Southwest Airlines cancels over 2,000 flights due to an air traffic controller strike and a pilot strike, and we talk about why this could be happening. We also talk about the latest in the Biden/Pruitt administration, and our thoughts on it.
00:00:33.000You guys probably heard the big news was Southwest Airlines canceling over 2,000 flights, and the rumor was there was either an air traffic controller strike or a pilot strike.
00:00:43.000Now, it's probably neither of those things.
00:01:13.000It's when you have vaccine mandates, people work as hard as they can work, and then all of a sudden they just reach their limit and say, I can't do this.
00:02:19.000I'm a former Navy EOD officer, a bomb disposal officer, special operations bomb squad.
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00:08:13.000Now let's get into the big story of the day so far.
00:08:17.000Southwest canceled more than 2,000 weekend flights, and the disruptions are continuing.
00:09:01.000It is part of what we've been seeing with the labor shortages across the board.
00:09:03.000When you push people too hard, eventually they reach their limit.
00:09:06.000So, the vaccine mandates, for instance, was a huge smack in the face to a lot of these pilots who are already pushing their maximum hours.
00:09:14.000I'm being told that, you know, back in August, some of these people were already told by the FAA, due to what they said, federal aviation regulations, they couldn't fly.
00:09:22.000You fly too much, they're being spread too thin.
00:09:25.000We saw the same thing happen earlier with Spirit Airlines, so...
00:09:28.000We're seeing this across the board in almost every industry with labor shortages.
00:09:32.000You add on top of the fact that people are being spread too thin, a vaccine mandate, this is just bad policy across the board.
00:09:38.000But I know you, Tom, you were talking about having gotten a message from someone or having more insight on this.
00:09:42.000Yeah, so what happened was Colin is friends here with a number of Southwest pilots and also in my family I've got a pilot and an air traffic controller and What happened was, he got a text from one of his pilot buddies saying, like, hey, there's a walkout, or, you know, when they say walkout, it's not a literal walkout.
00:10:04.000It's, you know, folks calling in sick at air traffic controllers in Jacksonville.
00:10:07.000The call has stopped like 650 flights, more to follow, just wait, the pilots are about to step in too, and it's just getting started, spread the word.
00:10:14.000So then Colin says, well, I know Tom's got a lot of followers on Twitter, you know, for a non-public figure, and Tom knows people who have an awful lot of followers on Twitter, and he says, do you want to put it out?
00:11:29.000So we talked for about 20 minutes and I referred him to a few of our friends who are POPs who spoke to and also spoke to the air traffic control in my family.
00:11:36.000She is unvaccinated and is planning on, you know, losing her job.
00:12:27.000We're talking about 3.1 thousand flights in four days canceled.
00:12:32.000Yeah 3.1 in 4 days now the Union is denying that this was a sick out but the Union the pilots Union Southwest pilots Union is actually suing Southwest because on December 8th that is the deadline that Southwest put on their employees to get vaccinated or be fired.
00:12:50.000And you know this could have been organized this could have not been organized.
00:12:54.000It's going to be playing out soon but I definitely foresee this to become more of the norm.
00:12:59.000I'd see a lot more disruptions coming.
00:13:02.000Former US Congressman Ron Paul and former presidential candidate Ron Paul called today the quote great rebellion.
00:13:10.000So that right there kind of solidifies this kind of moment right now which everyone's on edge everyone's waiting to see how these mandates are going to play out other people are calling some of these pilots terrorists some blue checkmark.
00:13:24.000Individuals on Twitter are saying the pilots were participating in a sick out or terrorist and and that's just hyperbolic nonsensical language.
00:13:32.000very interestingly even when we saw workers union in ... Australia rise up we saw a lot of people on the ... establishment left criticize them even though it was a ... populist workers union standing up for their personal ... freedoms for their bodily autonomy for their individual ... rights as human beings not to be subjugated and jump through ... government hoops so so a lot of things are moving this is a ... fast-moving story it's only going to develop from here and ... if it's not organized as you said to him this is only going ...
00:14:01.000And if it is being organized, they're not going to say that it is.
00:14:37.000And the ladies said, Southwest has canceled over a thousand flights.
00:14:41.000They said in a statement that it was due to weather and issues with air traffic control.
00:14:44.000The FAA issued a statement saying that there was no shortage of air traffic controllers, or... And then I was like, wait, wait, wait, wait.
00:14:52.000Like, why did they include that statement?
00:14:54.000So what you learn is, the news outlet knew that there was a story about a shortage, and they included the quote from the FAA, but not the actual information, the context.
00:15:05.000You needed to understand why the FAA said that.
00:15:08.000What that says to me is that the news is withholding information from people because they don't want... Here's what I think.
00:15:14.000I think if regular people realize that 6,000 air traffic controllers are going to refuse to be vaccinated, And it looks like from the FAA, 14,000 air traffic controllers in the U.S.?
00:15:36.000Establishment, whether this is a major corporation, whether it's a government agency, and then you got the people, and they're having the stare down, like, hey, somebody's going to have to blink.
00:15:47.000There's other elements of society that are saying, no, no, no, no, no, my body, my choice.
00:15:51.000I get to decide what I get to put inside of myself, including Amtrak.
00:15:55.000The Amtrak official Twitter account just posted that there's going to be some shortages of trains because of, quote, unforeseen crew issues.
00:16:04.000What are the crew issues are you talking about there's also ...
00:16:07.000Kyrie Irving an NBA player that gets paid 15.58 million ...
00:16:11.000dollars he's putting his contract on the line because ...
00:16:14.000he's refusing to bow down to the authoritarians and ...
00:16:17.000they're telling him you might not be able to play home ...
00:16:20.000games and that's what might happen in just a few moments ...
00:16:24.000from now so and it's also National Guardsman there's ...
00:16:27.000there's also reports of over a hundred thousand troops not ...
00:16:30.000allowed to play home games and that's a big deal and ...
00:16:33.000there's a lot more people out here that are saying no ...
00:16:37.000then then we have no about here's what I think we're ...
00:16:40.000seeing right now it's we we've talked about quite a bit ...
00:16:43.000the rat experiment the right utopia experiment was it ...
00:16:46.000Carl Carl Schlichter is that the name of the guy so we ...
00:16:49.000went through how long a year of lockdown a little bit ...
00:16:52.000longer and then it was this summer they said okay ...
00:17:55.000I mean that that that experiment is terrifying especially with what what could possibly happen here because there's still a lot of unexplained issues we still don't know exactly what's going on we know that there's a lot of mandates a lot of government pressure we saw what happened with United Airlines with them pressuring their employees firing their employees so.
00:18:11.000I could I could definitely see that this is not going to go ... away anytime soon but there's also a lot of other issues ... you know there's there's estimates here that over a ... hundred million people in the United States had already ... covid this brings up the question of natural immunity ... there's 200 million estimated people that have taken the vaccine.
00:18:27.000But daily cases are still up 300% than they were from last year when there was no vaccine.
00:18:35.000Dr. Fauci deserves to explain all of this and there's no explanation.
00:18:38.000There's no conversation and we should at least start with some of these basic facts and just be able to have an honest real conversation about it and we can.
00:18:45.000I think we need to recognize that they don't know.
00:18:48.000And the problem is Dr. Fauci likes to always say definitive things and then get proven wrong.
00:18:52.000And probably one of the most dangerous things he said was, Christmas is cancelled, and then everyone's like freaking out, and then he goes, I misread the science, it's not cancelled anymore.
00:19:01.000Like, then don't say it, man, because people are freaking out already, but hey, maybe that's what they want.
00:19:08.000Exactly, and that's why when there was a major backlash, he went back on the science of cancelling Christmas, and just a few months ago, he issued a statement that he's granting permission for kids to go trick-or-treating.
00:20:46.000Oh my, so the National Geographic page, are you on that one?
00:20:48.000Oh no, on Disney+, the Fauci official trailer has 21,000 dislikes.
00:20:54.000On the National Geographic one, which comes up first when you type in Fauci National Geographic documentary that was released a month ago, 105,000 dislikes.
00:21:41.000At least there's there's something there that you know is ... kind of theater but for them to play like they're unbiased ... and not interview anyone critical of him not introduce ... any I mean they talk about the the AIDS drama a little bit ... but but other than that it's just a glorification of a ... government bureaucrat and there's nothing more ... disgusting in my opinion than to worship someone in public ... office you should be holding them accountable you should be ...
00:23:57.000This makes me think that, it makes me, cements the idea that authoritarianism doesn't work in art, because you can't like force someone to think they like something they don't like, but then I'm thinking about Yunmi Park coming out of North Korea, and how they don't even know what love is, like they don't understand that concept, because it was never taught to them, so maybe authoritarianism does work in art, and we're just seeing the beginning of them trying to do it, and it doesn't work in the beginning.
00:24:42.000It's just, like, doesn't make sense at all.
00:24:44.000David Duchovny, for some reason, turns out to be the bad guy, but he, like, he apologizes to this girl for being mean with her, you know, mean to her.
00:24:51.000He's the stepdad, and he's like, don't attack people, because she hit somebody, and then she gets all, like, shocked that she was told not... It just, the movie makes literally no sense.
00:25:00.000They cast a spell on a guy to turn him gay or something.
00:25:32.000The comments on this Dr. Fauci documentary are absolutely glorious and awe-stunning.
00:25:38.000Someone wrote, corporations and government working together against the people, classic.
00:25:43.000Another person wrote, the gain of function is really going to be relatable to a lot of people.
00:25:49.000Someone wrote that they're going to make this movie into a ride at Disney, and the wait is going to be two minutes, but you're going to be there for 15 years.
00:25:59.000So the comments are absolutely beautiful and glorious.
00:26:03.000Some people wrote, this is the sequel to Nuremberg 2.0.
00:26:06.000Again, a lot of people are saying a lot of different comments, lots of let's go Brandons, but the comments are very entertaining to say the least.
00:26:19.000Why didn't Trump fire a lot of people?
00:26:22.000You know, I think the reality is the Trump presidency was anything but a despotism.
00:26:26.000It was a guy who was like, I'm going to do what I want to do, and he's kind of a loud mouth, but he didn't push too hard.
00:26:33.000And the problem was he should have fired a lot of people.
00:26:34.000He should have fired Fauci, but he didn't do it and he could have done it.
00:26:37.000I think right now, as it stands, like the odds are, if you had to play the odds, I mean, a lot of people have these predictions, but One, I mean, it's pretty clear that Trump, he's going.
00:26:45.000I mean, he's going for it this next round.
00:27:12.000It's like approval now flipped over 50% in some suburban areas where there he's not even the president and they approve of the
00:27:19.000guy what yeah and he's going to go against like an animated corpse or he's going to go against a very
00:27:25.000unlikable you know for a cop yes you know reanimated excuse me reanimated or maybe he's
00:27:32.000going to go up against oprah but more importantly he's probably going to have to go against
00:27:38.000ron de santis And there's a lot of Donald Trump supporters that are absolutely angry at him for his handling of the events after his presidency, for not supporting them, for not standing up with them, for raising a lot of money and then kind of sitting on it.
00:27:51.000There's a lot of accusations of money just being thrown away, of fraud.
00:27:55.000So there's a lot of disenfranchised Donald Trump ...
00:27:58.000supporters that are absolutely mad with him ...
00:28:01.000especially with what he did to whistleblowers especially ...
00:28:04.000the opportunities he had the opportunity failed I mean if ...
00:28:07.000someone I mean a lot of people have been left after the ...
00:28:11.000Trump presidency being like what what what just happened.
00:28:14.000I thought he was going to a lot of people are disenfranchised ...
00:28:18.000but a lot of people are also understanding how bad Biden is.
00:29:01.000Maybe you guys in Pennsylvania know this.
00:29:02.000But, typically what you'll get is someone like Trump, who thinks that, you know, he's the CEO of this big company, he can be like, you're fired!
00:29:09.000Then he gets in the government, and he goes to somebody and says, you're fired, and they go, uh, you don't have the authority to do that, that's gotta go through committee approval, we'll see you in a month, and that person stays in the job.
00:29:20.000So I feel like Trump mostly, I mean, he picked a lot of weird culture war fights, he focused on economics, which was good, but the swamp had him surrounded.
00:29:46.000You have an opportunity and chance to go against the establishment in such a way with just one little move, correcting a wrong by the US military industrial complex, correcting a wrong by the intelligentsia, and you don't do it?
00:30:51.000And the fish are just kind of like, you know, the actual federal employees, there's like, Oh, well, something, you know, every election, something happened where it's like, it's bigger.
00:30:58.000Like that's, you know, and we call that, people call that deep state or the swamp, but it's decentralized.
00:31:12.000They just, they never go, and then they influence intel.
00:31:15.000And you'll get a president who comes in, and the same people will be like, here's your official report.
00:31:20.000And I think this time, or last time, with Trump, Trump was like, I don't care, America first.
00:31:24.000And they were like, uh oh, he's not listening to us, what do we do?
00:31:26.000And then all of a sudden they were like, uh, he just got elected and we'll impeach him.
00:31:29.000And the same people who said they were gonna, started the process.
00:31:32.000Yarvin's recommendation in that book, The Machiavellians, would be really good for Trump to read if he comes back in again, because I think the real question is, what does he do differently?
00:32:21.000But complying has got us to the point where now there's food shortages.
00:32:24.000Now you've got someone like Kyrie Irving who's worked hard his whole life, he's one of the best, he's in the NBA, and now he's gonna potentially lose that, standing up for his beliefs.
00:32:33.000There's still a lot to lose, a lot of hard work people put in.
00:32:36.000Yeah, he's standing up for his principles, and he's putting up millions of dollars, and he's making a stand here.
00:32:43.000He says he doesn't really want a lot of public media attention on this.
00:32:46.000He's trying to, of course, work things out.
00:32:49.000But New York City mandates that people get vaccinated if they want to work there, and he's working for the Brooklyn Nets.
00:32:56.000So this is this is unfolding to a situation where it's not just Kyrie.
00:33:01.000There's a lot of other NBA players that have been very articulate that have been voicing their concerns and have actually been talking about the science and the risk-benefit analysis here when it comes to healthy athletic individuals risking themselves to do a compliance procedure that might have complications that might hurt them and end their careers.
00:33:22.000So there's a lot of things to weigh here.
00:33:26.000There's a lot of things to discuss here.
00:33:27.000But at least some of these NBA guys are starting the conversation, and at least they're making it an issue that can't be avoided.
00:33:34.000Because when you have Kyrie Irving, one of the best players on that team, saying, I'm not going to play home games now because of this ridiculous government mandate, it puts it in your face how over-the-top a lot of this is.
00:33:44.000We also have this story from Timcast.com.
00:33:46.000Former Misfit singer Michael Graves cancels Los Angeles concert over vaccine mandate.
00:33:51.000Now this I have tremendous respect for.
00:33:53.000He says, quote, I have made the decision to not perform on October 13th in LA at the Whiskey A Go Go due to the city's vaccine mandate that is being enforced as of October 7th.
00:34:02.000Graves said in a statement provided to Timcast, I will not perform to a segregated audience.
00:34:07.000I will not participate in any effort to pressure anyone into undergoing an experimental medical procedure to enter
00:34:12.000and dwell in a building as a prerequisite to see me perform.
00:34:33.000I think that'd be fantastic, but this is incredible, I mean, to be completely honest.
00:34:38.000There are a lot of people who say a lot of words about, I refuse, you know, this vaccine mandate is bad policy, and a lot of them don't actually put up.
00:34:46.000They don't put their money where their mouth is.
00:34:47.000They'll go and they'll perform all the same at the vaccinated places and be like, oh, what's the big deal?
00:34:52.000You know, if you really oppose the vaccine mandates, then you would oppose them and not be the tool by which these vaccine mandates are implemented.
00:35:00.000So these guys, Kyrie Irving, I'm actually interested because New York City has a performer exemption.
00:35:08.000Like, if Graves were to play in New York City, the executive order says, if you're performing on stage, you don't got to get vaccinated.
00:35:14.000Which I think is just- Makes no sense!
00:35:16.000Of course it doesn't make sense, but like, you're trying to make sense out of things that are like, you know, designed to be nonsensical.
00:35:20.000But what's interesting, I know like a couple, week or two ago, I was watching you and you were saying how, hey, if you oppose the man, and you know, I think caused a little bit of a stir on Twitter, but it's like, yeah, if you oppose the mandate, but you still, you know, get the vaccine anyways, then you don't really oppose it.
00:35:39.000I said, if someone claims that they oppose the vaccine mandate, but then out of fear of losing their job, go and get the vaccine mandate anyway, they're not actually opposing.
00:35:49.000What I mean to say is, how is it opposition to something that you're actively participating in?
00:35:54.000Yeah, you can dislike something without opposing it.
00:35:57.000People are looking at the word oppose like, I think it shouldn't be done versus oppose and I'm actively standing up against it.
00:36:02.000Yeah, that's fair because there's so many folks out there it's like that, you know, they don't have, you know, they're not professional athletes, they're not professional performers where, you know, they're pulling down, you know, 60, 70 grand a year, they got family.
00:36:14.000You know, they don't have a ton in savings, and it's like, they don't have a lot of runway.
00:36:17.000And it's like, hey, they lost their job.
00:36:46.000So that's where when the pilots were talking to him, we know quite a few Southwest pilots, you know, being in the Navy, a lot of pilots from the Navy or Marine Corps go right into working with Southwest as an example in this case.
00:38:12.000Yeah, so it's so interesting you mention the Hunger Games, because the way I see it, Kyrie Irving is really channeling what the African-American community is feeling right now.
00:38:20.000And these celebrities saying this is a counter to the Hunger Games, because they're saying, no, we're not going to do this.
00:38:25.000Not only that, normal people who are afraid to lose their jobs, they're not alone.
00:38:29.000So seeing all these captains do this, and seeing all these celebrities do this, this has got to be incredibly encouraging.
00:38:35.000At the same time, if regular people walk off their jobs, say, start homesteading, which I think would be good, I think that's fantastic, just realize we're going to live in a world where only the wealthy elites are traveling internationally.
00:38:46.000The wealthy elites are the only... It's going to be like Elysium, almost.
00:38:49.000Everyone's going to be living in, like, you know... Do these people want this?
00:39:22.000I don't know if you guys ever heard of the term, the great reset.
00:39:27.000Yeah, but a lot of globalists, especially at the World Economic Forum, came together and said that people are flying too much, people are consuming too much red meat, people are enjoying life too much, and they need to be controlled and regulated to the point where they have no privacy, own nothing, and they're happier than ever.
00:39:43.000So when you look at what's happening now, especially with the larger economic consequences, the government has their fingerprints all over it.
00:39:51.000Would helping spur on a lot of troubling times that ... are going to be coming very soon whether it's lockdowns ... whether it's mandates whether it's restrictions whether it's ... regulations whether it's taxes everything government is doing ... is trying to stop any kind of prosperity any kind of ... sovereignty any kind of Liberty and freedom and trying ... to benefit of course the corporate billionaire class ... that has greatly benefited from.
00:40:14.000Every one of those policies so what we're seeing here is a ... clash point but it's a clash point that's not started by ... pilots and stewardesses and Kyrie Irving it's a reaction to ... something that may be more methodical that may be done on ... purpose in order to spur on more of a economic destruction ... and calamity that should be coming soon.
00:40:42.000And then, what have we seen over the past few decades?
00:40:45.000One of the biggest problems, one of the biggest weaknesses we face as a country is capital incentives.
00:40:51.000You find a powerful individual or a high-powered company, and then you can easily offer them money to guide them in the direction you want.
00:41:00.000See, the thing about the Chinese Communist Party and the authoritarians is that they're ideologically driven and authoritarian, so their incentives are all based on whether I'm told to do it or the tribe wants it.
00:41:08.000In the United States, there could be a company and all you gotta do is chip one step at a time.
00:41:14.000And eventually you can steer them in a wrong direction.
00:41:16.000For example, if a bunch of contributions are coming in to politicians who are advocating for sending our manufacturing overseas, and then all of a sudden the middle class gets gutted, which has happened, The center will not hold.
00:41:29.000Our politicians have literally gutted us, and it was easy to exploit them into doing it.
00:41:34.000Look, we see what's going on with Swalwell and Fang Fang.
00:41:38.000You know, Dianne Feinstein and her driver.
00:41:40.000We saw Mike Pompeo come out and say that there is, you know, the Chinese have infiltrated us every level.
00:41:46.000So I'm wondering if we're seeing all these shortages and all this bad policy simply because this is a means of war.
00:41:53.000They play the long game, but the Chinese, I mean, they know, like they think in decades and centuries, well, we're thinking about the next election cycle.
00:42:00.000Like we don't think that further past.
00:42:01.000And so like, that was, I know that's kind of one thing you want to talk about, but that was my, you know, that whole area, Asia Pacific was mine.
00:42:07.000And also, you know, Jack Posobiec was one of the Intel guys at my unit.
00:42:24.000I was an admiral staff and I drafted tiny little parts of the war plans for China if anything with Taiwan were to happen or South China Sea and also a separate war plan for North Korea.
00:42:36.000So, you know, obviously I didn't write the whole thing.
00:43:06.000Let me pull that story up to set the stage for this, because we do have major developments.
00:43:12.000From TimCast.com, Taiwan strengthening military to defend against China.
00:43:16.000During a speech on Taiwan's National Day, October 10th, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen warned that the country would be strengthening its military to defend Taiwan's sovereignty against the Chinese Communist Party, saying, After taking complete control of Hong Kong and suppressing democracy activists, the Beijing authorities also shifted away from the path of political and economic development that they had followed since reform and opening up began decades ago.
00:43:38.000At the same time, regional order is being challenged in the South and East China Seas.
00:43:43.000The routinization of Chinese military activity in Taiwan's Southwestern Air Defense Identification Zone, at is, has seriously affected both our national security and
00:44:25.000What do you think's going on with this?
00:44:26.000I mean, we've been hearing over and over again, more and more stories.
00:44:29.000They've been saying that for a long, long time, and that's one of the things that Taiwan has always been, like, this big, big, you know, focus for the United States for a long time.
00:44:37.000Matter of fact, the first time the United States ever threatened to use nuclear weapons against an enemy was, like, Eisenhower back in the 50s.
00:44:46.000And, but one thing that's interesting though is that one thing, and this is open source so I don't really feel like we're talking about it, but right now is, everyone talks about an invasion.
00:44:55.000A lot of folks might not appreciate that one, like, the Chinese currently, like, don't have the sea lift capability.
00:45:01.000And it might not seem like much, but the thing is that, you know, one of the things they teach you with, you know, all the big like the fancy war colleges and all this other stuff and all the big strategy stuff, is that, you know, they call it the stopping power of water.
00:45:12.000Like, it's really hard to move an army across just, I mean, look, think about the massive undertaking it took to just cross the English Channel.
00:45:44.000And if the door gets open from the inside, so to speak, right?
00:45:47.000And they let them in, that's a different story.
00:45:49.000But if you're talking about like a confrontational, you know, like them doing a D-Day kind of thing, I don't think that's... But let's be real, that would be... At this point, I think that would be like saying, you know, if the Chinese were to launch a trebuchet at us, it's like, no, no, no, we don't need that ground invasion anymore.
00:46:13.000And we have to understand, multinational corporations have sold this country out for pennies on the dollar.
00:46:19.000I mean, the access that they give them, the influence that they give them.
00:46:22.000John Cena, one of America's most prominent celebrities, is like, I'm sorry I'm so sorry for recognizing a country during ... his tour not even saying anything political it's embarrassing ... now I definitely don't think China wants to get into a hot ... war yet I don't think they have the resources especially the ... oil you need a lot of oil especially if you have a Navy.
00:46:42.000And there's going to be an energy crunch soon that a lot ... of people are going to wake up to and it's going to be very ... difficult but also at the same time I'm also thinking if you ... are China and you have the failed the leadership of Joe ... Biden you have his actions of just how horrible everything ... went in Afghanistan.
00:46:59.000You must be thinking to yourself this is the most ... perfect opportune time to do something very aggressive ... because Biden is literally going to give us weapons and ... he's going to give us all the all the information to all the ... people in that area and he's going to give us all the help ... that he can when we attack Taiwan because that that was ... his policy in Afghanistan it was blundered almost ... deliberately so if you're trying to at the same time you ... see a big opportunity with the Biden presidency.
00:47:26.000Or what if this is just a distraction?
00:47:28.000I mean honestly, we had talked about it before, the long game.
00:47:30.000CCP is really good at playing the long game.
00:47:33.000And in talking with people in Taiwan now, generationally there's differences.
00:47:37.000We as Americans tend to view things black and white.
00:47:40.000We see Taiwan as it's been for the last 20 years as an example.
00:47:44.000But the new generations coming up have a lot more in common with the general Chinese people than they do with their elders necessarily.
00:47:50.000They may not be opposed to becoming one with China.
00:47:52.000And if you're the CCP looking at the long game, sure, we can do some positioning, we can throw the Americans off, but maybe the long game is truly just waiting it out.
00:48:20.000There's great stuff you did, by the way.
00:48:22.000This was like street warfare on levels that I haven't seen before, comparatively maybe to the Yellow Vest Movement in France, but this was like gore, blood, and like seriousness on the streets.
00:48:32.000It's great if you go through the Beijing airport or the Shanghai airport, which is awesome.
00:48:52.000Like, that's how they very much look at it.
00:48:55.000But I really do, I think you guys are right.
00:48:57.000You're right, the war is being fought now.
00:48:59.000And I think you're also right, Colin, where it comes down to, it's like, look, I think that the generation, I think they're going to open the door from the inside and they're just going to go over willingly.
00:49:07.000And it might not be, you know, this year might not be this decade, but you know, it might be soon.
00:49:13.000And honestly, that's the smart, if you were China, that's the smart move instead of like sending ships over and kicking the door down.
00:49:50.000Uh, I don't think as far as that goes, but the thing is, I think if they just let them in willingly, if they're not fighting, like, if you think, if you're China, that's a smart move.
00:50:36.000And the Chinese literally have a blank book.
00:50:38.000They have their own Federal Reserve System, where they literally print money out of thin air.
00:50:42.000They have a whole economic system that's based out of just numbers that they print on a screen.
00:50:46.000So with that kind of unlimited money, they could do anything they want.
00:50:49.000And they're very methodical, especially with their Belt and Road Initiative, especially with their infrastructure now through Kazakhstan and Afghanistan, their connections with Iran and the energy that they get from them.
00:51:01.000This is a very methodical move that the Chinese understand is going to be a long-term, but they understand that it started a long time ago.
00:51:21.000I think there's a lot of individuals in the U.S.
00:51:23.000I think a lot of people who, like, you know, watch the show, for instance, probably know a lot of this and have started taking the individual actions to protect themselves.
00:51:29.000But without a strong collective, like a United States and a shared culture and vision, we're getting, we're getting, they're eating our lunch.
00:51:36.000I think the British played the long game.
00:52:10.000And, well, that, that allowed sanctuary for the, the Chinese government when it was taken over by communists to flee, which is my understanding, right?
00:52:24.000You know, communism is, I think if communism succeeds and expands and whatever, whatever, whatever China is, they found out something clever.
00:52:36.000It's about manipulating the public, giving them limited freedoms so they can at least satiate themselves, but then you use the iron fist for everything else.
00:52:52.000They weren't getting the supplies they needed.
00:52:53.000So China found a way to mix markets with the lower class and then give themselves absolute authority on top.
00:53:01.000So all these businesses have a Chinese Communist Party branch or whatever.
00:53:05.000That, I think that will absolutely wipe out humanity.
00:53:08.000So if you... What do you think is going to wipe out humanity there?
00:53:14.000I think if Chinese-style state communism, or whatever you want to call it, succeeds in becoming this global force... Crypto-communism?
00:53:21.000Yes, this will decimate, probably the wrong choice of words because the root is to reduce by 10%, but it would be a catastrophe in that centralization of planning does not work.
00:53:37.000It works in some areas, like, oh, you want to make cell phones?
00:53:39.000Great, have a planned, like, here's the parts we need and you can organize it.
00:53:43.000But you can't organize for a billion people.
00:53:45.000You can't organize for a million people properly.
00:53:47.000It is the decentralized wisdom of the masses.
00:53:52.000Centralization works if your centralized system is part of a decentralized system.
00:53:56.000So it's just a big node on the network.
00:53:58.000So when we have different businesses, like the airline knows the airlines, and the dairy industry knows the dairy industry, that makes sense.
00:54:21.000One person is not smart enough to run.
00:54:22.000Imagine someone thinking, being so arrogant, they're like, I am but one person, but I could be the CEO of every Fortune 500 company simultaneously.
00:54:35.000But they brought the smart people from the universities, don't worry.
00:54:38.000But but if they dare sneeze in the wrong direction of the ... Communist Party they get sent to the work camps I mean look ... what happened to Alibaba look what happened to so many ... entrepreneurs in China that have been literally taken out ... just for the smallest microaggression of talking ... against the state and and again this shows you how bad ... this is another point that we also have to entertain here ... because with massive centralization comes major ... problems that China is dealing with right now.
00:55:04.000Including major resource shortages they're trying to ... make a desert into a fertile land of farming because they ... know resource wise they're screwed there's a lot of very ... significant problems in China because of the ... centralization and I think we also have to examine that ... because they're not as strong and as powerful with their military.
00:55:27.000I imagine that people hate the government there.
00:55:28.000to convince the world because they have a very hard ...
00:55:31.000times even just making their society run in some ...
00:55:33.000instance imagine people hate the government there just ...
00:55:37.000hate it well depends their raised as young children to ...
00:55:40.000love the stage to obey the state and they know if they ...
00:55:43.000dare even to criticize it they lose privileges they lose ...
00:55:46.000the ability to send their their children into good ...
00:55:48.000schools they use they lose the ability to travel they ...
00:55:51.000lose the ability to have good internet because they ...
00:55:54.000criticized the government or smoke to cigarette in the ...
00:56:10.000So that makes people, you know, it boosts their morale, makes them want to be involved in that mob mentality, essentially.
00:56:16.000I heard that there's like Chinese hero movies now where they're fighting Americans, and the Americans are like how we had the Russians in the 80s and 90s.
00:56:55.000America's bare shelves, Walmart and Costco, limit toilet paper sales, while toy companies warn parents their kids' Christmas gifts won't arrive in time, thanks to backlog at ports, rail yards, and on the roads.
00:57:07.000Supply chain problems that have been tormenting retailers for months are showing up in America's stores.
00:57:13.000Around the country, there are shortages of goods on shelves in Target, Costco, Home Depot, and Sears.
00:57:18.000They're saying that the cost of shipping from China to LA is now at $20,000.
00:57:24.000And I think it's like ten times as high as it normally is supposed to be.
00:57:29.000What do you think this means for people in America?
00:57:31.000I think, you know, we talk about the people who can stand up, who can reject the mandates, and I think we talk about this foreign conflict, but it all comes back to whether or not someone's going to be able to have food on their plate.
00:57:43.000Ignoring what's happening around the world won't get you there.
00:57:46.000I mean, this may be one of the hardest times for a lot of people.
00:57:49.000We've gone through this golden age where people have lived so peacefully, so perfectly, with movies, with pizza.
00:57:55.000Man, you pick up your phone, you go, pizza, and then boom, a pizza shows up.
00:57:58.000You can actually pick up your phone today, press the button and say, order me a pizza, and then it'll find you a restaurant, you can get it.
00:58:03.000Now all of a sudden we're being told our supplies are being strained.
00:58:25.000I don't think anyone's actually thought through what a hard time is going to look like.
00:58:29.000And I think we're starting to see that just from, so this is really simple, something really small and something that I noticed is that there's less selection on the store shelves.
00:58:36.000Like why don't we have 600 types of peanut butter to choose from anymore?
00:58:40.000Because we just don't have that anymore.
00:58:42.000So it's starting small and it's going to get really bad because they're so backed up.
00:58:45.000Like off the coast of California, we're talking about how the shipping ships, the crate ships, whatever they're called.
00:59:19.000I mean, I was in Zimbabwe, I was in Venezuela, you were in Venezuela as well.
00:59:23.000When you stay with people, when you live with people, when you see the world from an international kind of
00:59:27.000perspective, from a third world perspective,
00:59:30.000it really gives you a lot of, a feeling of humbleness,
00:59:34.000especially when you come back here and you have so much abundance,
00:59:36.000much abundance and you have so much options.
00:59:38.000And and us being spoiled is only going to add to the ... disaster of what's coming because there's also going to ... be a lot of fears about panic buying there's also going to be ... a lot of people who are unprepared for this there's ... going to be a lot of latte drinking flip-flop wearing ... yuppies who are going to try to tweet their way out of this ... problem and there's no way of hitting the computer keyboard ... to help you in a situation where resources become very hard to get.
01:00:05.000So there's going to be a big reality check for a lot of individuals to see how useful they are, to see the skills that they have, to see what they could do, and it's really going to lead to a very transitionary time that I think we're starting to begin to head into right now.
01:00:20.000I was just thinking about, you know, we've talked about people in cities being unable to survive in the event of, like, a serious catastrophe, and then, you know, Luke mentioning these hippie flip-flop latte-drinking guys, and I'm just sitting here imagining—this is the first—my first thought was, well, I'm good.
01:00:35.000You know, I got—we got chickens, and a garden, and we're building more, and we're gonna be a little bit more responsible growing up.
01:02:23.000Like folks like that, a lot of folks who don't really have the wherewithal to like survive.
01:02:27.000And like, fortunately, you guys and a lot of folks we know, like, We're a little prepared when it comes to that sort of thing.
01:02:31.000You guys are out in the middle of nowhere, it's nice.
01:02:33.000That's something that I always think about too.
01:02:35.000Here's what I used to think about for a while, and now I'm having second thoughts after all the COVID events, was a lot of folks who were really well off or get to a certain point, it's like their bug out location, a ton of folks were buying property in New Zealand.
01:02:53.000I think Peter Thiel, like, bought himself a passport, and he's got a compound out there, and it's like, hey, you know, if the crap hits the fan, like, get the fan, get in the jet, and off we go.
01:03:02.000And it's great, because if you think about it, it's like, it's in the middle of nowhere.
01:03:39.000And a lot of Latin American police officers and politicians really love getting tipped.
01:03:44.000We're talking about when the dollar is... Of course.
01:03:49.000And it's going to create a very, very unique, interesting situation.
01:03:52.000People in the comment section are saying that there's going to be soy-seeking hordes.
01:03:57.000People wandering about looking for soy.
01:04:02.000But a lot of also very powerful people bought a lot of property in Latin America.
01:04:08.000And a lot of people are also looking into Latin America because the police officers there and the government there doesn't have the tools to enforce a lot of the ridiculousness as well.
01:04:19.000And so to be more practical than being like, you know, you hear rustling, you go outside and there's a hipster like eating one of your chickens and he's like, no, but I think what might be closer to reality is, you know, you live out, you get a homestead, you move out maybe to like central West Virginia.
01:04:35.000There's a lot of farms out here and they're amazing.
01:04:37.000Almost all the farms you can pull up and you buy fresh foods.
01:04:40.000We went to one place, they had like a trailer and they had like, we got tenderloins.
01:04:44.000So what'll happen is one day, a mortgage broker will walk up on your property with a briefcase wearing a nice little suit, and you'll be like, you know, what can I do you for?
01:05:15.000But then what happens is when this guy gets rejected, he comes back in the middle of the night and tries to steal because people are not going to roll over.
01:06:20.000That's why when you said people will become hardened, people will become smarter, people will become more in tune to the land.
01:06:27.000I think there's also going to be a lot of vast opportunities for that where a lot of city dwellers are going to return to farming self-sustainable lifestyles because of necessity.
01:06:37.000And I think that's going to be a good thing right now.
01:06:40.000Most of our farming is factory farming.
01:06:50.000But again, when things fall down, we're also going to understand that the authorities won't be able to hold things together, and there's going to be a free-for-all.
01:07:01.000It's already they can't hold things together.
01:07:03.000When we see these stories about the federal government's heavy hand making statements about going after parents, that's like a frightened bear.
01:07:11.000It's an animal trying to look bigger and scare you.
01:07:15.000It's the blowfish going, It's like, okay, I'll stay away from you, but yeah, it's kind of it's kind of fake authority, too Because like real authority comes heavy and hard with weapons.
01:07:24.000Yeah, they're trying to be nice This is like the federal government's like hey do we say but we're not gonna mess with you But like a real authoritarian government would be like gonna mow down who disagrees and then everyone else do what I say But in a country of 330 million the federal government does not have the capacity for policing something so large and so vast I mean look If it really came down to the fact that people were losing, came down to the people losing confidence in the government, Alaska would not be part of this country anymore.
01:08:52.000I mean, yeah, it does really well to sustain like the local population, but everything that's there, I mean, if it just everything devolved, I mean, the upside is there's fresh water there.
01:09:23.000You got to pull it out, like, at least.
01:09:24.000I mean, the regulation, I think for us, like, for most ships, merchant ships,
01:09:27.000or even, like, Navy ships, or whatever, it's like two and a half miles, I think.
01:09:30.000You have to be two and a half miles to pump it out, which it really is, because, I mean, you know, all the fish poop there, too, you know?
01:09:34.000So, you know, but that's one of the, like, but if you're just out on the beach, you know, you're running out there, just waiting out there to go, yeah, that's a different story.
01:09:50.000But the funniest thing was seeing the poop ship just have the pipe go across the ship onto the other side and then they pump it into their own port and you're paying them for every gallon.
01:09:57.000Yeah, like in some countries they'll just let you pump over the side.
01:10:00.000Like in there, like Spain, surprisingly Spain, we're like, what do we do for like our sewage service while we're in port?
01:10:05.000And they're like, just pump over the side.
01:10:07.000Do you guys remember that story where Dave Matthews' band went over the bridge in Chicago?
01:10:11.000And the bus driver hit the release and it sprayed a boat going under the bridge.
01:10:37.000They think RV life is glorious and you're gonna be like those Instagram babes.
01:10:41.000I mean, no one asks the question and whenever I see one of these Instagram babes or like YouTube people, van life people, I'm like, where do you poop?
01:10:50.000You're making it look all glorious and nice, but show us the real footage of you cleaning out the black tank.
01:10:55.000Show us the reality of what happens when you gotta go.
01:10:59.000That's the reality that people are denied seeing a lot of the times because it's glorified.
01:11:03.000I think about that when I watch TV a lot.
01:11:05.000All the characters on TV, like Matt Damon, like when does his character poop?
01:11:09.000How come we don't see that on the movie?
01:11:50.000And then, like, these zombie hordes in, like, The Walking Dead.
01:11:52.000What they don't show is the hordes eating each other, because they're zombies in the show, but they're actually, if they're starving humans, they're just gonna start eating each other.
01:11:58.000Then you're gonna get an Instagram video of someone, like, picking a human cor- like, eating a human- Yeah!
01:12:02.000And that's when, you know, really, that's gonna be the iconic- But- Yes, but what- if these soy boys start eating that much meat, wouldn't that boost their testosterone?
01:12:28.000But they do this thing where they'll be like, show me your hands, and you have to hold your hands up, and the people who are cannibals, they shake.
01:12:34.000From, uh, prion disease, is that right?
01:12:36.000It's like a protein fold, I think, in the brain.
01:12:38.000And so you get the shakes from cannibalism.
01:12:40.000And so if you can't hold your hands straight, then they're like, ah, you know, get them, and then I think he actually goes to a place where there's a bunch of cannibals.
01:13:27.000It feels like all of these dystopian novels are competing and like I wonder you know Luke you have that shirt Yeah, I have a shirt about that.
01:13:34.000It says you are here, and it's like the Venn diagram of all of them I have three of them, and then I have another shirt that has nine books and movies all together Just to make you know the point hit harder, but yeah, I mean you guys you got to watch Fever Vendetta Yeah.
01:13:46.000We've said it before, but... Do you post a clip about, like, the... That's right!
01:13:56.000I'm watching local news, and they're like, you know, the airlines, you know, Southwest Airlines cancels 2,000 flights.
01:14:02.000They say it was due to air traffic control and weather issues.
01:14:05.000And then I look over at my friends, and I'm like, do you guys believe this bollocks?
01:14:08.000Which is like, I'm directly, you know, quoting the line from Viva Veneta.
01:14:12.000And then I'm like, I thought about it, I pulled the clip, Where Chancellor Sutler is like, I want them to remember why they need us!
01:14:19.000And then, like, it shows the news clips, and the first clip, it says, Civil War in the former United States is destroying parts of the Midwest.
01:14:59.000I mean, a movie about a bunch of elites Who manufacture a fake virus, then buy stock in the company that produces the cure, use the virus to scare people into gaining political control, and then are pumping out mass propaganda.
01:15:15.000I'm just like, ah jeez, that's like, that's like all the conspiracy theorists are probably like pointing at that.
01:15:41.000But like, you know, the weird thing is like, do people really believe that there's a powerful global elite tech mogul who's trying to sterilize everybody?
01:15:48.000I think there's a lot of people who do.
01:15:53.000Do you really care about these fringe conspiracy theorists?
01:15:56.000It would still scare enough people, I think.
01:15:58.000And it would also, like, discourage folks.
01:15:59.000I mean, whether it's true or not, you know, I don't necessarily think it's necessarily, like, you know, some cabal, like a bunch of, you know, fat cat billionaires, you know, sitting in a big room like this, smoking cigars, trying to figure out what to do.
01:16:08.000But I think it's, like, very just decentralized.
01:16:09.000Well, what if that's exactly what it was?
01:16:11.000With, like, Bill Gates and, like, Jeff Bezos, and they're, like, smoking the cigars?
01:16:15.000The biggest conspiracy theory out there is that there's not a conspiracy.
01:16:19.000And the second one is that the government has never committed a conspiracy against you.
01:17:12.000And I think people need to realize that, you know, when it comes to, like, the Bill Gates conspiracy theories, you don't need to look for any deeper meaning.
01:17:33.000It's like they're doing his advertising and his PR.
01:17:35.000And what I meant to say is that one of the biggest conspiracies is that the government has your best interest at heart.
01:17:42.000That, to me, is an important slogan that a lot of people should remember.
01:17:45.000But, you know, if we see how easily it is to buy off politicians, buy off scientists, if we see how multinational corporations are able to do whatever they want, it should send a chilling effect, especially when you understand history and how it's been welded and used Uh, throughout the last few years, when we have, you know, there's, uh, you know, one of the important, most important aspects of like fascism, for instance.
01:18:26.000They're just, you know, they're putting a bow on it and you see a lot of that right now.
01:18:29.000And that's when we hear about corporatism going to, you know, crony corporations and all that stuff.
01:18:33.000Like that's the stuff that's getting really scary and ugly.
01:18:36.000And then one of the things you point out was the Russell, uh, what's that one?
01:18:38.000Uh, how basically outside of the fan companies, the big tech companies, it's like the economy, if you take away all the big super tech companies, right.
01:18:51.000And so because those, those few companies are just so massive.
01:18:54.000So they're just kind of like pulling everybody else up.
01:18:56.000But like, whereas like the rest of the economy is actually not doing so hot.
01:18:59.000Maybe we just need to start referring to the Democrats and the, and the establishment Republicans as the corpos.
01:19:04.000Just like they're the corporate, they don't care.
01:19:06.000It's because look, you know, Luke talks about government, not having your best interest at heart, but what if, I think if you're actually going to talk to somebody who is not super politically initiated, they don't understand everything that Luke would be saying.
01:19:38.000You want to talk about the government, we're usually referring to like corporate, you know, style, like, uh, well-funded establishment, corrupt individuals.
01:19:47.000And then you get the democratic establishment and the Republican establishment.
01:19:51.000And I think the only reason the Republican establishment is doing nothing is because they know if they go up against the Trump populist types, they lose whatever power they have.
01:19:58.000And so long as they feign actually resisting, they can obstruct.
01:20:02.000Meanwhile, the Democrat corporate, you know, corrupt, whatever, they're just literally trying to burn the whole thing down.
01:20:16.000And there was one good friend of mine who, he's still active duty, but he used to work as a legislative fellow, so he worked for a staffer, and he worked in the Senate.
01:20:25.000And one of the things he said really quickly, you'll notice he pointed out to me, he said it kind of as a joke, and I was like, well, maybe not really.
01:20:29.000He's like, I can tell there's like a cabal.
01:20:32.000Between how or between Senate Republicans and House Democrats right like they're kind of you know that what they're doing and what's interesting even within Congress itself is how and he's not the only guy that told me about this is how a lot of the division isn't necessarily along party lines like Republican Democrat a lot of it so much House and Senate.
01:21:37.000If you're saying, like, I don't know whether or not this corporation has my best interests at heart... Actually, I'm sorry, they typically don't.
01:21:44.000But yeah, if you can't tell the difference between, like, Rachel Maddow in news, You know, maybe there's some psychosis there, I guess.
01:21:52.000Like, if people are being kept ignorant, it doesn't mean they're crazy.
01:21:55.000It just means they're being manipulated.
01:21:56.000And so many people, like, you know, you know, guys in this room, like, especially you guys, it's like, following the news is your job, right?
01:22:05.000But, you know, one of the things that, and people were in the know, like, you guys are like super well known.
01:22:09.000But for, there's so many folks out there where it's like, they might catch a little bit of the news, right?
01:22:13.000They might catch this, but it's like, they got, You know, uh, wives and husbands, kids, mortgages, jobs.
01:22:20.000And it's like, I don't have time for this.
01:22:22.000Like a lot of folks don't realize, like, it's just, it's not a huge part of their like day.
01:22:27.000And when I talk to folks afterwards, like, oh yeah, I got a couple of friends, media did this, this, this, you know, they don't know what we're talking about half the time.
01:22:33.000I mean, and you know, maybe they're, and they're going to like vote if they vote, they're going to vote just, oh, I grew up a Republican or I grew up a Democrat.
01:22:42.000They don't know who they're voting for.
01:22:44.000I think one of the things that's really good, and one of the best benefits, and I still think why social media is like a net positive for society as a whole, and Malice has said this so many times, I think it's so true, is like, it allows the average person to call, you know, our elites out on their BS.
01:23:04.000It was like, just this whole thing happened with us.
01:23:05.000Like, it turns out, like, some normal guys end up kind of breaking the story, and we've got reporters calling us, And also when they start putting out press releases like, oh no, the FAA said it's fine, nothing happened.
01:23:31.000So people were just watching the news, like, is this true?
01:23:34.000Nowadays, people just go on Facebook and Twitter and Rumble, Gab, whatever, YouTube, they'll post and people can see alternatives.
01:23:41.000The establishment's trying to do everything in its power to make that not.
01:23:44.000Yeah, that Hunter Biden laptop thing got, that New York Post story got basically muted by Twitter.
01:23:49.000I've just looked up the definition of psychosis, an abnormal condition of the mind that results in difficulties determining what is real and what is not real.
01:23:57.000I think society is experiencing psychosis because of the amount of media that's coming from all these different angles where they'll say, it's dangerous.
01:24:09.000And their perception of reality is also being manipulated by the social media algorithms.
01:24:13.000And a lot of the perceptions that we see online are not the true perceptions of our reality as well.
01:24:19.000And the voices that are talking may not be the most important voices either, or the most, you know, they're conveying what the masses feel.
01:24:24.000I mean, to Tom's point, who has time, you know, as an average hard-working American to try to find source documents?
01:24:49.000Maybe that's why cult worship is so popular right now.
01:24:51.000Why people get so latched on to an individual, like, where they'll believe whatever that... I like that guy, so no matter what he says, I'm gonna follow him.
01:25:01.000They want to latch on to somebody that they believe is telling them the truth.
01:25:05.000And, I mean, because a lot of times I'm in the same boat.
01:25:07.000I don't necessarily know what to believe, but there are times like this where we're talking to people who are actually flight attendants and pilots and air traffic controllers.
01:25:13.000They're telling us one thing, we're seeing what's coming out in the media, and we're like, that does not connect.
01:25:17.000I was doing a lot of work on the border, as an example, with Border Special Operations Group.
01:25:21.000The same people who were there when AOC went down there to visit, you know, on the border, talking to the sector chiefs.
01:25:27.000I saw the same videos they showed the members of Congress, and it was night and day different.
01:25:33.000And that's where I can say, I know that they're not telling the truth in this case.
01:25:36.000I got this tweet from Matthew Iglesias.
01:25:39.000He said, a lot of debates on here are people who are to the left of 98% of the public deciding that people who are to the left of 75% of the public are huge right-wingers and it gets tiresome.
01:25:50.000He said, this is an interesting poll from last summer.
01:25:54.000Voters are less likely to view Biden as moderate than they were earlier this year.
01:25:57.000The ideal candidate On a scale, they say 1 being very liberal, 7 being very conservative, and 4 being right in the middle, the ideal candidate is slightly to the right.
01:26:10.0004.2 on the scale, leaning conservative, and they say Trump is rated as a 5.7, and Biden is a 2.8.
01:26:16.000Now for a lot of people, they'll look at Biden, 2.8 is closer to them, and if this is the case, they'll probably point that direction.
01:26:23.000However, I think if you're paying attention to the news, you'd realize that Donald Trump is actually substantially closer to moderate, and they view him far right when he's not.
01:26:35.000Like, if you watch, like, State of the Union and stuff like that, and you see, like, some of the speeches, you're like, uh, he sounds a lot like, uh, Bill Clinton sounds a lot like Trump.
01:27:08.000I think it was just because business interests had control of the organization with Hillary Clinton's, you know, email scandal being if nothing else that the shining, you know, red light warning sign that something wrong was was going on.
01:27:22.000And that was so much as well, like that's one of the things the left like really latched on to was so much of this like, you know, fake, well it's not completely fake, but mostly fake issues of, you know, all the systemic this and the woke this, the social justice, like it just totally played up.
01:27:35.000And because, and then when they saw them, they saw them in Occupy Wall Street, you know, that's where, Tim, that's where you, you know, earned your jobs, where you kind of really got started was, what was that?
01:29:02.000I remember Rosie O'Donnell came down and she found me.
01:29:06.000She's like, hey, I I know you and so many other celebrities so many other politicians so many other people started the conversation there and you know you could say a lot of negative things about it as well but but I think this was a shock to a lot of the establishment saying whoa whoa whoa we have Obama as president and these people are not happy with the way that the financial systems run with all the corruption it has
01:29:26.000Holy crap, we gotta invent social justice warriors.
01:29:30.000Holy cow, we need some wokeness for these people so they fight each other instead of understanding how everyone else is screwing them over.
01:29:37.000And you guys are obviously, you and everyone else down there, it's like, that's kind of where you guys, you know, got started in a lot of ways, right?
01:29:42.000I mean, you were like, kind of put yourself on the map, which is huge, which also, by the way, very successful.
01:29:46.000Well, Luke had a pretty big channel back then.
01:30:00.000And, and I think they've been largely successful thus far.
01:30:03.000However, I think there's enough people out there that are starting to catch on, you know, a lot of folks were just like, wait, wait, wait, wait, maybe they're full of it.
01:30:10.000Their psyop could only work for so long until people realize at the end of the day that they're getting the wrong end of the stick.
01:30:18.000And they're getting screwed over even more than they did before in 2011.
01:30:22.000But again, the divide and conquer agenda, the wokeness, I think that has been deliberately upplayed in order to get rid of this populist energy of being robbed.
01:30:31.000I noticed one thing while we were down there at Occupy was Bank of America across the street, they were like, all of a sudden one day they just started doing street construction right next to Zuccotti Park.
01:30:41.000It's loud all night, it would be just massive construction, so it made me realize the vulnerability and centralization of a movement.
01:30:49.000You do want to hold land to protest, but if you're going to centralize it, I don't think that's effective against the empire right now.
01:30:56.000The decentralized currency seems like... I'm surprised the U.S.
01:31:13.000How about we go to Super Chats, everybody?
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01:31:34.000But Shane is actually flying to Georgia to track down lost Confederate gold for a long series of a bunch of crazy stories.
01:32:35.000Hope you fellow beanie folk paid attention.
01:32:37.000Yeah, man, you know, we, we, we were, uh, so there's, so, uh, I'm going to say this, not, not a promo, but I got to tell the context.
01:32:45.000So safeandreadymeals.com is one of the things that we, we, we sometimes promote.
01:32:48.000I did a promo for them earlier today because I'm like, now more than ever, I genuinely think it's a good idea to have this stuff as emergency food.
01:32:54.000Augustin Farms, which is another big provider, on their website says they're no longer taking orders.
01:35:19.000Cajun Red says, you've got some feedback and squealing on the audio.
01:35:23.000Oh man, we tried switching out our mixer board, trying to figure out what was going on, because we're using an analog connection in the computer, we're getting interference.
01:35:31.000And so we tried using a USB workaround, didn't work.
01:35:37.000So we just tried doing a thicker, better cable, and then eventually we put a filter on it.
01:35:42.000So if you're hearing squealing, like, It was worse before.
01:35:45.000We were talking about maybe using the other studio up until about 7.15 and then we're like, let's, we're committed.
01:35:50.000Well, because, because if we don't do it, then we don't solve it.
01:35:54.000So on our, on our monitors, everything sounds perfect, but the output, something's happening too.
01:35:58.000So we didn't learn this until we started trying to do it.
01:36:01.000Now we're going to have the audio recording.
01:36:02.000We're going to go in, we're going to try and isolate what it is.
01:36:04.000And then by tomorrow it should be worked out.
01:36:06.000But if you're, if you're too scared to move forward because you don't know what the problems you're going to have are, then you're never going to move forward.
01:36:10.000So that's why I got that coffee midstream.
01:36:13.000But also, a lot of people are mentioning that they don't hear it.
01:36:16.000That, I guess, when we're talking, you can't really hear it when there's quiet periods.
01:37:42.000Steven Faber says the reason why they said weather is because federal law says if the flights are delayed for any other reason, the airline must get hotels.
01:39:39.000Well, red dots are usually a lot more better, but it's good to practice, have a lot of fun and, uh, just, just, you know, look up how to use it to get training and, uh, have fun with it.
01:44:33.000And I think as far as military technology, there's weapons that are stronger and bigger than nuclear weapons that we don't even know about yet.
01:46:22.000But yeah, people love that stuff, and so we definitely... We got a bunch of crazy ideas for good sketches, we're gonna be doing, so... Alright, let's see what we got.
01:46:32.000Sean Casey says, 41 minutes into this cast, and I see Luke has you all at sword point!
01:46:36.000Link twice and link once if you need help.
01:47:49.000I know that we're actually setting up a newsletter.
01:47:52.000So we're going to have like a weekly newsletter of our stories, and you'll get like a list of like our, we do five shows a week, so we'll have a list of guests, and then we'll have the articles that we think are important.
01:48:00.000One thing I say, like, at least as a, as a business owner, one thing that I get a ton of is, I mean, it's not social media, but it's email marketing.
01:48:07.000And like a lot of times I spend half time, I wake up in the morning and I'm going through email.
01:48:52.000I forgot what they're called, but they're like, it's like a hang glider, but then it's also got a fan on the back and you like sit in a basket and just like fly away.
01:48:59.000Yeah, little paragliders, I think they're called.
01:49:04.000It's one thing when you talk about Southwest especially, is we were talking about this, I think we talked about this downstairs with Andreas, is how it seems though, and this is like our anecdotal, unscientific, I don't think there's a survey on it, but I think it's a safe assumption where if you look at Southwest Airlines, started in Texas, right?
01:49:21.000They have a disproportionate number of prior military pilots compared to the other airlines.
01:49:27.000I would wager That, and this is again, there's not data, but it's like, it makes sense that the vast majority of higher proportion of Southwest pilots lean right, or at least at the very much, very much are, you know, freedom loving and against this.
01:49:43.000And that's why I think you see such a higher number of Southwest pilots, right?
01:49:48.000Who are, you know, anti-vat, you know, not anti-jab, whatever you want to call it.
01:49:53.000Yeah, that's actually, that is a more appropriate word.
01:49:56.000And I think that's one of the reasons why you see that, and you see this pushing back, is because I think that Southwest pilots are much more right-leaning.
01:50:05.000I think that's where you're seeing this right now.
01:51:15.000Social Exile-ity says cyber attack Toyota America.
01:51:19.000My dad works at one of the Toyota plants and I just heard that they are being held for a 25 million dollar ransom or they will sell employee info.
01:51:33.000I mean, there's probably a lot more ransom attacks than we even know about, especially with the NSA toolkits being released to the general public somehow mysteriously.
01:51:43.000So it wouldn't surprise me if that news is true, but a lot of it is being not reported because they don't want the Streisand effect on these particular attacks to go out there.
01:51:52.000And they also don't want, especially if it's a big company, they don't want their shareholders to know that like that happened.
01:55:09.000Actually, one of the weird things, I didn't even know anything about this, but it came to my head and I thought it was just hilarious and crazy.
01:55:17.000I spent a lot of time in Southeast Asia.
01:55:18.000When I was in the Philippines, I'm sure you probably spent some time out there, is what blew me away was they televised cockfighting.
01:56:36.000I mean, it was a great place, but it's like, I can only take it, like, I was like, okay, after a week or so at a time, like, give me the hell out of here.
01:57:11.000Jordan VTO8 says, NPR wrote a critique of Chappelle's new stand-up, and they say Dave used white privilege to express transphobic thoughts.
01:59:40.000Jack Muth says, for those that want to get out of the city, USDA has a home loan program where you can get a 100% financed home loan up to 38 years.
01:59:48.000You can use these funds to buy or build a house in a rural area.
02:00:12.000But the thing is, is one thing I do know for sure is like, you know, say what you want about the times, but like the world is flush with cash and there are tons of people.
02:00:44.000Is it possible you take out a huge loan to buy a house that then the economy crashes, the house becomes worth a tenth of what it was worth, and they won't take that cash anymore to pay it back?
02:00:53.000And then they seize the house back from you?
02:01:13.000For the federal government, if it's coming from like a federal loan or a federally backed loan, probably it's because they're pretty straight stick about it, you know?
02:01:19.000But there's other stuff out there, there's tons of stuff out there.
02:01:22.000Hey, if I may real quick, Tim, I did get a message here from a fellow EOD guy, guy I worked with, deployed, same unit I was at, Jack, and it's interesting, so I'll remove his last name, but hey, Adam.
02:01:55.000I know so many people and I got my family.
02:01:57.000There's tons of folks out there where they're like, Hey, I'm just not doing this.
02:02:00.000And I got to say for the folks who aren't making a ton of money, the folks who don't have assets, you know, like real assets, you know, like that's a, that's a tough thing to do, man.
02:02:09.000You got kids, something like that, man.
02:02:11.000It seems like the time to build a new industry.
02:02:14.000This has been on my mind to build this graphene factory that just sucks carbon out of the air and makes graphene, you know, puts it on copper palladium alloy or something where you can like make 50 different companies with 99 employees each and then hire all these people that are losing their jobs.
02:02:30.000Yeah, because people will invest in that.
02:02:31.000You need a lot of money for something like that though.
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02:03:28.000Now, I don't usually like to toot my own horn here, but I am very particularly happy with the offensive meme that I posted today on Instagram and Twitter under LukeWeAreChange.