Join us as we discuss the latest in pop culture, politics, and the Supreme Court. We are joined by Seamus Murray of Judicial Watch to discuss a variety of topics including: Neil Young's music removal from Spotify, Supreme Court Justice Breyer's impending retirement, and California's new anti-sex discrimination law.
00:00:50.000Supreme Court Justice Breyer is going to retire.
00:00:53.000In my opinion, this sends a huge, a very powerful signal Democrats expect to lose in November.
00:00:58.000I think all the polling shows this and Breyer is likely retiring now so that they can nominate someone and get them through before the Democrats lose the House and the Senate.
00:01:09.000And that's the interesting thing, losing the Senate too, because we expect them to lose the House.
00:01:15.000Very, very interesting stuff, so we'll get into that.
00:01:17.000And we're being joined by Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch.
00:01:20.000And you can talk a lot about a lot of the lawsuits you have, one of which is California requires you to have a woman on the board or something like that?
00:01:28.000Yeah, if you're a public company, you have to have a corporate, there's a new rule that you have to have a certain number of women on the board.
00:01:36.000And what that means, the mirror of that is that if you're a man, you can't apply for certain board positions or be considered for certain board positions of public companies in California.
00:02:04.000So, you know, we've been in a now six-week trial as the government has come in and tried to make the case that not only are they remedying discrimination without having any evidence of discrimination, but also that making sure that there's sex discrimination in corporate boards actually helps companies.
00:02:26.000It's critical theory, the feminist version of it, on trial.
00:02:31.000And the left is very concerned about it because they have a new law that followed up on that where they expanded the required quotas to your other protected classes, minorities, sexual orientation and things like that.
00:02:46.000So there's a whole quota system they've put in place to make sure that boards are following what they want to follow in terms of upending So you guys do a lot of lawsuits.
00:03:05.000Do you wanna just give a brief introduction as to who you are and what you do?
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00:06:42.000You know, we talked about Joe Rogan too much.
00:06:50.000And I guess the issue is, you know, we are sitting down and we're looking at all the news today.
00:06:54.000We got the story, Spotify to take down Neil Young's music after his Joe Rogan ultimatum.
00:06:59.000And I'm sitting here and, you know, and I look over at our good friend, Tom, and I'm like, what's more important, Stephen Breyer, a Supreme Court justice, retiring or Neil Young losing his battle with Spotify to get Joe Rogan banned?
00:07:11.000And I don't know, because I feel like the Supreme Court is more important, but you made a really great point.
00:07:15.000You said the Great Suppression is the biggest story, or something to that effect.
00:07:19.000Yeah, that's what we're in the midst of, the Great Suppression.
00:07:22.000We have massive censorship, or an effort for censorship, targeting opposition to whatever you want to call it.
00:07:31.000The big state, deep state, the communists, whoever you want to call it.
00:07:36.000And the communists are willing to use multi-millionaires like Neil Young to suppress other successful people.
00:07:52.000So when you take away a leading voice that people look up to and communicate and use as a basis for further communications, that's suppression of all of Rogan's audience.
00:08:02.000So whenever we're suppressed, all of our followers are suppressed and harmed as well.
00:08:18.000They say, Mr. Young's record label, Warner Music Group, Corpse Warner Records, formally requested Spotify remove his music Wednesday, which would take several hours to take effect across Spotify services across the world.
00:08:30.000Quote, we want all the world's music and audio content to be available to Spotify users.
00:08:35.000With that comes great responsibility in balancing both safety for listeners and freedom for creators, Spotify spokesman said Wednesday.
00:08:43.000We regret Neil's decision to remove his music from Spotify but hope to welcome him back soon."
00:08:49.000Now, the way the left is portraying this is, Neil Young stood on his principles and said,
00:08:55.000I do not want to share a platform with that man, and so they took his music down.
00:08:59.000I see it as a big loss, because what his intent, what he was trying to do was he was like,
00:09:04.000I'm Neil Young! You better ban Joe Rogan or I'm out! And they were like, dude, Joe Rogan gets
00:09:09.000hundreds of millions of downloads per month and you get six.
00:09:14.000You don't have any new music that's like breaking the charts.
00:09:17.000Well, that's the thing It's that really embarrassing outdated rock star ego like this isn't a convention center where you can request you only have green M&Ms in the bowl or you throw a fit like Joe Rogan gets way more views and downloads than him and I don't know why Neil Young thought himself in a position to determine what we should be able to listen to but I think it's kind of hilarious that Spotify gave him the old okay boomer get off our platform.
00:09:44.000Well, I apologize for mis-generationing Neil Young, but I'm telling you, I'm glad his music's off the platform, because I think it's great.
00:10:01.0001944 is when they began, and it was Silent up until then.
00:10:05.000I'm Generation X, and Boomer is ahead of that.
00:10:10.000Well, point is, I think it's a fantastic victory.
00:10:12.000The fact that this old school celebrity who thinks he's a lot cooler and more relevant than he is tried to throw his weight around and got taken down is, uh, kind of incredible.
00:10:20.000But he's the oldest you can be to be a boomer.
00:12:35.000Yeah, the organized left has, they've been doing this for years in terms of targeting voices they disagree with, and usually it's trying to controversialize them to get commercials off or advertises off.
00:12:51.000You know, Rush Limbaugh faced this years ago.
00:12:54.000So it's, You know, unfortunately, there's nothing new under the sun, but it's gotten worse.
00:12:58.000Things have metastasized in terms of the attack on speech.
00:13:02.000And my view is we're in a revolutionary moment.
00:13:18.000I've got to tell you, I've lived in Georgia for the past couple of years, and it's true.
00:13:21.000A Southern man don't need him around anyhow.
00:13:23.000I mean, he apologized for that, apparently.
00:13:26.000You know, when he got criticized for writing... Neil Young wrote these two songs criticizing himself, and then he actually commented on it later, being like, yeah, I shouldn't have written those songs, they were too broad, whatever.
00:13:38.000I want to say, real quick, the funniest thing about this story is how the one person who's not talked about it is Joe Rogan himself.
00:13:46.000Like, he doesn't care, it doesn't involve him, he's minding his own business, and everyone else is like, you know, we're sitting here waving our arms in the air, hooting and hollering like, oh!
00:13:56.000And it's like, I imagine it's just, Joe's like, I have a feeling I'd call him and be like, hey, this Neil Young thing, and he'll be like, what happened?
00:14:04.000I'll be like, Neil Young, man, you trying to get too banned?
00:14:05.000And he'd be like, I don't know what you're talking about, Tim.
00:14:11.000The public policy implication, the problem there is you've got the media celebrating it, though.
00:14:16.000You know, Neil Young, it's ridiculous, as we're talking about.
00:14:20.000But the media kind of salivating and celebrating the targeting of Young, and you see, you know, the CNN types and people like that, they love that this is happening.
00:14:30.000And so that's the dangerous side of it.
00:14:31.000You've got this whole media political complex, along with big tech, that is excited about taking out voices they don't like.
00:15:38.000People are looking at this as a matter of politics and on some level it is, but what is very interesting is the fact that he is direct competition for them in the business that they're operating in.
00:15:48.000And so when they write these articles about him, it's literally people who work for the companies that he's competing with talking about how horrible he is.
00:15:55.000Well, of course they're going to say that.
00:15:57.000And what the media always does, and what the left always does, is as soon as they start losing, they immediately portray themselves as martyrs and victims.
00:16:04.000But the narrative falls apart with Rogan because he's one guy who people really want to listen to.
00:16:10.000And they make it seem like he's this reckless and irresponsible man who's bullying them.
00:16:15.000Hey, but isn't it crazy how they've really ramped up the attacks on Joe Rogan?
00:16:54.000Those cult-y leftists are like, oh no, and they're lying.
00:16:57.000It's so hilarious how, like, dude, when you take a clip from Joe's show and then post it along with a quote that Joe did not say, You're a moron.
00:18:05.000Because, like, you can listen to the guy.
00:18:07.000And what Joe Rogan is saying actually opens up a very interesting discussion, which is the fact that in the United States of America, black people have a racial identity but not an ethnic identity because of the tragic history there, and the fact that they don't know which part of Africa they're from as individual people, whereas with the white population, a person generally knows if they're Irish, German, English, Dutch, whatever ancestry they have.
00:18:26.000And there's something tragic there, and it shapes the way that a culture operates, but of course the media has to turn that into Joe Rogan is racist and says you can't call someone black unless they're 100% black.
00:19:25.000And so there's this kind of war on reality in some respects, but also war on the law in terms of discrimination.
00:19:32.000They don't believe in these anti-discrimination laws because the way they talk and think about them would actually negate them and make them inapplicable.
00:19:41.000I think for me, one thing that instantly broke me out of the left lies, I just immediately saw it, was how someone can identify as whatever they want, As long as you agree with their political ideology.
00:20:13.000She has false consciousness and she's not black.
00:20:15.000Well, I mean, that's that's communism.
00:20:17.000Well, it's interesting because the question I've always wanted to ask, they always pose this as a question of black versus white.
00:20:21.000And it's like, OK, well, like what if a black person hates an Asian person or what if an Asian person hates a black person or a Hispanic person hates a black person?
00:20:27.000Like if you're not white, you can't be racist.
00:20:37.000What if everyone in this room hates an Irishman?
00:20:40.000Well, you guys all do, based on the way I'm treated.
00:20:42.000Now, to be fair, and I've said this on the show before, I know people who are actually born and raised in Ireland get upset when you say you're Irish and you've only lived in America, but here's the thing, I'm not bragging, it's an admission.
00:20:55.000Okay, yes, this is where my ancestors are from.
00:21:08.000But, you know, the other thing, too, is I find it hilarious when I see people talking about me on, you know, like, Reddit or something, and they say, like, people I don't know why people will be like, Tim Pool doesn't identify as white or whatever, and I'm just like, I have no idea what that means.
00:22:11.000I mean, when they talk about being white or identifying as white, they fail to take into account how an individual person actually identifies themselves.
00:22:20.000And so I understand their argument that because I'm white, I don't really think about my skin color, etc.
00:22:24.000But if you look culturally at my upbringing, being from an Irish Catholic home in the Chicago area, And you compare that to the upbringing of a white Dutch person or a white English person who was raised in a Protestant home or without religion, you would actually find, and I have found this just based on the churches I've been to throughout my life, is that I have far more in common with a person on the basis of what religion they were raised in as opposed to their skin color.
00:22:50.000And so when you're talking to a black person or a Mexican person who was raised in a Catholic household, you can just relate on a level that I don't relate to on somebody just because Just because they're white.
00:23:11.000Matt Walsh made this point when he was on Dr. Phil.
00:23:15.000He said, we can dig up a skeleton hundreds of years later and we can't know what they were thinking, but we can know it's male or female or whatever.
00:23:21.000And I think that actually says a lot more than just that conversation.
00:23:24.000It's like you are so much more as to who you are on the inside, your values, the things you believe, than what you look like.
00:23:32.000I joke about this, but in the United States, Irish people were not considered white until being white meant you had to apologize for being white.
00:23:42.000But no, it's just interesting because whiteness is a label that was actually used to bludgeon my ancestors.
00:23:47.000So when you look at who was excluded from the United States, And what's frustrating to me is that we're having this conversation and it's one thing to have the conversation.
00:24:02.000It's another thing to be in positions where you're in a school and you're a teacher or you're in government.
00:24:08.000And you're being told you are a bad person because of the color of your skin.
00:24:13.000So the CRT, or whatever you want to call it, the woke approach, it's not just about it's offensive morally and intellectually.
00:25:01.000And I don't mean us, Judicial Watch, we are literally, but I mean us who are conservatives and follow the rule of law, we actually believe in non-discrimination.
00:25:23.000They called it the Affirmative Action Amendment.
00:25:25.000It was such a sleazy title for a bill.
00:25:29.000It literally would just strip out from the California Constitution, the language says, you cannot discriminate on the basis of race, sexuality, or origin, or whatever, in public employment, contracting, and schooling, or something like that.
00:25:42.000And they were like, we need to get rid of this so that we can be fair and treat minorities fair.
00:26:01.000But I remember, you know, I've told you guys this story before, but those who haven't heard it, I was talking to a friend of mine, an activist, a prominent, you know, well-known celebrity in Hollywood, and we're having a conversation because we've been drifting apart politically, and I said, what's the, you know, the racial makeup of California?
00:26:17.000And it's like 70, was it 70% white or something like that?
00:26:20.000And I said, so do you think that when California repeals their non-discrimination language from the Constitution, that the 70% white majority is going to protect the minorities now?
00:26:32.000Or do you think they'll just either consciously or unconsciously start benefiting themselves and their race?
00:26:38.000And there's no real answer I get from these people.
00:26:42.000Because they don't want to admit they're wrong in repealing this language because it's part of their tribe.
00:26:46.000But I was like, look, some of these cities in California are like 99% white.
00:26:51.000And if your perspective is that white people are racist, why would you empower these people to discriminate on the basis of race?
00:29:11.000If they went down there and they spoke to any of the organizers, they'd be like, oh.
00:29:17.000Like a lot of the organizers, a lot of people involved, do run charities for helping children and promoting adoption, and they do adopt a whole lot, but they just don't know anything about this.
00:30:47.000If you want to communicate with your elected representatives, it's nearly impossible to do so.
00:30:51.000We have that rump committee threatening and talking about throwing out hundreds of members of Congress because they opposed uh... the uh... uh... they were involved in the election
00:31:03.000disputes you have the justice department talking about
00:31:06.000investigating thousands of people because they were opposed to the election disputes
00:31:10.000that's the soviet style approach to governance. You see joe walsh on
00:31:14.000twitter I know he is, I didn't see him
00:31:17.000He said anybody who tries to put forth a fake group of electors should be investigated or blah blah blah.
00:31:25.000Which Democrats did in 1960 via Hawaii.
00:31:38.000What happened was, when the election was being contested, whatever your opinion is, is not the point, Republicans said, we are going to fill out the forms, the same as the Democrats were, and we're going to submit them.
00:31:50.000And sure enough, when the official electors came in and were certified for the Democrats, they went and Pence chose them.
00:32:00.000Hawaii certified Republican electors, but the Democrats decided to go and fill out their own forms anyway.
00:32:08.000Lo and behold, the courts ruled in their favor.
00:32:11.000So when the uncertified Democrat electors went to the joint session of Congress, Nixon said, we know what happened, the courts have ruled, so I'm going to pick these anyway.
00:33:11.000Here you have the leftist saying, oh, participating under the First Amendment in a rally is an evidence of a crime.
00:33:18.000Participating under the constitutional system to challenge electors and federal law to challenge electors that we've done since time immemorial.
00:33:46.000I mean, the Clinton campaign wanted to have U.S.
00:33:50.000intelligence officials brief the Electoral College on Russian interference in order to sway them.
00:33:56.000So, I mean, they have absolutely no respect for the system or ensuring that the electorate or those in the Electoral College select those who were voted for.
00:34:08.000Technically now it's seven years, but I was, you know, before in 2020 had been five years of lies about Russia and Ukraine and all of that manipulation.
00:34:20.000You want to talk about Soviet-style police state?
00:34:23.000Let's talk about how some dude who works for the CIA accuses the president of some nonsense, and the people of this country can't even say his name.
00:35:27.000I think Snopes tried doing a fact check on it, but it said something like, every election since 1968, the Democrats have claimed has been stolen.
00:37:06.000Did you see the Politico story the other day that confirmed or showed that the Capitol Hill Police Department, which answers now to Pelosi and Schumer, Pelosi is the queen of the hill when it comes to security, is gathering intelligence on members under the guise of security, investigating where they're going, who they're meeting with.
00:38:59.000Things that they didn't want out there.
00:39:01.000Which are true, but they don't like it out there because people get upset about it.
00:39:05.000But that's just the Veritas thing is a really good example of the desperation to be to be that overt with their strategies to go against American journalists.
00:39:14.000It just shows to use the metaphor we've used nonstop for the past two weeks.
00:39:18.000The emperor has no clothes, but they had they had power for a long time and it's it's it's being ripped from them.
00:39:23.000I think the Internet is what's causing it.
00:39:47.000I'm all big part of like ban the account, not the person.
00:39:49.000I don't think that just because someone has a track record of lying that they're necessarily lying.
00:39:54.000So I don't want to discount these people flat out.
00:39:56.000I understand that there's maybe it's more of a variant scale and maybe someone that lies a lot is like maybe a 7% weight to their statement, but that's still 7%.
00:40:05.000So you're right that it is technically possible for somebody to lie about something and then tell the truth later on, but a person loses their credibility.
00:40:12.000And honestly, there are so many people trying to compete for our bandwidth that I have no interest in giving my attention to someone who I know has lied before.
00:40:19.000You know, with politics, I don't really care whether someone lies too much in politics.
00:40:25.000I mean, it's a problem, you know, morally.
00:40:31.000Adam Schiff abused his power to take the phone records of Rudy Giuliani and publish them.
00:40:38.000And then we go to court trying to get the records, and part of their argument was, we can do that, we don't need a court authorization to do it.
00:40:45.000So right now we know that they're taking the phone records of people, and who knows, internet records of potentially, I don't know, millions of people, the way they're wording these requests.
00:41:27.000This is a question of whether or not we're going to follow the law and we're going to follow the infrastructure the Constitution has laid out for us and how we govern ourselves.
00:41:36.000Or whether the bad guys are just going to break all the rules to go after their enemies.
00:42:27.000So, um, seems to me that Breyer, who is considered a liberal justice, they're doing this because they think they're going to be losing the midterms.
00:43:05.000And you can bet the left that bullied a sitting Supreme Court justice off the court is going to demand that Biden appoint an extremist to replace him, not a normal liberal, someone who's extreme.
00:43:59.000Otherwise, we're going to get a 38-year-old or 42-year-old that's going to think they're going to be in power for 50 years and then I don't know.
00:44:13.000I do like the idea that, you know, when someone gets appointed, it kind of puts a pin in the cultural perspective and says like, you know, this person, he's 45, he's going to be a justice and he's going to be there for 40 years.
00:44:28.000The detriment, however, is you get someone like, you know, we had that Supreme Court justice who was on his, you know, he was partially comatose or whatever, and he was just like shaking in his bed, and they were like, what do we do?
00:44:46.000I think the chief concern is the quality of the judge and his judicial philosophy.
00:44:52.000So having a judicial supremacist on the court who wants to steal our liberty and steal our self-governance and govern from the bench, if he's on the court for a year, that doesn't do us any good.
00:45:02.000If he's on the court for 10 years, it doesn't do any good.
00:45:04.000But to have someone who defers to the Constitution and applies it as written and originally understood, you know, having them on the court for 30 years is fine.
00:45:14.000The question is, what is the role of the court in our constitutional system?
00:45:37.000And I would expect that finally, at least Republicans who share those views, you know, we can't be approving judges just because the president deserves his justice.
00:46:19.000I'm just trying to highlight the issue without getting too political on it.
00:46:23.000But the big argument that we heard from, you know, Kavanaugh, I think Clarence Thomas, when they were arguing the Mississippi abortion law, they were like, why is this a court issue and not a legislative issue?
00:46:35.000Well, when you read, and I encourage people to read Supreme Court opinions because they're generally written for public consumption.
00:46:41.000And if you're, you know, literate, you can understand them.
00:46:44.000And the left is exposed when their arguments are laid out there.
00:46:48.000And when you read Roe versus Wade, you see it's written like a piece of legislation.
00:46:53.000It's a perfect example of legislating from the bench.
00:46:58.000Abortion has been regulated by the states, you know, for most of modern history, you know, until, you know, certainly once law, Once they started talking about abortion, they were regulating and restricting it.
00:47:09.000I know there's arguments about the history.
00:47:11.000But it was a medical procedure, and it was regulated, and there was no federal jurisdiction over making sure that abortion was in the—protecting the abortion right.
00:47:22.000And so you had the courts, certain courts in the Supreme Court, justices who agreed that women should have the right to abortion.
00:47:32.000And then they mistook their policy preference for what the Constitution requires.
00:47:37.000And I talked about, you know, I remember seeing Judge Bork, you know, lose his nomination.
00:47:43.000And he wrote a book, he called it The Tempting of America, and the great temptation for judges is to get on the bench and impose your political views and call it jurisprudence.
00:47:56.000So one day after the show here, a while ago, now almost a year and a half ago, one of our friends back at the old studio, Nishra, who's Adam's wife, We're all hanging out in the kitchen and she's from Sweden.
00:48:45.000It feels like we started with a good foundation, and now it's just like this wonky Jenga tower of random blocks stuck in places because people wanted to, you know, get something for themselves.
00:48:54.000Well, on the other hand, things are going well.
00:48:56.000That's why the left is so upset about the Supreme Court, and they want to expand it.
00:48:59.000You had last week, you know, you had Nina Totenberg defame and smear Judge Gorsuch.
00:49:05.000Jane Mayer of The New Yorker went after Justice Thomas and his wife afterward.
00:49:09.000You're going after his wife to get at Justice Thomas.
00:49:12.000You've had this pressure campaign on Breyer.
00:49:15.000And I keep on talking about all our institutions being under assault.
00:49:18.000They're trying to blow up the Supreme Court with this court packing scheme so that Breyer leaving is, you know, he's a liberal.
00:49:26.000He'll probably be replaced with a liberal.
00:49:28.000But the goal is to pack the court and negate the conservative voices on the court that now are rising and dominating.
00:49:35.000Yeah, I mean, I think the populist view is that Roberts is not conservative and that Kavanaugh hasn't actually done a pretty decent job or anything like that.
00:49:46.000But I don't think they're going to replace Breyer with a liberal.
00:49:49.000I think they're going to replace him with a Marxist or something.
00:49:53.000Well, we'll see what Senator Manchin has to say about it.
00:49:56.000Yeah, but I, you know, yes, Manchin and maybe Sinema because they've, they've stood, you know, they've, you know, resisted the Democratic Party's whims.
00:50:06.000But you still have some Republicans who are going to be like, now, now, we got to be accommodating and fair.
00:51:07.000Yeah, he was like making a mockery of the system.
00:51:09.000This is racial identitarianism coming from our president for our Supreme Court.
00:51:15.000Well, it was the same thing with his VP nominee, and it's hilarious because he chose Kamala Harris essentially to pander to progressives because he pigeonholed himself.
00:51:23.000He said, I have to pick a woman of color.
00:51:25.000And basically every progressive I know hates Kamala Harris.
00:51:29.000And I can only hope that they will hate his Supreme Court nominee just as much.
00:51:33.000But of course, I'm sure that I wouldn't like them either.
00:51:36.000The way the Democratic Party has been going in the past couple of years, I wouldn't be surprised if Biden chooses the most absurd, hated person, neoliberal establishment, and all the progressives start screaming and the Democratic senators are like, if I vote for this, I'm going to lose.
00:52:25.000My view is Chuck Schumer's been an awful leader for the Democrats.
00:52:30.000He's been dragged around by AOC and the left, and he's lost control of the Senate.
00:52:35.000And so I think the president's nominee that otherwise might be able to squeak through might be stopped because of the craziness in our politics right now.
00:52:47.000Let's talk about this story we got from the LA Times.
00:52:49.000Trial to determine if requiring women on boards is legal.
00:53:41.000It's a violation of the California Constitution, which even has more broader protections We have four lawyers out there for six weeks fighting the government who are bringing in all these so-called experts who are pretending that it's right to require women to be on the boards and discriminate on the basis of sex.
00:54:07.000And the argument they're using, the left's argument, is, well, it helps corporations to have more women on the boards.
00:54:13.000You know, there's no real evidence of that.
00:54:18.000And but the point is, they're fighting it.
00:54:20.000And so those of us who, when the left says they're in favor of and hate discrimination, that's the big lie of our era.
00:54:30.000The most interesting development and troubling development is the thorough assault on anti-discrimination law in our schools and our corporations and our military and you see it now in the government that you can target people based on race or sex and discriminate against them and you'll have all the king's horses and all the king's men.
00:54:49.000I mean we're in court suing the state of California.
00:54:57.000The Civil Rights Division is harassing states for requiring voter ID, but allowing discrimination based on sex, race, and every other category to go on in California with Nary a peep.
00:55:12.000Listen, before Trump, the Justice Department under Trump was a disaster, too.
00:55:16.000I mean, Barr had no interest in doing any of this aggressive thing.
00:55:20.000Now, I say that knowing that he did do some good things.
00:55:23.000But the point is, the Justice Department institutionally is a locus of evil when it comes to public policy.
00:55:29.000And they do not believe, and this was true in the Obama administration, there was an IG report, they didn't believe the laws against racial discrimination applied to whites in voting matters.
00:55:46.000We don't believe these civil rights laws apply to all people.
00:55:50.000We had some guy on the show, I'm not going to say his name, but he was arguing very much in favor of critical race theory and stuff, and he's saying, like, you guys want to ban this stuff from schools and blah blah blah.
00:56:03.000My response to this, simply, when Donald Trump wanted to ban the critical race theory trainings for contractors and stuff like that, and these leftists are like, I thought you supported free
00:57:59.000He was like, actually, I'm like .0019% serious.
00:58:02.000But no, it goes to show you how far these people have gone, because one thing that we used to say to make fun of them when they would talk about the Electoral College was that At that point, they may as well just try to abolish representative government in general.
00:58:35.000So it's like every single, it's like jokes that we will make to highlight the ridiculousness of their worldview tend to become positions that they actually support within a matter of years.
00:59:05.000I mean, we laugh at the craziness, but it's perfectly rational within the Marxist worldview.
00:59:12.000And they don't find it funny, and they're perfectly willing to go to these extreme circumstances.
00:59:18.000I mean, look, the January—I call it the Rump Committee, the January 6 Rump Committee—is a one-party committee in the House that is exercising legislative and investigative power.
00:59:49.000You know, what they're investigating is their political opposition.
00:59:52.000I mean, when you talk about the USSR, that's the playbook.
00:59:57.000Also, speaking of the statues, do you remember when NPR did a fact-check on Trump's statement that they would eventually go after statues of people like Washington and Jefferson?
01:00:05.000And they fact-checked his prediction before it happened, saying it was incorrect.
01:00:10.000Don't get me started on the fact-check.
01:00:14.000I used to think that we should get rid of the Republicanism.
01:00:18.000I thought the House of Representatives, this was like 2007, I was talking to Mike Revell actually, he was an Alaskan Senator at the time, and I was able to communicate with him a little bit, and I thought, it's just, I saw them getting bribed, I saw the stopgap of like, only these guys get to make the laws, it just felt like they were all corrupt, I wanted it gone.
01:00:36.000I was like, why can't we just have The Americans pass the laws into the Senate and then let the Senate be the stopgap.
01:00:41.000Why do we need this House of Representatives anymore?
01:00:52.000I don't think they should have the monopoly on lawmaking, though.
01:00:55.000Yeah, I mean, the founders wanted kind of a, a, uh, the Republican system is, is, is, has democratic, uh, you know, democratic outlooks, but it, it, it kind of is also designed to suppress the sign of the vote by, you know, just had the popular vote be promoted directly.
01:01:17.000So, uh, so that the passions of the moment don't result in legislation being passed.
01:01:22.000Everyone gets angry about Joe Rogan and he gets banned.
01:01:25.000because there's this backlash and then, oh, what happens the next day? Well, he's banned
01:01:30.000because it was passed because they had a vote that was national that resulted in him getting
01:01:35.000banned. You don't want to be on the wrong end of that. And when you have liberties that are
01:01:39.000protected by law and are supposed to be protected by law at all times under a constitution,
01:01:46.000you don't want to have those subjected to the popular passions as well. So
01:01:52.000we have a Republican form of government with Democratic aspects and the left hates it.
01:01:57.000We've had this conversation before, Ian, where I said, everyone in this room, all in favor of taking Ian's stuff from him?
01:02:41.000And this is something that Colbert said when Kyrsten Sinema was like, the filibuster makes sure that legislation has to have a broad range of support.
01:02:52.000You represent 40- he's like, the party filibustering represents 41 million less people.
01:02:58.000Colbert thinks that the 50% or the 49% of Illinois that are Republican, or whatever the number is, just blindly agree with their senator because the election was won.
01:03:57.000So no one plays the game in presidential elections to get more of the popular vote.
01:04:02.000So it's irrelevant to analysis of who gets more votes or not.
01:04:07.000And it's the same at the congressional level and the Senate level.
01:04:10.000The popular vote, it's not relevant to the game.
01:04:15.000Like it's an indication because if one team got like a hundred times more strikeouts than any other team, but they still didn't win, you might think maybe the game's being played wrong.
01:04:26.000Well, for instance, Trump doesn't have to, Trump doesn't campaign in California.
01:04:31.000So all that popular vote that's run up for Democrats in California is never countered because playing the game doesn't mean that Republicans don't go and ask for the popular vote.
01:04:42.000Now if there was a popular vote contest every four years, Democrats think they'd win.
01:04:48.000No, the game would change and Republicans would start agitating for the popular vote.
01:05:44.000I remember feeling like it was a protest vote because it's just such a deep blue county and Illinois is such a blue state that I didn't think it was going to have any effect.
01:05:52.000So I voted for who I wanted to, but I recognized it probably wasn't going to have an effect.
01:05:55.000And I knew a lot of people who didn't vote, a lot of conservatives who didn't vote, because they knew the state was going to go blue.
01:06:01.000You're right that if we did change to a system that was purely based on the popular vote, there actually is a chance that the Republicans would win because a lot of people who are disillusioned by the politics of their local municipality or state would start voting.
01:07:30.000One of the moderators decided to go on Fox News anyway.
01:07:32.000It was a autistic non-binary individual, I believe, who appeared on Fox News, wouldn't look directly
01:07:40.000into the camera, and was shying away in a messy room with an inarticulate message that seemed wishy-washy,
01:07:46.000saying things like, "'I have to walk dogs 25 hours a week,
01:07:50.000and I shouldn't have to do that to be able to eat and survive.'"
01:07:53.000And I think probably that was more articulate than the person was.
01:07:56.000This caused brigading, people rushing into the subreddit, and then ultimately it shut down.
01:08:02.000Now they're saying they may come back, but what I find fascinating in this whole story,
01:08:05.000the anti-work movement, the rapid explosive spread for Fox News covered this from, you know, only a year ago to, you know, tens of thousands of followers to 1.7 million.
01:08:18.000You go to the subreddit and these are people who are outright saying, you know, I shouldn't have to have a job.
01:08:23.000This is the mentality of the modern left.
01:08:25.000So I'll warn, I will first say, A lot of the work reform arguments from many of these people, many of them leftist, I completely agree with.
01:08:32.000Someone takes out $20,000 in school loans, now they owe $100,000 because of interest, and I'm like, okay, that I can understand is a problem.
01:08:39.000If you take out a loan for $20,000 and there's some interest on it, I can recognize, you know, you gotta pay it back, and you gotta pay back the interest, but when it's massive, and that's for a lot of people, then I'm basically like, yo, the system is corrupt, we gotta shut that down.
01:08:58.000I'm like, which slave, you know, will you be, which person will you be enslaving, which group of people, in order to have them do the work to make your food?
01:09:05.000Because food doesn't come from nowhere.
01:09:08.000I mean, even when it grows on the trees, someone's still gotta go get it for you.
01:09:37.000And there are a lot of reasons for that.
01:09:38.000And I'm not just blaming workers themselves for having this attitude.
01:09:41.000I think in many respects the working class are not treated well.
01:09:44.000I don't think the left has done a great job representing them historically.
01:09:47.000And I think that they need people who are willing to fight for them who actually have some level of contact with them and don't despise them and their values, which they don't right now.
01:09:58.000Ultimately, people used to conceive of their work as that which they contributed, and that which they were adding.
01:10:04.000And now we have this idea that there are certain jobs that are worth doing, because what is being done at those jobs is valuable, and then basically every other job is pointless, and it's humiliating to have to do it.
01:10:14.000But the reality is, there's dignity in all work.
01:10:16.000And yes, workers should be treated with more dignity.
01:10:19.000I agree with that completely, but the idea that, well, there are just certain jobs nobody should have to do is absurd, because all of those jobs need doing.
01:10:25.000So what you should be saying is, respect the people doing it.
01:10:28.000You shouldn't be saying, I shouldn't have to work to survive.
01:10:31.000There's a meme that I saw that I think sums up a lot of the culture war.
01:10:55.000It's just interesting that there's this perspective of, oh no, I don't want you to be hurt.
01:11:00.000And the other perspective is you better do this so I don't get hurt.
01:11:03.000I bring that up because, and always talk to your doctor about private medical decisions, but I bring this up in this context because what I see often from the left and like the anti-work community is, I shouldn't have to work and I should get stuff.
01:11:16.000And then my attitude is, let me make as much stuff as possible and then help others with that stuff I have.
01:12:39.000And that's really important because you sort of mentioned these work projects and I've heard people discuss this idea that yeah in times of economic downturn what we should be doing is creating these jobs that we don't actually need so that we can get people back in the workforce.
01:12:50.000And what that fails to take into account is that the purpose of a job Isn't simply so that somebody can have something to do all day.
01:12:57.000The purpose of a job is to find a way for a person to be able to contribute to society at large.
01:13:02.000And it goes back to what we were discussing earlier with these discriminatory practices of only wanting to hire someone on the basis of their sex or skin color because what you're basically saying at that point is we're not interested in whether you're qualified for the position because the position doesn't exist for the people you're supposed to serve in that role.
01:13:20.000The position exists for you to feel special because you have that position.
01:14:04.000And I'll add this and also clarify in case there's any doubt about this here.
01:14:08.000As I mentioned earlier, I think the working class does need to be treated better.
01:14:11.000I think there are so many jobs that we view as indignant or beneath people and they're not.
01:14:16.000And part of the way we change that is we really need to admire the people who do those jobs because they're really important.
01:14:22.000And church is important here because as a Roman Catholic, at basically every church that I've been to in my adult life, and particularly the Latin Mass that I've attended for the past few years, there is an intersection of so many different people from various economic classes and standings I don't think people have that anymore because they don't
01:14:44.000have religion when I think about the friends that I've made through through my
01:14:47.000Church and my primary friend group basically all from different income brackets. I can't think of any other
01:14:52.000social organization I'm a part of where that's the case public school and but I
01:14:56.000think you know But I think but part of why I think that's really helpful
01:14:58.000is because it does put you in touch with like I'm I'm not Only if I wasn't going to that church if that wasn't my
01:15:05.000faith community there I might only be in touch with other people working in
01:15:08.000artistic fields or doing politics on the internet But instead, I'm in touch with people who are plumbers or, you know, painters, artists of a different variety, or work for a union.
01:15:19.000We should create an award ceremony for trade jobs.
01:15:23.000So that we can highlight, I'm half kidding, but you know, we as a society, we sports athletes, celebrities, they get all of the attention we have to give.
01:15:32.000And then the people who are actually making this country work don't get any of it.
01:15:35.000And it's, I think there's a spiritual component, you're right to say that.
01:15:38.000But I also think there's this elitism as well, that work is beneath me.
01:15:45.000And one of the arguments that's always bothered me about immigration and legal immigration, it's like, They do the jobs that Americans won't do.
01:15:53.000I'm like, well, first of all, there's virtually no industry where immigrants are the majority.
01:16:00.000And so Americans are doing these jobs, and they're not beneath anybody to do.
01:16:05.000In fact, many of our parents and grandparents did jobs like this as well, and it wasn't beneath them.
01:16:11.000And they recognized that the work and the money they earned from that help provide for their families, which was the most important thing in the world.
01:16:21.000So they're elitist, they're torn from the world, from the community, as you talk about spiritually, and there's this leftist contempt generally for the concept of work.
01:16:31.000You go to the anti-work subreddit, what do you see?
01:16:34.000Their related subreddits are socialist, communist, anarchist, leftist anarchist.
01:16:39.000You look at the related subreddits, work reform, the communist fist is their symbol.
01:16:44.000It's remarkable, this ideology that infects these forums, when the issue is more to do with what you can contribute, just doing hard work, rolling up your sleeves.
01:16:59.000It's not about someone ripping you off.
01:17:00.000It's about you valuing your life, your time, your energy, and what you do.
01:17:05.000But all of them just get infected by leftist ideology, then in comes the cultural leftist ideology, and then they implode on themselves.
01:17:12.000Well, you know, this idea that there are jobs that Americans are unwilling to do.
01:17:15.000I mean, this is a country where we have, you know, abortionists, pornographers, prostitutes.
01:17:19.000The idea that there are just these jobs that are so far beneath the dignity of Americans and what they're willing to accept is ridiculous.
01:17:25.000It is the case that there are certain wages an American will not work for, and that is why they want to import people to do those jobs.
01:17:31.000Here's the big problem with the leftist ideology in these subreddits is that they're doing nothing to stop the mass wave of illegal immigration.
01:17:38.000And so they're wondering why it is you bring up those wages they won't work for.
01:17:42.000Well, when you bring in where we have two million people entering this country without any sense of where they would go and how they will survive, all of a sudden now, these college kids who are looking for entry-level positions, you're not going to get out of college and go work for a firm.
01:17:59.000You're gonna get out of college and go work for a Starbucks while you try to figure things out, maybe find an internship.
01:18:04.000But you're not gonna be able to do that either.
01:18:06.000Because now, all of a sudden, you're walking up and you're seeing a huge line of people who want work.
01:18:11.000So all of these entry-level positions, they say, the minimum wage should be $15 an hour.
01:18:17.000It would be if the supply of low-skill labor was reduced.
01:18:21.000Well, you know, the unions used to be opposed to mass immigration.
01:18:24.000If there were well-run unions who were creative, they'd be saying, Okay, well if we're going to have a government program that depresses wages, meaning mass immigration, well we have to make up for that with, as you point out, with an increase in the minimum wage.
01:18:41.000So big corporations, you can get your immigrants, but we get on our side, because we're subsidizing your labor costs with a government program, we get to ensure that our employees and union members get increased wages.
01:19:05.000But what would happen is they couldn't hire as many people, but more people would be benefiting from working there, but they would still limit their ability to hire mass.
01:19:13.000They would just increase the prices and it would have the same effect on the local economy.
01:19:17.000But then people wouldn't buy their stuff because their prices would go up.
01:19:19.000That's not even... That's maybe partially true.
01:19:23.000Or they'd hire less people and save them money.
01:19:25.000But what they would do is... And the business couldn't grow.
01:19:30.000If you went to Starbucks and say, and they do increase minimum wage based on company size as well in a lot of places, like if you have 50 or more employees or 150, but here's what happens.
01:19:39.000Starbucks, uh, well, you know, let's not say Starbucks.
01:19:47.000Seattle Bucks Cafe will find a location where there's a mom-and-pop cafe, they'll open up next door, and purposefully lose money with ridiculously low prices.
01:20:00.000Because a regular person's gonna walk up and there's a mom-and-pop shop, five buck Frappuccino, and they're gonna look over at Starbucks, four buck Frappuccino.
01:20:07.000Starbucks loses a dollar on every sale, but they're strangling the small business who doesn't have the coffers to fight back.
01:20:14.000So if you came out and said, OK, OK, then we should raise the minimum wage on these big, you know, these bigger companies.
01:20:20.000Walmart's going to sit back with a cigar in their mouth and be like, oh, we can sink all of them.
01:20:26.000We're going to drop our prices because we have billions upon billions in profits.
01:20:29.000We're going to take a 20 percent loss on that store and we'll pay your minimum wage.
01:20:34.000And then, once we eliminate all of the local shops, local bakeries gone, local butcher shop is gone, local clothing store is gone, then we're gonna crank the prices way up to accommodate those losses, and you can't do anything about it if there's nowhere to go.
01:20:47.000They'll pay inflated wages and reduce the cost of their sales?
01:20:51.000You think that's a big risk for a large corp?
01:21:21.000Bro, these corporations make so much in profits with all of these locations that they can sacrifice one location to defeat you, the people, the working class.
01:21:30.000Oh, so you think they'll lower the prices at a specific location?
01:21:34.000So if, you know, a local jurisdiction says, you know, our city is increasing the minimum wage, they'll say, okay, we will pay that.
01:21:42.000And then we're not going to raise prices.
01:21:45.000We're going to make sure our prices are low enough that anyone who could compete with us in an X, you know, X mile radius is put out of business.
01:21:51.000Then we can charge whatever we want and they'll get their money back.
01:21:55.000Yeah, to an ignorant populace, yeah, that would work.
01:22:02.000If people knew what they were doing, and that they were trying to put businesses out of business, and they realized it, then they would boycott the place.
01:22:13.000I said, if you went to your average American—I don't care if they're liberal, conservative, or otherwise—and said, All of the good in your life, your wages, the cheap gas, everything, we will allow you to keep, but we need you to sign this document to kill a bunch of kids overseas.
01:23:03.000But yeah, I don't know about Starbucks specifically, but it is true that businesses will intentionally take a loss in order to destroy their competitors.
01:23:09.000But can they take the level of loss of having their wages go up and their sales cost go up?
01:23:27.000And the only way to fix it is through a regulatory scheme run by incompetence liars or lying incompetence.
01:23:34.000So there's there's no good answer to that.
01:23:37.000If you don't, you know, I sometimes shop in places that aren't chain stores because I know I'm getting a little bit more customer service and that's good.
01:23:46.000And other times I'll go to Starbucks because I like the coffee there.
01:23:49.000I got to be honest, out here, even in West Virginia, the local coffee and bagel shop has a mask mandate by choice and the Starbucks doesn't.
01:24:33.000I believe some nice gentleman should bring in a wheelchair to her office, place her in it, put a blanket on her lap, and wheel her out, bring her to a home, and make sure she's comfortable, and then we the people will decide what to do next.
01:24:46.000Are you suggesting she has a Joe Biden problem?
01:25:15.000With Joe Biden and or Nancy Pelosi or many others of similar age.
01:25:19.000To be fair Fauci has flip-flopped so often maybe he does have some kind of brain thing going on.
01:25:24.000I mean it's true it's so much more about the individual person it's very you can't really put in a blanket statement say at this age the person has to step down because some people are just sharp at an older age.
01:25:33.000The nice thing about comparing Biden to Fauci.
01:25:41.000I mean, do you want, like, a 21-year-old in any of these positions?
01:25:45.000Yo, if there's somebody who started working in, you know, like, a factory with, like, their family or whatever when they were seven, and they've got 15 years of experience in, you know, a political and industrial environment, it's better than a 25-year-old who's graduated from college.
01:26:05.000Like Elon, a non-American that moves to the United States when they're two, but they can't be president and they have all these restrictions on what they can be in government.
01:26:12.000Do you think that we should get rid of that stuff?
01:26:45.000The laws they are passing, they will not live underneath.
01:26:48.000Okay, so, you know, if a society grows great when people plant trees whose shade they know they'll never sit beneath, 80-year-olds like Pelosi and old people like Biden are not planting trees for anyone.
01:27:04.000Well, it's just it's a complicated thing because I do think that it's it's an age floors a bit different from an age ceiling here, but Ultimately, we have a system that's structured so that because you leave office eventually, everyone's sort of incentivized to just pull what they can out of the system for as long as they can until they leave without really thinking about the long-term consequences.
01:27:28.000Because let's say you have a young politician, and it's like, they're not going to have to live under the policies anyway because there are different laws for them.
01:27:43.000As soon as you leave office, you get sent to an island where you will live with other people who have left office.
01:27:49.000You will own nothing and you'll be happy.
01:27:53.000I have an island where I put people, but we do different categories.
01:27:57.000I don't know, maybe they can go along with him.
01:28:00.000I don't seriously think that idea is the right idea, but I'm just trying to think, like, how do you stop someone from saying, I'm going to run for office, I'm going to get in, I'm going to extract as much as I can, and then I'm going to run away?
01:29:09.000Cynicism, institutionalism, contempt for other people's views who aren't in Congress because you've known it all since you've been there forever.
01:31:23.000We don't have the technology, so it's just going to be Mark Zuckerberg, like, duct taping Oculus to your forehead and putting you in the metaverse.
01:32:00.000If you know how much of something, what it is and where it is, and you can measure that in the X, Y, Z axis, this cube that we're within.
01:32:07.000Okay, I have no idea what that means, but my proposal is this.
01:32:16.000When we elect Joe Rogan as president in 2028, he should issue an executive order mandating DMT passport requirements for access to bars, restaurants, and universities.
01:32:52.000I mean, there is something to be said about a passport for some kind of deeper understanding of reality.
01:32:58.000I don't think it's necessarily, you know, DMT, that's the joke.
01:33:01.000But perhaps if we as a society were like, you know, a service guarantees citizenship or something to that effect, you know, like, you need to understand something, you need to do work and contribute for something in order to get something in return.
01:33:15.000Right now it's, you know, we had that famous quote, ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.
01:35:01.000Are we allowed to say the Great Reset?
01:35:03.000Yeah, the Great Reset is very, very plain.
01:35:06.000I know all these algorithms get triggered by certain words.
01:35:09.000It's either directly influenced and has co-opted our president or indirectly.
01:35:15.000But this methodology of building back better with a socialized, corporate, political government state is in Joe Biden's head, whether he realizes it or not.
01:35:23.000Well, certainly with COVID, you know, initially there was this panicked, crazed decision making on the shutdowns.
01:35:31.000And they see it as an opportunity for dramatic political and social change.
01:35:36.000I mean, I don't think it's any mistake you had this Reddit thing pop up with, I don't want to work, after two years of people not having to work.
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01:37:42.000But for the most part, my friends... But that's the way you would do it.
01:37:44.000You know someone, and they know you, and you... You know, for Judicial Watch stuff... So Sleeping Giants isn't going to be able to stop anyone from advertising.
01:37:55.000It's a lady who got really mad because she tried claiming she started it when she didn't.
01:37:59.000So she's trying to be like, it was me, but it wasn't some other guy or something like that.
01:38:03.000So now she's trying to get attention by, you know, posting overtly fake garbage.
01:38:10.000As everybody who watches the show knows, she's made the claim that I've pushed the big lie that Donald Trump won the election, which I've never once stated.
01:38:33.000So when these people just make up these lies, like, we're gonna go after their advertisers, and their advertisements are like, .1, I think it's like .01% of the revenue, it's so ridiculously small, it's completely negligible, and I'm just like, I actually was talking to the company, and I was like, do we even need this?
01:38:52.000You should, because the idea is that, you know, once the website gets bigger and has much more traffic, it could become substantial.
01:39:00.000So, you know, for the most part, they're just grifters who are trying to use the fact that our show is growing and hatred from trolls or whatever to make money, and they've made tens of thousands of dollars off lying.
01:39:11.000They overtly lie, they make things up, they completely fabricate things, and I will state for the record right now as a statement of fact, That these individuals fabricate information to trick people into giving them money, and I believe it is an act of fraud.
01:39:24.000Yeah, I can assert that with... I mean, look, I'll be honest.
01:39:29.000The lies are so obvious that, like, it's not even a question for me to say.
01:39:33.000That's my view generally about big tech.
01:39:41.000Because they're saying they're censoring you for reason A when in fact it's reason B. So they're lying to users, shareholders, regulators, and Congress.
01:40:22.000One of the characters, Starfire, is in the comics, she's like an orange alien.
01:40:26.000And they cast a black woman to play Starfire.
01:40:29.000There was like this big uproar, I guess, a lot of people were angry, like, why are they, you know, Starfire is not black or whatever, and my attitude was like, it's an alien.
01:42:44.000The problem is when you get famous for something, there's a tendency to think that you're supposed to keep doing that thing you got famous for to continue to be famous.
01:42:52.000So he got really well known for being, you know, for protesting.
01:42:56.000And it's like, at some point you can change course.
01:42:59.000You don't need to keep being the guy that poured ketchup on your head every video to try and one-up what made you get there.
01:43:07.000I almost came out hot on Neil Young, just ripping him to shreds personally, but I don't really know exactly what his thought process is here, so I'm not going to go too hard on him.
01:46:52.000yeah all right we got one we got this one from wonder without the fear says truckers convoy 2022 this needs to be addressed this this peaceful and truckers helps everyone many usa truckers are coming up to ca so much love keep it peaceful yeah did you guys hear uh this massive trucker convoy man Yeah, and the GoFundMe.
01:48:19.000But now, of all times, like when there's already supply chain issues, when we're already having food shortages, I know who we're going to screw with.
01:48:59.000We would just jam out for like a half an hour after the show, play songs, play music.
01:49:03.000People clipped a whole bunch of my songs and put them up, which they were like... After talking for like seven hours in one day, then trying to sing was just brutal.
01:50:13.000I mean, but when Neil left the band, it was just Crosby, Stills, and Nash, and they were never even held a candle to what the four of those guys did.
01:50:19.000Yeah, well, Neil Young, I see this move and I'm just like, it makes me feel that everything he's ever said has been a lie just to pander to people to sell albums.
01:53:15.000Yeah, well also, you can't repossess a degree, which is part of it.
01:53:18.000I'm not saying that there isn't a massive issue with student loans and the interest payments right now, but it's a very differently structured law.
01:53:25.000You used to be able to default to George Bush Jr.
01:53:28.000He passed some legislation and he couldn't default on those.
01:53:58.000It wouldn't happen without government support.
01:54:00.000Well, no, I mean, according to the National Bureau for Economic Research, the entire reason you have this student loan crisis and the entire reason college is so expensive is because of the wide availability of easy money.
01:54:10.000And it would be an incredibly regressive tax to, you know, quote unquote, forgive student loans.
01:54:15.000But at the same time, the idea of somebody paying off significantly more than they ever took out, having paid off their debt and still having thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars left, I think is insane.
01:54:44.000No, he wanted to take his music off because of quality, but then later I guess he said something like, this is the place where people are getting their music and he wants people to hear his music so he's gonna stay on the platform.
01:54:53.000I genuinely believe, in my opinion, I think it's a fair point.
01:55:00.000So he got what he asked for, but I genuinely believe he thought it was going to be this moment where these other artists would be like, we're with Neil Young.
01:56:00.000I would be in favor of kicking up the salaries for members of Congress as part of my reform agenda.
01:56:04.000You know, you get people in here for 10 years, And what happens is you have, government is designed to let people who work in government prosper.
01:56:14.000But normal people, they're not welcome in government.
01:56:19.000So someone who wants, who's a businessman or just starting out, you know, a young person in their career, the idea they come to Congress, they couldn't afford to do it.
01:56:28.000Why don't we make it affordable to someone to come here for a few years and leave?
01:56:32.000Ben Franklin suggested that we pay them nothing and that everyone has to do it.
01:58:48.000Well, actually, with the new trailer that we're building for the mobile shows, we're planning on going down to Florida to meet back up with Luke for one of our mobile shows.
01:59:46.000To a trailer on the side of the road where it's like everyone's yelling at each other and he's like, what the... We're thinking, we're hoping we can do that with the Daily Wire crew.
02:00:15.000I was nowhere near Tim, but I was still offended I wasn't invited.
02:00:17.000I think it's only like nine hours from here or something.
02:00:19.000But we talked to them about it, and we might be able to set up our studio in one of their lots, because we have the big mobile fifth wheel.
02:00:28.000And then it would actually be really cool to do, we want to do like one of each of their hosts, you know, every night, and maybe do one big night with a bunch of the Daily Wire people all at once.
02:00:43.000I want to do a theology debate at some point with Seamus and Michael Knowles, and we've had some other brilliant Catholics and Christians and other... I don't know about Knowles, but I appreciate the compliment.
02:00:53.000No, I mean, honestly, Knowles is... I hate to compliment him.
02:03:24.000I made a video yesterday for the first time in a while talking about the scientific modeling methods and some flaws I think there are in it.
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