In this episode, we talk about the latest in the Covington case, Bill Maher's "Menstrual Cycle" rant, and a bizarre story about a Magic the Gathering player. Also, we discuss the latest on the Oscars.
00:00:00.000So, uh, the other day we learned that the third trial, a bench trial in the January
00:00:13.0006th case was an acquittal because this dude was like, yo, your honor, this cop led me
00:00:19.000And the judge was like, look at that, the cop let him in.
00:00:20.000And then there you go, case dismissed.
00:00:22.000The guy's acquitted of basically everything.
00:00:24.000Well, of course, many on the left were still pretending like that never happened, and now we have another story.
00:00:30.000So you know those guys that were accused of trying to kidnap Whitmer?
00:00:32.000Yeah, well, uh, two of them have been acquitted, and the others have received a mistrial, so that whole narrative is imploding.
00:00:40.000The narrative there is basically that these guys were claiming they were just stoned and talking BS, and these feds were like, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's all real, it's all real, and then brought that to a criminal trial.
00:00:51.000But of course, I don't know if it really matters because the media got their narrative of the evil far-right trying to kidnap a governor, which turns out to be mostly bunk.
00:01:02.000It was from the guys over at Mythicist.
00:01:04.000It's a Bill Maher episode from, I think, 2019, where Dennis Prager is saying that the left is lying, men can't menstruate.
00:01:12.000And everyone on the show laughs at him, and Bill Maher says, you're crazy.
00:01:16.000So considering the laws that are being passed, we have the governor of Alabama just signed a law banning medical intervention for children if they are deemed trans by a doctor.
00:01:27.000I want to show proof that Dennis Prager was right, and I think we got to call out Bill Maher a little bit.
00:01:34.000Look, I know a lot of people are happy that he calls out the left when he does, but if the dude actually did cursory Google searches on half this stuff, It would be a whole nother ballgame.
00:01:47.000You'd have people being like, wow, you know, I watched that guy and he's informed me, but he doesn't.
00:01:51.000A week after Covington, Bill Maher still got the story wrong when everyone else had already corrected.
00:01:56.000So no leeway from me on what's going on with him.
00:04:04.000Yeah, actually, right after the show tonight, we're running out the door, driving straight to Nashville.
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00:04:14.000with a variety of their talent, and there's a whole lot of crazy stuff we're planning.
00:04:18.000We'll see how much we can actually pull off, but it'll be a lot of fun.
00:04:21.000We're going to have a lot of people from The Daily Wire on the show next week.
00:04:23.000It's going to be Tim Kast live from The Daily Wire in Nashville, so we'll see you then.
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00:05:20.000The jury deliberated for five days following a two-week trial.
00:05:23.000I'm going to mention, on April 8th, the jury found Daniel Harris not guilty of one charge of kidnapping conspiracy, one count of conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction, one count of possession of an unregistered destructive device, one count of possession of an unregistered short-barreled rifle.
00:05:38.000Harris was the only one of the four defendants who testified in his own defense.
00:05:42.000Brandon Caserta, who was charged with one count of kidnapping conspiracy, was also found not guilty.
00:05:46.000The jury declared a mistrial on the charges brought against Barry Croft Jr.
00:05:50.000The charges include kidnapping conspiracy, conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction, and possession of an unregistered destructive device.
00:05:57.000government claimed the men had been planning to kidnap Whitmer at her vacation home prior to the 2020 election and arrested them in October of 2020.
00:06:05.000All four men have denied the government's accusations.
00:06:07.000Didn't it turn out that the majority of people involved in this were feds or some kind of informant?
00:06:37.000Schwerz and Bates both testified at trial.
00:06:39.000So look, without getting into, you know, hashing out the entirety of the trial, the story's been, I think for most people, fairly obvious.
00:06:47.000As soon as they said, yeah, it was a bunch of FBI agents that seem to have been orchestrating the whole thing and then blaming these guys who are bumbling along for the FBI's own plan.
00:06:58.000Along with this story, and the story about January 6th, where the third trial, this guy was like, the cops opened the door and let me in.
00:07:05.000The judge went, yeah, the video shows the cops opened the door and let you in.
00:07:20.000The entire narrative started falling apart a couple months ago, and honestly, when it was first reported as a story, I remember watching my television, regrettably, checking Twitter, saying, wow, this is really horrible.
00:07:30.000And for the people who are actually committing legitimate acts of violence and breaking in, yes, that's bad.
00:07:36.000But I should have known that the media was spinning this, trying to make it out to be something it wasn't.
00:07:41.000They started to refer to it as An insurrection, which is interesting because it's an insurrection where basically no one who went, the vast majority of people, didn't have weapons on them to try to overthrow the government.
00:07:51.000Just a very bizarre narrative, but I think people were too afraid to question it because they didn't want to seem in support of it because our media has spent so much time calling it a terroristic act.
00:08:02.000I just tweeted out earlier that I don't trust screenshots, pictures or video anymore.
00:08:08.000It's going to be even hard for me to trust people face to face, which I really don't anyway, but man, I don't want to get tainted on humanity here, but I am not, I'm not buying any of this crap anymore.
00:08:17.000I hear you, but you're not necessarily getting tainted on humanity.
00:08:19.000I think it's okay to acknowledge that known liars are known liars and you shouldn't listen to them without having a pessimistic view of humans in general.
00:08:25.000I think you shouldn't trust cartoonists.
00:08:55.000Do you think there's some value to the media narrative at the moment?
00:08:58.000Well, I think you're in a situation where you obviously had a situation where people wanted to expand the power of the government, where people wanted to expand the power of the security state.
00:09:09.000You wanted these people to be dangerous.
00:09:14.000They've been purging the military of people who have any kind of connection to Trump, any kind of support.
00:09:19.000If you were an NRA member, you could be on a watch list if you were in the military because of this and possibly up for being removed.
00:09:28.000So, I think this is part of a larger interest by those in power to make sure that you have the apparatus that is able to crack down on people.
00:09:37.000And we hear this all the time from the media, right?
00:09:39.000That the biggest national security threat is the white supremacists, these radicals, these crazy QAnon people.
00:09:49.000This is constantly being pushed for a reason because it allows you to kind of take that War on Terror apparatus and shift it domestically and I think that you know, this isn't I don't think that that's this is the only part of it But I think that that leads into that narrative for a reason
00:10:05.000But you know that the response from many Democrat activist types is just they're flabbergasted.
00:10:10.000How is it that fascists are getting away with all of this?
00:10:13.000Because even when it's proven in a court of law to not be true, they just say it is.
00:10:18.000So I feel like regardless of whether or not the state is empowered by this, they got what they wanted.
00:10:25.000Hardcore hyper-polarization in this country.
00:10:28.000The Democrat activists are still going to continue to be radicalized by these fake news stories.
00:10:34.000The acquittals in the January 6th case and here do nothing to change that.
00:10:38.000Well, when you control the consensus-making apparatus, there's no reason to back off the story, right?
00:10:44.000If you continue to push it, it doesn't matter what the facts were at the end of the day, you control the flow of information.
00:10:49.000And if you can continue to blast that out, then someone who really wants to dig into it can eventually find it.
00:10:55.000But the vast majority of people aren't going to do that.
00:10:57.000And so the narrative that is sitting in people's minds is that this went down.
00:11:01.000Everything went down the way it was originally portrayed.
00:11:04.000No one goes back and looks at these things years after the fact to figure out if that was actually the case.
00:11:11.000I was just watching a bunch of documentary on the rise of the Nazi party in 1933.
00:11:15.000Hitler appointing of Goebbels to be the propaganda and what was he the Enlightenment minister or some crazy title and they just they seized the radio.
00:11:50.000But the issue is, even with The internet grants you the ability to manipulate, but also for the opportunity for truth, like people watching this show right now.
00:12:00.000I think the difference between the people who watch this show versus the people who watch Young Turks is that for TimCast IRL listeners, new information will change their mind.
00:12:08.000For the Young Turks viewers, new information must be fake news, and they'll completely ignore it.
00:12:13.000So, like this story, like January 6th, they just act like the revelation didn't happen at all.
00:12:20.000And so it almost feels like The media narrative is irrelevant at this point.
00:12:26.000You know, they could say anything, and these people would just be like, we don't care, we'll do whatever you say, no matter what the story is.
00:12:32.000That's called mass formation psychosis, I think?
00:12:34.000I guess, yeah, we call it mass formation psychosis.
00:12:36.000Or cognitive dissonance, there's different ways to describe the mental... Cult?
00:12:42.000I love these, there was a comic someone posted on Facebook, and it's a woman reading a newspaper, and it says, you know, Russia claims there's no invasion, and she's like, how could people fall for this Russian propaganda?
00:12:52.000And then there's a guy in a MAGA hat with Q on his shirt watching Tucker Carlson screaming about a bunch of straw man narratives from the left.
00:13:02.000It said US bioweapons labs was one of the things.
00:13:05.000And I was like, that's not the argument.
00:13:07.000The argument is biological research labs.
00:13:10.000They, the left made that up and then got mad about it.
00:13:14.000And so that comic to me was particularly hilarious because they're mocking the right for being indoctrinated, but the comic itself was indoctrinating them.
00:13:23.000It's just, it was just pure irony because those arguments were all straw man arguments.
00:13:26.000They weren't real arguments coming from the right.
00:13:28.000So I love it when they say, you know, it was Scarborough was, he was referring to, I can't remember, I can't remember exactly what he was talking about, but he called the right a cult.
00:13:38.000And it's just like, it's fascinating to me.
00:13:40.000There's an argument over Trump versus DeSantis, who would be the best person to lead in 2024.
00:13:46.000But on the left, they're willing to vote for Joe Biden en masse, even though they know it's going to destroy everything.
00:13:52.000And they completely ignore breaking news facts.
00:14:34.000And this looks very much like a religion to me.
00:14:36.000I was raised in a religious environment.
00:14:38.000And while I don't think that that was in any way a cult, you can definitely see some of the overtones.
00:14:42.000You have your priests, you have your acolytes, you have unforgivable sins, you have original sins, sorry, which is obviously in our instance would be like being white, being male, all of this other stuff that you can't change.
00:14:53.000And I would say definitely this extends to women as well because if you are not fully feminist, you are a sinner.
00:15:25.000It can be a new philosophy that a bunch of people are rallied around.
00:15:28.000Colloquially, it refers to a group of people who will not have their minds changed by facts and adhere to a group structure regardless of reality.
00:15:38.000Well, I don't think this is a particularly weird thing.
00:15:41.000I think this is actually very normal, right?
00:15:43.000Like, your vast majority of societies throughout history have been mediated by some kind of value structure, right?
00:15:48.000You have to have a coherent cultural understanding of, like, who you are as a people and what your values are.
00:15:55.000And so you have to have something by which not only people judge their lives and the value of their lives, but also the ways in which they defeat their enemies and climb in social standing.
00:16:05.000So this stuff, your devotion to this stuff is, yes, it is a way to find meaning, but it's also a way to obtain social status, which is why it's so important to signal your constant agreement with the current thing, right?
00:16:17.000Because if you're not that person, the person next to you is, and they're going to climb above you.
00:16:22.000So I think it has a lot of different functions, and I don't think it's anything particularly unique throughout history.
00:16:28.000We're just seeing it because it doesn't have an explicitly religious nature, because it doesn't have an explicit holy book, or someone at the top who's the pope.
00:16:36.000We don't treat it that same way, but it has pretty much the same function.
00:16:39.000I want to show you guys, I think, one of the most infuriating but greatest examples of the failures of the modern media and the left, and it's this clip that myth-informed Milwaukee guys posted.
00:16:53.000They said, this is from a couple days ago, Dennis Prager is mocked on Bill Maher when he describes the now mainstream leftist belief that men can menstruate.
00:18:05.000And the fact that this narrative has become so prominent.
00:18:08.000This article was originally published September 21st, 2016, three years after a major corporate publication that was once part, I believe, of Newsweek, published this ridiculous story.
00:18:21.000Bill Maher, three years later, still didn't get the memo.
00:18:50.000Seeing this, the reason why I want to highlight this is because if back then people like Bill Maher or Jon Stewart, who had been on hiatus, I suppose, had actually paid attention, like people like Dennis Prager were, maybe they wouldn't be dealing with the insanity they're dealing with now, with the Democrats fleeing the Democratic Party 4-1 in Pennsylvania, the generic congressional ballot being almost four points up for Republicans.
00:19:19.000And the rest of us wouldn't have to, well, you know, I'll just put it this way.
00:19:26.000At this point, where I am is, there are two distinct moral universes, and theirs has nothing to do with me, because this is a perfect example of when they gave up.
00:19:35.000Bill Maher, here's what I tweet, has become lazy and sad.
00:19:47.000Yeah, no, this is something that we see very often.
00:19:50.000I remember back when I first started making cartoons on the internet in 2016 and when I was sort of in a sphere of people who were criticizing the left and the far left, the criticism we often received is that we were just talking about a small niche of leftists who basically only existed on college campuses and were completely out of their minds, but these weren't ideas that it really made much sense to critique because they were never going to enter the mainstream and we were more or less wasting our time.
00:20:13.000Now that's obviously been proven to be completely false.
00:20:16.000These very niche, bizarre ideas end up becoming mainstream very quickly.
00:20:19.000And part of the reason for that is because the left always needs to find a new cause.
00:20:23.000It's not as if they move the social dial and go, all right, we're done.
00:20:28.000Now we're going to let you know, we're going to rest and have society exist as it is.
00:20:31.000They constantly need to push for more and more and more.
00:20:34.000Yeah, I think that also the poisoning of our food supply and water supply with, like, microplastics and birth control that is being peed into the sewer systems, like, is causing people to go towards this transgender state of being.
00:20:47.000And so that also is adding on to the rhetoric.
00:20:56.000I think social manipulation, ideological manipulation, I think the fact that you have some people who are The epitome of follower.
00:21:05.000And they'll just go along with whatever.
00:21:07.000I mean, how many people watched that episode of Bill Maher and laughed along with him thinking he was the smart one in the room when he was just dead wrong?
00:21:15.000And they follow along with that for years.
00:21:17.000And now these stories that were published in the corporate press six, seven years ago are now in the forefront in our schools.
00:21:24.000Now these are the parents, these liberal parents in Loudoun County, who are now freaking out and voting Republican.
00:21:29.000These suburban moms who are starting to wake up and freak out because they watch shows like that.
00:21:34.000So, I think indoctrination, manipulation, but pure laziness from bad leaders has caused a lot of this.
00:21:40.000I'll say, in a little bit of defense of Bill Maher, I have a lot of criticism of Bill Maher, but Prager came at him and kind of blindsided him with that data, and neither of them knew could back it up.
00:21:49.000Bill asked him, where'd you get that data?
00:23:03.000I've had people ask me to, you know, reach out or people who are connected, you know, saying like, would you want to get in touch with the people at Bill Maher?
00:23:10.000And I don't want to say too much about it because it's not going to happen.
00:23:13.000And I wonder if I should try and extend an olive branch in some capacity to talk to the guy because he has said some good things about how woke the left has become.
00:23:20.000But I'd be directly critical of so much.
00:23:23.000You know, there was the Ben Shapiro-Malcolm Nance conversation.
00:23:44.000What's happening now is, a conservative like Ben Shapiro goes on Real Time with Bill Maher and says, here are the facts, and they go, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
00:23:53.000And it's like, if you haven't done the research, Bill, how are you hosting this show?
00:23:57.000So, Ian, I accept your point, especially about Dennis Prager being unable to say, here's where it's happening.
00:24:04.000I think the issue for Dennis was it was three years beyond the point of this conversation beginning.
00:24:09.000So the answer was actually every major corporate website, corporate news website, has stated this in some form or another.
00:25:07.000You mean to tell me I'm the only one on this panel who actually reads the news?
00:25:10.000Then why do any of you think you should have an opinion on news?
00:25:13.000Yeah, and also, not to Monday Morning Quarterback Prager here too much, but I would have asked, or I like to think I would have asked, why is that wrong?
00:26:40.000You can agree with them or disagree with them, but their premise is correct.
00:26:44.000And people like Bill Maher, people like Jon Stewart, people like Stephen Colbert, have abandoned what they once were supposedly representing,
00:26:50.000which was reality. Like Colbert said, right? Reality has a liberal bias. Now it's fictional
00:26:59.000And the rest of us are confused as to what these people are reading when they read anything,
00:27:03.000if they read anything. And that's a really important point.
00:27:05.000One thing you mentioned earlier is the fact that societies and cultures have always had authority structures and they've always had rules that people are expected to follow.
00:27:11.000But part of what's so bizarre about this is you basically have rules which are wildly unpopular and historically unprecedented that the left is forcing on everyone else and it is even most people on the left.
00:27:22.000It's a very small percentage of extremely online individuals who will complain to corporations and make them I gotta stop you.
00:27:30.000They need to censor themselves and change their corporate structuring and advertising why what's wrong because it's
00:27:35.000around 10% of the population Well, it's increasing it
00:27:39.000It is absolutely increasing, and I think the idea is spread.
00:27:42.000But chances are, when you encounter someone who says a man can become a woman, they don't genuinely believe that.
00:27:47.000I'm not saying that absolves them from saying it.
00:27:49.000It's actually an even bigger problem because they are being dishonest.
00:27:52.000But most people recognize this stuff as ridiculous.
00:27:54.000The question is, how do we make them feel comfortable saying that?
00:27:57.000When I was talking to a friend of mine on Facebook, and I've told this story before, and she all of a sudden started adopting the gender ideology stance.
00:28:06.000She told me, you know, the whole, she was like, trans women are women, trans men are men.
00:28:11.000And I said, okay, I don't care if that's your premise.
00:28:14.000My question to you then is, I asked her, you would be physically attracted to someone who's biologically female, like a person with a vagina, but who is like, you know, got a beard.
00:28:23.000And she was like, I could learn how to do that.
00:28:26.000And I was like, that sounds like conversion therapy to me.
00:28:38.000I feel like many of these people just want to be followers because it's simpler and the logic of their brains is conflicted with the survival aspect of their brain.
00:28:45.000To fit in with society, I must just say this.
00:28:50.000Well, and that's extremely insidious because ultimately you either live what you believe or believe what you live as they say.
00:28:56.000And if you stay silent about the truth for long enough, you do start to believe the lie.
00:29:00.000So I'm not saying that we're not at risk of people buying into this.
00:29:06.000But oftentimes conservatives are trying to convince people on these issues when what we need to be doing is help people understand that the thing that they already actually secretly believe is not something that they should be embarrassed or afraid to say.
00:29:18.000But here's the thing, and you've got to remember this, societies are run by organized minorities.
00:29:46.000And so that's why people will do like Tim was talking about.
00:29:48.000They will go out and they will alter their belief system because the people who are important are telling them what is going to come next, what is going to be signaled as positive, what is going to increase their standing and what's going to make it easier for them to get along, along with what's actually going to be moral.
00:30:02.000And so saying, oh, just a few people believe it or it's a small minority.
00:30:07.000If it's the right minority, that's the most dangerous thing possible.
00:30:09.000I wouldn't disagree with any of that, but what I would reaffirm is my point that what we have to do in order to combat that is have people speak their minds and speak the truth because it's only going to be powerful if we acquiesce to it.
00:30:36.000I love the point made in the beginning.
00:30:38.000Eventually, evolution wasn't rewarding the strongest or the smartest.
00:30:41.000It was rewarding those who simply reproduced the most.
00:30:46.000As a species, we have created this sphere of safety where we're untouched from war in the United States for the most part in the past, what, 200 years or 150 years or so?
00:31:23.000Yeah, I mean, it's just the ideas that become the most popular that end up governing your society.
00:31:27.000Now, I'm very optimistic in some sense.
00:31:30.000I believe that ultimately, in the final, final analysis, the truth wins, but your society has no guarantee of existing forever.
00:31:36.000In a more like Darwinist, previous iteration of our civilization, less technologically advanced, The strongest and the smartest would survive by nature of their ideology.
00:31:46.000Working together, having strong families, having strong communities, being armed.
00:32:05.000Now, that can exist because we're in such a magnificent bubble of wealth and security until they destroy it by deconstructing it.
00:32:13.000And then it's going to be just pure chaos, man.
00:32:15.000Like, you know, the food shortages that are coming.
00:32:18.000The product of electing someone like Joe Biden out of sheer ignorance, resulting in the chaos that we've had over the past year.
00:32:25.000I am developing the probably highly unpopular opinion, and you're welcome to pitch in on this if you think along the same lines, that we desperately need some form of hardship to make us realize that our imagined difficulties aren't just that.
00:32:48.000That's the amazing thing too, like, uh, I visited farms and growing up in the city, it really was a aha moment when I saw actual production.
00:32:58.000Because I mean, Illinois has got farms, you know, but people don't even connect the dots of The wheat fields get harvested and then sent to processing, and then it makes its way to a factory, and then it gets turned into food.
00:33:10.000The first time I watched How It's Made, and they were like, cupcakes!
00:33:33.000It'd be interesting if you went to the store and on every piece of food you were going to buy, there was a little video under it that was showing you the entire manufacturing process of the piece.
00:33:43.000So Machiavelli talked about rule of foxes and rule of lions, right?
00:33:48.000And your foxes are, you're very clever, quick-witted.
00:33:52.000They're going to be kind of your liberals.
00:33:53.000They're going to be the people who are good at combining and coming up with new ideas.
00:33:57.000And then your lions are going to be kind of your more conservative, patriotic, martial type people.
00:34:03.000And he said at the beginning, your civilizations are always run by lions because they have to secure safety, you have to make sure you're getting food supply, those kind of things.
00:34:12.000But over time, as your society gets more complex, you start to see the rise of the foxes because they're able to address these new things, these new problems that are coming up.
00:34:22.000they're able to make these new combinations and synthesize things.
00:34:25.000But as your society gets more decadent, as you get further away from the
00:34:28.000problems that the lions solve, you forget why you had lions in the first place.
00:34:33.000And your foxes become the dominant ruling class.
00:35:50.000I think the system's going to have to go through some serious hard times and probably a little bit of collapse before people realize the issue.
00:35:57.000I think that we've been trained to believe that experts are the key, right?
00:36:01.000You've got to have an expert for everything.
00:36:02.000You need to have a person who has a particular degree and has enough doctorates, enough credentials, and they're the ones that solve everything.
00:36:08.000Everything is solvable through this kind of managerial scientific system.
00:36:14.000And at the end of the day, there are certain things that have to be done physically in the real world.
00:36:19.000It's not just always ideas that solve these problems.
00:36:22.000And I think until people taste some of the difficulty that comes from a society that's entirely based on kind of fox governors, they're never gonna realize the problem.
00:36:38.000Well, as I mentioned, they are tearing everything down, and the strong are the ones who are going to figure things out and survive.
00:36:44.000The left likes to make fun of the fact that we promote emergency food, but in the event you actually need it, it's not even going to be us that's laughing.
00:36:51.000It's going to be the preppers in the mountains with a 30 years worth of beans calling us amateurs.
00:36:56.000But they can live in their cities with no food supply, no understanding of it, as everything falls apart.
00:37:00.000But maybe We just have to do very little but remain resilient.
00:39:11.000And we only need to keep steering our ship, focusing on building and developing cultural content, media content, websites, and I think we'll be alright.
00:39:21.000No, I think you're absolutely correct.
00:39:22.000I've brought this stat up on the show before, but more Americans would rather we look into the 2020 BLM riots and investigate those than support the January 6th Commission.
00:39:33.000It's because a bunch of buildings got destroyed in that thing.
00:39:55.000When they come out and levy a whole bunch of fake investigations and put Kyle Rittenhouse through the ringer for two years, basically, or a year, Solitary.
00:40:06.000When they put the J6 defendants through the solitary confinement, effectively torturing them, and now we're saying, oh, what's that?
00:40:43.000When you were, when you were, when you were strong, I asked for freedom because it was according to your principles.
00:40:48.000Uh, now that I am strong, I deny it to you deny it to you because that's according to my principles.
00:40:53.000And so the problem with the liberty-minded individuals, civil libertarians, libertarians, conservatives, is they keep doing this and they've kept doing this.
00:41:00.000Joe Biden should be impeached day one for his illicit dealings in Ukraine.
00:41:05.000But I am willing to bet Republicans like Mitch McConnell is going to step up and say, no, we don't want to do that.
00:41:37.000But everything you know about him is from the Bible and what's written there.
00:41:40.000Well, I don't want to make this a religious discussion.
00:41:42.000I'm trying to think of the... It's political.
00:41:45.000You can't be like, now that I have power, I will let all of you be free after your illegal dealings, your manipulations, your scams, and your criminal behavior.
00:41:55.000And the moment they get elected, they come and they lock you up.
00:41:58.000If you did like a tribunal that was like an independent tribunal that wasn't a governmental thing.
00:42:02.000It was, I don't know how you could actually do an independent thing this day and age, but you got to make sure that it's not left to its own devices because it will just continue to do what it does, which is root people out.
00:42:11.000So you got to watch out for like McCarthyism all over again.
00:42:16.000I think just because you can point, and this is sort of the problem with the witch hunt analogy, just because you can point to examples in the past that you feel were a group of people being overzeal in their attempt to clean their society up, that doesn't mean that bad people shouldn't be held accountable when they do bad things and that we shouldn't have trials to figure out who's destroying our culture.
00:42:34.000Well, the problem is that the right thinks it's having a discussion and the left knows it's fighting a war.
00:43:31.000It's incredible how quickly people forgot what the summer of 2020 was.
00:43:34.000Yeah, and one of the things that I noticed actually today was that you need to strive to be the better person in your personal life, but when it comes to politics, you have to be pragmatic.
00:43:44.000Because the conservatives have attempted to apply political or personal dynamics to politics.
00:44:19.000People compare the right and the left, and any time the right actually shows its teeth or tries to do anything effective, people go, oh, they're just as bad as the left, ignoring the fact that we are using actual facts and events that happened to talk about this person's record and not smearing someone without any evidence, which is what they did to Kavanaugh.
00:44:34.000And to the point about groomers, it's not as if that's the wrong terminology to refer to The people who are opposing this bill, once they know it's about preventing adults from having secret conversations about sex with children, that they tell them not to repeat to their parents.
00:44:46.000So it's not like the right is going out there saying, we're going to use these illicit or dirty techniques to go after the left the way they do to us.
00:44:52.000It's the right is saying, let's be reasonable and hold people accountable for doing bad things.
00:44:56.000And then the response from we conservatives is, that makes us just as bad as them.
00:45:03.000We need to start building our own systems.
00:45:07.000Bill gaining control of platforms that we like Elon Musk buying Twitter brilliant daily wire launching their own Children's content movies and streaming platform kind of stuff brilliant when when when you're on the playground at recess and the and and the bully kids or whatever are Demanding that you say or believe something.
00:45:26.000You don't believe otherwise, you're not cool be like I'm gonna go over on the other side of the playground and I'm gonna make my own game.
00:45:47.000And then we just sit there and for the longest time the right, and I think now what's helping the right is the post-liberals joining the fray, giving them a larger amount of forces in the culture war.
00:45:58.000But for the longest time we're just like, I know they're cheating, but...
00:46:25.000Well, you don't because you're allowed to do free trade.
00:46:27.000Um, this, I kind of see this metaphor as if there's a brain worm infested in the American mind and the left arm is flailing around, smacking itself, and the right arm's like, whoa, that arm's out of control.
00:46:38.000Cutting off the arm is not the, it might work, but it's not the solution.
00:46:46.000The solution was to lop the hand off, man.
00:46:49.000His hand got possessed by the devil or whatever.
00:46:51.000Yeah, that just doesn't feel right though to like go after the people when it's this like weird banking mentality thing that seized control of the government.
00:47:00.000When you go on a dangerous hike through cold weather Oh, snap.
00:47:25.000Would progressive parents give their minor sons breast implants if they were trans?
00:47:31.000Because breast implants are temporary, can be removed, but mastectomies are permanent.
00:47:36.000Because they are giving minor girls mastectomies.
00:47:40.000And that's a shocking question, I suppose.
00:47:42.000When we get to the point where we're talking about to what degree are we willing to provide surgeries to children to make them feel better, like the systems in... You know what?
00:47:51.000Who was it who said that cultures that are obsessed with gender are on the verge of collapsing like that?
00:47:58.000Because we've seen it in many different civilizations.
00:48:02.000The obsession over gender completely ignores the realities of every other mental dysmorphic issue.
00:48:09.000Like, the only one that matters to the left and to the mainstream media is gender, even though there's many other body dysmorphia issues like weight, like anorexia, or what is it, like general body dysmorphic disorder where you want to like cut your hands off and stuff like that?
00:48:56.000Jeez, girls under the age of 18 are already getting permanent top surgery to their chests.
00:49:02.000Now, I suppose it's up to the parents or whatever, but I kind of feel like when you're an adult and
00:49:09.000you're, you know, we've, we've crossed a certain threshold where we're like, that's where you're
00:49:12.000old enough. You make decisions for your life to do body modification.
00:49:15.000When we're at the point where, there was a study I tweeted about earlier, 13 to 25 year olds, females, were surveyed on, half of them got mastectomies, half of them didn't.
00:49:27.000The median age for the mastectomy was 19, but it included It was overwhelmingly 14 and 15 year olds.
00:49:34.000Who were having their breasts removed.
00:49:36.000Now, the reason I ask this is, you can give a male breast implants and that's temporary.
00:49:39.000Meaning, at some point, if something happens, they can be removed and all is, you know, relatively back to normal.
00:49:44.000But for young women, the mastectomies are permanent.
00:49:48.000I don't want to get into all of that stuff.
00:49:49.000Actually, we have a story we can talk about in that regard.
00:49:51.000But I bring this up when you're saying, has it gone necrotic?
00:49:54.000And I'm like, the point I bring up with that, how is it That that's a question to be asked of the left based on their own ideology with their children.
00:50:06.000Should 14-year-old boys get breast implants?
00:50:08.000I'm asking that because they are already surgically removing the breasts of girls.
00:50:12.000So once we've gotten to the point where the left would say that, you know, giving a mastectomy to a minor should be legal and isn't child abuse, you're not dealing with an arm that isn't working.
00:50:35.000That's when you get blood poisoning and sepsis is when it's in the system, infecting the system.
00:50:40.000I think typically I say I defer to the doctors of many of these kids and these families.
00:50:47.000I genuinely believe that there are issues of depression and dysphoria and all that stuff and they need to find a way to deal with this.
00:50:53.000In Scandinavian countries that the left often likes to tout in terms of their medical care, they do psychotherapy and they do sessions.
00:51:02.000They don't immediately go for pharmaceuticals or surgery.
00:51:06.000So if we were to look to the Scandinavian countries, which are bastions of great medical services, you'd see there's less of these circumstances occurring.
00:51:34.000There's no conversation about body dysmorphia.
00:51:38.000There's no conversation about people who are cutting their ears, cutting their fingers off, and things like that, because those people exist as well, and they're also in very small proportions.
00:51:46.000There's no conversation about protecting transracial people.
00:51:48.000In fact, transracial people are shunned and mocked, for instance.
00:52:26.000And so if we're at the point now where someone who at the very least looks overtly white can give themselves a haircut and put up a sepia toned photograph and they're considered black, it just feels like there's no cultural cohesion.
00:53:15.000But why, you know, this is the thing, you know, when I was talking to this friend of mine, this was several years ago, because we're not friends anymore.
00:53:23.000She blocked me and then deleted her Facebook.
00:53:24.000And I think it was because, what I pointed out, that the logic of her mind, what she knew to be true, was conflicted with what she had to say in order to survive.
00:53:35.000You know, like I was having a candid conversation where I wasn't telling her to believe anything.
00:53:39.000I was asking her questions about what she believed.
00:53:41.000I had another friend who was talking to me on Facebook, and I sent them UN statistics on the refugee crisis.
00:53:48.000And I think what I said was, what we're seeing with the, I think it's the central Mediterranean route for refugees, was predominantly economic migrants from places like Nigeria, and the eastern route was refugees from Syria and Afghanistan.
00:54:05.000And she got really angry and blocked me.
00:54:08.000And I'm like, yo, I'm not messaging my friends and being like, you're so dumb.
00:54:31.000That sounds like a six year relationship I was in.
00:54:33.000I try and bring up logic and she'd be like, Yeah, you don't understand me!
00:54:37.000And I'm like, okay, logic isn't the way to communicate with everyone.
00:54:39.000Sometimes you need emotion and to listen.
00:54:42.000Yeah, but when someone says, I'm mad about something that isn't happening, and then I'm like, oh, well, you know, here's what the UN is saying, and then they freak out even more.
00:54:51.000The system I would have, she'd be like, I'm in pain, I'm having a hard time.
00:54:54.000I'd be like, well, you know, if you did this, it would make you, and she'd be like, I don't want, I just want you to tell me it's going to be okay!
00:54:58.000You know, and it's like, that's logic.
00:55:01.000It's just, it's just the other half of communication.
00:55:03.000Men are from Mars, women are from Venus.
00:55:11.000It's not how societies change their minds.
00:55:14.000It's not how individuals change their mind.
00:55:16.000Yes, of course, we all have rational conversations, and there are situations where you can bring facts to people, and if they're open to you, They're going to go ahead and change mine, but they have to be pretty close to you already, right?
00:55:26.000You rarely get to a situation where someone is on the entirely different spectrum or you don't have a large amount of trust built up with them and you just drop the facts on them and they say, oh, okay, you're right.
00:55:35.000I'll just go ahead and concede this thing that totally alters and shatters my worldview because you happen to bring me facts.
00:55:40.000That's not how people work, unfortunately.
00:55:43.000Again, it's about making sure to understand how these things get communicated, how this information gets manipulated, and until people have a better understanding of how that happens and people on the right and the post-left are willing to understand that and utilize that, I think they're going to continue to just kind of fall on their face trying to have these circular arguments that never go anywhere.
00:56:47.000When you go to someone and say, you know, X plus Y equals Z, as like a fact statement, like here's Hunter Biden was doing illicit dealings in Ukraine.
00:56:57.000And based on the evidence of him sharing a bank account with his dad, it seems likely that Joe Biden was involved in illicit dealings.
00:57:56.000So when you've got a cult that genuinely believes they're right, and they're wired in, How do you get them away from it unless you delete Twitter outright?
00:58:04.000Now, pondering upon that, imagine how bad it will be in the metaverse when people are just plugged in like the board.
00:58:21.000But, uh, no, just thinking along these lines, what do we do moving forward when Twitter has become the hive cult that people are already plugged in?
00:58:30.000Whether you get an implant for it or not, people are wired to the net.
00:58:45.000The issue is, these people are already on Twitter, and when you say, here's the truth, here's the evidence, they go, whoa, I didn't realize that.
00:58:52.000Then they pick up their phone and retreat back to their safe space.
00:58:55.000It doesn't matter if it's Twitter or Minds or Bitchute, it's people building communal safe spaces for confirmation.
00:59:00.000So this is probably the war you were talking about.
00:59:02.000It's like a constant erosion of thought and regrowth of thought.
00:59:06.000I mean, ideally, we would all actually have safer spaces.
00:59:09.000And I know that's not going to be a popular thing to say.
00:59:11.000But the reality is that America is not a country that's going to build consensus ever again.
00:59:17.000And we need to come to that realization.
00:59:58.000And so, I think it's actually really unhealthy for everyone to be linked together across a country where people basically, like, Here's something to consider too, based on what you're saying.
01:00:07.000of value-based issues, and we would all be in a much better situation if people could go back to being able to have
01:00:14.000smaller communities and more regional moralities and be able
01:00:18.000to deal with their own way. Unfortunately, I don't think that the government's gonna let people do that. But I think
01:00:25.000Here's something to consider too, based on what you're saying. You know, back in the day, our elections tended to
01:00:30.000be more local, because of the way communication happened.
01:00:35.000Even in the past 20 years, local news outlets, you know, you turn on your Channel 5 news or whatever and it's your town, your region.
01:00:42.000You're getting information based on this area.
01:00:44.000It still, to this day, exists, but for the most part, it's dying out.
01:00:47.000Now what ends up happening is someone like Ocasio-Cortez stands up and screams her radicalism and her insane ideas about farting cows, and there's one crazy person in every city who normally has no power, but when they heed the call on the internet, they now focus fire their donations to someone like AOC who is then able to win in her district and get into federal office.
01:01:08.000This is taking the radical voices that are normally disparate across the country, unifying them in a digital space, Amplifying their power, and then creating serious hyper-polarization in government.
01:01:49.000You know, it's just some Chinese company.
01:01:51.000Then he gets paid 10 grand and then he's got this money and he goes, I'm going to donate to a politician.
01:01:55.000Of course, you know, in that circumstance, we're talking about the subversive method of, They could hire, like Russia does this, right?
01:02:04.000Russia was hiring people who had dissident views to work for RT and Sputnik.
01:02:10.000Someone who was an anti-establishment or dissident voice would be paid, and that alone gave them resources to function in the United States and allow their ideas to flourish more.
01:02:22.000They can find a bunch of social justice activists, put money into non-profits.
01:02:26.000The non-profits will then fund these activists, who then help support these politicians.
01:02:30.000Or if they want to be a bit more direct, they can get an American citizen who does something illegal and just takes a contract with them, knowing they want him to give money to politicians or start super PACs.
01:02:39.000And I would imagine corporations could do that as well, could send the money, so it wouldn't have to be like the CCP.
01:04:16.000You need a business to become a corporation.
01:04:17.000Yeah, so, what I found is, don't incorporate until you have an income, or you're about to start getting income, and then you incorporate because you need to.
01:04:24.000As opposed to, I'm going to start a corporation and be like, one of these days I'm going to start using it.
01:04:30.000I'll just tell you, in my personal opinion, if you as an individual are doing work, you act as a sole proprietor.
01:04:38.000Once you get to a certain degree of income, or you want to start hiring, then you can formalize your corporation for those reasons.
01:04:45.000If you start taking on assets and you want to limit liability, then you create a limited liability corporation for those reasons.
01:04:51.000So you can separate your assets out from the company and your personal assets.
01:04:55.000If you're just like a contractor who does odd jobs here and there, you don't necessarily need a corporation, depending on what you do, but a lot of people will create single member LLCs to run their business through to limit liability.
01:05:08.000I didn't learn it in public school, which is why I brought it up on the show.
01:05:10.000I think more people should know about it and be taught that.
01:05:13.000Yeah, it was tough for me starting everything up because I had to figure it out on my own.
01:05:17.000And I had all this different advice and people telling me different things, and we don't do that for our kids.
01:05:21.000The fascinating thing to me is that a kid is more likely to learn how to bind their chest than how to start a company.
01:05:38.000So we've got this bill in New Jersey about second graders who have to learn about identity and all that stuff.
01:05:46.000And it's like, Should we teach these kids about basic elements of society before we teach them about, you know, inner workings of biology?
01:05:52.000Yeah, it's not as if our educational system is doing really well, our test results are higher, and our children are performing well relative to the children in other developed countries, so we can just add all this extra stuff on top of it.
01:06:02.000I mean, our system's abysmal, but of course, even if our system was doing very well, and there was more to add, it wouldn't be this disgusting, perverted nonsense that's gonna sexually confuse these kids.
01:06:11.000The fascinating thing to me is, I remember I used to tell people this stat, that in South Africa, A little girl is more likely to be raped than learn how to read.
01:06:20.000And now to see it in the United States that, you know, a kid is more likely to learn how to bind their, you know, their breasts as opposed to learn how to open a bank account or start a business.
01:06:30.000Like, that should be alarming to people.
01:06:33.000This is very alarming to me because they asked a bunch of 11-year-old boys what they thought they should be learning in school, and they gave them a very comprehensive list.
01:06:40.000Here are some of the things they want to learn about.
01:06:42.000Sewing and repairing things, hunting and foraging, money and budgeting, taxes and insurance, healthcare and first aid, cars and mechanics, just to name a few.
01:08:35.000But a human being who's 30 years old On average, I believe it takes around 44 weeks for someone who speaks a Germanic or Romance language to learn a Germanic or Romance language and be fluent in it, enough to actually have political conversations.
01:08:49.000And it's because all of that wisdom and knowledge you've gained throughout your life plays a role in your ability to learn.
01:08:56.000But also, it's extremely easy to say to someone, you know, Basura is garbage.
01:09:02.000And they instantly connect those because they already understand the concepts of language.
01:09:06.000Whereas, it takes, you know, how long, like, aside from knowledge, getting a kid to actually be able to speak to you is, what, eight or ten years before they're actually talking and expressing, like, real conversations and asking real questions?
01:09:21.000So at a younger age, it's actually harder to learn things.
01:09:24.000But I just say this because Don't assume just because your kid is three, they can't learn.
01:09:30.000It just will take them longer, but you should be teaching them everything you can.
01:09:34.000And my opinion on this is, always speak to your children like adults.
01:10:28.000I follow a bunch of these Instagrams that are for like raising kids from a young age and one of the things that a majority of them recommend is just sitting down with your baby and reading to them and that's so interesting to me because my siblings and I were all homeschooled all of our lives except for like the last two years of high school for me and my sister.
01:10:45.000But my parents read to us, and then there came a point where they would take our books away from us to punish us.
01:10:56.000We'd get spanked for this or whatever.
01:10:58.000I don't remember how they punished us for this.
01:11:00.000But we were constantly reading, and they thought this was great.
01:11:03.000All of our vocabularies are incredibly well-developed, and we're not weird homeschooled kids.
01:11:08.000People have this fear of homeschooling.
01:11:10.000They say, well, they're not going to be like other kids.
01:11:12.000They're not going to be socialized with other kids.
01:11:13.000My siblings and I were, as you say, we were constantly around adults.
01:11:17.000And the adults thought that we were incredibly charming because we were well-behaved, we knew what adults expected, and we understood that we were going to be adults.
01:12:39.000We used to walk through the halls and there'd be huge crowds of kids would be walking through the halls all like shuffling and I'd go... Because it looks like a bunch of cattle being shuffled around.
01:13:42.000Well, how the tables have turned, because nowadays, you know, if a kid of that age isn't good at video games because he spent too much time playing sports, he's probably going to be ostracized.
01:13:51.000I saw a post, I think this was from Alexis Ohanian, former, I think he was, I don't know if he's still with Reddit, but he was the founder of Reddit.
01:13:57.000And he said, sports will be the only medium to survive because it's the only medium with no social media, digital or internet equivalent.
01:14:45.000You can watch the concert live streamed.
01:14:47.000You can rerun sporting events for sure, but sporting events happen in the real world and people want to watch the real world versions of them.
01:14:58.000I do think eSports- Well, I'm not talking about institutional sports.
01:15:01.000I'm just saying more and more kids are playing video games and spending time on social media and parents aren't putting as much emphasis on getting them involved in team sports.
01:15:08.000How do you feel about that in general?
01:15:13.000So even when I was a kid growing up in the late 90s, early 2000s, my parents would constantly talk about the fact that When they were kids, you'd be outside playing, you know, pickup baseball or whatever other sport, and my generation wasn't doing that as much.
01:15:28.000But it's also, it's interesting because that also depends on where you grew up, because whenever I'd be out in the city with my cousins, we'd actually be more likely to play outdoor sports like that in the street.
01:15:37.000Admit it, Seamus, you were a Southside Chicago troublemaker.
01:16:26.000Did you grow up indoor or were you playing a lot of sports?
01:16:30.000You know, I definitely played sports when I was young in elementary school and stuff.
01:16:34.000I didn't so much get into them in high school, but then actually I really got into that kind of stuff actually in college.
01:16:41.000I got into mixed martial arts and that kind of stuff and judo.
01:16:45.000So it's not something that was a big part of my high school, but it's something I came to appreciate a little later.
01:16:50.000So I wouldn't go to watch a ton of sporting events, but then with UFC and stuff I'd go out and watch the big fights and that kind of thing.
01:16:58.000I have such a mixed feeling on athletics.
01:17:00.000I know there's mad value in athletics and having kids wrestle and play and stuff, but I would play basketball and they would throw elbows at my face.
01:17:06.000And I'm like, first of all, I don't want to get my cheekbone broken.
01:17:08.000Second of all, I don't want to break that guy's cheekbone.
01:17:10.000And it's going to be one or the other if you keep throwing elbows.
01:18:35.000So whenever someone falls, I'm like, you gotta pay your dues.
01:18:38.000You know, you don't get to, you know, launch off an 8-foot ramp 10, 12 feet in the air and then come down 300 times without taking one slam and hurting your elbow.
01:18:50.000Oh, I was just gonna say that's one of the great things about something like Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is it's something that teaches you, like, you can't be a jerk all the time.
01:18:56.000Because, like, every single day you get on the mat and someone is immediately better than you.
01:19:00.000When you step in, they're choking you out every single time.
01:20:09.000Yeah, my goal when I have kids is to have them do solo sports like rollerblading or skateboarding or skiing or snowboarding and also have them do team sports because I really feel like both of these different facets teach you different skills.
01:20:23.000And I feel like you should probably have both of them.
01:20:25.000Like teach your daughters how to dance.
01:20:27.000You've got to teach them all how to like, I don't know, program computers.
01:20:42.000Parents, in my opinion, should be teaching, should be making their kids learn something, be it a sport or an instrument, but they should also be around other kids doing it so they have a community of peers that inspire them to, you know, better themselves.
01:20:55.000I think one of the problems with a lot of, you know, a lot of people, friends of mine who've been growing, when we were growing up, they're like, my parents make me do this or that.
01:21:03.000It's like, my mom's making me go to piano lessons.
01:21:36.000It's like, well, what do you mean, they're kids?
01:21:39.000Well, they're just gonna go ride their bikes and play games.
01:21:41.000When I was, when I was, you know, 10, 13, I was doing Flash animation.
01:21:46.000I was making websites on Flash, I was reading news, I was developing my own video games, I was building my own computers, I was learning how to play the guitar and the drums, and I was skateboarding.
01:22:07.000But also, my friends, for the most part, at the skate park were skating.
01:22:11.000I had another group of friends that had a band, and if I wanted to hang out with them during band, like, I had to play an instrument.
01:22:17.000I had a bunch of friends who had computers and were on the internet and built their own computers and were hacking stuff and I was like, oh yeah, when I come home from skating and playing music, I can go on AIM and talk to them and we can goof off.
01:22:26.000So there was actually a community that, you know, encouraged me to do this as well.
01:22:30.000What were your guys' main, like, play things that you would do growing up?
01:22:34.000Well I called in to talk radio when I was like in fifth grade so I'm a very normal person.
01:22:40.000I have a very particular brain and so yeah.
01:24:29.000Are you saying they're going to firing squad this person?
01:24:32.000They say executions in the state have been halted for the last decade due to the difficulty of obtaining the drugs used for lethal injections, leaving 35 death row inmates in limbo.
01:24:40.000Last year, they made the electric chair their primary method for carrying out death, but said that they would give inmates an option to choose death by firing squad or lethal injection.
01:24:52.000Lethal injection, electric chair, firing squad?
01:24:56.000I'm definitely going to go with the firing squad for the coolness factor, though I'm pretty sure the lethal injection's probably not as painful.
01:27:09.000That was the worst penalty you could receive in a lot of cultures was, you know, you just were, you know, sent to the hinterlands and you couldn't, but, but now, you know, global community, it's not as big a punishment as it used to be.
01:28:10.000Like, you have a situation where people do heinous things, you need a good deterrent, you need to send a message for those things.
01:28:18.000And like I said, also, the indefinite incarceration thing I think is often crueler, but on top of that is also extremely costly and unlikely to occur in the long run as societies find ways to release these people.
01:29:09.000We've seen how she's acted towards people who should have been released from prison, people who had evidence exonerating them, and her department was like, nah, we're gonna keep them anyway.
01:29:18.000The state has more often shown that it's willing to cover up its faults because they don't want people to realize
01:29:25.000So they'll lie about it and execute innocent people.
01:29:28.000And it is better that 100 guilty persons escape than one innocent person suffer.
01:29:32.000My solution to that, I suppose, is called the Second Amendment.
01:29:34.000I look at what the Founding Fathers had in mind.
01:29:36.000Don't have innocent people suffer, everybody gets guns.
01:29:39.000Well that means there may be accidents There may be conflict but you you leave more up to the individuals to defend themselves It's their personal responsibility and you leave more up to the state I mean the state backs away from potentially killing innocent people which it has even even in the founding fathers time the the issue I I find here with the death penalty is If the amount of innocent people is greater than one, then the state is murdering innocent people, and I don't think it's worth it if you've locked someone in a box.
01:30:11.000The worst case scenario in this circumstance is you've got an innocent person locked in a box, but at least you're not killing them and making an innocent person walk down Death row to an electric chair or a firing squad or a lethal injection because just imagine being that person and them saying hey look we get it You might be innocent, but hey systems got to do what the system does I say screw that man lock the person in the box lock them away There's 35 people it sucks, but my attitude is I would personally rather pay
01:30:40.000What I could to keep these people locked up permanently than to be party to the execution of an innocent person.
01:31:17.000I mean, again, obviously you can get lost in how harsh you can get, but I think that a system that says, oh, this is only for deterrence sake, or it should never be retributive, is outweighing the rights of the criminal more than the rights of the victims.
01:31:38.000And I think that sends a message, and I think over time it always devolves into a scenario where people are getting fewer sentences released early, they're being soft on these things, and you inevitably end up in a situation that we are now, where we have crimes that aren't punished in many of these jurisdictions.
01:32:09.000I don't think retribution makes sense, and Eye for an Eye leaves the whole world blind.
01:32:13.000Everyone's got a grievance against somebody else, and they all want retribution for their perceived slights.
01:32:18.000And what happens when a victim falsely accuses someone, or wrongly, because they're emotionally driven and driven by passion instead of logic?
01:32:27.000So the state often, it's supposed to, try its best to sort the facts and make sure that it's proven beyond a reasonable doubt.
01:33:48.000But if the issue is they're not completely trustworthy, then we can't allow the state to take extreme or permanent actions because we can't ever confirm 100% what they're doing is right.
01:33:57.000You shouldn't trust anyone, really, in that situation.
01:33:59.000That's up to you to survive on this reality floor.
01:34:02.000I used to be very pro-death penalty, without a question.
01:34:05.000Like, yeah, if they're a killer and they're not going to stop, kill them.
01:34:08.000But then I started to think about the Nazis, and man, they would just execute people at will.
01:34:17.000I have a very American blinder on when I think about things, and Michael Malice has really opened my eyes to this, as well as Luke Rutkowski, coming from the Soviet Union.
01:34:26.000Their families are from the Soviet Union.
01:34:27.000It's like, yo, the state is not the benevolent god that you think it is.
01:34:31.000I was really indoctrinated growing up.
01:34:33.000But wouldn't you say that different governments do things for different reasons?
01:34:37.000So regardless of how you feel about the death penalty, couldn't you say, well, you know, when Stalin and Hitler were killing people for bad reasons, that didn't necessarily mean there couldn't be good reasons for another government to do it.
01:34:47.000And again, this is someone who I've acknowledged I don't really have a fleshed out position on the death penalty.
01:34:51.000Yeah, I think you could kill for a good reason, to be honest.
01:34:54.000There's a scaling question in the death penalty, and it pertains to war.
01:35:02.000And those people die because you're in war, and they're actively killing and massacring by the millions, and you're trying to actively stop them.
01:35:09.000My question is, if someone's been actively stopped already, and, you know, it's like... I suppose the great philosophical question has been asked, answered in many ways, in many of these Batman comics.
01:35:25.000You know, when Joker, depending on which version of the storyline, Joker drugs Superman, Superman kills Lois, Superman loses it, and he's like, to Batman, if you just killed this man, these people wouldn't have died.
01:35:37.000Or there's like another story, I can't remember which one it is, but, you know, Joker plants a nuke and blows up Metropolis, and Superman's like, you could have killed him, and saved millions.
01:35:46.000And then Damien Wayne, this is in the video game, I think it's from the comic as well.
01:35:51.000He's like, you've had every opportunity to stop these murderers and you don't.
01:37:06.000You never just get to get away, right?
01:37:09.000And so the easy out is to say, we just take the power of government away, right?
01:37:13.000This is what we're taught, is that we just reduce the power of government, or we put checks and balances, a limit on the power of government, and then therefore we don't have to worry what government does, because there's the system that holds it in check for us.
01:37:24.000The truth is that at the end of the day that doesn't work.
01:37:37.000You don't just want to pretend like you can run away forever.
01:37:40.000All right, we gotta go to Super Chats.
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01:37:51.000I was actually thinking maybe we should make a commercial for the show and do like our first ever marketing run.
01:40:27.000It's about this guy who goes on a trip and he doesn't really realize it, but it turns out he's in hell and he's been traveling to heaven.
01:40:34.000And as he goes through this, slowly little bits of his pride are taken away as the angel reveals the things that are holding him back into hell.
01:40:43.000And he starts seeing all the foolish things he's been trying to hold on to.
01:40:55.000I've read your tweets, retweeted from Michael Malice, and I've referenced some of your videos when trying to explain to other folks about the definition of a midwit.
01:41:03.000Yeah, one of my bigger videos was explaining midwittery and what that means and where that comes from.
01:41:09.000We're in the middle of a midwit epidemic.
01:41:12.000Do you have an elevator pitch on midwits?
01:41:14.000Yeah, basically a midwit is someone who is just slightly above average intelligence, and so because they're just slightly above average, it's one of the things that defines them.
01:42:21.000So one of the things about midwittery is like when you learn things when you're young, you learn them at a low resolution, right?
01:42:29.000You learn very simple things about them.
01:42:31.000Sometimes they're actually completely wrong, but you have to learn kind of a wrong version before you as a young person, you can eventually grasp the more complex version.
01:42:39.000What midwits do is they learn to deconstruct that child's version of understanding things like God or the history of America.
01:42:47.000They treat and they learn to deconstruct that stuff and they think because they're deconstructing the simplistic version, they're very intelligent.
01:42:53.000And they're rewarded in the educational system and in popular culture for doing this.
01:42:58.000And so they keep doing it even to adulthood.
01:43:00.000They never learn about the more complicated version, but they think they're being very intelligent.
01:43:04.000They're smart enough to know they're not smart enough.
01:43:07.000And so there was a guy that my friends knew who was mentally, developmentally disabled.
01:43:15.000But he was smart enough to know he was, and it was like a weird position because, like, he was limited in what he could do, but he was also cognizant of that fact.
01:43:22.000So it's like, a lot of these midwits are that way.
01:43:27.000They know they're smarter than most people, but they're not smart enough to run a business or survive or succeed, so they end up just... angry.
01:43:38.000And so I think you see a lot of that with the woke activists.
01:43:41.000They assume that the system must be broken because certainly someone as smart as them should have money and wealth and fame and power.
01:43:47.000Instead, they got 20,000 followers on Twitter and they can't pay their bills.
01:43:51.000Yeah, it's the problem with public schools is it makes people feel like a success when they get all A's, but man, they're not prepared for the real world.
01:44:43.000So I guess jobs at TimCast.com and then hopefully someone here can filter through that and try and figure out, you know, how to get somebody a job.
01:44:52.000Cause we are, we are actually in, uh, what's the, what's the right way to describe it?
01:44:56.000We are, we need to hire someone like by Monday.
01:46:51.000It's it's it's it's sad, but I do kind of feel like a lot of the stuff is falling apart They've got some new Marvel shows coming out and they're just like it's it's lost its luster Yeah, I feel like the Marvel movies.
01:47:02.000They're probably gonna make money, but we've been culturally stagnant for a long time Man, that Jeremy's Razors commercial was awesome.
01:47:10.000Last I looked at it, it had over 7 million views.
01:47:13.000That stuff is degrading, but you can also see the growth, where it's growing, and that's with Daily Wire, man.
01:47:19.000Think about how much Daily Wire is going to make off of, what do they have, like 70,000 Razor subscribers now or something?
01:47:27.000They're probably making so much money off of that.
01:47:29.000It's like the Daily Wire shuts down because they're like, well, we were making hundreds of millions off of the Razors, and we just figured we didn't need to meet it anymore.
01:47:35.000That's way easier than content, right?
01:48:15.000It would be like the dialogue- It's too late.
01:48:16.000It would be like the dialogue-based equivalent to that scene in Duck Soup where the mirror breaks and the guy on the other side of the mirror is trying to imitate Groucho Marx.
01:48:30.000There's a great scene where I believe it's Chico is trying to sneak through Groucho's house or the character Groucho is playing's house and a mirror breaks and then he's in the mirror dressed as him trying to imitate all of his actions as he walks by.
01:49:15.000I was like, I'm at three, but you're dead.
01:49:17.000I play Urza, but it's not even fun anymore because I have to take like 39 moves in one turn, which I like, but it just ended up ruining the game with my own joy.
01:49:27.000Yeah, this is the problem with Commander.
01:49:28.000It degenerates into, you know, it's supposed to be a fun format multiplayer and everybody just tries to end up winning on turn one.
01:49:34.000So my Commander deck's pretty casual because I try to play with friends that keep it pretty casual.
01:49:39.000I've got, I think Mariki Baru is the way to pronounce it, where she just steals all your permanents and then when she untaps she kills them so you can just tap her and untap her over again to take over the board.
01:49:50.000oh that's fun Nathan Devon says huge fan just got kicked out of the air force active duty for refusing the jab yo that's crazy man like during a war in eastern europe too that sounds like a really bad idea well there we go Christina H says, thank you Ian, but that summary was a little off.
01:50:08.000One second after is about a man trying to save his family and small town after the US's hit with an EMP attack inspired me to buy emergency food and prep before it was cool.
01:50:22.000I recently, when they announced the food shortages, like we've already got emergency food, but considering how many people work here, like we don't really have enough, but I bought a bunch.
01:50:33.000Because, uh, I think inflation's gonna hit and you're, like, if nothing ends up happening, the worst case scenario is you just eat food.
01:50:40.000So I always recommend people take care of themselves.
01:50:45.000Michael Scott Matthews says, are you also anti-circumcision, Tim, if we oppose any permanent physical changes to a child's body when they can't consent informally?
01:51:09.000With one of the funniest videos where it's the feminist and she like goes to an aquarium and demands a job and they're like, are you a biologist?
01:51:18.000And she's like, she gets all angry at screaming about sexism.
01:51:22.000And then in the end she's, she's like screaming about patriarchy and smashing up and rioting.
01:51:26.000And then all of a sudden men's rights activists show up and they're like, Oh no, men's rights activists.
01:51:30.000And then the guy goes, We want our foreskins back!
01:52:28.000Well, there was a belief that children couldn't feel pain, or infants at that age couldn't feel pain, so they did all sorts of medical procedures without anesthetizing them first.
01:53:12.000Because it's funny when people make fun of the right for buying guns, and they're like, Jesus would, you know, tell them, and blah blah blah, and it's like, oh.
01:54:12.000Catwell says, are y'all planning any meetups while in Nashville for your fans and Timcast members?
01:54:17.000Our family are huge Freedom Tunes fans and I'd love the chance to chat with Ian about graphene and abolishing the Fed.
01:54:22.000So I don't know if we have any direct plans right now.
01:54:26.000In the future we are planning perhaps monthly excursions where we send the mobile studio out to various cities and we will do what we want to do is Friday night IRL live.
01:54:38.000So we do the show on a stage in a big theater somewhere in a city.
01:54:43.000And also thank you so much for the shout out.
01:54:52.000If you're going to send me shirts, send me mediums.
01:54:54.000But how cool would it be if we came to your city and then on a Friday night at a, you know, a thousand seater venue or whatever, everybody came in and we were, we were doing the show live on a stage and you know, uh, like Alex Jones would be there.
01:55:07.000It feels like the way it's supposed to be.
01:55:27.000Super chats allow us to screen from trolls is the issue, right?
01:55:31.000Just a bunch of people getting up, we're gonna start yelling stuff.
01:55:33.000And I don't know how to be able to handle that.
01:55:35.000But to be fair, I feel like we would handle that kind of adversity really well.
01:55:38.000And with Matt Walsh, it's always interesting when people try to troll him and it never works.
01:55:42.000Yeah, but there's a difference between being live and having people go up and scream a bunch of racial slurs as opposed to someone asking you a question that's hard.
01:57:43.000But also, that film, I forgot that that happened, and I think that's because the film was just so forgettable overall that I couldn't take anything away from it.
01:58:24.000She was originally the little girl in Independence Day, and they recast her because they were like, we want, you know, an attractive woman, and they considered her frumpy, I guess, or whatever.
02:03:15.000It's, uh, mostly cultural, uh, topics, but it's a similar style podcast hosted by Brett Dasovic.
02:03:21.000And, uh, we're going to be doing a bunch of promotion for that relatively soon because the show's, you know, gotten its footing and it's, and it's growing and getting more views.
02:04:21.000I'm going to get a call from Seamus and I'm going to answer it and I'm just going to hear, I know punching the walls is only gonna make him cry harder, but I'm so angry at that point that self-destruction is perfectly acceptable to me.