On today's show, we discuss the latest in left-wing conspiracies on social media, the impending mid-term elections, and the strange phenomenon known as the MAGA Moon rising. Timestamps: 1:00:00 - Elon Musk announces record-breaking daily active users (15M) 2:40 - Celebrities have been banned from using the site 3:30 - Democrats are confused about their own free speech 4:20 - What's going on with the mid-terms? 5:15 - Is the moon going to turn red? 6:00 - Who's winning the election?
00:00:00.000I'm seeing a lot of these high profile lefty accounts say that Twitter's over, that the
00:00:18.000party is done, Elon is panicking, everything's falling apart, and they're all jumping ship,
00:00:22.000heading over to Mastodon or tribal social.
00:00:25.000And it's funny because, you know, Ron Perlman and a couple other actors were like, I'm leaving this platform, and then a day later they're like, just popping back in to say, you know, Elon's a bad dude, they'll be back.
00:00:35.000Because Elon Musk, Twitter, they've announced record growth.
00:00:39.00015 million new daily active users, some of the biggest the website's ever seen, if not the most growth in a month they've ever seen.
00:00:46.000And Elon Musk is reinvigorating the platform.
00:00:49.000People all of a sudden want to be back on it.
00:00:51.000So as we see people like Ethan Klein and Kathy Griffin banned permanently for violating terms of service, of course they're crying and screaming saying, Twitter's all over, man, no one's going to use it.
00:02:03.000And then, of course, ladies and gentlemen, the only story that I actually care about, because it's mystical and it's magical, is the MAGA moon rising.
00:02:12.000At 12.02am Pacific Standard Time, when the contiguous United States is now completely within November 8th, the day of the midterm, there will be, at beginning, again at 12.02am, a blood moon, a full moon, total blood lunar eclipse.
00:02:28.000It's when the moon starts turning red.
00:02:31.000For those on the East Coast, between 517 and 645 or so, you will see a blood red moon.
00:02:40.000Now the Incans and the Mesopotamians believed that a blood moon signified the death of the king and the overthrow of his regime.
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00:04:16.000It really, really helps because sales are huge.
00:04:20.000And the song is mocking the establishment corporate press.
00:04:24.000Outright, we have them singing for us.
00:05:19.000It's about personal growth, making more money, getting better socially, getting more spiritually tapped in.
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00:06:29.000Since Musk's takeover, Twitter's monetizable daily growth has accelerated more than 20%, while Twitter's largest market, the U.S., is growing even more quickly, according to an internal fact obtained by The Verge that was shared with Twitter's sales team on Monday.
00:07:09.000Ethan Klein, Kathy Griffin, for instance, defied warnings and impersonated Elon Musk with a verification badge, which has always been against the rules, and they're gone.
00:07:31.000Sarah Silverman, she posted that she was locked out of her account and then quickly obeyed the rules and then started saying what Elon Musk was doing, if true, would actually be very, very amazing.
00:07:42.000So I find this to be quite hilarious that all their huffing and puffing, it's not working.
00:07:48.000In fact, Elon Musk taking over has made Twitter bigger, better.
00:07:50.000Yeah, by the way, Elon just tweeted a couple of minutes ago, quote, Twitter usage is at an all-time high, LOL.
00:07:57.000And then goes on in a subtweet saying, I just hope the servers don't melt.
00:08:00.000Now, a lot of people are bringing up the controversy when it comes to the banning of a lot of these celebrities who, again, didn't follow the rules, were warned, and they still decided to kind of push the limits here.
00:08:10.000But at the end of the day, I definitely disagree with Kathy Griffin.
00:08:16.000But at the end of the day, I hope there is some redemption for these individuals.
00:08:20.000But some people are thinking that this is going to be a larger strategy when it comes to bringing back a lot of different people.
00:08:26.000So, other people are saying that this could be potentially 4D chess as a way to bring back the unbanned people and not have as much controversy, and try to appease some people by saying, you know what?
00:08:35.000I'll bring back H3H3, but also, so does Alex Jones.
00:08:39.000You know, I'll bring back Kathy Griffin, but so will, of course, the Babylon Bee.
00:08:43.000And then, of course, have a kind of concerted strategic effort unbanning people.
00:08:47.000I think that's what might be happening here.
00:08:49.000Yeah, I mean, Musk clearly wants to bring all these people back on the platform.
00:08:53.000He clearly wants Babylon Bee and all these guys back.
00:08:55.000He's just got to, like, figure out how to do it, to not lose everybody.
00:08:59.000And I think that he's not going to lose everybody.
00:09:01.000I think advertisers are going to jump back on.
00:09:03.000They're going to make a ton of money this way.
00:09:08.000During Pride Month, when they have, like, all their big flags, and they have trans everything, and they're super stoked about that all over the Anglosphere, and then you look at their advertising in Saudi Arabian, it's just black and white.
00:09:52.000This was Twitter, so not the YouTube thing.
00:09:55.000He was calling them an anti-Semitic slur.
00:09:57.000And I could be wrong, it's been a long time, but his point was like he was calling them what they hated as a way to demean them because he doesn't like that kind of stuff.
00:10:06.000These leftists then all say, good riddance, good, good, good.
00:10:10.000And so they're okay with censorship, they don't agree with free speech.
00:10:14.000Now that Elon Musk is in charge and saying, here are the rules, and they're whining and complaining, there is absolutely no way I will defend people Think about how mean it would be to actually try and get them back on the platform.
00:10:25.000That means they come out and say, I believe in these values.
00:10:29.000And then I go, no, no, I'm going to reject your values and apply different values to you.
00:10:54.000Because the thing is, like, the reason you have values isn't because you want, you know, you have values because you hold them across the board for everybody.
00:11:02.000You don't have, you don't apply your values, you know, based on what the other people believe.
00:11:08.000It's like if somebody believes in euthanasia and you're a doctor and you don't believe in euthanasia, you're not going to help.
00:11:13.000If there's a bunch of houses and we all agree, okay, if a house starts on fire, we will all come together to help put the fire out and rebuild the home for you because we're in this together.
00:11:22.000And then a fire starts and one guy sits back laughing.
00:11:25.000And we're like, hey, are you gonna help?
00:12:20.000There was a period where You know, on this show and on other shows, we've talked about, it's like, no, no, no, you know, I know these people, they, they add, no.
00:12:29.000Because what ends up happening is, every single time, these people advocate for things to get worse, and they do.
00:12:51.000I believe in free speech for people who agree with free speech.
00:12:56.000If you believe I should have a right to speak and you should have a right to speak, then I will stop anyone from censoring you because you are actively participating in making things better.
00:13:04.000But if you're the arsonist going around burning down houses, then I say no quarter for you.
00:14:31.000I think, you know, they should be able to be a part of the conversations.
00:14:36.000They should, of course, not be permanently banned from ever being on a platform that is a major communication highway, that we should understand where their voices are coming from in order to battle their bad ideas, because if we just shun them to the side, they're going to grow and fester.
00:14:49.000I definitely want Megan Murphy back on the platform.
00:15:55.000The way I see this is, we're part of a big community.
00:15:57.000We agree with the principle of free speech.
00:16:00.000People like this have lied, cheated, and stolen their way to gain followers and gain power.
00:16:05.000Their principles flicker and blow with the wind, and it is completely meaningless what they say.
00:16:11.000So when they come out now and say, no, no, I'm for free speech, I'll be like, listen, I'm gonna hold you to the standards you asked me to hold you to.
00:16:16.000If somebody was in my house, and they kept smashing things, I would kick them out.
00:16:31.000But at a certain point, someone is so destructive, chaotic, that you just say, I'm not doing it.
00:16:36.000If Kathy Griffin got banned for just the Trump head, I'd be like, no, no, no, no, no.
00:16:40.000That's a really, really dangerous path to go in that kind of art.
00:16:44.000But I don't think we should be banning that.
00:16:46.000The difference here is, these are people who actively fight against free speech, and I'm at the point where I'm like, yo, I'm not gonna let arsonists in my house.
00:16:54.000If we're all in agreement that we shouldn't commit arson, we're good.
00:17:01.000You go to my house, start setting fires, I'm not gonna sit here and be like, nah, it's alright, I believe in the people that have a right to be warm.
00:17:06.000It's like, no, that's totally different.
00:17:12.000There's a lot of analogies here that we can interpret in many different ways.
00:17:15.000If you sit back and let people constantly smack you in the face, and then when you say stop, they go, they're going around punching people, another analogy for you, and then you just say like, well, I don't believe in violence, so we're gonna let them keep doing it.
00:17:37.000So listen, by all means, I think Ethan and Kathy Griffin have a right to speech.
00:17:42.000I think that them getting banned was actually kind of dumb.
00:17:45.000Elon should just lock their accounts until they change it, and then lock it again until they change it, and they take away the verification badge.
00:17:51.000Another thing you can do is if you change your name and parody someone, your icon changes to a jester cap.
00:18:20.000So do you feel that it should be permanently banned or that they should do that other solution that you said?
00:18:25.000I think if you change your profile to impersonate someone without labeling it parity, they should first lock your account and say, as a verified account, you cannot impersonate.
00:18:36.000Change your profile picture and your name or add parity to your account and apply the gesture icon.
00:18:42.000And then if you say no, you can go back to being your regular verified self.
00:18:47.000If you then keep doing it, then Twitter forcibly puts the parody under your name permanently and a gesture icon.
00:18:55.000But there's nothing wrong with that if you're an actual comedy account.
00:18:58.000I thought that was a great suggestion.
00:18:59.000So do you think that they should be left banned or do the suggestion that you said there?
00:19:21.000When Rick Santorum said, we can't impeach Joe Biden because we are better than that, I'm like, dude, they're running roughshod over you right now.
00:19:28.000They have arrested and charged a bunch of pro-lifers.
00:19:31.000Meanwhile, right now, there are protesters at Amy Coney Barrett's house.
00:19:35.000Maybe not right now, but in the past day or so.
00:19:37.000There's a clear problem of double standards here, and I'm not going to sit back and just be like, well, you know, I'm going to consistently apply my values to evil people who are burning things down.
00:19:48.000Hey, comparing someone or someone's argument to a Rick Santorum argument is a low blow, first of all.
00:20:15.000Pop Crave's got 1.1 million followers and they said, Twitter suspends Ethan Klein despite him following Elon Musk's stated guideline for parody accounts.
00:23:08.000But the thing is- Hold on, this is the problem with this, is that the dude has been involved in so many high-profile cancellations and advocated for so much, that when you come into the conversation late, you're like, maybe we can turn him around.
00:23:18.000It's like, bro, we've been here for years.
00:23:21.000But the point is, is that, you know, I can see the gray area to any human being, and he's a very intelligent person, and his buddy Hassan's an intelligent person.
00:23:29.000I disagree with most of what they say, but their minds are sharp.
00:23:33.000So they might be able to see things a different way.
00:23:34.000It'd be amazing if you guys could have more conversations.
00:23:36.000See, you're filling in for Ian very, very well here, Owen.
00:23:40.000So we've had this conversation way too many times, especially with Ian, because it's like, no matter how many times an evil person does something evil and refuses an olive branch, you know, Ian is always, he's a good-hearted guy.
00:23:51.000He's always just like, we got to give him a chance.
00:23:53.000And I'm like, At a certain point, dude.
00:23:55.000What would it take to get you guys into a conversation?
00:23:57.000You mean when I invite them on the show consistently all the time in good faith?
00:24:00.000And then they use that to gain followers and make up fake drama to make it seem like I pulled some BS.
00:24:08.000The moment you tweeted them something nice, they use it for views and they make drama.
00:24:49.000We have invited all of these people consistently, and what they do, invariably, is you send an email where you're like, we'd love to have you on the show, and if it's calm and polite, it's typically ignored.
00:25:00.000Sometimes, they'll then screenshot it, post it, and be like, they invited me, but then started calling me a racial slur.
00:25:05.000It's just like, the moment you open up communication, they're like, now's my chance to get views.
00:26:15.000Help good people who in good faith are censored.
00:26:18.000When someone comes out and says, I, if someone came out and said, I don't believe in free speech and then got censored, I'd be like, okay, that person shouldn't have been censored.
00:26:28.000If someone comes out actively trying to get people banned, celebrating their bannings and says, no one should ever be allowed back on, I'd be like, okay, well then it happens to you.
00:26:34.000I'm not going to, I'm not going to defend you.
00:26:50.000Whenever people are censored, they usually double down.
00:26:53.000They're usually forced into more kind of extremist corners on the internet, and they usually never have even a pathway towards seeing any kind of other semblance and any other side of the story.
00:27:43.000If people want free speech, and advocate for free speech, and have disparate opinions, and angry opinions, and bad opinions, and leftist opinions, I don't care.
00:27:51.000If Elon Musk banned someone literally because they were making fun of him, I'd be like, that is BS.
00:29:02.000They actually approach me and offer to me to boost my followers.
00:29:05.000I say no because I think it'll mess up your engagement, but they'll point out to me all the people who they've actually boosted their followers.
00:29:12.000Apparently it was very, very common for a long, long time.
00:29:15.000To have people, like, come in and... Fake followers, fake engagement.
00:29:18.000They'll even get it to the point where they increase the followers, then increase the views on the videos, increase the likes, increase the comments.
00:29:23.000And you can tell the comments are very dumb and kind of simple.
00:29:35.000Now, what politicians do is even double layered than that because they're using tax dollars for bots and sock puppet accounts in order to, of course, galvanize political stances and ideas that they want you to believe that other people are behind as well.
00:29:47.000So this happens on a big, major level.
00:30:44.000Government taking our money and giving it to Elon Musk.
00:30:46.000Well, yeah, I mean, that's pretty much his history when you look at all the businesses he started, number one.
00:30:51.000But, you know, as we talked about celebrities having social proof, the government, I think their proof is called like MKUltra proof or something.
00:30:58.000But they do this on such a grand level and we are literally at the precipice where all of this could be exposed.
00:31:04.000All of the manipulation, all the finagling, all the things that are happening behind the scenes that we don't know about when it comes to the big government putting their hand up your, you know what, in your business.
00:31:14.000That could all end with Elon Musk saying, okay, I'm going to make a stand here.
00:31:18.000Fake accounts, fake bots, not allowed here, which is going to really change the internet landscape as of course.
00:31:24.000Social media has become so curated, the algorithms are so controlled, that it's only what special interests want you to see.
00:31:31.000When we have free speech, when we don't have bots, we have the first potential for actual real conversations to happen that could change not only the social landscape, but the political landscape of this country, and change it for what I believe to be for the better, since good ideas will be able to battle bad ideas.
00:31:47.000And I think this has been happening on such a big level, especially during the last three years, especially during COVID.
00:31:52.000All the bad ideas that were followed, that people were going along with, could never be tested and challenged.
00:31:59.000Now, the government's going to face a reality that they can't lie to us anymore, and that's going to be a game-changer.
00:32:05.000I think they're going to keep lying to us anyway.
00:32:59.000Elon Musk is also for a carbon tax, also for world government, and promotes a lot of the bigger globalist issues as well.
00:33:06.000The real dispute is that the people complaining about Elon are actually government sock puppets being like, we don't want to spend the As they buy his Tesla.
00:33:24.000Well, now there's a big shift, as of course, he's even promoting and giving tax incentives to companies that don't produce cars in the United States.
00:34:22.000And we have Lee Zeldin, who has the, you know, broad support of the Jewish community that's been facing increasing anti-Semitism in the city.
00:34:31.000And suddenly, Zeldin has pulled ahead in the polls.
00:34:53.000But the argument that Elon Musk is making here is essentially, I was talking about this a couple days ago on this show, saying specifically, the best government is no government.
00:35:00.000When the government is fighting each other, that's the government I want, because then the government isn't fighting you, the citizenry.
00:35:06.000And the point he makes here— They're still spending all your money, though.
00:35:08.000Well, not if they're not passing laws by having, of course, arguments about them and not agreeing with them.
00:35:14.000So they're spending less of your money.
00:35:16.000They're passing less laws when there's, of course, a juggernaut inside of the Capitol and all of them are disagreeing on what they should be doing.
00:35:23.000But what we have going on right now is we have a Congress that disagrees with each other, that doesn't get anything done.
00:35:27.000And so then we have a president who just runs executive orders from the Oval Office, spending trillions of dollars in so doing on all kinds of random garbage.
00:35:39.000I mean, executive orders have been normalized by the previous presidents, and it seems like every president is doing it more and more and more.
00:35:51.000And I think we also have to counter and factor in the Federal Reserve policies that truly do matter when it comes to our money.
00:35:57.000But I'm not making the policy about even just the money.
00:35:59.000I'm talking about government intervening in your life, and I think that's what Elon Musk is calling for here, a checks of balances so the Republicans say no to the Democrats, the Democrats say no to the Republicans.
00:36:09.000Yeah, I think what we'll end up seeing if we do have, you know, the red wave is we're going to see all of these investigations because Congress won't be able to get any laws passed, but they will be able to dig into things and figure out what's been going on.
00:37:09.000One of the challenges with the marketplace of ideas argument that we should let all the ideas compete with each other, which I mostly agree with, is that what we've seen consistently from the left is exploitation of emotion for power.
00:37:25.000And so when you put every idea in the marketplace, and one idea is two plus two equals four, The left comes in and says, you're a white supremacist.
00:37:37.000Those feelings drive them more than the facts do.
00:37:40.000So your argument only works insofar as you're able to effectively communicate.
00:37:44.000When you have people who are clearly not trying to communicate and trying to deceive and destroy, Well, it goes even deeper too when you have censorship, so now you can't even fight back effectively.
00:37:52.000We want to be libertarian. We want to say everybody can do their thing, but then evil people seek to exploit
00:37:57.000Well goes even deeper to and you have censorship. So now you can't even fight back effectively. I feel like if you
00:38:03.000have free speech Openly and you can fight back
00:38:06.000I mean you can make really really compelling arguments I mean if there was a platform where we could speak freely The things that I the kind of content that I could make would be off the chains, but can't do it, right?
00:38:17.000so that's one part another thing too is that it's really really sick and sociopathic when you see some of the most important issues in the world things like You know, being against white supremacy, then being twisted for some kind of political agenda.
00:38:30.000I mean, these are really, really important issues that then get twisted, and it actually devalues it, right?
00:38:35.000So if everybody's being called these things, it devalues it for when there's a real instance of that, which is just one of the sickest things that I've ever seen.
00:38:42.000And it's one of these things where then people are afraid to even give their opinion, because if you get painted with that brush, it's kind of like becoming radioactive.
00:38:50.000Yeah, I'm for anarchy myself, because anarchy to me represents decentralization.
00:38:54.000And I think most of our problems in our society are plaguing from centralization.
00:38:58.000And I think the more we break up the power, the more we allow individuals to decide for themselves that it's right for them.
00:39:04.000I think that's the pathway that's going to help us.
00:39:06.000But then maybe the real answer is not anarchy, but to recognize that a system will always, the power will always begin to coalesce, and there needs to be a mechanism to immediately shatter that centralized power, and then recognizing that your decentralized system will slowly start to centralize again.
00:39:23.000I don't think we have in this country the proper mechanisms for reestablishing decentralization.
00:39:30.000And it's because power doesn't want to give itself up.
00:39:34.000So the Constitution has done a really great job of holding back rapid centralization, but even now the Constitution is Swiss cheese.
00:39:42.000Yeah, and things are really tightening up at a federal level.
00:39:45.000You even hear Biden talking about how if the Democrats hold Congress, they're going to federally legalize abortion, even though that's not something that the populace as a whole wants.
00:39:58.000They're just going to do stuff anyway.
00:40:11.000That's an actual law passed in New York City, where if you get caught discriminating against someone's haircut, allegedly, you have to pay, what is it, $150,000 fine?
00:40:34.000I remember hearing it in New York City specifically.
00:40:35.000Yeah, it was definitely in New York City, but they're also going to put in, put through the thing, um, the federal level where you basically can't be a freelancer anymore.
00:40:44.000You know, the, the like AB5 in California, they're doing that.
00:41:06.000You can't just be yourself and hire yourself out and do some work.
00:41:09.000So, AB5, for those that aren't familiar, it was this law they passed in California that said something like, it was different per job, but if you do a certain number of jobs as an independent contractor, you're now an employee.
00:41:19.000What happened was, instantly, my favorite thing, Vox, SB Nation, fired all their freelancers.
00:41:24.000They had to, because they couldn't do it, they couldn't be a freelancer in California anymore.
00:41:28.000And also, the companies that the law was designed to go after, like Uber and some other ones, got waivers.
00:42:46.000Many of these far leftists are like, if you vote for them, they will keep burning it down.
00:42:52.000I actually hit a point where, because I run a seminars company, and they wouldn't let us do seminars anymore during COVID, and I decided just to travel around and just hang out in the outdoors.
00:44:07.000Maybe, maybe, from the Daily Wire, superstar Katy Perry confirms she's voting for Rick Caruso.
00:44:13.000This is a guy, he's technically a Democrat, but he was a Republican until he decided, like a couple weeks before he decided to be, is that what happened?
00:44:21.000He was a Republican, then he's like, I'm gonna run Democrat, switched parties, then ran, and now you got this big old picture of Katy Perry voting for a, what is effectively a Republican.
00:44:47.000Yeah, we should probably fact check that, but I think he does.
00:44:48.000So the thing is that the optics of this perfectly clean, like the most clean part of L.A., and then kind of juxtaposing that against the rest of L.A.
00:44:56.000that's getting a little bit overrun, it's just the optics of it just feels good.
00:45:01.000Let's just make sure that I got that correct.
00:45:16.000it's yeah central park i lived in new york city i grew up in new york city i think everyone loves central probably that might be the only thing but the grove is so clean so this is perfect it's clean it's orderly everybody in la loves the grove no i've been to the grove but now the cops arrest you and give you tickets if you're there past like 11 p.m or 12 p.m in new york city central park Well, and we're back to the thing where if you're a woman walking by yourself, you're not walking through the park after dark.
00:46:31.000But if you need help, I know multiple instances where people were getting shot, stabbed, or beaten, and the cops were literally standing by and watching, not doing anything.
00:46:39.000Well, we need to make sure that these violent criminals who are committing these crimes are let out of jail because it's only fair, right?
00:46:47.000I mean, you know, a cash bail is holding someone unreasonably, right?
00:46:57.000If you have someone committing crimes in New York, should we extend to them our principles of letting them out of jail, or should we hold them?
00:47:55.000Because my values are, the government should not be able to put you in a box and lock it up unless they've proven beyond a reasonable doubt you've actually done something wrong.
00:48:03.000Because innocent people do suffer because of this.
00:48:05.000However, I also recognize letting people out in disregard results in rampant violent crime, and I don't know what the solution is.
00:48:11.000But I can tell you cashless bail has only made things worse.
00:48:14.000Yeah, they were supposed to do cashless bail only for non-violent offenders and it hasn't really worked out that way because people will be let out of jail and two days later they're back in because they've killed somebody.
00:48:24.000We've seen this happen in Chicago and New York and all over the place.
00:48:26.000And that means the solution is people get put in jail for extended periods of time because the system can't handle it even if they're not proven guilty.
00:48:37.000That is a problem, and the court system should work a lot faster.
00:48:40.000Like, you shouldn't be sitting there having a trial two years after you did the thing, or like, you know, just stuck in jail for the entire time.
00:48:48.000But that's like, there was a story I saw where a Starbucks had huge lines going at the drive-thru into the street.
00:48:54.000So the city voted to ask Starbucks workers to work faster.
00:48:59.000If the city is so rife with crime and so dense that the court systems and the police can't actually properly adjudicate crimes, actually have bail hearings, then the whole system is just totally screwed up and busted.
00:49:16.000So the problem we have now is, our values, and this is what the progressives have been advocating for, in cities like LA, New York, and Chicago, and whatever, is you should not be able to imprison someone for any reason, I mean that in the colloquial sense, not the legal sense, unless you've proven it.
00:49:54.000We do have a serious problem, and we have crime rising, even though we have Democrats telling us that that's just not true.
00:50:01.000I'm mostly in big cities these days, and I was at Surfside Tacos last night here in DC, or just close to here, and we got shot at, actually, last night.
00:51:24.000So when Giuliani came into office in New York City in like, what, 93 or something like that, he started cleaning up the city by doing exactly that.
00:51:31.000He just started arresting people, arresting people for selling drugs.
00:51:49.000It does sound authoritarian, but I mean, I think when you're talking about a big city, when you're talking about millions of people living on top of one another who need to have a safe place to walk and, you know, safe streets, safe parks, safe places to walk around in to do their business and all of that.
00:52:45.000Security versus freedom, I lean towards Second Amendment.
00:52:48.000The issue, however, is you want to err on the side of stop violence, meaning more innocent people get locked up, or err on the side of protecting the innocent, meaning more bad people go free.
00:52:57.000We tend to err on the side of bad people going free.
00:52:59.000But at a certain point, we just say, if we know the person is violent and actively sowing
00:53:06.000like violence, destruction, we remand them. If you've got people like, you know, these prominent
00:53:12.000leftists who are going to advocate against speech and cheer for censorship, we say remand them.
00:53:16.000When they get censored, I'm not letting them out. That can be adjudicated somewhere else.
00:53:20.000Yeah, I mean, we have a system that incentivizes crime, incentivizes some of the worst behaviors
00:53:25.000while making citizens defenseless. That's a major problem that of course we need to talk about more
00:53:31.000because people were able to defend themselves. If people weren't being prosecuted by George
00:53:35.000Soros district attorneys that punish people for self-defense.
00:53:38.000It would be a totally different landscape.
00:53:40.000If politicians and the school system and the education system weren't incentivizing a lot of this violent nonsense, I don't think we would be in this kind of system.
00:53:48.000So I think the problem is very complex.
00:53:51.000I think it can't just be solved in one simple conversation or in one simple phrase.
00:53:55.000But at the end of the day, I think the government's making it a lot worse than that.
00:54:00.000And more government wouldn't make it better, in my opinion.
00:54:02.000I have an analogy that I used for Ian.
00:54:08.000I was imagining living in New York City, and I was imagining when I did live there.
00:54:12.000I lived on Myrtle and Nostrand in this apartment building in a small, like, 700-square-foot box with people to my top, left, right, and behind me and below me.
00:54:22.000And then I was just like, man, I can't play music here.
00:54:36.000And what I started to think was, as people get pushed closer, you have this, as an individual, you have this bubble of freedoms around you.
00:54:44.000As you get further and further away from other people, that bubble grows and grows and grows, where you're not impeding on anybody else's life.
00:54:51.000As you move closer and closer to people, the bubble starts getting pressed upon by other people's bubbles.
00:54:55.000So I, you know, Ian Loveduska said it was like, rural people are basically like gaseous,
00:54:59.000bouncing around all crazy, having all this freedom, having a good time.
00:55:02.000And then as you move closer and closer to the city, it becomes more solid,
00:55:05.000where you literally can't do anything.
00:55:07.000You can't be noisy, you can't be up too late, you can't blast the stereo.
00:55:25.000You recognize that if you live in a big city, there's going to be too much crime because there's too many people, and the police and the courts won't be able to handle it properly.
00:55:33.000So I just, I think it's fair to say there's no simple solution.
00:55:38.000Well there's been an incentivized program within the last few decades pushing people to live in cities, wanting people to live on top of each other.
00:55:47.000I think that kind of lifestyle has been glorified.
00:55:51.000I think there's been a lot of manipulation to make it seem like it's trendy, like it's cool, like it's hip, when in reality it's an absolute hellscape where police officers try to steal your money to generate revenue for the state, while of course making sure you're defenseless, As the crackhead who stabs you, as they're literally sitting there watching you bleed out.
00:56:09.000Right, but it doesn't have to be like that.
00:56:37.000But when there's a program, and there's been an epidemic of New York City police officers that have been downgrading particular crimes to make it seem like it's not a big issue, whether it's assaults, It was simple batteries.
00:56:50.000Whether it's robberies, it was just a small petty theft.
00:56:53.000And a lot of the times, police officers got caught lessening the crimes in order to make their precinct look like it was good and tough on crime, when in reality there was a lot of crime.
00:57:02.000And what essentially Giuliani did, he violated a lot of people's civil rights, but he also contained the crime in particular areas and essentially pushed it away.
00:57:11.000And it still continued, but only continued in certain neighborhoods.
00:57:45.000When I first heard that a blood-red moon would be happening on a full moon on the day of the midterm elections, signifying a great red beacon, I was like, wow, that's literally the definition of ominous.
00:58:03.000And then I realized, oh, Pacific time.
00:58:05.000That means when the sun, when the day starts for the contiguous United States, and everyone is now in November 8th, the day of the midterms.
00:59:00.000And this is also the same day that a lot of people on social media are saying that Donald Trump will announce that he's going to be running for president in 2024.
00:59:08.000I'm watching his speech right now in Dayton, Ohio, and there's also news that the entire Trump family is going to be in attendance for this speech.
00:59:18.000I'm watching the speech now, and I'm monitoring social media, but there's a lot of symbolism here, and I think it's fair to say that there's going to be a lot of crazy things in our social political discourse that are going to be very eye-opening in the next few hours, so definitely pay attention to what's going on here.
00:59:36.000I know I'm closely paying attention to all the details as they're unfolding here.
00:59:40.000Everyone's on their cell phones now seeing what's going on on social media.
00:59:43.000No, I'm just checking in with my crew at the Post Millennial who are totally tracking us right now.
00:59:49.000We've got to wait as soon as we get word if Trump announces, because he's not going to be speaking for... I told them to message me.
01:00:05.000When you see stuff like a blood moon, a red moon, right when the day starts, on the midterms, when people are calling for a red wave, and the omen is that a blood moon signifies the overthrow of the king.
01:00:22.000You know, I don't know if I believe in all of the things having some sort of I have a lot of friends and family that work in emergency services and they tell me every time it's a full moon, we know it's going to be a full workday.
01:00:42.000We know there's going to be a lot of people losing their ish.
01:00:46.000Um, so there is, you know, there's a lot of ingredients.
01:01:11.000But the crazy thing is, people in cities really don't get it.
01:01:14.000There's that famous story where the power went out in LA in the 90s, and everyone started calling 911 because there was a strange thing in the sky.
01:01:20.000It was the Milky Way they'd seen for the first time in their lives.
01:01:24.000But for a lot of people who live outside of a city, you know, like, there's moon shadow.
01:01:28.000People in cities just, it's permanent illumination.
01:01:30.000They don't even realize the moon casts a shadow.
01:01:33.000And also, you know, my friends and family reported a lot of people just going crazy, losing their mind, a lot of mental health.
01:01:40.000Calls a lot of people just going absolutely berserk and crazy.
01:01:44.000So that with the elections with Possibly Trump announcing with this blood-red moon with turbulence wait wait someone super chatted a Raftis of stat said that 3 a.m.
01:03:17.000It's things like this that you see enough of and eventually just like there's too many weird things like that that happen to just believe we're in some random chaotic universe.
01:03:26.000There's some kind of structure to all of this.
01:05:01.000was considered a period of peak supernatural activity.
01:05:04.000This time is also referred to as the devil's hour due to it being a mocking inversion of time in which Jesus supposedly died, which is 3 p.m.
01:05:12.000Right, that's like the whole reverse, like everything in scripture is reversed in order to make it satanic.
01:05:18.000You have like the black mass that happens, you know, in the middle of the night and all of this stuff.
01:05:23.000But also in, you know, in ye olden times, that's when people would wake up because they would go to bed after it got dark and then they would kind of wake up in the middle of the night and do stuff and then go back to bed.
01:06:05.000I don't know that I put a lot of stock in all of the various, you know, portents or whatever like that, but I do think that it makes it a little bit extra exciting to think about.
01:06:19.000They say, a blood moon happens when Earth's moon is in a total lunar eclipse.
01:06:24.000While it has no special astronomical significance, the view in the sky is striking, as the usually whitish moon becomes red or ruddy brown.
01:06:31.000Lunar eclipses can only happen during a full moon, when the sun fully illuminates the surface.
01:06:35.000Usually a full moon has no eclipse because the moon orbits in a slightly different plane than the earth and the sun.
01:06:40.000However, at times the planes coincide.
01:06:42.000Earth passes in between the moon and the sun and cuts off sunlight, causing an eclipse.
01:08:10.000I remember, you know, sometimes I remember seeing several blood moons throughout my life and just not even realizing it was like what it was or what was going on.
01:09:23.000There's just certain things that happen that cheapens it if you go too deep into it, but there's just certain coincidences that are so intense and so crazy as you move on, and I think this is one of them.
01:09:33.000You know, I think things are happening now, personally.
01:09:37.000Let's look back in a couple years and find out.
01:09:38.000Yeah, I mean, I think that human beings have a propensity to feel like they are at the pinnacle of history and are at the end of human existence.
01:09:46.000I thought you made a great point about the Holocaust and all these other terrible things that happened.
01:09:49.000I thought you had a great point there.
01:09:59.000But then some of these things as you're on your journey will be these one in a million coincidences that let you do things that are so unbelievable.
01:10:05.000And so it's one of these things where you'll become more, like, I would encourage you just to even continue to look for these things.
01:10:12.000I think that you're on a great journey.
01:11:58.000I mean, I should say it was surprising to me to discover how many people that you think are your friends turn out to be just extremely evil.
01:12:06.000But imagine one day you don't just earn your way into it and experience it slowly over time where you're like, I can't believe someone would do that to me.
01:12:49.000Aaron Carter, the younger brother of Nick Carter from the Backstreet Boys, just died.
01:12:53.000And you'll see a lot of this in I mean, again, coming from LA, you see a lot of people that come into fame quickly and there's two different types of people that come into fame.
01:13:00.000It's, you know, someone like, you know, pretty much you guys at this table where you've had to kind of earn your way up and it's kind of a grind, but some people sort of get plucked up by the establishment and they get put into a fame, you know, and they do have talent.
01:13:11.000I'm not trying to say that it's binary.
01:13:12.000They do have talent, but they get plucked up so quickly and put into fame so quickly.
01:13:16.000I was nine when he did his first video.
01:13:19.000And so what can happen is that they get hooked on drugs, they get too many fake friends around them, they get ungrounded.
01:13:25.000And in personal growth and in self-help, the biggest thing they talk about all the time is that if you win the lottery, it just destroys your life.
01:13:31.000You have to actually have the psyche of somebody who's wealthy to be able to maintain it.
01:14:11.000Anyway, back to the lottery stuff's interesting.
01:14:14.000Well, it's also a psyche of being at the effect, right?
01:14:16.000It's like these shows that pluck up the average person and make them famous or things like that, or reality TV, or taking people that aren't that talented and making them famous.
01:14:25.000It's more of this idea that the establishment, like you're at the effect of life, then the big establishment, which is kind of like this sort of pimple relationship, they come up, they pluck you up, and then they make you famous.
01:14:34.000The way to get success is not by grinding it out.
01:14:36.000It's by just being this perfectly compliant person, then they'll just pluck you up and make you famous.
01:14:40.000If Harvey Weinstein's happy with you, you're going to get the role.
01:14:44.000If Les Wexner is happy with you, you're going to get that modeling gig at Victoria's Secret.
01:14:49.000If Mr. Epstein or Mr. Clinton are happy with you, you might get that good political job in the White House.
01:14:54.000It's also why a lot of bad governments get elected, because people are in that kind of psychology.
01:14:57.000So one of the biggest things to actually changing what kind of governments get elected is teaching people to think for themselves.
01:15:02.000And I think that's actually the battle of the coming century, is teaching people to think for themselves.
01:15:06.000Teaching them not to use groupthink as an easy out to thinking.
01:15:09.000And when you take someone, especially like a child, and you make them like a Disney star, you see horrible ramifications when you do that, when you just throw them into fame.
01:15:18.000And these parents that just give their child to these den of vipers in Hollywood, seriously, I mean, when you look at Hollywood, there's a lot of, you know, we're talking about spiritual stuff, there's a lot of satanic, evil, devilish elements inside of Hollywood and in Washington, D.C., where, of course, the biggest amount of psychopaths kind of coalesce.
01:16:21.000I've recently been like, I think there's an issue with stepmothers.
01:16:25.000I know there's some good stepmothers, but I think it's an issue.
01:16:29.000I don't know, I've been thinking about that myself.
01:16:31.000The crazy thing I would tell people about stuff like lottery wins, it used to be that people would lose the money really really fast, they would waste it on insane things, and their lives would be destroyed by it.
01:16:43.000Recently, because of documentaries talking about this, people have instantly started going to financial advisors and then getting things set up in order.
01:16:51.000But the one thing you can't advise away from is humanity.
01:16:57.000I'll tell you, man, if you won $929 million, That actually sounds nightmarish.
01:17:06.000You're gonna have people trying to kill you.
01:17:08.000You're not gonna... So, like, we get this all the time.
01:17:12.000With death threats, swattings, bomb threats.
01:17:17.000Imagine not having any experience with it, not having dealt with this level of insanity, and all of a sudden, one day overnight, it's like, oh, someone's gonna try and kill you.
01:17:25.000Actually, tons of people are gonna try and kill you.
01:17:29.000Or they just become infatuated by you and then want to love you and become so centered on you that they make you the focus of their life and then they become destructive in that way.
01:17:39.000But one of the smartest things that I saw was an announcement for someone who won the lottery, and he decided to wear the scream mask.
01:17:46.000And he's literally getting the check because some lotteries make you have the photo, make you, of course, sign a lot of documents, do a lot of PR, do a lot of news interviews.
01:18:06.000People think happiness is about a certain amount of money.
01:18:07.000It's really about having a beautiful ecosystem, purpose in life.
01:18:10.000And You know, great friends and stuff.
01:18:11.000And so if you're in an ecosystem of people that aren't used to that kind of wealth, and that's who you're surrounded by, there's this thing we call it an RAS flip.
01:19:14.000We don't Believe what we see, we see what we believe, and it's like if you have a breakup with a significant other, and at first they idealize you because they're getting something from you, later in a breakup they, like, say that there was 100 experiences, just to be a round number, right?
01:19:27.00098 of them are positive, 2 are negative, well then when they like you, they focus on the 98 positive.
01:19:32.000Then if you break up and it hurts, then they focus more on the 2 negative ones, like an R.E.S.
01:20:02.000A lot of people have this kind of illusion.
01:20:04.000A lot of people are hypnotized that money and fame are something that is everything in life, when in reality, it's usually a burden more than it is a gift to anything else.
01:20:15.000But essentially, when people just focus just on that, and not the journey, and not their life, and not the experiences, and not the loved ones that they have around them, and they just focus, I want money, I want money, I want fame, I want fame, they destroy everything in their pathway.
01:20:27.000And when they do get it, they're more miserable than anyone else.
01:20:30.000Yeah, the Bhagavad Gita, which is a major Eastern text, talks about the process being everything.
01:20:34.000Or, you know, Eckhart Tolle, Power of Now, it's about being present, being in the now, the process itself.
01:20:39.000The Bible, they talk about the same thing.
01:20:41.000Tao Te Ching, they talk about the same thing.
01:20:43.000But, you know, the beauty of life is in the present moment, the unfolding of the journey, the energy.
01:21:58.000Um it's this is a really deep topic but it okay simple version would be um it kind of hijacks the part of the brain that's very in the physical and so you want to think about like mind body and soul right and so it gets them kind of into their body the body is inherently kind of sociopathic if you look at like a nature documentary the animals are killing each other eating each other Look at the ocean, the fish are eating each other.
01:22:17.000So people can kind of go into that mode.
01:22:20.000And it's unfortunate because politicians actually manipulate this, right?
01:22:22.000If you can keep everybody in that kind of primitive mode, then you can get them voting in bad policies.
01:22:26.000This is why critical thinking and personal growth is going to be the major battle of the next 100 years, I think.
01:22:58.000Just instantly started smack-talking me online, lying about everything.
01:23:06.000Going to people and trying to... I don't know.
01:23:08.000I think that may have been like, hey, they thought maybe they could get famous or something by claiming they knew me.
01:23:12.000So what it is is that in personal growth, we would say that we live in the same physical reality, but we live in parallel energetic realities.
01:23:19.000And so what's happened is you've entered into a different energetic reality, and they're just living in a different reality.
01:23:24.000It's like if you took somebody homeless and you bring them into a mansion,
01:23:27.000they might still be doing drugs in the bathroom, right?
01:23:29.000They're not just gonna be looking at the view.
01:23:31.000So what happened is you created a disconnect with them.
01:23:33.000Even if you work with people and then you keep elevating and they're not, you'll see there's a natural split.
01:23:38.000It just can't hold together and goes, pow.
01:23:40.000But, and, and, you guys- But I guess my point is like,
01:23:43.000why doesn't a person hold the negative view of other high status people,
01:23:47.000especially high status people who are like deeply involved in controversial things?
01:23:53.000But it's almost like, what amount of money would have to be on this table before you'd get uncomfortable?
01:24:00.000You might not, because you're a principled person, but if there was a billion dollars sitting right there, would you start getting any adrenaline or no?
01:25:53.000For all of us here in this country, we're at like 17 million.
01:25:58.000Because even as poor as you are, You've got, you're standing on a street corner, the government's gonna give you, you got clean running water available to you, you walk into McDonald's, you get clean running water.
01:26:08.000You've got government services up the wazoo, they're just giving people free stuff.
01:26:12.000So it's like, we are so far detached from baseline in this country.
01:26:16.000There was, I, You're rich just being here.
01:27:34.000I think there's sociopaths, and I think a lot of people can't even justify or rationalize or understand what the bigger politicians and people in charge are doing because they can't see themselves doing it themselves.
01:27:45.000I see what you guys are saying, but I'll see what... You can see, like, when you see people that you love, right?
01:27:50.000When you see people who you love treat other people just absolutely, evilly, and with horror, like, just horribly, and you know, like, I love this person, this person is capable of love, and they're treating this other person, who I also care about, like, so terribly.
01:28:04.000You can see how badly this can turn out.
01:29:26.000Perhaps the argument is, you're saying, People, many people have evil within them and they have to fight against those urges.
01:29:34.000I think that would describe people who have evil within them, but I think there are certainly people who aren't evil.
01:29:38.000And don't have a hard time resisting those.
01:29:40.000I think that you are at greater risk of succumbing to evil if you don't recognize the human susceptibility to it.
01:29:47.000I guess what I'm saying is I think some people are evil, and perhaps many of them resist the urges to be evil and do evil, and there's varying degrees to which they are suppressed from that.
01:29:57.000Some is by threat of physical force against them.
01:30:00.000Why they don't go into the great grocery store full of bounty and just take whatever they want is they know someone will tackle them and they'll get arrested.
01:30:08.000And that's because some people are willing to engage in acts of, let's say, outright selfishness, except for physical deterrent.
01:30:16.000Some people have social-emotional deterrent, meaning they're scared they will be shunned and ridiculed if they do it.
01:30:22.000Some people just genuinely don't want to do it.
01:30:25.000Right, but you're capable of it, even if you don't want to do it.
01:30:31.000I think you're confusing the action with, like, the desire, which is what I'm talking about.
01:30:34.000I'm saying someone who has absolutely no desire to commit evil is... I guess they could decide one day, like, I've never tried evil, but then they're clearly capable of it.
01:30:43.000Well, what about the low-level flunkies and authoritarian states who go ahead and commit the evil acts on behalf of, you know, the authority in their country, and they just do it anyway?
01:31:09.000I think you're making the argument about... The disconnect we're having is that you're making an argument about the physical capabilities versus what I'm saying is the internal desires.
01:31:17.000Yeah, you don't have to have the desire.
01:31:20.000Again, some people cluster B, some people traumatize, some people selfish.
01:31:24.000Some people are more inclined towards it than others.
01:31:26.000One thing that I will say that I agree with you a lot is that some people that I've met in my life, they're like, oh, I could never do that.
01:31:42.000Some people have no internal desire and are not at risk of being evil people.
01:31:46.000I think even if you don't have the desire, you can still be at risk of it.
01:31:49.000There's something beautiful when you recognize how good it makes you feel to be altruistic, to have integrity, to add value.
01:31:55.000And then what starts to happen when you recognize that, and you have a transformation there, then you actually lose those good feelings when you do bad things.
01:32:02.000So you actually have an internal regulation, because you realize that you're contracting and shrinking when you act like that.
01:32:08.000And you can actually take very dark people and expose them to that, and they can have a change.
01:32:41.000And like, we don't really ever talk about any hardcore political stuff, even though I see what their posts on social media are.
01:32:45.000And there are some people who are like, legit hangout everyday best friends, who were never political, and then all of a sudden were like, ooh, now's my chance to get famous and make money.
01:32:55.000I'm like, clearly one person is evil and one person is not.
01:32:58.000And the person I see as not evil is political with lefty values, but they're based on ignorance.
01:33:08.000They're not, I'll put it this way, they're not overtly political going out and joining activist routes or anything, they're just posting memes and stuff and they don't know better.
01:33:15.000And so, I suppose in that sense you could say there's a capability of the banality of evil, which I understand and would agree with.
01:33:20.000But I think there are certainly people who are legitimately and genuinely evil.
01:33:24.000Maybe the better way to put it is, yes, everybody is capable of evil, but there are some people who are downright evil and only being stopped by committing evil acts due to fear of physical suppression.
01:33:34.000Your analysis, too, of, like, some people, fiscal suppression, some people, ridicule, some people have ethics and morals, and there's a range of different people.
01:33:42.000But, like, a lack of desire to be evil.
01:33:44.000You know, there's some people who are just like, I have no interest whatsoever in hurting anyone.
01:33:48.000There's even a range to that, I think.
01:33:50.000Jordan Peterson talks about this, where it's like, you see some of these people that are very, very passive, like, they're very, very chill, but then they're the same people that will vote for a lockdown.
01:33:58.000Right, so it's one of these things where Jordan Peterson will say that you have to be dangerous to even be trustworthy, like be dangerous but then don't use it.
01:34:04.000So it's one of these things where how much proactive consciousness does someone even have in their mind?
01:34:09.000How much are they even in touch with their own thinking as a positive group think?
01:34:14.000I think maybe we're defining evil differently, I suppose.
01:34:17.000But it's interesting to think about like somebody who would be, you know, pro-lockdown, right?
01:34:22.000And they're just kind of passive and they're not really digging into it.
01:34:44.000I view it like this, in the way you mentioned it, like, what amount of value on the table would make you uneasy?
01:34:50.000And for me, it's like, literally none.
01:34:52.000Like, there could be, you know, billions of dollars, and I'd just be like, I don't know.
01:34:57.000Yeah, but you're an exceedingly principled, I mean, you, Luke, like, and I'm just getting to know you, but I bet you are the same from what I can tell from you, but like, Luke has run into riots in Hong Kong, you know, with a gas mask on to go reveal the truth.
01:36:29.000Sorry, I just- So you just really, really like to do your own thing?
01:36:31.000I like to be left alone, and I don't want to be responsible for other people.
01:36:36.000And that's an interesting predicament, you know, running a company and having to be, because that's a natural part of reality.
01:36:42.000But my point is like, I would rather be homeless, foraging for food, than stealing someone's wallet, or exploiting their misfortune.
01:36:51.000For me, I wouldn't take the wallet because I think life is a test on your morality and you will be judged based on your behaviors.
01:36:57.000So that's why I wouldn't do it personally myself.
01:36:58.000And to add to the context of what you were saying here, MLK always, of course, has this famous quote saying, in the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
01:37:08.000And I think that's where you're kind of getting into and talking a little bit.
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01:38:58.000I go a little bit further and say if they do, they shut down the polling location and then there's lawsuits over whether or not you can actually have the election if a polling location is shuttered.
01:41:39.000People who are actively trying to destroy free speech get no sympathy from me when they get censored for violating the rules they advocated for.
01:41:59.000Well, this is really, really heady stuff, right?
01:42:02.000So you can see that the surface, he talks about forgiveness, and it doesn't seem practical on the surface, but it's coming from a mindset that dark energy is infecting the world, and that if we keep amplifying it by kind of reacting back and forth, that it grows.
01:42:14.000So there's a way to absorb it, but still exert leadership that could remove that energy and then bring peace.
01:42:19.000And that's a big part of the Sermon on the Mount.
01:42:21.000X says, Tim, your vengeful cancellation is authorite.
01:42:37.000Whereas other people who have made nasty political arguments, even those against me, I would advocate for their restoration.
01:42:44.000My point is, If you come out and call me dumb and insult me and say I'm stupid and have bad ideas, and then you get banned for it, I'll be like, no, no, no, no, no.
01:43:56.000The anvil says, they use our principles to gain power then abuse us with that power.
01:44:02.000We must fight back and we all know if you find yourself in a fair fight your tactics suck.
01:44:05.000Yeah I think of it like borders, right?
01:44:08.000I believe in borders, because if you don't have strong borders, you don't have a country.
01:44:12.000That's literally what defines, I think, we talked about this before, I can't remember which one it was, but nation and country are different.
01:44:20.000A nation is a people with shared ideas, morals, or something like that, or is it the other way around?
01:44:25.000I don't know, they're different meanings.
01:44:27.000One involves specifically that there is a border delineating where these ideas persist.
01:44:32.000If you have no borders and anyone can come, Then your culture eventually dissolves.
01:45:21.000If I'm having a political debate with someone who's involved in politics, yeah, we can disagree and that's fine, we're trying to solve our problems.
01:45:26.000But somebody whose whole career was edgy comedy and drama videos, deciding that politics is a path towards making money and being relevant, that person has no interest in a real conversation.
01:45:38.000So you can invite them all you want, it's meaningless, they won't do it.
01:45:40.000So as he said flat out, you go to LA, he's not gonna meet you.
01:45:48.000And as for Hasan himself, I think I offered, and that was where the conversation ended and didn't move forward, so I don't know exactly what the circumstances there was.
01:45:57.000Didn't Crowder do a Zoom one with them?
01:45:59.000Yeah, we don't, that would be providing, so we don't have any capability for Zoom or Skype here.
01:46:03.000We actually don't have any cameras that can hook up or be, so I actually have, Andy Ngo and Lauren Southern wanted to come on the show remote.
01:46:30.000Stephen says, Ethan, you wanna have a conversation?
01:46:31.000He says yes, and then he brings in Sam Seder, and they turn it into WWE.
01:46:34.000Well, I know you don't like LA, but I hope to invite you there someday and show you around, and hopefully you can meet up with Ethan.
01:46:38.000Where I have absolute respect and a refusal to come on the show is that there are also media personalities who are running their own businesses, and they're under no obligation to cancel their shows to come see me, and I understand that because I do the same thing.
01:46:49.000Granted, we have the mobile studio for the purpose to go and try and accommodate that.
01:46:54.000But when I reached out to a couple of these people and said, hey, like, you know, people don't want to come on the show no matter how many times we offer, and it's still to this day the same circumstance, I invited a politics girl.
01:47:28.000They're invited to come and have a conversation and prove me wrong if I'm wrong about certain things.
01:47:32.000But what ends up happening for the most part is, here's what I think happens a lot.
01:47:35.000People on the right come here and often tell me I'm wrong about something.
01:47:38.000I may disagree and then find out I'm actually wrong.
01:47:40.000People on the left come here and say a whole bunch of things that are wrong, and then it gets frustrating when we have to keep pulling up sources to prove that they're wrong.
01:47:45.000Well, the challenge is that inherently with collectivism is that the truths are oriented around what will benefit the collective, so it makes it challenging for them to, you know, maintain that under scrutiny.
01:47:53.000Well, so I think, I'll tell you exactly why they won't come on the show.
01:48:09.000He's a guy who used to be anti-SJW, conservative, and then became liberal after being awakened by liberals or something.
01:48:15.000And we invited him on, just like, yeah, sure, you know, it'd be great to have somebody on and talk about stuff.
01:48:19.000And I said, you can watch the episode, but I said something like, look, when Biden said, you know, if you don't fire the prosecutor, you're not getting the billion dollars.
01:48:54.000But we invited her to come on with Alex Jones to do a big, funny show.
01:48:58.000And she agreed, and at the last minute she said no.
01:49:01.000And I will say, I think the reason is, Shu would be forced to agree with most of what Alex Jones had to say, and that would be really, really bad for her.
01:49:08.000Now, she's anti-establishment, pro-free speech, all these really, really awesome things that I agree with, and I think she's great.
01:49:13.000She calls out the left on a lot of stuff, but it is challenging, even if you're in an even left libertarian space, to be seen on camera with Alex Jones.
01:49:24.000There are a few other leftists that we're fans of, and I'm not gonna try- the only reason I bring up Shu is because that one we've already publicly talked about and people have tweeted about it.
01:49:32.000There's a few other leftists we've invited who we like and we're fans of who have said the same thing.
01:49:36.000I can't appear on a show with people like that.
01:51:49.000So, I think we got, like, the last bit of the paperwork in, but we go back and forth with the government to certify a non-profit and do all this stuff, so it is what it is, but that's a really good idea.
01:52:00.000A browser extension that not only fact-checks, but shows you who their sponsors are.
01:52:03.000And it can break down, like, we randomly sampled 100 ads, 100 articles, we fact-checked them, and these are the ads that were posted.
01:52:11.000Bill Gates paid for this much of these articles, you know?
01:52:15.000Oh, there's a great article about Bill Gates!
01:52:17.000Hold on, that's private information, that's harder.
01:52:18.000What we can do is say 17% displayed ads from the Google network, which were algorithmic.
01:52:25.00017% were Coca-Cola, 7% were Pfizer, 23% were Depends diapers, whatever.
01:52:31.000But Bill Gates spends hundreds of millions of dollars investing it specifically in the corporate media that reports on him as some kind of great savior.
01:56:39.000It'd be funny if Biden came out and they announced, or it'd be funny if it was Kamala, that in order to make things more efficient, the IRS would only be coming out at night, in the wee hours of the morning, and they can't enter your house unless you give them permission.
01:57:48.000You know, it's all about being responsible with gambling.
01:57:52.000Like, if you buy a Quick Pick once a week because it's fun and you're like, you know, you want to look at the numbers and it's really exciting to see the numbers get counted, that's totally fine.
01:58:02.000You know, people say, oh, the lotteries are taxed on stupid people.
01:58:54.000And it's also a good lesson on not doing that.
01:58:55.000So I look at the lottery, and it's like, bro, if you make $20 an hour, and then you spend your entire paycheck on lottery tickets, that's a problem.
01:59:04.000But I'm not gonna advocate for the government to stop you from being able to do it.
01:59:07.000But if you go and you... Today I saw a guy, he put 10 bucks down.
01:59:10.000And it was five games, five quick picks.
01:59:13.000He's gonna go back and he's gonna, you know, sit on the couch and he's gonna be hanging out with his wife or whatever and they're gonna be smiling and they'll be like, ooh, just having that dream.
01:59:21.000And then they're gonna go back to their lives and they're gonna crumple it up.
01:59:23.000In fact, winning would probably be worse for him.
01:59:25.000It'd be better for him in the sense that they'd get health care and be taken care of for life.
01:59:30.000But man, the emotional turmoil that would come from that win is scary.
02:00:42.000But we're gonna have the room full, and then of course the entire Timcast crew, whoever wants to come, we're gonna be basically hanging out here partying all day.
02:00:48.000So we'll probably start the stream, we might start it early, maybe 6, depending on what happens.
02:00:53.000Look, if something crazy happens, we'll run up here, we'll get something going.
02:00:57.000Let's keep an eye on it and call it when we're there downstairs.
02:01:00.000So we'll be there down at like 4 or 5 o'clock, hanging out, we'll be paying attention.
02:01:05.000Something breaks, we're running up here.
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02:02:48.000So the thing is, I'm going to show you the text message later, but the video that we were planning to post tonight was all about this topic.
02:02:57.000I shot it in Yellowstone National Park.
02:02:58.000It's like a one hour documentary all about the idea of forgiveness.
02:03:01.000And I was planning to post it before we even came here, and it's perfectly suited.
02:03:06.000So if you go to Owen Cook Self Help, Owen Cook Self Help on YouTube, go subscribe, and there's a ton of incredible personal growth content on there, but specifically, I'm gonna go post this video from Yellowstone that we shot in a beautiful winter in Lamar Valley in Yellowstone for about almost an hour just on this topic, and I think it's gonna be a perfect follow-up just for what we talked about here.