Libby Emmons joins us to discuss the end of the war in Afghanistan and what the future might look like now that the forces have left the country. We also hear about a truck carrying vaccines that crashed into the ground, and a vaccine delivery truck crash in Ghana.
00:00:17.000It is officially the end of the Afghan war as declared by the United States.
00:00:23.000I don't think it's fair to say that the war is officially over in a certain sense because there's still going to be very serious conflict between warring factions.
00:00:31.000There are still Americans being left behind.
00:00:34.000Many people are criticizing Joe Biden because he promised this wouldn't be the case and now they're saying it will be the case.
00:00:41.000And I do think we're dealing with some very serious problems and obviously a very serious crisis.
00:00:46.000But I'm not convinced, you know, it's fair to say that the U.S.
00:00:49.000has finally ended the war so much as they just abruptly left mid-evacuation because the Taliban has overrun the Kabul airport and they can no longer maintain the position.
00:01:00.000A resounding defeat that will lead to chaos.
00:01:04.000And I'll tell you, when you see these videos, Taliban flying helicopters, walking through the airports, do you think they will be able to maintain that infrastructure and that economy?
00:01:15.000I think Afghanistan is going to start to look like Syria really soon, but far be it from me to actually be an expert.
00:01:20.000I mean, to act like I'm an expert on this.
00:01:23.000We are but humble internet people complaining about things and we've not been over there.
00:01:27.000So we definitely, you know, we've had some veterans in the past, but we'll talk about the best of our abilities because certainly we're allowed to have opinions.
00:03:45.000There was a truck carrying Moderna vaccines that crashed.
00:03:48.000And HAZMAT came out, airspace was shut down, cleanup crews working for 21 hours, reports that there was a waterway nearby, and we're digging into the story.
00:03:59.000It was a shipment headed to Ghana for a donation, and the HHS says that they've recovered all the vaccine so it wasn't spilled, but a lot of people were speculating, especially in the areas in West Virginia, why HAZMAT came out.
00:04:11.000So it's an interesting story, and it just goes to show the journalism that we are doing.
00:04:15.000And I think, you know, initially the story sounds much more exciting.
00:04:17.000You read into it and you're like, okay, this was serious, but check out the news we've got at TimCast.com.
00:05:04.000The way this, even the statement, this title that you just read off is phrases that the last American troops left, is that the last ones that are going to be leaving are gone now?
00:05:15.000I don't know if people They're very intentionally not clear.
00:05:18.000They won't let you know how many Americans are left behind.
00:05:20.000They won't let you know if they decided to stay on purpose or if they just didn't get in contact with these people.
00:05:28.000And then you've also seen in the past like week or two, you've seen people saying on Twitter like, I let somebody use my WhatsApp to get a visa at one point and now I'm getting messages via WhatsApp on their behalf.
00:05:42.000Are they getting the messages or am I just getting the messages?
00:06:01.000Yeah, or maybe it was, I think it was actually an email.
00:06:04.000So a person put on Twitter, I wish I had it, but it was one of these things that's on Twitter.
00:06:08.000So it's not like you can figure out exactly what the truth is.
00:06:11.000And the amount of things that I've been getting from people on Twitter that are like, here's video.
00:06:16.000A bunch of people getting shot inside the Kabul airport and it's like, you know, I track through that person, I track through that person, track through everybody and then you eventually talk to someone who is unwilling to go on the record and you're like, okay, well this story is not going to ever get out if I can't verify who these people are and what's going on.
00:06:33.000So yeah it was somebody had said I let a friend use my email address to receive visa information.
00:06:40.000I'm getting notifications now about how it's time to leave Afghanistan.
00:06:44.000Are they getting these notifications as well?
00:06:46.000So I don't think it's fair to say the war is over.
00:06:49.000Because, well, unless the press just stops covering it entirely now and says, yay, Biden, you did it, and starts clapping.
00:06:56.000I think the Atlantic wrote the article, or it was in the Atlantic, that Biden deserves credit, not criticism.
00:07:03.000But the reason I say it's not over is there's still, I mean, at least estimates here from the Daily Mail, 100 to 200 Americans are still in Afghanistan, as well as our Afghan allies.
00:07:11.000So do you think that in the coming days that we're going to hear news about American hostages?
00:07:17.000I've been wondering about this as well, if we're going to have repeats of these kind of videos that we saw previously.
00:07:23.000You know, these beheading videos, these hostage videos.
00:07:43.000I don't think we have any idea what's going on.
00:07:44.000And the fact that we were engaged in a war for this long in a place that has destroyed empires before us was already absurd.
00:07:53.000Yeah, that one I find particularly humorous that people, you know, have mentioned, hey, all of these empires kind of faltered after Afghanistan fiasco.
00:08:01.000But I'll tell you, I'll tell you back to the point about the war not being over.
00:08:05.000I'm watching this video clip of the Taliban walking through the airport and there's like helicopters and planes.
00:08:10.000It's not just the military equipment they received.
00:08:12.000It's the civilian equipment that's left behind by those evacuating.
00:08:22.000You think the Taliban coming in, I don't care if it's the Taliban or any government, honestly, although the Taliban would be markedly worse, you think they're gonna be able to maintain the power?
00:08:32.000They're gonna be able to maintain the infrastructure, the economy, the natural resources?
00:08:37.000Homes are going to lose electricity overnight.
00:08:39.000How many days do we have until all of a sudden the power goes out?
00:08:41.000Well also they're already fighting with, they have ideological battles with this other terrorist organization.
00:08:49.000There was actually a clip, I don't know, I hope I didn't tell you guys this already, but Jack Kerouac went on the William F. Buckley show in I guess the 60s or 70s, whenever it was, and Kerouac said that he thought the Vietnam War was a conspiracy between the North Vietnamese and the South Vietnamese, who in his words were cousins.
00:09:31.000I remember, you know, you're looking at these at these photos, particularly like Aleppo.
00:09:34.000and it's and it's amazing this beautiful city and there's like the colors oversaturated because people are trying to purposely evoke emotion and but you see the trees you see the buildings the people and then it's like the syrian civil war it's rubble it's brown rubble i don't know if it's going to get that bad in afghanistan necessarily but i i person my personal opinion which is based off of just what we're seeing right now and a lot of things could change because i can't see the future i think it might get to that point You have no clear command structure.
00:10:01.000It's a group of people who are fighting against the U.S.
00:10:04.000And now, sure, sure, sure, let me say this.
00:10:06.000You have some command structure, right?
00:10:09.000But in order to maintain a country, let alone a city, you need massive managerial infrastructure, which they do not have.
00:10:18.000So all of a sudden, you're gonna have some dude, and he's gonna be at a factory that makes, I don't know, plastic lids or something, whatever they might need.
00:10:24.000And he's gonna be like, I don't know where any of this stuff comes from.
00:10:26.000And he's going to go to the guy who works there and says, oh, we order from this other company, but no one's there right now or something like that.
00:10:31.000The power company, people's going to leave already.
00:11:53.000We can't figure out a cohesive strategy for dealing with, you know, a global pandemic that we have taken responsibility for globally as well as nationally.
00:12:04.000You know, it's like we constantly are talking about how much we hate ourselves and how we are the worst oppressors and we're, you know, this privileged, horrible, bratty country.
00:12:15.000But we also take on everybody else's problems.
00:12:19.000And as much as the left will talk about American exceptionalism being a problem, they're the most American exceptionalist of all.
00:12:26.000They think that we can go out there, smack ourselves in the face, wear hair shirts and still save the world.
00:14:10.000Yeah, it'd be terrible no matter what.
00:14:12.000Sure, I guess if China came in and all of a sudden restored everyone's civil rights... I would say Western colonization is specifically bad when it fails.
00:14:19.000But I don't think, you know, I think there's an argument to be made that Western colonization has actually been globally good in a lot of ways.
00:14:26.000But, you know, I'm of the opinion that we should, at this point, I mean, to a certain extent, I would agree, obviously.
00:14:33.000But I'm also of the opinion of, like, maybe we should mind our own business, especially at this point.
00:14:38.000And I also feel that way in terms of nations that clearly don't have any interest in what we have to offer.
00:14:45.000Well, there was a poll I saw of a bunch of different countries pertaining to Islam.
00:14:51.000And when it came to Afghanistan, these people did not share our values in any way.
00:14:56.000There were people who were, I'll put it bluntly, we can sit here and say, hey, look, it was better with Americans there because of freedoms and economics.
00:15:05.000But these people genuinely hate, you know, our way of living.
00:15:11.000They're very, very tribal, like literal tribes.
00:15:14.000Actual and there was a poll where I think like a very large percentage thought the death for I'm sorry
00:15:19.000The the punishment for apostasy is death like we don't have those things and so we enter this country
00:15:24.000Very different way of living very different clothes much much more advanced weapons and we tell them from now on you
00:15:30.000live the way we tell You naturally they're not happy with that. They're still
00:15:34.000not happy with that. Well, and they shouldn't be you.
00:15:37.000You know, there's also this issue of how can you bring you can't bring democracy and this kind of liberty to a populace that doesn't want it themselves.
00:15:47.000You know, you can't just force that on people because that's like the thing you're saying you're not going to do.
00:15:53.000And then you're doing it in order to get them to live your way.
00:18:25.000We shouldn't have been in there in the first place.
00:18:26.000But the point is, if you want an operation like this to be successful, to like create a stable country or whatever, you've got to give people stories and things to rally around and victories and something like, you know, we have that story of the writing of the Star Spangled Banner, where like the bombs are exploding and then every time a bomb blasts, you could see the flag just as the light of the explosions.
00:18:48.000And then when they came back to the fort, what did they find?
00:19:25.000You'll literally be killed in public if you're listening to music in public.
00:19:28.000And, you know, I think that that's something that America forgets is our best offerings are not our, you know, administrative level things.
00:19:37.000Our best offerings are our culture and we are undermining that too at every turn.
00:19:55.000And so the Republicans clearly do not understand this.
00:19:59.000When they're like, we got so many judges and yeah, and then the judges are like, political pressure has forced me to go in the direction of mainstream culture.
00:20:07.000It doesn't matter what the victory is.
00:20:10.000I gotta say, this 21st century war, because this is to both the points you guys are making, with the new age of military and the way it's done with the internet, you don't send troops to a country, nation building.
00:20:20.000You don't put a soldier on every block and every window so that they can't get from place to place.
00:20:27.000You basically are controlling the system because they have Facebook groups.
00:20:30.000They can coordinate on the internet now.
00:20:32.000Putting troops in a foreign country to nation-build is not the tactic anymore, and if anything that I've learned from the vets that are coming back there, it's that.
00:20:46.000Except when you can't get internet in there either because of the mountainous region of the country or because the
00:20:51.000ideological extremism Yeah, that's which is which is my point about what's
00:20:55.000happening here in the US They spent so much time worrying about Afghanistan and Iraq
00:20:59.000and Iran in between that they ignored the fact that the US itself is being
00:21:04.000Overrun by a psychotic cult of people and I'll tell you I love I love the idea of the cult
00:21:09.000You know why because I saw this post about horse dewormer on reddit. Okay, that's
00:21:15.000And the people in the commented like, it's a death cult.
00:21:17.000And I'm like, bro, if you actually did two seconds of Google searching, you would realize that certain medications, which, you know, are widely available at Walgreens, but for some reason the media keeps saying horse dewormer over and over because you are in the matrix.
00:21:33.000And so here we... Maybe that's what they're thinking.
00:21:40.000A bunch of people who have no idea what's going on, who can't make any decisions, and perhaps you think that'll empower you, but it guts the country from the inside.
00:21:46.000It's a brain drain happening in our own country.
00:22:43.000You could read on your own on the internet which is now free and learn how to discern between real and fake news and then teach yourself because there are a lot of prominent young people or young people today who are older but rose to prominence when they were young because they just went online and there's some famous stories about young hackers or like you know let's say tech entrepreneurs and when they were 15 years old on the internet in forums contributing code The other 30-year-olds taking that code had no idea it was a 15-year-old contributing.
00:23:51.000The more we replace the canon with things that we think, you know, are contemporaneously important, the more we undermine what our culture is founded on.
00:24:02.000There's a really interesting... We have to go back to the old stories.
00:24:04.000There's a really interesting kind of similarity between some of what's happening with the Taliban flying around in Blackhawks and what's happening in the U.S.
00:24:10.000We have ideological zealots who have taken over the New York Times, for instance.
00:24:14.000And so now they're wearing it like a skin suit.
00:24:16.000And we see that with so many different franchises and movies.
00:24:36.000And it's like, girl, if you got to say that, we're already in trouble.
00:24:40.000So the New York Times, this powerful institution of, you know, 100 plus years or whatever, now being worn as a skin suit by these ideologues.
00:24:49.000American military power and Air Force supremacy of the Blackhawks now being worn by an ideological extremist group that have seized control of this infrastructure.
00:25:20.000And do you think that when everything starts falling apart in Afghanistan, and they need electricity and infrastructure and resources, do you think they might say, hey Iran, look at the 42,000 SUVs we have.
00:25:37.000I think- But you know what we do need is electricity!
00:25:40.000Well and Iran is pretty close- a lot closer to nuclear capability now at this point anyway.
00:25:46.000I'm willing to bet the moment They took Kabul, like I'm willing to bet a phone call was made the moment Donald Trump signed that peace treaty with Iran was immediately like, you know, like, what do you got?
00:27:26.000Americans do have a right to choose to stay in a combat zone, private contractors or whatever.
00:27:29.000But I believe if they stuck to the original plan, and I'll tell you this, it's more to do with the leadership than just the plan.
00:27:38.000But if the original plan was stuck to, I don't think this would have happened.
00:27:41.000I think the Taliban would have absolutely tried moving forward, and then there would have been some very serious drone strikes.
00:27:46.000Drone striking, moving militants through the desert, heading to provincial capitals, is a lot easier than doing a drone strike on residential houses in Kabul, which just killed a bunch of kids.
00:27:56.000Yeah, I think that there's also something to be said for sticking to the plan that your predecessor laid out, because America's word is now garbage.
00:28:06.000We made a deal, and then we were just like, meh.
00:28:28.000We should have said, we should have like, you know, as soon as he got into office, he should have said something like, if this was the view, I don't think we should leave right away.
00:28:50.000You know, he spent days reversing executive orders instead of actually, you know, and getting masses of praise for that.
00:28:58.000I could see like months and months where they did not do anything about evacuation, even though they knew they had a timetable, because in the back of his mind, he was like, F Trump.
00:29:11.000And he had months to prepare for this.
00:29:13.000Well, and I think he also had this completely backwards idea that the entire rest of the world thought that Trump was as illegitimate as the current administration thinks Trump was.
00:29:26.000Whether our allies or enemies or whatever liked or didn't like Trump, he was the legitimately elected president and he was treated that way, as well he should have been, and his bilateral agreements You know, were the word of the United States, whether Biden liked them or not.
00:29:40.000So when he came in, he kind of acted like, oh, the past four years, I can just, you know, completely sweep them under the rug and get rid of everything that happened during that period of time, because everyone knows that that was an illegitimate presidency.
00:30:21.000And you saw that question the other day about transparency, where the one kid was like, maybe I'm saying kid, I'm sure he's younger than me anyway, but he was like, you know, you didn't give us accurate information about dog bites, so why do we think that you're giving us accurate information now?
00:30:36.000Major apparently bit Secret Service guys for days, and instead of answering the question of how can we believe you now when you weren't even transparent about the stupid dog, Jen Psaki just gave information about the dog, which may or may not be accurate.
00:30:51.000So this is from August 19th, this promise.
00:30:54.000If there's American citizens left, we're going to stay to get them all out.
00:30:58.000Now they're saying, well, you know, everybody wanted out.
00:31:47.000Americans were told not to come, to stay away.
00:31:52.000The men and women in uniform at the gate were supposed to shut it down earlier, but they decided to leave it open, and that's what happened.
00:33:47.000And so the concern is the stupidity or the malice, whichever one it is you want to believe it was, because abandoning a two runway Air Force base and then shuttling everybody to the civilian airport in the middle of a densely populated city is the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
00:34:06.000Asking permission from the enemy to allow us to retreat.
00:36:19.000It's like and everyone just kept backing him.
00:36:21.000All of the news media for the most part was backing him.
00:36:25.000You know, you had like universities and institutions and all the organizations were saying we have to go with Biden all because they hated Trump.
00:36:32.000They did this to us because they hated Trump.
00:36:35.000for their own reasons without being able to look at, you know, policies or whatever and say, oh, this is OK.
00:38:10.000There's no definition of what these things mean.
00:38:11.000We try to understand what it is, but I just love when they like, like, I love when they smear Ian trying to make you seem right wing and everyone who watches the show is like... It's so confusing.
00:38:58.000There's so many wedge issues in the culture war, but something like, do you think there should be no medical exemptions for vaccine mandates?
00:39:04.000And they're like, oh, well, no, I don't think, okay, you're an anti-vaxxer and you're far right.
00:39:08.000If you went outside and you were standing in front of a hospital and someone said, do you oppose mandatory vaccination with no medical exemption?
00:39:14.000You said, wow, that sounds really bad.
00:40:56.000It definitely isn't going to be for everybody in the theater, but I think a lot of them are followers that want to be accepted, that are kind of weirdos, that love being part of a group and that need to feel like they're not weird.
00:41:06.000And so now we're seeing that sociologically because a lot of people I know in the theater are weird, like huddling with the mask and like, let the government control everyone.
00:42:12.000These are the questions that artists used to ask.
00:42:15.000These are the questions that we used to talk about late at night and try and figure out what kind of work we wanted to make.
00:42:22.000And now you see what's going on in the art world.
00:42:25.000And it's all about propelling your own personal self forward and hoping you get some sort of, you know, I don't know, Oscar or whatever the things are.
00:42:33.000It doesn't make any sense, and it's not art.
00:42:38.000A great change happened that makes me kind of happy.
00:42:41.000Several years ago, back when I was working for like Vice and Fusion, I would get emails all the time from people who were like, I want to do what you do, you're so lucky, I want to travel the world, report, make documentaries, it sounds so amazing!
00:43:22.000By all means, we want to support people who want to do this stuff.
00:43:25.000And you know what would happen every single time?
00:43:28.000Within a week, they'd be like, I don't want to do this.
00:43:31.000Hold on, what do you mean you don't want to do this?
00:43:33.000Ah, they saw how the sausage got made.
00:43:35.000You mean you have to actually get on a plane for 12 hours, it's uncomfortable, your back hurts, then you land, you're groggy-eyed, you go through security, they question you, what you're doing, they could turn you around, you gotta go to the press building, then you're in a country where they have no muzzle control and the Egyptians were pointing guns straight at people's heads.
00:43:52.000And they're like, that doesn't sound fun, that's scary.
00:43:54.000And I'm like, so what did you want to do exactly?
00:44:12.000But people seem to think that the thing you're doing is something else, right?
00:44:16.000So it's like you show up, you work 12-15 hours a day to do the thing, to make the artwork, to make that one crystallized perfect moment that you can share with the audience.
00:45:26.000The people who would say things like, I want to do what you do, what they were really saying was, I want to be socially accepted and famous.
00:45:33.000And now that you are effectively an apostate of the liberal order by coming out and being like, orange man, not that bad.
00:47:23.000She reported about how they are now trying to get telecommunications companies to fork over phone records for like hundreds of people, including a bunch of Members of Congress?
00:47:34.000Members of Congress, yeah, like mostly GOP legislators like Matt Goetz and Lauren Boebert and Jim Jordan and Jim Banks, the people that she cut from the committee in the first place after McCarthy appointed them.
00:47:48.000And CNN reported the committee's investigation into the deadly riot of January 6th.
00:47:56.000They keep saying this deadly riot thing over and over, and they refuse to ever just print where a police officer shot an unarmed woman to death with no warning or provocation.
00:48:07.000This is one of the darkest stories, I gotta tell you, to be completely honest, from CNN.
00:48:12.000January 6th committee to ask telecommunications companies to preserve phone records of members of Congress who participated in Stop the Steal rally.
00:48:27.000They demanded all of the correspondence between a number of conservative, it was like conservative journalists and influencers and a bunch of people in the Trump administration and associates there.
00:48:40.000So they're doing it one step at a time.
00:48:42.000First it's, you know, we want this information from the government on these individuals, the Trump administration and all the activists who helped him and their communications from around election time.
00:48:50.000They're trying to pull that from the archives.
00:48:51.000They want phone records preserved, which means give it a week and they'll say, okay, now we want those phone records.
00:50:09.000I can't see how a country can lose in Afghanistan, considering the past examples of the collapses of countries after failing in Afghanistan.
00:50:18.000OK, maybe that's unfair, but man, was that bad.
00:50:23.000Like the Soviet Union cracked, but Russia remains.
00:50:27.000Even a search warrant, you need to have probable cause and say what you're looking for.
00:50:31.000And this committee, they're not even saying what they're looking for because they don't actually have any idea how they're going to prove that January 6th was a white supremacist conspiracy to overthrow the government.
00:50:58.000People know it better than I do, but that story about the war game they did where like the older guy went up against the younger guys and the older guy won because he sent communications via motorcycle with a written note and they were trying to do digital and they couldn't track it or something like that.
00:51:18.000You can set up custom operating systems.
00:51:21.000You can learn how to flash, you know, different operating systems on your phone.
00:51:23.000It's not the easiest thing in the world, but it's not particularly difficult.
00:51:26.000But I think the bigger issue here is it's not about looking for evidence.
00:51:31.000What they're doing is they're saying, for one, if you oppose us, we will dig through all your records.
00:51:35.000We know those records will leak to the press, whether it's social media or telecommunications, and more importantly, they're looking for strategy.
00:51:42.000They wanted information on all of these people from April 2020 to January 2020.
00:52:06.000Now that they've made the announcement that these things potentially exist, I'm sure BuzzFeed already went to town subpoenaing every single one of these individuals.
00:52:13.000It's actually, there's a funny thing that I did at Vice once, we wanted to do, we never actually did, we were planning it, was to do a FOIA request on ourselves and see what comes up, and then whoever gets the biggest stack is the winner.
00:52:32.000You can now FOIA request saying like, oh, the Democrats requested this.
00:52:36.000I would like public information, you know, these documents to be released to the public on all of these individuals and what they were saying.
00:52:41.000And it's going to leak regardless of FOIA.
00:52:44.000Well, the National Archives, I don't think, have turned over the information yet.
00:52:47.000I think they have till, like, September 9th.
00:56:04.000The one I was talking about a little bit.
00:56:06.000Where it's like, the AI system wipes out humanity by just mass producing products of want.
00:56:13.000And so then eventually humans are just strangled out from the dying environment.
00:56:18.000And they're like, the machines just drop boxes of random garbage.
00:56:21.000But I think what we'll likely see is with moves like this over the, you know, January 6th, they're going after politicians.
00:56:30.000They're going after prominent activists.
00:56:32.000This really does paint a picture of that future where Amazon, like there's a uniparty, like we had a uniparty for some time, but they'll lucratively merge with the likes of Amazon or whatever.
00:59:07.000Did you see what, you know, Adam Kokesh?
00:59:09.000Did you see what they did to him back a couple of few years ago?
00:59:12.000He went to DC and protested with a shotgun and open carry and they were like, Well, that gives us, you know, what do they call it when they have a probable cause?
00:59:21.000Yeah, probable cause to search your apartment.
00:59:22.000So they went to his house and they found mushrooms in his apartment, threw him in prison.
00:59:40.000He doesn't do any anti-government stuff?
00:59:42.000I shouldn't say any, but he's not the outspoken vocalist that he was in the early days, like screaming profanity-laced tirades about the military-industrial complex because of mushrooms.
01:00:49.000At a certain point, don't you throw up your arms in futility like, I've done everything they've said, nothing's changed, we got vaccinated, we wore two masks, it's all the same, and they just keep blaming other people.
01:01:01.000And the response was like, but the government's really, really scared and that freaks me out.
01:01:40.000And so if you look to, for example, absurdist literature from Eastern Europe during the Cold War, If you look at, like, Kafka or if you look at Vaclav Havel, right, who was a brilliant playwright who ended up president of the Czech Republic randomly after the Velvet Revolution.
01:01:57.000But you can see in this literature where these writers have discovered,
01:02:04.000or they rather elucidate the way that communism worked in those nations,
01:02:08.000where it's like they tell you one thing and then they do something else.
01:02:11.000Like if you look at the trial, right, did you read Kafka's trial?
01:02:15.000So I read this in high school and I had to convince them to let me read it, but whatever.
01:02:23.000So this guy, K, ends up on trial and he can never get any real information as to what he's on trial for,
01:02:30.000what it's about, who his solicitor is, what the punishments are going to be.
01:02:35.000It's all just very confusing and it's very much like in Metamorphosis where he becomes the bug, right?
01:02:42.000So the guy becomes, and this is probably easier to explain, but So he wakes up one morning, he's a cockroach.
01:03:12.000If they confuse you enough, if they make you so confused that you stop questioning it because to question it itself is going to make you crazy.
01:03:48.000I took this, I tweeted this thing out.
01:03:49.000It's on my Twitter feed somewhere about the gamification of trust, sociological trust.
01:03:54.000And what's happening according to this game theory study is that not that we've been overloaded with communication and that there's too much of it.
01:04:00.000All this new information, you know, the red pilling and the war on terror and all that.
01:04:06.000But it's that the amount of misinformation is causing people to distrust each other.
01:04:11.000And then the cheaters, the ones that are willing to game that and work with the distrust, are proliferating as a result.
01:04:18.000And if there's too much misinformation, cheaters will overwhelm the system.
01:04:21.000And then you'll have a system of cheaters.
01:04:24.000If there's not too much distrust or misinformation, then the people that are willing to kind of play the game are going to override the cheaters.
01:04:32.000There are some prominent leftist personalities who have always claimed to be anti-fascist, who are all of a sudden now making YouTube videos being like, why would anyone oppose government mandates on forced medical procedures?
01:04:44.000You know, for me, I've always been so in favor of freedoms, I've always been opposed to the coalescing of corporate power, that I find myself aligned with whoever at the time seems to oppose the coalescing of massive corporate and government power.
01:04:58.000So it used to be the left, all of a sudden they're all pro-corporate power, and now it's the right!
01:05:03.000I say it all the time, in a few years, you know, there will be a shift backwards and
01:05:08.000the, you know, it's people like, like Jack Murphy, a really great example of somebody
01:05:24.000So I have a feeling that a lot of people like us, who are maybe in the middle right now, leaning to one side or the other, will shift back and forth depending on which tribe wants to actually adopt freedom.
01:05:33.000And who's actually willing to back our natural rights.
01:05:38.000To what you were saying, Ian, about this misinformation thing, people aren't able to think critically, so they're not able to differentiate between what's supposedly misinformation and what's actually true or
01:05:52.000anything like that and in part that's because we've completely destroyed our educational system.
01:05:56.000So we've destroyed the canon, we've destroyed the literary canon, we've taken away Shakespeare
01:06:01.000and Homer and you know all of this other stuff that used to tell us kind of a timeline of
01:06:08.000this is a timeline of human thought about ideas, this is how you can you know track
01:06:13.000truth, this is how you can understand things.
01:06:16.000We've taken that all away, we've replaced it with stuff that we think is appropriate
01:06:20.000to think about now and we've been left with a public that doesn't know how to think clearly
01:06:26.000because we haven't given them any examples as to how to do so.
01:06:29.000I'd like to read a text message I received allegedly from the ACLU.
01:06:35.000I have a series of text messages from a number from... I'm not going to say the number, but it's an ACLU number, supposedly, they say.
01:06:43.000As schools start nationwide, Kimberly Crenshaw talks teaching the truth about race in America.
01:07:03.000Kimberly Crenshaw is as close as you can get to being a Nazi as you can in the modern era, in my opinion.
01:07:09.000When I see the stupid people walking around with the symbols of the Nazi party or whatever, or like the bikers who do it because they're trying to be, you know, punk or edgy or anti-establishment, that's very different from someone who is overtly Identitarian, wanting government based on race, and is a proponent of fascistic ideologies, whether they assert them verbatim or not.
01:07:32.000But the people who are like, I believe the government should have absolutely authority to do these things.
01:07:36.000And also, I think the law should be based on race.
01:07:38.000Okay, yeah, that's as close as you can get to what the Nazis were doing.
01:07:42.000So when I see some of these prominent, you know, leftist YouTubers with over a million subs, and they're like, You know, these anti-vaxxers are saying that the vaccine mandates are bad and the government shouldn't be doing this, but people should just do what the government tells them.
01:07:53.000I'm like, so you support race-based ideology, identitarianism.
01:07:58.000You support massive multinational pharmaceutical countries getting guaranteed no liability contracts, and you support the government forcing people to undergo medical procedures.
01:08:11.000can get to it. You're at the very least fascist. Yes. I'm gonna I'm just gonna go straight for violating Godwin's law
01:08:17.000right away because because it's it's it's the look when someone's like you know you just want people to live the
01:08:23.000way you want cuz you're a Nazi it's like well well hold on I personally think people should take care of their own
01:08:30.000decisions and take care of themselves and their friends and their families so long as they're not hurting other people
01:08:35.000it's It's the dominant left Democrat faction that are basically saying pro-corporate power, guaranteed contracts for massive, unaccountable pharmaceutical countries, and the government will mandate the Medicaid— Companies.
01:09:16.000Cenk Uygur of the Young Turks said, do you think if the right-wingers came out and said seatbelts were tyranny, that they would all stop wearing them?
01:09:23.000And I'm like, yo, libertarians do think forcing people to wear seatbelts is tyranny.
01:09:29.000I remember this back in Illinois when they passed the law saying you have to wear a seatbelt, click it or ticket.
01:09:34.000And what I was told, I'm not saying it's true because I was a kid at the time and it was just the scuttlebutt I heard from the adults, was yeah, the insurance companies were lobbying for seatbelt laws because it made sure their profits stayed the same because you have to have insurance, but it meant their payouts would go down because people were less likely to get injured.
01:09:50.000And the politicians saw it as a safety issue, and the insurance companies saw it as a reducing their expenses issue.
01:09:57.000So yes, it very much was in this Bloombergarian idea of the people are too stupid to live their own lives, so the nanny status tell them what they have to do.
01:11:53.000If people go to their trusted medical professional, do some research or whatever, make a decision for themselves, and that means they want to go get the vaccine, they should be allowed to do it.
01:12:01.000Nobody should be stopping people from getting medicated, whatever that medication might be.
01:12:04.000Because there are a lot of people who are like, you know, that particular antibiotic is bad for this reason.
01:12:08.000It's like, dude, mind your own business.
01:12:10.000And so when it comes to Fauci and Biden, another discussion around five months, they'll get a booster.
01:12:17.000The problem is not, in my opinion, the vaccine.
01:12:55.000The other thing too is there have been, you know, anytime anyone tries to make a report about some concern with the vaccine, um, that gets squashed by social media instantly.
01:13:08.000So there's no way to have a public conversation, uh, because everyone's already, everyone's opinions have already been bought and sold.
01:13:36.000Talk about authoritarianism, or the lack thereof, when the Russian premier has decided, president, as that's what he's called, they're not going to do mandates if that's real.
01:13:44.000I think this all comes down, it hinges on do you think- Well, then they'd have to give it away anyway, so maybe that's part of it.
01:14:27.000I saw a comment where somebody, I think it was on Reddit, where they were talking about how, you know, emigrating to the United States and wondering if now they actually want to go back, you know, to Russia.
01:16:49.000And he encouraged big companies to require all their employees to get vaccinated.
01:16:54.000This is another really weird thing that I've talked about before, but people keep emailing me claiming that the vaccine, the Pfizer vaccine, isn't FDA approved.
01:17:02.000And they're using like, it's the weirdest thing, a twisted semantic argument that is not true.
01:17:06.000Oh, is this, that's the like other drug that has a different name?
01:17:10.000community which is literally the exact same vaccine as per the FDA letter and so when Bannon was here he mentioned this and I was like I don't think that's true and I googled it I'm like it says right here it is the vaccine that is approved and then I got a bunch of emails like Bannon is right Tim take a look at this and there are a bunch of articles like you know patriot national dot you know info or whatever and it says something like take a look at this letter And so I read the FDA letter and it literally says the formulation is identical and interchangeable, but one is the marketing brand.
01:17:41.000Either can be used because they're the same thing.
01:17:44.000What he was saying, I thought, was that Pfizer has a bunch of different vaccines that it's working on and only one of them has been FDA approved.
01:18:25.000But I thought that's what Steve was saying.
01:18:26.000No, so people keep emailing me this thinking that there's some like underhanded scheme to like trick people into thinking that community is available, but it's not really.
01:18:57.000And then once it got approved, they needed to maintain a rationale.
01:19:00.000Well, then that was Biden's whole speech last week, was like, all you people who were waiting for it, now it is.
01:19:04.000I think just assert your- So everyone just get it.
01:19:08.000If you, if you really are like, you know, just, just say it, just publicly state how you feel about it and don't rely on semantic arguments.
01:19:46.000There were a lot of people who didn't want to get it.
01:19:48.000And also the federal government at the time put out a few different statements saying, you know, As people get this vaccine, people are going to die.
01:19:58.000It doesn't necessarily mean that it's from the vaccine.
01:20:01.000People die anyway, and sometimes these things are going to be, you know, coincidental.
01:20:10.000They've said it to me in a statement as I interviewed people.
01:20:13.000I actually interviewed one of the highest guys at the CDC in like his full military uniform a few years ago.
01:20:18.000And they said, we know there are side effects and adverse effects, we know that some people face problems, but percentage-wise, it is substantially better that people get vaccinated than not, even with the side effects.
01:20:31.000Basically, they're saying the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the risk from the vaccine is substantially lower than the risk from not getting it for society as a whole.
01:20:40.000So my thing is like, I'm very much for the individual.
01:20:43.000I think you have to find someone you trust when it comes to medicine, a medical professional, and come to a personal decision that I'm not going to make for you.
01:22:33.000Like I said, what we're seeing is the elites knowing that we hit an iceberg and they're stealing all the silverware and running to the safety boats before anyone realizes what's happening.
01:22:42.000This was interesting, too, the other day.
01:22:44.000So we have a mayoral election going on in New York City.
01:22:47.000De Blasio is going to be out, which is great.
01:22:49.000Eric Adams is the—he won the Democratic primary in June.
01:22:54.000He was the Brooklyn Borough President.
01:22:59.000He was not the far-left candidate, so people were displeased that he won that primary.
01:23:04.000But anyway, he's running against Curtis Lewa.
01:23:07.000who was recently doing a like you know doing a campaign event that was interrupted by a homeless guy who was started like yelling about stuff and Sliwa went over to him he wasn't miked you know he just went over and started talking to the guy and being like oh you know talking to him like a human being which obviously he is what's your situation you know have you been are you supposed to be taking medication have you been hospitalized And the guy breaks down and says, you know, I don't want to be a burden to anybody.
01:23:39.000I don't, you know, I don't want to do this to everybody.
01:23:51.000Now, the current administration, de Blasio, de Blasio's wife, Chirlane McRae, tweets out like, if you see homeless people, call the homelessness outreach line.
01:24:01.000You had Bloomberg saying, you know, previously saying, if you see homeless people in need of help, you know, don't help them yourself.
01:24:10.000Call somebody and call the homelessness outreach to go help them.
01:24:15.000We don't take any responsibility for our neighbors.
01:24:18.000We don't take any care for the people around us.
01:24:20.000We assume that there's always somebody else who's supposed to do that thing and that maybe we should let them know, hey, There's someone bleeding to death over here.
01:24:28.000I'm gonna be late for coffee, you know, so I can't do it.
01:25:52.000And I was like, no, this guy should be doing it.
01:25:54.000If he thinks that this is his responsibility to take care of people, then he should be doing it.
01:25:59.000Obviously, we can't just have a government and say everybody just rely on the government and the government will come and interfere in every aspect of our lives.
01:26:09.000We should want to take responsibility for each other.
01:26:11.000We should want to care about our neighbors and be cared about.
01:26:17.000There was an old woman who died next door to me.
01:26:19.000I had only met her two times and I felt so stupid that I had, you know, barely ever interacted with her and then her son shows up to clear out her apartment and he's like, do you want, you knew my mother and I was like, dude, I've, I met your mother twice.
01:26:36.000Like, please don't give me her valuable things.
01:26:53.000And it's this old video you made back like 10 years ago where he's like, you know, I take the train every day in New York and there's millions of people, but I noticed they never talk to each other.
01:27:02.000So one day I decided to start talking to these people, and then he films and asks them questions that, you know, get kind of weird, like, do you trust the government?
01:27:08.000But I think it's funny, and it makes a good, you know, emotional point anyway, that, like, people in New York City, they live around each other.
01:27:40.000But there's this, there was a sign on the MTA, speaking of not talking to each other on the MTA with COVID, right?
01:27:46.000So there were three options and the MTA let you know which one was the appropriate option.
01:27:51.000The first option was two stick figures having a conversation with no masks looking animated having a conversation and it said not this.
01:27:59.000The next one was people wearing masks having a conversation and it said not this.
01:28:04.000And then the final one was two people looking down separately at books not looking at each other having no communication at all and the MTA was like this this is what we want you to do.
01:28:22.000Just live in your own literal bubble behind your face covering and go about your business.
01:28:30.000That's the brave new world we live in.
01:28:31.000Yeah, that's what happens when you let the corporations take over, man.
01:28:35.000Whether it's the city, the state, the corporate corporation, the centralized authority makes these stupid machine-like rules and restrictions on humans when we're not machines.
01:28:45.000I watch this movie, it's called, I think it's called 2149, where it's like people live in concrete pods their whole lives, and they just, all they do is play video games, and they interact without, just by typing, and that's like the world.
01:29:48.000Yeah, and he predicted online dating as well.
01:29:51.000Because the main character, this woman, I think her name's Vashti or something, so she lives in her little underground cubby.
01:29:59.000She delivers lectures through telescreen, and most of her lectures, most of the things she delivers, she talks about, are responses to other people's lectures.
01:30:08.000And at the beginning of the story, she talks about how she was listening to a symphony and there was a glitch in it.
01:30:14.000And when she first recognized that, when she first heard the symphony with the glitch, she was very upset and she was, you know, wanted to complain about this glitch and now she wouldn't recognize the symphony without it.
01:30:42.000And then of course the machine breaks down and so all of the people eventually they start like pouring out of their cubbies and the little transport system doesn't work.
01:30:52.000Um, and her son, who had contacted her, makes his way to the surface to breathe air for the first time.
01:31:00.000And it's poison, and it kills him, and he dies, but he, you know.
01:31:35.000Deplorable Pirate Captain Gunbeard says, according to a new study, kids aged 5 to 11 went from an obesity rate of 36% to 47% because of the lockdown in the U.S.
01:32:57.000Hit IRS and Fed where it hurts by passing amendment where employers can't take taxes, Medicare, anything out of employee checks, forcing people to write a check to the IRS every year so it is more clear that return was their money already.
01:34:05.000A lot of delinquencies when people would just get their full paycheck at the end of the year had to pay taxes and they were like, I wasn't planning for this.
01:34:19.000So every child, every family, every kid, $250 a month.
01:34:24.000And I'm wondering what's going to happen when it turns out that they've been sending $250 checks to a bunch of people who aren't actually eligible for that child, that like same kind of deduction or who owe money and that's going to be screwed up.
01:34:56.000Christopher says, I feel like at this point the Black Swan event is that Joe Biden messes up everything to such a degree that we are all united.
01:35:05.000I gotta say, man, right now under, you know, you've got a lot of populist leftists who are ragging on Joe Biden and the right ragging on Joe Biden.
01:35:15.000And so now you have this creepy neocon establishment Democrat alliance, which has been, you know, been around for a while, but now they've lost a lot of the populist leftists.
01:35:24.000So now it's starting to get funny when you see like the populace left being like, I'm going to buy guns and Biden is terrible.
01:36:09.000You know, you listen to the lyrics, and I don't think it applies in any way, or for the most part, to today, but it kind of feels like it does, you know?
01:37:13.000Like you, there, there's like, it's, it's not like there's a loud echo where you can hear your words repeated back at you normally, but you truly understand sound reflection once you dampen the whole room.
01:37:23.000And then it, it sounds like you're, it's weird.
01:40:47.000She laid in a big field of poppies and just like totally got drugged out.
01:40:52.000She falls asleep in the movie, but it's opium from the poppies.
01:40:55.000So if the Taliban is now going to be making a whole bunch of heroin, and our southern border is wide open, are we about to have a massive... No, the Taliban bans all that stuff, I'm pretty sure.
01:41:16.000Alright, Tinman says, I was enlisted in the Marine Corps, and if you lost your weapon during training and couldn't be found, they would literally close down the base until it was.
01:42:14.000I think it's not so much about a principle like, I believe in free speech, but more so, where do you draw the line on free speech?
01:42:21.000Because I can say I'm for free speech all day and night, and then be like, oh, but if someone incites violence, and then if you entertain the idea that the government can pass a law to say something isn't free speech because incitement to violence is bad, then someone says, okay, pass the law saying hate speech isn't free speech, and you're like, oh, okay, so maybe we're either for all free speech, even if, you know, whatever you say, Or we're okay with the government putting restrictions.
01:42:42.000Therein lies the big challenge I think everybody butts into.
01:42:46.000So, to answer your question, if the U.S.
01:42:48.000pulled all of its ships out of South Korea, North Korea would have came in with the Soviets and taken over, and there would be no South Korea.
01:42:53.000It would be, well, I don't know, is Vietnam... How's Vietnam doing?
01:42:57.000I haven't looked into the politics of Vietnam.
01:42:58.000They have a lot of contracts for manufacturing.
01:43:01.000A lot of clothes and things are made there.
01:43:03.000Similarly to Cambodia, actually, there was like a whole treaty with regard to that.
01:43:09.000It is very difficult, but I think we should not have entered Afghanistan in the first place.
01:43:14.000Regarding free speech, obviously you can't go out on TV and command people to do violence, but if you're in your room alone and you say the most vile, illegal stuff, you're fine.
01:43:27.000If the government's spying on you and hears you in your room alone just saying stuff like you're reading a script, you know, and you're reading some crazy violent lines, whatever.
01:43:53.000And I'm like, yo, the things you're saying right now and telling us to do, like, if we're taken out of context... So I just imagine there's, like, some cops in a van, and they're listening, and they hear this guy being like, and then we're gonna take the car.
01:44:05.000drive it underneath the bridge, et cetera, et cetera.
01:44:07.000And then the cops are like, it's happening.
01:44:14.000They're going after phone records and things.
01:44:16.000I mean, it's all that's out of context.
01:44:19.000Ray Gardner says, adding to Ian's point, then we should further assist Elon provide internet to the whole world through the mini satellites.
01:44:27.000Side note, did you see the military dogs left in their kennels at the airport?
01:45:03.000It's interesting about that with Larry Elder, who's running against Gavin Newsom, has brought up the points about how a lot of these wildfires are due to poor forestry management.
01:45:14.000Which a friend of mine, Sashi McEntee, who was the mayor of Mill Valley, California, has also been saying that these wildfires are in large part because of that.
01:45:22.000Yeah, PG&E runs a bunch of old, outdated power lines through the forest and they'll like, you know, debris and sticks and then one of the power lines will go out and set a forest fire.
01:45:33.000But I feel like you should be able to run lines through a forest without having to worry about the forest being so poorly managed that you're going to set the whole state on fire should something go wrong.
01:45:42.000Because I feel like lines are going to go down, right?
01:45:44.000And then you shouldn't have to worry about California being so horribly mismanaged that you're gonna burn the whole state down.
01:45:50.000I think they run power lines underground in some places on Earth.
01:47:09.000Lucy Lurker says, Brandon Burns in Las Vegas is working to stage a protest on September 7th for a mass callout with a rally in Las Vegas and elsewhere, Freedom of Choice Rally.
01:47:18.000He has a good take and would be a great guest to have on.
01:47:22.000I googled searched vaccine mandate protest, and I'm pretty sure you can find every single city.
01:48:35.000Have you ever seen, have you seen the Antifa total fascist one where it says, you know, we will tread and it's, it's a snake being squeezed by the fist.
01:48:44.000And they march around with it's, it's, it's red and black, which is funny because like they're claiming to be anarchists who are going to force people who are libertarians.
01:49:41.000In the UK there's a huge problem too because most of the truckers are like 55 or older and they're not getting any new people in to the to the business and once we don't have anyone to deliver our crap to us like what are we gonna do?
01:50:45.000Something will happen, there'll be a vote, it'll fork into something slightly different, and then you'll get centralized takeover.
01:50:52.000You asked a lot of questions about a lot of different things, but I agree with you that solutions and new technologies is where we're going.
01:50:59.000And we're building new shows on the Timcast network about that specifically.
01:51:03.000That's why we have the Castcastle vlog rolling.
01:51:05.000We're just about hitting daily videos.
01:51:07.000The goal is To not just be always so negative, but you take a look at some of the prominent creators, like on YouTube, and where they've gone, and they're like legit pro-establishment shills.
01:51:19.000Like, you don't even gotta think, you can just do what the government tells you to do, you know?
01:51:23.000It's like, no, we're gonna make fun videos where we like, you know, ride around on motorcycles, and there's chickens, and you know, we race cars and jump over the roof, and then we're gonna have a Gadsden flag saying, think for yourself and live free.
01:51:34.000I want to build a solar-powered water condenser on the property, if possible.
01:51:38.000They work more in the desert, though, so it might not be... Oh, it's so humid here, you'd fill up, you know, a hundred gallons an hour.
01:51:44.000Yeah, we'd be like, Ian, what are you supposed to do with all this water you've condensed?
01:52:03.000Yeah, exactly, and the water just drips down.
01:52:05.000I mean, when we had a mini-ramp outside every morning, we'd get, like, two gallons of water on it.
01:52:09.000And it was really annoying to have to go out and sweep it all off just from the humidity.
01:52:13.000That would have been good vlog content, by the way.
01:52:15.000But I was thinking, like, what if we took the skate light material, which is a, it's a, it's a plastic wood, kind of like resin of some sort.
01:52:21.000It's like a, no, it's like a resin wood chip mix.
01:52:23.000And what if we just put those up and just funneled them down?
01:52:26.000We'd, you get so much water every morning, it's insane.
01:52:29.000So we, you don't even need solar powered.
01:52:53.000ButtGrubber says, Tim, the state of Washington is firing hundreds of employees in the state police alone of the vaccine mandate while taking away their retirement and unemployment benefits.
01:53:03.000Look up Trooper LeMay on Jason Rant's podcast.
01:53:06.000Yeah, I was talking to a friend and just like a normie.
01:53:09.000And then I was just like, what they're doing with the vaccine mandates with no medical exemptions is nightmarish and like Nazi and Nazism.
01:53:18.000And she was just like, that's not happening.
01:54:31.000I don't want to spoil too much, but it is like a super old show.
01:54:34.000Stargate starts off with like modern military, just, you know, like, oh, look, we got the Stargate to these other planets and these other galaxies.
01:54:41.000And it ends with humans adopting all this crazy ass technology.
01:54:45.000And now they have beaming, like they develop, well, they get technology from other races that they trade with.
01:54:50.000And so it's cool to see humans go from kinetic weapons, just by luck having a Stargate that allows them to interact with more advanced technological species, to having warp capabilities, building the ships, going to war, and then becoming one of the dominant species in the galaxy.
01:55:37.000That sounds crazy, but it's true, though.
01:55:38.000Okay, as a point of reference, too, sedation is a technique that is commonly used in hospitals to keep people from removing IVs, from injuring themselves, falling on the floor.
01:55:48.000I used to sit with people who were being sedated to make sure they were still breathing, to make sure they weren't pulling IVs out and coming undone from their bondage equipment.
01:55:59.000one. Finkenfarn says, Hey Tim and crew, how is the forensic analysis of the
01:56:02.000Freedom Phone going? Keep up the good work. Your voices give hope around the
01:56:05.000world. I think it's just better buying them. Yeah, we have the people who are
01:56:09.000gonna, we know who's gonna be doing the analysis on them and now we just need
01:56:12.000Okay, tomorrow I'm going to push that.
01:56:13.000So you guys are checking those things out?
01:56:14.000Yeah, we want to, Ian's got like a list of like, he's got a crack team of tech whizzes, developers who are working on the Thetaverse project.
01:56:38.000So a lot of people are saying that I'm wrong about the FDA letter.
01:56:41.000Hondo says, Tim, Pfizer says they are legally distinct.
01:56:44.000I've read both letters, EUA and the BLA.
01:56:46.000Until it's packaged with the legal disclaimer, two items can be identical and packaged differently.
01:56:51.000Right, I'm just wondering what the argument is for a legal distinction and how is that relevant to saying that the vaccine isn't FDA approved when it's the exact same thing but you're arguing a brand, you know what I mean?
01:57:21.000Well, I guess they're saying that there is the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and the Community vaccine, which are identical in every way, except they're legally distinct products by name.
01:58:25.000We get superchats all the time from people saying like, Hey Tim, big fan of the show.
01:58:28.000Just wanted to shout out the hard work you're doing and mention that, you know, BRN, crypto is the number one currency and everyone should... Okay, dude, I just made it.
01:58:37.000People are always trying to do some kind of social media thing to, like, pump and dump.
01:58:42.000Yeah, and the same thing is true, like, there's a lot of people who are posting things with confirmation bias or cultural issues.
01:58:47.000Just make sure you talk to people you know and trust, because the internet is a crazy place full of crazy people.
01:58:53.000That's why I'm like the vlog is so important the cast castle stuff because it's like really you're gonna see people who have the principles of freedom like like you know Andy's wearing a Rothbard shirt while he's skating but it's not a show about politics it's not like we're gonna be preaching to you about what you should it's just gonna be like inspiring you to be a better person have fun get some optimism making good news fun news you know the dog running around and the chickens are flapping and jumping and just you know.
01:59:17.000Dude me and Carter were playing music earlier Carter Banks he's our he's our resident orchestrator.
02:00:40.000Riley Anderson says, hey Tim, fellow Beanie Guy here.
02:00:42.000Can you explain why you consider yourself left-wing libertarian, and more importantly, where you disagree with modern Republicans that classifies you left-libertarian?
02:00:50.000Well, Republican doesn't necessarily mean libertarian or whatever.
02:00:52.000Republicans tend to be, like, I would say, overwhelmingly moderate conservative, leaning towards, um...
02:01:03.000Classically liberal, not colloquially liberal, like the actual true meaning of liberal, as opposed to libertarian.
02:01:09.000But left libertarian is basically like hippies living on a farm.
02:01:11.000Where I disagree with Republicans is probably on like, I'm less free market capitalism than many Republicans, I'm in favor of social programs.
02:01:21.000The problem I always mention though is that idealistically it's really easy to be like, We should all cooperate and have certain system in place that have certain guarantees like I love the fact that the fire department exists.
02:01:33.000I like the idea of the armed forces and these things are you, you, you, you, you, you know, it's a government service.
02:01:39.000It's a guarantee and I think there's good reasons to have them.
02:01:42.000So the issue is basically like on the left and right scale of the political compass, the right is where you start getting into more and more free market capitalism and the left is where you get more and more into, what's the right way to put it, cooperative systems.
02:01:59.000But the simplest way to explain it is Left Libertarian would be like 10 hippies living on a farm or a small tribe of 30 people that come to agreements.
02:02:15.000The children just have to do what they're told, what they're provided for.
02:02:18.000And that makes sense at a really small level.
02:02:19.000So Left Libertarian is like, hey, I'm not going to tell you what to do, but if you want to come hang out, pitch in around the house, we got pizza, we got beers.
02:02:26.000It doesn't work when you go into multiple cities, because now one city is like, that's not fair that we do this work and you get that, and then you start needing better systems of economics.
02:02:36.000So the way I usually say it is, idealistically, I'm left libertarian.
02:02:40.000Realistically, I'm like socially liberal.
02:02:43.000So I'm like centrist, you know, slightly left leaning on some policies.
02:02:47.000I'd love for there to be universal health care within this system.
02:02:49.000I don't know if this system is free of corruption to the point where we could actually have it, so.