On today's show: Tucker Carlson is hosting a sit down forum with the Republican presidential candidates, except for Donald Trump, and the internet is exploding because Mike Pence has apparently committed political suicide by saying, "That's not my concern" when asked about U.S. cities in reference to wanting to fund Ukraine.
00:00:40.000cities in reference to wanting to fund Ukraine.
00:00:42.000Now, some are arguing, he didn't really mean that, it's being taken out of context, but the general idea is that Mike Pence is talking about how we've got to fund and support Ukraine.
00:00:51.000Tucker says, what about American cities?
00:00:53.000And then Mike Pence said, unfortunately, whether he meant it or not, that's not my concern.
00:00:58.000He does go on to say we want to fix up our borders and make America better and things like that, but this is interesting.
00:01:03.000This is the new way we are having these political discussions.
00:01:06.000It's not so much the old school style debate, so we'll talk about that.
00:01:09.000Now, because of this, we're seeing a major swing in prediction markets with Vivek Ramaswamy skyrocketing.
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00:07:49.000Social media exploded on Friday after former Vice President Mike Pence spoke with Tucker Carlson at the summit in Iowa, claiming that American cities are, quote, not my concern, while reiterating his support for the US sending more tanks to Ukraine.
00:08:01.000Now, I want to play this clip, make sure I actually play the full clip, because when I first saw it...
00:08:08.000I felt like we weren't getting the proper context, and this might not actually be the full context.
00:08:15.000So... Well, let's just play this clip and see if we have it, and then we'll talk about it.
00:08:55.000Public filth and disorder and crime have Exponentially increased, and yet your concern is that the Ukrainians, a country most people can't find on a map, who've received tens of billions of U.S.
00:09:17.000Tucker, I've heard that routine from you before, but that's not my concern.
00:09:21.000I'm running for president of the United States because I think this country's in a lot of trouble.
00:09:25.000I think Joe Biden has weakened America at home and abroad.
00:09:29.000And as President of the United States, we're going to restore law and order in our cities, we're going to secure our border, we're going to get this economy moving again, and we're going to make sure that we have men and women on our courts at every level that will stand for the right to life and defend all the God-given liberties enshrined in our Constitution.
00:09:48.000Anybody that says that we can't be the leader of the free world and solve our problems at home has a pretty small view of the greatest nation on Earth.
00:11:17.000I do think it's funny that everybody... This is going viral.
00:11:19.000There's like 50,000 tweets in the past couple hours or whatever, and I'm just like, ain't nobody was gonna vote for this guy in the first place.
00:12:47.000And it doesn't really acknowledge that I think he's missing his base, right?
00:12:51.000That people here, especially people who would already be more inclined to vote for him than say someone on the left, don't want us in Ukraine and they don't want us involved in a bunch of globalist nonsense.
00:13:02.000So he's missing the mark anyways by talking about whether the fact that we can do both.
00:13:07.000People don't want you focusing on both.
00:13:08.000They want you focusing here at home right now.
00:13:11.000I don't care if we send tanks to Ukraine.
00:13:39.000So, ultimately, I think the big news yesterday, which we only talked about a little bit, Joe Biden calling in reserves, selected reserves and ready reserves to be sent to Europe.
00:13:52.000Our culture today does not support this kind of foreign intervention.
00:13:58.000For whatever reason, you know what I think it is?
00:14:00.000I think Ron Paul has a lot to do with it.
00:14:03.000I think Ron Paul was speaking up in the late 2000s to a lot of young people, people my age, and not to mention combined with the anti-war stuff that was coming during the Bush years.
00:14:15.000And then all of a sudden we're like, you got Democrats saying no war, you got Ron Paul running as a Republican saying no war.
00:14:27.000We look back at history, we look at what the Founding Fathers thought of this, and we say ultimately, yeah, we shouldn't be doing it.
00:14:32.000Now that's a big problem for the neocons and the neolibs and people like Mike Pence who are like, we're leaders of the free world.
00:14:38.000Yeah, what he's really saying is, your labor, the work you do every day, when you look at your paycheck and you see that negative number for income tax, it's going to bombs, and guns, and tanks, and now they're deploying more U.S.
00:15:14.000You nailed it when you said she didn't mean that much to me, to your wife.
00:15:17.000Mike Pence is basically saying, To the face of all of these people begging to know why our money is going overseas, don't worry, it's somewhat worth it for some vague and nebulous reason, but I'll take care of the rest, too.
00:15:29.000It's exactly as you described telling your wife, don't worry, she doesn't mean anything to me.
00:15:31.000Establishment Republicans are trying to have their cake and eat it, too.
00:15:34.000They really want to, because there are still hawks in the Republican Party that want to see the United States Be an expansive power and they want to see the United States return to a situation similar to probably prior to the Iraq war.
00:15:51.000Yeah, you know, so I mean to think that to think that he's not trying to play to both I think is probably misguided because like he's got he has to get Trump's You know, hypothetically, if he's going to win, he has to convince enough Trump voters, and he has to convince people in the middle.
00:16:11.000People in the middle are not going to be compelled by a guy that's essentially a religious fundamentalist, or borderline at least.
00:16:25.000I think he's like stock neocon with a religious tint for the purpose of getting votes.
00:16:32.000Well yeah, he was the reason why it was such a good thing for Trump, right?
00:16:34.000Because he colored him in just the way he needed to be.
00:16:36.000He was supposed to be the establisher, but he was also supposed to be the guy that made it okay for the evangelicals to vote for Trump.
00:16:42.000That was part of the reason why they picked him too, is because of his... I mean, I had a bunch of friends that are progressives that were like, no really, he tried to shock the gay out of people when Pence got elected, or when Trump got elected.
00:16:54.000So like, there was a whole lot of people that were afraid of it, at least afraid of his religious bona fides or whatever.
00:17:00.000But he's got to get the middle and I don't think that there's any kind of... I don't see a path for him just overall.
00:17:06.000I don't see how he gets the middle and satisfies Trump voters and stuff who want nothing to do with Ukraine and also satisfies like the FAFO morons on Twitter, you know?
00:17:17.000It's antithetical to the populist movement that's going on right now, which is very, very anti-war.
00:17:24.000Now a lot of people, I think there's a lot of people for some reason who like Pence who are like, come on, you know, he didn't really mean that.
00:17:29.000And it's just, you know, my response to that is like, okay, fine, fair point, whatever, if that's what you want to believe.
00:17:33.000But in the world of politics, let's just talk superficially.
00:17:37.000Pence just He just stumbled on a black sandbag on stage and fell down in front of everybody.
00:17:43.000Doesn't matter if that's what he wanted you to believe or even what he meant.
00:17:46.000What matters is what people take from what you said, and the moment you give them a soundbite that juicy, it doesn't matter what you meant because history won't remember it.
00:19:43.000That if I'm going to enjoy that, every kid in this country ought to enjoy it too.
00:19:48.000So, from that clip, and the reason I wanted to play it is, I'm gonna refresh for you right now the prediction markets for the GOP presidential nomination, which currently has Vivek Ramaswamy at 13 cents, Ron DeSantis at 15, and Trump at 62.
00:20:00.000Trump, the clear frontrunner, let's refresh and see where we're at.
00:20:02.000And, Vivek has dropped down by 1 cent, Ron DeSantis has gone up by 1 cent.
00:20:22.000DeSantis is dropping down rather quickly.
00:20:25.000I do think, and again, these are not polls, but I think the people who are tracking the political landscape, who are making bets on what the outcome is going to be, I think we're very close to seeing Vivek Ramaswamy take second place relatively soon.
00:20:40.000I think that, like what Vivek said at the very end, like I'm an agnostic and I agree with him.
00:20:51.000That's why he's advancing in the polls like this, because he speaks, I think that he speaks in a very authentic way.
00:21:01.000He doesn't sound like a politician, I don't think, or at least he doesn't come across like a politician to people, because he does sound very polished, but I don't feel like he's I like listening to him.
00:21:11.000I think all his arguments are compelling.
00:21:13.000And maybe that's my own personal opinion because I'm rather I find his his his
00:21:19.000Arguments compelling so I like listening to him. Yeah, I think all his arguments are compelling
00:21:24.000I just everything he is He wants to dismantle the government in various pieces and
00:21:30.000I think what he says a lot is some smart solution So I'm happy that he's getting this out to get a little bit
00:21:37.000more name recognition And I'm surprised that the Santas has followed so much
00:21:41.000But you know he has so much negative attention now that I mean with with Disney whether you're right or wrong
00:21:46.000It is anti-cannabis whether that's right or wrong. He's just kind of like just just driving it into the ground
00:24:06.000I followed him in the Georgia election.
00:24:08.000I know where he got his spotlight from with the whole Senate election.
00:24:13.000But, you know, Shane Hazel did it the year before.
00:24:15.000I did it the same year as Shane Hazel did in North Carolina.
00:24:18.000You know, getting three percent and breaking the barrier and, you know, switching the election, Happens every year somewhere along the line and that's really kind of what he's writing.
00:25:03.000I mean, the first thing that, or the best way to know that you're an actual libertarian is another libertarian says, you're not a real libertarian.
00:25:14.000I know a lot of people said, oh, it's so early.
00:25:16.000We're only a few weeks in for a lot of these candidates, but this is where the pickup happens because the primaries are coming, I think, what, March of next year?
00:25:34.000I don't, I mean, it's, I think that it's surprising that there are people that are kind of speaking up, but at the same time, it's also surprising that he's actually the president because he's, it's really clear that he's not the guy running the show.
00:27:49.000It is interesting seeing the way that like the fact that there's any competition at all kind of proves that if you're not paying close attention, you wonder how that could possibly be.
00:27:58.000Because if you're not paying close attention, you just assume he's doing a great job.
00:28:01.000You don't know what's actually going on in the world.
00:28:03.000But if there's any competition at all, it does prove that there is a bit of a dent in the armor there.
00:28:09.000And it's hard for the average person to see, but just even hearing about an RFK, if you're somebody that doesn't pay close attention to politics, I would hope that would at least wake them up and be like, why is there anyone even questioning this at all?
00:28:20.000You could actually, I guess, mention his age would be a big part of it.
00:28:23.000Like a lot of people, even if they're not politically initiated, might wonder why is a guy his age going to be running again?
00:29:00.000But I gotta tell you, man, if Ron is hurting this much in the polls and they're not course correcting, I think that's a failure of leadership.
00:29:37.000But a big part of that is people like the idea that he was more stoic and that he could be a version of Trump without being more bombastic and over the top, but that doesn't work once you actually have to come out and speak more regularly.
00:29:50.000Just because that was an argument doesn't mean that was actually what the country was going to feel, you know what I mean?
00:29:55.000And I'm just saying that this could be, I don't know, but it would make sense that the more people get exposed to him and hear him speak outside of just in
00:30:07.000the context of Florida, the less they actually like him.
00:30:10.000When he, when he, when he felt like, because I'm just, I'm not paying as close attention
00:30:57.000Hat on the shoulder and he walks away.
00:31:11.000Now, the first thing I want to say is When Biden sees this little kid and starts doing the om-nom-nom thing or whatever, and they're all laughing... If this was a family member being endearing to a grandchild, I might be like, you know, whatever.
00:32:14.000Like, just imagine being any of the people that have to work on that campaign any time he has to go anywhere near children and they're just like... You think Usher's a menace.
00:32:23.000Yes, well, Usher may be a menace, Biden's a worse menace, that is for sure.
00:32:28.000So, Joe Biden, he goes out a few years ago, and he's sniffing women and squeezing them
00:33:37.000He's a he's a regular Humphrey Bogart.
00:33:41.000I'm sure Tara Reid has nothing but... He's a regular Hugh Hefner.
00:33:44.000Who's a who's a celebrity from that era that would would have been considered a Well Hugh Hefner back in the day was supposed to be, and he's dead just like Joe.
00:34:14.000You gotta make that like the campaign thing because they talk about how Trump can't get suburban women votes because he's like, grody, like, lecherous or whatever.
00:34:22.000Just, okay, well, you know, play the Biden game.
00:34:24.000Just, you know, you go to a voter and be like, I want you to imagine Joe Biden.
00:34:28.000He comes up from behind, slides his hands onto your back.
00:36:46.000We'll get you some Ben and Jerry's and we'll have a clown feed it to you.
00:36:51.000No, but in all seriousness, there's got to come a point where Joe Biden just... There was that video where I think he was campaigning in like 2020 and some guy asked him a question and he just snaps and starts going like, what, what, what?
00:37:02.000And I think that's because he's just like, I don't care!
00:37:55.000He is the sitting president and incumbent.
00:37:58.000And there's people, a lot of them, 35 percent who think, yeah, he ain't going to win.
00:38:03.000Gavin Newsom, you know what it is though?
00:38:05.000What you gotta understand about these prediction markets is there's also a value bet in that, look if I spend 21 cents on a share of Gavin Newsom, that's nearly a five times return if he gets the nomination.
00:38:18.000I still think it's fair to consider It should be 100 for Joe Biden.
00:38:22.000The fact that Predict It decided to make a contract on if he would even be the nominee says a lot.
00:38:29.000He's the freaking guy that saved democracy, didn't he?
00:38:31.000He came and swooped in and said, yo, I'm saving democracy from the Donald Trump and Megamericans and like he's the one who was like the saving grace for America, right?
00:39:06.000That is a distinction between people that support them and people that don't.
00:39:11.000It's the same kind of crap that Mao did too.
00:39:13.000Mao would, it was, I'm saying it in Chinese, but it was the same thing.
00:39:17.000It was our democracy because they use the same phrases.
00:39:19.000They use democracy and they talk about it, but under, with their understanding, you're, it's not a full democracy unless everybody has an equal voice, not just, you know, everyone gets a vote.
00:39:29.000Well, I feel like it was the same thing.
00:39:31.000I feel like what they're basically saying is, our democracy refers to us all in agreement with each other.
00:39:39.000That's why they also laugh at the idea when you point out the fact that it's not a democracy, that you do live in a constitutional republic, and there are things that that entails, and then they laugh at that because that's not actually what they're talking about.
00:39:58.000Again, James Lindsay from New Discourses, he did a podcast on this, and he went through a speech that Mao did that was translated to English, and then he said, look, this right here that Mao was saying is the exact same thing that Kamala Harris means when she says this.
00:40:14.000This right here that Mao was saying is the exact same thing when you translate it to English that Joe Biden is saying here.
00:40:20.000So there's this When I say that there are communist influence throughout all of our government, it goes through the bureaucracy, all the way up through actual, like, DSA members, but all the way to the presidency.
00:40:32.000There are some people that repeat the things knowingly that they're communist things, and there are some people that repeat them without knowing that they're repeating communist propaganda.
00:40:40.000But there's a ton of communist propaganda.
00:41:29.000Because they write this unironically and Libertarians, post-liberals, Trump supporters are screen-grabbing it and posting the Chad meme with just, yes.
00:41:38.000It's the most compelling thing I've ever heard a politician say in my life.
00:41:56.000Milo Yiannopoulos on the show said this.
00:41:57.000He said, in his comeback bid for the White House, the former president, twice impeached but twice acquitted, now twice indicted, haha, has vowed that if reelected, he will wield his power to personally remake parts of the federal government to a degree that historian Mark Updegrove said was unprecedented.
00:42:12.000Trump has promised to hamstring perceived enemies, including the DOJ, which is currently investigating him, and target Republican boogeyman like President Joe... Republican boogeyman like President Joe Biden.
00:42:22.000It sounds like they're saying Joe Biden's a Republican.
00:42:24.000He swore in June to appoint a special prosecutor to go after the Bidens.
00:43:51.000So he's not, he wasn't my first choice.
00:43:53.000A year ago I said DeSantis, because DeSantis has been on top of the game when it comes to culture war issues.
00:43:59.000But Donald Trump comes out, and he's like, don't know, don't care, I want revenge, I'm gonna fire everybody, and I'm like, I see fire in his eyes.
00:45:03.000Why are journalists so scared that someone would fire bureaucrats?
00:45:08.000Because they're friendly with the bureaucrats now, and because they have their personal email addresses and their personal home phone numbers, and sometimes they get scoops.
00:45:19.000One of the hardest things I think would be, if he's talking about getting rid of the deep state, it's the unelected officials, right?
00:45:24.000You can fire all the heads of departments you want, but all of those heads of departments have trained people under them who think like they do, who they've groomed for those positions farther up.
00:45:36.000It's not just getting rid of whoever you're talking about, whether you're talking about CIA, all of these departments, there's going to be somebody that's going to come in there because it's not like this is one generation of a problem.
00:45:45.000This is multi-generational, and it will take more than one president if you're going to actually turn things around, at least in my opinion.
00:45:53.000And I don't know for sure what the legality is of the president actually getting rid of cabinet level... Well, that's what I'm saying.
00:46:05.000So when I say get rid of, I mean abolish at the cabinet level.
00:46:08.000So the whole department, from the seat on the cabinet all the way down to the ground enforcers of whatever department we're talking about.
00:46:19.000Whether it be HUD, whether it be the Department of Energy, which I don't know that we can do that because of the nuclear stuff.
00:46:24.000But still, the Department of the Interior, DOT, IRS, well, that's part of the Treasury, so that would be a little different, but like, you know, there's plenty of stuff that he could get rid of as the executive and just be like, get out of here, in the Justice Department alone.
00:46:41.000He could get rid of stuff with the FBI by executive order.
00:46:45.000He can get rid of stuff with the ATF by executive order.
00:46:48.000If I understand correctly, I could be wrong, but that's the way that I believe because he is the executive.
00:46:55.000He can get rid of stuff in the Department of Justice.
00:46:58.000Like, that would be a great place to start.
00:47:57.000I would have really liked to have seen that.
00:47:58.000It felt like a lot of that stuff, the pardons at the end, a lot of that stuff felt very performative, and there was more important real change that he could have made through that stuff that would have been, even on the way out, would have been good for his re-election campaign.
00:48:12.000Snowden and Assange, had he done that, he would have won the hearts of a lot of libertarians just because of that move.
00:48:47.000Snowden took information, gave it to journalists without knowing what it was.
00:48:51.000There's an argument to be made that it was so good, what he did, exposing things like X-Key Score and, you know, NSA spying, that it's high time we say, look, you know, no more exile.
00:49:40.000I do think the reason Trump wanted Assange brought to the U.S.
00:49:43.000was because Assange knows things pertaining to the Clintons, the establishment, neolibs, neocons, and Trump wanted that information and Assange would not give it up because Assange has integrity and he is a journalist and he protects his sources.
00:49:57.000I think that was a strong component for Trump.
00:49:59.000He knew, he's like, this guy's got information we need and won't give it up.
00:50:04.000I also think that the intel agencies are a big part of why we need to pare back, right?
00:50:10.000You cannot do a lot of this unless we figure out a way to limit the influence of these intel agencies who are essentially responsible to no one.
00:50:19.000Accountable to no one. You're right, but the information that we're worried about the intel agencies
00:50:25.000collecting is the information that we're voluntarily giving to all the social media companies and Google and stuff. So
00:50:30.000I get it you're right and I would I don't know what the way or the
00:50:36.000best way to prevent the government from just subpoenaing it because the these companies are just
00:50:43.000As soon as the feds ask, they're just like, yeah, yeah, because again, access, because of favor with the most powerful government ever.
00:50:49.000So, I don't know what the right way to fix it is, but they've already got the information, you know, your social media companies and stuff like that, they all have the information out there.
00:50:59.000So, for the Feds, it's just a matter of sending the subpoena.
00:51:05.000But it also seems like the focus is increasingly more domestic, right?
00:51:10.000We are not focusing overseas the way we used to.
00:51:12.000We're focusing a lot more on domestic terrorism with Patriot Front and other such federal organizations.
00:51:20.000It just feels like that's where a lot of those cuts would need to come, but it's going to be very hard to do that because they're so burrowed into our government.
00:51:27.000Well, the whole Patriot Act itself, you know, it's called the Patriot Act because it sounds awesome, but all it is... Patriot Front!
00:51:37.000Another group, you know, domestic terrorists, and that's a big part of our focus here in this country now, is they're using that as a weapon against regular Americans who are not idiots like Patriot Front.
00:51:51.000We didn't get into it yesterday because, of course, we were talking about Sound of Freedom, but Twitter is now going to be paying its personalities who generate a certain amount of impressions.
00:52:02.000Basically, Twitter will operate in a similar way that YouTube does, that if you produce content that gets views and those views deliver ads, you get a cut of these ads.
00:52:12.000I was pleasantly surprised, rather abruptly, to get a pop-up on Twitter that said they were paying me about six grand.
00:52:17.000And I'm like, I didn't even do anything.
00:52:42.000And he goes, blocked by Trump on Twitter in 2018, unblocked by Trump on Twitter in 2019, banned from Twitter in 2019, unbanned by Elon in 2022, made $25,000 from Twitter in 2023, at this rate I'll be CFO of Twitter by 2024 and Trump's VP by 25.
00:52:52.000$25,000 from Twitter in 2023. At this rate, I'll be CFO of Twitter by 2024 and Trump's VP by 25.
00:52:59.000So here's what's funny about this story. Of course, we'll get into the Twitter stuff.
00:53:05.000But Taylor Lorenz, you know where you love her, wrote, Far-right Twitter influencers first on Elon Musk's monetization
00:53:15.000I am pretty sure that Brian Krasenstein, the liberal Biden voter, made more money than Andrew Tate.
00:53:22.000And the Krasensteins, because it's his brother as well, even pointed out that between them they made way more money than some of these other personalities, and Taylor Lorenz is calling it far-right and omitting them from the story.
00:53:33.000I far-righted before I came over here for the show.
00:53:36.000I went to the gym and I was doing cardio.
00:53:38.000I'm sure that JoJo from Jers and Brooklyn Dad are doing fine on Twitter as far as monetization.
00:53:47.000They don't get it from Twitter, though.
00:54:44.000Yeah, and then Ed Krasenstein, his brother, also criticized this very heavily, saying it was factually incorrect, noting that there were right-wing personalities posting this, but that they had actually made more money than a lot of people.
00:55:02.000Elon then launches, as prescribed in February, that there would be rev-sharing, like YouTube does, and other social media platforms do, Instagram and Facebook do.
00:55:11.000And now they're acting like it is a big scheme to bribe people to stay on the platform.
00:55:17.000And they're acting like it's the far right.
00:55:57.000We should simulcast the stream or do something like that on Twitter because now there's an opportunity to break the censorship market and shatter the censorship.
00:56:08.000Get all those hot takes you've been saving up forever and just start dropping them one by one so you can start making money.
00:56:13.000I mean, the thing is, I don't know if they've got, like, special rates for people that produce content that's exclusive for Twitter or what the deal's gonna be, but, you know, a place like this produces plenty of content to put up on the old Twitter machine, you know?
00:56:31.000I think it's awesome over the last few weeks you've seen with the Young Turks.
00:56:50.000I think they realize how kind of extreme the left can be at times, and I think definitely Anna knows from The Young Turks, but it's been awesome to witness, you know, from like a backseat kind of perspective over the last few weeks.
00:57:01.000Because she does not want to be a birthing person.
00:57:42.000One was a, not really left or right, just an older drag queen.
00:57:48.000The Kitty Demure and Maybe A Girl were the two drag queens.
00:57:52.000And Kitty, the drag queen's name, I suppose, I believe it's Kitty, I could be wrong, but was saying, look, you know, kids should not be in these things.
00:58:08.000But the interesting thing about it was the cult-like ideology that persists in the left's view.
00:58:17.000And there was a moment on the show, the reason I bring this up, is that I think the drag queen, the leftist, may have stumbled into something inadvertently which could cause problems for them.
00:58:29.000At the end of the show saying conservatives have criticized this book without reading it, and they should read it.
00:58:35.000And many post-liberal thinkers and anti-woke people have criticized the book without reading it, and they should.
00:58:41.000Because they highlight this book, Genderqueer, as having graphic images that shouldn't be shown to kids.
00:58:45.000That's correct, but the book is about this individual, this author's deep abuse and trauma Growing up from abusive parents, being forced to reuse menstrual products for days on end to the point where they smelled horribly, were pulled out of class, not being able to read till 12, having to go about their, you know, relief business outside, and maybe said, thank you for that, in response.
00:59:12.000I don't think that thank you will fly with the cult on the left.
00:59:16.000And that, I think, whether I'm right or wrong, my point is just my perception of it, There is a clear, fall-in-line, say-whatever-you're-supposed-to-say, no matter what it is, no matter how silly it is, or else.
00:59:28.000Whereas, whatever this faction is, it's conservative, liberal, libertarian, people disagreeing on a ton of issues, but, like, kinda just being chill with each other.
00:59:36.000Yeah, I get called bigot by other libertarians, just because of my stance on that particular issue.
00:59:47.000I mean, let's talk about that, because, um...
00:59:50.000You know, George Organson in, I think it was 2020, right, tweeted that cult worship line, it is not enough to not be racist, we must be actively anti-racist, which is basically a cult mantra.
01:00:02.000It's like effectively a neo-Marxist prayer.
01:00:06.000To see a libertarian tweet, we must do something, was kind of hilarious to me, like, we all must do these things.
01:00:11.000I thought we were all about individual liberty and responsibility.
01:00:14.000I'm curious your thoughts on that element of the Libertarian Party and those ideas.
01:00:18.000Yeah, I'm all about the individual and not necessarily the party itself.
01:00:24.000I was a Libertarian well before I even knew what the party was.
01:00:28.000when I was kind of looking for my identity, you know, back when McCain and Sarah Palin were running
01:00:35.000and I just didn't like any of my options.
01:00:37.000So, I mean, I adopted ideology just because it makes sense to me.
01:00:42.000You know, you don't hurt other people, you don't take people's stuff
01:00:45.000and you just kind of mind your own business and live your life.
01:00:48.000But now you have the government coming in and ultimately trying to make decisions for you both on the left and the right.
01:00:56.000One tries to police your existence and the other one does now the same thing and tries to take your money along with it.
01:01:05.000And they're redefining society now in a culture war that doesn't even seem to make sense to me.
01:01:12.000And they're drawing lines in the sand that You know, I've talked to people in the L, the G, the B, and the T communities, and they're all in agreement, right?
01:01:22.000And then you have the QIAs, and I don't even know what the I and the A stand for.
01:01:38.000And then, like, there's a bunch of other letters that go into it.
01:01:40.000But, I mean, I feel like with the T, right, I feel like a lot of that is, like, with the body dysphoria and in the mental aspects, where the Q is more just how I feel today.
01:01:53.000Well, so here's the interesting thing.
01:01:54.000I mean, the T does encompass what the drag queen earlier was saying is trans non-binary in which people will be gender fluid.
01:02:26.000It was these various bands of fractured cultures that came together, and so the idea behind that flag is aggrieved groups forming under one banner.
01:02:57.000I feel like people started calling it the Progress Flag.
01:03:02.000Do you feel like that's... I believe it's called the Progress Pride Flag.
01:03:06.000Maybe this is all just a really good plot from a flag maker who just wants to sell you a new flag every couple of years because they have to keep adding things to it constantly.
01:06:14.000Like, what about the other diseases that affect so many people?
01:06:16.000Yes, but obviously, when it comes to pride, there isn't a question over AIDS and the epidemic and what happened in the 80s and Reagan and all that stuff.
01:06:26.000I can understand them wanting to include it, But I didn't know that they were making one stripe for black people and AIDS victims.
01:06:35.000I feel like that sounds deeply, deeply offensive.
01:06:39.000Yeah, I mean, the thing is, they don't think about this kind of stuff.
01:06:44.000I really don't think they put a whole lot of thought into it.
01:06:46.000I think that it's like throwing stuff against the wall, like throwing spaghetti against the wall to see what sticks.
01:06:51.000Well, why did they even have to do a race?
01:07:03.000Do you think the average person who flies the flag would be able to tell you, like if you gave them a quiz, you gave them like a thing and like it's got a little box there you have to mention, like, can you point out what this one means, what this one means, what this one means?
01:07:14.000Do you think the average person would be able to tell you what any of those stripes mean?
01:07:17.000Yeah, because we're teaching it in our school systems now.
01:07:36.000We even have to do it on the show, like, LGBTQIA++, yeah.
01:07:39.000Yeah, it's like you get done you're like your brain just kind of goes numb and your eyes go wide and you're just like because you had to say it so many times.
01:07:45.000Wow, this is stonewallsociety.com says that the victory over AIDS flag is the black stripe.
01:07:52.000So it's like quite literally they It's crazy because when I was growing up, like in the 90s, they were very adamant that AIDS was not a LGBT disease.
01:08:08.000AIDS was something that everybody had to worry about.
01:08:11.000AIDS was something that, you know, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
01:08:14.000And then now it's like, oh, well, this is a personal part of our story and our history.
01:08:21.000And it's like, Were you joshing before?
01:08:25.000Like, why is it that like back, you know, again, I mean, I think that, I think it's, it's...
01:08:33.000I think it's fairly common knowledge that AIDS as a disease is mostly found in the gay community.
01:08:57.000Well fair enough then because I don't know particularly but it does, you know speak to It's it's certainly saying something when they're like, hey, this is something that impacts our community Uniquely, which is what they're saying As far as I gotta be honest, I am I am I am shocked to discover that They actually did that But I'm not surprised to hear that they're racist.
01:09:36.000I mean, the political party that is largely focused on race and continues to make race a topic is probably the one you can safely say is racist.
01:09:50.000The one that says, hey, we don't want to focus on this stuff, etc.
01:10:34.000Alright, someone just needs to... Joe, can you ask your son, just maybe... If he's gonna smoke pot, if it's gonna be him, can he just clean it up and not get caught doing it?
01:10:44.000I really don't think that Hunter Biden is smoking much weed, personally.
01:10:49.000I really think that it's amphetamines.
01:10:53.000Maybe, but I mean, if he was getting off of that stuff, I wouldn't be surprised if he was like, well, this one's not so bad.
01:11:00.000It's also funnier than, maybe Joe's just not senile and old, maybe he's just super stoned all the time.
01:11:05.000That would be, that's actually a way funnier story.
01:11:07.000No, because if that was the case, then he would have actually de-scheduled it, like he said he was going to do, instead of just waving it off and it never happened.
01:11:16.000First thing he does in office is make it legal so that he can have it right there in the office.
01:11:19.000Right, I mean, the executive order is the way I would have rolled as president.
01:11:31.000So they're like, we gotta get him out, there's no chance in 24, so they keep getting all these different drugs, hoping that Secret Service will find it on him, but Biden's just not with it, so he just keeps leaving it places like outside the Situation Room.
01:11:41.000They're like, we really don't know who it belongs to, because it's Joe's.
01:12:08.000We have like you see Joe Biden but only from from behind and he's like stumbling and we show all the clips of him stumbling and falling and then it's like people in suits being like quick quick and they pull the bag of cast brew coffee and then you just see Biden stumble in and there's like a camera shaking and he grabs the coffee sips it and then all of a sudden stands up right and he's like I'm ready man.
01:12:32.000Or we can do one where Ian travels back in time and keeps pouring a glass of Casper coffee for Joe right before these major moments and then everything just goes right.
01:12:45.000It's like preparing for the Afghan withdrawal and then Ian's just like pouring the cup of coffee and he slides it out there.
01:12:52.000Saving the world, one cup of Casper at a time.
01:13:05.000I think a lot of people are like, ah, it's no big deal.
01:13:07.000It should be legal and all this stuff.
01:13:08.000And I'm like, well, okay, I'm fairly libertarian on stuff.
01:13:10.000I don't care what you do with your life.
01:13:12.000But I think weed is pretty bad for you.
01:13:15.000I think to all the people I knew growing up, and you know, the ones that were smoking pot all the time did not do nearly as well as the ones who did not.
01:14:42.000The Secret Service was like, Ben Shapiro pointed this out, that the Secret Service reportedly went to the gun shop where Hunter bought his gun, and that was illegally disposed of, and tried to collect records, seemingly to protect the Bidens from criminal prosecution.
01:14:57.000Now, I gotta tell you, as a libertarian, that's the most base thing I ever heard, right?
01:15:02.000Hunter being charged with marijuana and a gun charge.
01:15:21.000And if you are found to be a drug user and we've determined that to be like, hey, you know, through due process, we've determined you do not have this right.
01:15:28.000I think there's questions about whether that should be laws or not, that because someone smoked pot one time, they can't have a gun anymore.
01:15:34.000I don't think that's fair, because Hunter had done hard drugs, he's ineligible, because someone was convicted of a felony, they get out, now they can't get a gun.
01:15:41.000Some people have argued, well that's due process, and I'm like, it's gotta be shorter than that.
01:15:43.000Your right to vote, your right to keep and bear arms, we shouldn't sentence you to life for it.
01:15:48.000That being said, Hunter shouldn't be charged, in my opinion, for just buying a gun.
01:17:02.000It'd be compelling you know like you got an episode where Hunter is just like coked out of his mind and then it shows him like get up and then he like straightens his jacket and the bag falls on the ground and then like some tourist walks by and sees it and goes...
01:17:17.000No, the Secret Service is like, uh-oh.
01:17:18.000They probably run like The Sopranos on HBO.
01:17:21.000No, or they make it like House of Cards with Joe Biden, but it just all keeps happening by accident.
01:17:32.000It's like accidental House of Cards with Joe Biden.
01:17:34.000Joe Biden trips up the stairs and then drops some item which bounces and then a marble bounces and then hits a button causing a conveyor belt.
01:17:44.000All, yeah, right, like all these really weird things happen.
01:17:46.000He's like, he's sitting in the Situation Room, and they're like, quick, we need a response from you now, Mr. President.
01:17:51.000He falls asleep, and then his face hits the keyboard, and it sends the perfect message, or just, you know, it says yes, and they're like, yes, and then he averts the crisis, things like that.
01:17:59.000And they can get Kevin Spacey to play him, because he's a great guy, too.
01:18:56.000I think maybe he'll work in these arguments where he's like, he can show pride events and the behaviors that people do that are considered normal and say, these things that I was doing were perfectly in line with what they all do all day every day at these events.
01:19:23.000Yeah, I mean, I don't want to throw the guy, uh, you know, a safety net or anything, but I mean, I remember a time when, when I was snowboarding in Colorado and if you, if you pulled over on the side of the road to go to the bathroom and you got caught, you got a sex charge where you could get like a, uh, get on a sex registry.
01:19:41.000And now, I mean, if you're a Q, you can just go piss all over the whole country and you can get away with it.
01:19:46.000It's just, it's just not, I, I don't see where all of a sudden everything is okay.
01:19:54.000It's because all the stuff like, it's like when we're talking about the pride flag, everything is about being oppressed.
01:20:00.000All these groups, the one thing they have in common is they feel they're oppressed.
01:20:03.000And that's why it's like, it's these degenerate acts that we think of them as degenerate, but then it's like, we're not allowed to do them.
01:20:15.000It's completely backwards clown world, you know, but it definitely is but that I mean what you point out about how there's so many people that have it have a perspective where they're basing everything on a That they're the victim of something that's something that that's from the Marxist playbook the whole point is power dynamics the whole point is the person with power is oppressing the person without power and it all you have to be able to do is make a compelling argument that you feel oppressed and everybody is expected to consent to your
01:20:51.000Your lived experience, your worldview.
01:20:53.000And you can't have a society that works like that because then the incentive is to be oppressed and to tell everybody about it and we see the results in society.
01:21:04.000People are afraid to speak their mind.
01:21:05.000People are afraid to say things that they believe.
01:21:07.000People are afraid and they're not afraid because they have outlandish ideas.
01:21:12.000They're afraid because the people with the outlandish ideas are also the ones that will make us stink and make You know, get people fired, or bring you to the HR department, or whatever.
01:21:23.000People that are unhappy with their lives, and it's all because of that, you know, the teaching people to look at the world through the dynamic of oppressor and oppressed, and teaching them that the position of oppressed is actually a position of power.
01:21:57.000So I wanted to go back to when someone superchatted us about AIDS in various populations, because we were talking about the flag, so I looked it up, and 7.7% of global HIV is gay men.
01:22:15.000I mean, I think in the US maybe the numbers are different, but interestingly, and this is from the UN website, 10.3% among transgender persons.
01:23:02.000And so perhaps in the US the numbers are different, but that's why I say I don't think mostly is the correct term because it's actually... You know, what we actually see with HIV is in many other countries, people of varying demographics and backgrounds, especially a lot of rape victims too.
01:24:26.000Yeah, okay, so I was listening to a space today, Musk was on, talking about AI, the new AI company.
01:24:34.000And he was talking about the fact that he's like, look, man, I haven't seen anything.
01:24:38.000So all these people like that are government officials that are like, oh, looking at the stuff that the government said they got, man, all these people better know.
01:24:46.000But the dude that most regularly looks at actual video of space.
01:24:52.000Probably, in the top ten people that look at video spaces, I have seen absolutely no evidence.
01:25:05.000So, I don't know what the congress people think they saw, or whatever, but I do find the guy that Actually watches video of space all the time.
01:25:20.000I find his opinion compelling as opposed to Friggin Chuck Schumer I'd rather find out what the lady on the plane was actually looking at and the thing that wasn't real I want to know what she was actually looking at that's more interesting to me I want to know what the government thinks about aliens.
01:26:53.000I didn't, yeah, I didn't check it, but he was saying that, like, they were talking, and he was, I forget where he said he was going, but somehow the conversation went to, like, conspiracy theory type stuff, and because she seemed like she was loaded, she just started thinking that he was, like, a lizard person or something.
01:27:10.000So I don't know the details, I'm only relating what I've heard.
01:27:13.000The best was the one where it says, it's the, it's the graphic of her pointing and says that NFR over there's not real, and then it points over there and it's a picture of Mark Zuckerberg.
01:27:57.000So the, I think it's the last episode of the new season that came out.
01:28:02.000It's a recurring theme in the new one is smart beavis and smart butthead.
01:28:06.000And they're from a parallel reality where they're super, everyone's super intelligent.
01:28:10.000And so they are super intelligent, but still stupid.
01:28:13.000And so they're instructed to go to Earth Prime or whatever and kidnap someone for experimentation.
01:28:18.000They land in this UFO kind of thing, and then they convince that neighbor, whatever his name is, and he's just completely like, oh wow, look at that, and he walks into the UFO, just completely oblivious.
01:28:28.000I kind of feel like, that's what I imagine when you're like at this point of an alien ship landing, people are like, oh yeah, really?
01:28:36.000It's like Jake Paul was ten years ago, knocking each other out to try and get inside, to get the first clips of inside the alien spaceship.
01:28:46.000It's actually kind of crazy to think about.
01:28:48.000If a spaceship landed in our parking lot right now, and aliens walked out and we filmed it, nobody would believe it.
01:28:56.000We would literally post the video, we would start, I would live stream, and I would be like, guys, this is, like, I'm streaming, and they'd be like, yeah, okay, nice try, dude, special effects, green screen, it's a fake live stream, it was pre-loaded, pre-recorded, pre-rendered, nobody would believe it.
01:29:56.000Are there any of the alien stories that you find more compelling than others?
01:29:59.000No, it's all lies and stupid nonsense, and I'm insulted that they even bring it up.
01:30:03.000But it's also, it is one of those things now, because you live in a 24-hour news cycle that never ends, and if you are acutely aware of what's going on in the media, you look at all of it as some type of distraction, like, what is this taking me away from?
01:30:15.000Why are you pointing over here when I should be looking over there?
01:30:17.000Let's do this, let's say, has anybody ever, how come no one talks about the hole in the center of the North Pole?
01:30:26.000I mean, look, why is the UFO and aliens the choice of conspiracy?
01:30:34.000How about we talk about, you know, I don't know, dinosaurs, super evolved, smart cave dinosaurs?
01:30:39.000Because television in the X-Files made it more palatable in the 90s and it captured the public interest then, so it's the most easy to digest.
01:30:46.000Yeah, but every once in a while you'll get Atlantis talk and some We Was Kang stuff, like, you know.
01:30:51.000But it doesn't catch on in the same way.
01:30:54.000No, it doesn't have the same impact, because I think that space is probably something that everybody is kind of, has, feels like they kind of have a connection with, because everyone, or at least people that don't live in cities, look up and they see stars and stuff like that, and most people can see the moon, so it's like, I feel like it's compelling to people, whereas like, Atlantis is like, you gotta be really in the, down deep.
01:31:14.000Plus, we just had that whole ocean gate thing.
01:31:15.000Nobody wants to go down to the bottom of the ocean anymore.
01:32:07.000And then they all just keep repeating it.
01:32:09.000I love this video where this guy does this thing where he's like, I'm going to prove that the earth is flat or whatever.
01:32:16.000And he's like, if the earth is round, then if you take two boards and cut holes in them and then shine a light through it, the camera should be able to pick up the light.
01:32:26.000If it's round, you won't be able to because of the curvature of the Earth.
01:33:09.000They think it's a conspir- You can buy a ticket as a regular tourist, and you get a few hours on Antarctica, because what else are you going to do?
01:33:19.000But there are people with more money and means that prepare expeditions and literally just go and explore Antarctica.
01:33:27.000People will say a thing, and then everyone just says, it's true, I believe it, and they just go along with it.
01:33:32.000I've heard that the reason that they don't have flights that go over the South Pole is because that part of the Earth is very remote.
01:33:42.000Like, if you go over the North Pole, like, you're over Canada, you're, you know, there's all kinds of cities all in the vicinity, but, like, the South Pole, it's really remote, so they're just like, you know, have them go.
01:34:29.000Like there's Africa and South America, but like most of the population on Earth is above the equator.
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01:35:29.000And then, within a few minutes, the couple grand I thought I was gonna be writing a check for turned into $24,000, and I was like, well, here we go.
01:35:38.000Wow, I didn't expect that, but it was really, really incredible to see everybody pitch in.
01:35:44.000And I think it's cool that together we did this for Tim Ballard's new organization, which he just launched.
01:35:49.000So hopefully this $50,000 check will be a huge kick in the butt for the start of his organization to get it going quickly.
01:35:57.000I also saw something earlier that somebody said that the organization website he was listing was, like he was saying, the Spear, like he was saying it wrong.
01:36:06.000Somebody bought it and then said, how can we give this to him to make sure that the one that he was mentioning on the show was the one that actually redirected to the actual website.
01:36:15.000So that's an even better, it's another great example of everybody coming together.
01:37:37.000Like if you're looking for a white pill for how things are coming, I went to see the movie, theater was packed.
01:37:42.000Everybody that we've talked to on our podcast, everyone that's super chatted, talking about the movie has said that when they've gone to the theater, the theater was packed for them as well.
01:38:25.000So as much as what happens in the music industry, a lot of times people come out and they'll have whatever puts them on the map that gives them heat.
01:40:43.000But it beats randomly taking off one or two nights every week to go through this and then not being able to skate or exercise for six, seven months because of the recovery process.
01:40:51.000Because they're saying recovery for it could be like a A month to two months.
01:40:56.000And I will also add, it's so annoying because I can run up and down the stairs, I can jump, I can basically do literally everything except kickflip.
01:41:06.000I can't do anything that requires a ninja kick of my left leg.
01:41:51.000I'm still having like reoccurring knee issues that's one of those things like when I was skating every single day I was I just built up enough strength that I was able to get through it without having Too many problems, but since then like even now if I'm skating just three four times a week I notice it way more You know it's not like I'm working manual labor so it's like if I go out and try and skate at 8 p.m.
01:42:13.000when I'm done with work I feel as if I've been you know it feels as if I've been on my feet the whole day when that's not necessarily the case because I'm not building up the strength from skating every single day.
01:42:23.000Yeah, so anyway, uh, that means I'm out.
01:42:28.000It would be like, there's only one other time that an injury ended up resulting in me not being able to work, and it was, uh, I got a root canal.
01:43:21.000Knees are fine, jump strength, everything seems to be fine, actually doing new tricks, better tricks.
01:43:26.000And then, you know, after 23 or so years of skating, you get some damage in your cartilage, it's not healing, and now you go to the hospital.
01:43:34.000All right, the KL Tanker says, Seamus should not get a coffee blend.
01:43:38.000It should be hot chocolate with Lucky Charms marshmallows.
01:44:09.000You know, the issue is, what I get out of what Mike Pence said, when he was like, that's not my concern, I think it's fair to say he was trying to say, Ukraine was not my concern, but then he literally says, why can't it be our concern?
01:44:22.000He says, if you think it can't be one of the issues we care about, then you're mistaken.
01:44:32.000He didn't say, all for Ukraine and nothing else, Slava Ukrainia, he said, no look, Ukraine isn't my concern, America isn't, and doing right by America, but we can be leaders of the free world too.
01:44:44.000And I'm like, so the truth is closer to the middle.
01:44:48.000Some people may say, I don't care about Ukraine, put all your focus, don't waste time, and his argument is, we can do both.
01:45:06.000Just my biggest problem with the whole Ukraine thing is, like I said to a friend today, regardless of what the details are about the new issue, I still don't see the off-ramp.
01:45:16.000I don't see what gets us out of a, you know, out of the confrontation with Russia yet.
01:45:22.000And until I do, I'm just... Well, we're just shipping over more weapons of mass destruction.
01:45:50.000Sitting up against a brick wall that is nothing but rubble, and the power lines have crashed down, the sky is orange, and there's just buildings collapsed everywhere, and you're covered in dirt, and you're shaking, and then you see, this is the best part, a liberal walks by, and you get to go, I told you so!
01:46:14.000I was telling someone at the castle that like when we had all that smoke from the Canadian wildfires
01:46:19.000I'm like if we had like a nuclear like war this is how it would be every day if we survived the blast
01:46:25.000It would just be this haze. We can't breathe be terrible awful
01:46:30.000Andrew Roland says, if we elect Vivek, we Republicans get bragging rights to elect the first Native American president, thus ticking off the left, since they are obsessed with the first this and that.
01:46:53.000What do we have here in the old super chat box?
01:46:57.000Ryan Ellis says, politicians will use our tax dollars to supply guns and ammo to foreigners.
01:47:01.000They will also use our tax dollars to pass legislation that bans Americans from owning guns and ammo, the same guns they say are evil and have no place in society.
01:47:25.000Well, it kind of depends on what we're talking about, whether it's the education, the economy, or even the social issues.
01:47:33.000Mark Robinson is fairly authoritarian, very hard to the right.
01:47:39.000There's some things that we agree on, like the abolishment of Obamacare and trying to help some of the health care.
01:47:47.000But I'm also, I have some differences on the abortion aspects to where I too would like to see a 12 to 16 week abortion ban after, but with the exception of medical conditions that are there to save the mom's life and the baby's life where he's more negative on a lot of those aspects.
01:48:12.000So and he's a very hard right Republican.
01:48:17.000A lot of people are having, you know, a hard time stomaching a lot of his policies.
01:48:23.000But then one of my goals is to go after taxes and reduce the size of the government in North Carolina, which is going after the Department of Education or not just education, but our education system there is horrendous.
01:48:38.000I mean, we get the The North Carolina Education Lottery, which is really the only money that's going to our education system, yet we're 50th in the country.
01:48:50.000What state has the best education system in the country right now?
01:49:17.000I'm a big fan of the whole school choice and the parents being involved.
01:49:22.000In North Carolina, we don't really have that.
01:49:24.000We're last, but yet the government is just... It's horrendous in education.
01:49:34.000I moved away from Louisiana because they had the worst education system when I was growing up, and I moved to North Carolina, and now we're the worst.
01:49:57.000At the time, you know, we were both really young and so we could only kind of make it work for one record, but we've since talked and I'm hoping that Shannon will do something for all that remains in the future, not like recording or anything, but we talked about getting him to do some drum playthroughs of stuff that he did in the Fall of Ideals, and hopefully we can get him to do that, so keep your eyes out.
01:50:43.000The challenge is, I'm not sure a 20-minute segment would do as well on Twitter as it does on YouTube, because YouTube is a platform where you open the player and then work and listen.
01:51:05.000I think what we're looking at right now is uploading short clips, but typically about a minute long, and then, you know, linking to a longer form thing, or something like that.
01:51:14.000I think for what Twitter is, shorter form video would do really well to ignite conversation and generate plies.
01:51:21.000Because if I put up a 20-minute video on Twitter, someone's 10 minutes through, and then they say, oh, I'm going to comment on that.
01:51:26.000And then they reply, yeah, you said Trump did this, and he did that.
01:51:37.000But you know, to be completely honest, it's about experimenting.
01:51:39.000And I think one of the things we're looking at is potentially simulcasting to Twitter Mainly because, I'll say I know this, the majority of people who follow me on Twitter do not watch this show live.
01:51:51.000They'll watch clips or something like that.
01:51:52.000And that if we did put up our show live 8pm on Twitter, I think we'd end up getting like 10 to 20 million more views than we already do.
01:52:01.000And so I think probably by the time I'm back I'm hoping that we figure out how we can do that effectively.
01:52:06.000And the monetization is a huge element of it.
01:52:08.000Your talker's doing pretty good on Twitter, isn't he?
01:52:10.000Yeah, and he's been getting like, he got what, like 70, 100 million views or whatever?
01:54:24.000And it gets people that might not normally engage with the content, because if people are watching or used to more long-form content, especially like this show or our show is a two-hour podcast every day, that's very different than somebody who's literally going and scrolling and looking for YouTube shorts.
01:54:39.000So sometimes you'll actually, it's kind of interesting, you'll get people that are more that disagree with you more because they're looking for different content and they're not in the same sphere of influence.
01:54:51.000So you get a lot of people that end up pushing back on the stuff you say, which is awesome.
01:55:07.000I love, I was reading about this and I was reading this post from a flat earther who said gravity's not real.
01:55:12.000What actually is happening is that the Earth is accelerating infinitely upwards, which creates... Every time a turtle appears underneath, which is constantly happening, that's pushing the Earth up because it's turtles all the way down.
01:55:25.000Well, no, it's just, you know, the image was, it's not flat, it's more of like a disk with, like, rocks underneath it, like, hanging, and then... Rushing through space.
01:56:20.000I'm going to say it again, because every morning when I've been having Appalachian nights, I just can't wrap my head around, I'm like, how is this so good?
01:56:30.000We got a bunch of beans, we tried mixing different kinds, I wanted a little darker roast, and we hit this blend that was so good, I'm just I'm not kidding.
01:57:03.000You know, and unfortunately for Ron, I think the issue is he's got great policy, but the hatred towards him comes from a perceived disloyalty.
01:57:12.000That he went against Trump, that he was saying he's not gonna run, and then all of a sudden it was like all in the cards the whole time.
01:57:53.000Yeah, my knees seem to be pretty good.
01:57:56.000I should, by all accounts, have legs that shake and I can barely stand because I've been skating for 23 years, sprained and rolled my ankle on dozens upon dozens of times.
01:58:05.000My knees should be, they make a disgusting sound when I bend them because, you know, just what I've been doing my whole life.
01:58:15.000You know, like, I'm skating, and, uh, for the skate nerds out there, we went out to film, and I was like, I'm gonna do a nollie flip nose slide on the ledge, which is, you know, I guess it's a decently good trick, and I lock it in first try and slip out, and what I encountered when trying to- we were filming, is that I can't extend my left leg enough when I snap, when I pop the board, and it's causing me problems and pain, And I thought it would just go away.
01:58:38.000I'm like, I must have strained it or something.
01:59:18.000But I do think the important component here is all of you have been begging that we get Reserve hosts, backup hosts, and other co-hosts who can take over the show and host it in events.
01:59:42.000It's gotta be more than just me, in the long run.
01:59:44.000So we've got morning show plans, a view-like show, studio is at like, I think maybe like 70% completion, construction's still underway, some hiccups along the way, but uh, it's common, it just takes a really long time to build this all.
01:59:58.000And then once the new facility's up, we're gonna be doing a morning show to compete with the view, with sane women.
02:00:55.000Well, I always tell people to consult their doctors.
02:00:57.000There has been a tremendous breakthrough in research pertaining to PTSD and trauma and psilocybin and things like that, but that's for a doctor to decide.
02:01:05.000And it is fair to say I believe recreational, it's legal in some states.
02:01:08.000So make sure you're always abiding by the law and talk to a medical professional about what's right for you.
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02:01:20.000I think it's extremely likely within the next week or so.
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02:01:24.000I am out all next week, but Seamus has you.
02:01:27.000We have a bunch of really, really great guests.
02:01:30.000This is really abrupt, and it was an opportunity to just try and get this hip thing done right away.
02:01:51.000Shannon, you want to shout anything out?
02:01:52.000Oh yeah, I mean thanks for having me and if anyone wants to read any policies or whatever you can find out on ShannonBray.us or really to kind of discuss anything.
02:02:03.000I'm fairly active on social media so ShannonBrayNC on Twitter and I'm happy to chat.
02:03:12.000Some people are like, Tim, wow, you did a really great job letting this person speak and share all their ideas.
02:03:16.000We need to know what they're thinking.
02:03:17.000And other people being like, Tim, why didn't you push back and yell?
02:03:20.000The Culture War Show has had its moments of me arguing with people, but we're really trying to have other people express their ideas and have that conversation.
02:03:28.000So, what I'm hoping with the show is to get people to explain their ideas so that you can hear them, and then ask them questions and explore, in a somewhat Socratic method, what they're really thinking, and it does lead to contradictions.
02:03:40.000Some episodes will be better than others, but we're really trying to make sure that it's not just me arguing with someone.
02:03:46.000It is two people of different ideas discussing it, and so that was the plan.
02:03:51.000That being said, I will wrap it up here.