The Daily Caller's Peter Bergen, Jorge, and Sagnic join us to talk about the latest in the war on immigration, martial law, and much, much more. They also discuss their new documentary, Hero to Zero, which gives a voice to all first responders who have been sidelined by the corporate media.
00:00:21.000When you even had individuals coming on this show who are more, you know, mainstream personalities saying it's martial law, I think Trudeau realized maybe you made a big mistake.
00:00:31.000But it shows you how effective the Freedom Convoy protests are that it forced their hand.
00:00:57.000convoys, the People's Convoy and the Freedom Convoy, both departing from around L.A., I believe, plus a whole bunch of other weird little convoys everywhere.
00:02:03.000Yeah, we've seen it all, man, from the, you know, the riots in 2020, to, you know, the lockdowns on small businesses, to the mental health aspect on teens, even, you know, basically start of 2021 was the border crisis.
00:02:14.000So we started seeing the human smuggling, human trafficking.
00:02:17.000And it just seems like right now with under this administration, the news just never stops.
00:02:29.000And basically what Mean Sonic wanted to do is we wanted to give a voice to all the first responders, especially in Southern California, that refuse to comply with the mandates and who have been fired or been placed on unpaid leave.
00:02:40.000The reason why Mean Sonic wanted to produce this documentary was because we took a look at the corporate press and we saw how the corporate press, as you guys know, the frontline workers, like anyone who worked the grocery stores or nurses or firefighters, They held him as heroes for the past two years, right?
00:02:55.000I'm from Los Angeles, so my mayor Eric Garcetti told us that every night at 6 p.m.
00:02:59.000we had to come out and bang pots and pans for these frontline workers.
00:03:02.000Now, fast forward to the mandates, now those same frontline workers have been demonized by the media.
00:03:07.000LA Times put out an editorial saying we need to build back better by firing all the anti-vaxxer firefighters, so we felt That we wanted to give a voice back to the workers.
00:03:16.000And we didn't like how the corporate press was just treating regular first responders, American citizens, working class, that were on the front lines for us while we were all quarantined.
00:03:26.000That's why we actually named the documentary From Hero, because they were held as heroes to now Zero, where these people are literally not getting paid.
00:03:32.000They cannot pay their mortgages, can't put food on the table for taking their stance.
00:03:55.000So from time to time, bring this up, because you guys did a lot of work at the border in Trejas, which means deliveries, I believe it means.
00:04:03.000And this was around the wrist of a child.
00:04:05.000Yeah, the last time we were here, we were to show you guys those bracelets.
00:04:08.000Those are the bracelets that migrants are basically forced to wear by these human smugglers down in South Texas.
00:04:15.000So we just wanted to show the American people that these migrants are being used as essentially just products for drug cartels, human smuggling groups.
00:04:22.000According to some reports that we got, human smugglers right now are making up to $14 million a day just off human smuggling.
00:04:29.000We're not even talking about the fentanyl that's coming into the country yet.
00:04:32.000And we got immigration stories as well with what's going on.
00:04:34.000I mean, it's kind of crazy what's happening with Ukraine.
00:04:37.000A lot of people are upset because our own border isn't being protected.
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00:07:43.000From Al Jazeera, Trudeau lifts emergency order invoked to end trucker protests.
00:07:49.000Amid criticism, the Canadian PM insists Emergencies Act was needed to quell anti-government blockades and occupation.
00:07:56.000Speaking to reporters on Wednesday afternoon, Trudeau said the Emergencies Act was necessary to help law enforcement agencies disperse large numbers of protesters who had descended on Ottawa.
00:08:08.000They could have had a very small group of police officers, very small, walk up to the peaceful truckers and say, we're placing you under arrest for obstructing a roadway, and that's it.
00:08:20.000We've seen them do this over and over again to climate change activists, to left-wing protesters.
00:08:25.000I understand Canada is a different country than the US, but come on, policing is very similar here and there.
00:08:29.000Instead, they pulled out the boot and they put it on people's necks.
00:08:33.000My opinion, Is that they wanted to make these emergency powers permanent.
00:08:37.000We already heard the Deputy Prime Minister in Canada say, we want this, this, you know, financial powers to be permanent because of cryptocurrencies and crowdfunding.
00:08:46.000And now all of a sudden, oh, we're lifting the order.
00:09:03.000I mean, you guys have been on the ground for a lot of protests.
00:09:05.000I don't know if you guys were following what was happening with the truckers up in Canada or, you know, similar protests.
00:09:11.000But I'm curious what your thoughts are based on what you've seen on the ground versus what's displayed in the news.
00:09:16.000I think for me the biggest takeaway was this is one of the biggest worker uprisings that we've ever seen in our history where you actually have true you know people in the middle class working class actually uprising together and it's not like a fringe left the fringe right it's just a true working class coming together then you actually got to see the Canadian government how they responded with just complete government overreach using their security forces to beat up on protesters to beat up And also members of the media.
00:09:41.000A lot of members of the Rebel News, which I'm really truly grateful for Rebel News because their journalists have been on the ground and just getting us these crucial videos of what's going on in Ottawa.
00:09:51.000And without them I feel like we would be just kind of be, you know, dependent on the corporate media.
00:09:55.000And the way actually I look at Rebel News is actually I look at our DC Riot Squad in 2020 where it's like you kind of have these few on the ground reporters getting these kind of viral videos and showing you the truth.
00:10:05.000But I think one of the biggest takeaways from what's going on in Canada was that, you know, governments all over have been completely silent when it comes to violence on peaceful protesters and also members of the media.
00:10:17.000I think one of the key takeaways that I've took away is that at least the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, has come out and spoken out.
00:10:24.000against this and it's it's it's interesting to see because for me as well as you know these demonstrations were happening in you know in Yemen or Afghanistan or anything like that the US government will be quickly you know up in arms and telling us how we need to intervene but since it's Canada I mean we've been completely silent on this issue didn't didn't Canada issue a statement about Cuba recently like during the protest did you see that something like that where they're like people should have their free speech like shut up Nobody believes you.
00:10:52.000You know what's really fascinating about this though?
00:10:54.000The craziest thing is for me to see, you mentioned this in the intro, that Garcetti is like, bang your pots and pans for the first responders.
00:11:01.000And I'm like, you mean be a public nuisance and keep people up at night?
00:11:04.000No, no, no, I don't really care about the pots and pans.
00:11:23.000who are supporting banging pots and pans and protesting with Black Lives Matter during a pandemic are condemning truckers for going out and protesting.
00:11:32.000Speaking of protests, the trucker protest is a perfect example of what a peaceful demonstration looks like.
00:11:40.000And the whole cause and effect is just to cause a disruption so that people in charge realize that we are essential to what you do and how the country works.
00:11:51.000And if you stop working, there's a huge problem.
00:11:54.000So you, as our ruler, are kind of responsible to take care of what are our needs and demands.
00:11:59.000Because, like, you are in charge of us.
00:12:21.000The problem is the protests she was offending were violent, riotous, and the ones we're defending are like people parking their trucks in the street and honking.
00:12:31.000I wonder if they would have had a better protest if they weren't honking, if they had just blocked traffic and sat there and stopped working.
00:12:37.000Because, like, you want to make people uncomfortable, but it's the kind of discomfort where, like, uh-oh, if the truckers aren't there, we're gonna suffer.
00:12:42.000Not the kind of discomfort where, like, it hurts because you're making so much noise, stop.
00:12:47.000Because now most of those people in Ottawa wanted the truckers gone.
00:13:43.000This is what protests have been doing for a really, really long time.
00:13:46.000To come out now and be like, oh, but the truckers shouldn't.
00:13:48.000I'm like, Look, we tolerate a certain degree of discomfort for non-violent civil disobedience.
00:13:55.000And making noise can be annoying and frustrating, but it really does show you the complete BS that is the left-right paradigm.
00:14:04.000That when you are making noise in their city, How dare you!
00:14:10.000Oh, I'm gonna go and enact emergency powers and freeze your banks!
00:14:13.000Yet, they can go out and they can bang whatever they want whenever they want for their cause.
00:14:17.000That when you're engaging in your protest on the steps of your state capitol building, they say, oh, it's a super spreader event, these evil far-right guys.
00:14:24.000And then they go up by the thousands during the same pandemic, and the nurses are clapping and cheering for them.
00:14:30.000Where the nurse is standing in front of the truck that says like, no mandates or whatever, and they're like, you know, hands on their hips.
00:14:36.000And then at the same time, you get a video of nurses clapping for Black Lives Matter.
00:14:40.000I'm like, dude, I'm not playing the stupid, you get, you know, rules for thee, but not for me game.
00:14:45.000If we tolerate banging from the left in pots and pans, I got no issue with people honking I wouldn't tolerate it.
00:14:53.000Outside my house, if people were making noise 24-7, I wouldn't tolerate it.
00:15:32.000in their high-rises where they're filming videos, like, actually cheering on the protest.
00:15:35.000And as soon as the protesters look at them, they'll, like, throw a rock through the window.
00:15:38.000So for me, it's like, You know, the honking, I can't fault, especially what we've seen on the ground here in the United States.
00:15:44.000And the thing is, the media that's demonizing the truckers, I mean, they're all in cities that were being wrecked by the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020.
00:15:52.000Yeah, so I may disagree with Ian about whether or not the truckers should have been honking, but I do think he has a salient point about the feds now keeping a very close eye on the truckers.
00:16:01.000Jack Posobiec also made the point recently.
00:16:03.000He said, I don't think that a convey is the best way to get your point across.
00:16:06.000He said, I think that a general strike is a better way to do it.
00:16:08.000Yeah, I think that's true because it is so decentralized.
00:16:31.000My sister she owns a wine bar in downtown DC and the day after this she sent me photos of her glasses and she has like plants outside the bar and everything was shattered and stuff like that and even if like I was to like step myself out of the bubble and be like hey is this dangerous or are truckers blocking downtown and honking dangerous I would rather I don't know.
00:16:54.000I would choose the one where my sister's bar glasses got shattered.
00:17:33.000We're super close to Frederick, which is like the last... And it's not just that.
00:17:36.000Now DC is again back to the green zone, which it was after Gen 6, which is...
00:17:42.000Kind of makes me really sad because I've been living in DC for like three years now and the city was all fine and dandy before, I don't know, like COVID and after COVID happened and Jan 6th happened, the city turned into a green zone and it was all sad and gloomy and downtown you can like hear like a needle drop.
00:17:57.000And it was kind of getting better and starting, I don't know, like yesterday, it's again like getting locked up.
00:18:04.000It feels like a symbolic protest, this going to D.C.
00:18:38.000As many as 700 National Guard are prepared to take posts across the nation's capital amid planned trucker protest convoys that organizers say could paralyze the city without entering it.
00:18:48.000Bob Bolas, a Pennsylvania truck driver, says he's leading the Freedom Convoy of trucks from Pennsylvania to Washington on Wednesday, but he told NBC4 in Washington that he has backed off immediate plans to gridlock the Capitol.
00:18:58.000We're not shutting the traffic down today.
00:19:00.000If we don't have a resolution from the government to the rights that they're taking from us, I will predict in the future it will get shut down.
00:19:08.000So you've got, there's this Pennsylvania convoy coming from the north.
00:19:12.000You've got the People's Convoy coming from California.
00:19:14.000I think Freedom Convoy is also California, right?
00:20:29.000The truckers get in their trucks, they drive to Ottawa, and all of a sudden, for three or four weeks, One of the biggest stories internationally was this.
00:20:38.000Trudeau was forced to, I don't think he was necessarily forced to, I don't think they needed to use emergency powers, but the mask slips.
00:20:45.000Now we can see, you've got regular people saying, this is fascism, this is martial law.
00:20:51.000It has exposed the despotism of this establishment, one grain of sand at a time.
00:20:56.000I'm not going to pretend like there's a revolution overnight from truckers honking their horns.
00:21:00.000But people can see the double standard, they can see the BS hierarchy, we call it now, not hypocrisy, that the left gets away with this stuff and the right gets punished for it, and you can see the lengths they're willing to go to maintain power.
00:21:12.000That's the main thing, because no one would have ever expected that Trudeau would just invoke a terrorism clause just like that, just to get a hold of how people are supporting these truckers.
00:21:23.000Like, just think about that for a fact.
00:21:24.000Like, to think about the fact that the thing which they did in terms of freezing the bank counts and even to reach as far as the crypto stuff, like the fact that Trudo went that far, I think that just credits the truckers that without them putting this Up front and center, no one would have guessed that the Prime Minister could go as far as to getting a hold of your personal bank account.
00:21:49.000I did think that they would invoke terrorism stuff because of the noise.
00:21:53.000And roll one's all you want guys, but noise can be violent.
00:21:57.000You can kill someone with too much noise.
00:21:59.000But terrorism though, that has terrorism by definition has like a political motive to it.
00:22:03.000I think that they were trying to scare people, or this is the mentality of what they're going to say, they're trying to scare people to get their politics accomplished.
00:22:10.000They're trying to frighten them into submission.
00:22:14.000I know, but this is my... I'm wargaming the scenario right now.
00:22:16.000A fascist dictatorship will use this argument and say, your honking is violent, you are aggressing on the people, and we're going to invoke whatever we need to stop you.
00:22:24.000And that is exactly why it was an effective protest.
00:22:27.000Because any sane, rational person is hearing that going, What?
00:22:32.000I thought it was just honking until I watched a video of a guy that lives there and it's like okay it's not just honking like it's it's a non-stop all-day loud noise.
00:22:39.000it's gonna be you know not comfortable but i grew a sonic stake where i think
00:22:43.000what happened on a lash expose the canadian government i think we've all
00:22:47.000you know all of us were like a big they wouldn't go that far
00:22:50.000there was other freezing of the bank accounts that we saw the videos of these police officers rolling up to the
00:23:16.000yeah you exposed it for being the dumb idiot animal that it was
00:23:19.000but it what was the cost of the exposition I don't need to sacrifice a bunch of truckers to prove that fascist dictatorship has taken over our government a hundred years ago.
00:23:30.000I don't want to see people go to solitary to try and just to prove that Biden's in the hand of Klaus Schwab or some You know, like the Federal Reserve, it's so fascist.
00:23:39.000This whole system, we're, we don't need to hurt ourselves to prove this right now.
00:23:44.000Fascistic, I think is the better word.
00:23:46.000You know what I don't like about people saying communism and fascism is that they're, they represent, no, they represent a hundred years ago when we had this, this rising ideologies in Europe.
00:23:56.000Now we've got a lot of technology that has changed how it's being implemented.
00:23:59.000And when, you know, Trudeau and Biden, and they use these authoritarian powers, it's like, Fash, come you fascism. It's weird. So there's a meme where
00:24:08.000they fold the political compass, authoritarian right, you know, and left over. It's like
00:24:14.000whatever China is doing. It's like, you know, exactly. It's like a weird new thing. But I will
00:24:18.000respond to you, Ian, by saying we don't want violence. Violence doesn't work because the
00:24:28.000When you look at January 6th, it was everything the Democrats and the neocon ever-Trumpers wanted, because now they could justify everything.
00:24:37.000And we've got a system of laws that say, oh, you got violent.
00:25:04.000I do support a bunch of quiet, silent protests, which a bunch of trucks just stopped in the roads for miles.
00:25:11.000Think about the protesters like these truckers have been through so much Have been through all these crazy mandates and now they're seeing that anytime they crossed, you know into Canada.
00:25:20.000They're Technically this like electronic QR code, you know for them enough is enough and I don't think honking is the worst thing in the world not just that like as journalists we focus on narrative imagery binaries like think about imagery of the State of the Union going on and
00:25:36.000God bless Biden's speechwriters because I don't know what he's gonna talk about
00:25:40.000But State of the Union going on and at the same time all these truckers outside the capital just blocking everything
00:25:48.000so that's like Like a... that's a good...
00:25:53.000That's a binary in front of you right there.
00:25:54.000Whatever, like, Biden cooks up at that speech, I don't know what he will, but there are people who are just literally saying, stop this stuff.
00:26:03.000Can you imagine if, like, for the State of the Union, Joe Biden just comes out 100% honest, and he's like, in my first year, my policies have driven massive inflation, high gas prices.
00:26:16.000We have a new war forming in Eastern Europe.
00:26:37.000I think that would actually, in some respect, make him one of the best presidents we've ever had for just coming out and laying bare everything he did wrong.
00:26:44.000I might be getting too old for this job, too.
00:26:46.000I need you guys to know that I'm not who I used to be.
00:27:22.000Black Lives Matter, I mean, to be honest, they really haven't got much done.
00:27:25.000The only people that have really benefited are the founders like Patrisse Cullors, who are now richer than ever, got deals with Levi, got deals with YouTube, got, you know, buying mansions in Malibu, but everyone else hasn't got anything from it.
00:27:38.000I mean, there's literally local groups all over the country, if you guys look it up, that are very angry with Black Lives Matter because they didn't do anything to actually fund their movement.
00:27:45.000We even have Um, some people that, um, some mothers and fathers speaking out who's had their, you know, son or daughter killed by police who said, Hey, Black Lives Matter came and all they did was just grift.
00:27:55.000Like literally they got rich and we didn't even see a dollar back into the community.
00:27:59.000So even Black Lives Matter with their violent protests, even though the media was on their side, they technically didn't get anything accomplished.
00:28:05.000And you gotta understand, we're dealing with this overarching culture war.
00:28:09.000Black Lives Matter had, for a long time, corporate support, institutionalized support, the vice president supporting, while they're burning down buildings and quite literally killing people.
00:28:19.000Aaron Danielson killed in Portland by an Antifa guy.
00:28:22.000You had the Antifa guy firebomb the ICE facility.
00:28:24.000You had 30-plus dead in the George Floyd riots, and they still receive institutional support.
00:28:30.000And then along comes some truckers and they honk their horns and everybody loses their minds.
00:28:34.000And so I'm like, yo, I can tolerate honking.
00:28:36.000And I think the fact, it really is to me just so perfect to show regular people when they're like, oh yeah, my business was destroyed last, you know, not last year, but the year before from the George Floyd riots.
00:28:51.000Why are you complaining to me and using emergency powers over some guy honking his horn?
00:28:56.000It's a slap in the face to the average person whose lives were destroyed.
00:28:59.000that you're going to have someone come out and they're going to be like, noise is violence,
00:29:02.000so we're going to crush you and freeze your banks. They do that, the mask comes off,
00:29:06.000and you're going to have a lot of regular people. Although I will admit, I don't know how many
00:29:10.000people are uninitiated at this point, but there's gonna be a lot of people questioning what's going
00:29:16.000Like in a bubble, like in the news bubble, in the politics bubble, it may seem like pretty mundane to us that people, oh I hate the mandate, oh I hate the vaccine, I hate masks.
00:29:26.000But if you think about it, a normal people say, and I throw around the word normie, like who doesn't care about all this, and he just comes across like the DMV and all these truckers are clogging up and he starts asking the question, what's up?
00:30:13.000They honk their horn and they feel better.
00:30:16.000They get to express themselves and it can help things depressurize.
00:30:21.000Because if you tell these people they're not even allowed to be noisy while the other rioters destroyed everything, then you're going to make violent revolution inevitable when people lose their minds.
00:30:32.000I could see how what you guys are saying, like maybe that getting the wolf to snap at your hand and grab at the food is important to show people like, hey, it's not a puppy dog.
00:30:41.000It's a wolf and wake people up that way.
00:30:43.000Like the 1970 May 4th Kent State shooting, Vietnam protest, a bunch of students were out there and they're throwing rocks at the National Guard.
00:30:50.000National Guard opened fire and killed four people.
00:30:53.000And that shocked the country into awareness, basically brought about the end of Vietnam War, more or less.
00:30:58.000You know, the song that was written about it was powerful too, Ohio, by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
00:31:03.000So maybe, but I don't want to see a bunch of people's lives get destroyed by some stupid Patriot Act.
00:31:46.000But man, is it frustrating to see the extremists on the left do all of this stuff and get away with it, and have the media lie and cover up for them.
00:32:14.000Yeah, one of the best parts too, I think with the Tucker, I mean with this whole Trucker protest, is that it actually exposes those who, on the left, who say that they're supposed to be pro-worker.
00:32:23.000You know, remember, let's not forget, the left and the progressive movement, they're supposed to be the side on the worker, the middle class.
00:32:29.000And actually, I was telling some people that, hey, when Me and Sonic produced this Zero to Zero documentary, if you would have watched this in the early 2000s or the early 90s, you would have thought liberals produced it, right?
00:32:39.000Because we were taking the side of the worker going against Big Pharma, going against big corporations.
00:32:44.000So what's happening with the truckers and the optics of the truckers, It's also exposing those in the left and the media who say that they are pro-worker or they're on the side of the little man, when now the little man's protesting and they're still being demonized.
00:32:56.000So I think that's actually kind of the best thing to look for.
00:32:58.000And also, we've never really seen the trucker movement ever uprise like that, right?
00:33:02.000So like the Black Lives Matter, that's more young people, you know, maybe these anti-vaccine mandate stuff earlier were like, hey, these people are fringe right.
00:33:10.000But these truckers are just regular folks.
00:33:11.000I mean, you know, really, you know, my dad's a trucker, you know, so it's a guy that literally goes into his truck, works 16 hours a day, doesn't see his family for two to three months.
00:33:21.000I mean, these people are the true working class.
00:33:23.000Well, so let's talk about your documentary.
00:33:26.000You've got, like the truckers, you had these people who are considered essential.
00:33:36.000Firemen, but it was also people working at retail stores, right?
00:33:39.000Yeah, then these mandates come out they fire the nurses They they mock the truckers and like you guys covered they they fire the first responders.
00:33:47.000It's not just like the firing of it It's more about the dichotomy of like two years ago you and I don't know maybe rightly so you held up Hey, these are our heroes.
00:33:58.000And also, which I was surprised to while talking to a bunch of the nurses, they were like, actually, personally, I never liked being called hero and stuff like that, because that's what I do for a living.
00:34:11.000The fact that they're acknowledging it right now kind of makes me really suspicious that by labeling us hero right now, they already are starting off with a political motive so that's one thing which I noticed and the second thing was like yeah that was like two years ago and now the same people who just said that hey it's my personal choice I don't want to I don't want the vaccine right now they were really cut off point blank and not only that there are like so many real little minutiae here and the nurses they had to wear different badges
00:34:40.000in their hospitals, like a pink badge or like a yellow badge to let people know that, hey, I'm not vaccinated, which kind of invokes, uh, it's, it's super subtle.
00:34:50.000Like if you think about it, like they're wearing a pink badge while everyone else is wearing their gen, like the, the default badge.
00:34:55.000Cause like someone might come up to you and ask you, Hey, why are you wearing a pink badge?
00:34:59.000Then you, by nature of the conversation are kind of forced to let people know that I'm not vaccinated, which kind of like infringes on your personal boundary.
00:35:08.000So there are so many little things which no one talks about, but two years ago, these were the same people.
00:36:13.000And it kind of ties down to, you know, it ties to this trucker movement where the regular, you know, Average or working class citizen has been demonized from the media I mean since basically the beginning of the pandemic obviously you guys know 2020 the greatest transfer of wealth the poor got poor the rich got richer and it just seems like the working class doesn't have any voice and and really in any any media space right now you I mean you turn on MSNBC they were demonizing cheering I mean for me I think the the part that was most
00:36:40.000I guess shocking was just seeing these progressives, what they call themselves, or people on the left, cheering on the firing of workers.
00:36:46.000I mean, first of all, if a firefighter gets placed on unpaid leave, the progressive who was supposed to be the first one to say, hey, wait a minute, why is this worker being placed on unpaid leave with no type of core or date?
00:36:58.000So for me, that's been the most shocking part, how no one wants to give first responders a voice.
00:37:03.000And I highly encourage anyone in the audience, please watch the documentary.
00:37:07.000We have our own website for it so it's hero20doc.com like that we could avoid any time a YouTube censor and please share these stories because like this we can at least combat that mainstream narrative.
00:37:17.000I was thinking about how it's challenging for blue collar workers to have a voice it seems like in society and it's almost like it's built that way because if a blue collar worker starts a YouTube channel and starts getting notoriety all of a sudden they're white collar.
00:37:28.000Now they're making money off their YouTube channel and they don't need to do their other job anymore.
00:37:32.000It seems like the nature of giving a voice to anyone makes them white-collar almost.
00:37:39.000The thing is too, Ian, is 90% of the media is owned by these six large corporations.
00:37:44.000So anytime you even want to start to tell real stories about Americans, those journals get cut off really quick.
00:38:18.000I'm in the quote-unquote journalism bubble politics Like I usually like hang around in like the Capitol Hill area downtown area, but I live in DC But if and only when I travel for work or for documentary purposes and I go to all these places where all these working-class people live It's also like so apparent to me that these people like the it's so bizarre to me.
00:38:39.000It looks completely different Take a look at this story from 2018 It's from GeekWire.
00:38:43.000I love this because these construction workers are the actual working class.
00:39:47.000Well, one thing too, Tim, really quick is during 2020, one thing that I try to speak out is in 2020, Amazon, I mean, for Amazon, this was brilliant.
00:39:55.000You know, Amazon, all they have to do in 2020 is just, you know, if you go shop on Amazon on their website, all they have to put is, Oh, Black Lives Matter.
00:40:02.000And all of a sudden, the progressive movement who's supposed to be pro-worker are like, wait a minute, Amazon's on our side.
00:40:07.000You just, you know, they say Black Lives Matter, yet their own black employees can't even pay their wage or their bills.
00:40:13.000You know, they have to live in their cars.
00:40:14.000Their own black employees don't have any health care.
00:40:17.000So that's one thing also these corporations have figured out is, hey, as long as we play this social justice message, we no longer have to attend to the pro-worker policies that the left wants.
00:40:25.000Those are called platitudes, I believe.
00:40:46.000People with college degrees have, on average, the highest salaries.
00:40:49.000They're just angry they're not billionaires.
00:40:51.000You know, when I think about like around here, this organization, obviously what you do is the most important aspect here, but it's Ben Townsend.
00:40:59.000The most blue collar, he's the guy that fixes machines, can code your computer for you, can like fix your computer.
00:41:27.000It's the thing which, like, the country has moved towards a point where people who work in the quote-unquote information economy, only they will be Cater to like if you work with your hands and stuff like that You are not part of the conversation like being like the whole trucker protest will never be as cool as black lives matter is like people will not put black lives matter people will not put sorry the trucker symbol as their profile photos as they put black lives matter
00:41:54.000There's not going to be a Freedom Trucker Plaza in DC.
00:42:23.000For me, where I grew up, the way I've lived my life, the people I met, I was never surrounded by these ivory tower elites of New York City.
00:42:31.000And that's the thing about journalists.
00:42:34.000These people tend to be, especially in New York, well-off from families who are moderately well-off.
00:42:45.000But the reason... So here's what happens with these media jobs.
00:42:49.000In order to get a job in New York, working in media, because they pay so little to start, you need your parents, for the most part, to subsidize you.
00:42:56.000And so what happens is all of these news organizations are basically trust fund kids, or something to that effect, and then they're sitting there... Look, I gotta tell you, man, there are people who work at BuzzFeed who get paid 50, 60 grand a year.
00:43:08.00050, imagine getting paid 30 to 40 dollars an hour to write about a list of 10 cats that have funny faces.
00:43:18.000Yo, I got some dirt that needs tillin' so we can eat food tomorrow.
00:43:22.000Why don't you come and shovel it and learn what work is?
00:43:25.000No, and if you remember last year, me and all these other reporters that were on the front lines, we got attacked by the Intercept.
00:43:34.000And my biggest takeaway was like, wait a minute, so we're getting attacked by a journalist who just sits in his Manhattan apartment, who's been given a job because his parents were in Ivy League, to reporters who are on the ground actually talking about the destruction to working class communities.
00:43:48.000I'm like, that's actually media right there.
00:43:50.000It's just a great round of how it's these elite journalists who've really never had to work hard.
00:43:55.000Mom and dad knows everyone in the industry.
00:43:58.000And then they get in and they make, like you said, 50 to 60K, 70K, just sitting in a Manhattan apartment.
00:44:02.000And the thing is, they're not even on the ground reporting.
00:44:04.000They're just reporting from their laptop.
00:44:06.000That's why they love the lockdowns, because they can have wine delivery Uber Eats.
00:44:10.000And then I love it when they're like, help, help, I'm being harassed on social media.
00:44:47.000Like, even if they're like, like, I don't know, like to play the devil's advocate, like, I would think like they would probably think differently if they like, you know, traveled or like went outside DC, New York, California, and actually met people.
00:44:59.000They're probably good people, but they just haven't met anyone else who doesn't partake in the information economy or the creator economy.
00:45:21.000I mean, a lot of them, you know, we're living out in West Virginia, so we understand what work looks like.
00:45:26.000And there's a lot of journalists who actually go to these foreign countries, go to Brazil, go to Morocco or whatever, talk to people and see what the world is like, and they get it.
00:45:35.000But we have this issue now where the money is to be made in flashy clickbait listicles and ten reasons to hate Donald Trump and why Donald Trump is a fascist.
00:45:46.000And that's the kind of media they produce.
00:45:48.000So they sit in New York, like you guys mentioned, they're in their apartment, they don't even go to work half the time, and they just type away, here's why I think Trump's stupid.
00:45:56.000They call themselves journalists when half the time it's opinion.
00:45:58.000I like that Eleanor Roosevelt quote, I think, that great minds talk about ideas, mediocre minds talk about things, and weak minds talk about people.
00:46:07.000I find that I've kind of engraved that into my soul.
00:46:10.000I get almost guilty talking about people.
00:47:25.000It's the actions they're taking that I have an issue with.
00:47:28.000Because the way I see it is, With even with Joe Biden, you take Joe Biden out of the presidency, any Democrat can replace him and do the exact same thing.
00:47:49.000And then, I mean, just talking about the, uh, the kind of click-blady stuff, a lot of the kind of left-wing channels really focus on, you know, Hasan and Sam Seder.
00:47:58.000You go on their channel, it's all about, oh, Tim Pool said this, Tim Pool said that.
00:48:02.000So one of the few people on the left that I actually respect, and I think that he's, what he's doing has been crucial for the kind of movement on waking up people, is actually Jimmy Dore.
00:48:11.000I thought, you know, I'm thinking Jimmy Dore is actually, even though he, you know, he calls himself a, you know, Democratic Socialist or Socialist, He's been on the right side of the issues when it comes to free speech, when it comes to this anti-vaccine mandate stuff.
00:48:26.000He's telling his viewers, he said, hey guys, if you're a true populist on the left, then you would never agree with any of this stuff.
00:48:33.000It's supposed to be pro-worker to not take the side of the corporations.
00:48:35.000So he's actually one of the few on that side that's on the right side of this.
00:48:41.000Yeah, not just that these progressive creators and realize the pattern, right?
00:48:46.000So they know what kind of content if when I if and when I make Gets incentivized by YouTube or Twitch whatever platform they're working with, right?
00:48:56.000So they know for a fact that if they quote-unquote punch up right, you know punch up a temple punch up at at Joe Rogan, for example, they know that there's no way that YouTube's not gonna push that content up, right?
00:49:10.000So that whole system kind of, it's like a feedback loop.
00:49:18.000There was a really fascinating thing I was reading.
00:49:20.000I don't know who was saying it, maybe it was you.
00:49:22.000They said that they were watching a video where a kid said, they were playing like Fortnite, and the kid said, whoa, he almost just unalived me.
00:49:30.000And the reason the kid said unalived is because if you say kill, YouTube down ranks you and hides your content.
00:49:38.000So kids are changing the way they speak to iPads.
00:50:28.000I've been seeing a lot of political YouTubers, like, let's say, you know, they're talking about something controversial.
00:50:32.000They always have to say at the end of their controversial take, hey guys, just want to let you know, the CDC says this, and, you know, we're going to go by this.
00:50:38.000I mean, they only have to say that to not get banned, but that's where we are right now in society.
00:50:42.000I mean, YouTube has editorial guidelines you have to follow.
00:50:47.000I don't see how they should be protected under Section 230 if they issue editorial guidelines.
00:50:53.000If you issue editorial guidelines, then you are certifying what is being published.
00:50:57.000I have a friend who runs a bodybuilding channel, and he was trying to talk about Arnold, and he said, Arnold Schwarzer N-word.
00:51:51.000And when you put that all together very quickly, the YouTube, you know, captioning system thought that was a racial slur.
00:51:59.000So the caption, is that the official transcript of what the AI is getting?
00:52:03.000I wouldn't, I don't know if there's a direct correlation between the AI that's like, I don't know if the AI that captions the word is the same that flags the slurs.
00:52:20.000I think if one recognizes the word, the other, whether there's a different one or not, that's it.
00:52:27.000I would imagine it would flag it to the other program.
00:52:29.000If there is another program, it might be the same one.
00:52:31.000Yeah, another big thing too was on January 6th, you had kind of some, you know, left-wing media groups like Status Quo, where all they did was actually just live stream what happened on J6.
00:52:43.000Like literally no commentary, no opinion, like literally just video.
00:52:47.000and YouTube would demonetize their account, but then Status Quo would then sell that same footage
00:52:52.000to CNN and MSNBC, Fox News, and then YouTube would prop up those accounts.
00:52:56.000So that's another thing too, where it's like they're also aiming
00:52:59.000at independent news channels, whether you're left or right, they're coming after you.
00:53:02.000And that was one thing that I was pretty shocked by, where Status Quo, the same footage that they're getting
00:53:08.000banned and getting strikes on YouTube, they sell it to CNN, and then YouTube props up
00:53:18.000All they did was, I mean, all they did was live stream.
00:53:20.000I mean, I'm talking about no commentary, no this and that, just straight video footage.
00:53:24.000And you know, they obviously put it on YouTube because it's a moment in history and they sold it to ABC News, CNN, MSNBC, and they came out and said, hey guys, we're getting banned and demonetized for the same footage that we sold to the mainstream guys.
00:53:36.000But the mainstream guys actually get propped up by YouTube.
00:53:38.000I'd like to know in like a conversation with YouTube admins or Google admins, Is it that you believe CNN is more valuable and more legitimate, or are you just kind of like, you know they're trash anyway, but you're just playing along because that's where the money is?
00:53:52.000Well, Ian, what was it you said yesterday that everyone said you rolled a 20 on?
00:54:06.000I'm just saying, you know, you're asking a question about why CNN is being propped up Oh, it's part of the Liberal International Order, the U.S.
00:54:36.000Don't let it get out of hand, because it's about to.
00:54:38.000Imagine where we would be without YouTube and Facebook and Twitter, though, to be honest.
00:54:42.000Whether it was intentional or accidental, whatever happened, we, using the internet, got a lot of voices, were able to come up, speak up, gain access, get the microphone.
00:54:52.000They may be freaking out about it now, but the cat's out of the bag, and I don't think they can restrain it anymore.
00:54:56.000I mean, they're trying really hard with censorship, but look at Rumble.
00:55:00.000The censorship is being broken and people are finding a way through.
00:55:04.000We'll be beaming video from Mars to Earth.
00:55:08.000It's also an interesting time in journalism and news because for the first time ever, I think in our history, the corporate press doesn't have total control of the narrative.
00:55:17.000And I thought one of the biggest examples of that was the Kyle Rittenhouse situation.
00:55:21.000And, you know, obviously I was getting, you know, media requests of, you know, Fox News and all these channels.
00:55:25.000And anytime I would go on, I said, obviously what's going on with Rittenhouse is a big case for self-defense.
00:55:32.000But, in my opinion, I thought it was a bigger case for how important that independent journalism is.
00:55:37.000Because, you know, if it wasn't for all those guys on the ground on, you know, that night in Kenosha where it was Hulu Rosas or BG on the Scene or Drew Hernandez, We would be stuck with the corporate media narrative.
00:55:48.000And I think for me, the biggest thing that I was shocked by was the amount of people, even during the Rittenhouse trial, that were contacting me or messaging me saying, Hori, I thought Rittenhouse killed black people.
00:56:08.000Holiday officially celebrating the second anniversary of the death of Ahmaud Arbery.
00:56:13.000February 23rd will be permanently recognized as Ahmaud Arbery Day in Georgia.
00:56:20.000They say the Ahmaud Arbery Foundation, a mental wellness organization focused on black men that was founded by Arbery's mother, Wanda Cooper Jones, announced the nonprofit will offer six $3,000 scholarships for higher education opportunities to seniors from Arbery's former high school.
00:56:34.000Now I want to start by saying, that's fantastic.
00:56:37.000If they're going to give money for kids to scholarships, I'm not a big fan of colleges or anything like that, but if they're trying to genuinely help people, I got no issue there.
00:56:44.000But talk about the psychotic cult world we live in, in which Ahmed Arbery is getting a holiday for him.
00:56:52.000Look, maybe I'll be one of the few people willing to call out, as it should be called out, but during the Ahmaud Arbery trial, so we just had the three individuals in question, McMichaels and that other guy, they're convicted on federal hate crime charges.
00:57:08.000You've got a story that is very clearly nuanced and contentious, and it is not as clear-cut as the establishment and mainstream media tried to say.
00:57:17.000The fact is, the narrative of a guy jogging down the street was a total fabrication, a lie to manipulate people, that brings us to a point where now we're having a holiday for this guy.
00:57:27.000Look, I'm sad the guy lost his life and all that stuff, but it's not so simple.
00:57:31.000We can say the McMichaels were wrong, the guy who filmed all of it happening, I don't know why he's going to prison, but sure, fine, whatever.
00:57:38.000The fact is, this is the level of insanity in this country.
00:57:42.000I gotta say, so the guy with the camera went to jail I think because he had a car and he was behind him and they thought he was part of like pinching the guy in, like blocking the guy in.
00:57:51.000Okay, if that guy's going to jail for using his car as a weapon, think about these truckers.
00:58:17.000Well, the camera guy shouldn't have gotten, went to jail.
00:58:20.000I don't think that guy should have went to jail.
00:58:21.000He was there, but they said that he was pinning Ahmaud Arbery in, basically.
00:58:25.000He was, he was like blocking him from running, getting away.
00:58:27.000And he in no way coordinated with the other man, but it didn't matter because we live in a psychotic cult reality where lunatics, the inmates are running the asylum.
00:58:36.000Yeah, I mean, I don't know how he got this day faster than George Floyd did.
00:59:24.000We've heard it before, but I genuinely think a lot of Republicans, they try and act like they oppose the Democrats, but they're so worried about what the left thinks of them.
00:59:39.000Yeah, so, I mean, what, we see Fox News, we saw even, you know, Tulsi Gabbard, I guess she's a progressive, but all of these people are coming out being like, see, what happened here in Georgia was right.
00:59:50.000How are you going to come out and be like, what happened to Kyle Rittenhouse was wrong and the media lied and now believe the media on this story when it was just patently false, what happened?
00:59:59.000The story is, I'll simplify it for you, a string of robberies in a neighborhood.
01:00:05.000Police go door to door saying this is the guy with an image of him.
01:00:08.000He's seen on security camera footage entering someone's house.
01:00:11.000The prosecutor said that makes him a felony burglary suspect.
01:00:15.000Under Georgia law, you can citizens arrest someone without probable cause or with only probable cause without actually witnessing it if they're committing a felony.
01:00:25.000Based on the judge's jury instruction, he said, I don't know, you figure it out.
01:00:28.000And so the jury decided to go the other way and say they needed to be witnesses.
01:00:31.000That's the nuance here as per why these guys got convicted.
01:00:54.000Literally ABC says he was killed while jogging in this same article.
01:00:57.000There is several witnesses that came out and spoke on record that they suspect that it was a mug because they've already kind of seen some of the previous behavior leading up to that moment.
01:02:22.000Literally, if the guy is actually running from a burglary and they want to make a day, encourage people to do like a run with the guy who was running from a burglary he just committed, like how upside down is this?
01:02:34.000Reality that they I mean confused like that.
01:02:37.000I mean, I don't get it I mean if you want to have a I was like a holiday for like a Malcolm X then of course But this is they're putting up statues of George.
01:02:46.000Well, let me tell you guys something This is a story that blows my mind What?
01:02:51.000You're probably going to say something that's going to blow my mind.
01:02:56.000There was a building with a mural of George Floyd wearing a crown.
01:03:04.000There was there was there was it was partly cloudy.
01:03:07.000And a single lightning strike hit only the mural on the side of the building where George Floyd's face was that blew up, blew off only the outer portion of the wall.
01:04:44.000And they tore his statue down up in Rochester.
01:04:47.000Now they want to put up holidays for George Floyd, statues and murals, holiday for Ahmaud Arbery, and the Georgia General Assembly votes this in?
01:04:55.000I don't know if you've seen that one story, Tim.
01:05:25.000Come on, the guy was behind the wheel of a car, high as hell.
01:05:29.000All this movement to, like, name a day after Ahmaud are putting sane before George Floyd, this just takes, whatever you think of the cases in this case, Just takes the nuance out of the discussion like five years from now ten years from now when you look at a statue of George Floyd or realize that oh today's Ahmaud Arbery day Then you probably by default start thinking that they probably must have done something like like good in their life
01:05:57.000Or maybe you know they didn't and you're like, I want to be a saint.
01:06:02.000So what it does, it just whitewashes the whole incident or just again, like removes any sort of like gray point, gray area from the discussion.
01:06:12.000Like these were good people who were killed unjustly.
01:06:19.000In fact, I can't remember which media outlet it was, they actually edited the 911 call from George Zimmerman to make it seem like he was racist.
01:08:11.000This stuff just, man, it makes my blood boil.
01:08:13.000I think if they had been honest about George Floyd having all those drugs in his system and behind the wheel of a car with his family in the car, it would still be equally as tragic and worth talking about, but it would be a different conversation.
01:08:24.000We'd be talking about drug addiction and how that is a big problem, fentanyl addiction.
01:08:28.000Oh, we gotta give an honorable mention to Jussie Smollett.
01:08:31.000Oh boy. Oh man. That's a big surprise.
01:09:26.000And I guess it would be better if we did it as a parody, because then like he's in Chicago at 3am, it's 20 degrees out, and then like two fat deliverance kind of guys are like, look at this pretty boy.
01:09:37.000Walk up and then it's like, he's like, oh no, it's Trump supporters!
01:11:29.000You are the British regular approaching the battlefield with honor, and the Americans are hiding in the brush, and they jump out and just ambush you.
01:12:29.000Here's what we're doing in this political battle.
01:12:31.000We're approaching Right up front, we're walking right up to them and saying, here's my argument.
01:12:37.000And then all of a sudden, some guy jumps out from behind us with a bolas and throws it and tangles up our feet and we fall down and they run away laughing.
01:13:18.000No, I mean, that's like the funniest thing to me, because it's like, you know, obviously I'm Latino, but just being, you know, just, I couldn't even imagine some, like, white liberal going up to my dad and being like, you're a Latinx!
01:13:33.000Can you speak Spanish putting an X at the end of any gendered word?
01:13:38.000Like, if it's going to have an O or an A, it's got to be X.
01:13:41.000I don't even think you could even do that, but... It would be the most insane thing ever to try and speak that way.
01:13:46.000I mean, it's just, the Latinx thing is probably the most funniest thing to me, because it's like, you have these white liberal kids who go to college at these universities telling working class Latinos what they should be called, and these Latinos are like, you know, you're like, hey, you're a Latinx, they're like, um, look man, I just gotta get back to work, I gotta pay bills, I don't, I'm not even, I'm not even in this discussion, like... No, they just go, gay?
01:16:31.000Children, like just, but that's, that's, that's, you see, like, this is the problem with the progressives telling Spanish speakers, the words they have to use because they're politically incorrect.
01:16:56.000Maybe the progressives are right and Spanish people should just speak the way they're told.
01:17:00.000Maybe the Romans built the Catholic Church and patriarchal language on purpose.
01:17:05.000How is this not the epitome of white supremacy that white wealthy liberals are telling working class Spanish people that their language is wrong?
01:17:36.000Yeah, I mean, that's, to me, like I said, the Latinx, I mean, all it does is actually just hurt the left side because it just turns off those voters.
01:17:44.000And the polling, you know, shows that.
01:17:45.000And I think a lot of people forget that a lot of these immigrant families, whether they're coming from Latin America or from China or India, They're even more conservative than your American conservative.
01:17:57.000So when you push this type of language, it's a huge turnoff.
01:18:00.000And then all of a sudden those same parents are like, wait a minute, this is a little weird.
01:18:03.000And then they put their kids in public school.
01:18:04.000And then now they see that their kids are being taught, you know, transgenderism and kind of sexualized education.
01:18:10.000And that, that one thing that me and Sonny kind of investigated a little bit last year was, All that, all that, you know, sexual education or Latinx and stuff like that, that actually led to the Republican win in Virginia for Glenn Youngkin and that parent, that parent uprising.
01:18:25.000I think if you watch mainstream media, you would have thought like, oh man, all those parents in Loudoun County are white supremacist parents.
01:18:30.000The majority of them are like Salvadorian and Indian parents who are like, we don't want this.
01:18:35.000Do you guys remember, I think it was in Birmingham in the UK, a bunch of devout Muslims came out to protest the schools, because the schools were doing LGBTQ curriculum.
01:18:46.000And that created a really weird conflict, because then all of a sudden you had these LGBT activists coming out, walking up to niqab-wearing women, being like, we're doing this for you!
01:18:58.000And it's just like, I don't I have been to Birmingham and it's the funny thing like when you walk the streets there are like particular areas where you can tell that Bangladeshi people are like Muslim people live here and they live their own lives they don't want to be bothered they have their own little small mom-and-pop shops and they send their kids to the same public school where the rest of the Birmingham people go and they just want to be left alone right and up comes the like in UK public education is completely completely different
01:19:28.000than the states insofar as that thinking of like LGBT stuff and thinking about you know races like
01:19:34.000race stuff is so part of their curriculum right from the get-go so but these people are not used
01:19:43.000to that so when you try to teach a Bangladeshi second generation kid that hey you got to use
01:19:49.000this language hey you can't say that thing hey there is no boy and girl and he comes back and
01:19:55.000tells his parents it's just like a whole different environment like you think that that stuff is
01:20:00.000awkward in the states but in UK there is like Like, mmm.
01:20:04.000No conservative political ground up school movement like turning point or whatever in UK.
01:20:10.000So like there's no representation of like the other side of thinking.
01:20:14.000So the immigration, the immigrant population is just like in a really like no man's land there.
01:20:20.000I was thinking, firstly, odd that the British Empire is not pushing back against this stuff.
01:20:33.000But what's happening, maybe a lot of these activists, the people that are pushing these things, are childless people trying to parent Other humans, because when you're an adult, your kid starts crying.
01:20:44.000I know you're sad, I know you're upset, but I'm doing this for your own good.
01:20:47.000And they may actually be doing that, because you're taming a wild one.
01:20:50.000You're basically like, you can't eat all this sugar, I know it's sad, I know it sucks, but trust me.
01:20:54.000So these people are doing it for other people.
01:20:55.000I know it's not the language you're used to, but trust me, it's for your own good.
01:21:36.000Correct like if you think about it like from that analogy like you treat your family as Like a commune right you treat your friend group as a socialist circle The wider you go the more right-wing think you go like you treat the country as like you want to get the best out of people so you want There needs to be a capitalist structure.
01:21:55.000But for someone who doesn't have a kid, or a family, or friends for that matter, they want to enforce their control over the next immediate group of people that they see.
01:22:06.000And in this case, that's the rest of the citizens of the country.
01:22:09.000Yeah, it's probably naturally satisfying to have a little bit of communism, a little bit of socialism, a little bit of capitalism.
01:22:14.000Correct, yeah, because you have a right side of your brain and a left side of your brain.
01:22:17.000You need that balance just to be a functioning human being.
01:22:20.000And you use the left way of thinking for the people who you actually care about or you have something to share with, like the people from your same religious circle or your friends or your family.
01:22:32.000But the people who you do not know, like strangers, you just want the best out of each other.
01:22:37.000So you think of them like, hey, let's be symbiotic and you get the best out of me and I get the best out of you.
01:24:20.000We actually did, me and Simon, we produced our second documentary, it was called Indoctrination Nation, where we looked at critical race theory in the state of Virginia, specifically Loudoun County.
01:24:29.000One of the things that I was shocked about was that these kids would be like 12 years old and they'll go to the library and their librarian would tell them, hey, you should read this book.
01:24:40.000And Rick will be a story about a girl who then transitioned into a boy.
01:24:45.000And all this is happening without the parents' knowledge.
01:24:47.000It wasn't until those kids come actually home and say, hey, mom, this is what I learned.
01:24:52.000And then the parents look at it like, wait, wait, what?
01:24:54.000So it's a little bit of actually actually that it's that you know indoctrination at a very young age And it's doing behind the parents back also in in my home state of California We had a state assembly member by the name of Scott Weiner who actually is introducing a bill which actually might pass which is scary a bill that's gonna lower lower the age of vaccination consent down from the age of 18 and Down to 12 years old.
01:25:17.000If you're a 12-year-old or 13-year-old, if your mom says you can't get vaccinated or, you know, because obviously she's your parent, but now you could finally go behind your parents' back and still do this and give more power to the state.
01:26:40.000But what I'm trying to say is like, that's not possible for, you know, a family who's just trying to get by or like a single mom who's working a job already and who's just sending their kid to public school expecting that everything's going to be an autopilot.
01:26:59.000Because it's a new idea that you could use schools as a daycare center and you weren't responsible for what... Oh, I thought the schools, the government indoctrinated... I thought the government's institutionalized learning facilities was going to teach my kid to be responsible adults who got good jobs.
01:27:14.000Did it ever occur to anybody that when the government is subsidizing an institutionalized learning facility, the number one function of any entity is to preserve itself?
01:27:24.000So they're going to indoctrinate your kids to want to preserve their machine.
01:27:29.000If you want your kids to retain your values, you are responsible and no one else.
01:27:35.000And if you send your kids to these colleges, you are responsible for them coming back with shaved heads and like pierced eyes or something.
01:27:44.000But like, what would you say to a mom like that who doesn't have any other option than to send her kid to a public school?
01:27:52.000Um, I think that, uh, the challenge today is how luxurious we all live.
01:28:01.000Go back a hundred years, this wasn't an issue.
01:28:04.000You know, well, maybe a little bit more than 100 years.
01:28:05.000I would say even when I was in high school it wasn't an issue.
01:28:07.000I mean, I wasn't getting taught the stuff that these kids... I mean, I was just basic stuff.
01:28:12.000You were still in an institutionalized learning facility.
01:28:14.000Absolutely your teachers had liberal lefty values.
01:28:17.000Even going back 20 or 30 years, conservative parents put their kids in schools and the kids came out liberal.
01:28:22.000It's just that liberal has gone further and further left as of recent history.
01:28:25.000And the internet has really accelerated this.
01:28:28.000But there was a period where parents didn't have refrigerators, didn't have cell phones, didn't have the internet, didn't have cars, and life sucked.
01:28:35.000But, as much as it did relative to today, they would take responsibility for their kids, their kids would work with them.
01:28:41.000The problem now is, when someone says, I have to have a job, well, it's because you want to maintain modern living standards, which I totally get and respect.
01:28:59.000The system is ossifying around you to such a degree you will have no choice but to send your kids to institutionalized learning facilities where they will be taught to hate you, hate everything about you, and your family, and your history, your country, and your culture.
01:29:13.000And if you don't like it, too bad because your job is more important.
01:29:16.000Living in a house with air conditioning and a refrigerator absolutely is more important.
01:30:11.000Move out there, you'll work a lot more.
01:30:14.000Life won't be as easy, but at least you'll know your kids will retain your values and won't come back with their heads shaved believing insane things.
01:30:20.000I was looking at the history of public education, modern education in the American system.
01:30:26.000He was one of the founders of what's called the progressive education movement.
01:30:30.000And he believed that schools, this is from Wikipedia, that were not only a place for students to gain content knowledge, but also a place for them to learn how to live.
01:30:39.000So to this day, the schools are still teaching people, kids, how to think.
01:30:43.000And I agree, teaching kids how to learn is important.
01:30:46.000But when you're teaching them how to think, as in like how to be racist, I think the aberration has grown bigger than the product at this point.
01:30:56.000You know, I mean, I think, you know, maybe I'm wrong, but at the end of the day, all this still goes down to the parents.
01:31:02.000So, you know, even if, you know, at the end of the day with the world that we're living in here in America, you're going to send out your kids to this, you know, whether it's woke as leftist stuff at school, work, it's, it's going to be all around them.
01:31:12.000So it's up to the family to kind of build those, those structure and values before you kind of head out to the real world.
01:31:19.000I think, you know, what my parents did with me, I think helped me out.
01:31:22.000So when I went to the real world, saw some of this stuff, I'm like, oh no, F that.
01:31:25.000So like when I went out to the real world, one thing that was getting taught a lot when I was in community college was the white privilege thing.
01:31:30.000So, you know, I would have white professors or white, um, other students tell me how I'm oppressed.
01:31:36.000My dad's an immigrant who escaped the Civil War.
01:31:39.000He just taught me that I have to work hard and that's how I get ahead.
01:31:43.000We're not not ahead because we're not white or anything.
01:31:45.000So I think at the end of the day, no matter with all the propaganda around us and everything, it still just comes down to mom and dad and the values that you're getting taught in your household.
01:31:52.000Yeah, I can't imagine that the school's job is to teach people how to live.
01:31:59.000Come on, John Dewey says the school is the place for them to learn how to live.
01:32:01.000That's the parent's job is to teach their kids how to live.
01:32:03.000I mean, to be honest, I never heard the word white privilege until I was like 19 years old, 20 years old.
01:32:08.000Just because it's just my house, I was never taught that.
01:32:10.000You know, my mom and dad were like, hey, you have to grind, you have to work.
01:32:13.000My dad, the mindset he taught me was first one in the office, last one out.
01:32:17.000So when I was raised like that, I just never heard the word white privilege.
01:32:20.000I didn't even know it was a thing until I was like 19 years old in community college and the kids were like, hey, Jorge, you're in community college because of white privilege.
01:32:26.000I just, you know, I just mess around in high school, and that's why I'm here, and I deserve it.
01:32:30.000I see value to organized education, because I imagine before John Dewey was around, that it was just madness.
01:32:36.000Like, one schoolhouse would be teaching this, the other would be teaching this, they'd say the word means this thing, they'd say the word means that.
01:32:41.000So they developed a centralized authority that basically tells us, like, this is the official information.
01:32:46.000But now you see how horrible that can become when they feed you crap.
01:32:51.000Another thing which the Conservatives left the ball was this whole concept of they will get reality checked once they graduate and face the real world.
01:33:06.000And what happens is they get out and they all stand around looking at each other going, the world isn't the way it's supposed to be so we're going to force it.
01:33:13.000And the way we're going to do it is by taking over the HR departments of corporate America.
01:33:18.000And that's what gets overlooked so much.
01:33:20.000Like people try to find cause and effect.
01:33:26.000Look, you've got the civil rights law, which we like, but they take it to the extreme.
01:33:33.000They say, you know, one of the arguments put forward by the left is about separate but equal when it comes to race.
01:33:39.000And then they say all of those arguments pertain to gender as well.
01:33:44.000So if the argument was that, you know, different races were different, therefore they get equal access to a bathroom, but there's different bathrooms based on race, why the same for gender?
01:33:54.000If the genders are equal under the law, how can you say separate but equal?
01:34:00.000It's an argument actually being made by the left over the gender issue.
01:34:04.000And based on the interpretation of the law, they have a legal argument.
01:34:09.000So there has to be a reinterpretation or there has to be a judicial review or something.
01:34:15.000But so long as these laws exist, they will exploit them in ways they were never intended.
01:34:20.000They will change language to retroactively change the laws without any real democratic process.
01:34:27.000Look, these cult members are good at what they do in terms of the military system.
01:34:32.000If you think about it right now, it is almost synonymous to a layman.
01:34:38.000There's no difference between equity and equality.
01:34:41.000People just throw around the word diversity and equity like it means nothing.
01:34:47.000It used to be when I was in school it was diversity and equality and I knew what those words meant and I know what equality and equity is and what the difference is.
01:35:51.000Christopher Knowles says, JBP, that's Jordan Peterson, said a while ago that most government officials in Canada make decisions strictly based on polls.
01:36:00.00010% poll swing towards conservative and now they're backpedaling.
01:36:03.000Think there are any similarities in Biden-Harris's regime?
01:36:07.000How quickly do the polls come out saying people were pissed off and all of a sudden they start changing and pulling back on mandates and stuff like that?
01:36:13.000Yeah, the mandates started dropping, the masking kits started dropping.
01:37:48.000Yeah, I don't know how the GOP doesn't just contact them and be like, hey, show us what you're doing, we'll help you, whatever resources, but they just decide not to reach out to this guy and he's killing it on, he's everywhere.
01:37:58.000I mean, you just check his Twitter, he'll be like, I'm in Pennsylvania and I'm touring these five cities, I'm in Texas, I'm here, I'm here.
01:38:04.000Um, but I'm 50-50 with Cernovich on that because it's like, I feel like you still need the non-violent protest and you need to show that workers are uprising, but I do get it that it could be possibly infiltrated.
01:39:58.000Over Christmas holiday, I was just unloading tips.
01:40:00.000And I try to leave before they see the tip.
01:40:03.000I try to tip good though, where I was tipping greatly was during the lockdowns and I had to go to these barbers that were basically giving these black market haircuts.
01:40:15.000So anytime I was getting a black market haircut, I'd tip the guy like five times.
01:41:23.000Someone tweeted out a picture of it and it went viral on Twitter.
01:41:25.000I was thinking like, I was like, I wish I could just tell that, you know, that 16 year old kid who was bagging groceries and they said they wouldn't let it do it.
01:41:32.000I was like, I wish I could just offer my, you want it, you want to, you want to mop the floors here.
01:41:35.000We'll pay you twice as much as they're paying you because screw that, that's BS.
01:41:49.000He says, I haven't heard you mention Transnistria, a disputed area in eastern Moldova housing Russian troops on the southeast border with Ukraine.
01:41:58.000Look up Simon Whistler's video on Geographics for more information.
01:42:34.000And like I said, I do think it's a big deal that you actually had a president, like I said, President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, who stepped up and spoke out against what Trudeau was doing.
01:42:43.000And I think that's going to be interesting as those diplomatic informations further.
01:42:47.000But at least... The El Salvador thing is pretty interesting.
01:43:48.000All right, Hayden says, Josh Yoder with the People's Convoy talked to Ivory Hecker today and said that the convoy will not be going to D.C.
01:44:10.000And I've got my good friends out there, Sergio and Anthony Cabasa, out there following the Freedom Convoy from California.
01:44:17.000Cenk Sautome says, Ian is hearing liberty or death for the first time in his life from people who actually mean it, and he's so state brainwashed he can't understand it.
01:44:26.000But also, I'm on TV right now, so we have guidelines about what we can and can't say on TV.
01:44:32.000I fully support the convoy and the momentum and the alteration of fascist governments.
01:44:38.000I want to break down the Federal Reserve and reformulate our economy with something more, you know, at least opportunistically equitable.
01:44:46.000Adrian Contreras says, me, my roof is leaking.
01:44:51.000I think the point they're making is that there's a lot of issues that are pertinent to working class people that aren't solved by these bigger, grandiose issues like this.
01:46:23.000once again says, Ian, sir, as someone who has done time and someone who has served in our beloved Marine Corps, I'll gladly get arrested for the freedom of our people.
01:47:08.000Caligulove says, Ian, in the words of George Carlin, white collar, blue collar, it doesn't matter what color shirt you have on, the elites are screwing all of us.
01:47:18.000Or basically, as George Carlin would say, it's a big club and you ain't in it.
01:47:58.000The company gave us hazard pay at the beginning of COVID, stopped six months later, and now giving it to us as back pay for the past six weeks.
01:50:32.000I wish they knew that making an Internet video channel is the best form of protest because you're going to reach magnitudes more people than standing outside and holding a sign.
01:54:06.000Yeah, I was actually looking at some individuals who craft guitars because I was thinking like maybe we get a like a Timcast unique signature guitar that we would, you know, use for shows or maybe like two of them.
01:55:09.000I don't think we'll be doing Beanie Coin.
01:55:12.000We were talking earlier on a meeting with the ONF, our charity, Open Network Foundation, talking about creating crypto and whether or not it would be better to use one that's already been created.
01:55:30.000So I think with the ON Foundation, you know, for those that aren't familiar, the goal is to make uncensorable networking technology.
01:55:37.000So you can have your own member website, like Locals or Patreon, but it would also network with other sites.
01:55:45.000No one would have the ability to ban anyone else.
01:55:47.000You would have the ability to ban someone from your site.
01:55:50.000So like, if you're on an unfettered network, so let's say you go to Ian's website, there will be a portion of it where you can see other people's networking through his site.
01:55:59.000Like, you'll see his posts on your site, people can see your posts on his site, depending on what kind of server system they're using.
01:56:05.000So it's basically decentralized social media tech.
01:56:08.000But Ian could be like, on my website, I don't want to ever have Tim's content come up and could like lock you out.
01:56:36.000But if we can integrate with an existing network, I think that's what will make this software work.
01:56:42.000Because if we were just to launch, like, here's a thing that works, some people might use it.
01:56:46.000If it's to integrate with a website that already has a couple million users, I think, how many millions?
01:56:50.000Yeah, four million a day or something, yeah.
01:56:52.000Then people are going to start adopting our software, it's beneficial to the mind's ecosystem because that grows, and it creates a large node with a bunch of smaller nodes.
01:57:01.000Hopefully we can, we can, we can make some of that grow so that, um, you know, Facebook, we got to build a cultural hub of decentralized social media.
01:57:08.000This is something which people are not talking about enough, like content creation on like the blockchain, for example, like the web three, which people are like throwing around, like people creating like untethered content and the entire base of it is like the blockchain.
01:57:21.000I wonder if we'll go into this on the after show.
01:57:22.000I know you mentioned child sweatshops in the metaverse.
01:57:26.000I've been talking about blockchain content, which can never be erased.
01:57:28.000No, it's grooming in the metaverse, dude.
01:57:43.000I'm a big fan of the Smashing Pumpkins.
01:57:45.000I met Billy Corgan and it was like a totally amazing experience because a friend of mine was friends with one of his exes and we went to one of his shows.
02:01:14.000Please check out the documentary, share it with anyone you can just to get the story out regarding the first responders and everything that they've been going through.
02:01:37.000My personal social media on Twitter is really easy.
02:01:40.000So it's my last name Ventura with the word report.
02:01:43.000So Ventura report on Instagram is Jorge Ventura.
02:01:46.000TV follow us so like that you guys get all the updates on all the news that we're working on All the stories that we're gonna be working on.
02:01:51.000So right now we're gonna be following the Freedom Convoy the truckers Then Sonic me and Sonic pretty soon go up actually to Northern, California Shasta County and gonna be looking at their illegal marijuana operations and their drug cartel involvement Same thing, yeah.
02:02:07.000The documentaries which we make, we put like two months effort into it, so it's really helpful if you guys check that out.
02:02:14.000And my personal handle is under the code SAGNIKBASU on Twitter.