On this week's episode of Thick & Thin, the boys discuss the latest drama surrounding Joe Rogan's comments on censorship, the new CNN Plus streaming service, and the upcoming election of Rep. Robbie Starbuck (R-TN).
00:00:14.000Actually, it was more of a passive comment about censorship that I think isn't as big of a deal to him, but this is what usually happens in the media, because the narrative coming out now is that Joe Rogan threatens to quit his $200 million Spotify deal if he has to walk on eggshells and mind his Ps and Qs.
00:00:30.000Now, I think it's legitimate to say he's threatening to quit, and obviously Spotify's listening, and we do know that there have been episodes that have been delayed or held back on spotify since the latest outrage over joe or whatever it is so i think it's entirely possible joe is kind of doing a you know passive state like like he doesn't want to call up spotify and say hey how dare you or maybe he has i don't really know but we are you know so this is him going on a show and saying hey if this gets bad i'll be quitting so that's i think that's that's an interesting story to get into as it pertains to censorship and uh what joe's willing to do
00:01:04.000But I do think it's more interesting that we've already seen episodes held or deleted, and there's a lot to talk about.
00:01:09.000Because I wonder if Joe's already at the point where he's taken episodes down.
00:01:13.000So is he not already walking on eggshells?
00:01:16.000Doesn't it already seem like he's moving and the show's changing?
00:01:51.000Now it's being reported layoffs as early as May because Talk about a crazy time in media.
00:02:05.000We've also got Jon Stewart going totally woke and complaining about white people.
00:02:09.000Bill Maher also going woke and saying Republicans hate black people, which is funny because he was referencing Clarence Thomas, which I'm pretty sure is like one of the most popular conservative judges among Republicans, especially.
00:02:22.000There's the Disney president or a Disney executive saying they want half of all content to be LGBTQIA or racial minorities, and there's a lot to break down there.
00:02:30.000And then, of course, we can talk about, you know, nuclear war and whatever and inflation destroying your lives and, you know, whatever might scare you.
00:02:49.000Yeah, so Robbie Starbuck, for those of you who don't know, I'm running for Congress in Tennessee, Middle Tennessee, District 5.
00:02:54.000You know, and a big part of our campaign has just been making sure that we get rid of all of these queer politicians and that we get real people in there to actually do the work of the people.
00:03:02.000And I think, you know, a big part of that for us has been saying no to every corporation that's knocked on our door and said, we want to give you money or get a pact to funnel money to your campaign.
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00:06:00.000I'm listening, I was just shaking up my coconut water.
00:06:03.000Ian turns to me and he's shaking, he's like, I'm like, do you need to say something?
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00:06:14.000Let's take this story about Joe Rogan's passive comment and turn it into a major news cycle event, I suppose, because that seems to be what everyone does.
00:06:23.000I want to talk about what's happening with big media, with YouTube, with CNN.
00:06:27.000And I do think it's worth launching off with this.
00:06:29.000So we have this story from Daily Mail.
00:06:30.000Joe Rogan threatens to quit his $200 million Spotify deal if he has to walk on eggshells and mind my P's and Q's following N-word and vaccine misinformation controversies.
00:06:42.000They say on the Joe Rogan Experience, guest and MMA fighter Josh Barrett, 44, said he was worried he'd be judged for every little thing.
00:06:50.000I will quit if it gets to a point that I can't do it anymore, where I have to do it in some sort of weird way, where I walk on eggshells," Roken replied.
00:06:58.000He has been under fire in recent months, this we understand, and now he's basically come out and made this statement.
00:07:03.000Joe also came out and talked about Chris Rock getting slapped in the face, because I think as a comedian, everyone's like, yo, that was not cool to smack Chris Rock, but we'll get into that stuff later.
00:07:11.000I want to point out, first and foremost, as I said, is this just a passive comment?
00:07:15.000You know, he's sitting there, he's doing his show, and he's like, I'd quit if it got to that point.
00:07:19.000Because I just want to mention, hasn't it got to that point?
00:07:23.000How many episodes now have been taken down of the Joe Rogan experience?
00:08:50.000But anyway, imagine it was not some random nobody.
00:08:53.000So when he goes and records with Joe and talks about a whole bunch of really important stuff, and then the episode doesn't go live for almost a month, and we hear nothing from Joe, I gotta be honest, as much as I think Joe is a good dude, and I think he does stand up for a lot of people in good ways, I also think that if it really came down to it, he would not tell us he's being censored, he'd pull the episodes, passively mention them, you know, not really give some good answer, and then the reality is, he'd likely apologize.
00:09:18.000Well, that's my frustration a lot with, you know, the totality of Hollywood and entertainment.
00:09:23.000Because, you know, for those who don't know that, that was where I started.
00:09:25.000You know, I directed Oscar winning actors, actresses, some of the biggest music stars.
00:09:28.000And, you know, being in that world, I always hear now that I'm in politics, people go, Oh, was it really hard being like the lone conservative?
00:09:36.000And the truth is, I was not the lone person on that side.
00:09:40.000The reality is, is there's a bunch of cowards.
00:09:42.000I was going to say you're making conservatives sound like cowards, but you said it before me.
00:09:45.000They're a bunch of cowards, you know, and I've said it to their faces.
00:09:48.000And some of these people are the biggest stars in the industry.
00:09:51.000And they're just terrified of not having easy access to capital.
00:10:24.000That cowardice is going to cost us something at some point.
00:10:28.000And that's why I think we've got to try to motivate these people to show that you can have success outside of this because it does have a cultural impact.
00:10:36.000And then being able to see that, honestly, even on levels like this, that a show like this can be as successful as it is.
00:10:42.000I would hope would give some sort of inspiration to somebody like Rogan to say, you know what?
00:11:16.000He reaches so many people, and I know a ton of people who are like left-leaning normies who have learned a lot of truth and principle because they watch Joe.
00:11:25.000But I'm gonna be honest, when I look at this, I can't come out here in good conscience and be like, look, I know Joe, I consider him a friend, and he's totally right.
00:11:48.000I do feel like if you were in a similar situation, which I don't think you would be in in the first place because I don't think you want to be owned by anybody, but if you were in that situation, you would absolutely not stand for it.
00:11:59.000Like if, so in this respect, I have a different strategy on stuff like this.
00:12:07.000It would be an insane lie for me to say that if YouTube ever came to me with censorship demands, I would refuse.
00:12:32.000And if he's willing to withhold shows with a secure contract, now that I'm like, I mean, in that circumstance, I wouldn't do it.
00:12:41.000And I gotta say, there are some things I can't talk about because we do work with other companies, but we've actually had people come to us and try and cancel us with things we're doing on the website, and we've basically given them the middle finger.
00:12:54.000And we play a similar game to what Daily Wire did.
00:12:58.000When Harry's pulled out and denounced them, they were like, we are gonna put everything that we had to promoting you, to denouncing you, to rivaling you, to challenging you.
00:13:08.000So, I'll put it this way, on YouTube, There's a different story here.
00:13:12.000Joe, I think he mentioned this, but I could be, maybe I'm misremembering.
00:13:32.000Well, we here at Timcast, we want to keep the YouTube show going.
00:13:35.000We want to maintain as much reach as possible for the maximum good we can do.
00:13:39.000But we always, we always promote the website.
00:13:41.000We have journalists on the website, and we want to make sure we're leveraging the access to this, you know, to YouTube's network to promote a space where we can have whatever conversation we want to have.
00:13:50.000If Rogan watches, he should think about that, those couple words you used, maximum good.
00:14:09.000I think you could have more people and it'll have some longevity.
00:14:13.000You know, you can bring in other people and then allow a space where people can be free.
00:14:19.000You know, look, uh, when we started expanding timcasts.com, when we started expanding, when I started expanding from just my YouTube show, which was me sitting in a room with a, with a GoPro pointing at my face.
00:14:31.000And now we're in this like six figure studio.
00:15:12.000And so I think he has helped create a whole lot through his sphere of influence.
00:15:16.000I just get frustrated sometimes when I see people of massive means not being like, yo, if you've got $10 million, 10, You could be like, I'm gonna take a million bucks and I'm gonna start something.
00:15:53.000Because it requires your time and your energy.
00:15:55.000Otherwise, unless you're going to do like, we were kind of chatting about this before the show, you're either throwing your money at a group of people that you're just going to trust and hope that it works out.
00:16:02.000But at that point, Rogan's not even involved anymore.
00:16:04.000I don't want to see him throw money down a drain.
00:16:06.000So, like, does he have the time and the energy and the desire to run a company?
00:16:10.000Because that is a lot of work, a lot of listening, hours and hours.
00:16:21.000I think there's enough people who believe in him, though, in the message and, you know, what he's doing where you could build out a team where that wouldn't even be necessary.
00:16:30.000You know, even if you look in that more corporate world of entertainment, there's people dying to get out of these places if they were given an opportunity to go run with something that could be really, you know, an open forum for freedom and for people to do podcasts and similarly sort of just have no rules.
00:16:50.000It is not easy, everything we're doing.
00:16:54.000You get to the point where people really need to understand this about companies.
00:16:58.000Once you reach like 50 employees, I say like because it varies from state but federally, a whole bunch of crazy restrictions and regulations kick in.
00:17:06.000All of a sudden now you're dealing with infiltrators.
00:17:10.000I'd love to just, you know, hire everybody, but what happens if you hire Antifa?
00:17:14.000What happens if Joe's like, I'm gonna launch my own thing and then you get one person who's like, I only need six months and then I can plant that seed and nuke everything from, it's difficult.
00:17:24.000You'll get people who act like your best friend and their only interest is just extracting as much as they can from the system and watching it burn down.
00:17:31.000And then they'll spend all their time just complaining about you and talking about how you were a bad person if you did everything for them.
00:17:40.000I mean, you get the same deal with political infiltrators wanting to get in, things like that, so you have to keep a very tight-knit group.
00:17:47.000I want to just kind of make sure I stress the point.
00:17:51.000Joe's not obligated to do anything, and at this point, he's done so much good, the dude could turn his show into a cooking show, and I'd be like, he had a great run, man.
00:18:03.000But this is the thing about great people, is you expect and want greatness all the time, and you push them to be the best version of what you think they can be.
00:18:40.000And I wonder if Joe's mentality is more so, there are people who are on the left who just don't know, and you've gotta be able to reach them somehow.
00:18:50.000I'm not saying that's exactly what he's doing, but I certainly respect varying degrees of trying to reach people, because I'm at the point where it's like, look, we're gonna talk about the truth.
00:18:59.000We're typically respectful, and the members only stuff at TimCast.com.
00:19:34.000Instead of filming a video and being like, hey, All of these photos and videos are of him pointing down and- It's so weird!
00:19:40.000Mashing his face so he looks crazy and like, Donny boy!
00:19:43.000Especially because like as a director, you know, actors like him have been blocked out so many times where they know the blocking, they know how they look in front of a camera, like he's camera aware, he knows what is going on and he does that intentionally, okay?
00:19:57.000You know the greatest thing ever would be is if like Ron Perlman comes out in like a few months, And then he has a whole collection of all of the videos and photos he's posted.
00:20:06.000And then he just tells everybody, he's like, I hope I made you laugh.
00:20:12.000I gotta be honest, like watching that out out of the context of politics is one of the funniest things ever.
00:20:17.000He's a meme where people like show a picture of his face all smashed and like crazy things.
00:20:22.000I mean, and it's also like, it's just an extension of the craziness of the left right now where literally all of them have to make sure they go.
00:22:01.000On day one of CNN's new service, we're offering 50% off for life.
00:22:07.000Now look, I understand if, you know, someone does like a promo read and the advertiser says, we'll do a discount for your audience because we're trying to attract new people to come and sign up.
00:22:22.000Well, this is what's really funny, okay?
00:22:24.000Is I want you to just imagine something.
00:22:27.000There was a table like this one that we're at right now and there were a bunch of people around it and they all thought it would be a really good idea and they thought that people would pay for access to more Brian Stelter and more... I can't even say what that like... and more Don Lemon, okay?
00:23:40.000It's true, but the point I'm making is it's $10 for TimCast.com because that's about what we need to charge to, for one, produce all these shows and continue to expand.
00:23:50.000Maybe once you have substantially more subscribers, you lower the price.
00:23:54.000It can go down the more people who sign up.
00:23:56.000CNN lowered the price before anybody even had a chance to sign up.
00:23:59.000But one member at TimCast.com is creating the cultural influence of three members of CNN plus.
00:24:08.000So that's what I think is significant here.
00:24:10.000And they're struggling and they're going to be laying people off.
00:25:28.000I'm not trying to drag them, because the guys who were trying to book me were nice, but it's just like, I honestly have no incentive to do a three minute spot on your show.
00:25:37.000The first 20, 30 years of my life was in the entertainment industry as an actor for age 15 to 30.
00:25:41.000I was like, I'm going to get to the Oscars one day and I'm going to, I'm going to have my moment of three minutes where I get to tell the world the right info that I need to deliver.
00:25:49.000And then YouTube appeared and all of a sudden it was like every day is an Oscar speech.
00:25:52.000This completely, the industry is completely shifted.
00:27:04.000Because the people who would work at CNN, the people that were exposed by Project Veritas, the ones who were saying, we don't do news anymore.
00:27:21.000When we talk about cops, when we talk about policing, and I say, I'm not going to defend cops when they're shutting down mom and pop shops over COVID.
00:27:27.000The police departments don't deserve my support if they're going to arrest some lady over, you know, opening her salon or a guy for opening his gym.
00:27:34.000You think I'm going to sit here and stand for the people at CNN who are either willfully or ignorantly supporting that crooked, corrupt BS?
00:27:42.000No way, dude, they should all be fired.
00:27:44.000Yeah, they, you know, I have, No sympathy, no empathy for that crowd.
00:28:45.000I mean, you see some of them reporting on their own officers for just going and doing investigative work.
00:28:50.000That's happened in a number of cases where they're running something down and they're like, no, you can't do that.
00:28:53.000We haven't had a whole lot of conversations about abolishing the South Dakota police who, you know, didn't go and harass people and shut them down.
00:29:01.000In fact, South Dakota did a pretty good job.
00:29:04.000And in Florida, they put up billboards.
00:29:06.000I think there was one out here that said, you know, it was basically like, come be a cop in Florida.
00:29:11.000So, you know, we're in Western Maryland, and we're in West Virginia, but over on the Maryland side, they're like, hey, if you don't want to be a cop here, because of what's going on, then come down to Florida.
00:29:37.000I want you to be a part of this service to the community to make sure we live in a safe place.
00:29:43.000Where I live in Tennessee, you don't worry about violent crime.
00:29:46.000You don't worry about any of these issues because, number one, people are worried you might be carrying, but number two, they know that our sheriffs don't put up with anything like that.
00:29:54.000And beyond that, when the government comes in and intrudes, and this is the most important point, when the government oversteps, they don't say, my job is to serve the government.
00:30:02.000They say, my job is to serve the people.
00:30:04.000And that is the really important distinction.
00:30:06.000That's when you go from it being, you know, police to being, you know, essentially state actors.
00:30:43.000The Federal Reserve's huge on job creation programs.
00:30:46.000They're all about the job economy, where you dig a hole, and then they're going to get that guy to come fill the hole back up, and then they'll pay that guy to dig it, and they'll pay you fake money and keep you paying taxes and owe interest.
00:30:55.000So they make money off of your toiling around with these jobs.
00:30:59.000At that point, shattering a worthless company is not necessarily losing, yeah, you're losing jobs, but it might actually benefit the society.
00:31:05.000If you have a company that's doing bad things, you want those jobs to be gone.
00:34:15.000If you're sitting there and you're advocating to send a bunch of young men and women to die in some foreign country that they have no business in, that's profane.
00:34:22.000That's more profane than somebody using the F word or whatever it is.
00:34:58.000Vladimir Putin reportedly, you know, travels to nuclear bunker.
00:35:01.000And as we're getting into it, I'm just like, yo, I am desensitized to this.
00:35:05.000They have fear mongered and screamed and banged on things to the point where I'm like, whatever dude, I got a bucket full of beans.
00:35:12.000I'm not going to cry and complain about it.
00:35:14.000And what do we even say when every day they're trying to push some, some, you know, Ukraine war, Joe Biden, like.
00:35:20.000Well you know what's sad is the minute I saw that I didn't believe it because you know I'm just kind of at that point where I'm numb to it and I feel like we've been told so many lies by the same people for so long and every time you bite and believe them you end up really regretting it.
00:35:36.000I mean... And so my first question is what's the intelligence on that?
00:36:40.000Well, see, that's the thing that I try to teach my own kids about consuming media and news in general, is that they need to do what Tim just did.
00:36:48.000You know, like, critically think about what each one of these places you're reading from actually does.
00:36:55.000So that when you're consuming the information, you can do so in a manner where you can kind of parse out, This might actually not be wholly accurate, but they're pretty good with this stuff, so that's probably true.
00:37:07.000And then go to somewhere else that is good with the stuff they're not good with, and you can kind of fuse it together for a real understanding of what you're probably getting.
00:37:17.000If right now I got a CNN alert on my phone, or a video from CNN went on all the TVs or wherever, And it was Brian Stelter himself saying, ladies and gentlemen, a nuclear missile was fired from Russia and is currently heading towards the United States.
00:38:06.000If it was Jake Tapper, maybe I'd believe it.
00:38:08.000I feel like he wouldn't lie about that.
00:38:10.000He'd lie about a lot of other stuff, but maybe not that.
00:38:11.000I like that you phrased it as you would act as though it were true, not necessarily believe it face to face, but take evasive action.
00:38:16.000If someone's gonna go on national TV and make that claim, that's a big enough claim for me personally to take seriously, regardless of where it comes from.
00:38:22.000Probably wise, probably wise in the case of a nuke, I'll give you that.
00:38:25.000But if he said it about a virus, I'd be like, no, I'm not biting on that.
00:38:28.000Any non-immediate thing, I'm not going to make a snap, I'm not going to jump to activity because of what CNN just told me.
00:38:33.000Yeah, I mean, if Brian Stelter, you know, posted a Twitter video and he said, intelligence is reporting an ICBM headed towards the East Coast, I'd be out the door and I'd be like, let's go to our secure location and act as though it's true.
00:38:46.000And then if he comes out later and he's like, whoopsie, I was watching War Games, or what is that movie?
00:42:33.000Well, they're God's gift to us, so maybe that's his way of letting us know, this is my gift to you, because there's nothing better than dogs.
00:42:39.000We've got Great Danes, and they're the best animals.
00:42:41.000Anybody who's ever been confused about what type of dog to get, get a Great Dane.
00:42:44.000They're the best, even in an apartment.
00:42:46.000They don't love exercise as much as people would think.
00:43:19.000That's a joke, by the way, for all his lawyers.
00:43:21.000Once you learn the dog's language, and you know, don't get your face next to it while it's eating, if you know some basic dog things, I think they're phenomenal.
00:43:30.000Our dogs, I was telling Lydia earlier, actually, I trust my dogs more than humans.
00:43:35.000You know, with my kids, there's certain people where I was like, if you had to leave them with the Great Daner, that person, who would you leave them with?
00:43:42.000And I'm like, Probably a great day most of the time.
00:43:44.000You know, they do the job a little bit better.
00:43:47.000Kind of crazy how we went from two Russian fighter jets with nukes to dogs and family.
00:43:53.000Well, somehow we went to vitamin D and then dogs and living underground nuclear war.
00:44:23.000No, they're not going to cede anything.
00:44:24.000The media keeps reporting how Russia's losing, but then how Zelensky's saying, OK, we're going to make concessions and give you what you want.
00:44:34.000I think probably two, three weeks they'll have a final deal.
00:44:37.000That's just my, you know, not based on any intelligence or anything else, just my gut feeling on this in that situation there.
00:44:43.000I think they're going to have to give that area up because in reality, well, Russia wants a buffer and, you know, they're not going to stop making everybody's lives hell until they get that buffer.
00:44:53.000And I think that with the administration we have, they know we're toothless.
00:46:11.000And that's the most dangerous thing in politics is somebody running who doesn't owe anybody favors.
00:46:16.000Um, you know, so there's a lot of sort of people who've been there for a long time in the political establishment who are very threatened by this guy showing up out of nowhere, crushing it in polls, having hundreds to thousands of people at every event, and they're just like, what the heck is going on here?
00:46:32.000We may have a problem on our hands because If he's able to do that, then he could turn those people out in races that we're in, you know?
00:46:39.000And I think that's where the mental calculus goes.
00:46:41.000But then, you know, Morgan came out too, and Trump endorsed her, and I think they kind of felt a similar way with her, but a little different.
00:46:48.000It wasn't so much the populist fear, but more so the fear of like, hey, you're not from here, you know?
00:46:53.000This should be for somebody from here, you know?
00:46:57.000And I think it's a little wrong-headed, you know, I understand the instincts some of them have because you want somebody to represent the district who actually has the state's interests in mind and who understands the people and I agree with that.
00:47:08.000But when you look at what they did here, it's just the same sort of disgusting, you know, sneaky politics that people hate where You know, you play by the rules, and if you're winning, then we change the rules.
00:47:32.000And so for the people who don't know the difference between the races and stuff, because it is a little confusing, In house rep races, you can have those qualifications because it's a state office, the state gets to set the qualifications.
00:47:46.000Congress, which is what I'm running for, or for Senate, on the Senate side or House side of Congress, you cannot do that as a state.
00:47:53.000At least constitutionally, there's a qualifications clause, it's very clear you just have to be 25 years old, and there's nothing about you needing to be a resident of the state for X amount of years.
00:49:35.000And that's, I talked about this with a couple of members actually this week, and there's no business like this where you're expected to stab your friends in the back on a constant basis.
00:49:51.000Well, so for me, it's one of those things where I'm looking at it from a state of not what is good for me, but a state of function of what's good for my kids.
00:49:59.000And I realized that if we continue this same pattern of having these career politicians, same lawyers from same schools, you know, same sort of sets of values, and we keep sending them there, We're living the definition of insanity.
00:50:11.000This is just the same thing over and over again.
00:51:20.000He's totally unhinged, you know, but the people would have loved him, you know.
00:51:24.000And what was really impressive about Ron Paul was his connection with young people and people who did not traditionally fit into the Republican mold, you know, of what the media wanted you to believe a Republican was.
00:51:36.000And I also felt like that was another important reason for me to run was I was like, you know, I'm tired of people framing us as this, you know, This tiny box, and we all have to fit inside this cleanly, and if we don't, then there's just something wrong with it, you know?
00:51:49.000Because it's almost like if you met somebody who looked like me, you would have to expect they're definitely not a Republican.
00:51:55.000And I think that that's something that needs to change, because the funny part of it is, is like, I'm more conservative than your, you know, average.
00:52:01.000You could pull anybody out of the legislature, and I'm more conservative than them.
00:52:05.000And they may look like they'd fit the part, but If you actually got down to policy and it was me versus that person making decisions, you're going to be much happier with the decision I make than the one they make.
00:52:15.000You remember the Ron Paul love revolution?
00:52:21.000So it's actually the... I've only done political ads twice in my life and the first one I ever did was for the Ron Paul campaign and it included that in it.
00:55:09.000There's something about pain and grief and trauma that ignites something different in people.
00:55:15.000And the pain I'm seeing from people and their experiences, it's not just about money.
00:55:19.000It's not just about economic overturn or gas prices or any of these things.
00:55:23.000It's about a lifetime in many cases, but decades at the very least of being lied to, being slapped at every turn by your government, and essentially feeling like you run through the same cycle over and over of abuse.
00:55:39.000Well, we got some more abuse coming your way, everybody.
00:55:42.000In today's segment about the apocalypse, MarketWatch.com says, Inflation has lessons for a very entitled generation, says BlackRock co-founder.
00:55:52.000One of the largest wealth management firms in the world, their president, has come out and said the entitled generation should... What does he say?
00:56:45.000Because they can't see a future where they can own a home, where they can have kids, credibly, and be able to say, oh yeah, my kid's gonna have a good life.
00:56:58.000And what ends up happening is, you know, we want student loan forgiveness, wah!
00:57:03.000And inflation hits, and everyone's like, no, I can't afford to buy a house, and so it's a combination of this, it's corporatocracy and corporate, you know, corporate You know, some people said corporate communism, which doesn't really make... There needs to be a new word for it.
00:57:15.000So you're touching on the fact that this is something that I've noticed a lot.
00:57:19.000It's hard for us to define what this is, you know, because it's sort of a fusion of a lot of things, and we need a new word because it's really a technocracy fused with corporatism, fused with left-wing fascism, you know?
00:57:48.000Technocracy is a rule through technology.
00:57:50.000They're only ruling because the people don't have the ability to repair their stuff and they don't know how to build the stuff.
00:57:56.000So it's like this class of builders, this class of industrialists are now, because they have control of the production, that's why it's a technocracy.
00:58:04.000Otherwise it would be like a decentralized technological revolution.
00:58:07.000Well, they're almost an arm of the government, too, though, which is another concerning point, because if you look at the big tech companies, they're taking orders from the Democratic Party.
00:58:14.000You look at every one of these tech companies, and I think, Tim, you've actually talked about this before.
00:58:18.000You may not remember it because you talk so much about stuff, but you talked about how many of these big tech companies have former staffers of the Democrat senators and Democrat House members.
00:58:50.000Yep, and look back at the 2020 election.
00:58:52.000They actually had people from California's government going and emailing the big tech companies, sending them tweets that they wanted taken down.
01:00:03.000You know, if you look at the actual numbers, they're terrible at it.
01:00:06.000When there was actually a privatization of this and you were able to have a bank go to Jenny and say, hey Jenny, we just don't think it's a good move to give you $300,000 to get a gender studies degree.
01:00:17.000That was a smart, sound business decision.
01:00:20.000And it was honestly a sound decision and a great favor they were doing to Jenny, who wanted to go to gender studies school for $300,000, or major in it, you know?
01:00:28.000When we got away from that and the government got involved, everything went downhill.
01:00:31.000Or I should say uphill, and we're talking about the prices, you know?
01:00:34.000But that's what happens when government gets involved.
01:00:39.000Like they have some value with like FDIC insurance and things like where the government will insure the loan to the company if it never gets paid back?
01:00:57.000They look around at... He probably watches too many videos online of just dumb people, or he goes to like Reddit's subreddit, Idiots in Cars, and he just sees all of this really awful, the worst of humanity.
01:01:09.000And so then he has this view of just like, eh, it's all... You know he's been seeing the worst since the 80s, because he was the technocrat that was watching everyone's Windows activity without them realizing it all through the 80s and the 90s.
01:01:42.000There are just so many people that are wealthy that just have disdain for the working class and regular people as
01:01:47.000stupid as a person The plebeians, this is like thousands of year old, and probably even before that the Romans had like an entire class of pretty much everybody.
01:01:57.000We're living a story told many times through history, you know?
01:02:00.000The Republicans in your district were all sitting in their $50,000 a year club, you know, drinking tea or wine and smoking cigars.
01:02:10.000And there's just one big fat Republican who's like, I dare say, this Robbie Starbuck, who is trying to run, we can't allow the rabble in Congress.
01:02:18.000And he's like, call up your congressman, your state representative, and get a bill passed.
01:02:48.000Yeah, I mean, that's what happens with power.
01:02:50.000When you have, you know, consolidated power like that among a group of people, they get very protective of each other and they'll do everything they possibly can to stop people from shaking that power up.
01:03:43.000There's been a lot of very, very weak men for a long time who have gotten very comfortable.
01:03:48.000Sitting around with their cigars, drinking whatever they drink.
01:03:51.000They have no clue what the heck their kids are doing.
01:03:54.000Their kids turn into far left crazy people and they're totally disconnected from reality for normal people.
01:04:01.000And then you build a society where times get really hard, which I would actually argue we're entering into right now.
01:04:05.000I think people are going to really start to feel the effects of what these people have done to our world over the past couple of decades. 2026.
01:04:14.000We're going to have some very strong men rise out of it that are going to have to bring us out and are going to have to do hard things.
01:04:21.0002026, so many people have told me that's the year.
01:04:26.000Well, there's a couple different, you know, analyses.
01:04:29.000There's MIT's data on, you know, they calculated 40 years ago when it was all going to hit the fan.
01:04:34.000There's some other guy who gave an interview to Vice like 10 years ago, was an expert on this stuff, said it's all going to hit the fan in the early 2020s.
01:04:39.000And then you have Strassau generational theory, which predicts we're entering the final season of tumult.
01:04:44.000But however, did they include Joe Biden in their calculations?
01:04:51.000We had a feckless, pathetic president then, and many people have said, Joe Biden seems to be our Buchanan, which is going to lead us into this tumultuous period.
01:05:00.000Look, if Donald Trump wins in 2024, do you think the left is gonna be like...
01:05:04.000Well, you know, Donald Trump won fair and square, so let's, you know... Nope!
01:05:11.000Yeah, and the civil war that we're headed towards now is going to be like the metaverse versus base reality and like... Well, that's not for some time.
01:05:18.000Yeah, we've got a little time before we get there.
01:05:20.000I think we're going to have an actual physical experience that people are going to live through something that they're going to say, this used to be things we only read about, and this is reality now.
01:05:31.000And I'd say this has been a long-term problem for our country that Our young people have been largely disconnected from the experiences of the world.
01:05:38.000And it's a picture on a screen, not a reality, not a physical thing that you can understand.
01:05:42.000And so if they see the experiences of somebody in, let's say, Africa, it's just a photo.
01:05:51.000You don't know what that world is actually like.
01:05:53.000And I think when they go through the hard times that we may be facing, unless some really drastic things happen, It's going to change things.
01:06:01.000It's going to change everything and even down to relationship levels of what people want out of their partners and what people want out of their life in general.
01:06:08.000And you're going to see so much change.
01:06:10.000It's going to make this great migration look like nothing.
01:06:13.000This thing that's happened where everybody's moved all over the country.
01:06:15.000It's going to make that look like nothing because you're going to see changes that are just flipped on their head in every segment of society.
01:06:21.000I think our audience deserves some good news, and so I will be fair, and we're going to do a feel-good story.
01:06:27.000And this story is, Federal Election Commission Fines DNC and Clinton Over Russia Gate Hoax.
01:06:36.000Hillary Clinton only got fined, I think, a small amount of money, but let's read.
01:06:40.000According to a scoop from Paul Bedard of the Washington Examiner, the election agency said that Clinton and the DNC violated strict rules on describing expenditures of payments funneled to the opposition research firm Fusion GPS through their law firm.
01:06:53.000A combined $1,024,407.97 was paid by the treasurers of the DNC and the Clinton campaign to law firm Perkins Coie for Fusion GPS's information, and the party and campaign hid the reason, claiming it was for legal services, not opposition research.
01:07:09.000Instead, the DNC's $849,407.97 and the Clinton campaign's $175,000 covered Fusion GPS's opposition
01:07:18.000research on the dossier, a basis for the so-called Russia hoax that dogged Trump's first term.
01:07:24.000So I believe we have the numbers here.
01:07:27.000The report says the agency fined Clinton's treasurer $8,000 and the DNC $105,000.
01:08:08.000I have trouble getting excited about things like this, to be perfectly honest with you, because it feels like the carrot they dangle in front of you, you know?
01:08:17.000And I'm tired of having carrots dangled in front of people, and I think people are tired of it.
01:08:56.000But where do we go from here if there is no accountability for people like this who are still running and, as we talked about in the previous segment, trying to stop you from being able to go into Congress?
01:09:07.000I mean, I think we're going to see that decline only speed up if there continues to be no consequences and they continue to be able to sort of build this machine that keeps out outsiders.
01:09:17.000Then it's just going to get worse faster, you know, whereas I feel like if we get this right in 2022, and this is probably the best chance we've got because people are so angry right now, at least in this time period.
01:09:29.000I mean, you can argue a lot of things maybe in 2026 2030 may happen that may make people take a different route.
01:09:34.000But in this election, I feel like we do have a great opportunity.
01:09:38.000There are strong people, and not just in Congress.
01:10:20.000So it was actually plus 17 at one point, Democrat.
01:10:23.000And it'd been a Democrat seat for over 100 years, but it was redistricted this year because the population growth in Middle Tennessee over the past decade has been massive, just exploded.
01:10:31.000And it's largely the exodus of conservatives out of California, New York, and Illinois.
01:11:09.000And that means if people all go out, if every single person who listened to this show went and told all of their immediate friends, hey, we're going to go vote in the local elections, I'm pretty sure Republicans would win these states.
01:11:23.000So, if you're looking at elections right now and you say, you know what, in my district it doesn't really matter, we're very safe, we've got a good person, or there's no way you're getting this person, whatever it is, okay?
01:11:32.000You can make a difference in other parts of the country.
01:11:34.000You can phone bank for other parts of the country.
01:11:35.000Find races that matter, where it does matter.
01:11:38.000Like, you say, I have to get that person in.
01:11:39.000You know, there may be some guy on, like, a podcast you really like, you know, like, with a cool name like Robbie, and you're like, hey, I want to make sure that guy gets elected.
01:11:47.000Go and actually do something to that effect.
01:11:49.000You know, you don't even have to live there.
01:12:19.000I hear more and more stories from them.
01:12:21.000The thing about Marjorie was that she came on the show, she's been on the show I think twice now, and a lot of people messaged me saying, we only heard crazy things about her, we never really looked into it.
01:12:32.000But then when she told the story about how she forced members of Congress to do an actual vote on bills, I'm getting all these messages from people cheering, being like, wow, She had the backbone to risk a lot of things I can't like fully go into but she risked a lot of things to support me and I will always always appreciate that and like I said politics is a business where they want you to stab your friends in the back and I refuse to do it.
01:12:53.000I will never ever ever do that or you know talk down about somebody who's been an incredible friend or supporter and she's She cares.
01:13:03.000And I think that's one of the things that people would be surprised by, is even if you disagreed with her, if you just sat down and talked with her, she cares about our country.
01:13:13.000But this was an amazing thing for us to learn, thanks to the Freedom Caucus and many of these other peoples, that Members of Congress don't actually vote on these bills.
01:13:22.000They just have proxies and they're just banging a gavel and just shuffling it through like, yes, you know, whatever, who cares?
01:13:28.000It's almost like there's no Congress at this point.
01:13:31.000I mean, look, Nancy Pelosi pushes through her spending bill.
01:14:10.000You have got to be able to spend money in these races.
01:14:13.000And that's what's terrible is that it's created this sort of system where you have a bunch of people who, if corporations will come to you and say, like Amazon or Big Pharma or whoever it is, and they say, hey, we'll give you X amount and we'll throw all this money into packs that are going to support you.
01:14:30.000And then, it is a quid pro quo, and nobody will admit it, but I'm admitting it.
01:14:35.000That's 100% what these people are doing.
01:14:37.000And it's why I refuse to take their money, because we need to be able to put a line in the sand and say, this whole thing that's been going on, this is what is ruining our country.
01:14:46.000Nobody's going in there to vote or to reading or to writing or legislating in any part, any segment of it, and saying, hey, how is this going to affect, like, your average family in the middle of the country?
01:14:57.000What I don't get is, how, why does it cost money?
01:15:00.000Because I started, I made a YouTube channel in 2006.
01:15:02.000I was like, wow, I've got 10,000 subscribers pretty quick.
01:15:05.000I don't need money to run for office now.
01:15:07.000I have what money buys, which is the platform to speak.
01:15:10.000So what do you need money for? So I have a large platform and that's what a lot of people ask me is
01:15:14.000they're like, well, why would I need to donate to you? You have like almost a million followers
01:15:18.000via all your social media. Like why would you need me? Millions of people watch you, blah, blah, blah.
01:15:22.000They don't live in my district. You know, maybe 24% of my district consumes their content online.
01:15:28.000The rest of them, either it's like still newspapers, they listen to radio or their TV,
01:15:33.000or they just, they don't do any of that. And they're people who work.
01:15:37.000They work for a living, they go home, they spend time with their family, that's it.
01:15:39.000They're pretty disconnected from what's going on in the news.
01:15:42.000You have to be able to send out mailers.
01:15:44.000You have to be able to make sure your name's out there, and especially in primaries, the number one predictor of primary, who's gonna win, is name ID.
01:15:50.000So if you actually do a poll on just name ID, have you heard this name before?
01:15:55.000That person's much more likely to win if they're higher in name ID, whether it's good, bad, indifferent, doesn't matter.
01:16:04.000Well, you know, that's, that's part of the hope, but no, you've got to be able to get this stuff out there and actually make people feel something about you.
01:16:11.000You know, and that's a good thing, whether it's good or bad, because you've got to stand in what you actually are going to do, you know, and in my case, it's a good thing because I'm in a conservative district, but you've got to pay for the ads.
01:16:20.000That's the other thing, is that ads are one of the critical ways, you know, if there's another, let's say, 28% of people who watch everything that they get about politics on TV, if you're not present in those ads, you're not there in their ad space in that time they're spending watching TV, but your opponent is, You're in trouble.
01:16:39.000You know, and I've seen that in a lot of races where there's an incredible person, but they raised just not enough money to be able to do ads outside of maybe one or two places.
01:16:48.000And their opponent has money from, you know, all these corporate super PACs, and they can just flood the zone.
01:16:53.000Flooding the zone is the name of the game.
01:16:55.000They know how to flood the zone in these places where people consume this content, the person becomes more familiar with the name, and maybe their only familiarity with your name now is that corporate pack who ran negative ads against you saying, this person, you know, they hate Trump.
01:17:12.000Watch this video where they hated Trump and it'll be like a video of this person doing that.
01:17:16.000But in reality, the truth of it is it was a video of that person playing a part during a party game where they're explaining what you do during voting, you know, and they just took it entirely out of context.
01:17:27.000But the people watching it will never know that, you know.
01:17:30.000That's something you've got to sort of be able to battle.
01:17:33.000You know, and if you don't have the money to do it, then people are going to have the wrong impression about you.
01:17:37.000So like in my case, the thing they're going to go after is say, he's too Hollywood.
01:17:40.000He's directed, you know, all these people who are Hollywood values and blah, blah, blah.
01:17:44.000You know, how do you know he's really going to fight for you?
01:17:49.000And if you can't fight back or credibly, like give people an argument for why they should vote for you, then they're just going to move on, you know, and do what feels comfortable.
01:20:17.000And then what if you're just like, thanks, you run the campaign, you win, and then you're like, eh, bye Amazon, I'm not involved anymore, thanks for helping me.
01:20:24.000Like, now I'm going to do what I want to do.
01:20:28.000What typically happens when you're running an illegal bribery scheme and then you don't give the guys who bribed you what they've asked for?
01:20:39.000It's like, OK, go off the premise of how this all works.
01:20:43.000If you really made a backroom deal with some company that you're going to do their bidding and do what they want and they dump in millions into your pack to make sure you can go do that, do you really think that they won't go out and expose you in some way?
01:20:55.000Because the company is going to get a slap on the wrist, but you, you'll get in real
01:21:34.000Most people may be well-intentioned when they get in, but then like you said, they're like, look, look, they're corrupted.
01:21:39.000One thing you got to do, you just got to do it.
01:21:41.000Yep, that's the first compromise is the last compromise, because the minute you start doing it, it will never stop.
01:21:46.000And Donald Trump, you just know that when he got in office, they sat him down, the intelligence agencies, and they were like, this is the plan and the mission, this is what we're doing, and he went, no, excuse me, we're getting our troops out, it's not happening.
01:22:00.000You know, people... This is what's funny, is after he endorsed the other candidate in this race, and everybody was like, you've got to be so mad.
01:22:06.000All these news outlets come, NBC, CNN, all these places are like, do you want to come?
01:22:10.000Obviously, they want me to go in and bash him.
01:22:12.000You know, they're like, we've got division in the MAGA movement.
01:22:14.000Candace Owens went against what Trump said.
01:22:17.000Marjorie Taylor Greene went against what he said.
01:22:19.000His own lawyers went against it and goes on and on and on.
01:22:22.000And, you know, I was like, this is everything you guys want now.
01:22:30.000We need people who are outsiders who are going to fight this insane system.
01:22:33.000They're going to make mistakes along the way.
01:22:35.000They're not always going to be perfect, but they're going to do their damn best to do what people need.
01:22:40.000It feels like a plane that's going down and we need a pilot to help us crash land because the Federal Reserve had this, it's been going on for a hundred years.
01:22:47.000They've been printing and printing and printing to a point where we can't, we owe more interest than we can pay back now.
01:22:52.000And they're using this global catastrophe as like the COVID shutdown as an excuse.
01:23:23.000Critical to the future of our country.
01:23:24.000We have so many mixed realities right now, and one of the most unifying things for a society is your fundamental ability to agree on what reality is.
01:24:20.000But this is the time where people need to be strong and say, you know what?
01:24:24.000We've got to make those right decisions.
01:24:25.000We've got to do things and make sacrifices now, because if we don't, we're going to end up in a situation where we're going to have to make some really, really serious sacrifices.
01:26:01.000We need to start producing more cultural content.
01:26:04.000People who are anti-establishment, it's not just about conservative, it's about you're anti-establishment, you're populist, you're libertarian.
01:26:10.000These are the values that most of us share.
01:26:12.000I tried, I wanted to watch Hyperion's, I wanted to watch the new Daily Wire movie, but I can't watch it on my TV.
01:26:19.000Because you've got Daily Wire on like Rokr or whatever, but I have a smart TV.
01:26:22.000That means Daily Wire needs to make an LG app.
01:27:44.000Everything you can think of from incarceration rates to, you know, the jobs that people choose, you know, family, how long people stay together, everything will change.
01:27:54.000Everything will change in society based off just these small things that will change from school choice.
01:27:59.000And if you fill those gaps, give people choice, and this is another one, you know, with Daily Wire, it's truly about not just getting conservative content out there, it's about giving people a real choice.
01:28:08.000Right now we live in a system in the entertainment industry and everywhere else where we don't really have real choices.
01:28:14.000It's basically you have 10 options of the same left-wing garbage and that's it.
01:28:56.000And I'm not going to mince words, because I'm just—anybody who knowingly opposes the Parental Rights and Education Bill is saying, why can't we have secret conversations with four- to nine-year-olds about sexual topics?
01:29:34.000They like to separate kids from their parents because fundamentally they need to take over a parental role.
01:29:39.000They need that child to see them as a parent.
01:29:41.000And that's what bills like this do is push us closer.
01:29:44.000Not the bill, but the action that they want and why they're so mad about the bill is they want to be able to push those kids closer to the state being mommy or daddy.
01:29:53.000And If they can't talk to them about these critical issues that are supposed to be things that parents talk to their kids about and teach their kids about, you know, that's a problem for them because that's getting in the way of their agenda.
01:30:04.000Now beyond just that, this is just step one.
01:30:07.000The next step in this is if they feel like they can move the Overton window far enough over where suddenly you get 50% of Democrats or 60 or 70 or 80 okay with this idea that yes, in fact, the state does have a right to have a sexual conversation with a four-year-old, And share their own sexuality and sex life with their four-year-old.
01:30:25.000If that becomes normalized, what's next?
01:30:27.000It's gonna be a child sexual rights agenda.
01:30:29.000And that's what people need to be woke to.
01:30:31.000Is that's what's coming down the line next, and if you're not aware of it now, and you don't fight this, and you don't do what you can to stop this now, then you're just okay with that next step.
01:30:42.000If you go back in time, there was talk about the slippery slope, and it all happened.
01:30:46.000And now here we are ten years later, and once again we're having the same conversations, it's gonna get bad, and...
01:30:52.000And I hope that at least the reality of knowing that there's been some things that were correct about that is going to wake people up enough to say, ooh, maybe there's something we need to do differently here.
01:31:05.000Knowing what the system is doing drastically changes the system itself.
01:31:09.000Yeah, the calculus has changed, you know, and I think that's something that we all need to take really seriously.
01:31:14.000I mean, that's what my wife does is, you know, she works in this area.
01:31:16.000She's actually launching a nonprofit to do exactly this, stop child exploitation, because we've essentially created a pipeline for kids from birth to exploit them.
01:31:25.000You know, look at social media, how early kids are on TikTok, or how early they're on Instagram pages, with absolutely no oversight.
01:31:32.000And we teach girls specifically that, like, commodifying yourself, making yourself into a commodity and it's your body, essentially, is a good thing.
01:32:01.000They wouldn't be able to answer the question when they do those things where they try to figure this out.
01:32:04.000They wouldn't even be able to answer it three or four.
01:32:06.000So if you just said, you know, that probably likely happens to a certain extent, you would probably say that number in reality is a little bit lower, but that's the one that's documented is that it's at least 11.
01:32:42.000Well, I have somewhat of a controversial take, too, when it comes to porn.
01:32:45.000And it's that, you know, I feel like we as men have a responsibility to normalize the fact that you should feel emasculated if you have to watch porn.
01:32:53.000I feel like we should try to normalize normal, sexual, healthy relationships with your spouse.
01:32:58.000And that, you know, porn in itself is not doing anything positive for you.
01:33:03.000Like, if you look at things from a net positive or net life drain basis, it's draining things from your life and nothing it's producing is really good for you.
01:33:10.000You know, just like when you say profane, things aren't necessarily the F word.
01:33:27.000There's some that's like healthy sex, people enjoying themselves, and there's some where it's bad.
01:33:31.000I suppose if you're watching like an educational science, you know, thing that's like very dry and, you know, just like an old man is going, as the man becomes a rock.
01:33:43.000You know if you're like in med school, you know, or you're a biologist
01:33:47.000I'm sorry, if you're a biologist or you're in med school and you need to see that video you should probably pick a
01:33:51.000job You're completely wrong. I'm talking about an educational
01:33:55.000thing showing like organs like you okay that that that's okay
01:33:58.000I thought you meant like a play-by-play on how sex works I was gonna be like, yeah, your parents should have
01:34:03.000explained literally would if you're gonna talk about Like all the chemical functions you could you could they
01:34:08.000could make a video showing to people having sex. It wouldn't be porn
01:34:11.000Yeah, it would be like a medical by biological thing. We got to go to super chat
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01:34:27.000people are saying we already got censored for talking about Florida and those Democrats and the things that they are doing so Maybe people are saying the feed cut out.
01:34:37.000We started talking about some spicy stuff That's why we have Tim cast outcome, but let's read some of these super chats.
01:34:45.000Mikael Isaacson says Swedish companies Atlas Copco, Sandvik, and SKF questioned about selling parts to Russia for building nukes, according to newspaper Expressen.
01:34:56.000As I've said many times before, Sweden is the final puppet master.
01:35:12.000Wootdoo4u says, I just want to know what's happened to women.
01:35:15.000Last three I dated, all were closet addicts and had some form of personality disorder.
01:35:20.000I'm a disaffected liberal, seems like Christian women are the only option.
01:35:25.000I think in cities, there's, for one, women are mass medicated in this country with birth control, which is hormonal, which does cause, you know, psychological effects on any individual who takes, you know, hormones.
01:35:39.000And as for people living in cities, You know, the first thing I'll say is, bro, if everywhere you walk it smells like crap, you gotta check your boot.
01:35:48.000But, um, it's also possible that in cities, especially over the past two years, people have become dejected, depressed, and purposeless, and so they do drugs.
01:35:55.000And they develop personality disorders from it.
01:35:57.000Well, look at the average life of a girl in our country.
01:36:00.000Like, if you just did, like, you tried to do a replay, like a 30 second cut of life for a girl, and what they're expected To do now and what matters to a woman, you know, is supposed to matter.
01:36:10.000And I think it's fundamentally changed from what it's been for a very long time in history.
01:36:15.000And I think that it's led to really unhealthy outcomes.
01:38:25.000I thought it'd be funny, actually, if you roll the 20 and then it landed straight up pointing on one of the tips and just doesn't give you anything.
01:40:14.000Matthew Reckamp says, would you be willing to debate Mark Levin, him on your podcast, or you on his radio show, on the proposed assassination of Putin?
01:41:25.000So people always ask me, what's the coolest celebrity you've ever worked with?
01:41:29.000And it's not even a question, it's 1000% Billy Corgan because I was the hugest Smashing Pumpkins fan.
01:41:34.000And I directed a video and in that time it was my birthday and he gave me a private concert for my birthday just him at a piano in this wrestling arena place we were at and he sat there and played all my favorite songs for me and my crew and that was it and it was the coolest thing ever.
01:41:51.000Such a rad moment getting to meet Billy Corcoran because I was such a big fan of Smashing Pumpkins for obvious reasons, you know.
01:41:57.000He's such a huge band, so that was cool.
01:45:44.000Will of the People, the song, is kind of like the overarching universe of this country in this tumult.
01:45:50.000And then the other songs are like singular moments within it.
01:45:53.000So one of the things we're planning on doing is that in the animations, because we're gonna be doing the same animation, same style, color schemes and all that stuff, in the next songs, they're gonna be from key moments that will reflect back upon Will of the People's original video.
01:46:06.000So, I don't want to give away too much.
01:46:17.000Plus, I always want to stress, we have a full storyboard for, like, two different songs in terms of the videos.
01:46:23.000And we have character backstories for, like, novelizations or video games and stuff, too, because it's, like, the most successful cultural thing that we've done.
01:46:33.000We've got these ideas for these characters, their backstories, what we can do in terms of video games, card games, graphic novels, film, and all that stuff.
01:46:41.000And maybe it sounds grandiose to a certain extent, but just so people understand, you look at the success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, you look at the failure of DC, and obviously, Harry Potter, universes are what you should be aiming for.
01:46:54.000You shouldn't just be trying to do, like, hey, I'm gonna make a song.
01:46:57.000So I've said this for months that we were working on sequels to the song.
01:47:00.000The idea was to take stories from within this universe and then make something bigger out of it.
01:47:46.000The next series is, of course, Ghosts of the Civil War, Ghosts of the Confederacy.
01:47:50.000And he went down to look for the lost Confederate gold in Georgia and found a whole bunch of crazy ghost stories, Sasquatch, UFOs, and all the stuff in between.
01:47:58.000So there's, like, the story of chasing after this lost gold to uncover the mystery, and then all the weird stuff in between is each chapter.
01:48:04.000But then we're also looking at stories in Chicago with, you know, the 1920s, the gangster stuff, Al Capone.
01:48:10.000You've got a whole bunch of crazy Chicago ghost stories.
01:48:13.000And then we've got plans for all this stuff, you know, coming out.
01:48:18.000Shane and I were talking about if land can harbor pain, if like the land can actually experience pain that then causes like ghosts, like really like... I don't know about that.
01:48:28.000That's pretty far out there for me, but ghosts.
01:50:45.000The media is just pretending there isn't.
01:50:47.000There's also not necessarily a singular communist system because you have capital as the means of control, so it's this weird... and it's not capitalism.
01:51:19.000I mean, it's a cool word, but it doesn't fully describe it.
01:51:22.000You know, I've actually said maybe a better description is we're the American CCP now, because the CCP operates in a similar way.
01:51:29.000We're just early in the infancy of it, where, like, they haven't fully come out and been naked, you know, honest about what they really are, but in sort of beginning stages of, like, hey, you know, we're starting to take control of everything and, you know, you better like it.
01:51:44.000You know, you're going to own nothing and you're going to be happy about it.
01:51:46.000Alright, Rocky Service says, Georgia viewers, please call your state senator and demand they pass constitutional carry bill SB 319.
01:51:54.000That sounds fantastic, and they say also Bigfoot is real.
01:51:57.000Well, if you listen to Chicken City, you'll often hear us complaining about Sasquatch.
01:52:01.000Yeah, we live in a relatively sheltered area, so the Sasquatch are safe from predators in this area.
01:54:50.000You know, honestly, if you're starting out, don't go, don't go do anything you're going to regret, but go do something.
01:54:55.000When you say record separately, that's like, you'll shoot the scene, you record it, and then you, um, you, you do the scene again and then just get the audio.
01:55:01.000Yeah, you'll have the raw audio on whatever you film.
01:55:54.000I got that a lot, where they're like, these companies hate you because they don't know who I am, or maybe they do, but I got a lot of this for the war in Iraq.
01:56:00.000They were like, They hate us for our freedoms.
01:56:03.000Hey, Ian, just so you know, they hate you.
01:56:04.000I got a lot of being told that other people hate me.
01:56:06.000So, like, I don't like that as a marketing technique.
01:56:08.000Well, it's not even a mark—it's just reality.
01:56:10.000So, from having lived in that world and been around people in Hollywood and the way they think about the country, they hate us.
01:56:23.000And the thing that always bothered me about this is I was the only person kind of speaking up against it because I didn't grow up like they grew up.
01:56:28.000Most of the people who are executives in Hollywood, they're from Hollywood families or they were raised rich.
01:57:18.000When we talked about redlining and blockbusting and the remnants of racist policies that affected the United States.
01:57:26.000Yeah, you don't get that typically from conservative audiences.
01:57:29.000And I get called a leftist by conservatives and I get called a right-winger by the left.
01:57:33.000You actually, last time you asked me a lot of stuff that was not like typical wheelhouse, you know, stuff.
01:57:38.000It was like, hey, let's think outside the box on this, you know?
01:57:42.000I just think that if you're on the left and you look to your right, you'll see me and a bunch of conservatives.
01:57:45.000If you're on your right and you look to your left, you'll see me and then, you know, slightly further away, the leftists, to be completely honest.
01:57:51.000But it's not an issue of right or left.
01:59:42.000We don't do dial-in shows, and I think the Jon Stewart-Andrew Sullivan show is a really good example of why.
01:59:48.000I think, you know, everyone's roasting Jon Stewart for making an episode called The Problem with White People, because Jon Stewart's totally fallen.
02:00:14.000You know, he should not have gone on the show.
02:00:16.000To be completely honest, if you get hit up, Anybody any personality gets hit up by any talk show and they're like we would like an expert on woke issues to come And have a debate you'd be like oh, yeah, you know the wrong person James Lindsay his email you can go talk to them exactly man Narcissism gets in the way of good decisions all the time, and that's one example of it You know I always see it with CNN like CNN has an absolute
02:00:42.000pattern that they kind of project out when they go and book guests and it's
02:00:45.000let's find the person who is the least qualified to answer these questions
02:00:49.000who's a Republican and let's bring them on to answer them you know and they
02:00:53.000do that to make us look stupid. They never bring on the people who could go
02:00:56.000and just shred them on the issues. Yeah I'd like to see more Chris Rufo.
02:01:00.000I remember him giving a pretty explicit... Rufo's awesome.
02:01:02.000...succinct explanations and then I haven't seen them as much as I'd like to.
02:01:06.000Jerome Morrow says, one of your Will of the People sequels could be post-Nuke when the Timcast crew have moved into the underground bunker and then evolved into Chuds.
02:01:16.000Well, I will say that the two songs, because I'm not going to give you the full storyboards that we have for them already, that are nearing completion.
02:01:24.000The first one is a song about an insular moment in the revolution between a father and his son.
02:01:31.000And the second one is about a kid who, you know, grows up in civil war and dreams of escaping and fleeing and there's, like, the stories have, they basically have some sort of twist.
02:01:44.000Well, the one about his dad and his son, I'll just say this, the storyboard is like memento.
02:03:28.000It shows hooded figures throwing ropes to pull down statues.
02:03:33.000That's literally... I feel your frustration.
02:03:35.000The number of times my work has been stolen by major labels and huge artists Is massive but the problem is is in my case I was always signing deals with these major labels and they buy you out basically of your rights and so you can't go sue over it but you can.
02:03:50.000Yeah I own all the rights and people need to understand like Some people have said, you don't own this individual idea, this individual idea.
02:03:56.000It's like, that's not what happens in court.
02:03:58.000When you go to court, they look at the full picture.
02:04:01.000Like, if you baked a cake, and then it was, you know, the collection of all the different kinds of icing.
02:04:06.000Sure, I don't own the idea of icing, but we made this one particular thing grouped together.
02:04:12.000I can't reveal literally every single thing about what's going on behind the scenes.
02:04:17.000But I just want to say, what we've talked about in terms of what they did copy, It's not even the full picture because they've copied more and I have to have lawyer meetings.
02:04:28.000It appears that they copied just more than the artistic work, the business strategy around it.
02:04:34.000There's other elements that we've already identified.
02:04:39.000First of all, people have already looked at the videos and been like, yeah, come on.
02:05:26.000I don't know this, but you've done a lot of work in music and music videos and all that stuff, and you're saying it's strange for a band to do an album announcement five months before release?
02:05:42.000That's a that's a long time before you put an album out.
02:05:44.000Now, would artists know they're going to do that five minutes in advance?
02:05:48.000Yes, but that's always kept, you know, quiet.
02:05:50.000And it's something that it's in the planning stages, you know, where we're meeting with the label and going through, OK, what what are we going to do?
02:05:55.000What's the creative on this going to be?
02:05:58.000You know, it doesn't happen like that where you publicly go out.
02:06:01.000I wish I could say more because there's a lot more than just this, but there's certain creative elements that are publicly available that we've published that are also, in my opinion, I see it as identical.
02:06:16.000So it's not just this one video, it's our business development around it.
02:06:19.000And then five months before the album comes out, they post it on my birthday with the name and the same video.
02:06:33.000We launched this project November 2nd, 2020, and we were working on it before then.
02:06:38.000And the first time I ever played the song publicly, Actually, the first time I played the song publicly may have been like six, five years ago when I was writing it.
02:06:45.000But the first time the full version of the song was played was June 19th, 2020.
02:06:52.000So this is before the artistic development.
02:06:54.000But then let me just say that the entirety of the project, it's not just this one video that people need to look at.
02:07:01.000And we'll have to talk about it when we talk about it.
02:07:05.000But so far, all we've done is mention it.
02:07:10.000There's going to be a larger story here.
02:07:45.000So instead of just harping on about, you know, music and stuff, you can check out Will of the People by searching it on YouTube.
02:07:51.000And check out the music video if you haven't seen it.
02:07:53.000It's a short film, so you've got to watch with intent because there's a lot of key story elements in there that we're using for the projects as we move forward.
02:08:00.000Like, the character's name is easily discernible.
02:08:02.000You can figure out who our protagonist antagonist is.
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02:08:33.000But donations matter a lot because I'm not taking that corporate money So people-powered grassroots matters and if you want people who are actually gonna shake up and change the system You got to put something behind it, you know, and that's time money energy, whatever you can do But then on social media you can find me everywhere at Robbie Starbuck ROBBY Starbuck And when you guys go over that will the people Tim pool video leave a comment with my name on it Here's a random fun fact.
02:08:55.000I have some harmonies for that song that I didn't record.