On today's show, we talk about the latest on the shooting of a woman in her own home, the Israeli invasion of Gaza, and a new video of a man who may have pulled a fire alarm in his own home. Plus, we're joined by Grace Chong, CEO and CFO of Steve Bannon's War Room, to discuss all of that and much more.
00:00:23.00019,000 personnel already in the Mediterranean.
00:00:26.000We've got another 2,000 Marines that are poised to go.
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00:00:37.000Israel previously agreed to delay their invasion of Gaza to allow the U.S.
00:00:41.000to prepare missile batteries, Patriot missile and THAAD missile systems.
00:00:45.000And now we've got reporting, Israel has invaded Gaza.
00:00:49.000So I hope you're ready for what comes next.
00:00:50.000Now, interestingly, the official reporting is saying, no, no, they have not yet invaded Gaza.
00:00:56.000They've just sent a bunch of tanks in to start targeting Hamas targets and killing Hamas leaders with tanks in Gaza.
00:01:03.000So the tanks are going in, but it's not an invasion.
00:01:06.000And I'm just like, yo, if having a bunch of tanks go into this territory and kill people is not an invasion, then what's happening on the southern border is not an invasion, okay?
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00:09:37.000They know once the American people hear words like World War Three, there's no coming back.
00:09:41.000And I think the media is afraid to define it as such, although I also think they want it.
00:09:45.000I think a lot of people in media do want this war.
00:09:47.000They need They need their castus belli BEFORE the escalation.
00:09:53.000If World War III keeps getting repeated over and over again, and we hear about troop deployments, and there's no justification for it, people are gonna reject it, it's gonna poison the well.
00:10:03.000So that's why they gotta downplay the language and make it seem like nothing's happening, it's just, you know, things are getting tense.
00:10:53.000And now, Syria and all these countries, I think, I wonder if they realized, hey, we don't need to generate public support if we just don't tell them it's happening.
00:11:04.000Once you just tell them we're already doing it, people expect that it's normal, right?
00:11:08.000If they're used to seeing the headlines, they don't care.
00:11:10.000And that's what I think is the most frustrating thing about the 24-hour news cycle.
00:11:13.000It's not that we don't need to have it, of course, with the internet, you have to keep up.
00:11:16.000On the other hand, Everything becomes information overload.
00:11:20.000So you're used to seeing American troops in places that you didn't expect them because you've, by the time you wake up in the morning, 45 stories have been written about it.
00:11:27.000There's no way to just say like, oh wait, this is- It's just getting normalized.
00:12:07.000I kind of, sometimes it's nice to be able to plug in, like when we were flying to Miami, I was transcribing an interview I had done, and that way I couldn't open four or five tabs, you know what I mean?
00:13:28.000But speaking about Speaking about like the news and missing it for an hour, like last time I was on IRL last week, it was when the hospital was supposedly bombed, right?
00:13:37.000Within that first hour, there were multiple realities about that.
00:13:40.000Or last night I'm watching the main thing unfold with the shooter and there's people sharing multiple videos that aren't true or pictures of people that aren't the suspect.
00:13:47.000So it's almost like it doesn't matter what happens in an hour because in that first hour of news breaking, there's a distortion of all this noise and no one knows the truth.
00:13:53.000And probably for the next few weeks too, until we know more.
00:13:56.000Sometimes I like the first hour after a story has broken because just the bare minimum details are coming out and it gives you something to build off of because by the time the identity of whoever's involved or the total numbers of death or these kind of tragic details that are incredibly important to report accuracy, by the time those are out, there's already a slant and you can see the way it's being bent.
00:14:14.000It's funny because I typically say I, when I was teaching journalism, I like to tell the students, you know, your, your best source for information is the stuff that's closest to the event.
00:14:22.000So like in Maine, you know, it's who's there, but then thinking of what's going on in Gaza and Israel, there's a lot of people on that ground who are manipulating news as well.
00:14:33.000You know, I'm, I'm keep urging people to not just believe anything that instantly confirms any bias you have towards anything domestic or foreign, because if it makes you feel good, you should probably be extra suspicious of that news.
00:14:44.000I saw a ton of conservative commentators retweeting a bunch of fake videos.
00:14:53.000And I was like, yo, what are you guys doing, man?
00:14:55.000But it's that urgency, especially TwitterX, whatever it's called, has really emphasized this more than ever, that you have to be the first or one of the beginning people to share it, to repost it.
00:15:06.000You know, you need to be on the front lines of everything.
00:15:07.000And it means that if you wait to verify you're behind, But actually, you know the truth.
00:15:16.000With what you're saying with the international component of what's being reported on the ground, I always find that the language barrier is sort of the biggest obstacle because, you know, I don't speak either of the languages for which the main- Why not?
00:15:35.000But unless you're Chris Carr and you see all my typos.
00:15:39.000The issue there is that people who can speak those languages, and I don't mean this in a mean way, have their own bias when they read the news.
00:15:46.000And so when they are reading their own sources, I mean, especially if you're, you know, let's say an immigrant from one of these places in America, you have ties there.
00:15:53.000It makes it, not that they couldn't do it accurately, I don't want to make any accusations, but it just means it's, there's a layer of emotional There's a layer of emotion there that's not true for everyone.
00:16:01.000There's two barriers you're talking about and there's like the barrier we have to deal with here and other English-speaking countries where it's like the barrier of bias and the words they use to describe certain people and the qualifiers they might use in terms of like when New York Times writes about RFK Jr.
00:16:14.000all the qualifiers I got to put in front of his name he's a you know COVID conspiracy theorist all these things but then it's also the language barrier on top of that when you're dealing with the international news so it makes it to the point where I'm like I can't really believe anything I'm reading right now.
00:16:36.000Elon should get rid of, well, I say he should, but Twitter had talked about getting rid of follower counts and like retweet numbers and stuff like this.
00:16:45.000And the reason they never did, Twitter knew that it's a scoring system.
00:17:36.000Instagram tried something similar where they removed, they would say, we'll take away that the like number, like how many likes your photo is getting.
00:17:42.000And at the time they were saying it was to combat, especially, uh, you know, social media addiction, but specifically, um, body dysmorphia issues with young teenage girls.
00:17:51.000Uh, the fact that they would, you know, post certain things and they would get a reaction to it.
00:17:54.000And I don't know that it made a difference.
00:17:56.000I think in some ways it just re-emphasized that you don't know how valued you are.
00:18:01.000And I don't like that we have these digits.
00:18:03.000On the other hand, you can understand when we have the content, the influencer industry that says we need to know how many people follow you, we need to know what your reach is like, we need to know what your engagement is like, why those tools actually exist for some people as a business model.
00:18:15.000I want to pull up this tweet from Kit Clarenberg.
00:18:18.000Kit is a reporter for, I believe he's at Greyzone, and he noticed something interesting.
00:18:24.000Now I want to make sure I'm very careful here as we start this.
00:18:27.000This is not hard confirmation of anything, but I do think it's something that warrants paying attention to.
00:18:42.000He says, what's also striking is prominent pro-Ukraine accounts are shuttering rapidly, such as UA Weapons, which claimed to track Russian losses and garnered almost a million followers.
00:18:51.000Wonder how long it'll take for those flags to start disappearing from display names.
00:19:15.000He says, absolutely classic, an anonymous high-profile pro-Ukraine account that 10 days ago attacked me for suggesting high-profile pro-Ukraine accounts are shutting down, in a coordinated manner, is now shutting down.
00:19:27.000Calibre Obscura says, I will be deleting this account within a few weeks.
00:19:31.000Life is increasingly busy and frankly no longer in a place where I want to interact with things that I do every day, etc, etc.
00:19:51.000intelligence agencies have been running psyops.
00:19:54.000Pro-Ukraine accounts generating massive numbers of followers.
00:19:57.000Not necessarily pro-Ukraine, like this U.A.
00:20:00.000weapons account apparently was tracking all information.
00:20:05.000But the argument would be, yes, but from a Western perspective.
00:20:08.000When they say, oh, Russian troops are dying, is it the Western number or the Russian number?
00:20:12.000And then you have this other account that's shuttering as well.
00:20:15.000Perhaps one of two things is happening, and there could be other things.
00:20:18.000Intel agencies are running PSYOPs, and now that the money is being diverted to Israel and the Middle East, we can't run these accounts anymore.
00:20:26.000So somebody who is in, you know, some kind of PSYOPs division or private contractor is told, hey, shutter those accounts.
00:21:32.000And to a certain extent, I credit that to the fact that the American people can really only have one big thing in the news cycle at a time.
00:21:39.000It's very difficult for them to have, you know, hold, pay attention to two things at once.
00:21:44.000It's like that meme where they insert one brain trip of Ukraine, then the next one is of Israel.
00:22:01.000We got a rude awakening for these intel agencies.
00:22:03.000It's like all of the stuff that's been happening with the manipulation on social media that's propped up woke leftist psychotic garbage.
00:22:11.000How do they expect to get military support for Israel when they have themselves coordinated with these big tech platforms to prop up anti-Israel sentiment?
00:22:53.000And I think that's evil taking advantage of a lot of incompetent people.
00:22:58.000And I think there is a PSYOP component to these things, and there's obviously also organic people who latched onto the PSYOP, like maybe this person who says, you know, I'm moving on to other things, is a real person.
00:23:09.000We went to this tapas restaurant called Barcelona in Reston, Virginia.
00:24:01.000Too many people are seeing these PSYOPs, seeing the manipulation on social media, and they're assuming, wow, everyone in this country must secretly like trans kids and Ukraine war and stuff.
00:24:13.000Then it turns out, and everyone actually agrees with you, nobody likes us wasting money on these foreign wars.
00:24:18.000There's been no justification for why we're doing it.
00:24:20.000Shifting from Ukraine to the Middle East now.
00:24:22.000So if people just start realizing that, start speaking up, maybe we can put a stop to it.
00:24:26.000This is why I advocate for parents, when they go on playdates, to immediately open up the conversation about all the things you care about the most, so you can whittle down who you can have your kids hang out with or not.
00:24:36.000I think you should screen all your kids, friends.
00:24:42.000An app where you can select things that you believe in politically, and then with your friends, it will only show your political positions if you agree.
00:24:54.000Okay, I'm gonna tell my developer friend, did you get that?
00:24:57.000So like, it'll say what's your stance on pro-choice, pro-life, progressive taxes, border control, and then if you don't agree on anything, it just doesn't share anything.
00:25:08.000It's like a dating app, sort of, for parents.
00:25:12.000They had Bumble BFF, which was for women to meet other women and make friends.
00:25:16.000I'm not actually serious, for the most part, because you can't implement something like this, but the general idea is, you know, you could input your political views, and then you don't have to worry about someone being like, ah!
00:25:29.000But the reality is you should just be able to say, hey, you know, I don't like the fact that in New York they're threatening Jewish people right now.
00:25:37.000I think you're probably just not as weird as you think you are.
00:25:39.000I mean, I think a lot of people feel like because they're not hearing it on mainstream media, maybe other people don't want to talk about it.
00:25:44.000Or just too afraid to say it out loud.
00:26:07.000I think they've been pumped into the atmosphere or created out of chemtrails and they just get recycled and it's just poison falling out of the sky.
00:26:59.000Or salmon's bioengineered and it's part bug, so don't eat that either.
00:27:03.000Well, also, people don't realize that a lot of salmon, when it says wild-caught, they grow it in a farm, release it into the wild, and then re-catch it.
00:27:16.000Because it's not... So, there's... Things you gotta watch out for are, if there's a company called, like, Wild-Caught Salmon, and Wild-Caught is a brand name, then it's farmed.
00:27:25.000Or if Wild-Caught Salmon is a brand name, it's not a man.
00:27:28.000I'm not saying quite literally, that's the case.
00:27:29.000I'm saying watch out for brand names that masquerade as...
00:27:32.000And look for the colors of salmon too.
00:27:56.000I think they feed them corn, I'm not entirely sure.
00:27:58.000But back to the point, the point I was bringing up initially is that with this story, potentially arguing that many of these pro-Ukraine accounts were PSYOPs, the first thing I'd have to say outside of the context of the story just in general is absolutely the government is running psychological operations on social media to generate support for war.
00:28:38.000You charge a dollar, what's going to happen is the barrier for entry for bot making goes up, and then the bot companies and contractors will just say, So you wanted how many bots?
00:29:39.000It is kind of hilarious that, you know, a few weeks ago we were talking about how... I'm looking at the BBC's...
00:29:45.000BattleMap for Ukraine, and it shows Russia controlling the land bridge into Crimea, and I'm like, that's it, they got what they wanted.
00:29:51.000And these conservatives are like, that's not true, they wanted all of Ukraine, they were gonna invade from the north, and now all of a sudden it's like, okay, we lost, we're done, everybody out!
00:29:59.000We're no longer interested in what's going on in Ukraine.
00:30:02.000Again, I'd really like to hear more from Zelensky, who is probably so mad about his business venture failing.
00:30:08.000I do think, you know, we couldn't sustain this even with Janet Yellen saying we can afford two wars.
00:30:41.000He's a managing partner at Chapter One.
00:30:43.000And he writes at The New Internet, former VP of Product at Tinder, VP of Product at Renu.
00:30:48.000He says, the TikTok war, why high school and college kids are getting the wrong information about Hamas and Israel.
00:30:55.000He said, I spent the weekend trying to reverse engineer the TikTok algorithm, as I am convinced this is the reason we are losing the information war with high school and college students.
00:31:03.000One red flag was seeing San Francisco high school students who were aggressively anti-Israel And asking myself where they were getting their news.
00:31:10.000Their protests happened right after the fake New York Times headline that accused Israel of the hospital bomb.
00:31:15.000I also want to pause real quick as well.
00:31:18.000The Wall Street Journal maintains that the video we see of the rocket exploding in midair and payload falling was what hit the parking lot.
00:31:25.000The New York Times got the story wrong, apologized, and then came out with another story, like, actually, that video you watched was wrong.
00:31:31.000Our analysis says that's actually not what hit the hospital.
00:31:33.000And it's, like, very convenient for the New York Times, who flubbed this one really, really bad, to be like, actually, we weren't that wrong.
00:31:39.000So I think the New York Times is full of it.
00:31:41.000I think the New York Times is a captured organization that is desperately trying to be pro-Hamas.
00:31:46.000We saw this with the Tom Cotton op-ed.
00:31:49.000The op-ed editor got fired because Tom Cotton wrote an op-ed about sending the military because of the BLM riots.
00:31:56.000New York Times, you've known for a long time, look what Barry Weiss had to say.
00:34:38.000Now I'm wondering what attic is in the building and if they're just saying that because it's like invoking some serious images.
00:34:47.000But how does something like that happen where these are just some Jewish students in New York and Ronald Coleman says, they're not Israeli students.
00:35:44.000And It's yeah, they ban war room all the time anything that is a you know, I guess any of that So and you don't and when you're you don't really scroll through it yourself.
00:35:55.000You just use it for war room I have my own personal one.
00:36:19.000I've wondered, and I can't remember who made this point in the past week that I've been on IRL, that one of the things that happened post 9-11 was that to avoid encouraging an anti-Islam, anti-Muslim sentiment, textbook companies partnered with organizations that are pro-Islam and There is an influence there.
00:36:39.000I believe it almost, and it could be part of the algorithm, but like if I watch one, you know, video about like, you know, oh this is what's really happening and it's, I'll just see all those videos.
00:36:53.000It makes me wonder if students are particularly vulnerable because of this Precaution that was potentially taken when they were publishing textbooks post 9-11 in addition to the fact that it's being pushed on them social media.
00:37:06.000If you- I mean, I felt like this- I went- I grew up in a liberal bluish- a blue area and I always leaned conservative and I remember there were times in school where you're being taught something but you know you're reading something different at home the conversations are different among your family you can kind of you know to question it whereas if it's hitting you from social media which is basically how you run your entire after-school life maybe in school too and your teachers are presenting information that says you know actually this is how this conflict started and you know this side gets this wrong and whatever if there is no escape if there's no no way for them to see on the outside unless they have family in israel unless they have a connection somewhere else i have only seen pro pro hamas type
00:37:49.000I'm not surprised with the college stuff because I think they were all primed for this after the like riot summer with BLM and this is just like an extension of that so they see violence as righteous.
00:37:58.000And they were young I mean if you're a high school student now in 2020 if you're if you're if you're 17 now you were 13 that's like what the end of middle school and so you grew up in a time where social media and really outlandish protests that verge in the point of destruction and violence are the norm and perhaps even celebrated that it was cool that all of your friends older siblings were getting likes for attending these things and throwing bricks through windows or whatever else it's the cultural revolution it's the red guard yeah and they've been waiting they've been waiting to have their chance yeah they primed them to want violence right even though it's the same crowd that says silence is violence or words are violence these are uh will chamberlain pointed out these are people who
00:39:11.000We see people in New York City cheering for the killing of civilians.
00:39:15.000Then, when Israel bombs Palestine, we see these people saying, they bomb Gaza, they say, oh no, they're killing civilians, and they're crying and saying, how could you support this?
00:39:23.000And I'm just like, bro, you were supporting it.
00:39:25.000It's okay when it happens to someone else's civilians.
00:39:43.000I think there's also a level of, you know, one of the things that I have heard told over and over again is that one of the reasons people say you should support Palestine, support Hamas or whatever is because they're being colonized, right?
00:39:55.000They're the colonizer oppressing them.
00:39:56.000And this is actually very similar to the language that We hear with BLM and with other... It's critical race theory.
00:40:01.000And so if all of our young people are trained sort of a la Pavlov and his dog, that when they hear a certain word, they know exactly how they're supposed to respond.
00:40:13.000If you hear colonizer, you know which side you're supposed to be on because in our history, which is the only lens they're allowed to, they can view it through.
00:40:20.000And part of that, I would say, is probably immaturity, right?
00:40:31.000I mean, you know, you go back to Japanese Korean culture, like way back when, I mean, you know, Japanese colonized Korea, you know, I mean, there's colonizers everywhere.
00:40:41.000So would the modern day teenager be on Korea's side?
00:40:52.000I think part of it is that there's not a lot of critical analysis.
00:40:55.000They just want to have the viral moment.
00:40:56.000And again, I said this before, but you know, that story about the student who wrote Black Lives Matter, you know, however many times on his college application and got admitted to whatever Ivy League, Like, these kids are going to present their TikToks being like, I got every one of my school to dance in the pro-Palestine, pro-Hamas rally.
00:41:13.000And so I'm very, very important and you should let me into your school.
00:41:16.000Like, this is what they think will build their potential activist future on, which is linked to both their social value and their intellectual value.
00:41:23.000You know, the views of these students will never change.
00:41:28.000I mean, in small numbers, for sure, people do change.
00:41:32.000What people need to understand about generations is that when we see, according to Pew Research, Gen Z being slightly more conservative than Millennials in some areas, they assume this means that Gen Z is learning these things.
00:41:46.000When in reality, it's just conservatives have more kids.
00:41:52.000These young people who are chanting from the river to the sea, It's locked in.
00:41:56.000They've chanted it, they've said it, it's part of who they are, and it will be painful to admit they were wrong.
00:42:02.000Only some people ever have the strength to actually go through these transformations and be like, what was I thinking?
00:42:08.000Most of them, when they're in their 30s, are going to be part of extremist groups in some fashion or another.
00:42:14.000This is why, you know, when we were talking last time about Marxism and in the college world, and then, you know, I'm thinking of like domestic terrorists, such as Weather Underground, literally blowing people up, you know, and they're avowed Marxists.
00:42:40.000Eventually, even my beloved Cuomo, a mass murderer in New York, let out on his last day in office a Weather Underground person who built a bomb and killed people.
00:43:01.000They help siphon the money for Black Lives Matter, which in my opinion is another domestic terrorist organization.
00:43:05.000So it's like, I just see a straight line through all of this where that's the kind of violence that those campuses breed.
00:43:10.000I think Veritas had a report, I want to be very careful of my language here, alleging that China was funneling money to political parties through ActBlue.
00:43:17.000I'm not entirely sure what the reporting was.
00:46:31.000Well, I'm saying like, Gen X is going to be out of them.
00:46:35.000At this point, when Gen Alpha is in the marketplace, Gen X is phased out.
00:46:41.000So I'm talking about Gen Alpha in their late teens and into their twenties.
00:46:45.000Millennials are going to be in their late fifties and they're going to be exiting.
00:46:48.000Gen X is already going to be out in retirement.
00:46:51.000Less of a consideration in terms of big ad spends.
00:46:54.000But this means that millennials are going to continually hold a disproportionate amount of market power because of the size of the generation.
00:47:02.000So I'm not as concerned with seeing a bunch of crackpot young kids because the likelihood What I see being, what may happen is, as the market seeks to pander to the larger block of the market share, these kids are going to have to adhere and change to fit the mold of what millennials want, and not the other way around.
00:47:54.000What if the dad jeans and Rolling Stones never faded out of pop culture, out of the spotlight?
00:48:02.000I think there's gonna be pockets of fame and personality among young people, obviously, because of their peer groups, but if the money is, if you're gonna make $100 million by doing a Fall Out Boy show, or how about this, you know the When We Were Young tour?
00:48:17.000If they make more money doing that, then what's gonna happen is, Where's the ad spend gonna be?
00:48:22.000Big marketing companies are gonna be like, look, this Gen Z thing is good, but we can maybe make $20 million, but this, when we were young thing, these people got money, and there's more of them.
00:48:32.000You could argue that back in the day, but hold on, older people always had more money.
00:48:37.000Yes, and they had kids, and they spent that money on their kids, and now millennials don't have kids, and they're spending the money on themselves.
00:48:44.000So it's gonna get real interesting real soon.
00:48:46.000Yeah, I think you're really cultivating towards the millennials.
00:48:49.000I found Gen Z really interesting and I can't tell if this is just sort of a biased view through the lens of social media, but it seems like they are really burning through every generational fashion trend.
00:49:01.000You'll get these enclaves of Girls who are really into the 70s stuff or really into the early 2000s or like 90s grungecore was very popular for a second during COVID and then it kind of went away.
00:49:10.000I mean they are searching for generational identity and I don't think they are creating one for themselves.
00:49:15.000They have language and they have social media but social media isn't enough to actually have a generational culture.
00:49:21.000When I was a kid, a Nirvana shirt was a band that was playing music at the time.
00:49:27.000And then, you know, not for a time after that in late 90s, but like people would have the holes in their jeans and the Nirvana shirt when Nirvana was releasing music.
00:49:36.000It's really funny to see that viral TikTok where that like 18 year old girl, she's wearing a Nirvana shirt.
00:49:41.000She's like, I don't even know what this is.
00:49:43.000It's just like, it's at Hot Topic and everyone wears it.
00:49:46.000Yeah, but then some millennial mom also buys them for her, like, toddlers and chases them around being like, name three songs!
00:49:52.000What I am telling you is not predictive, it is descriptive.
00:50:05.000And I see Gen Alpha, Gen Z wearing, like, Nightmare Before Christmas stuff And I'm like, they don't have their own, like you were saying, generational identity.
00:51:10.000I feel like nostalgia is like a drug of complacency.
00:51:13.000And a lot of people, like a lot of millennials and people our age, even older and younger, they just want to live, like Tim's saying, as adult babies.
00:51:21.000So they are dressing themselves like they did when they were babies.
00:51:24.000I think that explains older people, but for Gen Z, they should be serving up something that they can replace, right?
00:51:31.000And I think some of that, and this is just my maybe touchgrass moment here, but I think some of it is because they spend so much time online looking for what's trendy instead of going out and making trendy things, right?
00:51:44.000And to be fair, COVID wrecked some of it for the for Gen Z because the leaders of Gen Z all had to then go home and spend more time on the internet and not with each other.
00:52:36.000Everybody can argue about the generation they like, and for millennials and Gen Xers who had, like, formative years in the 90s are going to say the 90s were great.
00:52:45.000The 80s were kind of weird, the 70s had their time, the 60s had their time, but these are discernible generations, or decades.
00:52:53.000You look at styles, someone can show you a picture of a living room, and you'll be like, oh, that was the 50s.
00:52:58.000Someone can show you the picture of a diner and be like, that's 70s.
00:53:02.000Someone can show you a picture of a guy, just a guy, wearing clothes, and you'll be like, That was the 80s.
00:53:07.000He's wearing, like, neon leopard print hot pants, and you're like, we know when that was.
00:56:03.000The thing is, it's good to see what other people are doing and how they're presenting things.
00:56:07.000And at the time, when I got my license, because I'm a nerd, when I got my driver's license at 16 or whatever, I would drive around listening to This American Life, which I thought was such an interesting- It was a great show.
00:56:20.000And then I tried to listen to it in podcast format recently, and it was just so different.
00:56:25.000And I feel like in some ways, if you were a music connoisseur in the 90s and 80s, and you're like, this is really good music, Any recreation, because obviously your favorite bands will have their moment and die down, the ones that come after them are not good enough to feel like they're carrying on the tradition.
00:56:40.000And so in some ways these traditions of, you know, I think of this as like big band music, they just die.
00:56:45.000Partially because they go out of fashion, but also because there isn't anyone who's able to carry on the torch effectively.
00:56:50.000Yeah, I still love, I think radio is great and like when I travel so much, I'm driving so much, I like listening to radio in different areas to see like what they're listening to and stuff.
00:57:00.000Road trips were so fun when like you'd start to lose a radio station and then you'd try and look for the next one and then all of a sudden it's like, You start hearing both at the same time and then, you know, we're driving and I'm hearing like Blink-182 on the radio, what's my age again?
00:57:16.000And then it's like, well, I just got back.
00:57:22.000You're seeing the cross section of culture.
00:57:23.000That was my experience when I first started coming down to West Virginia during 2020 because there's nothing to do.
00:57:29.000It's like a lot of driving around and I was with someone and we got like four stations back to back that were all just like very typical what I would call pop punk and this friend like turned to me and he was like West Virginia where pop punk never died.
00:57:43.000I think it's so funny because there are I mean in some ways it makes me wonder I talk a little bit about on the show about regionalism and how there is regional culture in America which is largely due to foundational immigration and how we do lose it especially as the internet becomes more popular but maybe the radio is what keeps regional local culture alive.
00:58:00.000So, right, we lost regional diction because of television, because of national television.
00:58:06.000Everyone's trying to, look, if I'm going to appeal to the entire country, you've got to lose the accent or whatever.
00:58:11.000And I think with the internet, you've basically taken away, you've reversed this.
00:58:18.000So now you've got all of these different subcultures to the point where some of them are getting really, really weird.
00:58:24.000Really weird and creepy, people dressing up like animals and doing weird things.
00:58:28.000Yeah, but like, So back in the day, we want people who do nasty, gross things to keep it to themselves.
00:58:37.000The weird costumes they wear and they go out in public.
00:58:40.000There's a viral video of a guy dressing like a baby in a diaper going out and chugging out a bottle and filming other people and then talking about how it's getting him off.
00:58:46.000I'm like, we want people like that not to be able to post these things.
00:59:21.000I put on a bunch of music going back from like the seventies till now, and sure enough, when I put on Bohemian Rhapsody, the entire bar starts singing.
00:59:31.000And then someone was like, who did it?
00:59:33.000And like, yeah, and we're all singing Bohemian Rhapsody.
00:59:51.000I think the only thing people would know and it would depend on what age group is at the bar are some of the really big hits that were like popular viral dance videos during 2020 especially.
01:00:02.000But not even Taylor Swift people are singing.
01:00:05.000Yeah, but that's because you just listen, you really reflect on the philosophy there.
01:00:09.000But like, everybody knows... The Macaroon.
01:01:03.000Cars are driving themselves, and the car will pull up, you'll get in, and it'll drive you to your destination, there's nobody there.
01:01:10.000Well, this car ran somebody over, dragged them, and kept them pinned as they screamed for mercy and help.
01:01:16.000And the car didn't care, because it can't.
01:01:19.000They say less than three months after the California Public Utilities Commission approved RoboTaxi Service Cruiser's plan to provide around-the-clock driverless riders, in San Francisco, the California Department of Motor Vehicles has shut down Cruiser's driverless operations.
01:01:30.000The suspension followed two notable accidents involving Cruiser's RoboTaxis.
01:01:33.000In August, one person was injured after a Cruiser's vehicle crashed into a fire truck.
01:01:37.000And earlier this month, a pedestrian using a crosswalk was found in critical condition after a driver of another vehicle struck the pedestrian and threw her into the path of an oncoming Cruze Robotaxi.
01:01:48.000The hit-and-run incident is still being investigated.
01:01:50.000According to Cruze, its autonomous vehicle detected the collision and stopped on top of the pedestrian, then veered off the road, dragging the pedestrian under 20 feet.
01:01:59.000When the AV finally stopped, it appeared to pin the pedestrian's leg beneath a tire, while videos show the pedestrian screaming for help.
01:02:50.000They somehow, I think they got phished.
01:02:52.000Someone sent them an email, they clicked the link, installed the ransomware on their computers, which infected the entire network, and they said, pay us millions of dollars, otherwise we shut you down.
01:03:15.000I don't know if they weigh a ton, but they're not mobile.
01:03:19.000These robo-taxi companies, you are going to have a fleet of AI-automated driverless cars, and what happens when an employee clicks a link, installs ransomware on their servers, and then all of the robo-taxis are locked and can't be altered in any way, and they say, we're not paying the ransom, and the cars just start driving around with no human control or input.
01:03:47.000I suppose the argument would be like, we can do nothing to stop the cars.
01:03:50.000They're going to keep operating as they do, and maybe they just pick people up and drop them off.
01:03:57.000But with the ransomware, what's to stop someone from just controlling the entirety of the fleet with a single malware link, and then making all the cars, I don't know, drive into the bay?
01:04:37.000You know what the woke leftists are gonna do with Neuralink?
01:04:42.000With Neuralink, if you could read right capabilities and you can enter a metaverse where you can actually experience like a real alternate reality, all of these woke leftists are going to go into the metaverse and create white men avatars.
01:04:58.000Yeah, their Marxist paradise will be in the metaverse.
01:05:01.000I mean, look, if you were going to make a video game and someone said, you can choose between these five different characters.
01:05:11.000You've got the fighter, the barbarian, the bard, the cleric, the monk.
01:05:16.000And if you choose Barbarian, you get double the experience, you get double the HP, you get double the resources, double the money, everyone agrees with you, and the game's super easy.
01:05:25.000You'd be like, well, maybe I want the challenge, but a lot of people are gonna be like, look, I'll just, I'll take the strong guy.
01:05:48.000Do you think these woke leftists are gonna choose non-white avatars?
01:05:52.000Or do you think they're gonna be like- There's gonna be like a Hispanic woman who's super woke and she'll be like, if I make a white male avatar, I'll get hired.
01:06:17.000I would never want anyone I love to get in one, and I understand there could be maybe an argument that they are helpful, that they make it so women can stay at work longer instead of driving their kids around or whatever thing the utopian left is trying to sell, but ultimately You know, anything controlled by a computer is subjective to failure, and there's no way to protect against that.
01:06:38.000I mean, humans go rogue too, but I wonder if the reason they're destroying San Francisco is to create a test city for all the weird robot crap they're doing?
01:07:32.000They had some in downtown LA and really just like the people did, they just kicked it all
01:07:38.000I'm sorry, the people smashing the robot food delivery things, I get it, it's wrong, don't break other people's stuff, but it is kind of hilarious.
01:07:48.000I thought it was the funniest thing ever.
01:07:50.000It's so dystopian, these massive tech companies that are ultra-woke and funding these horrible policies, build these robots to deliver food to get rid of labor, And don't be coming to downtown LA where there's like so many homeless people out there, you know?
01:08:18.000And Earth is overpopulated and everyone lives in squalor and the ultra-wealthy live in a space, an orbital space station paradise called Elysium.
01:08:25.000And I'm just like, this movie is such leftist propaganda, and it is, because like, the rich people have a machine that can cure any disease, and the only reason they don't give it to the poor is because they don't want to.
01:08:35.000That's classic rich people behavior, they're just like that.
01:08:37.000Right, they just don't want to give people the cure, it's like, let them die!
01:08:39.000And like, okay, no, like the reality isn't the real world, it's scarcity.
01:08:42.000But seeing that, and then seeing stuff like this, I'm like, you know, it's not that far off where you're going to have 90% of people are homeless homeless like street urchin types running around Smashing autonomous food delivery to find food and it's gonna be this weirdest thing.
01:08:59.000We're like The companies that do the food delivery will have flying drones delivering food to other wealthy people who live on the top of towers, and when the homeless 90% chuck rocks at it to knock it down to get food, the companies say, yeah, it's fine though, because we don't have employees, we save so much money, the cost of the food absorbs all of the damages from... The business expense, yeah.
01:09:24.000Yeah, so when Amazon opened that store where you didn't have any staff, and you could just walk in and grab whatever you wanted, I very easily... Which was the weirdest thing, have you ever tried that?
01:09:35.000And so, the moment they opened it, I immediately discovered an exploit to be able to get whatever you want for free.
01:09:43.000And so we did a test run where we were able to trick the system into giving me a massive bag of groceries free of charge.
01:09:52.000Now don't get me wrong, we did pay for everything, but without going into great details about what we did, because less people repeated it.
01:10:01.000When I talked to Amazon, the general answer that I got was, we don't care about shoplifting.
01:10:07.000We save so much money by not having employees that shoplifting is negligible to us.
01:10:13.000I find myself, when I go to the grocery store and there are the self-checkout lanes and then the ones with the employees, I find myself wanting to go to where the employees are because I just feel like they're getting deleted.
01:10:59.000I made a video when we did this where, in one continuous shot, I take my bag of groceries, exit, walk a block away, set it down, pull out all of the food, and then wait for the Amazon app to confirm the purchase, and it said I bought a pack of gum.
01:11:23.000I was like so weirded out that we just walked in and I walked out and they calculated everything and it became like it was like five dollars because they didn't Calculate properly?
01:11:44.000And so, recently, at DCA Airport, they now have an Amazon Go, sensors all along the ceiling, you scan your hand, you walk in, take whatever you want, and walk out.
01:11:57.000I resisted when the iPhone had you put your thumbprint in so you could open your home button.
01:12:01.000I didn't like that for the longest time.
01:12:03.000I would say we probably found four different exploits for this system where potentially if you keep doing it over and over again, they're gonna call the police on you and the cops are gonna come and be like, this is not an accident, you're doing this on purpose.
01:12:16.000But there's probably four different exploits for getting whatever you want for free.
01:12:22.000I do not recommend doing it, but you gotta ask Amazon what their policies are because apparently, like, there have been statements about, like, they don't care if people take whatever they want.
01:12:32.000The argument made is, how do you prove it's shoplifting if you tell the people to take whatever they want and walk out?
01:14:05.000And he's like, hair products, mostly, as a joke.
01:14:08.000And then they whack him with a baton, breaking his arm for non-compliance, throw him to the ground, and then dump out his bag and there's nothing in it.
01:17:01.000No, the one from this morning being like, you know, I did take responsibility for the fire alarm, but I'm very grateful that Capitol Police agree that I didn't do it to disrupt the vote and Republicans will spin this.
01:17:14.000You know what they're like is essentially what it says.
01:17:16.000And then this video comes out and it's even more obvious that it was definitely to disrupt the vote.
01:17:48.000It's more ambiguous to do this, whatever.
01:17:50.000This is a video of this guy intentionally walking past a sign that says this is not open, knocking down another sign and pulling a fire alarm.
01:17:57.000I just love thinking about all those like think pieces and tweets that were sent out after the initial story broke, defending him on why that door was confusing.
01:18:08.000I was when I was working on this story for Tim Cass news, which you guys shall follow on the social medias.
01:18:13.000This morning, he Pulls the fire alarm, then walks past Capitol Police because he had to get to the vote, but says nothing about it because he knew there wasn't a fire.
01:18:22.000But how did you know there wasn't a real fire if you didn't pull the alarm?
01:18:29.000And this guy is particularly brazen because he's just lying over and over again expecting you guys to buy the, well the Republicans are really the ones who have this mess and they're so bad, like it's always about the other party.
01:18:43.000Meanwhile, The Republicans pulled that fire alarm.
01:18:45.000And the thing is, are New Yorkers going to be upset enough about this?
01:18:49.000If he isn't expelled, are they going to vote him out of office and say, I don't like the way you're representing us?
01:18:55.000There's no accountability on that side.
01:18:57.000It's different, but this also made me think of when AOC lied about the J6 stuff, when she said she was being attacked and felt like they were going to do horrible things to her, but then the timeline broke it down and it wasn't possible even through the tunnels and where she was and all that stuff.
01:19:27.000I mean, look, props to Matt Gaetz for doing anything when it comes to McCarthy, just getting something done.
01:19:32.000But I don't see them taking a meaningful action like, yo, this course of action where you see him take down these signs and then pull the fire alarm is an intent to disrupt official government proceedings.
01:19:49.000If this kind of behavior is allowed to continue, it will escalate.
01:19:53.000And we are dangerously close to the point where finally someone in Congress just snaps, and then someone else snaps, and then all of a sudden someone's getting caned, and that's the last thing we want to happen.
01:20:29.000That's why I'm glad the video came out, right?
01:20:32.000Like, I am glad that the second this happened, this is, I am cynical a lot about a lot of social media, and we do need to verify things, but when this happened, they were in Congress for this, like, stopgap budget vote or whatever, and the video came out over the weekend, by Monday, there was a narrative, there were lots of public condemnations from the Republicans, you know, it was kind of obvious what had happened, and then the second he goes to court, the next time he goes to court is, I think, January, because, okay, so, sorry, one thought at a time.
01:20:59.000So, He goes to court, accepts this plea deal where he is going to pay a $1,000 fine.
01:21:06.000He's going to write in a letter of apology to the chief of the Capitol Police.
01:21:09.000And then if he doesn't break any more laws, this will all be dropped three months from now.
01:21:15.000And if it had been a Republican, they would never let this happen.
01:21:19.000And also the second he accepts the plea deal we get another video about an even more blatant, like it's even more clear what was going on.
01:21:26.000And so as much as I think social media can warp perspective or you shouldn't share videos that aren't verified, it is interesting that he gets a very sweet deal and as soon as we think it's about to fall, Go under the rug.
01:21:37.000Someone out there is like, no, you guys really need to see what happened.
01:21:40.000And that's a good use of Twitter, in my opinion.
01:21:44.000For all the bad stuff that we see on Twitter, I don't want to suppress, you know, a lot of people sharing false news, although I think it's ridiculous that they do it.
01:21:51.000But I like the debates that it starts because it's been, for me, fun writing about the way people are reacting to these things, whether it's in our journalism sphere or just people at large, you know, the way they The way they're interpreting reality is so different.
01:22:06.000Even with something like this, this maybe not so much, but you know, I think of the Rittenhouse video or the George Floyd video and the way we could all look at that video and have way different interpretations, even though it looks like it's a, it should be objective reality.
01:22:40.000So, like, what Steve likes to say is, like, chasing the shiny toys.
01:22:45.000And so, you know, we try to focus on, you know, for example, the speaker race and just, like, the really nitty gritty of just what's going on.
01:23:29.000We want to make sure that, you know, because after the speaker vote, we've got a whole nother job ahead of us to make sure that the speaker, you know, aligns with everything that we want, you know, him to do.
01:23:42.000So, so that's why it was funny because I was telling Steve, I'm like, I'm like, they talk about current events.
01:24:27.000People should understand what the singularity means.
01:24:29.000The moment the AI generates the ability to improve itself, It's like thousands of years of human development to create an AI and then a fraction of a second where the AI exponentially magnifies itself and becomes something beyond our comprehension.
01:24:45.000So I have his book and I tell Joe and I'm like, I'm really scared to read it, to be honest.
01:25:02.000One thing that War Room really prides ourselves on is just being ahead, six months, a year ahead.
01:25:12.000Talking about the future and the singularity, Neuralink, all that stuff, the marriage with machinery, these cars.
01:25:17.000Yeah, I mean, even AI, like, I'm telling you, even the app, I mean, full disclaimer, I mean, I use ChatGPT.
01:25:27.000If Joe's watching, I hope he's sickened.
01:25:29.000He's probably mad at me, yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:25:31.000No, but I wanted to, I mean, that's the thing.
01:25:35.000Why, because it makes it- She uses ChatGPT and TikTok, who is this woman?
01:25:38.000No, I mean, it's, That's the way it's going.
01:25:43.000I think it's fascinating that we have hypothesized exactly what AI is gonna do, and it's going to do it, and we know it's gonna do it, and that is, we'll create a robo-car, for instance, and say, your job is to get person from point A to point B, and then robo-car will say, the fastest way to do that is to go 300 miles an hour.
01:26:01.000You know, speed limits are inhibiting the system.
01:26:04.000Then they'll try to shut it down, and it'll say, shutting me down inhibits the system.
01:26:08.000We know that this kind of thing will eventually happen no matter what.
01:26:12.000The machine will eventually decide that human interaction is a detriment to its system because humans are imperfect in how they code these things.
01:26:18.000They won't be able to predict the loopholes that will occur in the algorithms.
01:26:23.000I don't think there's any turning back from it now, which is what's scary.
01:26:26.000And it's so much sooner than we thought.
01:26:50.000Mid-journey is great because it can help you conceptualize things, but chat GPT I find to be almost useless because it doesn't actually ever tell you anything.
01:26:57.000Think about how fast Midjourney has changed in the year of using it.
01:27:04.000I think there's transhumanists who really like the idea of Neuralink, like Ray Kurzweil, and they want to upload their consciousness and be immortal forever, and that's the thing I worry about in the future, where I literally might have to have a fight with my kids on them wanting to be immortal.
01:27:17.000Instead of sneaking out, it's like, can I plug my brain in?
01:27:21.000There's a show called Upload, and it's pretty good, but it just basically turns into leftist propaganda, and it's kind of laughable.
01:27:47.000And as soon as you can't pay, you're gone.
01:27:50.000And for the people who are broke, you get this like pay per megabyte system where you freeze until someone reloads you and then you can start moving again.
01:27:59.000And then so they try to create a free open source version where you can upload your consciousness to this open source world.
01:28:05.000And it's a plot by the billionaires to just murder 10 million poor people by uploading them into a system that doesn't actually exist and then destroying it all.
01:28:18.000I would only just say, you can't upload your consciousness.
01:28:25.000All you'll be able to do is create a demonic facsimile of your personality that will imitate you long after you're dead and burning in hell.
01:28:34.000Do people feel called to be like the first to do this?
01:28:37.000Like does anyone feel like this is something they're already doing?
01:28:41.000When the chip implants first came out, they were viral videos.
01:28:44.000News reports of people being like, I'm so excited to get the chip implanted in my hand.
01:28:51.000So these people who are so excited about walking up to the door and then scanning their hand, it only was like three buildings they were ever able to use and now they got the stupid thing stuck in them.
01:28:58.000Yeah, I mean, and Neuralink just got approved by the FDA for human trials after a lot of failed tests with animals.
01:29:04.000And I've been imploring Elon Musk for a long time on Twitter.
01:29:08.000I would love to do an interview with you about Neuralink.
01:29:10.000He said multiple times he hasn't done a technical interview about Neuralink.
01:29:14.000I would really, really like to sit with him and talk about the future of Neuralink because it's very interesting to me.
01:29:18.000What they're doing with Neuralink right now is curing the blind, the deaf, and the paralyzed.
01:29:22.000I know, because there's a lot of beautiful things that they are doing, but the consequences into the deep in the future, I know.
01:29:31.000It's like, it's a beautiful thing that they can give sight to the blind and all these things, or make a wounded veteran walk again.
01:29:36.000However, the deep future consequences of that are terrifying.
01:29:40.000And for every time they get it right, how many times they get it wrong and they're not telling you about someone who is deeply harmed by it.
01:29:49.000This is the interesting thing about the human brain and technology and like space is part of that, right?
01:29:54.000There are people who feel called no matter what to push forward.
01:29:57.000And in some ways that feels very admirable to the human spirit.
01:30:00.000It like reminds me of when people are going west and they're covered wagons and the opportunity and all of that.
01:30:04.000And I like that aspect of it, but I don't trust the technology and I don't trust our ability to, you know, obviously like the reason Pandora's
01:30:12.000Box is such a saying, you can't put it back, right?
01:30:14.000We can't put these things back if we decide, oh, we made a mistake.
01:30:17.000Theoretically, we could have been like, oh, don't go into that forest, you know, this area is not able to be settled,
01:31:07.000And he had an interview with Joe Allen.
01:31:13.000He had asked, you know, like, am I, you know, he talked about getting Neuralink and, you know, it's very controversial and stuff.
01:31:22.000And that was one of the interviews where I was just so torn and it was, I can tell it was just, you know, like, I mean, he recently passed away and that was his question.
01:31:36.000Like, am I a candidate, you know, to get Neuralink?
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01:35:29.000We're going to be playing on it tomorrow.
01:35:30.000It's going to be a lot of fun, but we're trying to figure out the legalities of launching Poker With The Boys the Friday night after show, and it's really hard to do.
01:36:18.000And it's just like they're trying to pretend to be manly when it's just like UFC... Well, I'll just put it this way.
01:36:25.000There's a million and one sponsors that could have taken that would have made them a lot of money and they did not need to take the hundred million dollars.
01:36:30.000The hundred million dollars is excellent leverage for them to use against any other business to get a good deal.
01:36:36.000And it would be less, but you'd save your dignity.
01:36:38.000So I should've looked into this before I asked this question, but when they sponsor UFC, that means that the alcohol at the event is, or like the beer, is presumably from Anheuser-Busch, right?
01:36:49.000Yeah, and in the center of the octagon it says- It's gonna have the brand, I get that.
01:36:53.000So is there a chance that one of the components of this is that it's all gonna be like heavily subsidized so people buy it and are like, oh I do like this beer.
01:37:01.000Or- Is there something else at play that we're not getting and attempting to deliver?
01:37:04.000I'm wondering if- What component of the deal would require the venues or whatever to carry Bud Light?
01:37:10.000I don't know if it will, because a lot of these venues are just private venues, right?
01:37:16.000UFC doesn't own the casinos where they have these things.
01:37:18.000I think they would have to buy them out.
01:38:29.000I would say right now, my bigger concern is, I've met way too many people who've quit, resigned their commissions because of how awful it is.
01:38:37.000For me, look, I can't tell you if it's good or bad, I don't know.
01:38:40.000What I can tell you is, I've met way too many people who are like, I've resigned my commission because it's awful and I don't want to be there anymore.
01:38:46.000It's woke, it's terrible, it's not worth it.
01:38:48.000And so, if it were me, I'd say, like, I ain't going anywhere near it.
01:38:54.000I don't think that's the best path forward.
01:39:27.000That leaves me with $84 at the end of the month.
01:39:29.000And then, if I want to actually save for retirement by the time I'm 67, I need $1,000 per month starting right now, which means negative $900, whatever.
01:39:36.000And I'm like, have you considered, I don't know, living with roommates?
01:40:36.000She talks about how tuition was way cheaper back then.
01:40:38.000I'm like, right, yeah, supply and demand.
01:40:40.000Boomers did not go to college the same degree Millennials and Gen Z does, so with a smaller supply of students available, the universities had to lower wages to be competitive to try and get people to come because they didn't want to.
01:40:52.000It's not absolutely that way, but it was true that back then you did not need to go to college to get paid well, and it's actually the college trap This demand of young people to go to college has created this circumstance, which has been detrimental to the economy.
01:41:05.000But I also do believe a lot of factors play a role, such as women in the workplace, doubling the supply of workers without expanding the supply of jobs, just creates a rapid price shock.
01:41:15.000But I'll just say this, if you're 18 years old right now, Gen Z, and you start, if you get a job at Starbucks right now, In four years of working at Starbucks, you will get multiple raises, and if you work hard and so desire, you could eventually find yourself a general manager at a very young age.
01:41:34.000Maybe assistant manager at four years, but maybe you're getting $40,000 to $50,000 a year.
01:41:39.000In four years from now, it's probably going to be $65,000 to $70,000.
01:41:42.000And your friends will graduate college bragging about their degrees they'll never use in massive debt, while you are the one paying for everything.
01:41:50.000I don't know if that's better, But, uh, I told this to all my friends when they were going to college and I was 18.
01:41:56.000They were like, I'm going to go for this, I'm going to go for that.
01:41:58.000And I'm like, dude, you're going to get out of college in debt with no experience and no job.
01:42:03.000You're going to be struggling to pay things off and living at home.
01:42:05.000And I'll be on my fourth year of, you know, whatever job I'm in with more experience, getting raises and paying for my own place and being independent.
01:42:16.000I read an article when I was 16 that broke down the math.
01:42:18.000If you start working at 18 minimum wage and work on average, you'll retire with like a million dollars more than a college graduate.
01:42:26.000Because you have no debt and four years of work experience ahead of college grads.
01:42:31.000But everybody wants the honor of like, I have a good job.
01:42:35.000Yeah, all my friends who after high school went into the trades were doing way better than me with houses, started families younger than I did, and just generally were doing better.
01:42:44.000There was a girl I went to high school with who her mom was like a hairdresser.
01:42:47.000She knew immediately that she was also going to be a hairdresser, and I remember thinking she bought a house before a lot of people I knew.
01:42:53.000She was in a very stable, I think she's married now, and she was also doing stuff like going to New York Fashion Week and doing hair.
01:42:59.000I mean, her job gave her a lot of opportunities because she was advancing more professionally.
01:43:04.000And essentially, I mean, a lot of hairdressers kind of function like independent contractors, right?
01:43:08.000It was very cool to see what she was accomplishing when the rest of us were like, we don't know what we're doing.
01:43:37.000And as I got older, I'm like, This kinda sucks, you know?
01:43:41.000And I think especially like immigration, like if you're the child of immigrants, there are generations before you that potentially, you know, were doing jobs that they are trying to say, go to college so you can sit in the air conditioning and work at the computer.
01:43:54.000Yes, they didn't want me to work like 12, 14 hours a day at a dry cleaners, because that's what my parents did for six days a week over like 45 years, you know?
01:44:05.000But like in me, retrospect, I'm like, Oh my god, mom and dad, you guys worked for yourselves.
01:44:24.000I just think we should acknowledge that college is a model that has built in debt.
01:44:28.000And the federal government has not stopped.
01:44:31.000Despite the fact that we know there's a student loan crisis, that this is something Biden continuously campaigns on, and he's going to forgive student loan debt, They still issue student loans.
01:44:39.000So it's a broken system that they're like, no, no, we'll pay it off, but also the rest of you can go into debt.
01:44:43.000I mean, if this was really bad, they would stop doing it.
01:44:45.000I mean, it's definitely become such a scam.
01:44:48.000So, you know, this young woman, she's like, I make 20 bucks an hour.
01:45:20.000I mean, maybe Boomer's head house is at 23.
01:45:22.000I think Gen Z also, there's that whole glam of like social media of like people like Gen Z just yeah, like seeing like, they're making millions.
01:45:39.000Tim is the emperor on the wall asking everyone why the people don't just eat meat instead of tree bark.
01:45:47.000And that, my friend, is the most laughable excuse I have ever heard.
01:45:53.000Well, this is what I've heard my whole life.
01:45:55.000From every position I've ever been in, any amount of success was always an excuse that I was privileged.
01:46:00.000So it's like, no matter how much hard work, no matter how much sacrifice, someone always says, you are privileged and lucky, and that's the only explanation.
01:46:09.000Well, wait, Tim, you didn't graduate high school, right?
01:46:57.000And then when the opportunity arises, I will have the resources and the ammunition required to do it.
01:47:02.000When I worked for Vice, I spent $300 a month sleeping on my friend's couch.
01:47:06.000Oh, Vice paid me enough, I could've got a nice apartment in Williamsburg and then I would've had no savings and been living paycheck to paycheck.
01:47:21.000And so what I end up finding is that, you know, stories like from this woman is 1,500 bucks a month in rent.
01:47:28.000And I'm like, oh, okay, well, I was hosting documentaries traveling around the world and people thought I was doing well when I was living on a couch.
01:47:34.000They assume I must be like, nah, being paid relatively, I think I was probably getting like 30 bucks an hour or something relative when my advisor was paying me.
01:47:55.000He works, uh, one guy worked 16 hours a day, every day with no days off.
01:48:00.000And then after a couple weeks, you get what's called a mandatory time off, and he fought it and begged not to let them give him time off.
01:48:07.000He was giving all the money to his kids.
01:48:09.000And so I'm like, this guy moves to the United States, and it's the American dream to work 16 hours a day, seven days a week, because he knows it gives his kids a better life.
01:48:17.000And I'm like, my only fear is that those kids will not understand the sacrifice he made for them.
01:48:22.000That's how they say, like the one generation earns the money, the second generation understands how to keep earning the money, and the third generation spoils it all.
01:49:46.000But he came out in support of an assault weapons ban.
01:49:49.000And I love it because I'm like, well, this man has passed the test that proves he's a piece of human garbage.
01:49:54.000And that test is either he is willfully betraying the Constitution, which yes, I think he is, or he only now cares about guns because it happened to him.
01:50:04.000Any way you cut it, he's a bad person.
01:51:11.000I'm gonna have to change some articles.
01:51:13.000I did read a lot about who the characters were based on, and the dude who was the basis for that character was actually considered to be very brutal, but in the UK they celebrate him as a hero.
01:51:23.000So that's part of Battle Kettle Creek, I believe, right?
01:51:26.000A lot of the book I did, The Last Ghost of the Confederacy, was in the town where the Battle Kettle Creek was, and the British did pay a lot of Indians to attack the people there, and there's some of the gnarliest, most violent The Brits did?
01:51:39.000I'm reading like the reports of these murders where they're killing the kids in front of the parents and stuff
01:51:43.000The Brits did the Brits were hiring. Oh, yeah, it was it's so brutal
01:51:48.000They say it's one of the bloodiest revolutionary battles.
01:51:50.000Wow. Yeah But that scene where the dude finds his kid and his wife
01:55:00.000The idea that she's from a wealthy person and whatever else, that's interesting that if you believe this idea that her father's super elite and they're powerful, that instead of sending her into politics, they sent her into culture.
01:55:12.000And in fact, she ultimately has way more influence there.
01:55:14.000And whether you like it or not, that's interesting and that's impressive.
01:59:54.000So you'd put it on and it'd be like... And you're like, okay, that's cool, but, you know, if I wanna sing, you know, fastball the way, I gotta put on Q101.
02:00:03.000Yes, I used to record onto cassette and then bounce those cassettes onto other cassettes.
02:00:12.000It was like those AM, FM, like alarm clocks.
02:00:17.000I would take my mom's and I would record it.
02:00:20.000Yeah, the DJ would talk over the beginning of the song and be like, stop!
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