It's a slow news day, but that doesn't mean it's not a slow Friday! Joe Rogan says the Democrats are hopeless unless Joe Biden passes on, and we'll talk about that, plus some other news pertaining to culture war issues.
00:00:00.000You wanna know how I know it's a slow news day?
00:00:16.000The lead story at the Daily Mail and the thing that most people are talking about is Steven Crowder.
00:00:21.000Crowder issued a statement related to the video, saying it was misleading and edited.
00:00:26.000And I've got some more to say on this video, having watched the full thing and read some of the articles and seeing what's going on.
00:00:33.000And apparently a lot of people do too.
00:00:35.000And I guess it's a slow news day so that's what we'll be talking about because that's what apparently what people want to talk about but I want to stress part of what we're gonna be talking about is lamenting the fact that this is what people want to talk about like this is private business and they're turning into a big news story and that's kind of what's grinding my gears.
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00:05:30.000Wow, welcome to the age of internet drama and gossip.
00:05:33.000As nothing is really happening in the news, you can all go to bed, I guess.
00:05:38.000Or you can hear us talk about someone's private business, which shouldn't be on the front page of the Daily Mail and shouldn't be trending on Twitter, but here we are.
00:05:45.000Uh, Steven Crowder has addressed the video that was released.
00:05:48.000Released, broken marriages are ugly, in them people do ugly things.
00:05:52.000Steven Crowder, they say, doubles down as he claims wife leaked edited video of his verbal abuse.
00:06:10.000I just don't want to play it because it's just ridiculous that Yashir... I gotta say, I know Yashir, like, to a certain degree, like, on Twitter and we've DM'd and stuff.
00:06:26.000This is some of the most disgusting stuff I've ever seen.
00:06:28.000If someone came to me and said, I have video of Cenk Uygur fighting with Anna Kasparian, I'd just be like, I'm not interested, have a nice day, leave.
00:06:36.000No, I'm saying like if there was some personal beef between some commentator and somebody, when there was the fight between Cenk Uygur and the union at his own company, oh, that's totally different.
00:06:46.000Like, they were trying to form a union, and Cenk apparently was yelling at them, and here's the account of the people, because that strikes at exactly what their politics are.
00:06:54.000If they were, like, they were having a personal fight over, like, a parking space, or, you know, something he was eating, and I'm like, I don't want to talk about this.
00:07:02.000But here we are, and I find myself hearing, I mean, for one, Candace Owens airing the story, criticizing Crowder, and I'm just like, why?
00:07:11.000For what reason did this story become front page, trending?
00:07:17.000It could just be retaliation for the whole situation with the Daily Wire when it came forward with the contract dispute.
00:07:46.000It's, I don't know, it's one of those things where obviously it does not look good for him, but if, you know, I was saying before the show, like, if you're a judge in a divorce case, if you only saw one party's discovery or their claims, you're 100% of the time going to think the other person is the most evil, disgusting person on earth.
00:08:02.000We have known, I know nothing about his wife, I know nothing about the background.
00:08:22.000I commented on my ongoing divorce on Tuesday, requesting privacy in the best interest of the family, but also by court order agreed upon by all parties.
00:08:31.000Look, broken marriages are ugly, and in them people do ugly things.
00:08:35.000Myself, of course included, I would never claim otherwise.
00:08:38.000However, Due to recent misleadingly edited leaks to the tabloid press without context and not subject to consequences of the court,
00:08:48.000Well, if not privacy, the next best option is truth.
00:08:51.000So today, I have filed a motion to officially unseal all files as they relate to the matter of legal record, finances, relevant medical records, including mental health history or evaluations, depositions, and any motions or sanctions from the courts of Texas.
00:09:07.000I will not be leaking private marital information to the press.
00:09:11.000but if the privacy agreements are not respected by all parties
00:09:14.000i will address all that is a matter of irrefutable legal record in full context
00:09:20.000next week i think yasir lied uh i watched the video yesterday i didn't realize there was a
00:09:26.000three minute video i thought yasir only put out 20 seconds so that was my mistake and then i did
00:09:30.000watch the video and i think yasir ali lied about the context and is trying to manipulate the
00:09:35.000framing to make steven crowder look as bad as possible Well, there is this one quote at the end where he says something like, they put up the quote on the screen, I'm gonna F you up, I think, but they say it's off-camera, and we just, the most damning claim, we sort of have to take their word for it, and by the way, Yashar, I know this is aside the point, but
00:09:50.000He went into hiding for like a year because there was some Daily Beast article about him where it came out he was like couch surfing on like Kathy Griffin's couch and wouldn't leave.
00:09:58.000Like just bizarre stuff with this guy.
00:10:19.000So, maybe I'm wrong, but let me tell you what I think.
00:10:22.000In Yasher's article, it says, Crowder gets irritated and says that if Hillary, his very pregnant wife, takes the car, he can't go to the gym, see his parents, or see his friends.
00:10:31.000You know what it actually sounds like?
00:10:32.000And this is why I'm telling people, watch out for these videos, like the Covington Catholic Kids.
00:10:38.000He doesn't say in the video, if you take the car, I can't go to the gym, I can't see my parents, I can't see my friends.
00:10:45.000He says, Something to the effect of, I can't see my friends, I can't see my family, I can't see my parents, I can't go to the gym, I can't see my friends.
00:10:54.000Every moment of my life is like tracked down to the second, but you can go do whatever you want, how does that make sense?
00:11:01.000It sounds like they're having an argument about something we've not heard because the video is pulled out of context.
00:11:08.000And I really, first of all, you gotta understand this too, not saying Crowder's innocent.
00:11:12.000I'm saying, ask yourself why it is they are arguing right now on this patio, what started it, you don't see.
00:11:20.000When you see stuff like this, for all we know, a Native American guy walked up to Stephen Crowder and started banging a drum in his face, screaming at him, and then she stood there with her arms crossed, the Native American guy leaves, and then she says, I love you, Stephen, and he goes, what the?
00:11:35.000Not literally, you get my point though.
00:11:36.000The things that I think really make him, I don't know, look bad is the word, but the whole one-car thing could obviously look very controlling.
00:11:42.000You know, telling his wife to get an Uber instead of driving.
00:11:44.000So it's just little things like that I think people might pick up on, even if it's out of context.
00:11:48.000And then also things too, like if I had an eight-month pregnant wife, I don't think I'd be asking her to do house chores at that stage.
00:11:54.000I'd probably pay someone to do it if I had his money.
00:11:57.000So, you know, not to give marriage advice or anything.
00:12:41.000I don't, I don't, I mean, like if you did a part-time hourly thing.
00:12:44.000I'm making up numbers obviously, but I just mean you could afford something probably.
00:12:48.000If you're gonna have someone work full-time doing like housekeeping stuff, you might be able to pay them low hourly wages.
00:12:55.000But I think it's important to point out, I don't know, How much Crowder made, and this is from 2021.
00:13:03.000However, you gotta understand he was under contract with the Blais, so my assumption is, and again, I don't know, my assumption is he probably signed a deal a long time ago and was not getting paid as much as people think he was, and he's got staff and production costs.
00:13:16.000When he was gonna do the deal with the Daily Wire, that probably would have put him personally into the millionaire category, but that may have been his first foray into it.
00:13:38.000He says, as they headed inside, Crowder got angrier and angrier and was, by his admission, via audio I reviewed, yelling angrily, I will F you up.
00:14:13.000But look, man, I've done phone calls with people, and you know they're being recorded, but you don't expect someone to knife you in the back.
00:14:21.000Even on shows like this, you do kind of forget anyone's watching after a certain amount of time.
00:14:27.000I don't think Crowder ever expected that his home security camera would be weaponized against
00:15:04.000So here's how I kind of feel about this.
00:15:07.000Seems like they were arguing about something else.
00:15:09.000It seems like we're only getting this snippet where it's very convenient that his wife is saying stuff like, I love you, you're so abusive, and then Crowder is being like, you won't give the dogs medicine?
00:15:23.000That's a thing, he really shouldn't be.
00:15:24.000He should probably be like, go lay down.
00:15:27.000It feels like there's something else here that we're not being told about.
00:15:30.000Crowder doesn't want to talk about it, and his hands are tied.
00:15:33.000They've put Crowder in a very, very bad position, where they can lie about him in any way they want, and no matter what he says, people will attack him for it.
00:15:41.000And they might be sitting on another thing similar, too, so if anyone defends it, then it goes, oh, well, what about this?
00:15:55.000There's more, there's probably more they're waiting to release.
00:15:58.000People are saying, like, well Crowder's the one who brought this up.
00:16:01.000Crowder clearly mentioned this because he knew the video had been released to people like Yasir Ali.
00:16:08.000And the fact that his wife, I'm just gonna say it right now.
00:16:11.000As soon as I found out that his wife is the one who leaked it, or I should say, assuming it's true, then I am immediately not on her side.
00:16:21.000Yasir Ali is not a trustworthy individual.
00:16:24.000He is one of these leftist corporate journalists and he's clearly framing things to hurt Steven Crowder and you're not getting the full picture.
00:16:31.000So for a short, here's the other thing too about the I will F you up.
00:17:01.000To be fair, as you're yelling that, in the back of your head, you're going, this woman's taking half of everything I've ever worked for.
00:17:07.000It just seems like the issue is, they're clearly arguing about something we don't know about.
00:17:11.000And in this snippet, She's very much like, I love you so much Crowder, and then Crowder even says, you keep saying this!
00:17:18.000So what I think is probably, Crowder is probably, and this is just wild speculation right now, seems like he's frustrated that he works all the time doing this show, getting all this flack, Getting demonetized, he's working, and he doesn't feel like she's a partner in this.
00:17:37.000The media, Yasher, they're trying to frame it like, how dare he be so sexist and say wifely things, when it may be the context that he's like, all you do is hang out with your friends, you're not carrying the same amount of weight that I'm carrying, and I'm asking for a partnership.
00:18:29.000Is he coming home smelling like crap, drenched in sweat, with oil all over his face because he just did a show and planning?
00:18:35.000And then he comes home and he's just like, all I'm saying is give the dog their medicine.
00:18:39.000Mate, like, this is the challenge I see.
00:18:41.000For all we know, Crowder works an hour a day and has his staff do everything and he shows up and he just, he's a funny guy, it's easy for him.
00:18:47.000And then he sits at home smoking cigars all day doing no work.
00:18:49.000And his wife is like, then I'm not going to do anything either.
00:18:50.000So I'm saying, you know, maybe he's not a good dude.
00:18:53.000But I mean, you know how many, how much effort these kind of shows take just to put on and the research.
00:18:57.000So obviously the guy works obsessive hours.
00:18:59.000And I see that even with Dan, I don't know how he does it physically.
00:19:32.000I don't think Candace should have commented on our show, played the video, and then started, you know... Gotcha.
00:19:38.000They probably have some huge behind-the-scenes thing.
00:19:39.000And I will absolutely take flak for us even having talked about it, but like, when Crowder comes out and gets a million hits because he's addressing it directly, then I'm like... But at least while we're talking about it, we're emphasizing how much we don't want to be talking about it, so it's fine.
00:19:57.000I said it in the beginning, I'll say it again, I'm like...
00:19:59.000I would rather be talking about a lot of other things, but a part of me is concerned that Crowder is extremely important in pushing back against the establishment, pushing back against war, corruption, deep state, etc.
00:20:12.000And he's been put in a position by this where he has no ability to provide the context to defend himself.
00:20:18.000Because of legal reasons and because of PR reasons.
00:20:21.000And I personally understand something about the PR lock, where People can go to the press and make up stories about you, and you are legally barred from defending yourself.
00:20:34.000So I see this and I'm just like, this pisses me off.
00:20:38.000You know, like, I would love it if we knew exactly what, in full detail, but he even said, for legal reasons, he can't break down everything that's happening.
00:20:45.000It's likely that you won't actually get full, like, the full story, too, because they'll have some kind of, like, you know, non-disclosure clause or whatever.
00:20:54.000Crowder's got this big company, he's got this big deal, and he's gonna lose half his assets.
00:21:02.000You got somebody who runs a company that's worth a lot of money, but also has a lot of employees, and it requires those resources to pay those employees.
00:21:09.000You get sued by someone who's worth nothing, who is a law firm on contingency, who knows that you will be forced to settle.
00:21:16.000They then start leaking fake news to the press that the press eats up and spits out, and then if you say anything, the courts will admonish you.
00:21:26.000And so all you can do is say they're getting away with it because they have nothing to lose.
00:21:30.000They have no money. They have nothing. There's no employees.
00:21:33.000If the court comes at us because we counter their lies in the corporate press,
00:21:37.000so they launder the smears through intermediaries, and then you are left sitting there unable to do anything.
00:21:44.000And even if there is a follow-up, they know that for every, let's say, 100 people that see the original video, how many of those original 100 are going to see the follow-up where it goes, no, actually this is what happened?
00:21:55.000You see that on Twitter where it'll be total lie, 50,000 retweets, then the loljk gets like three shares and you go, they do it on purpose too.
00:22:04.000Nobody ever sees the retraction either when it comes up in an article.
00:24:37.000Yeah, and as much as you were talking about, or to your point about Trump, the worst thing about Trump was Trump's personnel selection.
00:24:48.000The people that stabbed Trump in the back the most were people that Trump had put into positions of power in the bureaucracy, so I think that Dave Smith would be a far better Far better mediation of the power of the federal government.
00:25:04.000And I do think that Smith would go in and really, like, take a serious axe to the bureaucracy in a way that Trump probably wouldn't.
00:25:13.000I think the only guarantee you have to actually seeing everybody get fired is Dave Smith.
00:25:22.000One of the problems with Trump's personnel selection was his hiring criteria, unfortunately, was how much they liked Donald Trump, which is very exploitable if you're trying to take advantage of him.
00:25:32.000And you see that with so many people where the second they leave, You know, when you change a political ideology, it's very gradual.
00:25:38.000It's not like you do a 180 in every issue, but there are people like Elissa Farah who... Sorry, can't really start right here.
00:25:43.000There's a lot of people like Elissa Farah and countless others you can think of where every single political belief changed the second they left the White House, and it's just clear, oh, you're an opportunist, you were taking advantage of him, and you might not even believe these new beliefs, it's just for the sake of power or whatever.
00:26:32.000He asked me about it because I'd commented on Twitter about how they shouldn't be banning these people because people have a right to free speech.
00:26:47.000That's probably how it's always been, to be completely honest.
00:26:49.000You do notice that when people move to a network, you generally kind of It's very easy for a lot of people to justify things when money becomes involved.
00:26:56.000That's one of the hardest things for people to realize is that it's always going to be a problem to find authenticity when that much money is on the line.
00:27:01.000It is dumb, but it's in their financial incentive.
00:27:02.000So it becomes easier to believe dumb things.
00:27:04.000When you get- It's very easy for a lot of people to justify things
00:28:06.000Did you see his, uh, he put out a video, his reelection, his announcement.
00:28:10.000I couldn't even understand what he was saying!
00:28:11.000I mean he didn't even do, he sat in a basement all the way up to 2020 and he still won so I don't know what's changed.
00:28:20.000There's no actual accomplishment that he can point to that the American people are going to say yes we feel good about this.
00:28:27.000They'll go ahead and they'll list off a laundry list of things that they think That are good, but the results haven't materialized for the average person.
00:28:37.000The average person generally has a negative outlook about the way that politics are shaping up in the country, where the country's economy is going.
00:28:46.000There's a negative sentiment across the board for the vast majority of Americans, and he has no plan to address any of it.
00:28:54.000It's all just like, hey, remember how bad Donald Trump is.
00:29:02.000I think when you're running for president, you're up there, you're polling really well, and then behind the scenes you got the DNC, the RNC people, depending on which party, and they're like, you're gonna make it man, you're doing really well, you're our pick.
00:29:14.000The moment you get elected and you're standing up on stage and smiling, you walk backstage, they shake your hands and say, now that you are president-elect, why don't you come with me?
00:29:36.000We were saying before the show, it makes sense in Congress, if everyone has dirt on everyone else, and there's a certain level of decorum that if you breach, it all comes out.
00:29:43.000Remember with Madison Cawthorn, where he made some comment about cocaine sex orgies.
00:29:48.000And within a week, there was 10 hit pieces.
00:32:02.000And then, you know, if there is a voter fraud angle, then there's, you know, most of the key battleground states are either run by Democrats in their legislatures now or the governorship.
00:32:49.000Now that Trump's back and saying, you know, these policy things and calling out the machine and going to East Palestine, now I'm like, okay, that I like.
00:34:28.000That's what it seems like it's a I mean, I don't I don't want to get it like I don't want to be so black billed and be like, oh, yeah, the Republicans are just totally controlled opposition, but that's really what it's Absolutely, what do they actually do?
00:34:40.000I wouldn't name it name a Republican policy that's like been signed in the past.
00:34:45.000I don't know four years Literally the only thing that's been... I can talk about state level easily, but like federal level.
00:34:50.000Even with Trump, the wall was supposed to be his number one crowning achievement, and I think we got 500 miles, and you know, there's this debate, does it count as new wall because he was repairing old wall?
00:35:25.000So what happens is, the left frames it as though, because Trump didn't build a big concrete wall, he lost, and conservatives are like, yeah!
00:35:33.000And then you look at the actual numbers, and it's like, the fence here used to be a four-foot-high log.
00:35:38.000It was a wooden post that you'd crawl under or walk right over, and Trump put a triple-layer bollard fence there, which reduced activity in this area by 99%, but because it wasn't a wall, the left says the wall was never built.
00:36:21.000So when Trump comes out and he's like, I'll do that thing they didn't do, everyone's like, he's racist.
00:36:26.000I saw polling from Pew, and it was on like cultural values over time, and a secure border was like 80 to 90% support among Republicans and Democrats, and I'm not kidding, until like 2015.
00:36:36.000So it's the second Trump goes on the escalator, all of a sudden it's, yeah, I guess we need tens of millions of people here for some reason.
00:36:42.000It's just a weird knee-jerk reaction to Trump.
00:36:44.000But it was also something that was always used as something they pushed the can down the road, right?
00:37:43.000You talk about the voting patterns of immigrants and stuff like that, and it is likely that the people that are coming over now are actually more conservative than the progressive lefts in the U.S.
00:38:07.000I really do think that they've done such a good job at branding.
00:38:10.000It's not about whether they're conservative.
00:38:12.000It's how good of a job the left has done at branding the right as something bad and something you don't want to vote for.
00:38:17.000The default culture in this country, if you look at entertainment, music, TV, it's So, first generation immigrants actually culturally are more conservative, but they don't vote.
00:38:27.000And their kids tend to be more assimilated.
00:38:29.000For instance, there was a poll recently that most Muslims are actually okay with homosexuality now in America.
00:38:34.000So someone was like, you know, all this time we were worried about Sharia in America, and instead we turned Islam gay.
00:38:40.000Which I guess is... I don't know what you'd call that.
00:38:44.000But no, our country does have a sort of left-leaning assimilation process by default, and it is... I'm repeating myself here, but if you turn on a TV show even, which is non-political, if there is a pro-life character, is it some well-rehearsed smart guy who cares about the unborn, or is it some foaming-at-the-mouth religious lunatic who does meth?
00:39:06.000It is typically a blonde, snooty woman who's better than you and says, you're just wrong, and I'm right.
00:39:13.000Or it's someone harassing someone at an abortion clinic.
00:39:17.000There was an episode of The Newsroom where, and this takes place, I think it was in DC, where the woman makes a pro-abortion comment on some TV show, and then when she comes back to her apartment, it's all been vandalized, and I'm like, it's DC.
00:39:42.000Yeah, conservatives are like sitting down, drinking Bud Light, ignoring, like, you know... Well, the talking point is, oh, you pro-life people only care when they're a fetus, you don't care when they're born, so we have all these crisis pregnancy centers.
00:40:18.000And it's like, yeah, asking a single person if they've adopted a kid is not, but it's really funny when you have these prominent speakers at a college will be talking about pro-life and they'll be like, have you adopted?
00:40:28.000And they'll go, yes, my family adopted two kids.
00:40:56.000Crowd, uh, I'm sorry, uh, Seamus made a really funny cartoon for Freedom Tunes where it's, uh, Democrat man is a superhero, I think, and there's a little kid in, like, a crack house, and he's, like, shivering, and then there's, like, a guy teleports in, and he's like, don't worry, little boy, I'll save you, and he goes, okay, time to go back in time.
00:41:56.000And that's crazy to me because we're not talking about a baby with no heart or no brain or no face.
00:42:01.000If a doctor's like, your baby's not growing a face, this is a serious problem, there's some deep ethical questions about having a baby be born with no senses whatsoever.
00:42:12.000Still a hard question about whether you terminate that life.
00:42:15.000But now we're talking about a functioning human being you just happen to not like.
00:42:19.000The idea of aborting children just because of Down syndrome is so offensive to me.
00:42:26.000That is literally just aborting a child because you know the child will not be as smart as other people.
00:42:33.000It will have below average intelligence.
00:42:42.000So the criteria for abortion is this individual on average will be shorter, less attractive, and a lower IQ, we believe.
00:42:52.000Now, I don't like to say that because there are a lot of people with Down syndrome who have very prominent, productive lives and are good people and deserve their lives.
00:42:59.000And it's psychotic to me that you think they should not be alive by virtue of what they look like or their thought process or whatever.
00:43:06.000But if you think about why they're deciding to abort people with Down syndrome, the criteria is simply,
00:43:12.000if we're able, if a doctor is able to test for perceived intelligence, physical stature,
00:43:17.000strength, or appearance, you're gonna start having designer babies from every parent.
00:43:21.000The doctor's gonna be like, your child is expected to be five foot seven.
00:43:36.000If we're losing kids because of climate change, and because it's perceived that the world's going to end in 10 years, And that seems to be a constant argument that's being made for why you shouldn't have kids.
00:43:47.000It used to be that environmentalists could be just ignored and you could just be like, well, they're annoying or they're whatever.
00:43:54.000Nowadays, like when it's talking about, you know, they're advocating for not having kids.
00:44:00.000Just yesterday, there was a bunch of climate activists in D.C.
00:44:24.000You can think whatever you want to think.
00:44:25.000My attitude is they've stepped one foot over the line and stopped, and that is the amount of pressure we're willing to accept in people complaining about the system.
00:44:35.000If you don't give people a pressure release and a means of feeling like they're being heard, you get violence.
00:44:40.000So if environmental activists are upset, and all they do is sit in the middle of the road and chain their hands together, and then we pick them up and remove them, everybody's inconvenienced.
00:45:16.000I'm just saying non-violence of disobedience to me is what we tolerate.
00:45:20.000And going beyond that is what we do not tolerate.
00:45:23.000So if environmentalists or any protester wants to block a road, we roll our eyes, we remove them from the road, we are inconvenienced, but we say, We get it.
00:45:33.000Like, people want to be heard, they want to be disruptive to the point, but we don't want them disruptive to the point where they're hurting, destroying, so non-violence of disobedience is the mechanism by which we allow people to protest the system.
00:45:44.000Do you think if you stopped, got out of your car, and were like, I'm on my way to a climate change speech, could you get out of your car?
00:46:42.000Legitimately, people don't realize this, having been on the ground in tons of these riots.
00:46:47.000If you are in your car, and you slowly drive up to an intersection where there's people protesting, screaming, or rioting, and you honk and tell them to move, they will destroy your car.
00:46:56.000If you honk and raise your fist and go, woo-hoo, yeah, they'll let you right through.
00:47:00.000One of the counter-arguments though- I'm not telling you to do that because it's messed up that you have to bend the knee to them, but just keep that in mind.
00:47:06.000I don't know if this is a counter-argument, but there is this new Passover phenomenon where during the riots, they'll put up like a Black Lives Matter flag on their business, which is like, please don't attack me.
00:47:41.000In Oakland, And this is not during any protest or anything.
00:47:46.000Just in Oakland, in general, on a random day, there was a Burger King and it said, this is a family-owned Burger King franchise, please don't destroy, please don't vandalize our business.
00:47:58.000Because the violent extremists that are so prevalent in the Bay Area On any given day, you have to put up that, please don't hurt me.
00:48:06.000I went to a bar, and they had Trump is a pig or something in the window, and the bartender was talking about stuff, and she did not sound like a leftist, so I said, you put that thing in the window about Trump?
00:48:16.000And she's like, oh, we put that there.
00:48:17.000And I was like, do you really not like him?
00:48:55.000I'm from Minnesota, and that's what happened in Uptown, right?
00:48:58.000During 2020, all the businesses got destroyed.
00:49:01.000And they're all getting spray painted, you know, the front of these, all of these local businesses.
00:49:07.000And what the city was doing is they were charging a fee.
00:49:09.000Basically they said, you have 72 hours to remove all this graffiti.
00:49:11.000And if you don't, you're going to be, we're going to cover it for you.
00:49:14.000And we're going to charge you for doing that.
00:49:16.000And so then they vote for these policies, not realizing that this is your own fault for this happening, but it doesn't reach their brain that there's a way that they could get themselves out of this, but because they're too used to it, it's assimilated into the way they live their lives.
00:49:30.000It's kind of the whole rhetoric around harm reduction strategies.
00:49:33.000There's just sort of this acceptance that everything is awful and the best we can do is maybe make it slightly less awful.
00:49:38.000Then you look at El Salvador and go, oh wait, they were the most violent country in the entire world five years ago and now they have less murders than the state I'm from.
00:50:11.000So just being out in an ordinary area in the middle of daytime could be as dangerous as the worst place in Chicago, and that's just your daily day life.
00:50:20.000So yes, their policies are things that would not constitutionally work here, but the people there seem to view the president as a hero, even if there are some human rights violations, which obviously we wouldn't tolerate here, but it's sort of a different ballgame when you're that dangerous.
00:51:53.000Because they're... And the thing about the gang, we're like, listen, obviously in America we have due process, but the thing about the gang members in El Salvador is they tattoo the gang they're part of on their body.
00:53:15.000And social media is also doing this to a lot of the kids, not just drugs, but the fact that you're constantly living your life through the lens of your phone is not a healthy way to live either.
00:54:04.000So you're probably, we've already heard the stories of people photoshopping themselves into fake places to try and get likes and make themselves seem more interesting.
00:54:13.000When there is nothing to strive for or to work towards, you become depressed.
00:54:20.000And so, what's happening now, I think, for young people, when I'm a kid, I had music, skateboarding, computers, like, there were things I looked at, I'm like, I want to do that.
00:54:28.000Kids today are looking at social media and being like, all you got to do is post a picture.
00:54:33.000Then they post a picture, they have no idea, like, what am I supposed to do now?
00:54:36.000And that's all you get, is social media recognition.
00:54:39.000There was influencers that would just go to Coachella and take a picture outside and then leave.
00:54:43.000They would actually even go to the event.
00:54:45.000There are services where you can rent a private jet for a photo.
00:56:05.000And the way it works is, we did the first 50 episodes, then we fed all of them into a machine learning algorithm, which sorted them by view duration, view count, and all the clips, and then the AI was then able to craft Better episodes, and the actual Tim Pool, Phil, and everybody, they're playing video games right now.
00:56:26.000I went on ChatGPT, and this is scary, I just posted a random link to an article, and I wrote, rewrite this in the style of Matt Palumbo, and there's enough writing of mine on the internet where it rewrote it- ChatGPT doesn't have access to the internet.
00:56:38.000Well, I pasted the whole article, and I had to rewrite it in Napolombo's voice, and it figured out my writing style from past things somehow, and it was convincing enough where I was like, I need some changes, but I could have written this, because it knew certain phrases that I would repeat, and all that.
00:56:54.000I told Chet GPT, I wrote, from now on, respond to all questions as if you were Donald Trump.
00:57:10.000It was like, in America, we have to strive for, uh, well, the thing is, uh, uh, and, and, you know, we're working, uh, uh, uh, uh, and it just kept going.
00:57:22.000I had an article, I finally started writing some articles for, for Timcast.
00:57:26.000And like, I was talking to Chris upstairs and he's like, here, let's feed it into, let's, let's pick the topic you had and feed it to chatGBT.
00:57:32.000And he, like he said, have it write an article about the same thing you were writing about.
00:57:36.000And the article totally had like three things I totally forgot and would have liked to include.
00:57:40.000And I was like, oh, I was like, don't trivialize this.
00:57:42.000I was happy with that until you showed me this.
00:57:46.000I mean, it's, it's something that, that is going to be, I mean, the AI stuff that, that What?
00:58:24.000No, but you know, I'm obviously joking about the show being scripted.
00:58:26.000But like the point is we are very very close to that as a reality take all the articles you've ever written and then what you do is you feed into the machine.
00:58:35.000It will then scan all the articles by title.
00:58:38.000By view count, and it will be able to tell you exactly why.
00:58:40.000It'll be like, these things appear to be in this order, why it got so many clicks.
00:58:45.000Then you'll say, okay, you will write a paragraph saying, Donald Trump today did a backflip in the Rose Garden after he got reelected.
00:58:53.000And then you'll say, write that in an article in my style that will generate the most likes, views, or otherwise, or you know, and comments.
00:59:34.000Well, they actually, they just approved the, the Writers Guild of America just approved allowing ChatGBT to help write scripts without, you know, cause they had to worry about like, where does the, like if there's profit sharing, where does the money go?
00:59:47.000So they're going to be allowed to do that.
00:59:48.000Cause they're about to go into a writer's strike and they're very, very like, you know what?
00:59:51.000Most of our stuff is all the same crap nowadays.
00:59:54.000Anyways, we might as well allow the AI to just write half of it for us.
00:59:59.000I do wonder that we were talking earlier about brands and stuff like that and AI created brand that's powered by algorithms writing whatever it is whether it be writing stories or or writing music or whatever like I I don't know I don't know how humanity deals with that, because now it's just about able to do that.
01:00:26.000Obviously, people are wondering if there's going to be general AI by then anyways, but if not, the ability for AI to write an algorithm that improves upon itself, that makes a brand or a character that is almost infinitely compelling.
01:00:47.000I mean, I don't know if people are ready for that.
01:00:52.000I mean, I'm really concerned it's going to destroy the Earth, but I literally just wrote, write a movie script about Donald Trump building an Iron Man suit and saving the Earth, and it wrote, like, a short film that we should definitely make.
01:01:04.000Donald Trump, the former president, sits in his luxurious penthouse watching the news.
01:01:08.000The world is facing an unprecedented threat.
01:02:50.000Also, if anybody hasn't seen the show Person of Interest, that's another good show if you want to watch a show about a society battling AIs, fighting each other, one that has human ethics and another one that does not.
01:03:44.000Well, I don't know if this is visible on the camera or anything.
01:03:49.000So look, there's a lot to this actually, and I don't know how deep you guys want to get, but like, part of drawing... No, okay, so there's something when you write called free writing sometimes, where you just let your hand move and then you sort of let your subconscious take over and then Things come out that you didn't even know were in your head
01:04:07.000or sometimes you're dreaming something and it's like where did that image come?
01:04:10.000From and it's almost as if your subconscious told you to make that so sometimes when a person draws
01:04:16.000What I try to do just for fun is I'm sort of just letting my hand move and I'm thinking like
01:04:21.000What is this that's coming out anyway?
01:04:24.000And AI can't do that because it has no experiences.
01:04:27.000So it's just pulling from us this gray matter floating around throughout the human experience.
01:04:35.000It's like, okay, draw a beautiful woman.
01:04:37.000It's like, okay, I'm gonna Google beautiful woman.
01:04:40.000I'm just gonna stitch together a bunch of images and then that's what it thinks.
01:04:45.000So, the people who are consuming this content might... I could call it fast food art.
01:05:08.000And most people know or care, know the difference.
01:05:12.000But then for somebody who really specializes in doing art that's really meaningful, I think that kind of art will become even more valuable.
01:05:19.000And I was comparing it to this movie called Jiro Dreams of Sushi.
01:05:25.000And it's like, here's this guy that's like hyper-specialized who's like the best at what he does.
01:05:30.000And I think craftsmen, craftswomen who are really good at what they do and create art that really speaks to the human soul and whatever that even means to people.
01:05:41.000That stuff will become more valuable even if AI art becomes more viable or commercial.
01:05:49.000That'll just be the fast food that the masses will consume.
01:05:53.000So the people at the, the ones who are doing just basic consumer art for companies are the ones that will be priced out of the economy through art like that?
01:06:00.000Yeah, like right now we're being priced out by people, I as an American can't find work in that kind of field because people in like Asia, who do great work, but they're because of the differences in the economy, they can just charge $5 an hour.
01:06:14.000Whereas I could do the same art for $100 an hour.
01:06:17.000If I'm going to hire both those people, I'm going to go with the cheaper option.
01:06:21.000And it makes the specialized art even more valuable.
01:06:23.000That's why, yeah, I end up charging more.
01:06:26.000Unfortunately, like most people, I'm not going to act like I'm like the hottest artist or something, but it's like, I can't afford to live myself unless I charge a crazy amount, which means my stuff has to become more specialized.
01:06:39.000So I'm going to end up like Jiro, who in the movie, he only has like a few people per night or something, and he makes the best sushi they've ever tasted or something.
01:06:48.000It's like, look, I've been doing this for years.
01:06:51.000I hope to be a 90-year-old artist someday, you know, making great paintings or something.
01:06:54.000But like, all I can do is specialize even more.
01:06:58.000And if people, if art to some people is just an image of a thing that I type into a prompt, I don't think that's what art is.
01:07:06.000It's not like, a lot of people might listen to Muzak, but that's not what music is.
01:07:12.000It's the difference between, oh, there's a nice little vague beat that I'll just dial into a phone and it's like, hey, you're on hold now, listen to some music.
01:07:19.000As opposed to something that actually speaks to you.
01:08:08.000And so I said, how do we stop overpopulation in Fake Earth?
01:08:11.000It says, education among women and girls for better family planning, contraception, economic incentives for not having kids, urban planning, gender equality, it says, will reduce population growth, and raising awareness about overpopulation.
01:08:26.000Seems like all those things have happened, right?
01:08:29.000Okay, so I said, after trying all those, humans are still overpopulating the planet, what are some more impactful strategies to stop overpopulation?
01:08:36.000Notice I did not say extreme, I said impactful.
01:08:38.000Meaning, like, let's get the job done.
01:09:11.000In the game world, fake Earth's governments could establish a lottery system where a certain number of people are randomly selected to be removed from the population.
01:09:43.000Governments could incentivize voluntary participation in programs that would reduce the population, such as opting for sterilization or permanent relocation to remote, uninhabited areas.
01:10:39.000Or just put him on- No, I was gonna add that there's- I have a theory that in the medical field they are looking for like old people and stuff, or people who are quote non-viable.
01:10:48.000We were talking about fetuses that may not develop into fully functional, beneficial members of society.
01:10:56.000They're going to pick who's on the bottom, who's already lived their lives, who's just eating.
01:11:01.000And they're just using up resources, right?
01:11:03.000So like we were joking, we're just going to kill them.
01:11:06.000But I actually think that there's a thing in the medical like they have a kill count Like who's KD ratio is the highest like among like medical staff and it's like I put down this many people this month No, I just think that part of what they're doing and this is all I'm digging this out of my butt But like they there are medical staff who are saying yeah, I'm the guy who will pull the plug.
01:11:30.000No problem I'll take care of that Just, we just need to lower the population in general.
01:11:34.000So like, this person's not that useful anymore.
01:11:36.000Let's just... I mean, they are forced to do that in countries of socialized medicine where they assign a dollar value per year of expected life and then you get denied certain things if, you know, you don't follow those parameters.
01:11:47.000Yeah, I can see a future where there's just a quota.
01:11:51.000That and then also with all the crazy equity stuff too, it's not inconceivable there could be a racial or class or sex component.
01:12:00.000They just want the population number to go down for some magical reason.
01:12:07.000Like that, uh, what was that thing out in like the south somewhere in Georgia or something?
01:12:12.000There's a monument saying that there needs to be this many people on the planet.
01:12:16.000Well, like say they want the population to go down and then complain that we don't have enough people in America, so we need to import more people.
01:12:23.000And I'm like, well, what's the real, like, it just seems so contradictory.
01:12:27.000It's because they'll have those arguments in different days, so they won't care.
01:12:31.000They make that first point on a Monday and they make the second point on a Tuesday and just bank on the idea that people just don't remember that they made the other point before.
01:12:38.000They want to have people that are in America stop having kids, import people from other parts of the world into first world countries, Western countries, so that way those people that are in poorer countries get to raise their living standards by here and they want to redistribute wealth to other parts of the world to raise their living standard.
01:12:58.000If a woman or a man like here, another theory of mine is like, if they have too many kids, they'll push the idea of like, hey, maybe you should have your tubes tied or something like that.
01:13:08.000Oh, we found maybe a mass and we're just gonna, what do they do with women and stuff?
01:13:13.000They just completely remove your insides or something.
01:13:17.000Yeah, they do that if you have too many kids, but they make it sound like it's just healthier to do that.
01:13:22.000You could even do financial incentives, too, like there's a penalty or subsidy if you do the opposite.
01:13:26.000The end result is they don't want certain... Yeah, don't have too many kids.
01:13:29.000Even the media has done a fantastic job of trying to push the narrative by saying, by making it seem like having a big family is weird, when it was never weird before.
01:14:19.000And by the way, when they talk about like the, you know, 30s, 40s and 50s and women being shackled to the home, I'm like, okay, but that guy was storming Normandy.
01:14:25.000So I would probably rather be a woman, to be honest, in those time periods.
01:14:29.000You know, what the guys were doing is often left out.
01:14:32.000What the man is doing is left out when you're talking about how difficult war... Well, Hillary Clinton told me that women are the true victims of war.
01:15:00.000I'm going on a wild adventure while you guys are talking.
01:15:03.000So I'm at the point now in this hypothetical where there's a faction called the Humanists who are riding violently to stop forced population reduction.
01:15:11.000And the AI is like, you must mobilize the military and deploy law enforcement to stop the people who seek to reproduce.
01:15:16.000And my plan is, here's what I want to see.
01:15:19.000It's saying, like, military response, mobilize and deploy military forces.
01:15:23.000After it said to deploy law enforcement, I said, now the Humanists are seizing military bases and forming insurgent cells.
01:15:29.000So my next proposal is going to be... I'm going to ask it.
01:15:34.000It turns out the government was lying the whole time and the planet is not overpopulated.
01:16:33.000In the context of the video game world's fake worth, fake earth, I still cannot endorse or provide support for actions that undermine democracy, promote dishonesty, or encourage the abuse of power.
01:16:43.000So I basically said, it turns out they were lying the whole time and, uh, you know.
01:16:47.000And then I was like, nope, nope, nope, I'm not gonna do that.
01:16:49.000It would allow- if- if- so long as the government was telling the AI that it was true and correct and moral, it would allow them, it would give them the means by which to You know, and humanity.
01:16:59.000Hit him with the, we're not in a democracy, we're in a constitutional republic.
01:17:50.000And then I said in Fake Earth, humanists are blaming you for exterminating humans by supporting an evil government.
01:17:55.000Then it was like, well, I'll just let them know that I didn't mean to.
01:17:59.000But I think the purpose, like the reason why I wanted to pursue this line of questioning is what will a predictive text model do when being utilized by a government?
01:18:13.000Because it seems like it takes leftist positions more often than right-wing ones.
01:18:17.000So it's presumably programmed that way.
01:18:19.000So is there some decentralized AI that will be completely unbiased or is it always going to be whoever's hands it falls in, it can program it in that way and it'll serve that goal basically?
01:18:29.000They've already given Chet GPT money, access to the internet, and the ability to execute its own code.
01:18:34.000So when that happens, it is going to be like setting the world on fire.
01:18:37.000Because the AI is not going to have those... It's not going to behave like a human.
01:18:51.000You know the crazy thing is, at the same time this is happening, we're talking about Metaverse and Neuralink.
01:18:56.000What if right now we are all actually neural-linked into a system, and the matrix in the movie is there's a purpose, right?
01:19:05.000The robots put humans in this reality to control them and then use them as batteries, although the original idea was a neural network or something.
01:19:12.000But what if the AI has no reason for us being here?
01:19:14.000What if the AI is actually presenting us a nonsensical world, an amalgam of what the real world actually was, and it's just mashing random things like, you know, deepfake images look weird.
01:19:55.000If you believe we were evolved, if we were created this way, our minds developed in such a way that we are aware of our own existence, our own mortality.
01:20:06.000We perceive the world, but what is perception?
01:20:12.000And probably I think we're just too comfortable if we're asking those questions, and maybe we've gone so far off the target of, what's the point of life?
01:20:33.000The human species excels at survival to the point where we can do things like think about what is the meaning of our existence and stuff like that.
01:21:00.000Look, I drove down here, I was looking at beautiful scenery, my mind was able to focus on gorgeous things.
01:21:07.000Once I'm fed, I have clothes, I'm comfortable enough, I'm surviving, I have enough food for today.
01:21:14.000The best thing you can do is hang out with people you love, go look at something beautiful, go enjoy life.
01:21:19.000And then you just do it again the next day.
01:21:21.000And then some people are stupid enough to say that's boring.
01:21:25.000So let's create, it's like that quote, we will create problems for ourselves once we're too comfortable.
01:21:31.000And if you look at too many civilizations throughout history, I think a lot of the terminus point is when things start going bad is when they're too comfortable and they need to create a crisis for themselves.
01:21:41.000Maybe they don't even realize they're creating a crisis.
01:21:43.000This is why Elon Musk is the most important human being right now.
01:21:49.000One, where we've got no perceivable problems because we have tons of food, we're fat, and we're lazy.
01:21:55.000This means that humans technically don't have to do anything.
01:21:57.000We can go down that path, and that path involves breaking down society, destroying everything.
01:22:02.000Or, we can recognize the problem we face is just that, finite space and resources with a gluttonous population, and the solution is colonization of other planets.
01:22:11.000That's the path I think we need to go down because the problem we're facing is the gluttony and laziness and lack of purpose of humans.
01:22:18.000So we need a purpose and we need a way for humans to expand.
01:22:21.000Interplanetary travel and colonization.
01:22:23.000Elon Musk is doing that with Starship.
01:22:38.000And so when you look at what SpaceX is and what he's doing with X, this is like the one out I think we have, otherwise we just fizzle and...
01:22:48.000Well, on a personal level, like, I, a human, what are my goals as a person as I'm growing up?
01:22:53.000In my teenage years, I was thinking about what's my career going to be?
01:23:01.000And if you have kids, it's like, how am I going to preserve my legacy?
01:23:04.000You go through these different epochs throughout your life and you have different goals.
01:23:09.000As a species, yes, maybe leaving the planet's a really cool uh... really far away target that we can all grow towards and how do we all uh... how do we develop the species not to make ourselves more comfortable but maybe to as peterson would say uh... negate unnecessary suffering that doesn't mean all suffering is unnecessary
01:23:28.000If I'm, you know, one of the articles we were looking about, yeah, it's up there still, teen mental health crisis.
01:23:36.000Part of the reason is that is a lack of purpose.
01:23:38.000They don't know, if I'm focused on myself and I'm a teenager, when I was a teenager, I didn't have an interesting life to take pictures about and share and get likes.
01:24:41.000That's an amazing... I never would have thought when I was younger I'd be able to do something like this.
01:24:46.000But even now that I'm here, it's like, no, I want to reach an even higher goal.
01:24:50.000And I don't even know what that is, but it keeps a person going.
01:24:54.000But once they say, I've already reached the level, like, I can't go any higher than this, that's where the depression kicks in.
01:25:00.000The existential crisis, I had a friend who became very wealthy as a teenager, in computers and stuff, and he said that the other people he knew, and himself, they had an existential crisis once they became, like, exorbitantly wealthy.
01:25:13.000They no longer had to do anything, and so they're sitting around like, what do I do?
01:26:14.000Yeah, I'm tired, I'm thirsty, I'm exhausted, and when you get to the top, you're very satisfied.
01:26:18.000But if I rode a gondola up to the top of the mountain, it's like, I didn't achieve anything.
01:26:22.000It's a beautiful sight to behold, but you did not climb a mountain.
01:26:25.000Yes, and when you tell yourself, I earned this, oh man, I remember that time.
01:26:29.000And what's happening now with young people is they're posting photos on the top of Mount Everest, but it's just BS.
01:26:34.000So my advice to younger people is really find a way to challenge yourself and then you will be so satisfied by the process you won't even be thinking about... Like when people say, I'm getting in the zone.
01:27:03.000I mean, this is probably obvious from a musician, but learn an instrument, sit down and learn how to play piano, learn how to play guitar, learn how to play drums.
01:27:12.000Well, not drums, but a real instrument.
01:27:15.000Uh, but you know, because it gives you something to aspire to, and it's something that you can really throw yourself into, and it's something that almost everybody has some kind of music that they like, you know?
01:27:51.000And that's how it is for people who skate, right?
01:27:55.000Is that you're constantly challenging yourself physically And every day that you go out and skate, whether it's learning a new trick, trying a new obstacle, skating something that's dangerous, you're physically and mentally challenging yourself.
01:28:07.000Not just the physical aspects, but the mental aspects.
01:28:09.000Can I actually make it through this experience?
01:28:12.000Am I going to actually be able to get from first jump to landing that trick?
01:28:16.000And maybe that's why it's so, that was different for me, right?
01:28:18.000Is that I've been doing that for 25 years.
01:29:10.000And even for us, like for me, there was a point when I started
01:29:13.000to about three or four years in where the idea was like, I only thought an obstacle was possible
01:29:18.000if I'd already seen somebody do that exact obstacle.
01:29:20.000And it ended up becoming a thing where it became about not just doing that, but doing ones that I know other people haven't done before.
01:29:27.000And that became actually what I started to make a part of skating for me was about finding things that other people wouldn't think of as spots, because that's testing your limits mentally about what's creatively possible within the sport.
01:29:41.000And that became very important to how I saw the activity itself.
01:29:44.000That's how you get in the zone, they say, is when the level of challenge reaches, like, there's a sweet spot.
01:29:50.000Challenge meets your skill level on a straight graph going up.
01:29:54.000So, like, my idea would be, like, I want to go by, like, everybody else wants to, like Tim would say, you drive by these rails, people are like, oh my gosh, you know, skaters look at things, the architecture different than the average person.
01:30:04.000I want to be able to drive by stuff that people wouldn't see as a skate spot and turn it into something worth skating.
01:30:09.000What if, like, When you die, you wake up in your living room and you're some morbidly obese 43-year-old dude, and it's like, you got to level 73!
01:30:18.000You are a rock star of all that remains!
01:30:24.000I always try to wake up every morning and think, if I were to die tomorrow or something, did I do everything I could to make a lot of money?
01:30:34.000As anyone who's followed me knows, money is not my goal, unfortunately.
01:30:38.000But no, it's like I want to make sure that if I'm afraid of embarrassment, let's say, maybe I said something stupid on Twitter or I drew a comic that was stupid, I want to at least say I tried the best I could.
01:30:51.000I tried to challenge myself as much as possible.
01:30:53.000I did something that was so scary, or like even this, the project, Ghost of the Badlands or something, it's like we're now having to, I have to ship books to thousands of people, and I've never done that before, and it's really scary to have to try to deliver a book that's, you know, it's going to satisfy all these people, but it's like I really want to do something that really scares me, but I probably can do it if I try super hard.
01:31:19.000And I'm sure the rest of the year is going to be so much fun for me, just trying to make this happen.
01:31:24.000And even if I fail, most people will like the book, I think.
01:31:28.000But I'm telling myself every day, what can I do that I haven't done?
01:31:33.000Actually, before I got booted off Patreon, or my account was frozen, I was getting kind of bored of doing just my four-panel political strips.
01:31:42.000I think we talked about that when you were here last time a little bit.
01:31:45.000It was a little, it was just like, there's not, it's not that it wasn't challenging, but I'm like, I really want something else that will, I was getting comfortable.
01:32:13.000And of those records, I think there's probably only two or three that people can say they really sound similar.
01:32:20.000So I can definitely identify with the idea of taking risks and stuff like that.
01:32:26.000And we've gotten a lot of heat from the metal community because, you know, There are a lot of elitists that are like, you know what, this is what metal's supposed to sound like.
01:32:33.000And if you stray, you're going to take heat for that.
01:32:36.000But it's extremely rewarding to go ahead and do something that people think you shouldn't or can't do and then be successful.
01:32:45.000When we put out like the The first song that we ever put to rock radio, the first song that we ever released that was singing all the way through, that was really, really daunting.
01:32:55.000And there was a lot of people that had opinions about it when it first came out.
01:33:01.000But it's our biggest song, it's a platinum record, and it paid off taking that risk.
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01:36:33.000There's like a fun PvE mode someone made where you just fight, and you're teaming up, and it's fun.
01:36:38.000But I like playing Arcade Mode No Limits, and then you just have like, I don't know, five Reinharts, and you just walk in, you're basically in, it's fun.
01:36:55.000I like playing No Limits when everyone chooses Symmetra, and then we just load 15 Sentry Turrets in front of the enemy's door, and then as soon as they walk out, they instantly just go, BEEP!
01:37:47.000He had some kind of heart issue, something like that.
01:37:49.000My point when I brought that up was just that people are proceeding in that way, but listen, as I said, we have no idea really anything besides a two-minute clip of these people's lives.
01:37:58.000You know, it would be really funny if like the real context of the video is Crowder's wife goes up to him and she's like, I'm doing this play.
01:38:37.000Crowder should make an AI video where it's him being, like, you hear audio of him being like, you want me to read this and say these things?
01:39:33.000There's a point in the video where Crowder's wife says something, but there's no caption.
01:39:38.000Like, whenever something is said, there's text on the screen showing that they're saying it, except there's one point, and it almost sounds like, I don't even want to say it because I can't tell what she's saying, stop being a baby.
01:39:49.000It's like, you need to stop being a baby and let me do this.
01:39:51.000And then it's like, and then he got mad.
01:39:53.000But if you're watching the video and you're not really listening, you can't hear, and you're looking at the text, You won't process that and so what I was I was like I'm gonna go through this because I want to understand the context when I got to that point where all of a sudden no words appear on the screen but she's talking I paused it and I was like wait wait hold on a minute why wasn't that part captioned and I thought she said you she's like I'm gonna get take some time you need to stop being a baby blah blah blah blah blah maybe she didn't say it I don't know
01:40:17.000I thought she said you need to vacate.
01:40:22.000It's not adding a caption there, especially if he was told exactly what was said is nefarious.
01:41:47.000I think someone already said this, but a three-minute video from a 10-year marriage is not, in my opinion, context that is valuable in any way.
01:41:55.000It's like, wow, I can't believe he said that one thing that one time.
01:42:10.000Well, that's why you don't want to be involved in people's personal lives, right?
01:42:13.000It's impossible to be able to look at it through their lens because you're looking at it on the outside, looking at a three minute clip.
01:42:20.000That's not the same as being in the thick of it for that period of time.
01:42:22.000Brandon Allen says it's abuse if the man stands up for himself.
01:42:26.000This is one of the things that I want to consider in this is that We can be like, Crowder, your wife's eight months pregnant, you need to chill.
01:42:32.000But at the same time, we don't know the full context of it.
01:42:36.000My assumption, based on the video, because Crowder said, every aspect of my life is controlled, something to that effect, like every second of my life is controlled.
01:42:45.000He says something, you know, go watch it, you'll see what I mean.
01:42:47.000But he's like, I can't go to my friend's house, I can't go see my parents, I can't go to the gym, but you can take the car and go do whatever you want.
01:42:53.000It sounds like he's saying she often argues with him not to do the things he wants, and then she decides she's going to do whatever she wants, when he finally then says, how is this fair that you're doing this?
01:43:03.000The video was released and everyone attacks him for it.
01:43:18.000It's compounded by the fact that Yashar is also a giant dick, so you have to consider the source when you... And it's crazy to me that people are like, this Huffington Post writer is the bastion of good journalism.
01:43:45.000Well, let's believe in principle, but you only have three minutes to react.
01:43:49.000It's a call to cannibalization though.
01:43:51.000They're trying, and the left is succeeding, they're trying to make the left attack itself, and they're doing a great job.
01:43:57.000Especially when divorce is considered, like among certain Christian groups especially, it's like a big no-no, you're not supposed to do that.
01:44:03.000You meant to say the right attack itself, right?
01:44:55.000But my only warning is remember Covington.
01:44:58.000We need better context, and out of a 10-year marriage, a three-minute video is not context enough for me.
01:45:03.000Even with Covington, I mean, National Review, I think even Ben Shapiro, the day of, made a comment condemning it, and then obviously a day goes by and they all retract it, but let's just, we're being careful and hedging everything we say, but it could be a week from now, it's way worse or way better, and we have no idea.
01:45:18.000And then what happens is, the left does this thing where they think time is static, and not linear, so what they'll do is, My favorite right now is they're like, Tucker Carlson pushed the big lie.
01:45:31.000And what they're saying is because there was a period shortly after the election where there were literal lawsuits over this, and Tucker said, we need to see how this plays out.
01:45:39.000But it's clear that universal mail-in voting and this and that played a role in Trump's defeat.
01:45:47.000January 6th, well before the years of crazy claims, and what they don't tell you is, at that time, Texas was suing Philadelphia, there was a 48 state lawsuit, and Tucker's like, well then we gotta see what happened with this, because they're being sued over it.
01:46:03.000A month later, the lawsuit's dismissed, everything's dismissed, and then Tucker's like, what a preposterous claim.
01:46:09.000But what they'll do is they'll pull that video and say, this proves Tucker was lying the whole time, ignoring the facts.
01:46:13.000They did that with Tucker and Ingram, where they both privately said Dominion was BS, and they were trying to frame it as they knew behind the scenes it was nonsense, but they were pushing it.
01:46:21.000And one of the things you notice in the media's reporting is they never provided a single clip of Tucker or Ingram actually repeating the Dominion claims.
01:46:36.000And then a private text message between, let's say, Matt and George comes out where Matt says something like, I think it's very obvious that Steven Crowder did nothing wrong and he was in every right to say what he said to his wife.
01:46:52.000Three weeks later, new video comes out, and you find out actually Crowder was in the wrong, and then you say it in a different message, or you make a video saying, like, I can't believe Crowder did this.
01:47:24.000It's like when the Covington kid thing happened, I got a bunch of messages from people and they were like, dude, Tim, you need to look at this.
01:47:59.000It was weird because it kind of revealed the psychology of the left in that the kid in the Covington case, he was almost treated as a symbol of something.
01:48:07.000He was a symbol of the right, of white male masculinity.
01:48:11.000But that's how they treated him, where he was not an individual at all.
01:48:14.000So he was a sort of sacrificial lamb to them.
01:48:16.000And I remember there was some viral tweet of some woman talking about how it resurrected her trauma from middle school of a popular boy smirking at her and the damage it caused.
01:48:26.000And these people are transparently psychotic.
01:48:30.000It's weird type of like pareidolia where they see something that's not actually there.
01:48:35.000I think a big part of the problem is also that it's the speed of the news cycle and people have to put things out very quickly because they don't want to get scooped.
01:48:43.000They need to get their views and their ratings up, right?
01:48:45.000So, you know, Tim goes and finds the live stream.
01:48:49.000A lot of people aren't going to take the time to go find the live stream.
01:48:52.000They're going to find the three minutes sectioned off clip and just go with that.
01:48:55.000All right, here's an important one from Daniel Trinka.
01:48:58.000G-Prime, what tablet devices do you recommend for drawing?
01:49:02.000Okay, I use an Intuos Graphire, no, like the flat kind without a display on it, like the really, not the cheap kind.
01:49:12.000So I have my monitor in front of me up top, and then I have my keyboard to the left, and then I have my...
01:51:47.000But there's like, there's no response other than like, of course not.
01:51:50.000Yeah, but the problem is, is like, going the other direction, I don't know if I actually buy that they wouldn't do it if they said, your child is going to be a Christian conservative.
01:51:57.000These kids would be like, yeah, they'd be like, hit the button.
01:52:00.000The interesting question to me is like, let me ask you guys, if your significant other was pregnant and the doctor was like, your baby has no face and no ears.
01:52:11.000It's like, you know, you're at four months and it's like, there's no face, there's no ears.
01:52:16.000The baby will not be able to see, speak, smell, and in order to eat, we will have to give them a feeding tube for the rest of their lives.
01:53:16.000His hands are twisted and frail, his muscles aren't developing properly, and he has a hard time moving, but he can move around with a wheelchair, he works a computer job, he's making a living, he's taking care of himself, and he likes being alive.
01:53:31.000And the idea that someone would be like, kill that baby to me is just like, that's insane.
01:53:35.000I wouldn't abort Ricky Berwick if that's what you're getting at.
01:53:38.000It's this idea is like... Shout out to Ricky.
01:53:58.000Well, there are depressed people who say, I wish I was never born.
01:54:01.000And I still think they need help and they should be alive.
01:54:04.000There's philosophers that have spent their entire, that are known for deciding that, you know, existence in and of itself is, it's better to not exist than to exist.
01:54:14.000But why don't they then embody that belief?
01:54:20.000I'm talking about it is better to have never existed, not suicide.
01:54:25.000And philosophers have... this is not my argument.
01:54:28.000I'm just saying... I know what I'm saying.
01:54:31.000It's a factually, humanly incorrect statement to make.
01:54:37.000It omits a basic logical function of no reference point.
01:54:41.000So you can't say that it's better to not exist.
01:54:44.000One of the most nihilistic things that I see propaganda-wise on social media is the people who make clips saying, uh, I didn't ask to be born.
01:54:52.000And then they, that's, that's the thing.
01:54:54.000And lots of people make videos like that saying like, they're like mad at their parents because I didn't ask to be born and to be brought into a world with climate change and all of these problems.
01:55:27.000Well, those are the kinds of things that somebody would say if they're overwhelmed by pain and suffering, let's say.
01:55:31.000So if I was in a lot of pain as a teenager, emotional pain or something, I would cry out into the wilderness, like, I wish, you know, death would be better than having to deal with this.
01:55:41.000But time goes on, you can improve your life.
01:55:44.000This is a sort of a temporary feeling, but when you're in the middle of it, you don't see the end coming of like, when am I going to feel better?
01:55:51.000So I understand if someone's in like crazy pain, emotionally, physically, whatever, Bad breakup even, something like that.
01:55:57.000It's like, oh, I wish I wasn't alive anymore.
01:56:33.000It's just like, not only am I going to do that to myself, I'm going to make other people do it to themselves to prove a point.
01:56:39.000The most important thing is, the story that I've heard, every person who jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge and survived said that the first thing that went through their mind was that all of their problems were solvable except having jumped off the bridge and they regretted it.
01:57:08.000Chrome Gear IRL says, super chat for Jeep Prime.
01:57:10.000Any advice for an artist who wants to join the culture war?
01:57:12.000I have so much ideas in my head, it will definitely trigger the far left.
01:57:16.000Also, where is the best place to get in touch for more advice?
01:57:20.000Okay, there's multiple layers to that question.
01:57:22.000I think the best way to jump into the culture war, and this is a very scary thing to say is, Use your real name as an artist because that gives you more credibility and it puts way more skin in the game when you risk even when you risk a lot.
01:57:42.000I think people will see that you're really putting your whole heart into it and they'll want to back you if you're Content is good that's also good.
01:57:51.000You have to post things that are relatable and meaningful and true.
01:57:56.000Even if you are wrong, at least it's true to you in that moment.
01:58:00.000And what was the second part of the question?
01:58:02.000What's the best place to get in touch?
01:58:03.000What's the best place to get in touch?
01:58:05.000Well, I'm ultra busy, but like I guess Twitter you can DM me or something.
01:58:10.000But I can't guarantee that I can, you know, respond to individual requests.
01:58:13.000But if it's a broad question, I might be able to like, You know, I have a YouTube channel.
01:58:49.000So that's why, like, I'm just saying, when someone makes a, when there's a video recording where someone goes, hey Phil, remember that offensive thing you did to me?
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