On today's show, we discuss the latest in the Elon Musk vs. Media Matters saga, and how cancel culture is coming for them. Plus, we're joined by the Harmon Brothers of Angel Studios to talk about their new documentary, After Death.
00:00:11.000Elon Musk files his lawsuit against Media Matters, an organization that seeks to simply lie about and destroy people's private businesses because they disagree politically.
00:00:20.000And then Truth Social filed a lawsuit against 20 different media outlets for a coordinated defamation scheme where all of these outlets falsely claimed that Truth Social lost 73 million dollars.
00:00:32.000Now, the crazy thing is, apparently they're all citing an SEC filing that never says this, so it's gonna get really, really interesting.
00:00:37.000But here's where it gets interesting even more so.
00:00:40.000This morning when I wake up and I say, okay, let's take a look at where we're at with this Elon Musk story, there's a new story.
00:00:46.000It's actually an old story from about a month and a half ago about a man who is suing Elon Musk, a Jewish man.
00:00:53.000Strangely, when you google search Elon Musk now, the news you get is not that he's suing Media Matters.
00:00:59.000It is not the story explaining how X and Elon Musk claim Media Matters defrauded people.
00:01:06.000It's actually a story from a month and a half ago about Elon Musk being sued by a Jewish man for being anti-Semitic.
00:01:11.000Now why would all of these different news outlets run an old story at the exact same time?
00:01:17.000My friends, it would seem that the war for the internet is on, and it's going to get particularly crazy moving forward, but there's a lot happening behind the scenes.
00:01:27.000We've got a bunch of stories about actors, celebrities, actresses getting fired over their statements about Israel and Palestine, so cancel culture is coming for them too.
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00:03:01.000Jeff Harmon, co-founder and chief content officer, and we're excited to be here.
00:03:06.000You guys did, of course, you were behind Sound of Freedom, which was a massive success, and you had a documentary that just came out recently.
00:03:17.000After Death, and now you have The Shift coming out, what, in like a week?
00:03:30.000I'd rather just play it later, but it's looking awesome, man.
00:03:32.000You guys are killing it, and I'm glad to see... Look, as we're talking about Elon Musk fighting this big battle, all of these stories are stories of us storming the battlefield, taking the field, taking the center stage, and winning.
00:03:45.000These are all tremendous victories, so it's super exciting to hear.
00:03:47.000This will be a lot of fun talking to you guys about this, and so thanks for hanging out.
00:04:00.000And I really appreciate your attention to detail, because picking up on this Elon Musk, the multiple outlets running this weird muddying the waters thing, I don't know that a lot of humans would pick up those kind of patterns.
00:04:11.000So I really appreciate your brain, man.
00:05:03.000Elon Musk's Media Matters lawsuit will have a chilling effect.
00:05:07.000Musk has filed his thermonuclear suit against Media Matters for America at the same time the Texas AG launched an investigation into the nonprofit.
00:06:32.000Ben Brody says his life was going fine.
00:06:33.000He had just finished college, stayed out of trouble, and was prepping for law school.
00:06:38.000Then seemingly out of nowhere, Elon Musk uses his considerable social media clout to amplify an online mob's misguided rant accusing the 22-year-old from California of being an undercover agent in a neo-Nazi group.
00:06:52.000Elon Musk replied to someone vaguely referencing a guy who was in college and wanted to work for the government, and no one accused the individual of being an undercover agent in a neo-Nazi group.
00:07:03.000They accused these people, all of them, of being undercover agents, period, in a fake Nazi group.
00:07:10.000What I can say is, define coordinated, I suppose.
00:07:13.000When a bunch of media outlets all run this story and it shoves down the big news and covers it up, it's kind of like every time, what was the thing that was happening every time Hunter Biden, you know, was caught doing something?
00:07:27.000Yeah, I mean, just this week, an example of this is like, he launches the rocket, the spaceship, he gets up, the largest, Spacecraft in history makes the separation successfully and gets into space.
00:07:45.000And I try to look up the news and it's all like Elon Musk fails with rocket because it blows up or, you know, lies.
00:07:53.000Yeah, it's just it's just straight up faults.
00:07:55.000It's one of the most successful moments in history.
00:08:37.000And then at the same time, this whole entire anti-Semitic thing comes out.
00:08:40.000Or they're covering his custody battle with Grimes a lot right now.
00:08:43.000Yeah, it's just like a terrible immoral person.
00:08:46.000The last time you had us here it was a Fabian Martin story about Sound of Freedom.
00:08:51.000The financier of Sound of Freedom was a sex trafficker and it was a guy who was totally exonerated later on but he was all over the press and his face was everywhere and they were trying to take that film down.
00:09:03.000It was also like one of a hundred thousand investors, I believe, wasn't it?
00:09:10.000He gets accused of an accessory to kidnapping.
00:09:14.000And then it got, the judge was like, I don't know how you're an accessory to kidnapping because there's no even charge for kidnapping.
00:09:23.000But somebody went into the theater, screenshotted all the investor names, because that's the only place you can get them, then digitized them, then cross-checked them across all the local criminal databases to find one guy who had been accused of kidnapping.
00:09:39.000And then the headline is, financier, $50 investor of thousands, of Sound of Freedom, arrested for kidnapping children.
00:10:52.000They say the best defense is a good offense.
00:10:56.000When Elon Musk goes after Media Matters and is exposing what I believe expands the government collusion narrative in the censorship industrial complex.
00:11:03.000We've got the releases from the Republican Party.
00:11:06.000We know about the releases from the Twitter files.
00:11:08.000Now Elon Musk is going after Media Matters.
00:11:10.000And they're saying they have data, hard proof, that Media Matters fabricated the claims against them to try and get advertisers to pull out.
00:11:47.000Look, why are people writing in this story?
00:11:49.000I think it's very weird that CNN chose to write a month and a half old story and just publish it right now with vague and misleading language.
00:12:09.000So when it appears at the top of Google, when you search for Elon Musk, I think it's a big tech play.
00:12:14.000And I think big tech is colluding with the government because we've already seen hard proof they've been doing it.
00:12:19.000And or that the advertisers are coordinating and they all advertise on Alphabet and on whatever companies are posting this CNN and all these people are getting that same ad money that pulled out of Twitter and they're working.
00:12:31.000I don't know if they're just bystanders in this or if they're...
00:12:34.000I think it's difficult for people as an individual to combat the tech giants and especially anyone controlling a search engine if they want to.
00:12:43.000I mean, I'm going to reference Taylor Swift.
00:12:45.000I know you guys were all waiting for it.
00:12:46.000But when she started dating Travis Kelce, she went to a New York Jets game.
00:12:51.000Before that, when you Google Taylor Swift Jet, It talked about all these articles from two years before talking about her carbon footprint and how bad it was.
00:12:58.000And people thought she has engineered this relationship to get to this game so it completely changes what shows up when you Google these terms.
00:13:04.000I mean, the challenge here is that Elon Musk is now up against the people who want CNN's article to be at the front.
00:13:10.000So even if he were able to get some big headline, he had sympathetic journalists take on his story, cover it accurately, it doesn't mean that the way the algorithms work out will be evenly applied to him.
00:13:23.000I think I like your metaphor about get down, duck and cover when the incoming enemy fire is happening and this is like when people are writing crappy articles about you like don't make noise because you're gonna look guilty.
00:13:33.000But that's important why you have allies to fire on the position that's attacking your foxhole to lighten the fire so you crossfire.
00:14:04.000I had interviewed Josie, the red-headed libertarian, today on my YouTube channel.
00:14:07.000We were talking about free speech and how, like, the ability for a private company just to shut off a bunch of people's ability to communicate or the way certain aspects of my communication with you might not show up.
00:14:18.000Like, that's... We wrote a constitution and fought a revolution to avoid that from happening.
00:14:22.000We had the king pressing down on our necks collectively and disallowing us from speaking out in public.
00:15:03.000I just think we're winning across the board in every way.
00:15:05.000I mean, we got a super chat a moment ago and they were like, how could the Democrats even put someone else on the primary ballot because it's too late in several states?
00:15:25.000And I can tell you this too, ladies and gentlemen, I can't say too much because in legal issues, you know, you got to keep things pretty quiet until you make your moves, but there is so much more happening behind the scenes.
00:15:37.000Let's just, I'll just put it this way.
00:15:38.000Many phone calls, many phone calls have been happening.
00:15:41.000And there's a lot of prominent individuals who are like, this is war.
00:15:45.000There was a post recently where someone suggested that any prominent influencer on Twitter should file an amicus brief or join the lawsuit Elon Musk is filing.
00:16:24.000With Sound of Freedom, it was the first time that, and this is within months after, a very short time after Elon acquired Twitter, is that our main investors, GigaFund, That's invested in SpaceX, invested in a whole bunch of Elon companies.
00:16:42.000They called us and they were like, hey, how can we improve the system?
00:16:46.000So they're working very hard to improve the Twitter advertising system, and it's working.
00:16:55.000Twitter has not had a competitive leg that even comes close to competing with Facebook for targeted ads and direct response.
00:17:21.000And they're getting better and better.
00:17:22.000And so I think that Twitter just has to survive the dip.
00:17:27.000And then they'll climb back out of it because they're actually innovating.
00:17:31.000They're actually making changes and they're listening to the audience and the customers.
00:17:35.000And so, uh, for us, we spend where it works.
00:17:39.000And I, I think that, um, if we can do it, I mean, we're known Harmon brothers known for doing pooperies, squatty potty, purple mattress, Lumi deodorant, these billion dollar CPG companies and mattress companies.
00:17:53.000And, I can tell you, Twitter is starting to figure it out.
00:18:02.000We're going to be doing a big ad push in the beginning of next year.
00:18:05.000We're already doing big ads for Infringed, our latest documentary, by Lauren Southern and John Du Toit.
00:18:11.000And when they announced they were pulling out, it was Seth Dillon who started the cascade, saying we're going to commit 250K.
00:18:45.000Because, like, I don't know, something weird's happening in the back end, but I digress.
00:18:48.000So when Seth Dillon's like, hey, we're gonna do this thing, I was like, well, we're already advertising on X. We already want to do more.
00:18:56.000Let me just announce that I, too, will be doing this and join their efforts.
00:18:59.000And then I get articles written about me, so standing up for what I believe in results in ten times the press we would have gotten just off the ad campaign alone.
00:19:25.000My idea was, companies should compete with how much they can accomplish.
00:19:29.000Ideologically, in alignment with their values.
00:19:33.000So, for instance, instead of spending $50 million doing this nationwide campaign where you hire a celebrity to throw a football, you spend $50 million investing in roads, schools, or helping veterans or non-profits, and then instead of doing this big commercial where a celebrity throws a football, you just do a commercial where it's a guy standing in front of a VA saying, instead of spending $50 million on throwing a football, we just gave it to wounded veterans to help those And I'm like, that's the kind of marketing we should be doing, competing with each other to do the most good.
00:20:03.000So I'm like, if I can buy ads to promote TimCast.com and the projects we're doing, and it has the added benefit of winning the culture war, man, I'll spend all my money.
00:20:14.000Mr. Beast, he'll actually take cameras in and show the people crying with joy from tasting fresh water for the first time in their lives and things.
00:20:21.000And you may argue it's exploiting the people that are getting the video taken of them.
00:20:29.000Well, he's an oppressive figure trying to help people.
00:20:32.000I can guarantee he's anything but, and you should watch his video where he brings 100 wells to people that are starving of fresh water, essentially.
00:21:10.000He was just showing video of these kids, and I mean, if you've ever spent time with kids in an impoverished nation, and you see them, the kids that drink poop water, basically the same river water that they drink out of, they poop into.
00:21:20.000It's sad, because their stomachs are fat and bloated.
00:21:22.000I saw it in South America when I was in Peru, and it was... They're so happy people, because they don't know.
00:23:29.000Seems like independent media is just skyrocketing.
00:23:34.000I mean, a few years ago, if I would have talked about The Sound of Freedom, people would not have believed me.
00:23:37.000If I would have said, there's gonna be a new studio, they're gonna launch a movie, it's gonna defy all expectations, crack into the top of the box office, what is that, $200 million?
00:26:31.000They signed an agreement to make this movie a long time ago, and they tried to wiggle out, and they tried to get out, and they were forced, basically, through their contracts to finish it out.
00:26:42.000And he's like, and it shows, there's no passion.
00:26:44.000Oh, it's the shortest movie they've done.
00:26:47.000People are mentioning that it really looked like they were just trying to get rid of it.
00:26:50.000Yeah, because they had to, they had to make it.
00:26:51.000They signed the agreements a long time ago.
00:26:59.000Like when they were doing Avengers Infinity War, they needed to get Brie Larson in it because they were like, Captain Marvel will be the new Iron Man.
00:27:27.000Because they're like, we are going to lose so much money because this woman went on Twitter and started Calling Israel genociders and all this stuff.
00:27:35.000Again, not here to make an argument about Israel-Palestine.
00:27:38.000They're looking at how much money they're going to lose because of it, and I get it.
00:27:42.000And that's a tough issue, but understand this.
00:27:47.000Just the other day, we had Danny Palaszczuk on.
00:27:50.000He made the excellent joke of, as soon as Elon Musk bought Twitter, everybody just went, There are two genders.
00:28:00.000It's funny because if you really think about it, isn't it absolutely insane that before Elon acquired Twitter, If you said, men are not women, you would get banned.
00:28:33.000Well, what was happening back then is companies were genuinely terrified.
00:28:37.000Dave Rubin had... I don't think Sound of Freedom would have been as successful as... I don't think it would have hit terminal... I'm sorry, Xscape Velocity without Twitter.
00:28:45.000They would have suspended you guys in two seconds.
00:28:48.000We could have brute forced ourselves maybe to 80 million just through marketing.
00:28:53.000But the amount that it takes to get up to 250 million requires you to hit escape velocity.
00:28:59.000And without Twitter, Twitter was the only social platform where we were trending number one after it launched over and over and over again.
00:29:08.000Did you have a plan for Twitter when you were launching?
00:29:10.000Like, did you go in knowing that Twitter was gonna be a resource or was that organic?
00:29:14.000Yeah, we actually, that is why we got into advertising on Twitter is because now Elon owned Twitter and we were like, we can actually trust they're not gonna mess with this movement.
00:29:25.000We could see when we were advertising the Sound of Freedom trailer, because of our advertising career, like the number, for the views and the number of shares, That the videos got and the amount of activity, it just didn't match.
00:29:41.000Like nobody would comment, nobody would like, but they were being shared like crazy.
00:29:45.000So you post your video, people resharing it like extremely high rate, super viral trailer on Facebook.
00:29:54.000The second generation shares have no comments.
00:30:04.000They think I'm just sharing the video, I'm excited I shared it and then no one sees it.
00:30:09.000No one comments on it and so the reshares, the second generation is where the trick happens on these other social platforms is you post it and a whole bunch of people reshare it and you go, oh my video is doing really well.
00:30:29.000I think that Facebook should alter their advertising scheme so that if you share an advertised post, it's still going to get advertising pressure on your reshare.
00:30:45.000I think, let me go back in time actually.
00:30:48.000I knew these guys that were investigating advertising systems on big tech companies and they were saying at least half of all of the buys, purchases are fake.
00:30:58.000When you say I'm going to put $1,000 in ads towards this video and then you get, let's say, you know, 100,000 views, 50,000 are fake.
00:31:33.000What Elon Musk was saying to these advertisers is, listen, If you spend $100,000 on that platform, how do you know you're getting real people?
00:31:42.000With us on Twitter, users only get ads.
00:31:46.000Ads only display against verified accounts.
00:31:49.000And so the money is only spent if verified individuals with check marks see the ad.
00:32:04.000I wanted to kind of talk a little bit more about Disney and about how the problems that they've been having.
00:32:11.000We were saying that people are being fired from movies, or I don't know if those Disney movies, but because of their talks about Hamas or Israel or whatever.
00:32:18.000I'm also concerned that big production companies, Paramount, I don't know, call them out by name if it even matters, but they have large institutional investors.
00:32:34.000A mixture, okay, because if- Crowd and institutional.
00:32:36.000If one big institutional guy is like, listen, my family's in Israel and I want only pro-Israel movies and propaganda out there right now, and full stop.
00:32:45.000Then they're going to pull all their money from a company that's trying to make a movie with an actor that's crapping on Israel, potentially.
00:32:51.000And so these investors are deciding the creative flow of the movie industry in that sense, or that industry, and that's a fail, man.
00:32:58.000If you can't be as creative as you want with your best actors and your craziest ideas, good luck.
00:33:02.000How can you compete with people that are doing that?
00:33:04.000So how do you guys work with the institutional, to not get co-opted by the institutional investments?
00:33:09.000So the only way to get through ANGEL is through the ANGEL Guild.
00:33:12.000So those 100,000 people, Jeffrey's the Chief Content Officer.
00:33:16.000If he loved your show, Ian, that you were sharing with us, he can't take it there unless the ANGEL Guild sees it first.
00:33:24.000And they can see Whether something has a problem.
00:33:32.000Sound of Freedom was watched by 30 plus million people worldwide in theaters because a thousand Guild members, Angel Guild members, voted for that show.
00:33:43.000So, like, if a movie got made with an actor that was making these comments about Hamas or something, and then, but the angel investor, if the guild was like, we still love it, put it through, there's some dissent, are there investors that, once it gets through, they're like, I'm not going to put money on that one?
00:34:00.000They have a choice whether they want to invest in a project for sure.
00:34:03.000Yeah, it doesn't guarantee that we'll be able to get the film Uh, to do a partnership with the film.
00:34:09.000Like there's still a lot of things that happen at have to happen after the guild, but we cannot take a film into angel studios until it passes the guild.
00:34:19.000And they, so there's a hundred thousand people they've invested in different projects.
00:34:22.000They can, they go on, they, they, they, they become members of the guild.
00:34:27.000And then you get to, as a member of the guild, you get to vote on the stuff that goes to theaters, vote on the stuff that goes on the platform.
00:34:33.000And if you don't pass it, it doesn't come on angel.
00:34:35.000And is that the threshold, a thousand people?
00:35:22.000I may disagree with these people cheering Hamas or being critical of Israel to varying degrees, but I do think they have a right to speak their mind and it is shocking when a studio says they're going to shut them down.
00:35:40.000If you get a lead actor in a film, and then he comes out, you know, to do press for it, and says a whole bunch of nasty, awful, like, really shockingly offensive stuff, and then the community says, we don't want to go forward with this project, that would end the project?
00:35:57.000Not all speech is socially acceptable.
00:36:01.000If there was a guy who went out and started demanding that schools start giving these books to kids, I'm pretty sure a lot of people would be like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:36:09.000Like, this is not someone we want to support, right?
00:36:11.000That crosses a line for something we don't want.
00:36:13.000By all means, he can go do his own thing, but we're not going to greenlight it.
00:36:46.000Now the film was made with bigger investors, but once it passed the Guild, and then it took on P&A money, which is the way it did the crowd money.
00:36:55.000So back in the day, When you, prints meant you print out a reel of film and ship it to every single theater so that they can play it on their projectors.
00:37:06.000Prints, and then you print out the movie posters.
00:37:09.000Those were the prints that cost a lot of money just to get those out to the world.
00:37:12.000And then advertising is how you promote and make awareness around the film.
00:37:15.000So currently like prints are like, a lot of them are done over satellite and a lot of them are done with little hard drives.
00:37:36.000You have to have really good internet in order to bring down that level of a film.
00:37:42.000So prints and advertising are the prints or the printing out the posters and that stuff and then advertising and the crowd invests in prints and advertising.
00:37:58.000They put it in The Shift, which is coming out on December 1st.
00:38:01.000And there's thousands of people helping these movies get off the ground and they become angel investors.
00:38:07.000And then once you become an angel investor, you become part of the guild and you get a vote on the next content that comes in and you're replacing the gatekeeper model, the old gatekeeper model.
00:38:21.000In the traditional system, one studio would cut the check for P&A and they get to decide.
00:38:26.000And in this one, we want as many checks as possible because all those people, they're part of the audience, they want to be part of shaping the culture.
00:38:35.000They're going to drag all their friends out to the movie, all their relatives, everybody they can get.
00:38:40.000I think an important distinction, you know, in the idea of cancel culture.
00:38:44.000Cancel culture was basically they would dig into your past, find something you said 10 years ago that either is no longer culturally relevant or now is considered unacceptable and use that to destroy your life.
00:38:53.000Or in the most egregious example, this race car driver's dad dropped a racial slur in the 80s before he was born, so a sponsor dropped him because of it.
00:39:05.000You know, we had that woman on Culture War and she said I was pro-censorship because I said I don't want these adult books in grade schools and I'm like, yes, next question.
00:39:18.000It's not this idea that we think everyone should be able to say literally anything in our private spaces or in our industry or that we have to invest in it.
00:39:26.000Freedom of speech means You can live your life without government interference.
00:39:30.000And opposing cancel culture, first and foremost, has to do with our moral basic lines, right?
00:39:35.000So what happens is the woke left comes out and says, oh, we've hereby decided that this thing is no longer acceptable socially, and you're gonna lose your job because of it.
00:39:43.000Or talking with this person is no longer socially acceptable.
00:39:46.000And we're like, dude, dude, dude, what are you doing firing this person over this stuff?
00:39:50.000These people are saying things that aren't even that offensive.
00:39:57.000Now, if someone went on Twitter and literally was advocating for violence or terror or genocide, then we might be like, well, okay, well, now we're getting into dangerous territory.
00:40:06.000As for, like, the calls for extreme violence, we've actually had a great conversation on this show about the limits of it.
00:40:13.000If someone is speaking generally about war and conflict and targeting different groups, we kind of shrug.
00:40:18.000We're like, look, when they call for death to Russians, Facebook allows that.
00:40:23.000Now, if someone goes on Twitter and just tells people to, like, as Ian puts it, imminent threat targeting a group of people, then we say, okay, that's crossing the line.
00:40:34.000Like, we shouldn't have to pay for them and fund them.
00:40:37.000I think we can allow and agree with on social media platforms a wide range of opinions that we disagree with and don't like to challenge, but there's absolutely a red line for all of us where we're like, nah, like, This is too much.
00:40:50.000And it's like advocating children be exposed to adult content, things like that, probably crossing the line.
00:40:56.000But the other thing I'll mention, too, is I'm not here to be the arbiter of morality and tell you where a system like Twitter should determine, or X, where people can and can't say things.
00:41:05.000My attitude will typically be, let the crazy people say the crazy things so we can know they're saying it.
00:41:10.000That being said, If an actor came out and was advocating for a whole bunch of really nasty stuff, like getting, you know, grooming kids and things like that, I certainly would not want to be involved in a project with them.
00:41:20.000And I think that's fair that people would say no to it.
00:41:22.000The big difference is, we're taking back the Overton window, where the left said that saying something like, we should have immigration controls.
00:41:36.000I mean, I think part of the desire to push the window so far is to obscure the idea of what's right and what's wrong.
00:41:43.000I think there are a lot of people who I wouldn't agree with politically who would also say, no, I don't want children exposed to sexual content at a young age or inappropriately.
00:41:52.000But there is another narrative, especially on the progressive left, that says, oh, well, maybe you're oppressing someone by saying those urges are bad or condemning them.
00:42:00.000They want there to be no hard line, no.
00:42:03.000And I think they want you to feel more okay with compromising your values.
00:42:07.000And that's very, there's no way to maintain a culture if that's also the energy that you're putting out.
00:42:13.000When I first went to college, one of my friends, her dad, said, you can go to college and keep an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.
00:42:53.000Comedian Matt Reif responds to Netflix special Backlash with a link to special needs helmets.
00:43:00.000He made a post and said, for everybody who was offended by my joke, here's a link to my apology.
00:43:07.000And when you clicked it, it loaded up, I wonder if they have an image of it, I don't think they do, it loaded up a shopping website for special needs helmets for people who are, you know, differently abled, as it were.
00:43:17.000I'm just saying, shout out to this comedian, but we're starting to win back.
00:43:21.000See, this is the point about cancel culture.
00:43:23.000I have almost, I would say, almost no problem with the limiting of certain speech.
00:43:30.000I say almost because we try to be very careful.
00:43:32.000We want to make sure people have the right to express themselves legitimately, but, you know, like people posting adult content is not legitimate expression for, it's obscene for kids.
00:43:41.000I think it's fair to say that we're going to be like, no way.
00:44:00.000No, he had done a joke in the past, like, it was, like, years ago, prior, on, like, an open mic or something like that, where he made fun of Asian-Americans, and he said that a little bit.
00:44:35.000I don't know if Bill Barr has ever had a joke like that, but Bill Burr has had this joke where he says, you know, You know, they always say there's never a reason to hit a woman, but, you know, is that true?
00:44:45.000You could wake me from a drunken stupor and I could give you at least 10 or something like that.
00:44:49.000Like, that's like alluding to domestic violence, but people laugh.
00:44:53.000I think he did this joke on some, you know, mainstream late-night show.
00:44:58.000And so it's interesting how it was something people tolerated and now they're like, new young comedian, you have to fall in line or stop.
00:45:05.000It sounds like the crowd is flailing and they're like, whoa, my anger that's left over from five years ago, stop!
00:45:11.000And then he knows, Matt Reif knows, if he gets fired, he's good to go.
00:45:15.000Like look at Shane Gillis, his career is off the charts right now.
00:45:36.000Elon Musk has launched this nuclear lawsuit against Media Matters.
00:45:40.000Truth Social has just sued 20 news organizations.
00:45:43.000The amount of victories and the expansion of our efforts is just so tremendous right now.
00:45:49.000Ladies and gentlemen, you've got a lot to be thankful for this Thursday.
00:45:52.000Although stay concerned because it's like they have the power, and I say they kind of vaguely, but to turn off your money.
00:45:59.000So the whole system is rigged up so that Visa, the central banks, can shut off your access to a bank account and no more US dollars for you.
00:46:07.000That's like their atom bomb in the pocket.
00:46:09.000So we don't want to celebrate like we've won a war or any kind of long-standing... I mean, I think cryptocurrency is fascinating that we have other ways.
00:46:27.000I started in Bitcoin in 2013, then bought in, and then we made a documentary film called Life on Bitcoin where this married couple, you can read it on Amazon and stuff, but this couple lives on Bitcoin for 90 days, the first 90 days of their marriage, only Bitcoin in 2013.
00:46:43.000And then we got into Ethereum and other... Litecoin.
00:46:47.000Litecoin and all the other coins, and I was like, I was thinking about it like a technology, where I was like, number two is Facebook, or number, Google came after Microsoft, et cetera, so the better technology's gonna win.
00:46:59.000And then by a couple years ago, maybe a few years ago, I started thinking about it more like an economist, where I'm thinking about hard money and what it actually means, and what Bitcoin does well is money.
00:47:10.000That is the one thing it does well and it does it better than any of the other crypto currencies.
00:50:07.000I think there are a lot of Americans he won over, you know, the day after his election because they watched him online.
00:50:11.000But he won by not pretending that he was gonna do something different.
00:50:15.000Yeah, there was a three, I think it was a three-person election, and then he and one of the others got the runoff, and the other, the third person, they all voted.
00:50:22.000Essentially, we're all just gonna vote for Millet.
00:50:25.000I guess they announced within 21 days they will end the Ministry of Diversity, Gender, and Inclusivity or whatever.
00:51:28.000And it's cool because we do get on to all kinds of people for saying, you know, the Republicans don't do anything or, like, local people just focus on national politics.
00:51:35.000They don't change anything in their own communities.
00:51:37.000And I do think you're starting to see the results of people taking initiative and, especially in the case of Public Square, seeing something that was needed and creating it.
00:51:46.000And I think you guys are similar with the work that you do.
00:51:48.000Yeah, I don't know if they take crypto yet, public square.
00:51:50.000That's going to be interesting when that happens.
00:51:52.000When you take, if you took Bitcoin, like to watch a movie, I could pay you in Bitcoin, would there be like a tax hell unleashed upon the company for taking Bitcoin as payment?
00:52:02.000Or you can like, take it, convert it to cash?
00:52:04.000The US treats it as capital gains tax.
00:52:08.000And they just made a new change to where accountants can handle Bitcoin on their balance sheet a lot easier, which is going to help companies hold Bitcoin.
00:52:18.000Companies that have huge cash reserves, where we're seeing inflation, like I don't know if you guys have been at the grocery store lately, but things are getting freaking expensive.
00:52:26.000And, uh, you know, I, I, I, it's shocking and I'm, I'm not in the lower income brackets and I'm just can't believe how expensive it is.
00:52:35.000And so our reserves, our cash reserves as companies are losing value the longer they sit.
00:52:42.000So the more cash you have, and so there's going to be a lot more companies coming in and saying, we're going to put a huge chunk of our reserves in Bitcoin.
00:52:57.000And it's just like 60 pieces of salami.
00:52:59.000Actually, that breaks my heart more than almost anything else, is seeing food prices go up.
00:53:04.000Because I know, like, we grew up in a family with nine kids in Idaho, and it was like, A tiny income like $13,000 a year.
00:53:12.000We came from the very lowest tier and it breaks my heart to see people who have been saving and working their whole lives just like taking huge steps back because it's theft.
00:53:28.000The CEO of Strike just said that the U.S.
00:53:33.000needs to refinance their debt about $10 trillion over the next 18 to 24 months.
00:53:42.000And he says in terms of scale, that's 3x the scale of COVID.
00:53:47.000So if COVID generated the kind of inflation we just saw, refinancing that debt is going to generate I'm not going to give anybody financial advice or anything, so don't give this advice, but if Argentina does a fast shift into Bitcoin like El Salvador did, Argentina is much larger, much wealthier.
00:54:48.000On Tuesday, declared that Maryland's licensing requirements for people seeking to buy handguns were unconstitutional, setting a landmark U.S.
00:54:55.000Supreme Court decision last year that expanded gun rights.
00:56:07.000So the Supreme Court says, no, no, no, that's unconstitutional, you're borrowing guns, you have to do it.
00:56:12.000Maryland and New Jersey were, and New York, would not give you a permit.
00:56:16.000They'd give you one only if you were rich or famous.
00:56:18.000And could prove you were rich and famous.
00:56:20.000The other way to get it is if you handle large sums of cash, like working at a bank, they would allow you to get a permit as a security guard, but so almost nobody gets them.
00:56:30.000Now, they've lost that, and the latest news is, they said, okay, fine, you can get a gun, but you gotta take a class.
00:56:36.000And now the courts are like, nah, you don't.
00:56:39.000So, Maryland is about to be forced by a judicial review to become constitutional carry.
00:56:46.000This rule is a major push we may eventually see, and I'm talking like in two or three years, maybe four, depending on how long it takes the Supreme Court, but we could see in the next Several years.
00:56:58.000Nationwide constitutional carry, which means you can be in Maryland and carry concealed and drive to any state you want and not go to prison for doing so.
00:58:32.000Well, I can't remember which state it was, but I remember a story that I learned about when I was like 18.
00:58:39.000That, it might have been Michigan or Wisconsin, some state enacted a gun control law and then crime skyrocketed like 87%, so they immediately repealed it.
00:58:48.000Like, oh crap, that was a big mistake.
00:58:50.000And Illinois, just outside of Chicago, has a city with some of the highest crime in the country, believe it or not.
00:58:59.000A lot of people think you're gonna get the highest crime rates in like per city, but yes, there is this one part of Illinois that has one of the highest crime rates.
00:59:05.000It's actually a wealthy shopping district.
00:59:08.000So it's not murderers and stuff, it's just everybody's getting robbed and mugged non-stop.
00:59:14.000Look man, if you live in Illinois, these criminals know you don't got a gun.
00:59:19.000Is there a value to making it constitutionally legal statewide except for in the big cities?
00:59:23.000Or would that just cause too much confusion?
00:59:26.000And if you ever had to like go, like I think about Tennessee where there are three major cities across it.
00:59:30.000If you ever drive across Tennessee, what are you going to do?
00:59:34.000At some point you're just putting a burden on the law-abiding citizens and you're not actually dealing with those people who don't care about your laws and will bring a gun there anyways.
00:59:46.000Well, no, I mean, they're state and federal highways.
00:59:48.000So typically, the way the law is supposed to work is if you're on a federal highway, an interstate, you're allowed to carry, you know, under certain circumstances.
00:59:55.000Typically, you're allowed to transport.
00:59:57.000But if you get off at any point for gas, ooh, they're gonna get you.
01:00:00.000I know people who've had this happen to them.
01:00:01.000Otherwise, if you don't have this, what happens is you end up, if you're in Sao Paulo or any area of Brazil, and it hasn't, but guns have been illegal for a long time there before Bolsonaro.
01:00:11.000You have these walls that are as tall as your ceiling.
01:00:14.000And on top of the walls, it's just a bunch of broken glass bottles cemented into the top of the wall.
01:00:19.000Because people are poor, they can't afford really great security.
01:00:22.000And so they just build a big wall and put broken glass bottles on it.
01:01:03.000But in the city, you could have a police station down the street, and this has happened to me and my family, and had someone, you know, let's just say engaging in violence against our property, and literally a block away, and the cops didn't show up for half an hour.
01:01:16.000It's because they're dealing with like, like actual violent murder or something.
01:01:20.000Or they're passing out parking tickets.
01:01:36.000When, when, when I lived in Florida, if we, if we, we didn't have police, if we called the sheriff, it was going to be an hour, hour and a half.
01:02:46.000They bolted, jumped the fence, and they were gone.
01:02:48.000Perhaps the smartest thing to do, it's all I could do at the time, and it made me think, like, we probably shouldn't be out here unless we're able to defend ourselves.
01:02:55.000And so I said, okay, what would have happened if that was the murderer who had, you know, killed somebody else?
01:03:00.000And he realized it was just an airsoft gun, or a... Or, no, no, I didn't have anything.
01:03:04.000I mean, they hear a bang, they run for it.
01:03:05.000They're not gonna try and figure out what it was.
01:03:53.000It's weird to me that the response to, I have a fear about gun is to ban them as opposed to train more people to know how to operate them and to feel comfortable with them.
01:04:02.000And that means that you're not probably not addressing what your actual fear is, which is crime.
01:04:07.000I remember after the Aurora, Colorado shooting, I said to my wife and I was just like, I'm never like I'm getting a gun.
01:04:17.000And I have a phobia of pistols, not because I don't, I'm a big supporter of self-defense and the second amendment, but I have a phobia.
01:04:25.000So I'm going to go take classes down in Nevada, a week long class on how to do this.
01:04:30.000And I'm going to become as well trained as any police officer so that I know, and I have confidence that I know how to use it and I know how to protect myself and I'll never regret.
01:04:46.000I wanted to know and to try to get rid of the phobia.
01:04:50.000According to self-defense instructors, you'll be the guy that they run to if anything pops off because they all know you know what you're doing and they'll be clinging to you.
01:04:58.000Just in from a Super Chatter, Oregon judge struck down a gun control measure just within the last three hours.
01:05:37.000No, they're all good because they all passed the guild.
01:05:40.00099% of the projects that go through the Guild do not pass because they're not, like, it's a high threshold.
01:05:47.000We've had major filmmakers come in, go into the Guild, fail, get really mad because they're like, I'm, my name, like, you should at least just like, I'm marketable.
01:05:57.000And it's like, no, they didn't like it.
01:06:00.000Well, so the new movie that you guys got coming out, everybody knows Sound of Freedom.
01:06:22.000When he was a kid, his dad was Actually, a pawn shop owner, gunned down in California, ended up living, was on Rescue 911 to tell his story, and then Brock, when he was a missionary, his dad was shot again, and his dad was killed.
01:06:43.000So Brock started writing to deal with everything that he was going through in life.
01:06:50.000And then he and his wife went through the worst time where they lost everything.
01:06:54.000They both lost their jobs on the same day.
01:07:32.000And so we went ahead and said, all right, we're going forward with December 1st.
01:07:37.000And they went through the Guild a lot of times, meaning they resubmitted this film.
01:07:42.000He took a $500 short film made with pizza money, built a $6.5 million budget, brought in Neil McDonough from Band of Brothers, Sean Astin from Lord of the Rings and from Stranger Things, Liz Tabish who plays Mary Magdalene in The Chosen, Paris Patel who plays Matthew in The Chosen, I mean, and then Chris Palaha, who's like the biggest star on Hallmark, and he's very, very good at the romance stuff, which this is a dystopian romance.
01:12:15.000I'm trying to pull up my local movie theater to see if I can get tickets right now.
01:12:18.000Go to angel.com slash the shift and you can see all the different showtimes there are right now.
01:12:24.000It's almost, I think we're almost to 2,000 theaters right now.
01:12:27.000The lesson I learned from the second time we watched this, we watched it before the show went live, is don't talk on your phone while you're driving.
01:12:34.000That guy, if you catch that one second, he flicks his eye to see who it is.
01:12:48.000So when the guy who came up with this was resubmitting it to the Guild, did they provide him feedback on, we need to shift this?
01:12:55.000I mean, so it's a very collaborative, responsive process.
01:12:58.000What happens when you go to the Angel Guild and you sign up, and we actually have a URL for TimCast, where you go angel.com slash TimCast will let you sign up for the Guild.
01:13:06.000You can go there, you can become a member of the Guild, and you can start voting on content.
01:13:10.000And you get complimentary tickets to every single movie.
01:13:13.000So when you sign up, the Guild already gets to watch Sound of Freedom.
01:13:17.000They already get to watch After Death.
01:13:39.000But with the shift, he submitted to the guild again and again, rough cuts, and there's a hundred thousand guild members.
01:13:47.000And so you get several hundred to a thousand people watching it, and then they give you a signal and it comes out as a score zero to a hundred.
01:13:53.000Usually like to pass, you have to be at least a 60 on that score.
01:13:58.000It's a signal of how passionate people are about your film.
01:14:02.000And like the high 60s or low 70s will put you at like 99% audience scores on Rotten Tomatoes.
01:14:49.000They do provide comments so that you can try to sift through the noise and find the signal as an artist to say, uh, this is what's wrong.
01:14:57.000Because sometimes people give you, they say one thing, but you as an artist realize, oh, what's actually wrong is something totally different.
01:15:03.000And you solve their problem in a different way.
01:15:06.000For instance, they'd be like, I don't like that character, but you realize that the audio is not right on that character's scenes.
01:15:11.000Or you haven't made him sympathetic enough.
01:15:36.000And so we actually cut down, the director cut down the intro of the film Not a lot.
01:15:41.000When everybody was saying cut, the way the audience would respond is say, it just feels long.
01:15:46.000And so you think, oh, I'm going to go cut down the slow parts, not these parts where everybody's bawling.
01:15:51.000I'm going to go cut down the non-emotional parts.
01:15:54.000But where it needed to be cut down was just a little bit in the heavier stuff because they went too deep.
01:15:59.000And then it felt long because they were exhausted by the end.
01:16:01.000Yeah, and a cut down doesn't just mean like shorten, it means like be more... Just tight.
01:16:05.000Yeah, have a critical eye of what exactly is conveying what you want.
01:16:09.000I think it's not like you're saying cut all of your movie, it's saying, you know, review it.
01:16:13.000It's the same thing with an editorial piece, right?
01:16:14.000You could say something with 5,000 words, but if you have one line that really conveys the meaning, that's honestly, you know, much more powerful.
01:16:21.000And what will blow your mind with the shift is Liz Tabish's performance, the one who plays Mary Magdalene.
01:16:30.000I've got a quote here that just came in from Eric Artel, who's a major TikToker, and he said, Elizabeth Tabish gives the performance of her career.
01:16:37.000And if you've seen The Chosen, you know she's super good.
01:16:40.000Her depth and vulnerability brought me to tears.
01:16:43.000And we've seen also with Eric, sorry, with Chris Palaha, who's the, they call him sometimes the Prince of Hallmark.
01:16:52.000That's his normal world as he does Hallmark movies.
01:16:54.000Everybody who's watching right now who watches Hallmark knows who Chris Palaha is.
01:18:30.000But the, when you watch this, some, some of one, one, one person said after they watched it, they're like with Chris Palahas, they're like, it's like my brain is like, this is a, This is like if Christopher Nolan directed a Hallmark film.
01:18:45.000Yeah, it feels like they took the guy out of office space and like shifted him into that reality where he just kind of looks like, what's his name?
01:19:11.000I'm glad they cut his face up for the movie so that he'd stop getting typecast.
01:19:16.000Do you have the male-to-female ratio in the Guild?
01:19:19.000Is that noticeable in the way they vote?
01:19:21.000Yeah, so the women rate this super high.
01:19:24.000The men don't start rating it high until the special effects and the sound design came in.
01:19:29.000So women started rating this really high early on because they don't care if Sci-fi movies just look like people walking around with plastic guns until you add in all the sound design going and the lasers and the, you know, once all that stuff came in, the men are like, yeah, this is an awesome movie.
01:19:47.000But the women were on board before that because they're like, this love story is palpable.
01:19:51.000When you're waiting the votes from the guild, do you ever take into account the females?
01:19:56.000A lot of females voted a nine, a lot of men voted a three.
01:19:59.000So let's, We're focused more on, yeah, we're focused.
01:20:02.000We actually shifted the focus of our marketing.
01:20:04.000This trailer is a little more male focused, but we've shifted a lot of it towards the romance side.
01:20:09.000Because this is, a lot of people say this feels like Hunger Games, which is a teenage romance, dystopian romance, right?
01:20:17.000Yeah, it does have Hunger Games vibe, I get that.
01:20:19.000It's got a kind of a Hunger Game... In fact, it's trailering in front of the... Yeah, it's trailering in front of Hunger Games right now.
01:20:29.000So if you go watch Hunger Games in Regal, you're going to see this trailer in front of you.
01:20:35.000But like for a different movie that's more romance vibe, you would have a different trailer?
01:20:38.000Yeah, we have focuses on romance for women, the story of Job, which is this is a modern telling of the story of Job for the more faith oriented groups.
01:20:50.000And then you've got the thriller element, which is for men, like that men come for the Is that common when you're making trailers to do one for women and one for men?
01:21:01.000We line them out and we say this is going to this group, this is going to this group.
01:21:14.000Is that where the Guild was or do you find that they're international?
01:21:19.000The initiation of the Guild came all from investors and because we are regulated by the SEC and FINRA for crowdfunding, It was a US-centric group.
01:22:02.000The more you get your friends to sign up, the more weight your culture has on the guild.
01:22:08.000If TimCast fans all come and sign up, then when you bring a movie to Angel, you're much more likely to succeed because your demographics more represented.
01:22:18.000And there are cities across America, I remember, I mean Texas, there are a couple, I think Matthew Conahay and a couple other actors who are trying to push Texas growing its film industry.
01:22:26.000I mean, obviously Atlanta has like a film industry right now.
01:22:28.000There are states across the US that have a film industry that exists, it's just not as big as Hollywood, right?
01:23:16.000So do you find that there are a lot of people in the film industry who are reaching out to you to say, I want to be involved with Angel Studios, but I'm not based in Hollywood, I'm based over here doing whatever, like, is it sort of becoming something people reach out to not just to get their film made, but for their professional careers?
01:23:55.000What a time, back in the day, when governments didn't just cut checks for everything.
01:23:59.000So the French and the American people saw that torch and they caught the vision for what he was trying to create.
01:24:04.000And the same way somebody brings a torch, a video, a short film, or a full film, if it's gonna go to theaters like Sound of Freedom, and then the Guild looks at it, they catch the vision of where they're trying to head with it, and they vote yay or nay.
01:24:17.000But if I were like a cameraman and I was based in, you know, North Carolina, do you have people reaching out for those kind of production type jobs, or do you have to direct them somewhere else?
01:24:26.000So each production has its own casting department and David's being done in South Africa.
01:25:24.000Then you've got, one of the producers was the editor for Sound of Freedom.
01:25:32.000And he also edited Cabrini which is coming out in March and then so there is a cross-pollination happening between the group so like Alejandro Monteverde who directed Sound of Freedom and Cabrini came in and consulted to help Brock get to the point where he could pass the guild right because he was he was trying to figure out how to get a score up and Alejandro said well I If you did this or if you did this, you know, like he gave some really great ideas or the the creators of Tuttle Twins spent some time on it And so these different filmmakers join around you once you've kind of reached this point where you're where you're building a film Yeah, because they need you to succeed as well Because it's part of the community but to be honest to your question Hannah like we're not replacing the Hollywood craft
01:26:21.000Like, these productions, they're using SAG actors, they're using teams that are part of the Hollywood network, because Hollywood is better at making movies than anyone else in the world.
01:26:31.000Yeah, I always think- They're promise men, and they're not ideologically opposed to this.
01:26:35.000Well, I was gonna say, I think it's interesting because we talk about building culture and, you know, movies, and I think that's great and excellent, but...
01:26:40.000I would think all of the people that need to make the film or, you know, it's not just the actors or the people cutting it together.
01:26:46.000It's also the people holding the mics and the people with the cameras.
01:26:49.000Like those skills have ties to Hollywood.
01:26:51.000Those guys just love making great art.
01:26:53.000They don't care if the art is nihilistic or if it praises God or if it's in between somewhere.
01:26:59.000They don't care as long as it's great art.
01:27:02.000What they don't like making is campy, cringe stuff.
01:27:08.000To reach the level that's required... It's the gatekeepers that are the problem.
01:27:12.000To reach the level that's required for the Angel Guild, you pretty much have to have that level of craft, which means you're calling on the resources of the storytelling world to do that.
01:27:22.000So if people are interested, they have to get involved in the casting groups, and they have to get involved in acting and work their way up in the industry, and then they'll have a chance.
01:27:32.000But what we saw is that the problem with Hollywood is that it's become too insular, it's become a bubble, and very few people make these story decisions.
01:27:41.000And then they're pushing their views on the world and the way the stories are told.
01:27:45.000And because they hold the keys to the gate, those are the only stories that get out.
01:27:50.000And we're replacing the gatekeepers with the people.
01:27:53.000We're replacing it right at the same point where it stopped working.
01:27:56.000Do you, are you ever concerned that like having Alejandro come in and advise, um, Oh, is his name Brock?
01:28:02.000Yeah, to advise Brock is going to create a similar problem where a lot of the genres are the, it's a similar genre because a lot of the interactivity amongst the artists is going to.
01:28:12.000Except for Brock was already so far down the road.
01:28:34.000And, and Brock actually, like the first time that the first ideas to try to solve it actually didn't work, but the combination of those two ideas, they got to a solution.
01:28:43.000And, uh, but Brock made the final call on what was, on what it was.
01:28:47.000I would imagine he'd already have the vision prepared and that he's just doing technical crafting at that point.
01:28:52.000But you know, Yeah, in this case it was probably really mostly about just clarifying, making sure that the story came through.
01:29:25.000No poorly done villain with Darth Maul.
01:29:27.000So I think getting the out of the writer's hands or having an advisor come in that can help you maybe direct or from the sidelines, just so you know, just because you see it and know it doesn't mean the audience does.
01:31:58.000So if you go to angel.com slash timcast and you join the angel guild, you get a vote on all the different projects and then you're going to get complimentary tickets to every single time we release a theatrical release.
01:32:10.000And what this does, you have 175,000 people right now in the guild, but imagine it once you get a million people in the guild, then let's say Let's say half of them turn up to theaters.
01:32:22.000Oh, it's just Yeah, you are the other complimentary tickets you taylor
01:32:27.000swift taylor swift every single movie. That's how we change Exactly. No one can compete with either the point. They're
01:32:33.000gonna be like they've got a Natural pole are you familiar with the like what's a venue's
01:32:39.000So with you guys having a guild, you're like, oh, our movie's basically guaranteed to sell out X many seats because of the amount of people who love our movies.
01:33:08.000You know it's all going to be good because the bigger the guild gets, the better it picks.
01:33:13.000And then you get complimentary tickets, two complimentary tickets to every single movie and theaters, and you're launching these things into the stratosphere.
01:33:22.000And the silver screen, when you go in and you have a communal experience at the theater, it changes people.
01:35:03.000I'll take Angel Studios taking over and becoming the next biggest thing, where they've got guaranteed seats in the theaters, where movies are like Sound of Freedom, and less like some of the woke garbage they've been putting out.
01:35:12.000And it's not just a bunch of repeats, right?
01:35:15.000We can launch, if we have a guild that's passing great content, they can launch any risky movie to the moon.
01:35:36.000My kids, whenever they're watching too much screen time, I have six kids, when they're watching too much screen time, I go to them and I'm like, kids, Harmons live on the other side of the screen.
01:35:46.000We make the content that other people do.
01:35:48.000We celebrate by watching once in a while, but we live on the other side of the screen.
01:35:52.000What we're trying to do with Angel Studios is all the content's free in the Angel app.
01:35:55.000You go to the angel.com and you can just watch all of our shows for free.
01:35:59.000You get early access with the Guild, like Sound of Freedom right now is just in early access.
01:36:03.000But you get to watch everything for free, but you join the community to build a movement to change the future of entertainment and live on the other side of the screen.
01:37:14.000And I want, like for me, success means that when I'm old, That my kids and my grandkids can be encouraged to go into the Hollywood business, into the film business, and not worry about being destroyed with their families and their faith.
01:37:35.000And we've got to build a parallel system to do that.
01:39:09.000But Ryan Long will be here next week, and Daniel will be coming back, and I'm going to talk to them about, you know, what do we have to do to make a good comedy film.
01:39:17.000And our principles, so as you're prepping, if you want to come to Angel, our principles, we have what's called, we're looking for projects that amplify light.
01:39:57.000I remember the first time I went to Wisconsin, I was really disappointed because we went to a store, like a grocery store, and the cheese was imitation cheese product.
01:40:55.000You can read the documents, they're all public.
01:40:56.000I can't say much about it because of the lawsuit.
01:40:59.000But it basically froze the company, in a matter of speaking.
01:41:02.000We have resolved those issues, and since the resolution, which was quite a while ago, I should say there was a court resolution followed by...
01:41:12.000Long period of cutting, you know, tying up loose ends and resolving a lot of these issues, which finally resulted in us, as of today, officially relaunching.
01:41:23.000The TimCast News Team is now the SCNR News Team.
01:41:26.000They're back, and we're glad it's happening.
01:41:29.000We're working with, of course, Bill Ottman of Mines is involved, for sure.
01:41:32.000We're really excited that we're gonna have this project.
01:41:35.000So, there were a lot of people who had invested in it.
01:41:38.000And I'll tell you the frustrating thing.
01:41:40.000People are saying like, I demand answers.
01:41:59.000We still can't, you know, this is like how it works.
01:42:01.000We, for the most part, can't talk about it.
01:42:04.000But anyone who wants to can read all of the court documents, see for themselves exactly what happened, and just know that we never stopped working on the project, and the project is back, and we are going to bring it back from what I would only describe as insolvency.
01:42:19.000You can read all about the court case to understand what I'm talking about, but it's going to require a lot of heavy lifting on all of our parts, but it's what needs to happen, it's what should happen, and the people who invested in that project all those years ago still have their stake as it stands.
01:43:09.000Oh, and then it just opens up the door for a lot more.
01:43:11.000So, as it pertains to this, I think the official thing is the people involved in the company cannot speak of or induce anyone to speak of what happened.
01:43:22.000But if I were to just do it, and then I'm not involved at all, and then you're like, well, here's a link to a video of a guy explaining it.
01:45:08.000We bought a building, we, like, started doing all the work, and then all of a sudden permits resulted in, oh, you gotta fix this, you gotta fix this, you gotta fix this, and it just never ended.
01:46:01.000Yup, and then it's just... That'd be really fun.
01:46:03.000Yeah, you have the new movies, you have regular movies in rotation that you guys want to have, ones that fit your values, but also just like... And ones that you guys get behind, TimCast, the movies you really like, we could go do special screenings there.
01:46:16.000But documentaries, because we just put out Infringed, so there's a lot you could do.
01:46:20.000I don't know, it's up to you guys, but we've... Terrence Williams is definitely interested in something.
01:46:25.000He actually gave us the idea by mentioning he wanted to do this diner.
01:46:28.000And we have the paperwork with Andrew Groll, we're finalizing.
01:46:31.000And then we are going to, the general idea is we want to create,
01:46:34.000we've got all these prominent individuals that are fighting the culture war.
01:46:37.000And I'm like, let's create brick and mortar shops for all these different personalities that fit their brand
01:46:44.000for what they're interested in and into and promoting.
01:46:55.000Imagine some guy or woman walks in for their morning coffee and as they're waiting for it,
01:47:00.000there's a TV screen playing Crowder, Timcast IRL, or some other show, Joe Rogan, whatever.
01:47:06.000That's going to expose our side of the culture war and parallel economy to regular people when we put this up next to, you know, a Walmart or something.
01:47:13.000Now imagine Saturday night at the coffee shop is, you know, normal hours are till eight, but this night we're doing a screening for an Angel Studios, you know, movie that came out a little while ago, come hang out, get together.
01:47:23.000What we want to do is something called Saturday morning cartoons.
01:47:26.000Where, on Saturday mornings, families come with their kids, the TVs are playing wholesome cartoons, we do catering, and this creates, like, builds up community between families.
01:47:35.000We've got a bunch of cartoons we could help you out with there.
01:47:52.000I mean, I feel like if there was someone who was like a billionaire culture warrior, they could be like, I'll hire 10 guys right now, we'll get the ball rolling.
01:48:00.000For me, it's like we got 800 things, you know, on all these different...
01:48:04.000You know, so the paperwork's moving forward with Jeff Andrew Greuel, but we can only go as fast as we can.
01:48:09.000So hopefully... The fastest way to get there, I think, to that is if we can get the Angel Guild big enough to escape Velocity.
01:48:17.000Essentially, like, we just need to figure out kind of a deeper partnership to where we're working with everybody who's like-minded and making sure it's a win for everybody.
01:48:27.000There's a theater across the street from us that hosted an all-ages drag show.
01:48:31.000Perhaps we can buy it and turn it into a movie theater and stop having those kinds of things.
01:48:36.000Yeah, the people in the community are really pissed off because they had a pride event where they had children dancing with drag queens and stuff like that, and the locals are offended.
01:48:44.000I mean, they find this stuff to be in violation of West Virginia state law, which they clearly outline, and they're wondering why nothing's being done about it.
01:48:51.000Well, it's because wokeness pushed its way into these areas, and so we're gonna push back and say, look, man, If the people who live here are saying this goes against their values and they have laws against it, we need something to change.
01:49:29.000Because we just, as we're moving Thanksgiving, it's moving out of theaters because the big movies are coming in, which means it's going straight into the Guild.
01:49:38.000So if you go to theangel.com slash timcast, you can just start watching this.
01:49:41.000But this movie, what they do is they go through and they take the scientific documentation around what people have experienced when they died and then they came back.
01:49:51.000You know, people have been, were dead completely, like no brain activity type situations for 30 minutes or 90 minutes.
01:49:57.000Multiple continents, different faiths, just all types of people looking for patterns.
01:50:02.000And then they look for patterns and they see that there are people who are in surgeries and have experiences where they see things that are happening and they explain it to the surgeon after the fact, and the surgeon's like, they can't know that.
01:50:16.000It's impossible for them to know that because they're having an out-of-body experience.
01:50:35.000They're watching their own ambulance get to the hospital and they're following it.
01:50:39.000Someone wrote something on a paper and had it on top of a cupboard, and then someone who was having a near-death experience said what was on top of it.
01:50:47.000And they were just like, how could you have possibly known?
01:50:50.000There was no point at which you were consciously walking around the room.
01:50:53.000You were on your deathbed the whole time.
01:51:53.000And even like there's, um, when, when you go and watch it inside the app, when you get in the angel app and you watch it, there are dozens of videos of people that have watched the movie and then they submitted their own experiences.
01:52:14.000I read a book on this 20 years ago, 19 years ago.
01:52:17.000And, uh, it was fascinating because it was like, It was a skeptic who wrote a book who was an atheist secular guy who said that his goal was basically to analyze this through any other academic survey and what he found was 80-90% of the interviews he did, it was almost the same story regardless of external circumstance.
01:52:40.000Like the a lot of people say oh they see a bright light because they're in an operating table And he was like actually we found that people who are having near-death experiences outside of hospital settings car accidents gunshot wounds, etc Experience the same thing either and and they meet relatives.
01:52:54.000Yeah, they have life reviews Like that's something that's different than like a review.
01:52:59.000Yeah, they have instead of psychedelic experiences They'll meet their relatives or they meet like They meet God and then they have a life review where they go through their life like in the Scrooge movie Yeah, kind of.
01:53:10.000It's really interesting how some of these movies that do really well, if you look, it's a wonderful life.
01:53:15.000He goes back through his life and he overcomes his trauma and he's healed.
01:53:20.000And in Scrooge, these writers tapped into something deeper about Like, more eternal, because they're going back through their lives in these stories, and then they're completely healed by the end of the movie.
01:53:33.000And these resonate deeply with people.
01:53:35.000Well, and it comes at a time when therapy-speak is on the rise.
01:53:38.000You have lots of people, especially young people, and I applaud those who say, you know, I want to get better, I want to understand myself more, whatever else, but it's like, are you actually fully reflecting on your life and the choices you made, or are you holding yourself accountable?
01:54:40.000And this is crazy, because once we got news that Mr. Bocas was sick, I was asking, like, should we get a kitten so that Bocas can teach the kitten?
01:54:48.000And then when Bocas passes, because he's really sick, then the kitten will have that spark of Mr. Bocas.
01:54:54.000And the crazy thing is, around this time, within a month or two of this, Seamus was born and then lived on our property over the past several months and was living in our garage.
01:55:06.000And now we have, uh, he's probably eight to ten months, ten months old.
01:55:09.000Brought him to the vet, got him shots and got him no fleas, no ticks.
01:55:43.000We were driving the car and I was calling the cat Mew Mew.
01:55:46.000And, uh, because I was saying Mew Mew to it, and then we were like, we should come up with a name, and then, you know, as we're driving to go get food with Seamus, I was like, we're gonna call him Seamus.
01:55:54.000Because Seamus is leaving, and I was like, that way when Seamus is gone, we can still say something like, oh, oh no, Seamus pooped on the floor again.
01:57:00.000And then, right, yeah, the pill causes dehydration.
01:57:02.000And then they're saying, okay, well now you gotta take this pill to counteract that side effect, and then eventually you're on seven pills.
01:57:07.000And you're like, I'm taking all these pills to counteract all the problems from the other pills.
01:57:10.000Meanwhile, they're all slowly hurting you in some way.
01:57:13.000It's just, in my opinion, I don't know enough.
01:57:14.000I'm not a doctor, but I see, I watch with my own eyes the guy struggling to move around after the seventh pill, and I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no.
01:57:24.000Shider Alpha says, my favorite Mr. Beast video is, after recent backlash, I will be re-blinding 1,000 people.
01:57:32.000Like, what do people expect from this dude?
01:57:34.000I think it's great that Mr. Beast's whole brand is like, I'm gonna do a really good thing for people to get famous and make money and I'm like, oh, okay.
01:57:49.000If somebody's gonna get famous, that's a really good reason to be famous.
01:57:52.000And there are, like, YouTubers who've gotten in trouble for, like, being like, oh, we're gonna host this competition, and it's gonna raise money, and we'll donate it to charity, and then they don't, right?
01:58:00.000They're gonna go back in time and be like, we can't celebrate Mother Teresa because she helped so many people become famous.
01:58:05.000In some ways, because Mr. Beast films the stuff, like, at least there is evidence against He's doing the stuff he says he's gonna do.
01:58:11.000He's not like telling you a story and there's a lie behind it.
01:58:14.000He's not like, next week we're gonna... I mean he just puts out the video.
01:58:18.000And he also didn't get famous doing this stuff.
01:58:19.000He got famous grinding 10-12 hours a day making Minecraft content.
01:58:24.000And then he put that money into doing this great stuff like paying off his mom's house.
01:59:21.000Squidbugs Anonymous says, Malay vowing to dismantle regulation on an already crumbling society seems like a great way to see more corruption, exploitation, economic inequality, and environmental destruction.
01:59:44.000Poison Fist says, New York appellate court tossed quarantine camp lawsuit paving the way for government kidnapping, hospitalization, detainment without evidence and diagnosis.
02:00:00.000Did you see Kathy Hochul's press conference today, where she was like, we're going to expand the Division of Homeland Security's, like, basically she's saying, like, on college campuses, we're going to have additional training so that we can train students to spot online fiction from online fact and can get better at recognizing conspiracy theories.
02:00:18.000And it's like, even listening to it, I'm like, this is so dystopian.
02:00:22.000Where is your, who is your speechwriter?
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