On this episode of Tales from the Inverted World: A crazed man broke into the home of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul, and brutally attacked him in the early morning hours of January 20th. Gavin W. Wax and Luke Rudasky discuss this and more. Plus, Elon Musk has a new council, and Chris Pavlov has been appointed to the Free Software Advocacy Council.
00:00:32.000Paul Pelosi is expected to recover, but he had to get brain surgery.
00:00:35.000It turns out now, first, the individual was seeking Nancy, screaming, where's Nancy?
00:00:41.000And now we have information on this individual's potential motivations.
00:00:46.000Well, the media initially reported that he had anti-COVID conspiracies and was posting things about the election.
00:00:51.000It turns out he's a self-identified member of the Green Party, has a pride flag in front of his house, and is a nudist.
00:00:57.000I don't know if you can necessarily put him in any camp, because he's maybe just crazy, But he's a self-identified member of the Green Party, so that's the left.
00:01:08.000I mean, I know many of the higher-profile leftists would reject that, and well, you know, it is what it is.
00:01:14.000But I'll make sure we make that clear.
00:01:16.000This guy's a crazy person, and I'm not convinced that what he was doing reflects on any coherent ideology.
00:01:25.000If someone showed up to the Pelosi's house with a clear understanding of what was going on and a political mission, I would say that was political and that was, you know, intended to be some kind of assassination.
00:01:58.000We'll go through that and a bunch of other stories.
00:02:01.000Some people are claiming bots are being purged as leftists lose followers, but oddly, non-leftists and conservatives are gaining tons of followers.
00:03:40.000Some people have nominated me for this council, and I can put you in touch with a lot of great free software advocates.
00:03:46.000We can get in touch with Chris, you already know Chris Pavlovsky, but we'll just start organizing a lot of the heads of the social media organizations and then see if we can start federating and beyond.
00:03:55.000There's things better than federation, better than the Fediverse, like Noster, N-O-S-T-E-R particularly.
00:04:00.000We'll talk more about that as it becomes topical.
00:06:18.000Now, it's not like Antifa, it's not like Democrats or anything.
00:06:22.000It's like its own, you know, sect of leftists, but that's what it is.
00:06:27.000It was an unhinged leftist conspiracy theorist.
00:06:30.000When I talk to people on the left, and I say that the left has their share of conspiracy weirdos, they always tell me that's not true.
00:06:37.000And then you point out the weird hippie crystals, natural health, anti-government, anti-war stuff, and they say, oh, but that's not really left-wing.
00:06:48.000He was an anti-government conspiracy theorist.
00:06:51.000This doesn't have to be about politics.
00:06:53.000It can be about a crazy guy, but... Being for natural health isn't a conspiracy theory, but anyway... I'm not saying that!
00:07:00.000I'm saying there are conspiracy theorists who have, like, a conspiracy view of natural health stuff.
00:07:06.000It's kind of sad how, you know, something tragic happens, something really bad happens, someone gets seriously hurt, and the first thing that happens is everyone jumps online trying to blame it on some other political opponent for their own political purposes.
00:07:18.000I think it's fair to say this guy was crazy.
00:08:29.000I say we should ban nudists and put them into camps.
00:08:33.000Clearly, the nudists are surely responsible for all of this, and they were working for this all along, especially with their secret society and organization that they have set up in San Francisco, where they have been clearly popping up out of nowhere, randomly, all the time, I'm telling you.
00:08:47.000What if, I want you to bear with me, and I want you to imagine a perfect world for a moment, Tomorrow, Nancy Pelosi holds a press conference, and she says, I cannot believe what happened to my husband!
00:09:01.000If he had a Magnum 357, this wouldn't have happened!
00:09:06.000I am now in favor of the Second Amendment!
00:09:18.000We should have a gun in San Francisco, bro!
00:09:19.000Yeah, so like, if he had had a gun and the guy broke in with a hammer to crack his skull, he probably would have fired on the guy, put him down, and then ended the invasion.
00:09:27.000Ian, Ian, that again is a radical idea that makes no sense at all.
00:09:30.000Clearly what we have to do here is ban hammers.
00:10:23.000But you brought up a great point, Ian.
00:10:24.000Absolutely, people should be armed, especially if they're elderly, especially if they're living in a crime-ridden place like San Francisco, especially if they're Popular and everyone knows where they live.
00:10:35.000This is not the first time that the Pelosi's have had their house targeted.
00:10:38.000Everyone should have the right to defend themselves.
00:10:40.000And whether you're a woman or someone who's elderly or someone who's who's weak or fragile, whatever it may be, what is the great equalizer?
00:10:48.000Is you having the ability to be able to defend yourself in a firearm?
00:10:51.000Does that more and better than anything else out there?
00:10:54.000I also want to know what what Prescriptions he was on what pills because this is really what it comes down to it's a mental health crisis We got a lot of people on these these heavy antidepressants and it sends them off the deep end And yeah, maybe he was just a nice hippie peaceful Berkeley guy, you know Just living out his best life in the nude and then he snapped.
00:11:12.000Maybe he ate Taco Bell And then it just went like And some raw milk.
00:11:17.000Maybe the Taco Bell had a bunch of SSRIs in it that someone just laced in there accidentally when they were working for the company and then you know that brain chemistry just got all out of whack and then bada bing bada boom.
00:11:27.000Now this is not a natural health conspiracy but I do think if you eat nothing but fast food your brain is probably going to be messed up in a certain way.
00:11:35.000What I mean is, simply put, you're probably missing some nutrients if you're only eating a lot of this garbage.
00:11:41.000Like, that Super Size Me guy, he said the reason he wanted to eat McDonald's for 30 days was because if they serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner, they clearly want you to be eating it.
00:11:50.000Their response was like, we don't expect someone to eat nothing but McDonald's, but it's like, dude, if you're selling food, People are going to eat your food.
00:11:57.000That should be the regulatory standard.
00:11:58.000It's like, if you only eat your food for X period of time, what are the impacts?
00:12:03.000It shouldn't just be the one-off time you eat it.
00:12:05.000It should be a set period of time over a month, whatever it is.
00:12:08.000Yeah, otherwise you shouldn't have a prescription.
00:12:25.000They say in the San Francisco Chronicle that the dude had a blog with screeds about the ruling class, right-wing conspiracy theories, and racial slurs.
00:12:33.000Yo, the populist stuff is left and right.
00:12:38.000It was funny, I saw someone post, I can't remember who posted it, they said that like the Venn diagram of a Trump supporter and a nudist Berkeley hippie is not a circle.
00:12:48.000And I'm like, it probably overlaps to be completely like for real.
00:12:53.000A bunch of anti-war leftists became Trump supporters.
00:12:56.000Well, eight million Obama voters, nine, voted for Trump.
00:13:00.000I mean, there was a huge Bernie contingent after the primary.
00:13:03.000I mean, this is a real phenomenon, and like you said, it's a populism that crosses partisan lines, and it really just speaks to the anti-establishment nature of a lot of these guys.
00:13:12.000He's clearly anti-establishment if you're going to try to assign any kind of overarching political ideology to him, but beyond that, I mean, where this guy falls on a right-left spectrum, who knows?
00:13:22.000They mentioned you posted Q stuff too.
00:13:24.000And that's why I'm like, the dude's clearly just crazy.
00:13:26.000But if you want to play games, you know, in the media, well, he was a Green Party.
00:13:38.000Well, it's really not, yeah, it's not that linear spectrum.
00:13:41.000It's that square, you know, the libertarians always like to use with the authoritarian, non-authoritarian, economic, statism, you know, laissez-faire.
00:13:50.000So, if you put it on that, it makes a little more sense, but... He was a hemp jewelry maker.
00:13:55.000Like, I just... No wonder he went off.
00:13:57.000He's probably blown his mind out on psychoactives, is my guess.
00:14:18.000And, you know, it's funny that what's going to happen now based on the Q stuff and the election stuff is the left is going to say he's a right winger.
00:14:25.000And then when you point out he's a Green Party, they're going to be like, no, that doesn't matter because he did this.
00:14:49.000It's obviously horrible what happened to her husband, but it just goes to show that, you know, it's only becoming an issue and there's only going to be some serious There was a guy in New York City that was caught on a viral video putting an axe in front of a woman's face after smashing up a McDonald's, threatening to essentially kill her with it.
00:15:08.000And he was on New York One, he was doing interviews, he was on the media circuit, and he was like, oh, listen, it was hot, I had a rough day, and it was like, this could have been this guy.
00:15:16.000And then a couple days later, he got arrested again!
00:15:19.000From stealing a bike and running away after doing graffiti.
00:15:21.000And again, this guy, of course, is going to have a very stiff sentence.
00:15:25.000This guy is, of course, going to be kept in jail.
00:15:27.000Other people who commit other crimes, other crazy people, on regular Joe Smoes, they just get let go every single day because of the George Soros-appointed district attorneys all throughout the United States that have been causing havoc everywhere.
00:15:39.000And when I was talking about banning hammers and blunt objects, we got to understand, many years, according to the FBI statistics, more people have died from hammers than rifles.
00:15:48.000I'm pretty sure it's illegal to walk around Chicago with a baseball bat.
00:15:52.000If you're coming from a baseball field, it depends on how you're brandishing it, right?
00:15:57.000My understanding, at least this is what the cops told us, they were like, if we see you with a baseball bat, we can arrest you for possession of a weapon.
00:16:04.000But typically, if you have a baseball bat and a baseball together, they could, but you probably won't get in trouble.
00:16:13.000So in Illinois, I'm pretty sure like the only weapon, or in Chicago, the only weapon you can have, it used to be this way pre the, what was the decision in DC?
00:16:35.000So, you know, we know how that worked out.
00:16:37.000It's just asymmetrical warfare, you know, law-abiding citizens, you know, you're off on your own with that rubber thing you just mentioned, and good luck bringing it to a gunfight.
00:16:45.000Dude, I don't know if you guys saw this video out of New York, where there's a guy in a hood on the subway, and then another guy is just walking, money isn't his business, first guy just runs full speed, and then, boom, body slams him right onto the tracks, and then runs for it.
00:17:00.000What happened to that guy that got knocked on the tracks?
00:17:18.000Every time there's a delay like that, I mean, you know what happened.
00:17:20.000You may not be at that stop, you may be a while away, but it's a commute.
00:17:25.000Either someone did it themselves, it's a suicide, or one of these instances.
00:17:29.000When I lived in New York, I used to think like, okay, I don't need to work out all the time.
00:17:32.000I wasn't obsessed with being strong, but I was like, I need to be strong enough so that if someone falls on the track, I can jump down and get them up out of the track.
00:17:39.000I consciously think about where my head would land if I was just pushed, if I would make it to the track, and I just try to give myself And I'm sure MTA will say, don't go down there.
00:18:17.000Japan does that as well, and then if you kill yourself in Japan, there's particular lines and particular access roads where there's bigger fines for the family members of the individual that killed themselves than other roadways that aren't as popular.
00:18:33.000So your family gets fined in Japan if you kill yourself.
00:19:13.000Well, this is why Disney is shifting to like nostalgia porn for like 30, 40 year olds because they don't have that child family market anymore.
00:19:42.000And Gen Z may be a little bit bigger, so maybe it's Gen Z, but afterwards it's going to get lower and smaller and the population's already contracting.
00:20:07.000If 10 million little kids get brought a dollar, what are we going to get?
00:20:11.000If the millennials come, they'll bring their kids, we'll get even more money, target the nostalgia.
00:20:15.000So that means they're going to keep trying to pander to the millennial, probably like a range of millennial to Gen X with mostly millennial in the middle.
00:20:23.000That's who they're going to be targeting.
00:20:24.000I don't think people realize when you hit these TFR, total fertility rates, like 1.2, 1.3, I mean, the drop-off is significant.
00:20:32.000And Japan is just going to be suffering, like, you know, population decline in the millions for the next few decades.
00:21:34.000So it's free to get in and then it's like pay per ride?
00:21:36.000But you can't do anything unless you get a card.
00:21:38.000It's just the signs of a dying society, and then you have the other side of it is that the millennials, these young adults, they're just becoming infantilized because they're not progressing to the next stage of their life, you know, with a family or even, you know, other things, a business, etc., economic reasons.
00:22:32.000And then you've got the fentanyl that the Chinese are putting into the Mexican cartels that are being shipped up to destroy our culture that way.
00:22:37.000I don't know if that's the intention, but that's what's happening.
00:24:43.000But has any generation in human history gone through so much technological, societal, cultural change in such a short period of time?
00:24:51.000I mean, these are things that typically have happened over centuries, millennia.
00:24:55.000I mean, if you look at a regular Joe Schmoe from 1820, is he that much different from 1720, 1620, 1520?
00:25:02.000I mean, yeah, there's things on the margins, but the change from, say, post-World War II to today, is on a scale that we've never seen before, and I feel like it's almost evolutionary at this point, and I think it's leading to a lot of the psychological issues we're seeing, a lot of the mental health crisis.
00:25:19.000I mean, people can't cope with this change.
00:25:21.000They're just not, it's not ingrained in them.
00:25:23.000Yeah, you would think that with access to the world's information, you'd be able to solve every problem, and that every problem would be solved as a result, but just because we can does, obviously, the test is shown, doesn't mean that we will.
00:25:35.000Yeah, I think this has been the most rapid advancement in the human consciousness ever in the history of And it's all novel, we don't know, like we make fun of the
00:25:43.000Millennials, the Zoomers, whatever they are, but there's really nothing to look back
00:26:20.000He said the current thing may actually be chosen by an algorithm.
00:26:23.000So there are people who are on the trends on Twitter being like, I like mustard ice cream!
00:26:29.000And it's like a robot just decided to promote that one day and now you're marching in lockstep with it.
00:26:34.000The algorithm is the new holy spirit of our world.
00:26:37.000It's just touching things in different ways.
00:26:40.000What you were saying before about, you know, how they're, you know, people aren't processing, you know, all these new innovations, etc.
00:26:46.000I mean, it's the same way of looking at it as, you know, it's like you get a new toy and it's just like, you know, a new gadget, a new car, and you're just obsessed with it.
00:27:02.000And I feel like we're seeing that on a generational scale.
00:27:04.000It's just this obsession, this tech focus.
00:27:06.000But everything that we've designed, whether it's all this access to knowledge, we're not becoming smarter, we're not solving problems, all this access to social networks, communication, we're becoming more and more disconnected, more atomized.
00:28:00.000Because imagine if someone owned God, and they were able to control it, and they knew what it was doing, but no one else knew what it was doing.
00:28:07.000And make everyone think and see one particular thing when they want them to see it.
00:28:31.000And like the idea is they're like goggles and you'll see the real world but it'll augment it.
00:28:38.000Imagine in the future, they tell everybody, you know, you can see through these glasses, you'll see everything like normal, and then you'll also see the augmented reality stuff.
00:28:47.000But the augmented reality stuff is very easily discernible from real life, right?
00:29:03.000Or they don't want to take it off because they take the glasses off and everyone's fat, ugly, and miserable.
00:29:07.000So they put it back on and everyone looks beautiful.
00:29:09.000Well, what I'm saying is fake events happen where everyone thinks, with my AR goggles, I choose what AR I see.
00:29:17.000So I'll load up my menu and I'll go like this, like this, okay, uh, Facebook, and then, you know, Twitter, and then tweet, da-da-da-da-da, send.
00:29:31.000But everyone sees the same thing, reports seeing it, and then everyone assumes it really happened when it didn't.
00:29:37.000Yeah, I've been noticing a trend on Twitter the last couple weeks where at the top you get that for you big thing and it says video about fill in the blank was doctored, experts say.
00:29:46.000This video, recent video about White House correspondent was doctored.
00:29:52.000So like, this is like in the last two weeks, I've noticed this probably like four times or five, maybe four times, that they're, I mean, the age of deepfake is upon us.
00:29:59.000Whether or not that's going to be AR or just actual video that we watch on TV, we don't even know.
00:30:03.000Or they'll accuse real things of being deepfakes.
00:30:06.000So there was a story in the press that Ron DeSantis met with Clarence Thomas the day before the Dobbs decision came down, ending Roe v. Wade.
00:30:14.000The real story was that a year and a day before, the media runs this story without fact-checking it.
00:30:20.000And now the guy who wrote a secondary, it was a secondary source reporting, so emails get released by a non-profit.
00:30:58.000When I was on Rogan's show, this was like a year ago, he asked me how I felt about deepfakes, and I said, I'm not, I don't think it's gonna get that crazy.
00:31:05.000I think it won't be, nah, nah, and now I'm like, I was way wrong.
00:31:10.000They're going to make a deepfake, and it's gonna be a grainy video of Ron DeSantis with supporters to make it look like it's a cell phone so it's easily faked, and he's gonna say something not ridiculous, just kind of bad.
00:31:22.000The real effective stuff is not going to be, Ron DeSantis coming out and screaming the n-word, it's gonna be him saying something like, look, when it comes to COVID, there's only so much you can do.
00:31:36.000I can't be bothered with it all the time.
00:31:38.000Something like that, where it's like, believable.
00:31:40.000And there's going to be a Wild West period as this tech rapidly develops that there's no legal precedent for the defamation, like you're saying.
00:31:47.000So how are they going to treat these deepfakes?
00:31:49.000What are the repercussions going to be?
00:31:50.000And it's going to be an insane period of time before the law catches up, if the law and the regulatory system ever catches up.
00:32:54.000I think we need more transparency in our legal system, especially with software code and apparently with experts, end quote, if we're going to be putting people on the stand.
00:33:02.000But Ian, what if, what if, okay, let's try, how about another scenario?
00:33:06.000A crazy extremist makes a deepfake of you punching a dog.
00:33:32.000And then you go to trial and they say, but let's pull up the nine other experts, and they all go, oh, it's a real video, please, please don't burn my house down, it's a real video.
00:33:40.000What's sad about all this is we could talk about, you know, the theoretical implications of these deepfake technology, but, you know, you have this media class that will publish defamatory hit pieces without even using deepfakes.
00:33:50.000They'll just claim you said something, you believe something, you are something, white supremacist, racist, Nazi, whatever, and they don't need a deepfake.
00:33:56.000They'll just print it, put in the headline, and that's what you are, you're branded, and there's no recourse, which goes back to You know, the state of our defamation laws, and it's only going to get worse with the deepfake.
00:34:05.000It's only going to get worse, but it's pretty bad right now, and we have no solution.
00:34:10.000I think about, like, I feel like the only solution is to get people to come together to believe in the things I believe in, in order to survive this crazy ride.
00:34:17.000There's no national consensus ever coming back anytime soon.
00:34:27.000So from TimCast.com, Twitter accounts will not be reinstated until new content moderation council convenes, says Elon Musk.
00:34:35.000He says Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints.
00:34:41.000No major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes.
00:34:46.000Let me just break this down for all you guys.
00:34:48.000First, it is a victory, a tremendous victory that Elon Musk has purchased Twitter.
00:34:53.000I'm glad to see that something good is happening.
00:34:56.000But Elon, like us, is making a mistake.
00:35:01.000Earlier on in the show, in a previous segment for those that are just tuning in, we mentioned that the person who attacked Paul Pelosi at the Pelosi House was a leftist.
00:35:11.000We also went on to mention that he does have a bunch of weird conspiracies, is a nudist, and is probably just a crazy person.
00:35:16.000Meanwhile, leftists are trying to claim he's a MAGA guy because he denied the election and posted Q stuff.
00:35:21.000At any moment, in every moment, the left will outright just be like, it's MAGA.
00:35:27.000Marjorie Taylor Greene said, we won't forget the companies that stopped donating because of 2020.
00:35:33.000And a prominent Twitter leftist said, this is a direct threat and it's why Pelosi got attacked, blah, blah, blah.
00:35:42.000Elon Musk is telling us right now, he's going to invite them.
00:35:47.000To sit down and discuss how to handle censorship.
00:35:50.000You see, before Elon bought Twitter, he said, the appropriate solution should be where there's a compromise and everyone's a little unhappy.
00:35:59.000The conservatives, the independents, the libertarians, post-liberals have already compromised, saying outright, we accept the left will say naughty words.
00:36:06.000We just want to be able to express our opinions.
00:36:09.000The left then says, we want you banned and we can do whatever we want.
00:36:14.000There's no compromise there because you've got one side that already compromised and the left saying to everything or nothing.
00:36:21.000If Elon Musk is going to form a moderation council and invite the woke left in to go, but my feelings are hurt when he said I was ugly, then he's going to go, Alright, well let's give the left a little bit of what they want.
00:37:02.000It's a bad move, and Elon needs to go in now, independently of his own volition, and release the political prisoners, and he needs to accept he is responsible for this, and there's no diverse viewpoint that's going to solve the problem.
00:37:15.000And I hope this is just fluff to cover, you know, his tracks from a PR perspective for any next moves.
00:37:20.000But he has to come out guns blazing, you know, open up the prison cells, release everybody, and just overwhelm the left with all the reforms and changes he's going to make.
00:37:30.000Because if he starts doing it piecemeal, they're going to just attack it piecemeal, and they're going to divide and conquer.
00:37:34.000And it's going to be this messy, drawn-out situation with this ridiculous, fluffy-sounding council, which honestly sounds no different than things they've done in the past.
00:37:43.000It's exactly what they already were doing.
00:37:45.000Yeah, if you're going to build a council, don't build a council of people to decide who gets banned and who gets unbanned.
00:37:49.000Get a council of people to decide how to build a system so that the bannings and unbannings can happen judiciously.
00:38:01.000So what happens is if you're on Mines and your stuff gets flagged, someone in the administrative team will be like, okay, that They got flagged, they got banned.
00:38:07.000And then if you don't agree, you appeal it.
00:38:09.000It goes to people that have opted in on Mines to the jury system, like up to 12 or more random people.
00:38:14.000It says, does this violate the terms of service?
00:38:17.000Then they have an opportunity to swipe right or swipe left, if they're on their phone or whatever, or say yes or no, if it violates it or if it doesn't.
00:38:23.000So if enough people say, yeah, it violates it, you're still banned.
00:38:30.000If you say, no, it doesn't violate it, you get a majority of people, then it's unbanned.
00:38:33.000And then if it gets flagged again, it goes back through the process.
00:38:36.000Now, if a jury member is saying it doesn't violate the terms, but it does, and they keep repeatedly doing that on things that keep coming up and they keep getting it wrong, they eventually lose their ability to be on the jury.
00:39:04.000The reason why I think that's a bad move, a bad element of it, is that let's say the platform becomes dominated by really awful people who want to see free speech banned.
00:39:27.000I think what would happen is an admin at Mines would review if, like, a bunch of people are saying it's not violating, it's not but it is, and then you're like, okay, who are all these accounts that keep saying it's not violating?
00:39:36.000Why do they keep saying it's not when it is?
00:39:39.000Why are they saying it's violating when it doesn't?
00:39:41.000It sounds good on paper, but this is how Wikipedia devolved, and you have this organized, ideologically driven minority, maybe, on that platform that decides the edits, that approves the edits, that controls the entire editing hierarchy.
00:41:34.000Would you want to be the one solely responsible, looking at that list, saying, OK, OK, OK, no, this guy did something bad here, going through all the history?
00:41:50.000I just hope he's not being swayed by the Washington Post that, by the way, again, I talked about this yesterday.
00:41:56.000Bill Gates literally is putting money into organizations to launch attacks on Twitter right now.
00:42:02.000He has been doing this and has been planning this for months.
00:42:05.000The Washington Post came out today and is telling people how to turn off their advertisements on their settings on Twitter so they could sabotage Twitter and of course the money that they get from advertisers.
00:42:16.000GM just announced that they're temporary suspending ads on Twitter.
00:42:24.000His tweets are saying he's going to make sure that he's going to undelete the censored people on social media, including people like Jordan Peterson.
00:43:57.000And the people down the hierarchy, you know, these minor accounts, these no-name people that were banned for a variety of reasons, that's going to be more complex.
00:44:03.000It's probably going to take a lot of time and logistics.
00:44:40.000The first thing he could have done, and if I was Elon, I'd take my phone, I'd press record, I'd walk in the front doors of Twitter, I'd look at the camera and go, hey guys, hey, who works here?
00:44:53.000I'm glad you made the Caesarian reference because Caesar came into Rome and was forgiving and, you know, gave everyone a second chance.
00:44:59.000And then Brutus, you know, stabbed him in the back and the rest of the Senate.
00:45:02.000So he cannot go into Rome and take this Caesarian approach that he's going to, you know, love his enemies and give everyone a second chance, all the optimates and the senators and the rest of the Twitterati elite.
00:45:12.000He needs to come in with an iron fist.
00:45:15.000Crack some skulls and just make it clear that this is the new law of the land and we're not backing down, and they will back off.
00:45:21.000But at the same time, if he does something, he's going to have thousands of people come to him.
00:46:10.000Make it a protocol, give yourself access to the real estate, make the real estate sellable, the advertising real estate, as a commodity or asset on a public protocol, and then you effectively give yourself, you make it worth substantially more money, you remove moderation requirements from you and say, if someone, look, here's the way I describe it.
00:46:31.000If Coca-Cola buys a billboard in Times Square and then I go stand in front of it holding up a sign with a picture of something really awful, is Coca-Cola going to call up their ad buyer and be like, or their ad seller and be like, well why is there a man standing in front of my sign saying naughty words?
00:46:47.000They're going to be like, because he's standing on a public street.
00:46:49.000Next question, why are you wasting my time?
00:46:52.000We should not be looking at Twitter in this way.
00:46:55.000If you want to advertise where the conversation is happening, you recognize people say things you don't like.
00:47:02.000They make it a protocol, they make it interoperable with other platforms, they remove their ability to moderate anything and say law enforcement can handle it.
00:47:09.000And also with the advertising, I mean, this was a dying platform.
00:47:13.000This is mostly used by journalists, certain niches of society.
00:47:17.000It's not this mass public platform like an Instagram or even a snap or even a TikTok.
00:47:23.000It is a platform for, you know, different degrees of elites, essentially talking to
00:47:27.000other elites and then a few people liking it.
00:47:29.000The advertisers will come when he creates when he turns it back into a platform that
00:47:51.000I actually posted an old video of Elon Musk talking about Twitter.
00:47:55.000I posted this on my shorts on my YouTube channel, which people could watch.
00:47:59.000I definitely recommend you watch that because Elon Musk talked about his plans for Twitter.
00:48:03.000He talked about how it's absolutely crazy that it took Twitter one year to work on something like an edit button.
00:48:09.000He then went on and was like, you know, we should make this like WeChat.
00:48:12.000And WeChat is something that's not really popular here in the United States, but in places like China, everyone depends on WeChat for virtually almost every aspect of their life and existence.
00:48:23.000You do everything on WeChat, and this is the type of vision that he has.
00:48:29.000That he might transform and change Twitter to X. And again, Twitter made some horrible, absolutely idiotic decisions when it came to their business.
00:48:40.000They had the TikTok before TikTok even existed.
00:48:43.000TikTok right now is dominating all the social media platforms with so many users, with so much engagement, with so much just short-term gratification for a lot of individuals, whether it's good or bad, that's debatable.
00:48:55.000But YouTube, And, excuse me, Twitter had that livestream ability, had that TikTok ability, and they just threw it in the trash.
00:49:03.000It's been a history of deprecating features, refusing to release features.
00:49:06.000It's interesting that in the last year, with Twitter Blue, with the edit button, with a whole litany of other features, it's all come out of, you know, the woodworks.
00:49:13.000Because up until then, it was just a series of, they had fleets for a while.
00:50:11.000Well, these are what you call impact investors, and they're willing to throw money at political causes.
00:50:15.000They want to see someone other than Donald Trump be elected.
00:50:18.000The nice thing about owning this company and making it private is that he doesn't, when you have a public company, yeah, you have not only do you have shareholders, then you even a public company, a public private company that you have that you co-own with someone else.
00:50:29.000Like in the case of mines, Bill and John ran it together.
00:50:50.000There's also a global corporate collusion with bankers happening under the name of the ESG, and I think this has a lot to do with it, because if they can have companies literally jumping whenever the bankers want them to jump, singing whenever the bankers want them to sing, doing whatever the bankers want them to do under this social credit score, this corporate social credit score, this is another element of it that we have to understand here.
00:51:11.000This is a coordinated effort by a lot of very powerful people, Bill Gates being one of them, Putting all of his money into institutions saying, hey, hurt Twitter now.
00:51:20.000Twitter is a threat against me, my empire, my money.
00:51:24.000Right now, people are going to be able to talk and find out all the lies that I told them.
00:51:27.000People are going to find out all the horrible things I did to them.
00:51:31.000Right now, we need to shut Twitter down, get all the advertisers.
00:51:34.000And again, Elon Musk has actually addressed this.
00:51:36.000He talked about doing a subscriber-based model.
00:51:39.000He talked about changing the financial aspects of Twitter.
00:51:42.000So he sees this attack coming as well, but we got to understand here, there's very powerful people right now that are going to be looking at Twitter as a direct threat against their hegemony on the narrative, on the conversation, on the truth.
00:51:55.000That's the Brutus metaphor of what you were saying earlier.
00:51:57.000The longer Elon holds this hot potato, the more of a target he becomes. He needs to release it.
00:52:01.000Come out forceful, make these radical changes and overwhelm them, which is what the left does
00:52:05.000when they're in power. You can make a comparison when Trump was in his office for the first four
00:52:09.000years. He dithered, he dallyed, he could have done a lot more things until he waited to the last few
00:52:14.000months, which was sad. But you make a good point from previously, it really goes back to if you
00:52:20.000They could have this hissy fit, they can pull out their money, but if he's truly going to turn this into a new revolutionary platform, move it away from this advertiser beholden structure into something more WeChat, better tech, better features, and the masses come back to Twitter, what are they going to do?
00:52:38.000They're not going to be able to hold off for long because they're missing a massive market for potential advertising, you know, supply.
00:52:44.000So they're not going to We're not going to turn that down.
00:52:45.000It's me super chatted, Elon needs to charge $5 to tweet at Trump only.
00:52:50.000Make the rest ad free, $1 trillion a year profit.
00:52:53.000All the Trump reply guys, it's like, well, if you tweet at Trump, it's $5.
00:52:57.000And then they would just fund the whole platform.
00:53:43.000We can't write off Alt-Tec because Alt-Tec definitely pushed Twitter and obviously is
00:53:47.000It's led to a lot of the tech features they've begun to release, so it's done its job.
00:53:51.000I hope Elon's, you know, revolution of Twitter doesn't totally, you know, negate everything that you guys are building and others are building.
00:53:59.000Like, we could have mesh networks locally with this software, with this Twitter and Mines, all this stuff, where, like, I can tweet at you if you're nearby, without having any kind of internet, just on our devices.
00:54:10.000Look, I think Elon needs to communicate much more and much more quickly because I do not see any logic or reason why certain accounts like the Babylon Bee haven't been reinstated.
00:55:02.000If Elon doesn't immediately just pull out the lightning bolt of Zeus and throw it, he's going to keep sitting down having conversations like Dorsey.
00:55:14.000The old trope about the president getting elected, and, you know, he's on the campaign trail saying, I'm gonna end the wars!
00:55:20.000And I'm gonna get the price of gas down.
00:55:23.000Then he gets into office, the CIA, the FBI, DHS, they all slam all these folders on his desk and say, you can't and here's why.
00:55:29.000And then, instead of pulling a Trump, where Trump goes, excuse me, excuse me, I don't know, I don't care, get this out of here, I'm doing what I want, we're getting the troops out.
00:55:37.000And then they all lost their mind and tried to get rid of him.
00:55:40.000Elon's going in there, and I worry, and I don't know, it's only been day one.
00:55:44.000But he may go in and pull a traditional presidential trope in that he goes, I'm gonna unban everybody and I'm gonna do these things.
00:55:50.000He sits down and they go, okay, now this advertiser does 300 million per year.
00:55:55.000They said that if Trump is on the platform, they won't advertise it anymore.
00:55:58.000If you don't have that money, we lose this core of the company.
00:56:00.000And then this company says we don't like Milo, they complained.
00:56:03.000If you have him on, and then Elon's gonna go, okay.
00:56:05.000So, if I have these 10 people banned, we keep all this money and the platform keeps working?
00:56:10.000Alright, well I guess I'll compromise there.
00:56:13.000I had a conversation with a tech CEO a long time ago, of a big social media platform, and they told me, it's a guy, and he said, I don't want to ban these people, but if I don't ban this guy, everyone loses the platform.
00:56:35.000Look them in the eye and say, if you don't want to advertise on the platform that everyone is on, and you want to make yourself irrelevant, by all means, Will Wheaton is hanging out who knows where these days.
00:56:47.000He's not on Twitter or on Mastodon, but I'm sure he's looking for someone to talk to.
00:58:56.000There's no magical world where the people who burn down cities in the George Floyd rise and then lie about it in the media, there's no world where they're like peacefully negotiating with you.
00:59:06.000Because the left governs in the private sector and the public sector by their ideology and their ideology will dictate their actions and then you have, you know, Good intention.
00:59:15.000People like Elon coming into and they're like, you know, we'll make a committee, we'll make a council, let's let everyone hear it out, and it doesn't go anywhere.
01:00:01.000Let me tell you, if you own a storefront in Portland, or I'll say Berkeley, All the Berkeley storefronts have anti-Trump, or they did, and woke signs.
01:00:49.000Just, fine, we'll stop advertising on Twitter, it doesn't make enough money for us anyway.
01:00:54.000Then, Elon, or whoever's at Twitter, sees that come in, look, we're getting tons of complaints about Milo, we don't want to advertise on your platform anymore, and they go, look, either we ban Milo, or we lose the whole platform.
01:01:04.000And then they do, and that's the chain of events.
01:01:06.000Unless someone is willing to say, It's either this or nothing.
01:02:02.000They've tried the fully woke model, and it's not working from a financial perspective.
01:02:06.000So if he's going to be intimidated by the supposed financial repercussions of allowing more free speech on banning the Babylon Bee... I think the Babylon Bee is back.
01:04:12.000Because the big advertisers are scared of them.
01:04:14.000That's why they don't get banned, because they're the one- Look, I say it all the time.
01:04:18.000Does Twitter headquarters, pre-Elon, were they ever scared that, like, Dave Rubin is gonna lead a bunch of classic liberals with pitchforks and torches to their doorstep?
01:04:36.000So, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, every advertiser, they are scared to death that one day they'll walk outside their building and some guy will hit him in the face with a brick.
01:04:46.000And it's not going to be a conservative.
01:04:48.000So, we can ban the conservatives because they won't do anything about it anyway, but we better not cross Antifa and the extremists left.
01:04:58.000And you're presenting a broader political dilemma is that it's this asymmetrical political fight where the conservatives or the right wing are fighting with their hands tied behind their back, and the left wing are bringing guns to a knife fight or not even to a fight at all, and they're just playing to win.
01:05:13.000They don't care about the substance, they don't care about the style, they don't care about anything else.
01:05:17.000They're there for one thing, one thing only, power, power dynamics, and advancing their ideology, and they don't care about any of the niceties associated with, you know, councils, etc.
01:05:47.000I'm not saying it's highly probable if, come April, there's me sitting with Elon and Joe being like, Elon, why won't you do this?
01:05:56.000We had this Antiva person, and Elon's gonna be like, we're going in, and we're trying to make sure we're doing it fair, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
01:06:49.000Probably, maybe they have started with the lower level accounts, and they're working their way up, and these are some of the... Well, he said he didn't make any changes.
01:06:57.000Yeah, he said no changes have happened.
01:07:01.000I mean, you've been consistently gaining a good amount of followers this past week, but today you've gained more than double what you gained yesterday.
01:07:40.000Twitter was propping up fake accounts to make it look like the left was more prominent than they were because the right is more prominent and they were banning people on the right and shadow banning them to make it seem like they were less prominent.
01:07:52.000And this is so When you talk about politicians, you talk about their staff, you talk about the decisions that happen in Washington, they see Twitter as really what's the viewpoint of the vast majority of people, their constituents, what's the public's view on things, but it's a completely manipulated audience pool.
01:08:10.000I mean, if it was a congressional district, it'd be like a D plus 70.
01:08:13.000It's not something that exists in the real world.
01:08:15.000And it's all about the perception that they're creating, the illusion they're creating.
01:08:19.000And it's not just the likes, it's not just the follows, it's even the comments.
01:08:22.000I mean, you see those memes that go around where it's all the same comment that's being shared every time a major news cycle hits.
01:08:28.000And I'm glad he's going after it, and it's also noticeable.
01:08:31.000It's these left-wing accounts claiming they're losing followers, which were bots.
01:08:34.000A few weeks ago, it was right-wing accounts claiming they lost followers, who were real people.
01:08:38.000They're saying it's people quitting the platform.
01:08:57.000That was something he brought up, and that was something that came up, you know, in the evaluation talks when they were first, you know, in talks to buy.
01:09:24.000Or maybe just to investigate to see what was going on, to see what the algorithm really was, to see how it was being manipulated, to see who was being punished for what.
01:09:33.000I think there needs to be a long investigation into what is essentially very potentially very illegal activities with election interfering done by Twitter.
01:09:44.000So that's a very serious accusation, but only someone who just acquired a company is going to be looking into that right now as we're speaking.
01:10:03.000He is in a good position that he could bring over some loyal, you know, staff and support from, you know, Tesla, some of his engineers there, etc.
01:10:09.000But it is going to take a period of time just from a logistical, technical perspective to dig into this and actually find out what's going on behind the scenes, how it can be rectified, how it can be... And how do you undo the damage?
01:10:20.000Guys, he's not going to endear himself to the employees after he just fired Ligma Johnson.
01:10:26.000Ligma Johnson was asking for it, though.
01:10:51.000I mean, honestly, if you're a free software developer and you want to get involved, keep your eyes on Twitter, because he's going to be hiring.
01:10:57.000Or it could just be a community project.
01:11:55.000Being the CEO, it's a very, it's a high-level job of a very large company.
01:12:00.000It's just insane to me that these people, like, couldn't get an edit button done in a year, but they were given $30 million.
01:12:07.000Well, the pay wasn't based on the merits or the financials or anything.
01:12:11.000It was based on loyalty to the regime and the regime's doctrine and what they were trying to push through this platform and the social engineering they wanted to use the platform for, and they were only willing participants in that, so they were paid handsomely for doing a job well done.
01:12:27.000But it's not based on any basic profit or loss model of a traditional business.
01:12:31.000It's based on loyalty to the regime, and that's why this gentleman will be spending that $30 million somehow.
01:12:44.000I don't think people truly understand what $30 million means.
01:12:47.000He wouldn't be able to spend that if he tried.
01:12:49.000Wasn't there like a dozen real engineers?
01:12:52.000I'm making the numbers up, but there was an extremely small number of real engineers, and the entire structure of the workforce was like a reverse pyramid, where it was those 12 supporting this massive, bloated, you know, pension scheme at Twitter, effectively.
01:13:06.000And it was like these few engineers that were doing all the work, and everything else was just...
01:13:10.000You know, corporate fluff and councils and committees and, you know, diversity leaders, whatever it is.
01:13:59.000The thing about the compensation that really gets me is that I would be willing to bet a substantial sum myself that you, the average viewer, could do his job.
01:14:14.000What knowledge does he have where he was like, it was mismanaged, it was managed so poorly the company was struggling, it was basically failing.
01:14:21.000This is just, there is an elite class in this planet, it's always been the case, they do nothing, they get everything.
01:14:40.000Almost doubled the amount of employees.
01:14:41.000Now map the user growth, which I think if you factor out bots, I don't know what it is, but it's probably stagnant, if not, you know, a downward trend, but at least if you factor out bots, which may not be possible.
01:14:53.000Yeah, people are pointing out that Kanye's Twitter account is back and Elon pointed out that's an automatic thing, it has nothing to do with him, you know.
01:15:01.000Oh, it was like one of those seven-day things or whatever?
01:15:03.000Right, and so his account just turned back on or whatever.
01:15:37.000It's an incentive structure for loyalty.
01:15:39.000You keep these guys operating against their own company's best interests because they know the payout will be greater than whatever else they could get through normal channels.
01:15:48.000And I guess he got $60 million to get fired.
01:16:59.000The staff went from 4,000 to 5,500 while the daily user rate didn't change.
01:17:06.000It pays to be the thought police, you know?
01:17:08.000When you're censoring speech, when you're going after people for political ideas and expression and act like you're fighting the Germans during the 1930s, you've got to be paid a lot of money to play pretend for that long, for that much, for that big of a circumstance.
01:17:26.000You know, and you got to pay for private security if you're in Silicon Valley.
01:17:30.000You know, a lot of crazy people out there running around with hammers and deranged individuals and people throwing poop at you and people, you know, syringes, people giving themselves the vaccine in the streets all the time.
01:17:42.000So, I want to see Rumble's headquarters.
01:17:44.000Because I'm thinking about Twitter's HQ was very lavish.
01:18:13.000I feel like that's better than a modernist, soulless building in Silicon Valley with their cafeteria and all their little perks and their yoga room.
01:18:36.000It's all about servers and server placement, which, ideally, we'll have that stuff in orbit, because if we do take some sort of asteroid contact, we're going to need to preserve our data and our knowledge.
01:18:47.000But Ian, the problem is, how do you dissipate the heat in outer space?
01:19:41.000In 27 years, you'll get this tweet out.
01:19:42.000Chris Pavlovsky, CEO of Rumble, and Elon have been, I don't know if the two of them directly have been in talks, but Chris reached out to him on Twitter about a month ago and was like, hey, you want to get involved?
01:20:07.000What if Elon does succeed with X and Twitter becomes a place where you've got a wallet, uses crypto, you can post videos, you can write stories, you can make tweets.
01:20:18.000Like, it really becomes what Mark Zuckerberg was hoping Facebook would become.
01:21:21.000Well, I was running Twitter and we couldn't get an edit button done.
01:21:25.000I'm sure he was doing something, you know what I mean?
01:21:27.000But based on that Project Veritas video where the guy is like, I work four hours a week or something like that, I really doubt any of them are doing anything.
01:21:34.000Yeah, you want people that are committed to 40 plus hours a week at least, because it's about organization.
01:21:39.000If you have 30 million, like I could pay you 30 million, but if you're only working eight hours a week and there's no other employees... Well, you've seen those viral TikTok videos with a girl walking around like, here's my day in the office.
01:22:00.000If tomorrow you woke up and you had a million dollars in the bank account, cash, clean, ready to use, it was a legitimate deposit, what would you do?
01:23:33.000Not a bad answer, because property is an investment.
01:23:36.000Most people will say, like, I go to Hawaii, I take my family out.
01:23:40.000Those people will never see a dime from an investor.
01:23:43.000So even with what we're doing here at Timcast, the biggest challenge is personnel, is finding people who want to work on something, not people who want a job.
01:23:51.000People who want a job tend to just, you know, quiet, quit, do the bare minimum.
01:23:55.000So when you're trying to invest in someone and give them a substantial amount of money, you want to go to someone and say, if you had a million dollars, what would you do?
01:24:01.000It's like, oh man, you know, I've always wanted to launch my own comic book distribution network.
01:24:05.000And if I just had the capital, we'd get it going, but I've already got the books.
01:24:08.000I just need to figure out how to get to these.
01:24:58.000I mean, it's not so much prefer as just, like, It's more like if there's a wavy field, you know, let's say this table was wavy and you poured water on it, the water would pool in the lowest point, you know what I mean?
01:25:13.000It's not like I'm saying, we should do contract labor or something, it's like, that's how it's done.
01:25:18.000I'm not gonna hire a lawyer to work for this company, you know what I mean?
01:25:21.000I'm gonna contract a legal, a law firm who can handle it.
01:25:24.000Yeah, yeah, like, the people we need to hire, the people who need to be here all the time, specifically, like, a video producer, an audio engineer, but, like, Vice had in-house counsel, you know?
01:25:32.000They had a room with, like, two or three lawyers in it.
01:25:38.000Yeah, anyway, my point, ultimately, about the cash stuff is...
01:25:42.000I look at a lot of the people in Silicon Valley, a lot of the people at these companies, and they should not be getting paid what they're getting paid because they don't care about the product, they don't care about the growth, they don't care about the mission.
01:25:56.000It's a broader problem in corporate America where you see these compensation packages are so out of whack with what they actually deliver.
01:26:03.000And, you know, they make excuses and they talk about the scale of things, etc.
01:26:07.000But at the end of the day, you know, it still is very much out of whack when you look at what you mentioned before, the growth in terms of staff and employees and the decrease in actual users.
01:26:37.000These are the places where if you're just friends with one of these wealthy Hollywood elites, you can be like, you know I sell this fancy lotion, it's $100 a bottle.
01:26:47.000They'll say, oh I'd love some, and then it's jergens in a little bottle.
01:27:13.000There's a whole social, like, class, you know, between the Hamptons and Hollywood, whatever, that feed off of that.
01:27:18.000Usually, you know, they fall into, like, the wine mom, you know, category of, in terms of demographics.
01:27:23.000It's unfortunate when people turn to alcohol when they get bored of so much money.
01:27:27.000They beat the game and they just start getting drunk every night.
01:27:29.000The only difference, on average in my opinion, maybe not necessarily, but there is a fine line between someone with a carpet, a sheet thrown on the ground with a bunch of jewelry strewn about it, and they're sitting there smiling at you saying, $1 necklaces, and some, you know, yoga wine aunt who is making $300,000 a year selling necklaces to select clientele in the Palisades.
01:28:41.000Luke, you mentioned that you would expand operations.
01:28:44.000Are you talking about for We Are Change?
01:28:45.000Yeah, and then just looking at solutions.
01:28:48.000I think providing food that's not poisoned is a big industry that I think has a lot of potential to also get into, that I would want to get into, that I'm kind of looking into getting into, and helping people as much as I can.
01:29:10.000Without high fructose corn syrup, seed oils, and all the, you know, forever chemicals, and microplastics, and other things that just destroy humanity.
01:29:19.000But it has a green label on it, and it says it's healthy.
01:29:41.000Didn't they do an experiment where they made a Rice Krispie with, like, sawdust?
01:29:47.000Just a small amount of sawdust and wanted to see if people could tell, and they couldn't, and it's basically equivalent to what they do to most of our food.
01:29:52.000Have you looked at Parmesan cheese from the supermarket?
01:30:01.000Well, yeah, and they talk about, oh, we have a society where you're constantly having to work out just to be the bare minimum in terms of healthy.
01:30:09.000You go to Europe, you look back in time, you know, the caloric intake hasn't gone up.
01:30:13.000It's the quality of food we're putting in is trash.
01:30:16.000And then we wonder why we've never been more unhealthy.
01:30:19.000So we talked about this the other day.
01:32:16.000Whenever you go to a beach or a public park or a theme park, you look around, and if you start paying attention, you're like, holy freaking cow, there is biological warfare being committed on everyone.
01:32:39.000Now Disney is doing that fat chick film, where it's like, you can be morbidly obese, but it's okay.
01:32:45.000It feels like we're dancing around a renaissance, but if not for the obesity crisis.
01:32:51.000It's all these distractions, because we have to relearn all these basic things we used to know and be able to do innately, you know, just be healthy.
01:32:57.000Now it's like, this is an active thing we have to do to be healthy.
01:33:42.000There was a whole incident that happened, I think, in Spain, Madrid, in the 80s or 70s, where they all got some toxic oil syndrome because the food that they were cooking with was like this canola oil that was basically meant for, like, Industrial engine oil.
01:34:14.000All right, we're gonna go to Super Chats.
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01:34:26.000Jeremiah Nobler says, the Paul Pelosi incident is yet another example of Democrats not knowing what they let out of the bag catering to their progressive wing.
01:34:34.000Look, the guy was a Green Party dude, but he also was, you know, he posted Q stuff, he was a conspiracy guy, he had a pride flag.
01:34:50.000says, Tim Pool says, I don't know why anyone follows me on Twitter as he melts the fragile adult baby minds of cult leftists screeching about a Red Verify badge.
01:34:58.000Bro, this is going to be fun and we are here for it.
01:35:00.000Yeah, I tweeted, so I tweeted, That Elon should make a new verification badge, except it shows that you're a fascist and it's red.
01:35:08.000Then I tweeted again when he bought it.
01:35:11.000The same exact thing, but I said, except it shows that you're a communist and it's red and you can't remove it by choice.
01:35:18.000They're like, he wants to badge us when we do the fascist thing!
01:35:21.000They should review a lot of the verification, the people that are verified and the whole verification process, because that's another, you know, blatant tool for manipulation.
01:35:30.000Yeah, a verification originally was anyone could apply for it.
01:35:33.000And it was just you submit your ID and they say, okay, you are who you say you are, you're good.
01:35:36.000And then they decided to make it an endorsement.
01:35:39.000And it was funny because they were like, we don't see it as an endorsement.
01:35:41.000And then they literally took James O'Keefe's away.
01:36:41.000Okay, GoneFall says, you guys should play audio clip donations, but only members can, and those audio clips have to be reviewed before being shown on live.
01:36:50.000We've thought about a lot of things like that, but it's like a different show.
01:36:52.000It'd be like a Colin show almost, so we're making plans for expanding and doing something like that, which would be fun.
01:36:58.000I think Colin's show would be really fun to do.
01:38:31.000We'll have to, you know, maybe some people suggested we do like a fan episode and we bring on a handful of people and that are like the core fans that are super chatting all the time and stuff.
01:40:28.000But for right now, Kanye is the guy to talk to.
01:40:30.000And I'm not, you know, I'm not super interested in actually talking to him about His tweets or whatever, because I'm like, okay, okay, we get it.
01:41:41.000It doesn't seem like a sustainable lifestyle.
01:41:43.000And, you know, what if, like, you're going out and you're worried about, I don't know, brigands and bandits slashing you so you have to wear thick leathers as you carry your wares from town to town?
01:43:02.000And you need to consider it's not just like everyone stops having kids, it's for cultural reasons, the loss of children will be centered in certain areas.
01:43:11.000So it may actually be that in urban centers population collapses, but in rural areas they're more likely to grow, which makes sense considering everything we've seen already.
01:43:19.000If those models are correct, the population expansion would primarily be in Africa, where population growth is still substantially higher than in other parts of the world.
01:43:27.000And that's the history of human civilization.
01:43:29.000The cities collapse first, then the hill people and the country people come in and rebuild it from the ashes.
01:43:35.000The Pew Research Center is saying mainly because people are going to be having less children, and this is according to their research.
01:43:41.000But they never say is it because they want to have less children or they can't have more children for financial, economic, or other reasons.
01:43:57.000He is an Aussie creator that is building a Star Wars alternative.
01:44:03.000Doing guests is difficult, and even if I—so I did a live stream today instead of my normal recorded segment, And it was because the news was rapidly changing.
01:44:11.000It was initially reported Twitter employees were fired, then I started recording, and then like, a few minutes in, breaking news, we were hoaxed, it's a fake story.
01:44:19.000And so I was like, I'll just start a livestream.
01:44:21.000But the segment's supposed to be just discussing, you know, monologuing through the news.
01:44:26.000Doing a guest thing would be very similar to this and it would be hard to coordinate and so I don't know but I might actually do Fridays on youtube.com slash Timcast 3 p.m.
01:44:36.000Live for like 30 to 40 minutes because I it's it's a lot easier and honestly, it's like easier work Were you doing super chats?
01:44:44.000What was it fun talking to the crowd and everything?
01:44:46.000yeah, but I only did a few super chats because the goal is to like talk about everything for a half an hour and then be done and for the podcast on iTunes and Spotify for the Tim Pool Daily Show.
01:44:55.000There's TimCast IRL Conversations and Tim Pool Daily Show monologuing.
01:44:59.000I found that one of the things about social media and working with a live audience is that if you allow yourself to get derailed by the audience and start responding with the audience, the whole show just becomes about that instead of the message that you're intending to, which is why they're there in the first place is for your message.
01:45:13.000That's why I hold super chats till the end.
01:45:43.000Jerry Murphy says, I'm an amateur stand-up comic and was wondering if you are looking to hire anyone that may help write comedy skits or possibly write humorous news articles.
01:47:45.000Charlie says Rittenhouse was almost convicted with a deepfake drone video because the prosecutor compressed a video that backed up Kyle's story.
01:48:13.000Twisted Ninja says, remember in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial when the DA binger deliberately tried showing evidence on an iPad because the zoom showed what he wanted and got an expert to say interpolation doesn't change the video.
01:48:59.000It's really easy to get verified, guys.
01:49:01.000All you gotta do is get hired by a major international corporation that has connections with Twitter's HQ, who will make a phone call to the people they know there and tell them to verify you, and then you will be.
01:49:15.000Before I worked at Vice, there were people asking Twitter, like, why wasn't I verified?
01:49:19.000Like, activists were saying, hey, Tim Pool is in these magazines, he's in these shows, he's featured in these news articles, everyone's highlighting his work, every time he covers big stories, why isn't he being verified?
01:49:31.000The point the activists were making is that I was not a corporate individual, I was independent, but I was at, like, trials and protests, and the media was all using my footage.
01:49:43.000That's cause for verification, so that people know, hey, this is a guy that people know is a journalist who produces his content, and he's being featured widely.
01:49:49.000We should let people know that this is, you know, who he says he is.
01:49:53.000I got hired by Vice, and they went, oh, well, yeah, here, give me a second.
01:49:57.000Got on the phone, and then they were like, oh, you're good.
01:52:05.000If there is a predator coming towards the flock, the rooster will make a sound, the hens will run, and he'll charge full speed at the predator, knowing he will die.
01:52:15.000But if it means the girls get to run away and survive, he will do it.
01:52:18.000Isn't one of the French national symbols a rooster?
01:52:58.000Like, so you'll see the turkeys outside and then they puff up and spread their butt feathers or whatever and then look like that picture, but then sometimes they compress.
01:53:38.000Justine Jardine says, I want to be there when Trump's Twitter account is reactivated and unbeknownst to him, his phone makes a Twitter notification sound.
01:53:46.000Can you imagine the look on his face, not to mention the temptation?
01:55:44.000Synthetic Greed says, maybe the meetings is either he's trying to limit the amount of leftists that will leave or by the end he will set in stone how to moderate.
01:55:53.000Some people pointed out that the Diverse Moderation Council is basically him saying to bring conservatives in, which makes sense.
01:56:00.000He wouldn't need to add leftists to a company that's overwhelmingly leftist.
01:56:03.000He needs to hire independents, libertarians, conservatives.
01:56:32.000He was registered with the Green Party and voted Green Party.
01:56:35.000Just because he's anti-government doesn't make him inherently right or whatever.
01:56:39.000But if he's Green Party, that is a left position.
01:56:42.000If someone is a Democrat and is complaining about Democrats and they're saying, we want the Democratic Party to be better, but we don't like it, and they believe the government's corrupt, they're still a Democrat.
01:56:49.000But we made that point because we believe in nuance.
01:56:52.000That's why we mentioned that the guy was just kind of crazy and all over the place.
01:56:56.000And it's what we've seen from a lot of these crazies.
01:57:46.000That's money that just goes to him into his pocket, and I'm like, what does he do with that?
01:57:51.000You know, $30 million you could not spend, like, you could not reasonably spend it.
01:57:57.000If you have that kind of money, you're probably just like, you hired a company to manage your money for you.
01:58:01.000You're at the point where you're so rich, you're like, you go to Schwab or something, and you're like, here's money, I don't know how to figure it out.
01:58:06.000You give me a 4.2% return on my investment, but that don't, I mean, I'm not your money marketer, but That's BlackRock.
01:58:13.000If you give money to that, you're giving money to BlackRock.
01:58:23.000There is no service, like basic service, that you cannot have And you don't even need to be that rich to get.
01:58:30.000Like the most expensive hotels, you go to New York City, we did a really cool party once in New York after an event, and it was like I think 10 grand for this luxury suite to have like a bunch of people in it having dinner and stuff.
01:58:43.000$10,000, it was like 35-40 people, we had a bunch of food and drinks, and it was for an event.
01:58:57.000That's, it's just, it's just mind, it's crazy to me.
01:58:59.000Mostly, look, if you, if you run a successful business and you work really, really hard, oh, I get it.
01:59:04.000But if you're like a dude who can't get an edit button done in a year on a failing company that somehow, I just, it's mind, it's mind blowing to me.
01:59:12.000I'd rather the homeless guy had the money.
01:59:13.000At least he might do something funny, like make a pie machine or something, or I don't know, buy himself an infinity pool.
02:00:34.000Because if you're looking at putting up billboards in the entirety across the country, you retain nothing from that, and you can easily spend it all if you're hitting every major market.
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02:02:07.000Thanks, guys, for tagging me and things you like that you think I would like because I've seen a lot of cool, interesting stuff recently, especially this topical stuff with Twitter getting bought and everything.
02:02:15.000Looking forward to seeing you next week.