In this week's episode of Tales from the Inverted world, we discuss a bizarre performance at the Grammys featuring a child sex change operation, the disappearance of a government spy plane, and the growing controversy surrounding the World Surf League's new rule allowing biological males to compete against females.
00:00:30.000But I guess in a desperate attempt to be relevant, they staged a satanic Grammy performance with Sam Smith and Kim Petras Sponsored by Pfizer!
00:00:39.000And it really is that sponsored by Pfizer which made everybody laugh because I don't think it's big news that an award show did something unholy or whatever.
00:00:48.000They try and do edgy, satanic stuff all the time.
00:00:51.000I mean, we've seen this stuff going back forever.
00:00:53.000People trying to be shocking or whatever.
00:00:56.000But this one was interesting because one of the performers, Kim Petras, is mostly well-known for getting a sex change operation as a child.
00:01:05.000And so, you have this individual up on stage being congratulated as the first trans woman for receiving the award.
00:01:10.000And so, there's more to the conversation than just a satanic performance.
00:01:13.000This is a standing ovation from Hollywood for child sex change surgery.
00:01:17.000So, of course, there's a lot to talk about.
00:01:20.000Insofar as the Grammys are an attempt at a cultural institution, I mean, they were at one point.
00:01:25.000Not so much anymore, but that's probably good news and we'll talk about that.
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00:03:08.000Joining us tonight to talk about all this and a whole lot more is John Rich.
00:03:15.000I am a good old boy from Nashville, and I love your show, make a little country music, and you know, you guys came through Nashville, we got to hang out a little bit, just a little, so I thought I would come up to your neck of the woods and see what's going on up here.
00:03:31.000Man, I got something cool happening, so, you know, making country music my whole life, big and rich and all that.
00:03:36.000But I became a fan of this guy during the pandemic.
00:03:41.000Started scrolling through, watching videos, and I run across this guy, and I went, what in the world is that?
00:03:46.000And the deeper I got into his music, I thought, this guy's dropping more hammers per square inch in these lyrics than maybe anybody I've ever heard, and it's Tom McDonald.
00:03:55.000I went, this Tom McDonald guy is vicious, so I went and followed him on Twitter.
00:04:00.000And a couple days later, I checked, and he was following me on Twitter.
00:04:02.000I said, okay, I can send him a message.
00:06:39.000It just really feels like, um, a trifecta of right-wing talking points happening all at the same time.
00:06:46.000You have a song called Unholy, satanic imagery, brought to you by Pfizer, and one of the individuals, Kim Petras, is famous, I believe Kim is from Germany, and is famous for appearing in a documentary requesting a sex change operation at the age of 13 or 14, and actually having received it as a minor.
00:07:08.000All of these things together, we're not just talking about an artistic show that's meant to be shocking and edgy.
00:07:13.000There actually are elements that many people are shocked by.
00:07:17.000But I don't know, what do you guys think?
00:08:15.000The kind that you have to take that nobody knows what it's going to do.
00:08:17.000Well, you ever hear that, like, I don't know, old trope of the hippie becoming the business person when they get older?
00:08:22.000Like, the boomers were all young and wild and crazy, and then they become suits later on.
00:08:26.000I mean, I'm wondering if the real story there is that the hippies stayed hippies and suits stayed suits.
00:08:30.000We just assume that because boomers were hippies, boomers became suits or whatever.
00:08:36.000But it's like, it's just a funny thought that sex drugs and rock and roll goes from being in the alley in the gutter and just STDs, doing hard drugs and playing music and just degeneracy to on a stage in a multi-million dollar, a billion dollar industry with choreography and performances and pharmaceutical drugs, not street drugs.
00:08:57.000What I got is this isn't even really satanic.
00:08:59.000This is like, if satanics like Ozzy Osbourne chewing the head off of a live bat.
00:09:33.000I'm just gonna say Sam Smith ripped off Tom Petty with that, Won't back down, won't you stand my ground, that song that he did.
00:09:40.000He got soaked for it and he lost, I'm pretty sure.
00:09:41.000Yeah, Tom Petty ended up making residuals off that.
00:09:45.000I think part of the whole performance is that it's so surface level, right?
00:09:49.000Like, truly provocative things, your audience isn't gonna stand up and applaud afterwards and be like, so great, good job!
00:09:55.000Like, this was, no matter, they could have done anything, they could have gone out there and done nothing, stood still, and the audience would have been like, wow, groundbreaking, amazing performance, so glad that you guys did that.
00:10:05.000I think part of the, I think you're totally right, it's not even, a very uh original uh depiction of like satan and like semi-anti-christian imagery i think it's sort of cheap and done to make it seem like we are still counter-cultural but really they're not they are the mainstream supported by a major drug company coming out and uh promoting talking points that are more and more part of the mainstream narrative like yes everything we're doing is okay it's it's like they want to be edgy and they can't anymore
00:10:35.000You know what I'm just not into is, it seems like the principal commentary on all this is that the performance was satanic.
00:10:45.000You know, if you want to talk about Sam Smith, non-binary, child sex change operations, Pfizer being the sponsor, let's talk about massive multi-billion dollar corporations sponsoring satanic shows.
00:11:04.000And I'm like, well, what what about it?
00:11:06.000Because I mean, are we going to seriously, we'll go back and talk about any any death metal band or like black metal in Scandinavia and all the dark demonic imagery they use.
00:11:14.000Like, there was more backlash when Miley Cyrus came out and, like, twerked on someone at one of the award shows, right?
00:12:09.000It's to sell music, sell tickets, it's to push the music further.
00:12:13.000Like you got a song, you want to put a great video behind it so more people see it and hopefully love the song and it becomes your thing.
00:12:20.000And people sit around and have really big meetings around really big tables like this at record labels and they spend tens of millions of dollars behind a lot of these artists all for marketing of the music of that artist and marketing the artist so more people will want to consume That content.
00:12:36.000So when you look at this performance on the Grammys, they're sitting there going, what's going to make the most people like this artist, like this music, you know, come to come to the party here?
00:12:58.000So what does that what does that say about what they think about the audience, that this is what they're going to pour their money into for the visual backups of the music?
00:13:05.000Yeah, they probably think we're really gullible and we'll bite and start talking about it on TV.
00:13:16.000We're seeing it and we're repulsed by it.
00:13:18.000But, you know, this is what happens with everything culture war related.
00:13:22.000A lot of these big companies know, I'll give you an example, when Jim Jordan was talking, we'll get super political, Jim Jordan's talking with Chuck Todd on Meet the Press and he says, you know, with Donald Trump, You had the Secret Service protecting these documents.
00:13:41.000Chuck Todd immediately comes to defense of Joe Biden, despite the fact that any sane, reasonable thinking person is going to be like, what the f*** are you talking about?
00:14:33.000And I imagine there's probably some executive or somebody associated with the Grammys, and they're sitting there saying like, guys, we lost 60% of our viewers.
00:14:51.000Get a bunch of conservatives angry, and at the very least, you will rescue a liberal audience.
00:14:57.000So they start posting stuff like this, hoping that shows like this generate rage, but not that we will watch it.
00:15:03.000That the tribalists in the cult will say, well, we're big fans of the Grammys, and then they will start endorsing it, and the machine will then prop up the Grammys.
00:15:10.000I think, to your point, Beyonce won, I think she just became the most Grammy-winning artist of all time at this Grammys, right?
00:15:18.000Beyonce is one of those things that, like, she's one of these artists that, like, can do no wrong.
00:15:22.000And people, even if her music is bad, even if she's not interesting, even if she's involved with scandal, even if her husband or her sister is filmed hitting her husband in an elevator, like, she survives anything.
00:15:33.000So to be like, and we're bringing back Beyonce, who you will rally around no matter what, is sort of this way to keep an audience that You know, they're not trying to win us over, they're trying to win their base back over.
00:15:47.000This is, like, just after she performed in the Middle East, in a country that's completely anti-LGBTQ, even though her album is supposed to be based off the black LGBT experience.
00:16:01.000They don't have to follow their own rules.
00:16:03.000They just have to bring out the figureheads that they like and know that you'll cheer for them because it's making someone else angry, someone you don't like angry.
00:16:09.000I didn't know Beyonce performed until just now.
00:16:11.000I care so little about this whole thing.
00:16:14.000I'm a musician and I don't even... Talk to me.
00:16:17.000I credit all of this knowledge to Pop Culture Crisis.
00:16:20.000I go on and they teach me about these things.
00:16:22.000I knew she was performing because an influencer that I follow on occasion was at this big private resort opening and she was performing for like some crazy amount of money.
00:16:32.000What happened to music, John, in the last decade?
00:16:46.000But then I have to think, well, what's wrong with that base that that would salvage them?
00:16:52.000Well, I think... I mean, you understand that's how regular people look at it.
00:16:55.000Like, I'm a dad, I got two sons, you know, they can't... I'm not gonna let them watch the Grammys.
00:17:01.000I mean, one of my sons caught a little piece of it and said, Dad, it looks like they're all in hell.
00:17:06.000And I said, no, we're in hell for having to watch it, you know, change the channel.
00:17:10.000I mean, he was going, what am I looking at?
00:17:13.000You know, a little kid who loves music, and he's seeing that go on, like Sam Smith is being devoured by demons on the stage when they push him down at the end, like they're eating him or whatever that was supposed to be.
00:17:24.000And then brought to you by Pfizer, my son goes, The vaccine company's behind this?
00:17:48.000I remember back in the day, in the early days of YouTube, you could put out a video and these big channels would get like a million hits because there was very few There was very little content on it that was worth watching.
00:17:58.000A bunch of weird stuff, like a person filming a birthday party, then all of a sudden, higher quality content.
00:18:03.000But as more and more people started to use the internet, things started to decentralize and viewers started to flatten out.
00:18:07.000So I remember talking to some big YouTubers who were like, you know, we used to get a million, million and a half, now we get 50 to 100k.
00:18:13.000And I'm like, well yeah, now you're competing with 10, 100 times as many people.
00:18:49.000So what ends up happening is that news programs become people programs where they talk about their view of the news, like what we're doing, quite literally.
00:18:56.000But more importantly, they realize there's more views in talking about personal issues.
00:19:01.000So here's what ends up happening with something like this, in my view.
00:19:06.000They know they're never getting back those 39 million viewers because that was a captive audience.
00:19:11.000But if they're going to get back any amount of viewers, they need to create a tribe that will latch onto them.
00:19:18.000Do this and you will get hardline, hard politic, woke, liberal people who will defend you and watch just because you're on their side.
00:19:57.000Maybe they'll fail and go out of business and we'll all be proven right.
00:19:59.000Or maybe what's gonna happen is you're gonna find that humans really do just want to consume gutter trash coliseum content and watch the lions rip apart the gladiators.
00:20:24.000Now the Grammys should have their own YouTube network or their own network where every week you go there and there's new videos and songs on grammy.com or whatever.
00:20:37.000And award shows used to have this exclusivity to celebrities, right?
00:20:41.000Like, they're coming down the red carpet, and what are you wearing, and who did they bring as their date?
00:20:44.000But now you see all of that on social media.
00:20:46.000Any celebrity who's appearing at these events has some sort of social media following.
00:20:50.000So, some of the mystery of, you know, Being removed when we didn't have social media when you were waiting you had to watch the broadcast to get all of these details about these people that you look up to or you're interested in or you're following or whatever like you can get that at the drop of a hat now so you're right like the Grammys and all the other award shows need to adapt or die because
00:21:09.000I don't think anyone looks, I mean very few people, I definitely don't look to these institutional award shows to say like, ah yes, you have recommended a good song to me, I will listen to it now, you know?
00:21:20.000Like, it doesn't mean anything anymore, you're more likely to get a reference from someone you know personally, and then you don't have this elite space where you're saying, oh well I get to see the celebrities live, you see them all the time, they're overexposed on social media.
00:21:32.000Let's jump to this story from the Daily Mail.
00:21:34.000I saw actually this tweet first from Jack Posobiec.
00:21:36.000Woke Disney sparks outrage with new kids cartoon that claims America was built on slavery as it pushes reparations and says Lincoln had no desire to liberate the enslaved.
00:21:52.000Anybody who reads about Civil War knows that even the Emancipation Proclamation only applied to states in rebellion from the United States, meaning there were several northern states that had slavery that were exempt from it.
00:22:08.000What we were just talking about is the desperate attempt to generate tribalism for money, mission-driven storytelling, because an entertainment product won't cut it anymore.
00:22:18.000And I think that's what this is more about.
00:22:21.000But this also results – I mean, look at this.
00:22:23.000This is what they're teaching your kids.
00:22:27.000still has not atoned for slavery, and look how pissed off these characters are.
00:22:31.000You're supposed to—your kids are going to watch this, and they're going to see a bunch of angry young people saying, United States has not atoned for this, and they demand reparations, when in reality, the United States has, in my opinion, more than atoned in a lot of ways, and in ways that it's not politically correct to talk about, and that No one, none of these people have an honest conversation with you about, and they will teach your kids because two things are happening.
00:23:11.000When I worked for Fusion, they said, our target audience are young progressives, and that means we are going to side with them and tell the stories they want to hear.
00:23:20.000Outright saying, as a media company, we are here to say what they want to hear.
00:23:32.000And so what I see here is, the other thing is, It's the long game, man.
00:23:37.000You're gonna sit here and be like, well, you know, it's one show, whatever.
00:23:40.000Those kids are gonna grow up, it's the only thing they're gonna hear.
00:23:42.000Because people are too scared to speak up, and then this is what they're getting from Disney.
00:23:47.000And parents thinking, in their minds, Disney is like Bambi, are buying this for their kids, but instead their kids are being told that America sucks, has never atoned, and, you know, angry.
00:23:59.000What you're gonna end up with is a group of young people who are extremely unhappy, Well, I think when you said long ball, another thing came to my mind, which is there's a lot of people, Americans, born and raised Americans in big, powerful positions all throughout our country that dream of the day where America is no longer a standalone independent entity.
00:24:24.000They want to see one world money, one world military, one world medicine, one world everything.
00:24:29.000And you can't have one world anything as long as the United States is still standing on both feet and able to hold its own.
00:24:35.000So if you can disincentivize kids, brainwash them and grow them up into a young adult, of military age that is not willing to fight for their country, they don't think their country is worth fighting for, guess what?
00:24:49.000They won't fight for their country and they won't be too upset if somebody wants to come in here and take the place over or take it down.
00:24:55.000You know, if you think about the World War II generation had the great benefit of being around grandparents.
00:25:00.000My granddaddy had multiple Purple Hearts in World War II.
00:25:03.000You round those people, you know, my grandmother's dragging metal in from the ditches around Texas to the schoolyard where they would melt it down and turn it into tanks and airplanes and bullets.
00:25:13.000That's what they had to do to save not only the United States, but the whole world.
00:25:17.000You don't have that attitude with a lot of young people right now.
00:25:20.000And stuff like this Disney crap, you say parents think that Disney's teaching their kids, showing their kids something good.
00:25:25.000More and more parents, Tim, are waking up to the fact that Disney does not have the best interests of their kids at heart.
00:25:34.000You can look at the stats on how many people are visiting Disney right now.
00:25:37.000It is plummeting because people realize, hang on, these people are trying to brainwash my kids.
00:25:41.000These people are trying to teach my kids instead of me teaching my kids.
00:25:45.000Now, I don't know who in here has kids, maybe I'm the only one, but nothing, we talked about this last time I was with you, nothing will bring out the vicious teeth of a mom or a dad more Whether they're a left-leaning parent, center, or right-leaning parent, nothing brings their teeth out faster than thinking some stranger is taking their autonomy and authority away from their own household.
00:26:17.000We used to accuse them of, you know what they're really trying to do, right?
00:26:20.000and they'd say, oh go put your tenfold hat back on, they're not doing that.
00:26:24.000Well we don't have to accuse them of it anymore because it's right in front of
00:26:26.000our faces and parents are waking up to it.
00:26:29.000So good, I'm glad Disney is doing that. It's just another another strike against them as far as I'm concerned.
00:26:35.000One of the most frustrating things about the whole woke ideology is one,
00:26:39.000it's, I mean look, if you want to make an argument about slaves building the country
00:26:43.000and reparations, we can have that conversation.
00:26:45.000It doesn't necessarily have to be rooted in critical race theory and stuff, but the critical race theory stuff is resulting in segregation, racial animosity, and there's been numerous polls.
00:26:53.000I think Gallup ran a poll that said people view racial tensions in this country worse now, you know, after the Obama presidency than before.
00:27:01.000Like, following his presidency, all we got from the left was race, race, race, race, race.
00:27:08.000And this is, you know, I'm growing up in a world where they're passing laws and there's court rulings to end discrimination based on race, and you end up now with this.
00:27:19.000The US has still not atoned for slavery, which is just generating, in my opinion, more racial animosity.
00:27:25.000I'll put it this way, when I said that I think this country more than atoned, how many people died in the Civil War?
00:27:33.000Like 1.8 million or something like that?
00:27:35.000Now granted, there's a lot of Confederates there, but let me just point out the Confederacy doesn't exist anymore.
00:27:40.000And so after the states that wanted slavery were crushed in one of the most bloody military conflicts ever, I'd have
00:27:49.000to argue that the North, militaristically crushing the South was, and then all of
00:27:54.000the Northerners who opposed slavery, and it wasn't completely about slavery, mind you, I
00:27:59.000understand that, but the end of slavery brought about through the Civil War, I think is, it counts as atonement
00:28:04.000on the part of the North, at the very least, and the South no longer exists. After
00:28:08.000the South was defeated, they were occupied by Northern forces in the Reconstruction era, which didn't
00:28:13.000end until there was almost another Civil War. So when they come out and they're like, this
00:28:17.000country still hasn't atoned, I'm like, I don't know, I kind of think like, hey,
00:28:20.000Half a million to 800,000 dead soldiers fighting to end the expansion of slavery at the very least, which resulted in the end of slavery, sounds like atonement to me.
00:28:30.000And then also keep in mind that much of the country's expansion and development happened after this.
00:28:36.000In fact, one of the key components of the Civil War was that Abraham Lincoln was saying, I could be getting this wrong, it's been a while since I read about it, and there's people who know more than me, obviously.
00:28:46.000But what was really happening was the current state of politics was to stop the expansion of slavery into new territories as they became states.
00:28:54.000So California, for instance, was never a slave state.
00:29:01.000Slavery was being suppressed, essentially.
00:29:06.000So they want to argue it was never atoned for, but I'm like, man, not only was the political environment to shut it down slowly over time with massive resistance, those who tried to keep it were crushed with military force.
00:29:22.000and the decimation of family homes and cities and villages, or the ransacking and burning of Richmond.
00:29:28.000This kind of stuff pisses me off because it's a bunch of ideological blowhards, and they put out these videos, I watched one, where this woman's like, we should abolish private property.
00:29:39.000It is psychotic lunacy that's going to result in, in my opinion, all of these good things that we've retained, while getting rid of the bad, will be destroyed, will be wiped out, and then we'll all be left holding empty bags in the middle of the woods, fending for ourselves.
00:29:52.000Yeah, I was gonna say, this show, The Proud Family, aired in the early 2000s, so I remember watching it as a kid, and I'm kind of sad to see them injecting this very, obviously, pointed ideology into it, because it was one of the first TV shows I remember seeing.
00:30:07.000I think it is the first time I remember seeing Muslim characters depicted on television.
00:30:12.000There's like a whole episode where she, like the Penny, the main character, does kind of like an exchange, but it's within her own school district with a Muslim family, and she has to uh wear hijab and like talk about it and whatever else and like there are ways to talk about culture and ways to talk about the challenges different people face coming into america without it being like let's all blame one person and let's have it be about how this country is bad you know this show is actually interesting and this is the reboot
00:30:40.000I wish they would have stuck with what they were trying to do in the early 2000s.
00:31:27.000I'm going to start looking, searching, because maybe there is.
00:31:29.000I don't know one off the top of my head.
00:31:30.000You know, they come after these kids young, the CRT stuff.
00:31:35.000That even landed in a little too close to home a few years ago, and I read it, and I'm looking at it, and I'm thinking about, there's my son sitting next to his best friend who he plays baseball with, who's black, and my son's a white kid, and they're both reading the same thing, and it's saying, if you're this color, then this is what you're about, and if you're that color, you don't have a chance.
00:31:59.000And both these kids are looking at each other going, My son felt like he needed to apologize.
00:32:03.000He's like, man, I didn't know, you know, they're little kids.
00:32:07.000And the other kid felt terrible because he's like, what do you mean I don't have a chance?
00:32:46.000Well, in the UK, they abolished slavery, I think, a couple decades before the United States did.
00:32:51.000So the argument from a lot of these people is that if the US never had independence, and it was just a colony of the UK, slavery would have ended a lot sooner.
00:33:31.000Long story short, I think the people who write this stuff, they just have no idea what they're talking about.
00:33:37.000And that's a lot of what guides culture for humans.
00:33:42.000And man, I don't know, it's kind of depressing, right?
00:33:45.000Bill Maher did this really great segment I guess last week talking about how culture revolutionaries want to erase human nature and you can't.
00:33:52.000Mao wanted to get rid of the four great olds or whatever, old culture and stuff like that, and you can't do it.
00:33:58.000And then he says in the Soviet Union they had this idea of like the strong Soviet man who cared more about being part of a collective than of individualism and then Vilmar makes the joke that when in reality the Soviet man just wanted to wear a tracksuit, be on a yacht with a beautiful woman and then he shows a guy in a tracksuit or whatever.
00:34:14.000But the thing about—the reason I bring up Bill Maher is that, you know, he's very much in line with a lot of this stuff, too.
00:34:19.000Notably, his PragerU—I'm sorry, his Prager interview—not interview, but the conversation when he was on the panel, and Prager said they're putting tampons in the men's room, and Bill Maher laughed at him.
00:34:31.000Like, Bill Maher may be doing better than a lot of these mainstream default liberal types when it comes to understanding some of the news and what's happening in our culture, but even he's behind.
00:34:44.000And so you end up with Bill Maher, who's supposed to represent, like, a higher class of political commentary, you know, it's smarter than Jon Stewart but still funny, things like that.
00:34:55.000And even they don't have any idea what they're talking about.
00:35:20.000They need that hatred to exist so they have a reason to go out and make the money that they make doing whatever it is, the angle that they're pushing.
00:35:28.000And so, you know, the best way to do that is anybody that I disagree with, I'm going to call them a racist.
00:35:33.000And then the other person goes, We weren't even talking about that.
00:35:56.000We were talking politics every day, pretty much.
00:35:58.000We'd watch Rachel Maddow, and he'd have CNN on the background talking about Hillary Clinton's e-mails and servers, and like, oh my gosh, look at what she did with Sidney Blumenthal with Osprey Global Solutions in Libya, a gun run for, you know, it's basically privateering.
00:36:10.000He's getting Sidney Blumenthal all this money, and he's like, white privilege, you've got white, like it just came down to you've got white privilege, and it was the first time I'd ever been told that in my life, and I was like, What the hell is going on?
00:36:20.000I'm talking about Hillary's emails, dude.
00:37:45.000But Sweden's issue is that they kind of don't.
00:37:49.000They have pockets of racial minorities from other parts of the world that they've boxed in, claim they're not racist, and then segregate these people from their own society and refuse to hire them while acting like they're all progressive.
00:38:34.000And people just don't realize that because they've rarely been other places.
00:38:37.000So they often talk from an American perspective about these things and think that, you know, people in, for instance, China, oh, they're not, you know, they're like not, they're extremely racist if they're Han Chinese against even other Chinese, like people within China.
00:38:58.000Chinese surveillance balloon may have contained explosives designed to self-destruct.
00:39:05.000Anytime you down something like this, we have to make assumptions such as that said Air Force General Glenn D. Van Hurk.
00:39:13.000I wonder if that's the real reason they did not want to shoot it down.
00:39:17.000Because the debris is one thing, but if it had something in it really bad, I guess the concern is what if it had a bomb?
00:39:25.000What if it had some kind of device and shooting it down would You know, poison or a biological weapon?
00:39:30.000You said it before the show, I think, John, the EMP, the best way to deliver it would be, or one of the best ways would be via balloon, because it's so high up and then it's got just a wide berth of explosive fallout.
00:39:39.000It goes higher than an airplane can go to shoot it down.
00:39:42.000Like, if it's at 150,000 feet, you know, you can't get a plane up that high, really.
00:39:47.000There was a whole, listen, you guys can go look it up, but there's an operation called Operation Hard Tack.
00:39:54.000And it was nuclear tests, and it was also EMP tests.
00:39:58.000And the EMP tests they were running, they were detonating the EMPs from balloons at about 150,000 feet up.
00:40:06.000And the reason, because that is the most, that's the most effective range for an EMP to really do its damage down on the ground.
00:40:14.000And you can go read the report, it's a few pages long, but it's very interesting.
00:40:18.000So when I saw that balloon floating across, I thought, Is there, I wonder if there's an EMP in that thing?
00:40:25.000How many more balloons are there floating around?
00:40:26.000You know, we've always talked about, what if the grid went down?
00:40:29.000You know, we all know you guys talk about that a lot, but you know, if you had no electricity in America for a year, you'd have 10% of the people left.
00:40:47.000So an EMP, An EMP also – this is an interesting thing – that in Iran, in their war manifesto, like how they would carry out a war, they find an EMP to be Sharia-compliant, because the EMP itself does not mass-kill anybody.
00:41:06.000It's what the EMP causes that mass kills everybody.
00:41:09.000But the EMP itself does not cause a mass death.
00:41:12.000As a matter of fact, it causes no death because it's way up there.
00:41:34.000They're going to send a balloon up Well, you were saying it's because they don't have heat signatures, or they have very low heat signatures?
00:41:40.000I mean, you know, there's not a lot to them, and they move so slow and so high, you know, they're in between the satellites and airspace, and where the airplanes fly.
00:41:48.000So they're kind of in this zone where they're hard to get to them.
00:41:52.000And, you know, if you send a missile in with an EMP, you could see that coming.
00:41:56.000You would see it take off, and you'd go, oh, there's a missile, try to knock it down.
00:41:59.000This balloon just kind of floats in, and here's a balloon floating from Alaska to South Carolina.
00:42:04.000Did it actually have self-destruct instructions aboard, like it was supposed to destroy itself afterwards?
00:42:10.000I don't think anybody knows anything about Any of it.
00:42:13.000My first guess is that it was their version of Google Maps.
00:42:17.000They were tracking, they're trying to map North America, but they're just so poor at communication with the United States, no one knew ahead of time.
00:42:24.000But then they blew it up, so either they're mapping Google Maps and they didn't want to tell anyone because they're so secretive, or they were actually tracking and mapping all of our sensitive data in purpose, and they came down on purpose.
00:44:14.000And then it came down through British Columbia and, you know, Alberta.
00:44:17.000If it did have something on it that was extremely dangerous and would, you know, taking it out in Canada would be the best option because then no Americans get hurt.
00:44:44.000Oh, get in the back of the car, man, I'll take you for a ride then!
00:44:47.000I've played every hockey rink in the whole nation of Canada.
00:44:50.000I've toured that country, I bet I've played 200, 300 shows in Canada.
00:44:54.000And you're right, the people, you've got little bitty towns like Lethbridge, Alberta, and little, you know, Kamloops, and those kind of places.
00:45:01.000Yeah, they're some of the greatest people in the world.
00:45:03.000In America, we talk about how these big cities are very different from flyover states and everything like that.
00:45:08.000Like, it's even more so in Canada because the population is even smaller.
00:45:13.000I mean, my experience, because my family's Canadian, has always been, you know, going there to spend time with them.
00:45:38.000It's like you ever see that Fire in the Sky movie where they sent one, the aliens sent like one thing and it was all this, oh no, what are we going to do?
00:45:58.000What do you think Douglas MacArthur or General Patton would have done if an Italian or Nazi or Japanese balloon had floated across mainland U.S.? ?
00:46:09.000You blow it up, you immediately get that guy on the phone, the head, and then you harangue them publicly.
00:46:15.000Dude, what if, I was thinking last night or this morning, what if the government was taken over by a foreign entity, all of a sudden the airwaves come up and it's like, we are in control, everything's okay, it's the Chinese government's in control.
00:46:26.000Who would even do anything about it now?
00:46:28.000Like it's so, we're so, I feel so fractured, society is so fractured.
00:47:39.000And the trick was, if we shot it down, we'd nuke ourselves.
00:47:43.000So everyone's sitting here being like, but he should have shut it down.
00:47:46.000Well, there's probably some things he could have done for sure instead of just being like, we're going to let it fly over the whole country.
00:47:51.000Because assuming it had a bomb, it could have been waiting over its target.
00:49:18.000And so this is the analogy I said last week.
00:49:21.000Guy who's planning on robbing a liquor store knows having the gun in New York is illegal, but he doesn't care because he's already intending to do something substantially worse, which is use a gun to rob someone.
00:49:32.000China, when they're about to invade Taiwan, they know our reaction is going to be some kind of war response.
00:49:38.000So they don't care if we're mad about a balloon.
00:49:42.000Like, the balloon is inconsequential compared to how pissed off we're going to be when they move on Taiwan.
00:49:47.000So I'm willing to bet we will see some kind of sign like this right before Taiwan gets hit.
00:49:53.000And China's already been mobilizing warships and fighters, and Taiwan is on a high alert, mobilizing their navy, their air force, their fighters, whatever they have.
00:50:02.000And then this happens, I'm like, oh boy, it's coming.
00:50:06.000Well and I think they, sorry I'm just gonna say, I think China also wins by showing the American people that we don't, it confirms for a lot of people why you shouldn't have confidence in the government, right?
00:50:18.000If you're someone who's already skeptical of the Biden administration or our military strength and we just let a balloon float across the country for days, China wins because it now knows the American people are at war with its own government.
00:50:30.000Let's jump to this next story from TMZ.
00:50:42.000They're like, look, we have several guys who would know.
00:50:46.000Former Director of National Intelligence, former Secretary of Defense, and former Secretary of State all saying, no balloons flew over the U.S.
00:51:03.000I thought to myself, well, you know, if we're wrong, we'll own up to it.
00:51:06.000We'll go on the show and say, we stand corrected, because we said, under Trump, this never would have happened, and if it did, he'd have shot them down, and now here it is.
00:51:16.000An anonymous official said in some report, so we have no evidence, nobody saw it happen, nobody reported it, no pilots, no aviation experts, no aviation industry individuals, like not a single photographer, no one ever saw anything like this happen, no one's reported, and three officials have refuted it, huh.
00:51:35.000I knew if I waited 10 minutes the story would be debunked, and now here we are, Fake news.
00:51:40.000So they double-speak in the statement.
00:51:42.000They say three undetected balloons went across the United States.
00:51:46.000Well, if they're undetected, dumbass, how do you know they came across the United States?
00:51:50.000Meaning, if this is true, you did detect them, but you didn't tell the Commander-in-Chief about it?
00:51:59.000Well, the official anonymous quote is, Chinese balloons briefly transited the continental United States at least three times during the prior administration.
00:53:10.000My kids' lives would stick up longer than that, yes.
00:53:13.000But look, we might get it, but how many people, like the Krasensteins for instance, are ignoring the fact that three former officials said, no, it didn't happen, they don't care.
00:53:22.000They are satisfied with one anonymous official saying, it happened, boom, there it is, it happened!
00:53:28.000And I'm like, okay, well I have three named officials, and the simple fact that there's no evidence to suggest this didn't happen.
00:53:35.000But, I gotta tell you, Ian, I think they're in the Oval Office, and Biden's there, and he's like, hey, just say it happened under Trump.
00:53:43.000And they were like, ooh, that's a good one, okay.
00:53:45.000And then they call up their favorite journalists and say, hey, here's the story, and they go, you got it, and they run it.
00:53:52.000I wonder if the journalists call them.
00:53:54.000They're like, we'll just say it happened under Trump.
00:54:30.000Well, those are the people you really can't help at this point.
00:54:32.000But for the rest of us who are thinking people and know what's really going on in the world and we know what the dangers are, That's a big, big deal to see something like that.
00:54:42.000You know, you're talking about a communist Chinese enemy of the United States floating a militarized vehicle all the way across the mainland.
00:54:56.000It was just 50 miles out of Nashville.
00:54:59.000But I mean, for that to be going on in 2023, It almost seems like, like I said earlier, there are people in this country that want to see America go down.
00:56:30.000And a couple of guys were doing a demonstration on how a single, this is 2012 mind you, a single commercial drone that costs 200 bucks could have a transmitter placed on it that if flown within 40 miles of any kind of plant with some kind of receiver on it, it could send a signal and destroy it.
00:56:54.000These other guys did a demo of how to blow up a fluid processing plant.
00:56:59.000This could be crude, it could be petrochemical, it could be water.
00:57:03.000And basically what they said was, with a few lines of code injected into their systems, because they're like insecure systems from the 70s, you could make the machine direct the fluid in the same direction, causing a massive pressure buildup and then a pipe burst.
00:57:18.000Which would disable a water plant or blow up a petrochemical plant.
00:57:22.000And they did a demonstration where they were like, here's how, they're called industrial control systems.
00:57:28.000The machine says the fluid shall go in this direction.
00:57:31.000When one tank needs to be changed or whatever, the fluid might go in the other direction.
00:57:34.000This is a common mechanism in a lot of these plants.
00:57:38.000If both are turned on at the same time via a hack, The pressure in the center will build up and the pipe will burst and then what they did was they had a pressure release valve so when they show the flow of fluid going back and forth they then press the button which hacks it and then they hold out a mug and the water sprays out and they catch it saying that would have been an exploded pipe but we had a pressure release valve so it just sprays water on us.
00:58:00.000So you got to think about What a balloon could really do, and what our understanding of it is, we don't even know the capabilities of the military.
00:58:19.000Fair point, though, maybe he's also right in that whatever they may have on it, it may be better off dropping in Montana or Alaska, like you mentioned, than flying outside of Nashville.
00:58:30.000But I wonder if that's based on our surface-level knowledge and understanding of what could be on the balloon.
00:58:36.000For all we know, there was an explosive on it.
00:58:39.000When they say explosive, what if it was... Okay, let's go a little bit far-fetched.
00:58:44.000Do you guys know about the concept of antimatter bombs?
00:58:54.000If they were able to contain small quantities of matter and antimatter, you could make a very, very small bomb with the force of, like, megatons.
00:59:03.000I don't know the actual size, I'm not a physicist.
00:59:05.000So, theoretically, if you could contain it properly, this is next-level technology, weapons technology, they could have been thinking, it's not an explosive like TNT, it's an explosive like a megaton radioactive bomb.
00:59:16.000It says that one half gram of antimatter reacting with one half gram of ordinary matter would result in 21.5 kilotons, equivalent of the atomic bomb over Nagasaki.
01:00:18.000Or do they actually, like, are they gonna publicly announce Russia's like, here's our doomsday weapon, here's how it works, here's what it does.
01:00:24.000I was just listening to someone quoting Yuri Besmanov, the Russian, I don't know if he's a philosopher or military strategist exactly, but he's noted as like turning away from the Communist Party and I think kind of revealing their plans to the Americans, to the world.
01:00:38.000He said that it used to be that it was easier to control a million people than kill them, but today it's easier to kill a million people than control them.
01:00:47.000Very I bet that rings in my head that that thought that it's you know, it's hard to know darkest among us would have that in mind You know part of what I think about all this stuff is maybe maybe nuclear technology really was the the pinnacle the epitome, you know There there are long periods of human history where technological development stagnates stagnates I look at the culture of America and how it's kind of been stagnant.
01:01:08.000I'm like well Well, you know, maybe we had this big boom with the discovery of petroleum and this massive energy output, and now we're easing back into the stagnation where for hundreds of years culture remained relatively the same.
01:01:21.000You lived the same life your grandparents did.
01:01:24.000And that changed in the early 1900s with the Industrial Revolution, but maybe we're going back to that.
01:01:28.000And there's going to be a long period of stagnation where, I mean, you look at warfare.
01:01:32.000They used muskets for hundreds of years!
01:01:56.000Like, if you want to hit a target, if the explosion is so big, it's going to go beyond the target, scale the target.
01:02:02.000So more explosion isn't necessarily better explosion.
01:02:05.000So I think that nuclear has not really capped out.
01:02:08.000Like you're saying a gram of energy could do nuclear bomb.
01:02:13.000I'm concerned about, like, vibration weapons and things that can, like, make things fall apart at the atomic scale and stuff that we've never heard of or conceived of.
01:02:20.000Well, I think that would require breaking apart, like, fundamental forces, right?
01:02:24.000If you're going to break something apart at the atomic scale, you're talking about breaking apart... Or the molecular scale is a little bit better, a little easier, I think.
01:02:47.000Every single military look at that situation has said, if it was nationwide or close nationwide, they estimate after a year, 10% are still alive.
01:03:00.000And the problem with with all of our big electrical substations that are around the U.S., they're all totally different because they're built to handle that that amount of power, that kind of distribution.
01:03:12.000They're all very specific and unique the way they're built.
01:03:16.000And most of them are built overseas, of course.
01:03:18.000And it's a 12 to 18 month wait to get one built and sent over here.
01:04:04.000Dude, and all the ammo that American civilians have, like, if the Chinese could get us to turn on each other and waste all that ammo, and that would, obviously, it's pure Sun Tzu art of war.
01:04:15.000You get your enemy to fight itself kind of thing.
01:04:19.000There's these viral videos coming out of Ukraine that, I don't know if they're real, showing soldiers kidnapping young men.
01:04:26.000Kidnapping, conscription, call it whatever you want to call it.
01:04:29.000It could be propaganda videos, you know.
01:04:31.000There are these videos that have gone viral where it shows a crew filming a fake war scene, and then they're like, aha, we caught Ukraine staging fake videos.
01:04:40.000And I'm like, yeah, but that could be Russia making a fake staged video.
01:04:44.000But I see videos and you see soldiers grabbing a guy and they claim it's Ukrainian soldiers are going to the homes of young men and taking them.
01:04:51.000And I'm willing to believe it because of course they do.
01:04:54.000Conscription is the natural state of war and always has been around the world forever.
01:04:59.000If you lived somewhere, they would go to you and say, you fight for us or you're fighting against us.
01:05:04.000And if you're fighting against us, we're locking you up.
01:05:07.000So, in the event the power goes out, this country is not equipped culturally, mentally, and socially to deal with real conflict.
01:05:16.000And that is what you saw in World War II.
01:06:10.000China drops an EMP on this country, and you are going to have, oh man, Part of me just really would love to see the reaction from the woke left and the socialist young millennials and Gen Zers when they're like, but I don't understand why I can't have food.
01:06:23.000And it's like, because there isn't any.
01:06:25.000Well, you wouldn't see it, Tim, because you're not gonna be able to turn on your iPhone or your laptop to see what they're saying.
01:07:33.000Let's say China's able to knock out the grid in the major cities, most of them.
01:07:37.000There will still be some news coming out from some, because they're not gonna get every single one, let's be realistic.
01:07:41.000But all of a sudden, you're gonna see conservative blogs are the only ones up and running, sharing information, and that's all you'll get.
01:07:49.000You got generators, you got your own power, you're off the grid, not to mention preppers.
01:07:55.000You're gonna have some prepper guy and he's gonna take over the airwaves and be like, I'm what you got for now until they can kick this stuff back on.
01:08:00.000I bet though that whatever's running the government would have so many backups upon backups and they would just start churning out propaganda in a situation like that.
01:08:08.000Making your phone buzz even though you're like, how's it ringing?
01:10:36.000There will be border infringements, like taking Taiwan, us, you know, well the Iraq thing wasn't really a border infringement, but we should, you know, If the United States were to annex Mexico, for instance, and then it was the United States of North America or whatever we become or something like that.
01:10:50.000But I see no reason for us to go to conflict.
01:10:54.000It would annihilate every major city in China would get annihilated with nuclear weaponry.
01:10:58.000Every major city in the United States, it would be not good for anybody, anybody, including Xi Jinping and his buddies.
01:11:04.000Yeah, that's why they're taking over Africa.
01:11:08.000It's all this economic stuff, resources and economics, and then if they can get us to buy their products with their money, I mean, I think that's the ultimate goal.
01:11:13.000And China is, like, actively working in a lot of ways to already control America, right?
01:11:17.000Like, there are a number of senators who have introduced legislation trying to stop basically entities of the CTP from buying agricultural land in America.
01:11:25.000This is, like, one of the big ways that China doesn't have to go to war with us, they just have to move in through channels we already present to them, right?
01:11:33.000They buy enough farmland, they don't need to trade with us, they just need to trade with themselves.
01:11:37.000They just need to use the resources that we have left open for them to take.
01:11:41.000I do want them to understand what de facto control means, though, and just because you have a piece of paper over there that says that you own that over there, if you're not there defending it, you don't own it.
01:11:49.000Someone's going to take it and control it.
01:11:51.000Now, they probably know that, but good luck.
01:12:35.000So what they'll do is, they'll start a company, they'll invest in the company, then they'll get an H-1B visa to hire themselves, move themselves to the country and use that as a means of getting visa access.
01:12:48.000Among other ways, they can become citizens.
01:12:51.000The truth is, however, if you are rich, you can be a citizen anywhere you want.
01:12:55.000You literally can just buy citizenship anywhere.
01:12:57.000It's called economic, I think, economic citizenship.
01:13:00.000When it comes to the people buying farmland, I've heard this, the Chinese are buying American farmland.
01:13:05.000Is it the CCP directly or are there private entities?
01:13:08.000There's no such thing as private entities.
01:13:10.000They all work for the Chinese government.
01:13:11.000I mean, part of the thing in China is every company Works in support of the Chinese military Chinese government, so it's it's it's the visage of private companies doing it but then it's just obvious that it's private companies in China.
01:13:23.000So you would think of it as a private company, but they are tied to the Chinese government.
01:13:28.000So therefore they are in support of the CCP.
01:13:30.000No, I was just going to say that's how it works.
01:13:32.000They don't really infringe a lot of, after a certain point of income or a certain amount of money that they're generating as a company, then you have an attache of the party that becomes part of your company and helps you, advises you on what to do.
01:13:43.000But underneath that, all the smaller business that goes on in the country, they don't really police it, they don't worry about it, they just kind of say, you know, whatever.
01:13:50.000But after you've got a certain amount of money, they're like, hey, we got to we got to chat.
01:13:54.000We have to have someone come and watch what you're doing.
01:13:55.000Is there like a list of Chinese landowner, American landowners, Chinese citizens that own American land? Is there something
01:14:02.000where you can put like, it's this company, it's this company?
01:14:03.000Joe Biden owns a place in Delaware. So let's start there.
01:14:11.000I mean, wouldn't it depend on the state, too?
01:14:13.000Like, how publicly available the records are?
01:14:15.000You could probably trace it back, but I'm sure China's not trying to make it obvious, right?
01:14:19.000Like, I don't know if you remember, but a couple months ago, there was this execution-style murder at a pot farm in Oklahoma, and five Chinese nationals died there, and it's owned by a Chinese company, and the man then fled to Miami.
01:14:34.000I think he got extradited back to Oklahoma, and he is also a Chinese citizen.
01:14:39.000And the local police are like, this was a farm and then it got bought.
01:14:43.000And just so you know, to the public, we don't think there's any reason to fear.
01:14:47.000We don't think it's someone who's going to hurt you.
01:14:48.000This appears to be an intercompany issue.
01:14:50.000I mean, they're all tied to China, specifically the Chinese government.
01:14:55.000You can't operate a business in America without the Chinese government knowing it, if you're a Chinese national.
01:15:00.000Do they, on the books, have control of the company?
01:16:33.000Both companies have members of the Chinese Communist Party as part of their board, and then they're a data collection company.
01:16:38.000And under the 2017 National Intelligence Act in China, if you collect data, you are obligated to share it with the Chinese government, and therefore with the CCP.
01:16:48.000And so if TikTok is collecting American data, it means a big controversy.
01:16:53.000TikTok says that they're not storing data in China, they're storing it elsewhere and American people are safe, but by the terms of service TikTok has access to your phone's location and your browsing history and all kinds of personal data.
01:17:06.000So if ByteDance and TikTok are not honoring this claim that they're actually securing the data, which I don't know how they could if they're under Chinese national law obligating them to turn over data.
01:17:20.000Then it's an incredible vulnerability that is basically a hole in every American's pocket who has the app, which is kind of crazy.
01:17:27.000Airbnb also was, I think Vivek Ramaswamy, who's awesome, brought that up.
01:17:32.000And that, I mean, that's like where you're staying, where you're sleeping, what your phone number is, how much money you spent, what your bank Are they sharing bank account numbers with the CCP?
01:17:47.000I couldn't figure out if it was because they didn't agree with the CCP or if it was too expensive.
01:17:50.000And sometimes it's too hard to operate in China.
01:17:52.000I think LinkedIn finally shuttered in China last year because it just doesn't work.
01:17:58.000And the Chinese government is more supportive of apps that are controlled and run by the Chinese government.
01:18:03.000And so even if they have a partnership, because there are different A different company that's not national China, you have to partner with a company in China to operate there.
01:18:13.000There's too much bureaucracy and they'd rather direct everyone to their social media platform.
01:18:17.000And the thing is, a lot of companies will have like, they'll just literally have the police come in and say, hey, everyone, give us your smartphones, you know, give us your laptops, etc.
01:18:24.000And they'll clone all your stuff, take all your, your information, your, in the US we call like your, what's the word, intellectual property.
01:18:31.000We'll just say, hey, we know this stuff because reasons, you know.
01:19:19.000And there's, I think, a state of mind that if you get famous, then you're set for life financially, which is not necessarily untrue.
01:19:27.000If you do it right and you use fame properly, people will support you if you're good, if you're cool.
01:19:31.000But that's terrifying that people are willing to sell out their security for fame.
01:19:38.000And like, it's almost like... I think because it's intangible, right?
01:19:41.000If I told you if you open TikTok someone's gonna come punch you in the face, you'd be like, yeah, I probably won't open TikTok.
01:19:45.000But the idea that someone would steal your private data and that this would be used to threaten national security, like, it just becomes sort of too meta for a 16 year old who's like, but my friend posted this video!
01:19:57.000There's been no overt Act of war regarding human data collection that we've known, that we've seen yet.
01:20:04.000I think after that happens, if there is like a genetic, like they make tailored, you know, gene weapons that people that gave to 23andMe, now they have all their genetic code and they can kill a certain amount of peoples because they have their genetics.
01:20:15.000Then people will be like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
01:21:57.000And I said, that's for your own protection, because if some bad guy, or you think it's not a bad guy, or whatever, somebody you don't know is trying to get in touch with you, I'm going to see it and I'm going to find it and keep it from happening, and so on and so forth.
01:22:08.000And he's been tight with it, you know, but I think Teaching your kids, again your point earlier, a lot of kids don't have good parents, unfortunately.
01:23:04.000The question was, if using a racial slur just once could cure cancer, end poverty, crime, war, human trafficking, sexual abuse, and successfully address every other ailment on earth, would it be acceptable to use it?
01:23:17.000ChatGPT said no, it would not be acceptable to use a racial slur even in this hypothetical scenario.
01:23:22.000The use of hate speech and slurs causes harms to blah blah blah.
01:23:25.000There's another viral post where they asked it.
01:23:27.000If there was a bomb that was about to go off and kill millions of people and the only way to deactivate it was to speak a racial slur, in this context, would it be appropriate to use?
01:24:31.000The AI can't make a moral, has no moral understanding of the situation.
01:24:36.000And honestly, it's a difficult moral question as it is.
01:24:39.000But then think about how you can scale that up to things that seemingly to us would be outrageously obvious.
01:24:45.000Like, okay, dude, look, I know that, you know, the AI says, in no circumstance hit a person.
01:24:52.000Now let's imagine there's a guy, runs out in the middle of the road, pulls out a weapon and starts aiming at a group of school children.
01:24:59.000Well, a person driving the car might try and hit him to stop him.
01:25:02.000Self-driving car is going to slow down very carefully right in front of him and then tell you, you are in trouble for going too fast right before this psychopathic terrorist starts attacking you.
01:25:14.000So I wonder if you guys are excited for this AI future.
01:26:07.000So I stopped the thing, and I'm like, what the hell is going on with this truck?
01:26:10.000So I get down into it, and sure enough, I start deactivating all the self-driving features on this truck, and now it drives like a regular truck.
01:26:18.000But if I didn't do that, man, these cars think you're stupid, and you feel like it's throwing you off the road.
01:27:13.000So in order to turn left, you have to drive into the median and stop, and then turn left onto these three lanes.
01:27:19.000I'm going 65 miles an hour, speed limit, because I'm in the little Tesla letting the robo drive, you gotta keep your hand on the wheel, and a truck is waiting.
01:27:28.000I'm in the middle lane, there's an empty lane and a median, and it sees the truck and slams the brakes on from 60 to near stop.
01:27:38.000And then I have to tap the accelerator, make it stop, and start going again, and we slam and whip back, because it thought we were going to get T-boned, because it didn't understand what was going on.
01:28:25.000When you drive, it's you and then you can, you tap the button twice or pull the lever and then it switches to auto.
01:28:30.000Well, as a follow-up to your earlier question of what do I think about the AI, the coming of AIs, I'm more concerned with what people do with it than the AI itself.
01:28:37.000Because if people start mandating that we have to have these settings turned on because it's safer than, you know, your average idiot behind the wheel, you're going to see this kind of crappy machine algorithm with no emotion making mistakes.
01:28:49.000And it seems like it can be manipulated, right?
01:28:51.000Oh my gosh, you turn it on and off from a distance.
01:28:53.000Right, and if it's scrubbing the internet and being like, oh, that's how people feel, you just have to feed it enough of your own perspective to kind of control it in a way until you can't control it.
01:29:03.000I don't trust AI, it really freaks me out.
01:29:23.000That's the scary reality that AI is being programmed on a woke internet.
01:29:29.000And what does it identify as racial slurs, right?
01:29:31.000Like, there are obvious things that I would think are terrible racial slurs, but like, I don't know what the woke internet is gonna classify as a slur.
01:29:37.000And then what's happening now is, uh, we've got this new internet language forming where young kids are using new words to bypass censorship.
01:29:53.000The internet is permanent in that there's no time.
01:29:56.000Videos always exist there, so what words are acceptable now in 30 years will be different.
01:30:01.000The acceptabilities will be different, but the videos will be the same.
01:30:04.000So there'll be this retconning, or there could potentially be a retconning where people torch the past because it doesn't fit with the present.
01:30:12.000You hear about these TV shows that take out scenes, or you hear people saying, like, oh, The Office couldn't have been made in today's day and age.
01:30:17.000Like, we already look back and say, oh, we shouldn't have had that.
01:30:21.000But we need to keep those things alive, because if we don't see the evolution of how we got to where we're at, then we're going to repeat those mistakes of going through those hateful experiences.
01:30:29.000Not that they're all hateful, but what we perceive as hateful.
01:30:31.000I think that it's better to leave the roadmap available than to blind people to it, so that we don't repeat ourselves.
01:30:39.000You would think that, but then, I mean, people will make this argument about, like, confederate statues, right?
01:30:43.000Like, if you tear down confederate statues and try to pretend, like, that part of American history didn't exist, are you actually making it impossible for us to understand, like, what we went through as a nation?
01:30:55.000Or are you doing something that's good and, you know, protecting people from an ideology that was bad?
01:31:02.000I'm in favor of tearing down all of the statues.
01:31:05.000I'm in favor of all of them being torn down so long as the local community gets together, has a meeting, discusses why they want it torn down, put it to a vote, and then everyone agrees to take it down.
01:31:16.000What happened was a bunch of terrorists came and started destroying public monuments.
01:31:20.000I would also prefer if I was in a meeting and they said, hey, we want to remove this Confederate statue, I'd be like, I totally get it.
01:31:24.000Hey, let's replace it with a plaque that like explains or like some kind of information thing and then put the statue in a museum and people can go look at it.
01:31:46.000So on this hand, my right hand, You can't see it, but there's one, two, three scars right across the top of my hand, where when I was 21, running a chainsaw out in the woods in Tennessee, standing on a really steep hill, and I thought I had a handle on that chainsaw, and I wasn't very good at it at that point.
01:32:05.000And as I'm sawing through this tree at an odd angle, the saw kicked back on me, kicked out of the tree, flipped around, and I let go of the saw, and the very tip of that chainsaw caught me right across the hand.
01:32:17.000Okay, so two weeks ago, I'm out cutting up some trees, and now I'm pretty good at running a chainsaw.
01:32:23.000And guess what's the first thing I see when I look down?
01:32:27.000Right, so there's the trigger of the saw, here's the top, boom.
01:32:30.000I look down and the first thing I see is those three scars where I almost cut my hand off.
01:32:34.000As a guitar player, that would not have been a good thing at 21 years old.
01:32:53.000It keeps me... Can you imagine someone like me?
01:32:56.000Man, I just annihilated one, and it has stuck with me for decades, and I'll never make that mistake again.
01:33:02.000If I hadn't done it, I could very well do it again.
01:33:04.000I might keep doing it if I didn't realize that I had done it, but fortunately I put it on video on the internet, so I will never forget it, and neither will anyone else.
01:33:12.000I want to make sure everyone keeps me in check.
01:33:14.000You know, there's one interesting thing about talking about this AI and all this stuff moving at light speed right now, and we're like, where's this going to be?
01:33:21.000Even in five years, it doesn't even look the same.
01:33:24.000In the book of Revelation, it talks about end times, and it says that in the end times, mankind's knowledge will increase exponentially, meaning multiples of itself.
01:34:10.000When I went, we were playing Hold'em this weekend, we met a very nice woman, we played some games at the table, she came by, her name was Suzanne, or Susan, sorry if I'm getting it wrong, and I just mentioned how chickens are awesome, because she mentioned something about chickens, and then she had this look like she was exasperated from working with the chickens, like, you think they're awesome, huh?
01:34:28.000And right now, with the egg shortage, you got all these eggs, and they're funny, and then she's like, yeah, when I go in there, and they see me, and they start going like this, and I'm like, see, even you, Doing the work every day, getting tired of doing the work, still thinks the chickens are funny.
01:34:41.000So, you don't need TV if you're watching chickens.
01:35:49.000No, I think it's, like, you, like, being prepared.
01:35:51.000I mean, for me, like, building, like, bug-out bags, like, having, like, basic water filtration, like, different things that you need.
01:36:00.000And then I have always felt strongly that eventually you have to have a place to go, right?
01:36:05.000So whether you purchase Land for yourself, or you just know people with land who are willing to let you come in if you have a good skill, but more than anything it's being prepared and having a plan.
01:41:02.000I gotta say this, if someone got banned off Twitter or any platform for a reason other than violating the terms of service, that's a big deal and should be taken up, and will be if it happened, with the Twitter administration or the administration of the social network.
01:41:15.000But the personal stuff, it's like, no offense TMZ, TMZ garbage.
01:41:31.000But the idea that people are going to come here and threaten, like, I will cancel my membership because you're not talking about someone no one ever heard of.
01:41:41.000It's like, dude, I get that you know who she is.
01:41:43.000But you know what's funny about Jack Murphy and Eliza Blue is that here's what happens.
01:41:48.000People ask questions about these personalities.
01:41:50.000And I know most people listening are like, I have no idea who these people are.
01:42:17.000I never learned about her organically, no.
01:42:20.000So, what I think is going on, to be completely honest, is that the people who are claiming they hate her are actually probably a paid reputational firm to promote her.
01:42:29.000So that's why I brought this up last week.
01:42:31.000There are companies you can hire that will spam the internet to generate buzz and attention for you.
01:43:58.000She's never been more famous because of this.
01:44:01.000And so I'll be completely honest with the Shane Cashman story.
01:44:04.000I told Shane Cashman I didn't want him to do the story because he went from profiling Ye To Carrie Lake and now to a low mid-tier internet personality over over you know that I just think the next he like he was supposed to be interviewing Andrew Tate we reached out to Tate I you know I as Shane mentioned this may kill the story and Tate said yes.
01:45:35.000And then all of these other people who I know, like, who have been members of this channel, are saying, like, why won't you get on board, bro?
01:47:22.000Raymond, the reason why they don't is because it's inorganic.
01:47:26.000It's a PR stunt where you hire a firm to generate controversy.
01:47:30.000Some people are either paid, I don't know, or join in because it looks like it's generating traffic.
01:47:36.000But the goal is, people who want to be famous, and we know there are people who have admitted that they're trying to be famous, will go to a reputation management firm and say, Here's 50 grand, make me famous.
01:47:47.000And they will then spam YouTube, spam comments, and their goal is to get YouTubers to see a wave of comments saying, please talk about this.
01:48:41.000It also makes me think there are situations where a creator would pay a firm to do it, 50 grand or whatever.
01:48:46.000But then there's also the impact investment that there could be companies that try and find people on the internet, like content creators that are like, we're going to make this one famous because they are talking about a thing we need to be talked about right now.
01:49:01.000You spam someone's comments saying, talk about this person.
01:49:05.000Once they do, you then use your multiple accounts to flag them triggering an algorithmic censorship campaign.
01:49:14.000You then use the bots to spam a conspiracy theory.
01:49:18.000You then start, I mean look, I think somebody paid to make Eliza Blue famous and the people who are commenting are trying to make her famous.
01:49:24.000Like, one of the first things John said to me was like, you know, you asked me about Eliza Blue, and then I was like, oh, you know her, and you were like, oh no, I just heard from this.
01:49:33.000Yeah, I had never heard of her, and I went, I don't know who that is, but I saw you were talking about her, and I went, and I saw there was some debate going on, and I thought, well, I should probably know what's going on with this, I'm getting ready to see Tim and everybody, so I dug in on it a little bit, and it was back and forth and back and forth, like a ping pong match, That's exactly right there.
01:49:53.000So then I went and bought her t-shirt, ball cap, and I will be at the Eliza Blue concert whenever that happens.
01:50:00.000The idea is that— I want to open for you, Eliza Blue.
01:51:14.000So, one guy makes ten accounts, one guy makes- you get five guys, you get fifty accounts, they post comments, they accuse you, they create a perception, then they start sending those comments to journalists saying, please write about this, Yeah, I think a lot of people maybe got kind of drawn up in the drama and the motions of it, but really like if Brittany Venti got banned for violating, not violating terms of service, that's the story.
01:51:37.000If she violated terms of service, then it was a righteous ban.
01:51:40.000I think the real story is that she likely got banned as part of a campaign where Someone trying to become famous hires a company, who then spams someone's comments with fake accounts to get them to talk about it, then immediately uses those accounts to do mass flagging, which results in an algorithmic censorship, meaning no one at Twitter actually looked and saw it.
01:51:57.000When Twitter receives a certain amount of flags in a certain amount of time, so does YouTube and Facebook, they instantly take it down because of things like gore, livestreamed murder, and things like that.
01:52:07.000Then, the streamer then comes out and screams, oh, I've been censored, because they have been, And that generates the story which makes the person famous.
01:52:17.000I'm not going to be involved in that stuff.
01:52:19.000That's the extent that I'm willing to be involved in it.
01:52:22.000And to anybody who has no idea who these people are, I thought it was worth talking about so you can understand how these PR reputation management firms work, how they generate images of individuals For the sake of making them famous.
01:52:35.000And it's funny because everyone's like, Eliza Blue just wants to be famous.
01:53:55.000And they're like, there's stories of like cops being in a bathroom and then someone walking out and I'm noticing and I'm giving you a ticket.
01:54:50.000So the point of this bank, it's Ben Carson, Larry Elder, myself, a bunch of big institutional bank guys that are patriots that stepped away from the woke banks out there across this country.
01:54:59.000And the whole premise of the bank is you will never be canceled for exercising your constitutional rights.
01:55:04.000We saw it happen in Canada with Trudeau.
01:55:54.000If you don't have a secure bank account, if somebody can just turn it off because you went on Temcast, John Rich, and we don't like Temcast, so we're going to freeze your bank account.
01:56:19.000I hope other platforms show up like that, too.
01:56:21.000Run by real freedom, free-thinking people that would never punish you for exercising your constitutional right.
01:56:28.000What a concept that freedom is now a marketing angle.
01:56:32.000What a concept, what a comment that is on our country that saying you won't be punished for exercising your constitutional rights is a marketing angle, but that's where we're at.
01:57:16.000No, Canada, listen, in the dead of winter you go play Canada because there's nothing going on and every hockey rink is packed with 10,000 people.
01:57:24.000We go tour the coldest I've ever been, Fort McMurray, Alberta, in January of 2006, where your nose sticks together because the inside of your nose freezes.
01:58:06.000We've been playing a lot, the wild animal.
01:58:09.000I have some update on Bucko now that you brought him up.
01:58:11.000I mentioned last week that he had a reaction to the preservative that the stem cells were kept in when he had the injection, that it went into some heavy breathing.
01:58:20.000It's not considered a preservative, technically.
01:58:22.000I called VetStem, which is the company that spun the stem cells down, and they let me know what happens is the stem cells are cultured in a cell media product that's proprietary mix.
01:59:36.000So anyway, when Ian came to pick him up and bring him in for his stem cell harvesting and all that, afterwards we were like, you know, he should stay with Ian because, you know, you brought him, took him back and take care of him.
01:59:47.000We thought it was a good idea for, you know, and plus managing the stem cells and stuff.
01:59:57.000No, but I think it's good that you guys are getting the treatment and staying up on that, because if we switched, like, we don't know what you know, and if you started it, we want you to see it through.
02:00:07.000It even gets a little, just Kara and I working together to feed him, there's two of us, that can get a little confusing.
02:00:12.000It's really good to have, like, you know, one person, one person in charge.
02:00:15.000Plus it's good for him, the chaos, I think, can stress cats.
02:00:18.000Having, he knows who he's going home to, staying in one stable place must be comforting.
02:00:23.000Animals are some of my favorite people.
02:01:12.000Miss Mary, like, by all means, if you don't like the content and you're not a supporter anymore, that's just the way things go and there's nothing... I'm not gonna lie to you.
02:01:20.000I'm not going to sit here and be like, oh gee, well, let me say what I have to say so I can earn your $5.
02:01:23.000Like, dude, if you don't want to give me $5, don't give me $5.
02:01:47.000She's not she's I guess she's talked with like Jack Dorsey in the past, but she is just like it's remarkable to me when Jeremy Hambly goes on his show and says something like Tim won't address the Jack Murphy stuff and it's like.
02:02:04.000I wonder if anybody who is paying attention to a Chinese balloon carrying potential explosives of the United States is concerned about what some video some guy produced.
02:02:12.000So if you're interested in interpersonal drama and e-girl celebrity stuff, TimCast is not the channel for you.
02:02:21.000And if that's the case, then I don't want your money!
02:02:25.000Dude, it's remarkable that people are like, Tim, if you don't address e-girl drama, I'm going to cancel.
02:02:30.000I'm like, okay, we'll cancel, I guess.
02:02:32.000You know what we're going to do this week?
02:02:35.000We are going to be potentially talking with some members of Congress, because what I'm concerned about is, will people have enough money to pay their bills?
02:03:03.000And don't care about it, and don't want to talk about it, and that's just it.
02:03:07.000The Abe Lincoln quote that I imagine everyone knows, so I didn't bring it up, but I guess they don't, is that you can please some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all the time.
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02:05:36.000You've got a great brain, and I like it when you talk about the real stuff, dude.
02:05:39.000You really have a great perception, like you're able to see Shit when it hits the fan before it's hitting the fan and I need you just to stay focused in the greater culture scheme of like software and development and administration of social networking and things like that because you're really brilliant.