R.I.K. Jr. is preparing to run for president as an independent, and Rich Barris joins us to discuss why he thinks it s a good idea. Plus, a pre-show with Public Square in Miami featuring Phil Labonte.
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00:03:22.000Well, it is really interesting that every so often we have a guest perfectly aligned with the big story, and right now the big story is that RFK is planning to run as an independent, and then we have The people's pundit here to talk about polling, but we'll get into it in a second.
00:03:37.000We'll run through these introductions.
00:03:39.000So we've got Phil Labonte hanging out.
00:04:12.000According to Mediaite, Kennedy plans to make the announcement October 9th in Philly, with a text message viewed by the outlet stating that his campaign is planning attack ads against the Democrat National Committee to pave the way for the announcement.
00:04:25.000Bobby feels the DNC is changing the rules to exclude his candidacy, so an independent run is the only way to go.
00:04:31.000On Saturday, New York Times published a piece stating that Kennedy met with Libertarian Party Chair Angela McArdle in July at a Memphis conference.
00:04:40.000He emphasized that he has committed to running as a Democrat, but said that he considered himself very libertarian.
00:04:47.000McArdle said, adding, we are aligned on a lot of issues, including the threat of the deep state.
00:05:47.000We're going to poll this and we're going to poll this soon to see, you know, Biden, the Democrat, Trump, the Republican, and of RFK, the Independent.
00:05:56.000And we'll put West in there to see what it really, you know, that's going to happen.
00:06:02.000Oh yeah, I mean, Democrats are gonna get spiked across the board!
00:06:05.000If this really goes... Yeah, I mean, if this goes bad for Democrats, which, you know, it may not.
00:06:11.000I mean, I'll wait to see what the data says, but, you know, if it does, you're looking at... The Ross Perot analogy's accurate, then, folks.
00:06:18.000You know what would be really hilarious, though?
00:06:20.000There's a lot, you know, Mike Cernovich has got a series of tweets that we're going to talk about in a second, very dire ones.
00:06:24.000But, you know, this fear of losing in 2024, and I'm just kind of like, could you imagine if it's like Donald Trump gets 43% of the vote, but Biden, because of Cornel West and RFK, only gets like 39?
00:06:37.000And he'll wind up, Tim, he'd win states Republicans don't win, if that happens.
00:07:27.000Yeah, so well, I mean, I was I didn't realize he lost that much of the remaining vote Yeah, if though let's say West is on there.
00:07:36.000He takes four some RFK takes ten and then you're looking at Biden Biden with 38 Trump wins Maine with 45 percent.
00:07:44.000This is a game-changer You mentioned Ross Perot and what happened in 92.
00:07:47.000I don't know if people listening even know the Ross Perot story, but he came out of nowhere, out of the business sector, and ran for president in 1992 against George Herbert Walker Bush and Bill Clinton.
00:07:55.000And everyone expected George Herbert Walker Bush to win his second term as president, and he was the incumbent.
00:07:59.000But Ross Perot split the vote and then Clinton took it.
00:08:03.000Yeah, Clinton never was elected with a majority.
00:08:48.0002017, 2018, 2019, then 2020, Trump put out his list of what his plan was, and then I said, like, if this is Trump's plan, these agenda items, I agree with too much of this to honestly say I would vote against it.
00:09:02.000And considering they're trying to run Joe Biden, and we know what Biden's all about, I cannot honestly say I could support the Democratic Party.
00:09:08.000There were a lot of people who are still Democrats who voted in 2020 for Biden who are now saying it was a mistake.
00:09:14.000But some of these people are saying, please let it be RFK or literally anyone else.
00:09:19.000They are begging Biden not to be there.
00:09:22.000If Biden is the nominee and RFK runs an independent, there are people who are Democrats who are upset about what happened with Joe Biden, upset at the state of the country, but still won't vote for Trump.
00:09:32.000They'll either not vote West or vote RFK.
00:13:29.000I'm like, bro, if anyone has a right to scream, no.
00:13:31.000They don't even want to admit that it's happening.
00:13:33.000Most of my friends that are left-leaning or that come from the music industry or whatever, they don't admit that, or they refuse to acknowledge that there are political persecutions.
00:13:44.000They're like, oh, well, it's fine because it's Trump, or well, they did this, or they did that.
00:13:48.000And the spirit of the law, the intent of the law is totally Man, it's disturbing stuff.
00:13:52.000to them. It's just, oh, the government said they did something wrong. I don't like those
00:13:57.000people so the government must be right. It is totally un- like the unthinking, completely
00:14:03.000knee-jerk gut react. Excuse me. So. Man, it's disturbing stuff. Unimpeded, I think. RFK
00:14:13.000goes independent, stakes votes away from decrepit Joe Biden, Democrats lose, Trump wins, but
00:14:17.000I don't see an unimpeded course in the future.
00:14:20.000I mean, but hold on, if he runs as an independent and he really does get 14, let's say 15% right now of the Democratic vote, so this means that the correlation, what would the correlation be to the general vote?
00:16:45.000You know, so this can happen again, though.
00:16:49.000So I'm glad you pulled that up because I tell people this when we're looking at Trump's write-in vote.
00:16:55.000People who are voting for Trump in the primary say, if the man is not nominated, I will either write his name in some space on the ballot, or I will not vote.
00:18:21.000If you're a conservative with a large platform, have you talked to your family about how you're going to be framed for a crime to be killed in 2024 if Biden wins?
00:18:29.000If you think this is hyperbole, you've not been paying attention.
00:18:44.000I find that to be a very interesting response from Mr. Schaffer.
00:18:49.000And while I do think Mike's tweets may be a bit aggressive, It's not so- People misunderstand these conversations, because their view of the world is based on the movie.
00:18:59.000And in movies, what happens is, the evil dictator, Supreme Emperor, takes power, and then appears in a ghastly image of the hood and goes, And then all of a sudden, all the good guys are just purged from existence.
00:19:14.000What you need to understand about this stuff is, okay, so a tech entrepreneur in Baltimore was just beaten to death, raped, and murdered in her own home.
00:19:21.000And the man who did it was known to the police because only a few days earlier, he had beaten, tortured, and raped a woman in front of her boyfriend, and then set them both on fire.
00:19:32.000I say these things because, understand, that was for no reason.
00:19:36.000When Mike Cernovich says, when we lose, these things will happen, perhaps a bit aggressive, as I stated.
00:19:42.000Because, you know, we don't know what the time frame for kind of extremism will be.
00:19:46.000But there are several things you need to understand.
00:19:49.000We've got Chas Chop already happening.
00:19:51.000We've got occupations already happening around the country.
00:20:39.000People like Mike Cernovich, who pose a threat to the established order of the military-industrial complex and the neoconservative neolib military agenda, whatever you want to call it, you'll get Julian Assanged.
00:21:45.000But just understand, even if Trump does win, it doesn't mean whatever is happening in this country ends.
00:21:50.000When you have far-left extremists storming government property, firebombing things, when it is the norm for them to go on social media and threaten people with death, and the reason why we bring this story up first is because the next story we're talking about is the guy who threatened to blow up Andy Ngo's speaking event was arrested.
00:22:07.000So there's still law and order, you know, a little bit.
00:22:09.000Social order is breaking down when you look at San Francisco, when you look at Philadelphia, when you look at Chicago, New York, these flash mobs all over the place.
00:22:59.000I love the writing of the game Fallout 3.
00:23:00.000You guys, I think you're all familiar with it at this point, I talk about it a lot.
00:23:04.000So, for those that aren't familiar, Fallout video game, I know it's fiction, but it's written by humans who are looking at what happens around the world and what they think may occur.
00:23:12.000The video game is about a nuclear annihilation, nuclear war, wipes out the world, and then everyone goes into vaults, simplified version.
00:23:19.000The government becomes something called the Enclave, the remnants of the United States government.
00:23:30.000government will seek to preserve itself, and you are in the way.
00:23:34.000So, when we begin seeing non-citizens being shipped into Staten Island, what do the police do?
00:23:41.000Beat and arrest the residents of Staten Island.
00:23:44.000They seek to preserve themselves by any means necessary, and you are in the way.
00:23:48.000So what Mike is saying and my concerns are more so, It's not that Biden will get re-elected and order the police to execute Order 66.
00:23:57.000It's that they're going to say, circle the wagons around government and destroy in any way possible anyone who threatens us.
00:24:07.000If you want to know what's going to happen, you can look to what happened in the Cultural Revolution in China.
00:24:12.000There is ample examples of what happens when the government has a change of what the fundamental principles that government stands for means and the way that the population reacts and the way that the government reacts.
00:24:29.000We saw in 2020 a whole lot of rioting and a whole lot of stuff going on and the police could not and maybe they could have but they refused to do anything about it.
00:24:42.000I don't see any reason why, if there is some other type of civil unrest like that, how the police or the government would behave any differently.
00:24:55.000I would hope that they would see the mistake they made in 2020 by letting it get out of hand and not stomping it on day two.
00:25:05.000What I'm wondering is, because you were saying, I think Tim mentioned, it's like a dissolution of order in the system, but what I definitely see is a rise of organized crime in the system.
00:25:14.000These people that are organizing on Facebook chats, wherever signal, they're organizing flash mobs, they're organizing.
00:25:19.000And it's like not one organization, it's a lot of little organizations, but it's a new type of organized crime that needs to be dealt with.
00:25:25.000And it's maybe that the government doesn't know how to deal with it quite yet.
00:25:28.000I mean, they got their spy tech, but It's just so disparate, it's hard to see it coming.
00:25:33.000You've got nine poor kids in Philadelphia that want to get on a signal chat and decide to go break into a Best Buy at nine o'clock.
00:25:39.000You can't... How does the government... So it might be that they are unequipped.
00:25:44.000Worst case scenario, they're complicit.
00:26:35.000We're this close to being indicted in Georgia.
00:26:38.000So they're there, but I guess that matters.
00:26:41.000What role are you playing and how influential are you in opposing something that they don't like?
00:26:46.000I do just want to bring up this 2024's total defeat.
00:26:48.000I don't know if he's using reverse psychology there or what, but he's right about the RNC not doing enough.
00:26:55.000So as a pollster, I look at this and I say they're indicting Trump because he is improve so much with certain groups that Republicans are not supposed to win, they know that.
00:27:17.000The RNC is way behind in infrastructure.
00:27:20.000They should have done much better in 22 and didn't because they still don't really understand what they're up against.
00:27:27.000And even watching, because I know about this, even watching some of them trying to get it together and trying to deal with ballot harvesting.
00:27:39.000They're not working together like Democrats work together.
00:27:42.000Well, I highlighted this in a segment where I was talking about Democrats going full communist because they're cheering for the ruling against Trump's businesses where the judge basically banged the gavel, summary judgment, no more Trump organization.
00:28:31.000There are Democrats reaching up into the less woke area, but the cluster, maybe the plurality, large or majority, is all hyper-concentrated in one circle, ultra-woke, as far left as possible, in both economic and social.
00:28:45.000Again, Trump's base was anti-woke, opposing the social left, but spread out in terms of economic policy, which explains shows like this.
00:28:58.000Well, you know, not to jump in again, but I have to point out again that they know that.
00:29:08.000So, you know, Obama's old pollster puts out a poll last month and he's having a meltdown over it.
00:29:15.000And of course, they're all trying to make themselves feel better.
00:29:17.000So on top of that, they're trying to see how some of the people on different ends of that spectrum react if you ask things like, well, what if he's convicted of, you know, one felony, two felonies, right?
00:29:29.000They're just trying to get some good news out of it.
00:29:31.000And when all is said and done, a lot of these people I don't think are going to care when they are looking at, maybe they're not saying it out loud like Cernovich is saying it, but I do feel like listening to people that we interview all the time, A lot of people are where Cernovich is here, even being hyperbolic.
00:29:50.000And if you notice who is... Well, he's saying it's not hyperbole.
00:29:56.000Even if you look at who is most angry at these responses or think he's being hyperbolic, it's a certain group.
00:30:03.000And I don't know who watched it or who didn't, but Bill O'Reilly was interviewed by Tucker the other day.
00:30:08.000And Tucker said, well, what's going to happen here?
00:30:11.000Is Trump going to be elected from prison or what would happen if he is elected?
00:30:15.000And Bill O'Reilly just kind of still, even now.
00:30:19.000Just dismiss the idea that Donald Trump could be convicted or would be convicted and sent to prison.
00:30:25.000Oh, worst case scenario, he's going to be in house arrest in the White House.
00:30:29.000And I just feel like this is a real big generational divide on this, that there are still some older people who haven't seen it.
00:30:36.000But again, in the primary, and I can say this from polling the primary, Trump's big lead really started to happen when older voters Couldn't believe that he really was indicted.
00:31:06.000Only Aaron Danielson was a few months later.
00:31:09.000So my point here is, and I'm being somewhat of a dick when I say that, Is that he was actually fairly correct, despite being hyperbolic.
00:31:18.000Scott Adams said, you'll be hunted, and then a few months later, they just walked up to this dude and shot him for being a Trump supporter.
00:32:07.000The way he phrased it, too, like, I don't have the tweet in front of me anymore, but saying, you are going to, like, talking to me, saying, we are, like, don't pull me into your little muck there, Mike.
00:32:16.000I get what you're saying, but I'm not part of your group there.
00:32:20.000Yeah, don't try and scare me into making a point and get me to follow you, it's junk.
00:32:24.000I think that the point really is, Because of the way that the left has framed the the quote-unquote sides Anyone that's not on their team is somehow on the other team It's the basket of deplorables comment that Clinton made if you do not fall in line and you have the if you have the wrong politics and that doesn't mean
00:32:55.000Then you are on the outside and you are just as liable to be thrown into the group of the bad guys as anyone else is.
00:33:03.000It doesn't matter if you're a MAGA person or you're like...
00:33:07.000One of the free staters up in New Hampshire that are libertarians or whatever.
00:33:14.000If you're not on board with their project, then you have the wrong politics.
00:33:20.000The thing about political correctness is there is the correct politics and that means everything else that is not that is incorrect.
00:33:30.000So it doesn't matter what your politics are.
00:33:32.000All that matters is your politics are not theirs.
00:33:35.000So you can't, you don't get to walk away from it.
00:33:38.000In a revolutionary period, a communist revolutionary period, it is not the revolutionaries who are killed first.
00:33:45.000That's after the revolution, they begin purging revolutionaries.
00:33:50.000So in terms of, if we are undergoing something akin to what Cernovich and Scott Adams have described, so to understand the context, using this room as an example, Ian, you are their first target.
00:34:04.000You are a collaborator, and you have less defenses.
00:34:10.000So when it comes to a Robespierre type period, they're going to be looking for people who they view as collaborators, who don't have the means to defend themselves.
00:34:21.000You've got people who are living in the neighborhood where there's a conflict between the nationalists, the republicans and the communists or whatever the factions were, fascist republicans, call them whatever you want.
00:34:31.000And so, can they go into the territory that is militarized and fortified by their political opposition?
00:34:38.000But what about the collaborator who lives down the street?
00:34:41.000So that's, I'm not saying you literally, I'm saying in the context of what this is, you've got There will be someone who is known to have spoken out and said, you guys are wrong, this revolution shouldn't happen, I'm friends with those guys.
00:34:55.000In the revolutionary period, those are the people that get gulag'd and purged.
00:34:58.000The people like, in this instance, me or Phil, are the ones in the fortified areas they can't get to.
00:35:04.000I'm speaking figuratively, not literally.
00:35:06.000So in terms of, can the government comment on arresting people in charge?
00:35:11.000And there's a reason why, when it came to January 6, there are certain high-profile people who are targeted, certain high-profile people who are not targeted, and most people who were targeted were low-profile and no one even knows their names.
00:35:26.000If the federal government were to indict Alex Jones, hey, hold on, they indicted Owen Schroer, despite the fact they were both part of the same event.
00:35:33.000Because Alex Jones would create too big of a backlash.
00:35:37.000And they know, hey, if we drop a boulder in this lake, it's going to wake everybody up.
00:35:42.000Owen Schroer, we can mess with, and it will be, you know, a moderately sized rock that will cause a splash, not too bad.
00:35:49.000But all these little pebbles, we can strip them all out with no opposition.
00:35:55.000After they strip away the pebbles, then they can go for the boulders.
00:35:59.000So, when you say stuff to, like, Scott Adams, you're like, don't say that, don't put me in your group.
00:36:59.000What I think will end up happening is there's going to be a dude working at a factory, and they're going to be all going Democrat, Democrat, Democrat.
00:37:06.000All these conservative Trump supporters are building a parallel economy, forming companies, forming jobs, downloading apps like Public Square, so that they can keep working, and working in the film industry, in the music industry, and then these guys who are working at these companies, where they're just like, look, if I just don't say anything, now the boss is going to come and they're going to be like, so uh, you went into a meeting yesterday with Janet, by yourself?
00:37:30.000It's like, yeah, she was asking me about the TPS reports, but Yeah, um, you're being accused of sexual assault, so we're gonna have to escort you out of the building, and things like that.
00:37:40.000So, uh, that is to say, quite literally, you work at Timcast, you're fine.
00:37:44.000I'm saying, these people who think that they're going to say nothing, and I'm not involved with you, don't rope me with you, if I stay away from these guys I'll be safe, no, you're the first ones to get fired, first ones to lose your job.
00:37:53.000You're the collaborators, you're the, you're the opposition.
00:37:57.000You know I'm listening to you say this and give these examples though and it maybe it's not widespread it's not it's not yet but I'm thinking about after January 6th I had a.
00:38:08.000I got these military documents, and what they were saying was, we're going to start to look through people in your company, we're going to start to look through their Facebooks and their social posts, and if they liked something from these groups, then obviously they were going to do something, discipline them or something like that.
00:38:41.000I want to jump to this next tweet from Mike Cernovich.
00:38:43.000So let's, fresh segment, let me just, for those who are just tuning in, Cernovich has a series of tweets that are similar in essence to what Scott Adams had said in the last election that You know, that he believes, Cernovich believes he'll be hunted down and killed in 2020, after 2024, if, you know, if we lose.
00:38:59.000He says, if you're conservative with a large platform, have you talked to your family about how you're going to be framed for a crime?
00:39:05.000He quote tweeted this, he says 2024 is life or death and he quote tweeted saying, John Eastman facing disbarment for a legal memo on an open constitutional law issue.
00:39:13.000Trump, judge said Mar-a-Lago only worth 18 million dollars.
00:39:25.000I'm not even convinced SCOTUS is, because when it came to Texas v Pennsylvania in 2020, SCOTUS said we are too cowardly to answer a question on original jurisdiction, which is insane.
00:40:09.000Elderly Republicans were tasked, were electors, were asked to sign documents in the event lawsuits were won, they would require these documents.
00:40:18.000It is a normal constitutional procedure.
00:40:21.000Michigan indicted them and they are facing the rest of their lives in prison over doing what they are constitutionally requested to do.
00:40:53.000A judge in New York on summary judgment banged a gavel and said the Trump organization is to be dissolved and then sanctioned the lawyers for arguing.
00:41:04.000The system already is fractured and busted up.
00:41:07.000Like we were talking earlier about in 1992 with like, I don't know, we talked about Rodney King earlier in the week, but like just the chaos and the things that have happened that didn't get televised, but now like anything, any guy can tweet out Eight things that have happened.
00:41:20.000Aaron Danielson, we've talked about a million times, that probably wouldn't even have gotten national media attention, or maybe it would have, but likely may not have gotten national media attention.
00:41:28.000This could be an example of just taking these things and blowing them out of proportion, but I think the Trump indictments are just beyond the pale.
00:41:37.000It is one of the most egregious violations of this country's values, laws, norms, rules, the Constitution, and it is one of the most, if not the most significant thing that has happened to this country since its founding.
00:41:52.000You can talk about the Civil War, and then I would say, okay, perhaps we can have a conversation about the Civil War, that when Abraham Lincoln was trying to, he tried to, I don't think he did actually indict a sitting Supreme Court Justice, but this was secession and then conflict.
00:42:06.000So, Right now, this could be on par with these moves that led to 1865.
00:42:12.000It's like we're in a different country, and literally, like, same name, but because, like, someone in Tacoma, Washington, will be online talking to their best friend in England, and they don't have any friends in Tacoma, because they're online.
00:42:25.000So it's like a different world, a different reality, this country now.
00:42:30.000You know, it's like we're a different country.
00:42:32.000That's the difference between this country And other countries or has been that we don't beat each other political opposition in the juror box.
00:44:00.000Because there could be, and that's why you saw it in Colorado, in a situation like 16, when we had disaffected voters going to, you know, Gary Johnson, Jill Stein, Colorado got close there, Tim, got way closer than it should have been.
00:44:46.000Every time something crazy new happens, that is like a, we passed this Rubicon, we crossed this line, it does seem to be aliens.
00:44:53.000They're trying it, but the water's too hot, they keep pulling their toe out, it's just, people don't buy it.
00:44:59.000But it used to be, and you were kind of, maybe you're alluding to this, but I was thinking about it while you were talking, that it, you'd get the presidential vote, whether you hated the guy or liked the guy, you'd vote, it didn't really matter, like, yeah, your commander's the commander, but Congress runs the show, it doesn't really matter, and so like, let's all, Enjoy life as Americans.
00:46:55.000He should be running the America First ticket.
00:46:57.000And if you're for me, in Texas 12, you vote for John O'Shea.
00:47:00.000If you're for me, you vote for Matt Gaetz in Florida 1.
00:47:04.000If you're for me, that benefited a lot of bad people in 2016.
00:47:09.000Trump always gave more than he got from the traditional GOP coalition, and he drug a bunch of losers over the finish line who would then stick a knife right in his back.
00:49:44.000And by the way, I need migrant workers, so I want to keep the border open.
00:49:48.000He voted against the trans bill the other day.
00:49:51.000I mean, these people, Say one thing, completely do another when they get in there, and this is a uniquely Republican problem.
00:49:58.000You will not see this on the Democratic side.
00:50:00.000When was the last time, Tim, you saw a Democrat promise something, right, that's a liberal, um, you know, I don't want to say orthodoxy, yeah, liberal orthodoxy, and then get to Congress and stab their voters in the back?
00:50:32.000I just don't think their words are worth anything.
00:50:35.000Yeah, they should be putting their actions in smart contracts.
00:50:38.000I don't care if they're Democrats or Republicans.
00:50:40.000There's like seven Republicans where I'm kind of like, yeah, maybe.
00:50:45.000Like if they were like, I'll endorse you but then you'll vote for me on that and they need to put it in writing or they need to put it into a smart contract so it triggers automatically, they don't get to resend their agreement, but would that be like...
00:51:06.000I'll scratch your back, you scratch mine.
00:51:08.000But when it's complete betrayal, then the whole thing's just... There's no benefit for them to sign something like a smart contract that automatically executes because the possibility of changing is what gives them leverage to leverage one side against the other.
00:51:26.000So they'll go ahead and they'll say, yes, I promise to do this, but then they'll go and talk behind closed doors to their, the people that would give them donations or whatever and say, well, you know, we'll do this and blah, blah, blah.
00:51:37.000That's what Hillary, Hillary Clinton came out and said that when you, when she said you have your public position and then your private position, she specifically articulated it just like that.
00:51:47.000You have a public position and then you have a private position.
00:52:28.000Let me talk about politics of scale, so people can understand why politicians literally don't care about you, why Hillary Clinton never cared about gay marriage but claimed to support it and then privately said she was opposed to it because it doesn't matter to her.
00:52:40.000The people who are running the country are simply thinking about how do I maintain maximum power, and they view themselves as the American people are... It's like an ant farm, or a chicken coop.
00:52:51.000I like using the chicken coop analogy.
00:52:53.000They need more eggs to have an egg fight with people in China, and they don't care that much about the chickens.
00:52:59.000I mean, they don't want the chickens to die, but when a chicken dies, they're like, well, I'll just get another one, right?
00:53:02.000So let me explain something about it so everyone can understand.
00:53:05.000I can explain it in the best way that I can relative to my business.
00:53:09.000When you start a show, or a coffee shop, or anything, and your business is directly associated with a small community.
00:53:17.000Maybe you make bagels and you sell them to the public.
00:53:20.000You know that you have about a thousand regular customers, and then you have maybe like two thousand people who come and go that you'll never see before on average.
00:53:29.000They'll visit your shop one time and never come back.
00:53:46.000As your business gets bigger, you start to notice that the weather has profound impacts.
00:53:51.000Whereas some things probably don't matter to the individual partaking them, it has a tremendous impact in the back end of a larger scale business.
00:54:00.000That is to say, To what degree does winter, does summer, and does rain affect a YouTube channel?
00:54:07.000Now, most people who are fans of the show watch the show all the time, but one person will simply say, You know what?
00:54:20.000This is replicated by 3-7% of our viewer base.
00:54:25.000I cannot address the single individual who doesn't show up for whatever reason, and most people probably think this one person not showing up doesn't matter, but in the back end, when you have a scale of a million plus viewers, you actually can see insane trends.
00:54:40.000So this actually plays to what AI tracks as well, when it comes to health and fitness, and like when they're looking at blood, like your blood oxygenation, and they can find cancer.
00:54:49.000We actually see crazy things in our data that you wouldn't notice unless you have millions of viewers.
00:54:55.000And then, you're like, nothing you can do about it.
00:54:58.000It's hard to get super, I don't know, it's kind of hard to explain.
00:55:03.000But the general idea is, we can see weather patterns in viewership, and then I can correlate, oh, viewership was down in this region?
00:55:11.000I bet it was sunny out and 65 degrees.
00:55:14.000And then sure enough, we can see, that's right, in Southern California, it was a beautiful day.
00:55:51.000They're looking at their chicken coop and saying, this new feed is going to kill off 20% of the chickens, but they're going to lay twice as many eggs.
00:56:09.000This is how government at scale works.
00:56:11.000They will sacrifice you, your individual pattern of behaviors is meaningless to them, and they will just simply maximize economic output to the detriment of large swaths of the population.
00:56:24.000When Matt Gaetz was here, he said something very important that I hope people understand.
00:56:28.000We were all laughing and cheering for our government shutdown.
00:56:31.000We, as fans of Matt Gaetz and his work in Congress, not constituents in Florida, but fans of the work he does, I was like, this is fantastic!
00:56:39.000Here's a guy who's sticking it to the government, it's gonna cause a shutdown.
00:57:12.000But as a politician, the confrontations that you'll experience, the circumstances are going to be, Do the right thing, but no matter what you do, you're going to piss somebody off.
00:57:22.000And do we, as people who want to solve the problem of omnibus spending, want to sacrifice the well-being of our disabled veterans to get there?
00:57:31.000That's a very difficult question, isn't it?
00:57:33.000So you'll end up with politicians, most of them don't care at all.
00:57:55.000And guaranteed, all of these dirtbags are going to be pretending they were right up shoulder to shoulder fighting with Matt Gaetz when that happens.
00:58:04.000I mean, if we could fast forward, guys, if something doesn't change and we could fast forward, I don't know how long it's going to be, nobody does, but we could fast forward to the future when we have to really be held accountable for this recklessness.
00:58:17.000You're going to hear members of Congress go, Matt Gaetz and I were fighting against this!
00:58:28.000You know, if it wasn't for the Republicans trying to give tax cuts to the wealthy, we would have had this under control!
00:58:34.000And that's the tragic part about it, because, you know, can we grow our way out of this problem anymore?
00:58:41.000You know, maybe under Trump, when we were seeing a period, revenue was coming in from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, and it was starting to rise because we were in that Goldilocks zone of corporate tax rates.
00:59:37.000I'm saying that beyond just hydrogen, nuclear energy right now is a very, very important source of energy for us.
00:59:45.000And this is all obviously like, we ask chickens in the chicken coop.
00:59:48.000I'm just assuming that the information we've collected and gathered and being disseminated is correct, but they lie to us all the time, so it's hard to know.
00:59:54.000But they oppose nuclear energy despite the fact that it's carbon neutral and it has a massive, I believe it's the highest energy return on energy invested.
01:00:01.000That means for every calorie of energy that goes in, you get... I can't remember what it was.
01:00:42.000I like hydrogen because it's, um, individuals can, can use it in their, carry it around with them and put it in their car.
01:00:47.000If we can make hydrogen, gasoline, hybrid engines.
01:00:49.000But, but, but for now the infrastructure for nuclear exists.
01:00:52.000And then we need to start expanding the infrastructure for hydrogen and for other materials.
01:00:56.000Ultimately, the point, and I want to drill this into every politician's head, every businessman's head, the answer to our economy, the solution to our economy is not in the economic, it's not in the money.
01:01:05.000It's in the productivity of devices and technology.
01:01:09.000And that's another tragedy of the post-COVID economy.
01:01:12.000And, you know, I don't care which party is Joe Biden winning.
01:01:16.000We started again to move away from that.
01:01:19.000And under Trump, we went back to good, you know, goods producing.
01:01:23.000Productivity was obviously increasing.
01:01:27.000You can kind of get away, too, with having a, and I don't want to encourage debt, but if you make things the world needs, and you are the leader of that, you get grace, period.
01:01:37.000If your entire economy, which is, you know, your strength is based on the petrodollar, and you're not making enough, it's too expensive, your debt's ridiculous, then that puts you in a bad way.
01:01:50.000We may buy ourselves some time being something that somebody needs.
01:01:53.000This is, honestly, I think the more reasonable, the more likely reason that the U.S.
01:01:59.000and Israel teamed up on Stuxnet to blow up the Iranian centrifuges was not because they were making nuclear weapons.
01:02:04.000It's because the West knew they were trying to make nuclear power and create an economy that wasn't functioning off of oil.
01:02:54.000We're trying to win through the process by which the Founding Fathers helped enshrine.
01:02:57.000I understand a lot of people are like, yo, the Founding Fathers fought and did a lot of stuff.
01:03:00.000It's like, dude, they also fought to create a system where we could, with the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, solve these problems without having to resolve them.
01:03:24.000So please, this is why we shouldn't have done this.
01:03:26.000But I bring the story up, because I have warned about this.
01:03:30.000We've seen it before, the attacks on abortion clinics, and we've had the conversation on this show.
01:03:36.000That when you start seeing states say abortion to the point of birth, and other states say no abortion at all, Oklahoma and Colorado, sharing a border, this is an inevitability.
01:03:47.000Now, again, people should not be doing this, okay?
01:03:51.000It needs to be handled by a law enforcement arbiter to shut these things down through the vote, and that's what you're getting in the states that are passing the laws, and they're doing it by the book.
01:04:02.000Let them, let the left overreact and let the law take care of it because that's the process by which we have agreed we can get these things done.
01:05:29.000And they create, and every once in a while there needs to be a release valve in society.
01:05:34.000And public policy, if something's not going your way, unfortunately can lead to stuff like this.
01:05:39.000Republicans know where they have the country on abortion, and yet they just continuously overreach.
01:05:45.000I also want to make sure, because this is not just about Democrats, it's the story here from the Postmillennial.
01:05:50.000Leader in Richmond Democrat party group arrested after posting bomb threat against Andy Ngo in Virginia Talk.
01:05:56.000There is a big difference between threatening someone and then actually sneaking into a building and setting it on fire, so I want to make sure that's clear.
01:06:01.000My point for this segment is not to accuse one side of being worse than the other.
01:06:05.000These are two anecdotes, two extreme instances, but it's worrisome to see these kinds of things happen.
01:06:14.000There's already heightened political tensions, and now we have... Bro, these are young people, and they are just... Ruining their lives.
01:06:34.000I'm saying right now with these two articles, I'm not here to be like, aha, but look what the left did.
01:06:39.000No, obviously a threat is not as bad as actually burning a building down.
01:06:42.000You know, I'm highlighting these things to say there is conflict in this country and people say things like we're not in a civil war and it's like civil strife.
01:06:51.000Stephen Marsh describes it as civil strife.
01:07:25.000Mental health is such a problem right now, and the health, the degraded health of the country, the minds of the people.
01:07:30.000But, like, and earlier we were talking about utilitarianism and how, like, you have to decide as a government, well, how many chickens have to die in order for how many eggs to be laid, okay?
01:07:40.000You cannot quantify mental health utilitarianly.
01:07:55.000I could not more strongly disagree that the government should be in a position to decide, you know, How many chickens, especially when the chickens are an analogy for human beings.
01:08:07.000The government is in no position to decide what humans should and should not live.
01:08:12.000I mean, this goes back to the argument that Tim was having with Sargon the other day about about the death penalty or whether or not it's legitimate or not.
01:08:18.000And that your opinion on that aside, the government is a result of the consent of the people.
01:08:25.000The government does not have the right to make decisions about the people.
01:08:34.000The people make decisions for the government.
01:08:37.000And this is a fundamental, fundamental principle of a free society.
01:08:44.000The government's legitimacy comes from the consent of the governed.
01:08:49.000And it does not, the government does not exist to inform the people
01:08:53.000how they should think, what they should believe, or how they should organize their lives, period.
01:09:00.000But the problem, and maybe you're right that that's ideal, but is that people will have faith in a government to govern people they don't know, and that they'll never meet, and they'll send their tax money to that organization, and that government has to make decisions about where's the food going to go this month?
01:09:16.000So that's what I mean by who's going to live, who's going to die.
01:09:18.000Yeah, they shouldn't be made, that's what a market is for.
01:09:20.000That's why we have, that's why the government shouldn't be involved in markets.
01:09:25.000But then you get an individual business leader deciding, like Vanderbilt.
01:09:29.000Who shut off the trains to New York City.
01:09:30.000No, look at all the- I mean, right now, you're talking about, you know, who's going to get food and stuff.
01:09:36.000Grocery stores are all over the country.
01:09:39.000People can decide where to go on their own, and we don't need the government to tell us how to live our lives.
01:09:44.000But back before 1860, Vanderbilt, he owned all the trains in the country.
01:09:49.000Basically, he ran the country, arguably.
01:09:52.000He's the man who built America, Vanderbilt.
01:09:53.000And he decided one day he didn't like the way they were treating him, so he cut off access to New York City.
01:09:56.000He's like, no, you're not getting trains into New York City anymore.
01:09:59.000Until you until you meet my demands and you realize how dangerous this let the private sector run.
01:10:04.000I completely disagree completely totally disagree with your perspective and it is only the end if you empower the government to do those things then you are empowering the government to decide who lives and who dies who eats and who does not eat and the gut and any government is in history that has had that power, has abused it, and it turns into piles and piles and piles of dead human beings.
01:10:35.000Let me just, because you haven't gone so far as to really argue the point of a modern Democrat, but what you guys are arguing is a modern Democrat would say, but the government is the people.
01:10:46.000And you hear AOC actually say this all the time.
01:10:50.000And to, I would say, in response to what you're talking about, because I get it, the Gilded Era, I get it.
01:10:57.000I would rather deal with the Guild than a government.
01:11:01.000That's just the way, that's where I'm at.
01:11:04.000The government has unlimited power to coerce you, to hurt you, to, you know, there's never going to be a guy who's so rich he's going to be more powerful than the Central Intelligence Agency.
01:11:16.000Or the Federal Bureau of Investigation?
01:12:02.000It has nothing to do... So when you hear AOC make those points, it's like, well, that's not what capitalism is at its core.
01:12:09.000And again, I'd rather deal with a greedy fat cat, you know, who's got competition with monopoly laws, you know, anti-monopoly laws, things like that, than a government.
01:12:19.000Because somewhere along the line, Democrats started to believe what he was arguing against.
01:12:22.000But you need the government to enforce the monopoly laws.
01:12:26.000That's true, that's true, but we're not talking about to the point of, that's different, you have a justice system for that, that's within reason, we're not talking about the ability to chop up whole parts of society.
01:12:39.000I don't believe the United States could be communist.
01:12:41.000That's one of the reasons I think we're winning.
01:12:44.000I think we can see communist influence, but the backlash that we're seeing in response to a lot of this stuff is the natural reaction.
01:12:50.000I don't know about never, but not now.
01:12:58.000For all we know, like, a plague hits, wipes out most of the population, and then a new civilization emerges calling itself the United States.
01:13:04.000I'm saying, based on the current iteration of our government and our culture today, the systems that we have in place, in all likelihood, will not.
01:13:23.000If you look at the Soviet Union, if you look at Communist China, we may get civil war, but I do not think we would get A lot of people will say like, is it a civil wars or a communist revolution?
01:14:03.000cities, but I do not believe that if the United States ever went to that degree of authoritarian, it would be ubiquitous outside of cities.
01:14:15.000For example, when they did all the COVID lockdowns, In most red areas, nobody did anything.
01:14:22.000Even when they had those rules, a lot of them, they don't have the means to enforce it.
01:14:27.000And when people are living successfully out in the middle of nowhere, they're just going to do whatever they want for the most part.
01:14:34.000There are parts of West Virginia where it's like, sure, you're supposed to get a permit for that.
01:14:38.000And then people build whatever they want and everyone just rolls their eyes because like what are you gonna do?
01:14:42.000You're you're you're 70 miles from the nearest town This is one of the things that affected West Virginia when
01:14:48.000it came to This gun bill that the Democrats wanted to do where it was
01:14:53.000like you had to go all gun transfers must be through FFL's Because some guy pointed out that he's in rural West
01:15:00.000Virginia with like really crappy internet and the nearest FFL is like two
01:15:04.000Or three hours away If he needs to give a shotgun to his cousin who lives down the road so his cousin can deal with like some raccoon problem or something because of his chickens, he's gonna drive three hours with his cousin to go fill out paperwork?
01:15:18.000And so there's a lot of things that are federally restricted that are not Like, look, I'm not talking about drug deals.
01:15:26.000I'm talking about there are laws pertaining to gun sales, and there are people who live in the middle of nowhere who they're not gonna tell you, but they don't follow any of those laws, and no one knows, and no one cares, and it will not be enforced.
01:15:36.000No ATF guy is gonna drive out to a trailer 300 miles from the nearest town for a guy who lives on 200, 300 acres of worthless property, where he just entertains himself and minds his own business, and then bought a gun from his neighbor, For a couple hundred bucks with that private sale.
01:15:51.000They're not going to drive out there for that.
01:15:52.000I mean they might but for the most part it's just off the grid and they can't even find it if they wanted to.
01:15:57.000When it comes to the overt communist stuff...
01:16:00.000There's not enough federal law enforcement to deal with the size of this country if they tried to be a secret police that were going and erasing people for speaking bad about the party.
01:16:11.000In cities, we already watched people in Staten Island get arrested because they were saying, hey, don't bring these non-citizens into our neighborhood.
01:16:38.000I'm not saying they won't try, but the amount of force you would need to maintain full-scale authoritarian communist control over a country like this...
01:16:49.000The issue here is people here are just obstinate.
01:16:53.000It's hard, but I agree it would be hard, but both China and the Soviet Union were both massive, massive countries.
01:17:01.000I'm thinking long and hard about this.
01:17:03.000So it's not that I don't think that you're right about the fact that it would be tough, but I think that what happens is you get violent The government coming down violently with the boot, and then it scares people into compliance.
01:17:27.000The United States has fractured colonies struggling to agree with each other who are in revolt.
01:17:33.000First, the people who came to the United States from Europe were people who are willing to die to get away from whatever was going on in their home country.
01:17:41.000Quite literally, like you're in the UK and you're like, this sucks.
01:17:44.000Can't practice my, no freedom of religion.
01:18:18.000Take a small cellular culture of angry people who say, don't tread on me, and then put a few drops in a big Petri dish, and then watch over a month as that whole thing spreads.
01:18:32.000And you can see it is of the same culture.
01:18:47.000Which is why, I would not be surprised if the immigration problem is intentional to destroy, to bring in as many people as possible who are not of the pioneer, don't tread on me ethos, but they're trying to get as many people in this country who are of the ethos of, gimme gimme gimme, I will take what I want.
01:19:04.000Then, it's very easy to control people when you give them what they want.
01:19:07.000To quote, Fast and the Furious 4, When the villain says, he says, give the people something that they fear losing and you can control them.
01:19:18.000But there's only one reason why, there's only one reason why Mayorkas would threaten Cubans who are coming 90 miles, you know, on a raft or a boat.
01:19:28.000He'll threaten to open fire on them, right?
01:19:31.000But he'll let anybody pour through the southern border from certain countries that he particularly wants.
01:19:44.000Cubans on a boat, you know, and a lot of people from Honduras.
01:19:47.000And the sentiment among most of these migrants is they want a better life, and I get that.
01:19:53.000The American ethos was also very similar, but the thing about the people who came here is, and there's an overlap, which is why I say I respect the people who are coming here, Because they're willing to risk death.
01:20:05.000For the most part, they're getting funding.
01:20:07.000There's stories about NGOs paying their bills.
01:20:20.000The people who are coming here are like, once you get here, you are going to live in luxury compared to where you came from.
01:20:25.000So there's an inversion as to what the economic, what the drive is.
01:20:29.000My point, ultimately, is this nation is born and bred of people who are really angry and want to be left alone to the point where they, like, are willing to die to be left alone.
01:20:38.000Which means, look man, you know that the feds raided that old dude's house because he was smack talking on the internet and they killed him?
01:20:49.000If the country does go full commie, tankie, whatever, cities will be bad, and they will try to enforce things outside of cities.
01:20:58.000But what I think is more likely to happen is that cities will be barred from leaving.
01:21:02.000People will- Yeah, that's what I think.
01:21:04.000They'll have checkpoints around the cities.
01:21:06.000There's a bunch of sci-fi movies and novels that are like this, where the people who live in the cities, very technologically advanced, very comfortable, but you're not allowed to leave.
01:21:13.000And the people from outside the cities need special permits to come into the cities and get permission.
01:21:17.000There's like a trilogy I'm thinking of right now, because I've thought the same thing.
01:21:21.000That you're just not gonna be able to go.
01:21:23.000And they'll try to make it as super cushy and comfortable for you, even though it is draconian.
01:21:30.000They wouldn't let the serfs leave the land.
01:21:33.000My wife's gonna kill me for not remembering.
01:21:35.000There will be backwater rural folk who are surviving on their own and living just fine, and you go to a city and they're gonna stop you and be like, do you have your permit?
01:22:08.000So in the first one only applies though, Tim, because you learn later it really is an experiment to try to weed out bad genes because many, many, many years ago, like in our time, They started to, you know, I don't like the color of my eyes.
01:22:55.000And they don't want the bad genetics to get out there, because then that'll mix into the population.
01:23:00.000For all you know, right now, there is an entire galactic federation, and human colonies on other planets, and the ships that are flying by are the, you know how we view North Korea?
01:23:17.000So these alien ships we're seeing that they're lying to us about, it's humans from the other space colonies who are like these poor people living under this despotism who are denied intergalactic technology.
01:23:27.000I'm kidding by the way, but you know, you never know.
01:23:30.000We used to talk about this when I was younger, we're teenagers and my friends are all smoking weed.
01:23:33.000I didn't smoke, but we'd be like, it's like a question probably every friend group has asked, what if we're North Korea?
01:23:40.000What if, like, we think we're right, but really we're the ones locked?
01:23:44.000And it's like, well, you're only saying that because you don't have a passport, you didn't go to, you didn't travel around yet, but you know, but it's a good question, right?
01:23:50.000Speaking to Cernovich the other day with the abortion issue, the guy they were talking about going to hell for not being sufficiently pro-life, and speaking to Cernovich, he was just like, how do you know you're not dead yet?
01:24:01.000How do you know you're not dead right now?
01:24:05.000I'm laughing because I thought it was hilarious.
01:24:07.000For all you know, you could be playing Rich Barris 2, the pundit experience.
01:24:12.000And you're like a 53 year old Mexican guy who's at the arcade right now.
01:24:18.000I think one of the things that gives me a lot of hope, like almost like at the base of what I am is I've got this hope because American freedom, the way that we've designed this, is the best form of government on earth.
01:24:31.000And other people in other countries know it and they agree.
01:24:33.000Like when I talk to kids in China, I used to do a chat roulette back when it was cool and I'd just roulette onto some Chinese dude or some girl and we'd talk about it and they'd be like, we're in China.
01:24:57.000And I would say there is a trick, though, the Chinese started to pull on their population, and that is, and I only know this from having Chinese friends that I met, you know, back in college, they were trying to convince them that they were no longer the party of Tiananmen Square.
01:26:29.000Yeah, they want you to favor, look at communism favorably.
01:26:33.000Right, they want you to think that he's a president like he's elected, which he technically is, but... But, I will say, communism would be really, really awesome.
01:26:41.000It would be the greatest thing ever, as long as I'm in charge.
01:26:45.000No, no, no, I'm not saying it would be good for anybody else.
01:26:48.000Obviously, if I'm in charge, I'm gonna be living it up!
01:26:50.000I'm gonna get morbidly obese, I'm gonna wear one of those silly little military uniforms, and everyone has to worship me like a god.
01:26:56.000That's basically the mentality of communists.
01:26:58.000They're all like, I can't wait till communism wins so that I can be in charge.
01:27:01.000You'll be in charge of the rock-breaking line in the gulag.
01:27:06.000I don't know if anyone here has heard of it, but Khrushchev's midnight speech is where he admitted all of Stalin's atrocities, right?
01:27:16.000And that was really the beginning of the falling apart of the Soviet Union.
01:27:21.000Khrushchev said, look, Stalin did all these terrible things, millions of people died, etc.
01:27:26.000And in the speech, Khrushchev is talking about how Marx said that you needed to avoid a cult of personality, right?
01:27:33.000But yet if you look at all of the socialist countries in almost all of the socialist countries
01:27:42.000in history, there's always a cult of personality.
01:27:46.000There was Mao in China, there was Pol Pot in Cambodia, there was Castro, there's Chavez,
01:27:57.000and there's others that are smaller that I can't think of off the top of my head.
01:28:00.000But they always have a cult of personality.
01:28:03.000The people always focus their attention on one leader, and somehow that person embodies what the perfected socialist man of their time is.
01:28:15.000And it is always as if it is a... It's a strongman.
01:29:26.000What are we really calling right wing?
01:29:28.000Are we having the normal... When you say Franco is right-wing, it's like that's from a very left-wing perspective to call him right-wing.
01:29:37.000That's why I said military dictatorships.
01:29:43.000One thing I was going to say is I'm concerned about the cult of personality in American politics big time.
01:29:47.000I don't think that Trump has any communist ambitions, but the cult of personality that was so eminent in communist regimes, I see it in the United States from time to time, the fervence, the willingness to go against what you believe.
01:30:37.000She's someone we need to look up to, etc.
01:30:39.000Now, I'm not saying that she would be a tyrant that would, you know, be like, all right, we got to start killing people like someone like Mao or whatever.
01:31:48.000Every Saturday morning watching early morning cartoons with my kids, they had this woman, Kamala Harris, aspire to be Kamala Harris, and I'm sitting there with my little daughter watching, you know, like, uh, you know, what is that, Miraculous or something, and I'm thinking to myself, and not even thinking to myself, this woman is not who you want to be.
01:32:06.000Because does anybody really want, does any father want their daughter, their little daughter, to grow up and emulate Kamala Harris?
01:32:16.000Is that how you want your daughter to behave?
01:32:42.000Yeah, she was like Buffy the Vampire Slayer versus Dracula when she took a stake to the heart of the demon and said, Kamala Harris imprisoned innocent people, arrested them for pot, and it's just like, oof.
01:32:52.000And she used them as slave labor and it's like, wow.
01:32:54.000I thought she was gone after that initial debate and then there she reared her head like a phoenix.
01:33:00.000Better analogy is that Kamala Harris was standing at the podium and Tulsi Gabbard took a bucket of water and splashed it on top of her and then Kamala went, But then the DNC started banging the drums like BUM BUM BUM and Kamala came up out of the mug like
01:33:25.000They took the sludge after Tulsi Gabbard splashed the water, brought it to the lab, and hooked electrodes up to it, and then cranked the lever.
01:33:32.000And they were like, all we've got, we have to do this.
01:34:06.000So the only thing that can come close to being cool is probably some form of anti-establishment, moderate Trump supporter to a certain degree.
01:34:18.000Maybe the closest you'll get to it would be an Ian Crosland.
01:35:17.000The Republicans are like somewhat Like, preppy, but they have a few people who like the bad boy wearing the leather jacket and the blue jeans with the suave blonde hair going forward, sitting in the back being like, she's a fat pig over there, and they laugh.
01:35:33.000Now, if you wanna win class president, you gotta basically get everybody, but the stodgy, nerdy kids who are teacher's pet are not cool.
01:35:41.000And so, amongst themselves, they think they're cool.
01:35:43.000They're like, dude, did you see that gym?
01:35:45.000He got straight A's, and it's like, wow.
01:35:47.000And then everyone else is like, who cares, man?
01:35:50.000So you need a combination of someone who's talented, reasonable, authentic, and doesn't come off as stodgy, and the Democrats don't have any of that.
01:35:59.000They started to with RFK, and then they were just like, no, he's too cool, get him out of here.
01:36:04.000I mean, he's the coolest Democrat, but he's not that cool.
01:36:08.000That's why if you watch Gavin in the spin room after the debates, which I only did after the fact, You could tell that he's trying to be almost like a left-wing version of Donald Trump.
01:36:24.000He wants the right to hate him, so the left is loyal to him.
01:36:28.000And this is something that I think is a danger with RFK, and people may underestimate the hive mind that Democrats are.
01:36:36.000If RFK runs against the DNC like this, and he gets pegged, for instance, as someone who is anti-democratic, like he becomes like their enemy, then he won't peel that many off.
01:40:45.000That's the point I was trying to make.
01:40:46.000The point I was trying to make is that the current Democrat I guess you could say, like, the ideal person is very uncool.
01:40:52.000They're always the person at the party that's complaining about something that's good, that's saying, oh, like, that's annoying, that's, oh, oh, that you're like this, oh, well, that's problematic because of this, they're like, oh, that, and that's exactly the opposite of what someone that's cool, that doesn't care, that is, like, you know, aloof, like you said, it's not them.
01:43:35.000These people who are complaining sucked.
01:43:39.000They don't have the talent or the merit and no one wants to film what they do because they're not landing anything good.
01:43:44.000I didn't go there and say anything to anybody.
01:43:46.000I hung out minding my own business, but I was doing 540 big flips.
01:43:49.000I was doing like, you know, cancel flips, hard flips, hard flip, late flips, minding my own business, but probably doing some of the harder tricks at the spot.
01:45:03.000Uh, plant a slingshot in the locker of the kid he doesn't like and then goes to the principal and says, look, look, he's got a slingshot to get him in trouble.
01:45:11.000Like they're trying to keep the influences that threaten them away.
01:45:15.000So if they came out and, and, uh, I saw this as really funny when, um, Hassan Piker was doing a review of the song we put out, Will of the People, the first song we put out a couple, three years ago.
01:45:24.000Uh, he was, he was basically like sort of talking smack.
01:45:28.000And the comments for people being like, no, this is Tim Pool, oh man, I like this song, oh no!
01:47:04.000But if you listen to the way that Gavin Newsom is trying to reframe people's understanding of California, he is trying to He's trying to make people believe that he is the cool candidate.
01:47:20.000And that's also what Joe Biden... He's the American psycho.
01:47:30.000I agree, but it's speaking to the point that you're making.
01:47:33.000He sees the value of being cool, and he is trying to make sure that he gets that into people's heads.
01:47:43.000Remember when Ron DeSantis tried to be cool?
01:47:47.000With the Bateman meme and stuff, it's like, bro, listen.
01:47:50.000You need to understand what makes you cool.
01:47:53.000And Ron, having that video put out, I guess their campaign put it out and then launched it through a third party or whatever is what they do.
01:48:00.000Ron should not be... Ron's path to being cool is unique to Ron DeSantis.
01:48:06.000And making memes of glowing eyes is not the way you do it.
01:48:09.000No, he should have done a clip of him hitting a big bag of... just a punching bag.
01:48:13.000What makes Ron cool is just being relaxed and authentic and being himself and owning it.
01:48:25.000You're in high school, everyone's sitting around, someone farts.
01:48:28.000They get really embarrassed, they fart, and everyone laughs at them for farting, and say, oh, you did it, you're gross, and the person blushes, and they're all like, oh, man, I'm so embarrassing, and they're like, that's so gross.
01:48:35.000Then there's the class clown, who goes, attention, class!
01:48:39.000And then stands up and rips one, and then starts laughing his ass off, owning it, and that's more like Trump.
01:48:45.000Trump's the guy who farts in the room, and then starts laughing it off.
01:48:52.000We gotta go to Super Chats, we're way late, we're way late.
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01:50:01.000That's right, if you're a member at TimCast.com and you sign up to join the Discord server, there will be an After Show hosted by Olivia Claire, Joey Canole, and Cianoski.
01:50:22.000It's like, you invite a bunch of people into a room, and then you come back a week later and they've built, like, a castle, and I'm like, oh wow.
01:50:39.000But second floor is gonna be really awesome because then members can come hang out and we're really excited.
01:50:45.000Imagine all the really cool stuff you can hang out with people if you're in the West Virginia area in DC and play games and watch TV and it'll be fun.
01:51:17.000Well, I mean, on, on, on, yeah, we're like, we're, we are desperately trying.
01:51:20.000But also consider, the membership typically was like, we do the after show, and then we launched the Discord as a mean to, as a way to bring callers in, and then create a communal space.
01:51:30.000But, uh, this is, this is, this is, this is the tough spot.
01:51:33.000It's like, The amount of people that we've added to TimCast membership by creating the cost of the Discord does not cover the cost of the Discord.
01:51:42.000So like, a certain amount of people will sign up to be members to watch the after show and support the work we do.
01:51:48.000We then say, we're gonna launch new shows with the money we make, we're gonna open a coffee shop, we're gonna buy ads, we're gonna fight the culture war.
01:51:55.000One of the things we decided to do was launch the Discord.
01:51:57.000We don't make more money for doing it.
01:51:59.000In fact, it costs us more money to run the Discord than we actually make by having it.
01:52:03.000But, This is the point, you know what I mean?
01:52:09.000Like, if you came to me and asked me, like, hey, what would you buy if you had a million dollars, I'd be like, I'd use it to win the culture war.
01:52:29.000Granted, the Timcast infrastructure does benefit to a certain degree, like internet and all that stuff.
01:52:34.000But then I pay my salary entirely based off of actually less than What is generated from the Tim Pool Daily Show, which is my morning podcast.
01:52:40.000Everything else that comes from TimCast.com, TimCast IRL, basically just pays for other employees, all the cultural projects we're working on, the Discord server.
01:52:50.000People are asking in the chat, they say Discord's free.
01:53:01.000There's in the members only discord is paid for we we we pay for yes, I'm like members pay to sign up to our exclusive Members only discord which gives you access to website stuff and and they sink Yeah, it's like free to have Discord, yeah, but in order to have access to our forums and everything like that, you have to pay.
01:53:20.000I think people also don't realize that we have staff members who maintain and run and build the things people are asking for.
01:53:55.000The money we get from everything, like Timcast IRL, Timcast.com memberships, we're investing in the Discord for you guys to have a communal space.
01:54:03.000We're launching this club so that people will have a physical space to go hang out.
01:54:07.000I guess I could argue, like, I don't have to do any of that, I could just put the money in my pocket and say, it's my business, it's a private company, I'll go buy a bunch of cars and then buy a private jet or something, but I'm fairly happy with the money I get from the morning show, and I want to win the culture war, so that's why... I'll give you an example.
01:54:24.000It's promotion, it's marketing, obviously, but we added Michael Malice and Luke Rutkowski to them, because promoting them, in my view, helps win the culture war.
01:54:33.000With money, all you can do is build the theaters and the opera houses, but the only way you can create the great works is with the great people.
01:54:58.000They're everywhere, all over the place.
01:55:00.000Frogs and turtles, and sometimes they jump all the way out here, and then they're just standing in the grass, and I'm like, let's build a frog, a little frog.
01:55:06.000There's no cultural victory, I'm sorry, but I wanted one.
01:55:26.000Clare says, Tim, the British man who exposed that Canada plotted a Nazi in Parliament, Warren Thornton, was arrested under mal-information.
01:56:06.000I don't know, I just saw it, you know, scrolling on the timeline, but, um...
01:56:09.000We... I mean... We don't know where the line is.
01:56:17.000You know, Tim, I understand what you're saying, but we don't know the line between that snowball, when everything goes slow, and then it just becomes... Well, gradually then suddenly.
01:56:26.000Mike Oxhard says, this really makes me worried for RFK.
01:56:30.000The Kennedy curse will be on steroids if he is the reason for Biden losing against none other than Trump.
01:56:36.000Greedo says, the next civil war here in the United States will be more like the city-state wars of Italy, where King of Bohemia challenged the Pope for control of the country and the city-states broke up on different sides.
01:57:39.000No, we have a triple backup plan, but I said no.
01:57:44.000It's basically like we had a really, really, really great guest that was very difficult to book, and they canceled on us, again, and I'm upset about that.
01:57:54.000And then we have a backup roster of people who are interested in coming on, and we said, hey, we have the spot opened up, and this is Monday.
01:58:16.000We have to plan for it better, but the idea was just to get people you've already known, who we hang out with, just to come and hang out again.
01:58:23.000And Rogan does this, that's why he'll have his buddies on.
01:58:26.000Oh yeah, those fight companions and stuff.
01:58:28.000But that works because that's his only show.
01:58:31.000For us to take IRL friends and guests and do a Culture War episode defeats the purpose of what the Culture War is.
01:58:39.000If we could get literally anybody else, we could have like two IRL friends with any other person, and then have a conversation that's unique that we don't do in IRL, but...
01:59:09.000I imagine people in Congress took notice that, you know, Tim Pool is up there at Capitol Hill talking to Congress people and they started to say, oh hey, that's a smart idea.
01:59:19.000Especially considering, you know, it is going into the election season.
02:00:12.000I'm not going to be a good capitalist.
02:00:14.000Well, yeah, I mean the thing is, like, you know, he wants to have the rock star on, and I'm sorry, but you don't just get to have the rock star.
02:01:12.000Cool factor, it's not the epitome of it, success really is.
02:01:17.000Actually, the cool kids that were bullies made me hate humanity, so you gotta be careful.
02:01:24.000But they're different, somebody like a Donald Trump is like, people have to understand, a lot of people call him a bully, but when you're him and you're constantly under attack, and you're constantly needing to defend yourself, it can't be easy to be Donald Trump.
02:01:38.000You're right, but as soon as someone's nice to Trump, he's nice to them.
02:01:55.000What the members are building in the member discord is completely organic and from them based on the goodness of their hearts and what they want to do and what they think we need to do.
02:02:04.000My point about the cost of running the discord is basically just the infrastructure staff The, you know, Brett runs it, then we have IT people behind the scenes for maintaining.
02:02:14.000There's code involved in the website integration and things like that.
02:02:20.000That being said, guys, I am, I am paying attention to what's going on in the Discord server and, uh, I'll just leave it at that.
02:02:26.000Like, I certainly think there's an opportunity for something beyond just what we have and, uh, a way to, uh, do something more for the shows that are already in existence on the Timcast members only.
02:02:36.000Like, there's no reason why they shouldn't just be So, we'll talk about it.
02:02:43.000When we get the club set up, I'm thinking it would be really cool to actually get equipment, invest in it, and provide it for the member community after shows and then actually have the videos available alongside the shows on Discord and just film it and have them for everybody.
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02:05:03.000Rich, do you want to shout anything out?
02:05:04.000Yeah, people can just go ahead and follow me if they want to check out the polls we're going to do.
02:05:08.000We're going to find out who RFK hurts, for sure, real soon.
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