radio kicked on.
01:36:50.000Like I thought you were in the game And then you go right back in because it only lasts like 10
01:36:54.000minutes and they're like that was weird Yeah, when you see the infinite fractalization of everything in every direction, and you realize, like, you're just the beginning of that, in this reality, it's pretty wild.
01:37:05.000Hayden Lewis says, Hey Tim and gang, new-time member and long-time fan, could any of you elaborate on what the Willow Project might be and what the effects will be for the U.S.?
01:38:43.000was hand-raised by me and Allison, so he was a little tiny baby.
01:38:48.000When he hatched, we were right there, and we would hold him, and we would feed him, and we took care of him in the incubator, and then we had him as he was getting bigger and bigger, and then we brought him outside.
01:38:56.000So now he just kind of looks up at us, and he's super chill, like, oh yeah, it's you guys.
01:39:26.000We have the Penal Colony Building, where the Blackstar Roosters are, and they can't leave, and it's just disgusting, and they're covered in their own feces and everything, but they're safe.
01:40:25.000And they have a high elevated area where they're safe.
01:40:28.000If something bad happens, it's an accident, and it's probably not likely, but it could happen.
01:40:32.000But I'd rather Roberto live a full rooster life where he gets to go outside and smell the fresh air, you know, in his retirement, as opposed to locking him in a cage where he's safe but has no life.
01:40:41.000Would you neural link with Roberto to see what he wanted?
01:41:25.000So all the articles about Japan is that men just live inside of a digital universe, they don't want, going out and dating is hard, women can turn them down, they don't want to get their feelings hurt, so it's better to just animate all night and day.
01:41:42.000And so what about that AI, now it's not an anime, and it's not something you have to buy, you can literally just generate, you can generate your perfect wife, and you can generate your perfect whatever you're into, And then you never have to try ever again.
01:41:56.000These dudes are gonna be like, AI, generate me a 24-year-old woman with silver hair who's the commander of the Star Commander Battalion, and I'm with her on the ship as we're traveling to the Centauri Nebula, blah, blah, blah, or whatever, Alpha Centauri, to save the aliens.
01:42:15.000And then they're gonna go bang this space commander, and they're gonna experience it through Neuralink.
01:42:21.000They're gonna have anything they ever wanted.
01:42:22.000And then they'll take that out and they'll look around, like, women.
01:44:19.000They say no snowflake blamed itself for the avalanche, but if every person living, you would need every person living paycheck to paycheck to pull their bank, their money out of a bank to cause the bank, the bank run.
01:44:38.000Apple boy says all those new IRS agents are busy cataloging US citizens accounts for the new digital currency, which may be why they hired them all.
01:45:04.000I'm worried about like what happens after the summertime.
01:45:06.000Cause the third quarter is, is typically like down anyways.
01:45:12.000Like for some reason there, that's why, that's where the, uh, uh, the green, where green day came up with the name of the song, uh, waking up where, when September ends.
01:45:20.000It's because the, for some reason at the end, the second, the end of the third quarter is like a mess.
01:45:24.000So I'm concerned about what the economy is going to be like in the fall.
01:45:59.000That's right, because as I ask you to become members, I've also pointed out that we are going to be doing some kind of grant program where once a month we choose someone who submitted their cultural endeavor idea to receive $10,000.
01:46:11.000So I don't know if you heard us talk about this, but the idea is We want it to be for members, that if you're a member of TimCast.com and you're working on some kind of cultural endeavor, you send us the pitch, you say, here's what I've, and you have to have like a working prototype.
01:46:26.000You have to, if you're making a comic, you've got a comic in production.
01:46:29.000And then we're going to have maybe like an outside group choose one person to be the winner to receive 10 grand.
01:49:09.000Right, we show up and we're like, your project has won this month's grant, we come, we check out the project, then the show promotes the project, the money helps finance the project, and then hopefully it takes off and succeeds, and then we get more, you know, rip-a-verse, more Eric July type stuff, more cultural endeavors that succeed.
01:49:31.000You know, with, like, Eric July, he's got a platform, so for him to launch this, it's easier than, say, someone who's, like, a steel worker who's got a side project.
01:49:39.000But if that side project is the next Harry Potter, and it's gonna come from someone who believes in America, yeah, we really want that.
01:50:26.000You know, we'll find these cultural projects.
01:50:28.000And everyone will be somebody who's like, you don't got to be a conservative, you just got to be like, I believe in America, I care about this country, I care about family, I care about freedom, free speech.
01:50:38.000Here's the best part, if you lose all of your money on bad investments, the federal government will bail you out.
01:50:42.000Yeah, I'll just go and be like, when's Trump's president?
01:51:42.000And then, you know, I think there's an opportunity for us to expand the Tim Cass Media Group, but also to invest in cultural endeavors and win the culture war.
01:51:51.000And then maybe, you know, like you said, you want to be involved.
01:51:54.000Kash Patel said he wants to be involved.
01:51:55.000Kash said if, you know, he knows people who are probably interested in financing and stuff like that.
01:52:00.000His view is more non-profit based, but we could easily pull in a whole bunch of influential people in the space and then create some kind of consortium of culture building.
01:52:09.000Yeah, because Shark Tank is the most popular show on all of CNBC?
01:52:25.000Yeah, maybe we actually just have, like, you, me, and Cash, and maybe someone else, and we're, like, sitting in chairs in the new studio, and then someone walks in, and they're like, here's my project idea.
01:53:53.000So there's probably a bunch of success we could have doing some kind of show like this where it's, like, the consortium of, you know, cultural endeavors or whatever.
01:53:59.000We should get Kevin O'Leary to come in and guest host.
01:54:05.000You realize how, like, the way that this would work is this product would be almost instantaneously successful because you put all of our audiences together focusing on this product.
01:54:16.000Let's say a meat box company came to us and we said, no, that's, that's based real American meat steaks.
01:54:21.000We've got local farms all over the place that sell meat.
01:54:24.000And they come to us and it's like, Oh, that'd be awesome.
01:54:27.000And then with the collective audience, if you got other influencers to do this, the collective audience would alone, like almost nearly guarantee the success of this product.
01:55:45.000If I could pair my steak with a cow that's only eaten Woodford Reserve mash build and I get to have my Woodford Reserve steak by cow that's only eaten that and the cows love it.
01:56:11.000You put it all together, and it has different types of mash build, means different types of bourbons or beers, and that's where you get the taste.
01:56:17.000And so these cows, they're right down the street from Dogfish Head, very famous brewery.
01:56:21.000And dogfish has just dumped all this spent grain.
01:56:23.000So one, you're actually reusing the grain for something that's good.
01:57:00.000I need plugs that automatically unplug themselves on a timer, so when I fall asleep at midnight, all my plugs, though they're still on the wall, something switches and they're no longer plugged in, just in case of a solar flare.
01:57:13.000I don't know about plugging them in, but you can get an Alexa that does that.
01:58:28.000And then we're going to do the second floor is going to be like gaming and, you know, like board games, skate shop kind of hangout, plays with movies.
01:58:36.000Ian's Crystal Cove is the mezzanine, I guess, that we're putting on the mezzanine where it's going to be a cool little hangout, nook to watch a movie and have your coffee.
01:58:42.000Then third floor is going to be like the elite VIP club, like social club, not very big.
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