On this episode of the Freedom Tunes podcast, we have a special guest, Dr. Anthony Fauci on the show to talk about Vladimir Putin's new oil deal with the EU, Maxine Waters, and much, much more.
00:00:04.000Vladimir Putin has issued his ultimatum that European nations, unfriendly nations, not just Europe, must start paying for oil from Russia in rubles, but not just that.
00:00:16.000They have to open Russian bank accounts and handle their exchange through the Russian financial system.
00:00:22.000This is something that is missing from many of the headlines, because they're making it sound like Vladimir Putin's just saying, look, look, look, buy rubles first.
00:00:30.000When in reality, he's actually saying, you can still pay us in euro, but it has to go through our financial system first.
00:00:50.000Vladimir Putin now has tremendous leverage over Europe.
00:00:54.000And everyone is kind of panicking about whether or not he'll shut off gas tomorrow.
00:00:58.000European nations are calling his bluff saying nice try we're not gonna play these games in Germany.
00:01:02.000They're saying this is blackmail We'll see who caves first because tomorrow is the deadline April 1st How amazing would it be if tomorrow Vladimir Putin comes out and goes on a public address?
00:01:13.000And he's like I warned you all I would shut off your gas and April Fool's It was just a joke yeah, I mean so so hold on you're telling me Dave They've lost McDonald's isn't marketing there anymore the big banks left, and they went back to the gold standard 1980's called.
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00:06:34.000Putin's demand is being seen as an attempt to boost the Ruble, which has been hit by Western sanctions.
00:06:39.000While it's working, the Ruble is recovering, but this is more about Russia's banks.
00:06:44.000They say his decree means foreign buyers of Russian gas would have to open an account at Russia's Gazprom Bank and transfer euros or US dollars into it.
00:06:53.000Gazprom Bank would then convert this into rubles, which will then be used to make the payment for gas.
00:06:59.000He's not saying You have to buy the oil and gas.
00:07:01.000He's saying you have to open an account and put your money into it.
00:07:04.000He's propping up the Russian financial system because of Western sanctions.
00:07:07.000He's now got the Mir payment system, Visa and MasterCard and Amex and all these companies suspending.
00:07:14.000All Joe Biden has done with his sanctions is bolster Russia and make them fiercely independent, strong, and weaken the U.S.' 's position around the world.
00:09:40.000it's like the the upper middle class lady who orders something at a mexican restaurant in broken english because she like assumes that the way please don't dad sentences please don't yeah you're like please stop doing this like they're not even trying to speak spanish they're just speaking english poorly intentionally it's like what are you doing yo senor yo necesito more guac yeah but that's broken spanish they will literally do broken there's like i want Food for plate!
00:10:07.000You're like, bro, you can just talk normally, like, they'll understand you.
00:10:10.000Remember that Yale study that said white liberals talk down, they dumb down the way they speak to black people, and conservatives don't.
00:10:19.000That's the crazy, yo, like... Here's the thing, I don't dumb down my speech to anyone because, like, it can't get any dumber.
00:11:44.000And then if you answer no, you take the survey and you answer that you're not satisfied, they're like, this guy's sick, we gotta quarantine this one, round him up.
00:11:51.000They come out in the hazmat suits, like they do in China, you jump out the window, they grab you, bring you back in.
00:12:15.000That was a thing in Philly, and it was weird.
00:12:18.000This guy, like, he comes up to my house, and my wife and I just moved out of Philadelphia, and he knocks on the door, and he's like, Hi, sir.
00:12:23.000I'm from the city of Philadelphia, and I'm just going around to check out what people are doing during COVID, see if, you know, obviously you had the opportunity to get your vaccine.
00:12:31.000I'm like, I don't really wanna answer that question.
00:12:34.000He goes, well, did you get your vaccine?
00:12:49.000Yeah, they said, I'm calling on behalf of the CDC, conducting a national immunization survey about vaccinations for COVID and other diseases.
00:13:28.000I should be the one making those royalties off of my own likeness.
00:13:32.000But yeah, I didn't actually think anybody be able to hear it, but that was awesome, you know, I asked them if they were okay with it Respectable I guess such as what I didn't know what they were calling for.
00:13:43.000So I thought it'd be interesting You know, we do a show we talking about this stuff.
00:13:47.000We're rubles and I think the part of the reason why it's backfired but Part of the reason why the ruble bounded back, not only did they set up on gold, but its value is calculated in relative to the dollar.
00:13:58.000So if the dollar drops in value, the ruble is going to go up relatively in value.
00:14:02.000So as the dollar continues to plummet, as it's continued to be printed, you're going to see all of these other currencies going up.
00:14:41.000I don't think he's doing anything out of the ordinary.
00:14:44.000I'm not saying I love it, I'm just saying it's not out of the ordinary.
00:14:46.000When you look at what the Biden administration has done from a foreign policy standpoint, we were talking about this beforehand, it has been one unforced mitigated disaster after another.
00:14:57.000And I think it's just a matter of, and it's sad to say, but I think Putin looks at it as he has to maintain himself long enough to outlast Biden and these failed policies.
00:15:06.000And we're seeing this right now, your average person's like, this is not worth it.
00:15:10.000I mean, maybe, but I also think, as soon as Joe Biden got elected, you know how they would do the show The West Wing, where it's like that camera in front of them as they walk, and then it turns the corners?
00:15:21.000Imagine that with Putin, and then his guys like, Sir, Joe Biden is president.
00:18:30.000Trump should run because we're at the point now where I'm pretty sure enough people are going to look at Biden and Trump and go, I'm not making that same mistake twice.
00:18:39.000And then not only do you get Trump back in office to be the raging bull storming through the ivory tower, but you could say, I told you so to all of those people who turn around and said, yeah, okay, we made a mistake with that one.
00:18:49.000See, I look at DeSantis though, because whether, like the whole don't say gay bill, which isn't actually a bill that says you can't say don't say gay, right?
00:18:58.000He was smart in the way he put that bill into place because he is making the left now respond in kind to him and say, We want to teach our kids this in school.
00:19:08.000And your average parent is like, you're teaching what to my K through third grader?
00:19:21.000Now we have a chance to put Ron DeSantis in front where he could have the chance to lead on policy and get the progressive left to answer that.
00:19:32.000I'd rather have DeSantis to be completely honest because of the latest news that he's calling a special legislative session.
00:19:43.000So Ron DeSantis was like, yeah, we're gonna do a special session, come in, vote on everyone being able to carry guns without permits and you can just buy and conceal and everything.
00:19:51.000And it's just like, you didn't have to do that.
00:20:42.000But it's not that they haven't done it with Trump, so it's not any worse.
00:20:44.000But they tried to do it with him during COVID too, and it failed.
00:20:49.000They really tried to make DeSantis look like he had foreheads, he was going to kill grandma, and that the state was going to burn into flames, and yet That's a good point.
00:20:59.000You even had AOC partying maskless in Florida.
00:21:18.000They're going to notice that the folks living in the states that everyone is leaving are telling you not to vote for the guy who ran the state everyone has been trying to move to.
00:21:43.000Well, they, they, brilliant play from the Republicans on this one.
00:21:47.000The Parental Rights and Education Bill says no secret conversations, no withholding medical information, and no specific sex ed kind of talk for kindergarten to third grade.
00:21:58.000The initial bill on the website said pre-K, but the bill itself says kindergarten, so there's a bit of a confusion there.
00:22:05.000I checked the actual language of the bill.
00:22:06.000It says kindergarten, so that's a correction, but also the Florida.gov website does say pre-K, so I don't know where that split is coming from.
00:22:14.000But, imagine now, you look at the tweets, like David Hogg tweeted this, where he was like, here's a quote from the bill, sounds like don't say gay to me.
00:22:22.000And I'm just like, but that quote you posted also prohibits straight discussions as well.
00:22:27.000And I'm just like, I don't understand why these people are so hell-bent on having sex conversations with children.
00:22:32.000Yeah, don't say sex would be a better name for it.
00:22:34.000It's such a weird thing to look for in a bill too.
00:22:37.000You hear there's a parental rights bill, they're like, But is this going to make it more difficult to have conversations with children in secret about gay sex?
00:23:48.000First of all, I'm a judge, now the greatest state.
00:23:54.000How much better, and granted, I am not downplaying the necessity of having the right person in the Oval Office, but I do think there is something to be said for this idea that DeSantis is really extremely powerful in Florida, and imagine how much better this country would be if other political leaders just followed suit and behaved like him in their states if
00:24:12.000republican governors in other parts of the country actually had some guts in
00:24:16.000developed a spine and stood up for their people the way ron de santis has the country'd
00:24:20.000be so i mean i think that would do more good for the country than even the
00:24:31.000It's because of people like him, particularly him, that the country has been able to dodge a proverbial bullet of having to jab ourselves when now we're acknowledging that you don't really need it.
00:24:42.000Yep, and I don't mean to interrupt, but this goes back to, and I've been pushing this a lot in my program, instead of responding to narratives, setting the narratives.
00:24:53.000And that's where DeSantis has been killing it.
00:24:55.000He is not responding to, okay, leftists make an argument and they're full force, and now conservatives, libertarians, anybody right of center is now playing defense.
00:25:07.000We're seeing Republicans play offense, libertarians playing offense, And now you're seeing the left scramble because they're not used to having to actually explain, wait, why do you want to teach kids sex when they're in kindergarten?
00:25:21.000And have secret conversations with children.
00:25:22.000conversations and have secret conversations with children.
00:25:32.000And now that they're in this trap of having to unwind this massive web that they have made of just insanity, your average person, and I keep on going back to the average person because I think this is who we should be talking to, they're looking at what's happening and they're like, this is insane.
00:25:46.000I don't want to teach my kids sex when they're in kindergarten.
00:25:50.000And even if that's a conversation to have, let me have it.
00:25:52.000Let me determine when that's going to be.
00:25:54.000So all the more reason why we all like Ron DeSantis and what's happening in Florida, why so many people are moving there.
00:26:00.000But just in terms of, you know, going back to the original subject, was Joe Biden running?
00:26:04.000We need to consider that if Joe Biden can't run for president, that means the Democrats need to announce in a month or two.
00:27:21.000I got a brand new shiny helmet and a pair of kinky boots!
00:27:25.000I don't have the same kind of sympathy for this guy because if you know if you get behind the wheel of a car for instance and you're blind and you end up killing someone I have no sympathy for you.
00:27:33.000I agree with you on that but I almost think he's to the point where someone else had to put him there I just don't know that he's competent enough to make the decision to place himself in that position.
00:27:40.000It's like you have somebody in the backseat of the car they're like Joe Biden in the front seat they're like all right there's a turn up here to the left Turn!
00:27:57.000I think my point is more or less, and really what I'm trying to get at is, if this was anyone else, if I were to see any other person experiencing that kind of cognitive decline, it would just make me sad.
00:28:06.000I wouldn't really find much to poke fun at, but Because this man is literally the leader of the country, and everyone's trying to pretend that he's not only fit, but that he's, like, the best.
00:29:24.000And like, all right, I guess we're nuking Libya.
00:29:25.000You know what Biden's first reaction would be if he heard that news?
00:29:27.000He'd be like, It would be disappointment because he's a lame loser.
00:29:37.000When Joe Biden was talking about Syria back at like the G7 or whatever, he kept calling it Libya.
00:29:42.000And I'm like, yo, people downplay this.
00:29:45.000When Peter Doocy was asking questions to Biden, he said, It seemed like you said this, and it seemed like you said this, and Biden's like, never happened!
00:29:53.000It's like, Biden, you're only lying to yourself because everyone in the world heard you say it.
00:29:59.000Imagine if he's in private with a general.
00:31:22.000He claims he looked Putin in the eye and he told that bully, you don't have a soul.
00:31:28.000As if Vladimir Putin is just this really introspective guy who was like, well, if Joe Biden doesn't think I have soul, perhaps I'm doing something wrong.
00:31:34.000This is a good cartoon you could make, though, where like in Biden's mind, he's like ripped and he like walks up to Putin and he's like, listen here, chum, you ain't got no soul, no malarkey.
00:31:44.000And Putin's like, oh, please, Mr. Biden, please.
00:31:46.000And then like in reality, he's like, Hey, you soul man!
00:31:51.000And then Putin's like, he called me a soul man?
00:35:28.000I mean, we can definitely attribute it to him, even though it started way before he was president, because what was it, all the way back in 1997, he was saying he wanted to go to war with Iraq.
00:35:35.000He's the swamp creature like the rest of them.
00:35:38.000And this is what happens when you go to war frivolously.
00:35:40.000It's not only a horrifically and barbarically evil thing to do in and of itself, but of course, you undermine your credibility with the American people.
00:35:46.000So now when we're at a point in history where global tensions really are heightened, We don't really have a military in order to fight whatever war might break out, and other nations know that.
00:35:56.000But we gotta be very serious and specific here.
00:35:59.000How long ago was the Two Moms army campaign?
00:36:41.000And it was animated like a Disney cartoon, which was so strange.
00:36:45.000First of all, who listens to a cartoon, right?
00:36:48.000But also, I mean, if you're trying to recruit people for the military, why are you making this like What's the role of the military not to go see Disney songs to shoot somebody?
00:36:58.000I was surprised that the birds, the seagulls didn't just fly into the ship and start cooking with them.
00:37:03.000I think it's fair to say, legitimate assessment, the Emma and her two moms has backfired on the army.
00:37:12.000It's an unprecedented moment where they're drawing down their end strength because they can't recruit people to the lowest level since World War II when they drafted people Didn't they also kick people out of the military for not getting vaccinated?
00:37:24.000And now they're removing the vaccine mandates in New York?
00:37:27.000Let's think about this, like with the two moms, first of all, if anyone's gonna dissuade you from joining the army, it's gonna be either your parents, it's gonna be your mother.
00:37:35.000Like, odds are she'll be like, I don't want my baby going over there and fighting.
00:37:38.000So catering to people with two moms, dude, at least one of those moms is gonna go, uh-uh.
00:37:43.000In my family, my dad actually was like, if you have any creative bone in your body, do not join the military because they will break it out of you.
00:39:21.000This kind of virtue signaling is extremely over the top.
00:39:25.000The target market for this is woke, progressive, millennials, and Gen Z. But these people are not the people who would ever want to join the army.
00:39:36.000So it's like, it would be like going to a fitness class Expert level, you know, tai chi or martial arts and trying to sell deep fried Oreos and double scoop, you know, banana split sundaes.
00:39:52.000These people are going to be like, or I'll give you a better example.
00:39:55.000Going to the Olympics during training season and being like, here's a cart full of deep fried ice cream.
00:40:01.000Well, they give them Gatorade, which has all sorts of food coloring in it, so they really don't care at that point.
00:40:05.000What are you doing to your athletes at that point?
00:40:07.000You can't equate Gatorade It's similar to fried ice cream.
00:40:11.000Why are you selling food coloring to your athletes?
00:40:21.000And so the point is that the Army made a commercial that probably insulted their target demographic.
00:40:27.000Not because people who joined the Army are going to see this and be like, oh, I'm so offended at two moms, but more so they were like, Do you think this is who, like, this represents us in any way?
00:40:37.000Well, and this goes back to the point we made earlier, right?
00:40:39.000So, when you look at who is the Democratic Party speaking to right now, in their head, now, I would say that they actually did have a target market for this.
00:40:47.000It was exactly who they, this looks like it was for, your, to your point, millennial, Gen Z, you know, rich, progressive, elitist.
00:40:55.000And that is who has become, in their mind, the Democratic approach for target market.
00:41:01.000But that's not really who your average Democratic voter is.
00:41:04.000I mean, if I'm out in Indiana, right, and I talk to a Democrat, they are much more likely to be a New York Republican than they are a AOC Democrat.
00:41:12.000But you said something that I think hits this as well.
00:41:15.000The people who believe these views, the progressive sect of this country, are well off You know, middle to upper middle class, upper class, suburbanite types.
00:41:45.000Yeah, you want to target it to kids that are bullied and stuff like that.
00:41:47.000I mean, I'm not advocating for propaganda, but if the military wants to recruit people through propaganda, you want to target young men that feel dissolution and that they've been victimized.
00:42:39.000Yeah, like imagine I kind of feel like this is what the American marketing department thinks they're like Millennials like Disney Let's make an ad to recruit them like a Disney movie.
00:42:51.000It's like no, you understand Millennials liking Disney means they're not gonna join right and It's the craziest thing.
00:42:56.000There are these videos... I don't know what the right word is for it.
00:43:01.000But there's a... If you go to, like, the Cringetopia on Reddit, there are people who make these TikTok videos where they talk in these really weird ways where they, like, bounce around.
00:43:10.000They're acting like Disney animation characters.
00:43:13.000Like, when you're watching a new Pixar movie or whatever, they talk like this, and they're, like, flailing about for some reason.
00:43:52.000And the reason why I think we're facing this recruiting problem is because no one believes in this country, as evidenced by our own politicians, by the corporations, by woke activism in general.
00:44:01.000When you see someone like David Hogg come out, This guy is famous for gun control, tweeting about why parents should be allowed to have secret sexual conversations with five-year-olds.
00:44:13.000I'm like, I kind of think you don't actually know what you're talking about or care, and you're just saying whatever you think the mob wants you to say.
00:44:20.000Which is the most charitable response to someone who's advocating for that.
00:44:32.000My point is, The United States has no cohesive message.
00:44:37.000We don't tell our children, this is our mission.
00:44:40.000So when they grow up, they all are just, hey man, it doesn't matter what happens in this country, I'll extract from it whatever I can.
00:44:46.000The message used to be freedom, American freedom.
00:44:48.000And then George Bush invaded the Middle East and kept telling us because they hate our freedom, we got to keep killing people.
00:44:54.000And it just bastardized and twisted the definition of the word freedom.
00:44:57.000And now no one understands what freedom is anymore, or people are confused.
00:45:00.000It's true, Ian, and it's funny because the left sort of saw that early on, and they would scoff at anyone who used the term freedom in a positive way because of that, and they would go, oh, you're talking about fighting for our freedom, and they thought it was the cringiest, dumbest thing ever, but now they'll go, we need to protect our democracy.
00:45:36.000I think with respect to recruitment, I mean, I have friends who are combat veterans, and I remember having conversations with them after Afghanistan fell, and I mentioned this before, but to us, that was a new story.
00:45:48.000To them, They have friends who died there, they'd been shot at, they'd really gone through some horrific, significant trauma, and then they just saw it all undone on live television in front of them.
00:46:03.000Why would someone want to enlist in this military at this point in time, given all of that?
00:46:08.000There used to be a time in this country when the higher-ups in our government who would send young men to fight in wars respected them.
00:46:15.000And then we got into a period where they more or less were indifferent to them.
00:46:20.000And now we're at a point in time where the people who send these young men to fight in wars or expect them to fight in wars actively hate them and everything they stand for and everything they believe in.
00:46:30.000Who's going to fight a war for Joe Biden?
00:46:33.000Who's going to fight a war for Nancy Pelosi?
00:46:35.000Not only do the young people not want to fight, my dad literally was involved in the Vietnam conflict and told me to my face, do not join the military.
00:46:42.000Yeah, but was he drafted or did he enlist?
00:46:45.000He was able to avoid the draft because he enlisted ahead of time.
00:46:47.000They were calling the numbers, he's like, I'm not going to the jungle, no way, I'm joining the Navy.
00:46:52.000So he enlisted in an effort to try and get a specific M.O.
00:47:15.000I just think just to add to this, and this is so foreign to us, but he told me that like every single morning on the announcements, they would listen to the radio to know which students or teachers got drafted.
00:47:27.000And one of his teachers who was young and had just started teaching there ended up getting drafted into the war.
00:47:50.000And think back to, like, 20 years earlier, you had the World War II veterans, right?
00:47:55.000And I remember back when I was in school, like, you'd go to the AMVETS, and you'd see that, you know, the group of the remaining World War II vets, and that was the people that they'd have come talk to the school up in northern New York, and, like, you'd see, like, them talk about defending American freedom, helping defend interests over abroad, and, like, fighting back the Nazis, and that was something you could get on board with, I think?
00:48:13.000Like, your average person's like, yeah, like, Nazis.
00:48:23.000This civil war that's coming is going to be fascists versus pedos.
00:48:27.000The left is going to scream, everybody, they're going to tell everyone the fascists must be stopped and everyone on the right is going to be like the pedos must be stopped.
00:48:35.000Those are the, you know, have you guys seen Operation OK Groomer that's been going around?
00:48:42.000Yeah, yeah, yeah, because basically the meme is anybody supporting the protests, you know, they don't say gay protest stuff, they're groomers, so they say OK Groomer, and it's really triggering a lot of these people on the left.
00:48:54.000But I bring this up not to derail the conversation in this direction, but to point out, there used to be an American message, the Red Scare, the Soviets, the expansion.
00:49:04.000So everyone in America was kind of unified.
00:49:07.000You could get people to enlist who believed in it, and you could draft people, as much as many people didn't want to be drafted.
00:49:50.000I think it was actually a conversation with Jack Posobiec, and it might have been a point Ian brought up, but basically how we live in a system where because power changes hands so often, you can't really achieve anything.
00:50:01.000But historically, that wasn't really the case because even though the two parties had different ideas, they were similar enough that we could work towards a common goal, though we might have different approaches or have a slightly different vision, it was still possible to like continue along a specific path for Yeah, you're right.
00:50:15.000Even with a change in leadership, but now it's like a complete regime change in some sense when a new person gets
00:50:21.000elected at least With respect to the lip service they pay the public and
00:50:24.000what they tell people we want to do So yeah, you're right if you ask most people what the most
00:50:29.000serious threat is The right is gonna point to the left and the left is gonna
00:50:32.000point to the right they'd agree Who cares about foreign adversaries at this point?
00:50:36.000Though you might if you're paying attention.
00:50:37.000Well, there will be some conversation.
00:50:39.000The right will say China, the left will say Russia.
00:50:41.000But for the most part, I'd be willing to bet if you went to someone unprompted, like a political leftist, and you'd say, what is the existential threat this country faces today?
00:50:50.000They're going to say the rise of fascism.
00:50:53.000You ask someone on the right, they're gonna say the critical race theorist, the cult.
00:50:56.000The right may also actually say China, to be honest.
00:51:38.000There's got to be a different word for it.
00:51:40.000So yeah, I still, I understand it doesn't apply perfectly in all instances.
00:51:44.000I still tend to use the word communism just because the sort of, you know, egalitarian dialectical materialism undergirding communism is what undergirds this stuff.
00:51:53.000But fascism is trickier because Most people who are called fascists don't identify as fascists, but there are still people on the world stage who will identify as communists.
00:52:04.000So, like, the CCP call themselves communists.
00:52:06.000I mean, who calls themselves fascists?
00:52:08.000It is socially acceptable among the left to throw up the Red Salute.
00:52:21.000I mean, truth be told, Soviets killed Uh, communists, I should say, not soviets, but killed way more people, but they're both psychotic ideologies that resulted in mass death.
00:52:30.000I mean, Che Guevara gets, like, canonized on the constant from leftists.
00:54:38.000The ones who initially denied the genocide, not the perpetrators of it, or the ones who have been repeatedly begged to change their name to stop using the name of a group that carried out a genocide and who have refused.
00:55:25.000They say, Maxine Waters tried to stop the publication of a news story about the Los Angeles homeless crisis this week, reportedly telling a Los Angeles Times scribe, you'll hurt yourself and the community trying to put this together.
00:55:41.000Investigative reporter Connor Sheets detailed a March 25th incident in South LA where hundreds of homeless people tried to obtain Section 8 housing vouchers after being misled by social media rumors.
00:55:51.000The would-be applicants crashed an event held by nonprofit advocacy group Fathers and Mothers Who Care, which had been meant to help the unhoused obtain emergency shelter.
00:56:00.000At one point, Waters told the crowd, I want everybody to go home, triggering an angry response.
00:56:43.000I love it when these leftists post photos from, like, the mountains of California, and they'll say things like, those conservatives, you know, smack-talking California.
00:56:55.000It's like you go to the Palisades and you're looking at the PCH, the Pacific Coast Highway, and you're like, look how beautiful this place is.
00:57:02.000The French-speaking people in their space station, I'm sure they're looking around being like, what's wrong with our country?
00:57:08.000Everything's beautiful here where rich people live.
00:57:10.000It's like being a multi-millionaire receiving experimental treatment for your disease and being like, huh, people claim that our healthcare system isn't good.
00:57:28.000It's like, yo, people are like living in their own waste and taking dumps in the street.
00:57:32.000I guess a nice piece of news out of this is Michael Schellenberger, who's been on the show before, is running for governor, California governor.
00:57:38.000And he's focused heavily on the homeless population and helping clean them up.
00:57:41.000Yeah, but you know, look, as much as I can appreciate it, if somebody wanted to become mayor of a garbage dump, I'm going to be like, bro, good luck, I guess.
00:57:48.000Yeah, because Rogan, he was on Rogan a couple of days ago and he said, Rogan's like, just focus on LA first.
00:57:53.000And he's like, LA is like, Too far gone to start.
00:57:56.000I don't know if he said too far gone, but he's like, we'll start small and then if we can succeed, then we'll go to L.A.
00:58:02.000What if he went on Rogan and he was like, well, actually, my plan is to segment L.A.
00:58:07.000and San Francisco and push them into the Pacific and then instantly the collective poverty and problems and everything that's wrong, the corruption, will drop dramatically in California.
00:58:28.000I also, it's so rich too because it's the people from California who have these really big, great, creative ideas about how we can fix the rest of the country even though nowhere is really quite as bad as California is right now.
00:58:52.000DeSantis has not indicated any ambitions to try to change how things are done in California.
00:58:57.000I'm pretty sure he's just going to let that dumpster fire burn.
00:58:59.000We joke about California kicking off L.A., but what if Ron DeSantis was like, we're going to separate Florida from the rest of this country, you know, only by a few hundred feet so that Florida is sovereign and protected and we don't got to worry.
01:00:19.000When you're surrounded by homeless people and you yell at them to go home, and then when they get mad, you say, hey, hey, hey, nobody fights harder than me.
01:00:26.000She's like, do you know how hard I have it?
01:01:14.000Yeah, we should abolish states and go county only.
01:01:20.000Yeah, so everything should be done by county, because then you'd see how quickly the progressive agenda evaporates.
01:01:27.000They have highly dense populations of people who are stacked on top of each other in concrete jungles that smell like sour milk, and they all share this similar ideology.
01:01:39.000And then you look at rural areas, and it's disparate ideologies, differing views in different areas, because people are more spread out.
01:01:46.000Yeah, in the city you smell fumes, carbon monoxide and stuff.
01:01:49.000You're constantly breathing it in, so no wonder they want a carbon tax and reduce emissions.
01:01:55.000Well, Ian, I mean, breathing in those toxins, it leads to really good ideas.
01:01:58.000It leads to you having really good ideas.
01:01:59.000This is the problem with, in my opinion, the majority of Democrats.
01:02:04.000When I come out to the middle of nowhere and I see like a pig farmer, he's like, look, you know, I don't care what you do in the cities.
01:02:37.000It's like, yo, Ricky John and Uncle Billy up in the mountains of West Virginia need guns because there's predators, there's bears, there's banditos.
01:02:51.000They look at these problems and think the solution is nationwide for everybody because they assume everywhere in the country must be a dense urban population.
01:02:59.000And then in the process of creating their solution, they end up inevitably causing more problems down the road.
01:03:06.000And then like five years later, they're like, Why is pork and ham and bacon and everything so expensive?
01:03:11.000So then they pass the pork subsidy and start giving out checks to people to be able to buy pork, not understanding they caused the problem in the first place.
01:03:18.000But they gotta ship all the pigs to China first so we can get our pork from China, so we don't have to smell it over here.
01:03:22.000They're like, first of all, it is an ethical abuse to kill pigs.
01:03:26.000We will only eat pigs killed on Chinese soil.
01:04:26.000But I mean, you do see empires overturned and conquered, and they don't really talk about the death that comes along with that, because it's all those people died.
01:04:33.000They didn't get to write the history books.
01:04:35.000It's not a popular thing to remind people about, but that's the part of this that I don't want to see.
01:04:52.000Yeah, it's going to be really funny when, in 50 years, there's going to be a teacher talking to the kids in their digital, like, you know, hologram class.
01:05:00.000And they're going to be like, who can tell me about the leaders of the 21st century?
01:05:34.000Look, I look at Japan when the Fukushima reactors melted down or whatever, the disaster.
01:05:42.000A bunch of old Japanese, a bunch of Japanese seniors were like, I've lived my life, I'm gonna sacrifice myself to save the next generation.
01:05:50.000And these elderly people were volunteering to go into the reactors to try and get under control, and many of them died.
01:05:56.000I actually, the fixer that guided me and Luke Rutkowski into Fukushima, she was a bit older, and she was bringing journalists and people in there so that people could find out what was going on, she died of cancer.
01:06:35.000It used to be that you believed that if you died doing something righteous that you'd be rewarded.
01:06:39.000And they told us that because they probably wanted people to live like that because it benefits society if the old people will sacrifice themselves for the young people.
01:07:04.000Outside of any theological argument or anything like that, if you take two groups of people, one believes in being righteous and honorable, and the other doesn't, which one is more likely to survive the catastrophe?
01:07:26.000I'm not going to pretend to be a historian on Japan, but people understand the memes about seppuku.
01:07:31.000And the idea was if you failed or if you were dishonorable or something, you'd take your own life.
01:07:37.000Now, I think that's kind of horrifying, but imagine what happens then.
01:07:41.000If you have a group of scoundrels who are out for each other and are warring with each other, and you have a group of people who are like, I'm going to sacrifice myself for the greater good, which one survives in the long term?
01:07:52.000Well, this goes back to the point we brought up earlier about education.
01:07:55.000That's why there's such an intense approach right now on the left to control what is and is not taught in government schools.
01:08:02.000And it's because you see the kids who are raised by their parents who have more of the religious backings They're getting taught this at home, the idea that there is something beyond you in this present.
01:08:14.000There is a future that you're building for that you're not going to see one day.
01:08:18.000Whereas if the left can take that and get rid of that in the government schools at a young age, then they're basically undoing the work that the parents have invested.
01:08:27.000And it's setting up to, to your point, the worldview that goes into that instant gratification without thinking of the posterity.
01:08:36.000I feel like the Democrat side, it's obviously not literally every person, but it's the overwhelming majority, are the people who are like, I hope future people like me.
01:08:44.000That's why they always say, you're on the wrong side of history.
01:08:46.000It's like, I'm not motivated by what future people think.
01:08:48.000You know, imagine being someone in China in the early 1900s.
01:08:52.000Yeah, you were on the wrong side of history opposing the murderous regime of Mao and the Gang of Four or whatever.
01:08:58.000But today, you're now on the right side of history, at least to us.
01:09:02.000I'm sure in communist China, they still don't like those who resisted.
01:09:06.000They don't like the government of Taiwan, the actual government of China.
01:09:10.000I don't care what you think the right side of history is.
01:09:13.000If these die cultists end up taking over, and it gets bad to the point where horrific things are happening in this country, and I end up leaving, I'm not going to be going around being like, I guess I was on the wrong side of history.
01:09:27.000I'm going to be like, my country was taken over by psychopaths.
01:09:38.000There are legitimate, legitimately, there are Democrat activists who thought it's not right, but it will win.
01:09:45.000That's why they decided to opt to supporting di-cultism.
01:09:47.000Well, I just want to say if I were teleported to the future and everyone was transgender and it was a communist country where children didn't pick their identity until they were 12 years old, I would just make fun of them.
01:10:02.000Or just go back in time and say, we got to fight for what we believe in.
01:10:05.000Yeah, but I guess my point is there's actually an arrogance to saying I want to be on the right side of history, not just in the sense that you are presuming that you would be for doing what you're aiming to do, but also you're judging all of the past and saying, well, if we as modern people liked what you did, then you were one of the good guys.
01:10:25.000So my aspiration should be to have future people judge me well.
01:10:29.000Well, who says moral erosion doesn't occur in some areas?
01:10:32.000There are things we look back on as being horrible that were actually better, and there are things that we look on today as being wonderful that are actually horrible.
01:10:39.000Imagine siding with some politics just because you think it's the one that's going to win.
01:10:44.000Could you imagine being someone who like made very popular YouTube videos and like song parodies, and then ended up taking them down because you were scared that, you know, the left would, you get banned.
01:10:55.000Or, they would come after you, and that you genuinely just thought, it's not worth fighting for these things I think are true, because I'll lose.
01:11:05.000I mean, I went up, so, as you mentioned earlier, my day job, I'm a sales executive, and I do a lot of talking about business technology, cybersecurity, and I went up to Wisconsin, I was talking at a small business owners' conference, and we were just talking about cybersecurity stuff.
01:11:18.000At the very end of the Q&A, this guy comes up, and he's standing there, and he goes, Brian, you're very political.
01:11:24.000And yet you also do a lot in the private sector.
01:11:41.000And I just, I firmly believe that good people will find good people and that good people will bring out the good in people.
01:11:47.000Instead of hiding what you believe and keeping that back, I think we should lead with our values, lead with our ideas, and focus on building things that are outside of the traditional mainstream, getting away from the explaining, right?
01:12:05.000Available at briannickleshow.com forward slash shop.
01:12:07.000And if you wanted to create a better future, the opportunity is there right now.
01:12:12.000You can start to build these solutions.
01:12:14.000I mean, I had a guy on my show, he's the CEO of a pediatric cancer research company.
01:12:18.000And they have not only created a system to get donations through cryptocurrency, but now they're using blockchain technology to help increase the research efficiencies of, you name the focus.
01:12:32.000And he's talking about how there's Chicago schools that they do research and how they were getting siloed into, you know, I'm focusing on this project.
01:12:39.000I'm focusing on this project and they're a mile apart from each other.
01:12:45.000So taking it out of these silos, putting it onto blockchain and now creating an open environment where we can get things advanced faster, research done more quick.
01:12:53.000And we're seeing more people's lives being saved as a result of that.
01:12:56.000And that's all because somebody decided I'm going to go by my values.
01:13:00.000I think that blockchain And NFTs has an amazing opportunity to just change the game.
01:13:24.000No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, So they control all the big tech spaces.
01:13:34.000I'm kidding, by the way, but my point is the right, the libertarians, have ceded control of our current economic system, internet and social media, to leftists and Silicon Valley.
01:13:47.000So whether it's metaverse or whatever, my point is The right needs to start getting active and paying attention to what's going on.
01:13:56.000I'm glad that Elon's doing the neural net.
01:13:57.000We talk about it and everyone's like, oh, I don't know if I'm gonna, but it's good that it's him because that dude open sourced his Tesla patents.
01:14:02.000If we can see, yeah, if we can see it says all your patents are belong to us if you look it up online.
01:14:07.000I don't know if it's every Tesla patent, but it's a bunch.
01:14:10.000So someone like that, build the metaverse, free the software code, or that's what I'm looking for.
01:14:14.000That's why we're working on the metaverse with our current project with this charity that we're starting.
01:14:58.000So, like, we can do that, though, in terms of setting the groundwork.
01:15:02.000Almost, again, setting that narrative.
01:15:03.000And then either somebody else on the left would have to build something better that's going to attract more people, or they have to react and change behavior.
01:15:42.000It's like we're in the matrix, but we're profoundly disabled because our only interface is this screen and our fingers to type with and if people do end up integrating with the metaverse They're gonna look back on us and go how sad and insane Ian you your analogy was it'll be like Morse code to them They just won't even understand how we could have such a well here interface, but I still think it's sad I think we should try to spend as much time in the real world as possible.
01:16:04.000I agree, but if Metaverse, in any fashion, be it Neuralink or just VR headsets, becomes just dominant in economics.
01:16:14.000Remote work, for instance, makes it a viable option.
01:16:17.000And the right just says, no, no, people should spend time in reality.
01:16:20.000Well, that's not how people are actually going to respond.
01:16:23.000Obviously, you might want it to happen, but it doesn't mean it's going to happen.
01:16:26.000So what you can do is you can make a preemptive technological strike, and then When people do typically adopt this tech for, say, remote working, you own the means.
01:16:35.000And you can actually say only two hours a day.
01:16:38.000So then the conversation isn't whether or not Elon Musk is going to build something else or by Twitter.
01:16:49.000To storm the walls of Rome or to go there before Rome was built, plant your flag and then say, you know, this is our land.
01:16:57.000It's easier before, you know, so it's easier to claim the territory before the, before, you know, someone else builds up their fortifications and things like that.
01:17:22.000So when you're looking at an event that happened in the real world, there's a reason we create this distinction about whether something is based on true events when we're watching something in media, even though that term is also very much abused.
01:17:33.000It's because there is a significant difference between something actually occurring in the world and a story that someone has told playing out before you in a simulated manner.
01:17:42.000You need to watch these videos from TikTokers.
01:17:45.000who are they they do these really we mentioned earlier in the show where they like if you watch a pixar movie people don't just talk they bounce when they talk so ian you have to understand and that's what they do on tiktok they do this weird like and they do side talking on their mouths and they like i twitch Metaverse will amplify that 1,000-fold.
01:18:07.000Because these people are putting on a performance in their phones.
01:18:10.000They probably don't go and actually do that to regular people at the gas station.
01:18:14.000In the Metaverse, they'll be doing it 24-7.
01:19:11.000Right now, we know what Tourette's is.
01:19:13.000Let's say in the metaverse, a world develops one block at a time that results in people who have this weird tick where they just start like screaming, screeching.
01:19:23.000So what I mean... The easiest way to explain it, I suppose, is the Tai Chi Hitler video I bring up all the time.
01:19:29.000Where these companies were trying to make algorithmically manipulative videos that YouTube would promote them to babies.
01:19:36.000You end up with the Incredible Hulk and Adolf Hitler doing Tai Chi while they sing nursery rhymes.
01:19:41.000To a regular human, you're like, what is this?
01:19:49.000Now, if you live in the metaverse, and you're exposed to that a thousandfold, you're eventually going to walk out going, And they're going to be like, what is this guy doing?
01:19:58.000And they're going to be like, it's just a thing they do in these shows in the metaverse.
01:20:02.000Regular people in the real world are going to be like, yo, what's wrong with, what's wrong with these people?
01:20:06.000Well, already when we watch these TikTokers bounce around, like they're in a Disney, you know, cartoon, we're like, something's wrong with these people.
01:20:13.000Imagine if it's cranked up a hundred fold and they're just going, I mean, we can't communicate with each other as it is.
01:20:20.000Just imagine what it's going to be like in 20 years.
01:20:22.000When you look at Roblox, what's happening is the kids that are in Roblox, in the metaverse with that system, are also building it as they're in it.
01:20:28.000So you'll see basically a rapid expansion or a compounding expansion of change in those systems.
01:20:35.000So if the people with fake Tourettes are actually the ones that are also building reality, then they'll create a Tourettes-ridden reality that makes you get more Tourettes and then it could exacerbate systems.
01:20:47.000People will rapidly start speaking very differently.
01:20:50.000If Metaverse becomes something more prominent, people will build pocket communities, very much like a Discord or whatever.
01:20:59.000But if you can experience it via Neuralink, man, then people are going to stay in those communities, they're going to isolate, and it's going to be like after the fall of Rome.
01:21:06.000The Latin language splits up and becomes the Romance language in a bunch of different ways, and now you can't even communicate between them.
01:21:14.000You know what else happened in Rome is they split the empire in half because they couldn't control it.
01:21:18.000It's just basically like the metaverse and base reality.
01:21:20.000If we split like that and you have the Eastern Roman Empire and the Western Roman Empire, which is now the world and the metaverse, or the universe and the metaverse.
01:21:27.000Already, because of the internet, we're speaking two different languages.
01:21:56.000And then when it falls, you have the romance languages.
01:21:58.000They're all very similar, but very different because they all end up getting isolated from each other.
01:22:02.000Yeah, and to sort of tie it into the interesting philosophical question you posed earlier, which is why and how do we differentiate between reality and narrative and what goes on in the metaverse, it's important to remember that the strongest teacher for humans, generally speaking, is experience.
01:22:19.000And so if someone experiences something or believes they've experienced something, it's going to influence the habits they end up developing.
01:22:25.000And we see this even with film and television.
01:22:28.000When you're sitting in front of a TV set, I mean, it's obvious that you're not in it.
01:22:32.000You're looking at a screen in front of your face.
01:22:35.000It's not being seen from your point of view.
01:22:38.000But we live in a country where basically everyone has main character syndrome right now, and they think their life is some kind of strange soap opera where they're the main character.
01:22:47.000And so people have begun to interact with the real world in these bizarre and disordered ways just because of how much attention we place on fiction relative to what we should place on it, which is significantly less.
01:23:01.000And if we get the metaverse up and running, it's just going to be that multiplied to degrees I couldn't even predict.
01:23:17.000And to be fair, it certainly didn't originate with millennials.
01:23:21.000I mean, solipsism is basically just the pretentious philosophical way of saying you have main character syndrome.
01:23:26.000But even that's a little different though, because main character syndrome also touches on the way the narratives are structured and how you place your life into that category.
01:24:30.000So what you need to understand, Seamus, is that whenever the movie that you're in finally starts, probably when you're 35, you're gonna be super ripped with like your sleeves torn off and a bunch of guns.
01:24:40.000It's gonna be post-apocalyptic and you'd be like, The name's Seamus, and I'm here to save you all.
01:24:45.000And then they find out like you're also Catholic and they're like and you believe in God and then
01:24:48.000you can deliver the wisdom of the ages.
01:24:51.000I mean to get really deep here but what is at its fundamental base the hero's journey?
01:24:56.000It's the story of the hero being successful but overcoming some major event.
01:25:02.000And we see this a lot, and it's kind of hit me, where people have created the trauma, whether it's real or not, in their lives so they can feel that I have overcome this terrible thing to be my hero.
01:25:14.000And they look for trauma, they look for the bad things, in order to justify their hero's journey.
01:25:22.000And also, another really insidious thing that's happened is people expect their problems to be solved much more quickly than is reasonable.
01:25:30.000Well, I mean, it's instant gratification.
01:25:32.000It's also the fact that when you watch these television shows, if it's a 22-minute long program, the problem arises and it's solved within that neat little three-act structure.
01:25:41.000People also don't understand that change can be irreversible.
01:25:46.000It took me a while to understand this, and maybe that's just part of being young, but as a kid, it just seemed to me that everything was reversible.
01:26:41.000I spend almost all of the time that I'm doing anything artistic doing it on the computer with my drawing tablet.
01:26:47.000Dude, I have been drawing with a pencil and paper and have literally thought I have to hit the undo button and then realized, oh my gosh, I'm not using a computer.
01:26:57.000How amazing would it be if you were like a business meeting and you accidentally said, like, you're, you're, you're like, look, when we approach this orgasm, I mean, organism.
01:27:19.000In the Metaverse, there's a bunch of other people who are there, and some guy walks into your office, and then you see him pull up and he goes, quick save, and you're like, uh oh.
01:27:29.000You know be hilarious this could actually be a good like little short film this could be a good little short film But someone's in the metaverse for the first time and they think by pressing restart it like actually Restarts it, but it actually puts everyone back into their starting position, but of course because there are other people in the metaverse They have the memory of what you just did so this person keeps screwing up and restarting and doing all these absurd things They're like dude.
01:27:50.000We didn't forget that you did that actually here's how I'd approach it
01:27:54.000It's a the person who goes in the metaverse for the first time thinking it's a single-player game
01:27:58.000And so they're going around and they're saying really awful things and they're like ripping their clothes on Twitter
01:28:03.000They're tweeting about it, but they don't know because they're in the metaverse. Yeah
01:28:06.000And then you know you're in the metaverse where you can't actually harass people in these ways
01:28:12.000And so that's like you have been banned and like what happened
01:28:15.000And they pull up their meta Twitter or whatever, and it's like everyone's posting videos of you, and it's like, oh no.
01:28:19.000I want to weigh in on this main character syndrome.
01:28:21.000Firstly, I think everyone is the main character.
01:28:23.000You're the main character, and you're the main character.
01:28:29.000We all have this perception that is dictating our reality.
01:28:32.000Um, I think that a lot of stuff with Marvel, these superhero movies have put this in people's brains that they're heroes and villains.
01:28:37.000And that there's a, like you said earlier, a show, you know, you wrap it by the end of the show and it starts again.
01:28:42.000Also, I feel like Donald Trump did a really disservice to the species when he started talking about winning and losing so much as a candidate.
01:28:48.000Like it was never about winning to any candidates before him.
01:28:51.000They never talked about, we got to win.
01:28:52.000It was about doing what's right for America.
01:28:55.000And he came up and it's like, no matter what, we're going to win.
01:28:57.000And now you see that all over the place.
01:28:59.000People want to win, and they do dirty things to win, and it's not about that.
01:30:50.000Like you start to blend in with reality becomes one thing.
01:30:54.000I had gone so far psycho that I was unbalanced, because you are the main character, but you're also part of a system where there's all these other main characters that are equally as powerful as you.
01:31:19.000There are some people who don't believe they have souls, you know, and they'll say things like, just a wet robot, right?
01:31:24.000And I'm like, man, I kind of feel like I have a soul, like I've had experiences.
01:31:28.000Maybe the reality is they just don't, you know?
01:31:31.000And so, but no, no, but you know, Seamus, you laugh, but like, I kind of was thinking, like, why should I assume someone has a soul if they're telling me they don't?
01:31:41.000Because I think even though having a soul is a wonderful, beautiful thing and it's very good we have them, on some level, when you really consider the responsibility, it's a very frightening thing and it might be easier to abdicate that responsibility and say, I just don't have one.
01:31:53.000I don't freak out when I'm in World of Warcraft and I'm talking to a shopkeeper to, like, sell a bunch of crap and repair my armor.
01:31:59.000The consequences aren't real though, that's why.
01:33:11.000Why would I assume, if they're not experienced, that they have one?
01:33:15.000Well, if we're talking about people in the real world, I think if you had a soul and free will, by definition, that would give you the option to say that you don't.
01:33:21.000It's like if we were all required to say we had a soul, that we would lose our free will.
01:33:27.000I'm just saying, I think it's projection.
01:33:31.000To be like, I've felt something within me, and I've experienced something, therefore other people must have as well, and if they can't, something must be wrong with them.
01:33:37.000There's something about clearing your mind that allows you access to your soul, I believe.
01:33:43.000The amyloid plaque on the neurons in the brain causes Alzheimer's.
01:33:46.000It also diminishes your ability to feel, I think.
01:34:05.000So the conspiracy theory would be, what if powerful satanic, or maybe it's not fair to say satanic, but just evil, We're trying to cloud people's connections with the greater, you know, whatever it may be, whether you're religious or otherwise, whatever you think that is.
01:34:21.000What if there are people who genuinely can't see into it because they've been polluted or, you know, blocked in some way?
01:34:27.000I mean, I think what you're saying, the idea of evil, for sure, is a real thing.
01:34:30.000Like, evil is out there, just as good as... No, but I mean, like, some people have a greater connection to the other realm, or beyond the veil, or whatever you want to call it, and some people don't.
01:34:40.000Well, because of toxic chemicals or whatever.
01:34:42.000I'm obviously talking specifically about conspiracy theories I'm not saying are true.
01:34:45.000But, you know, one thing we mentioned on the show before was just like DMT giving you this connection that people have these profound experiences, and DMT is produced by your brain naturally.
01:34:55.000Yeah, what if there are people who are being inhibited from being able to feel the greater power or whatever?
01:35:02.000Well, there's a really fascinating philosophical discussion there about just the effect that our hormones and neurochemistry have on us, and it's been waging.
01:35:12.000We all agree that there are some people who behave more morally than others, that much is evident.
01:35:18.000And then the question becomes, how much of what this person did was their own agency?
01:35:23.000How much of this is a result of a neurochemical imbalance or a mental illness?
01:35:28.000I tend to lean towards agency because I think we over-pathologize and we sort of blame everything on the person's environment and don't really attribute responsibility to people anymore, which is unfortunate.
01:35:37.000But it is a very interesting conversation, and on a case-by-case basis, it can be difficult.
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01:37:22.000You're from Chicago every single time I I do anything wrong, or I say something offensive on the podcast, and the SPLC or Daily Beast write an article, Tim goes, he's Irish.
01:38:07.000When I was a little kid, I had a little bit of it.
01:38:09.000It's... Yeah, I was in Northeast Ohio.
01:38:11.000I went out to New York to start acting, and I actively dispersed my...
01:38:15.000Accent, I guess I started to talk like TV like where there is no accent kind of or whatever.
01:38:19.000Yeah I was looking at like some of the first cartoons I ever did when I still lived probably like 15 minutes outside Chicago and there were just like certain words I pronounced Differently and it's fun because you don't notice changing your pronunciation.
01:38:32.000You don't talk about that that cat Yeah, just like democracy and well to get to get the Chicago a you don't say ah you say yeah Yeah, it's like a Y. It also depends on the part, too, because in different parts of the city, people do sound a little bit different.
01:38:49.000And it's crazy, because when you live there, you don't hear it from other people.
01:38:52.000Like, to you, everything just sounds normal.
01:38:54.000And then other people will be like, and you'll be like, huh?
01:38:57.000And then you'll be like, when people really accentuate it, you're like, who talks like that?
01:40:42.000And I was like, I was like, I'm not sure what do you mean?
01:40:43.000They were like, well, it's like, you know, you have one of the biggest podcasts and you've been swatted seven times in three, in like two and a half months.
01:40:53.000Wouldn't that be a big story to these journalists who are constantly talking about the dangers of media?
01:41:24.000But I think it's also because you have three channels, and so I think you're someone people will talk about, but because you do three different shows every day, it's difficult to pinpoint the one that people are going to say you're known for.
01:41:39.000Well, the interesting thing is I've noticed there are a lot of people who don't watch, don't know they all exist.
01:41:45.000Like there are people who watch this show who don't know that I have a morning show.
01:41:49.000And that I have two other YouTube channels, over a million subscribers.
01:41:53.000So I've noticed when people are smack talking me, they'll say something like, oh yeah, he does this, like, you know, he does these videos like this.
01:41:59.000And people will be like, no, he does like a podcast with people.
01:42:16.000The interesting thing is on weekends, the clips from IRL get way more views because people who watch all of the shows don't have anything else to watch.
01:42:24.000So that means the harder I work, the less money I end up making, you know?
01:42:29.000So it's actually like, I'm trying to get you to... I'm trying to get Tim to write music with me during the day.
01:42:34.000But that would entail him, like... Can't do it.
01:42:36.000I work basically, like, I wake up at 7.
01:43:53.000You need to get Apple gift cards from your local Walmart and send them to me.
01:43:59.000Could you imagine if Seamus, if you were, if you actually were, you know, were able to pull that off, call people, pretending to be, call, you know what you should do?
01:44:06.000You should legit call someone with like a different number and tell them you're Jordan, like someone you know, and tell them you're Jordan Peterson.
01:46:44.000But you can call as the Intellectual Dark Web and do Dave Rubin, Ben Shapiro, and Jordan Peterson all trying to convince someone At the same time!
01:46:53.000Listen, you absolutely have to buy these gift cards.
01:46:57.000We are actually going to starve to death out here.
01:50:47.000Cornelius Buttknuckle says, Trump and DeSantis need to squash whatever petty beef they have and commit to being running mates if either of them gets the Republican presidential nomination.
01:50:55.000Because either way, a Trump-DeSantis ticket would absolutely crush.
01:52:59.000Latin says, Tim, I'm in the Army, and the problem I'm finding isn't that people don't want to fight, it's that they don't want to die for these people and their crazy ideas and worldview.
01:53:08.000I want everybody listening right now who is in the Army, the Marines, the Navy, the Air Force, Space Force, whatever it is, When you are, I don't know if any of you will actually see combat for whatever reason, but when you are, I want you to remember what you're fighting for.
01:53:22.000Picture Kamala Harris in your mind, smiling and laughing.
01:53:26.000And you will find the inspiration to never give up.
01:54:03.000We could do five categories like truth in news, truth in sports, truth in entertainment, truth in political cartoons, truth in politics, truth in Freedom Tunes episodes.
01:54:41.000You have to make sure they're really honest.
01:54:43.000You have to do a golden ticket type thing where the people you're thinking of nominating win a trip to your studio and then you try to pull a Willy Wonka and get them to break the rules along the way and whoever doesn't gets the truthy.
01:54:56.000I think what we would do is we'd have a nominating board of prominent individuals who are, you know, trusted and then they would determine who they think is doing a good job in these spaces.
01:55:08.000You'd probably have to have someone who- I'll nominate you.
01:55:11.000We'll just have Seamus pretend to be all of them.
01:55:13.000Listen, I'll nominate you for this truth-seeking award, but you have to send me your iTunes gift cards.
01:56:18.000says, Sagar and Jetty Today said, folks who want war won't have kids in it.
01:56:23.000Wars last longer than we think and we forget about all the battles and people we lost.
01:56:27.000Yeah, World War Two is a holdover from World War One.
01:56:30.000Many people say it was just the same war.
01:56:33.000Should we bring back the soundboard and we'll get Seamus to do like a Jordan Peterson smash the like button and a Ben Shapiro smash the like button?
01:56:54.000But so I'm actually working really hard.
01:56:57.000If you guys want to donate on Patreon, we're working really hard to bioengineer a virus so that Bauchi will come back and we can do more cartoons about him.
01:57:04.000Oh, I think Patreon.com slash Freedom Tunes.
01:57:06.000I've been talking to EcoHealth Alliance, you know, just like I want to do a job, man.
01:57:10.000You know, like all everything we do here is funded by my my my residuals off of these Freedom Tunes voiceover bits I have.
01:57:55.000I've invited him on numerous times, politely, and he's always just doubled down, smack-talking me.
01:58:00.000Like, the first time I invited him, I was like, hey, Cenk, you know, we'd love to have you on and talk about this stuff, and then he just, like, ignores it.
01:58:58.000And they were like, well, you went on Ben Shapiro's show over the internet.
01:59:02.000And I was like, we filmed it and then took the memory card and delivered it three hours away to a data uplink center because we didn't have internet.
01:59:10.000And I'm like, that was his show, not mine.
01:59:13.000Like, I've also gone on Megyn Kelly from here, you know?
02:01:24.000By the way, I wanted to mention because Ian, I just want to clear the record because you mentioned the thing about Lauren Southern.
02:01:29.000I think this is one article I have pulled up on PC Gamer in which it says Destiny said in a Reddit post that he thinks the ban was imposed because of his stance that quote-unquote trans women shouldn't compete with cis women in women's athletics.
02:01:51.000Alright, MadPanda says, I want TimCast to start doing a weekly prepping episode covering best firearms for home defense, how to store food, the fundamentals of growing food, raising chickens, or fowl for protein, the basics.
02:02:02.000I'm pretty sure we could actually do that.
02:02:05.000Because we've had Steve from Fortitude Ranch on a couple times.
02:02:09.000And so I don't know if he's the guy to do it, but we could probably find someone who could go over all these basic things.
02:02:14.000It would be excellent advertising, obviously, for them and what they're setting up.
02:03:00.000As soon as the show ends, he puts his hair back, he puts on a suit jacket and a tie, and he's like, oof, I'm gonna go call Ben Bernanke and tell him how much I loved his work.
02:03:09.000He goes back to the Presbyterian church he's an elder at.
02:05:11.000We have 13 or so shows, and then my show, BrianNicholsShow.com.
02:05:16.000What we do is we focus on winning converts, not arguments.
02:05:19.000So, I take the approach of sales and marketing that I use in the business world, and I bring it to the world of politics.
02:05:24.000So, you want to get better at talking about the ideas that we all talk about every single day, but I actually want people to say, hey, tell me more.
02:05:30.000I want to learn a little bit more and make this actually happen.
02:06:12.000It's about men competing in women's sports and, like, this very milquetoast response we get from a lot of establishment conservatives about it.