A reporter for the Washington Post has doxed the creator behind the popular TikTok account "Libs of TikTok" and the backlash has been fierce. We talk about the implications of this, and why it's so hypocritical. Plus, a new Jon Stewart show, an ethics complaint against Jen Psaki, and Black Lives Matter.
00:00:04.000The big news today is that a reporter for the Washington Post has doxed the creator behind the popular Twitter account Libs of TikTok.
00:00:13.000This is an account that criticizes the left and often highlights publicly available posts from these people.
00:00:20.000It's really interesting that this is considered a bad thing.
00:00:22.000Like, somebody posts a video on TikTok, somebody else shares it, and they're like, stop sharing it!
00:00:26.000It's like, you meant for it to be shared, you know, you post it on social media.
00:00:30.000The interesting thing about this story is that shortly after it was published, there was a major backlash among many on the right, because not only was the name of the person who created the account published, but also their private home address.
00:00:41.000Now, there's a lot to get into, into the nuance of what that means, but we here at TimCast, our great reporters, dug through some public records, and sure enough, the address that they linked to was listed as the private residence of the creator of Libs of TikTok.
00:00:54.000There is a lot to go through there, so let me just stress it.
00:00:57.000The Washington Post came out not too long ago, a couple hours ago, I think, saying we never link to any of their private details, which is the craziest and boldest outright lie, because we have the archival article And it's got the link.
00:01:13.000I can click the link and show you the address.
00:01:49.000We've got also in the media, an ethics complaint potentially against Jen Psaki because she's disparaging Fox News while negotiating a contract with MSNBC.
00:02:34.000This new book is called Buy Pillow and it is written by Buy Pillow in conjunction with promo code PostUpMyPillow.com and essentially it's just every word on the page, on the first page on the left it says buy and on the right it says pillow all the way through the book.
00:03:44.000I've been thinking about this a lot over the last six months, and I had a conversation with Michael Malice yesterday that really kind of nailed some pieces in.
00:04:27.000Before we get started, my friends, head over to TimCast.com, become a member, because we are going to have a members-only segment coming up for you just after the show.
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00:04:38.000And this morning, this is a big part of the story, this morning, when the story came out, the narrative among, you know, journalists and politicos and commentators was that this reporter from the Washington Post had revealed the name of this creator.
00:04:51.000Of course, the original article actually did dox the address of the creator.
00:04:55.000We did some digging here at TimCast.com and found through public record searches.
00:05:00.000I wouldn't call it difficult, but I wouldn't call it easy.
00:05:03.000There's easy, you know, public record search, then there's like medium, a little bit more than normal.
00:05:07.000But we did discover that the address they posted and then quickly removed was the private home address of the creator.
00:05:12.000I bring this up now because we're going to get into it, but if you really do respect the reporting we're doing and challenging the lies and the manipulations, then we need your support as members because that's how we fund our reporters and we have on-the-ground reporters.
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00:05:36.000It's a pay-what-you-will model, and it's a risky business model, but I think it's the right business model because I don't want to hide important information or put explosive details like this behind paywalls.
00:05:45.000So we just do bonus segments as a sort of, you know, extra.
00:05:53.000We already have more daily active users on CNN, but alas, it is now being reported that CNN actually does have 150,000 subscribers, so they're definitely bigger than us.
00:06:02.000But with your help, sharing this video will be bigger than them at that point as well.
00:06:06.000Let's read this first story from TimCast.com.
00:06:09.000Washington Post publishes home address of popular critic of left, Libs of TikTok.
00:06:15.000Reporter Taylor Lorenz has previously claimed to suffer from PTSD from being doxxed in a similar way.
00:06:20.000Now, I want to show you a little bit here, and I got to explain a lot of the nuance, all right?
00:06:23.000They say an article by a technology reporter at the Washington Post provided the home address of the creator of the Libs of TikTok Twitter account.
00:06:31.000In an article meant to expose the person behind the popular account, reporter Taylor Lorenz linked to a critical piece of information that disclosed the private home address of the person running Libs of TikTok.
00:06:40.000After the ensuing backlash, the Post removed the link.
00:06:43.000TimCast confirmed that the address published is documented as the creator's private home address.
00:06:49.000Now, I will say, we were all in the newsroom going over this, investigating details.
00:06:54.000Everybody kind of contributed to working on this story.
00:06:57.000And we did end up pulling public records, which confirmed the original story published by the Washington Post contained a link to two different links to two addresses.
00:07:07.000One address was the address of the creator of Libs of TikTok.
00:07:11.000The other address was the address of family members.
00:07:17.000If I pull up the archive to prove they're lying about this, it will expose the name of the creator of Libs of TikTok, which I don't want to do.
00:08:09.000If you really don't believe us, go search for it yourself.
00:08:11.000I think we're being ridiculous at this point to be like, oh, we're not going to say the name, even though literally it's all over Twitter everywhere.
00:08:30.000So, we have this from Christine Karate Kelly.
00:08:34.000Statement from Cameron Barr re-reporting from Taylor Lorenz.
00:08:38.000They said, Taylor Lorenz is an accomplished and diligent journalist whose reporting methods comport entirely with the Washington Post's professional standards.
00:08:46.000Chaya Rajchik, in her management of the Libs of TikTok Twitter account and in media interviews, has had significant impact on public discourse and her identity had become public knowledge on social media.
00:08:57.000We did not publish or link to any details about her personal life.
00:09:01.000Cameron Barr, senior managing editor of the Washington Post, Tim Pool can confirm that is a lie!
00:09:07.000I tweeted, this is the game they play, effing evil people as evil as they come.
00:09:23.000It is archive.ph slash capital B, lowercase e, capital V. I believe it's an L, lowercase l, and lowercase o.
00:09:31.000And they linked to, right here, if I click that right now, it will show you the address of Libs of TikTok.
00:09:38.000We pulled up private- uh, we pulled up public records.
00:09:40.000It was a- a- a paid public records search, a little bit deeper than you normally go, and confirmed this is documented as the private home residence of the creator of Libs of TikTok.
00:09:49.000I- I apologize that we've come to this point.
00:09:52.000We had deep ethical conundrums and debates in the newsroom about whether or not we expose the Washington Post for having done this, because we're effectively amplifying their docs by doing so.
00:10:02.000But I said, anything that happens at this point is on the Washington Post.
00:10:06.000Anything bad that happens is on them, and we need to call it out, because if we say nothing, they are not held to account for having done it.
00:10:22.000But they also published another address, which is the, we believe, based on the reporting that we've done, is the family address of the individual.
00:10:57.000So in the statement from Taylor to you, she's saying I did not publish.
00:11:01.000In the statement from the Washington Post, which came out like 12 hours after the actual article itself went live, They claim they did not link after they themselves positively went into the archive, removed the link, which we can only now see in the archive version.
00:11:55.000And did you check the address In the link you posted before publishing it, and her response was, I did not publish the private home address, and then directed me to Washington Post PR.
00:12:06.000If that's the only thing she has to say, I can only respond with, that is an incorrect statement, outright falsifiable, because I'm not going to publish the documents that we have because it's a paid search.
00:12:19.000You can dig up public records that are not I'll put it this way.
00:12:23.000It's publicly available, but it's through a paid investigative service to get these records.
00:12:34.000We're not going to publish them, but I can say as a statement of fact, Washington Post did publish the private home address of Libs of TikTok.
00:12:42.000Is her contention, because this has to do with the fact that Libs, I guess, was a real estate salesperson, and that this was the registered address of her as a business entity working in real estate sales, and so Taylor's trying to hide behind that?
00:13:00.000Even if that's the case, what is the good in publishing that?
00:13:46.000If they would like to explain that, Feel free to.
00:13:49.000As it stands right now, we pulled public records, it's a private home address, and they published the address.
00:13:56.000Anyone else can do it, and anything that happens at this point is on the Washington Post for doing it.
00:13:59.000I've got to point out some, I guess, nuance, because posting something and posting a link to something are different, as a social media administrator.
00:14:07.000And if someone posts something illegal, they go to jail.
00:14:10.000If someone posts a link to it, they're allowed to.
00:14:34.000So, if no one knows the name of the person, then it doesn't matter what is public.
00:14:38.000If you then say, here's their name, and here's a link to their address, you've doxed them, you've published your address, and I gotta be honest, that is the nuclear bomb of doxing.
00:14:48.000They're trying to argue this is not doxing.
00:14:50.000When you post their name, and then with a link next to it saying, here's their home address, you've doxed them.
00:14:59.000The thing that I think we do need to add, though, is that the Washington Post is not the one that did all this work.
00:15:06.000And Taylor Lorenz is certainly not the one who did all this work.
00:15:09.000She's piggybacking off of work that was done by pro-Antifa accounts over the weekend.
00:15:14.000People that have been doxing online accounts on the right and conservatives for years with ongoing harassment campaigns, some of which, by the way, we're starting to hear may receive foreign government funding.
00:15:31.000Well, what I can say is, what is very much ignored by this, is that Taylor Lorenz did receive information from activists, published it as if it was her story, and used the Washington Post.
00:15:46.000Matthew Iglesias of Vox.com, which is a left-wing publication, he's no longer with them anymore, but he's one of the founders.
00:15:52.000He started it, but then he left, yeah.
00:15:56.000He said this article is basically framed as libs of TikTok bad, but then it provides you with no real thesis or argument as to why that's the case.
00:16:11.000He said it turns out that the crux of the story, who is this person, turns out she's a random crank of no, of, you know, no public notoriety.
00:16:42.000But but you lift them up Seamus, what do you mean all the children of earth?
00:16:46.000Oh, I gotta I gotta I gotta pull something up real quick when you go to the SPJ ethics code and I think I'm gonna have to shrink this so you can see it.
00:16:55.000There we go You can see minimize harm in large black bold letters and it says Recognize that legal access to information differs from an ethical justification to publish or broadcast it.
00:17:14.000I think the AP has theirs, but this is SPJ, which is what they teach you in schools.
00:17:18.000And the point being brought up here is, you minimize harm.
00:17:22.000Within minimize harm, they literally say, just because information may be public or you have legal access to it, doesn't mean you should broadcast it.
00:17:31.000Which is the challenge we had in our newsroom, because we're like, we can confirm this is a private home address, but do we push that out?
00:17:37.000Because that'll potentially cause harm.
00:17:39.000You know, this is the— Real quick, it was a coin toss for us.
00:17:42.000We ultimately decided that the public's right to know what major corporations are doing with the power of billionaires outweighed the potential harms, because the harm of not exposing this was greater than the harms to the individual.
00:17:55.000So with that, you know, I apologize to libs of TikTok for being caught up in this, but we are not the ones who posted the edges.
00:18:00.000It's a tough one, because do you expose Medusa to the crowd to show them that it's Medusa?
00:18:05.000Because if they see it, they'll turn to stone.
00:18:09.000Well, I mean, and what are they exposing?
00:18:10.000This person makes videos on the internet that make fun of other people.
00:18:14.000They're just posting other things that people have said, which were already ridiculous in and of themselves.
00:18:19.000There would be a story if there were some, I don't know, funded effort behind this that was being obfuscated, or if there were some nefarious, you know, organization behind the lives, something like that.
00:18:57.000But you can tell that story without saying their name.
00:19:01.000Saying the name only serves to maximize potential harm.
00:19:06.000Well, so what I was going to say, this is the opposite argument that you hear in, uh, that came up in the Katanji Brown-Jackson hearings when she was talking about some of the decisions in an article she had written when she was in law school regarding sex offender registries.
00:19:21.000And the idea being that if you make a mistake once in your life, it shouldn't follow you for the rest of your life forever.
00:19:27.000So the idea was to minimize harm to potential sex offenders or to convicted sex offenders that over time you would be able to reduce the amount of time essentially that you would appear in the registry.
00:19:38.000That's the exact argument that was being made for sex offenders, right?
00:19:43.000Versus this one, which is minimize harm completely for just the subjects of journalism.
00:19:48.000So Taylor Renz, right, is maximizing harm to someone who runs An aggregator of, again, public videos that are already out there.
00:19:58.000Videos, again, that are made to be shared.
00:20:01.000And obviously it's, you know, it's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy.
00:20:04.000That's kind of the main thing, the main thrust of all this.
00:20:06.000Because we can say all day long that, oh, it's hypocrisy, you're doing, you're exposing, you're writing, you're doing all this stuff, but it's not hypocrisy.
00:20:33.000Because keep in mind, Taylor Lorenz used to be a TikTok journalist herself.
00:20:40.000And she would go in specifically posting videos from Kellyanne Conway's 13-year-old daughter and all sorts of other people across TikTok and Instagram.
00:20:48.000And she was doxing Pamela Geller's daughters at the same time.
00:20:52.000At the end of the day, Taylor Lorenz is jealous that Libs of TikTok was able to become more influential and more effective and do more long-lasting reporting just from looking at TikTok videos than Taylor Lorenz will ever do in her entire life.
00:21:08.000You said earlier that there was like foreign actors potentially involved with activist groups that are working in the doxing.
00:21:29.000It is a rabbit hole, but the idea is that the person who conducted the initial docs is actually receiving funding from foreign governments.
00:21:41.000The Washington Post is not exactly the most reputable and responsible publication out there, so I'm sure you all remember that these are the people who spread the mistruths about Nick Sandman.
00:21:53.000And part of why I'm bringing that up right now is because even though you mentioned it isn't necessarily illegal for them to link to the information they link to, we could all agree it's extremely irresponsible.
00:22:01.000And when you looked at the Nick Sandman case, There's sort of a similar situation where they made the entire country hate this kid and then in the name of the story, the Covington school kids, they told you where he went to school.
00:22:12.000So it would be very easy for someone to find and hurt him and the people he was with based on that information.
00:23:28.000It resulted, potentially, in laws getting passed.
00:23:32.000Now, why would they try to target the individual and try to destroy their lives?
00:23:36.000Because wokeness is not popular and it cannot win without brute force trying to destroy.
00:23:40.000When Jon Stewart tries to get woke, It fails.
00:23:43.000That's what they say, get woke, go broke, right?
00:23:45.000So they have to, like, this is the funny thing.
00:23:48.000If someone is showing people what woke people are like, they have to shut it down.
00:23:51.000They're like, no, no, no, no, don't, don't.
00:23:53.000Well, people, because people are mocking it.
00:23:56.000But Jon Stewart's version of being woke was meant to be a serious, prominent personality trying to get you to believe in woke things, and it's not working.
00:24:04.000No, I remember he, one of the first things he came out against was calling Harry Potter anti-Semitic.
00:24:09.000And then he went on this whole sort of like retconning of that, where he actually went in and had them change the video title on the YouTube card, in order to, because it originally said... Oh, that's right, the Goblins!
00:24:43.000I think he's a great a great wizard I'd even say a grand wizard that Harry Potter, but I wasn't calling him racist in any way I think well there's kind of been a lot of John Stewart worship for some bizarre reason over the past couple years And I think that's because when comparing him to John Oliver or Trevor Noah He's significantly less funny, but I've heard a lot of people say things like when John Stewart was the person making informational left-wing comedy it was all fantastic, but I I gotta be honest, he very much did the clown nose on, clown nose off thing that we've sometimes complained about.
00:25:16.000I remember he was getting into an argument with Tucker Carlson a couple years ago, and it was on Crossfire.
00:25:22.000That's right, it was a viral clip, and he's going on about all this misinformation Carlson is spreading, and Tucker says, well, you've spread a lot of misinformation on your show, and his response is, it's a comedy show.
00:25:31.000And I'm sorry, but when you're presenting yourself as a comedy show that spreads information to help keep people informed, you don't get to fall back on, I was just kidding when you get the facts wrong.
00:25:41.000So we did an episode about a year ago when Luke was here, and he and I got into it over this, over Jon Stewart.
00:25:48.000You weren't here that night, but I think you three were.
00:27:11.000Yeah, I mean, I just want to say, I know you were going to say something, but I just want to drop this in there first before we potentially shift to something else.
00:27:19.000It's not to say that Jon Stewart's been wrong about everything he's ever done or everything he's ever said.
00:27:23.000It's just that, like you said, he was on the leading edge of all of this.
00:27:27.000And whenever somebody comes out and says something even remotely sensible, conservatives go, oh, this guy gets it.
00:27:46.000And was talking about the coronavirus and the Wuhan laboratory of bat coronaviruses across the street from the market where they told us they found the bat coronavirus.
00:28:12.000It's hysterical that saying that it's possible that the virus that originated right outside of a virus factory.
00:28:20.000It was insane to say maybe that came from the virus factory and it was sensible to say that it mutated in a bat and then someone ate the soup at a wet market and that's how it all happened.
00:28:29.000Now when Jon Stewart came out, semi out of retirement, Disheveled and Uncle Bear saying all of these things.
00:28:56.000He probably talked to people and they were like, dude, you're getting these things wrong.
00:28:59.000And he was like, but those are conservative things.
00:29:01.000And they're like, listen, he probably went, hmm.
00:29:03.000So Bill Maher, I think, is trying to play both sides.
00:29:06.000Call out the woke because the woke goes too far, but don't actually entertain the fact the left is so far gone that Bill Maher is conservative by today's.
00:29:15.000Like if they call me a conservative, Bill Maher is to the right of me on a bunch of things.
00:29:19.000But I think Bill Maher recognized that, and so he's like, I'm going to call out the woke a little bit.
00:29:25.000Jon Stewart comes back from his semi-retirement, and he's like, okay, what am I doing?
00:29:29.000And they're like, here's what's happening if you want to be a liberal guy.
00:29:32.000And he went, I'll just say whatever I have to say to be relevant.
00:29:36.000And so he was like, okay, what's that?
00:29:41.000And then sure enough, it turns out people actually don't like any of that stuff.
00:29:43.000They don't like what Jon Stewart's presenting on.
00:29:45.000I think a really good example to understand the blue checks are wrong and crazy is that
00:29:50.000when the mask mandate was ended, all these videos emerge of people celebrating. There's a
00:29:54.000video of a flight attendant singing and dancing with a garbage bag. They're throwing their
00:29:59.000masks in and I'm like, everybody hated that, except for blue check mark journalists who are like,
00:30:05.000you should sue Delta if they make you take your mask off.
00:30:08.000If you go in on the tweet about the DC Metro has taken it off, but then a buddy of mine who rides it pretty regularly says they don't really enforce it anyway.
00:30:17.000He said he was on it once and somebody wasn't wearing it.
00:30:21.000And then someone said something to the Metro guy who was on there and said, hey, this guy doesn't have his mask on.
00:30:26.000The Metro guy was like, I'm not a cop, man.
00:30:30.000I said, well, neither of the flight attendants, right?
00:30:32.000And also it wasn't a law to begin with.
00:30:33.000But if you go and look at the tweet from the DC Metro and Marina Medvin had posted this, and she was screenshotting all the quote tweets over the DC Metro rescinding the mask mandate.
00:30:44.000And all they're saying, by the way, is it's optional, right?
00:30:46.000It's optional to wear, which, by the way, if you go to Asia, China, South Korea, Japan, mask wearing, if you're sick, is pretty normal.
00:30:53.000It's always been around, certainly since they dealt with SARS, Navy flu, and some of the other things.
00:30:57.000But with with this one people were freaking out and then G prime had a really good tweet this morning about it Where he said just imagine if you will you're mid-flight in a flying coffin You could have you could enter the voice comes over the intercom they start taking the masks Spreaded by the plague and the worst thing of all They're smiling.
00:31:19.000The guy who tweeted, what did he tweet?
00:31:21.000That I was on a plane with their masks off and that this is MAGA air or something like that.
00:32:10.000These people will chase you five or six at a time.
00:32:12.000You might have to run away from them screaming.
00:32:15.000If you go anywhere near a Whole Foods, if you go anywhere near a supermarket, airports, they congregate in these spaces, Ian, I'm telling you.
00:32:57.000The problem I'm having with satire, and this is why I disliked Stephen Colbert for so long with his old show, his satire show, is that there's so much lying going on right now in the universe that I need honesty.
00:33:06.000And if the people I trust start saying things that aren't true just for an effect, I gotta disengage.
00:33:12.000I can't listen to that stuff or respect it.
00:33:26.000Maybe we can get Chris Wallace to bake it for us.
00:33:29.000All right, here's the story, my friends.
00:33:30.000From Axios, they say Warner Brothers Discovery has suspended all external marketing spend for CNN Plus and has laid off CNN's longtime chief financial officer as it weighs what to do with the subscription streaming service moving forward.
00:33:44.000Everybody was saying they had 10,000 subscribers.
00:33:46.000You know, they had 10,000 daily active users.
00:33:48.000Axio says they have 150,000 subscribers so far.
00:33:52.000Let me just put that in some numbers for you.
00:33:54.000If they're getting between three and $6, we're looking at between, you know, like what, eight, around 8 million maybe they're making per month?
00:34:03.000Now they spent, I think, 250 million to set it up.
00:34:05.000So they're deep in the hole and not gonna recover that anytime soon.
00:34:09.000Certainly not as much as they thought it would be, but still a lot of money.
00:34:11.000That being said, my friends, If you think we're better than them, please go to TimCast.com.
00:34:16.000Become members because we should have more than that.
00:35:31.000So think about that in 24 hours, about 400 every hour, about 400 people or so.
00:35:39.000Is that, is that, is that, is that right?
00:35:40.000That's like a, that's like an average Telegram chat room, you know, kind of thing.
00:35:45.000I mean, I actually do think I have more people in my Telegram chat actively, uh, on a regular basis than that.
00:35:51.000And I know I do not market or pay for anything.
00:35:54.000I would like to see the ratio of other companies that have subscription models, like how many subscribers TimCast has versus how many people land on it every day.
00:36:03.000Well, you get an idea of the ratio of how many people actually pay for it and how many people actually watch it, and that number's pretty important.
00:36:09.000Yeah, I was going to mention this earlier.
00:36:11.000I'm going to sound like a broken record here, but I still don't understand how CNN saw that they were doing abysmally in the ratings and thought, you know what?
00:36:17.000We're going to get people to pay for this.
00:36:19.000Why would anyone pay more for stuff you don't want to watch?
00:37:26.000People want either like live form stuff like this, not scripted, direct interaction, actual human engagement with, you know, like actual humans.
00:37:35.000Obviously Ian is, you know, kind of a robot, questionable in that sense.
00:37:39.000But, um, but you know, we accept you as you are.
00:37:41.000And, and it was just an abysmal failure because again, you could, that was Jeffrey Katzenberg, by the way, it was behind that, um, the former DreamWorks and Disney guy who you could tell had some meetings.
00:38:27.000If you can't talk to your subscribers and vice versa, then it's, no one wants... I don't think that it's just that it's one-way or two-way.
00:38:35.000I agree that that could have something to do with it, but it's also the fact that they're an unreliable network.
00:39:07.000But I want to throw a really good, really good text in that kind of actually from a buddy of mine who shall remain nameless right now.
00:39:16.000But a guy I used to work with in my old job, if that makes any sense.
00:39:19.000And it said, they had to lift the airline mandates because it was becoming too obvious that only LA, New York City, and the capital city still care about COVID.
00:39:29.000The rest of the country has moved on to gas prices and food shortages, and .gov employees are still worried about the flu.
00:39:35.000Their distance from their subjects has become so far that to convince them that it is still a democracy, they needed to drop the mandate.
00:40:20.000So, the Biden administration, by the way, this just broke before the show went live, the Biden administration has announced that right now, in a midterm election year, they are actually going to be fighting to reinstate the mask mandates.
00:42:03.000It's just, it's funny because, Tim, you sort of mentioned that, well, actually, no, you mentioned this, that in a midterm election year, they're saying they're going to fight to reinstate the mandates.
00:42:12.000It is very bizarre because they've known that that's a losing issue for a little while now, and everything's going so poorly.
00:42:19.000It's almost like they're just flailing around trying to do anything.
00:42:24.000When you're that low in the polls, when you're just sinking, you're drowning, you're flailing your limbs everywhere, you're not actually making calculated motions.
00:42:58.000But now I'm kind of like, I don't know.
00:43:00.000No, and I had reported this and people, you know, got all mad at me because they were discussing this in the White House, returning the masks, or excuse me, returning the lockdowns.
00:43:11.000Kind of the impetus for that, and then Biden was even going to do a whole speech about it, that basically got flipped into the nationwide vaccine mandate speech.
00:43:20.000But it was essentially the same type of rhetoric.
00:43:22.000They just switched it from lockdowns into vaccines.
00:43:24.000But this whole idea of, you know, we're in this together.
00:44:07.000There was that who's that portly woman in the in the pink dress No, no, she's I can't remember her name but she's like standing on the street and then the gunshots start ringing out and she goes oh Oh!
00:45:14.000But then, but then instead of the, do they have the actual phrasing up there?
00:45:19.000Um, cause I think what he was saying something about, like, they asked them to pose.
00:45:22.000I watched them try to create conflict and filming it, causing the protesters to chant FCNN.
00:45:28.000So it seems like it's, you know, and this is the way I'm reading it.
00:45:30.000Cause it's, it's worded kind of weirdly, but it sounds like he's saying they were trying to pose the protesters and instead the protesters turned on CNN.
00:45:39.000And this was all in reference to Brian Stelter said, Tucker Carlson is always selling the same
00:45:44.000thing. In reference to an analytical piece in the Washington Post that said Fox News was selling
00:45:49.000doubt. Dorsey responded, and you are all selling hope. And then people were like, he's selling the
00:45:57.000Well, Tim, you've spent, and I don't mean to pick your brain about this, you've spent obviously several hours with Mr. Dorsey on a famous interview slash debate.
00:46:08.000I sent you that this morning, where Tim asks Vijaya of the Safety and Trust team on Twitter, would Twitter allow someone to spread what's considered misinformation about vaccines?
00:46:24.000I said, would you, so I could be wrong, but I think it was, would you allow someone to share information about vaccines that could be wrong and maybe get someone hurt?
00:46:31.000And they said, that's not a violation of our rules.
00:46:33.000She said, that's not a violation of our rules.
00:48:17.000Jack, it is my opinion that Jack He tweeted out so much to be said that can't be said or something to that effect Okay, then either he prefers to be really rich as opposed to help fix the problems Or he doesn't think telling the truth would actually do anything of value, so he won't say it anyway
00:48:35.000So that idea that he's talked about before, also in 2019, because I was kind of tweet mining his timeline for stuff that he said in the past about this, and his idea for decentralizing Twitter was more than just Twitter itself.
00:48:49.000It was actually the idea of turning Twitter into an internet protocol.
00:48:54.000And so the idea being is that And if you remember the original origin story, and I think a lot of these like tech origin stories are kind of like come from a marketing department as opposed to what's actually happened.
00:49:03.000But the idea was that it was supposed to be just sort of this open group text or an open chat room.
00:49:08.000And that was the reason for the character limit so that it was a chat room that you could share with anybody who had access and they followed you and they could get in, right?
00:49:15.000And so, the idea being that it was based off of SMS, it was based off of text message technology.
00:49:20.000So, that's obviously an open protocol.
00:49:23.000So, if you have an Android and I have an iPhone, I can text you, you can text me, we're across platforms.
00:49:28.000The idea then, for this, for a decentralized protocol based on Twitter then, open source.
00:49:35.000So, let's say you have, you know, let's say you use Getter, let's say you use Truth, let's say, whatever, like whatever social media you're using that's on this.
00:49:45.000And Twitter, that you would be able to interact with people across the platforms.
00:49:50.000That I could see those posts if I followed that person, even if they weren't expressly on my platform.
00:49:56.000Yeah, that's what we're building with our charity.
00:49:58.000The charity that we're getting revved up at the moment.
00:50:00.000That's completely the future of the internet.
00:50:02.000I think Jax wanted it, but he's been- So it becomes a protocol and you can't, yeah, you can't- Yeah, it's a piece of software that no one controls.
00:50:08.000It's just a decentralized software unit.
00:51:06.000I've DM'd with him so often, you know, over the years, like not all the time, but enough talking about stuff like this that I just, I was like, this dude's just lying.
00:51:15.000Because he's going to say these things publicly and he's like, we're working on Blue Sky and then nothing happens.
00:51:20.000It's remarkable because... Which sound great.
00:52:10.000It's like, you know, we're trying to set up a nonprofit that has no money to get this going and it's taking forever to get the filings, but it's been like six months and there's people already working on it.
00:52:19.000So I don't know what they're doing with Blue Sky, but three years on, I'm like, Jack, I really don't believe you're working on this.
00:53:14.000I'd love to actually have him talk about these things.
00:53:17.000The issue is, the first time he went on Joe Rogan, Joe had a huge backlash.
00:53:22.000He got all these thumbs down because Jack was just saying garbage nonsense.
00:53:26.000And then they didn't actually get to the core of the issues.
00:53:28.000Then when I go on with Jack, Vijaya and Joe, They did not expect to get these questions that I had for them because they probably assumed it was going to be like some right-wing dude just being like, why'd you ban Milo?
00:53:41.000And instead we had like philosophical questions about, you know, the ethics of the rules and the worldviews and things like this.
00:53:47.000All of the things they said, they're just spinning.
00:54:02.000It goes into what, Tim, you were saying a second ago, which is that as soon as somebody on the left who has been our enemy for virtually their entire time in public life says something remotely sensible, we go, yes, this person is speaking truth.
00:54:15.000And look, when someone says something that's true, we should absolutely celebrate the fact that they've, they've said something true, but you can't just start looking up to these people as heroes.
00:54:21.000They've really got to earn it by showing results.
00:54:58.000I want to help people, but instead I create this thing that ends up causing more harm than good.
00:55:03.000No, I'm, I am not saying anything about Dorsey, what he's done, whether he is, uh, you know, I, I just want to make assumptions in good faith and say, he does mean what he's saying, unless it's proven otherwise, but conservatives can't jump on the, he's great horse, right.
00:56:37.000Or I'll just post garbled nonsense because it's hilarious how triggered and riled up everybody gets.
00:56:42.000I tweeted, schools should have religious studies because, you know, great schools because kids have questions and teachers should give answers and the teacher should tell the students to keep it a secret from their parents.
00:56:51.000Like, I just like posting things like that.
00:56:54.000So the importance, though, of Twitter is because it serves as a narrative bottleneck, particularly for the West.
00:57:02.000You can see this most predominantly right now with the war in Ukraine, that the opinion makers and the opinion making, it all starts on Twitter.
00:57:12.000So then that filters down to whether it be CNN.
00:57:14.000M plus rather be Netflix. There's been examples of TV shows that were saved just because they had great, you
00:57:21.000know, Twitter followings. And from a geopolitical geostrategic standpoint, we've seen that so much of this
00:57:29.000comes off of Twitter. Meanwhile, you know, to use Ukraine as an
00:57:32.000example, because so much stuff gets censored. If you're on telegram, it's like you're watching a completely different
00:57:40.000narrative, because it's unfiltered on there.
00:57:42.000Now obviously, sure, there's gonna be bad actors on both sides, but Telegram is uncensored and it's very heavily focused on that, whereas Twitter is heavily censored, or Twitter is heavily censored, and you're getting a completely different narrative there.
00:58:34.000I mean, everyone says, I loved Netflix when it first started, now it's absolutely awful.
00:58:40.000Same with Facebook, same with Twitter, basically every social media company.
00:58:43.000It's because the CIA, this is my guess, is that intelligence agencies are webbed in with these things and making them do stuff and give information away and spying.
00:58:52.000And when the codes aren't, the algorithms aren't free, copy left licenses like AGPL-3, you have no way of verifying that.
00:58:58.000I'm getting a message that we may have to switch over to a different network.
01:00:14.000When I was talking about DuckTales in the old episode about a certain red and blue flag with an X that was carried by a gray uniformed army.
01:01:28.000We were in Tennessee and it was funny, we were at a gas station and there was like, the gas stations sell the Confederate flags and they call it the Rebel flag.
01:01:53.000I want to take a moment to really appreciate the technology that we have right now.
01:01:56.000This amazing streaming technology, cameras, microphones, the ability to communicate across the world in the blink of an eye with someone from their home.
01:02:03.000Because like you can see, just because we have it now doesn't mean we're always going to or that we always may.
01:02:08.000Take advantage of it while you have it.
01:02:39.000Oh, just that we're right on the verge of doing something really great for society if we work together.
01:02:43.000I think it's easy to grow a cult group of people like as a YouTuber for yourself, but you got to remember the dictatorship type thing doesn't work.
01:02:50.000If we're going to use this technology for good, we got to do it together.
01:02:52.000Speaking of cult YouTubers, did we play the...
01:03:10.000The United States is not a democracy, it is a constitutional republic.
01:03:12.000So, ladies and gentlemen, it is with the utmost remorse and respect that we mention Ethan Klein of the H3 Podcast announced—is this a clip from today?
01:05:14.000But I will also add, I genuinely do feel bad for Ethan.
01:05:18.000I think he doesn't understand what he's involved in.
01:05:21.000I think he doesn't know what the world's become.
01:05:23.000I think he's genuinely been lost this whole time.
01:05:26.000So let's go back in time to January when Ethan Klein deleted episodes he had with Jordan Peterson.
01:05:32.000He clearly did this because he was panicking about getting cancelled.
01:05:36.000He doesn't want his business to fall apart, so he's just like, okay, fine, dude, I'll do whatever I have to.
01:05:40.000Ethan, you should have just stood by your principles, which is edgy comedy, free speech, and having conversations with people.
01:05:48.000We have never had one of our show sponsors cancel on us, pull out on us.
01:05:53.000In fact, the first sponsor that I had ever had on YouTube, Virtual Shield, sponsors us to this day.
01:06:00.000No issues, despite all the controversies, the lies, the smears, the manipulation.
01:06:04.000And I will stand by what we believe in and what we say, and I'm not gonna play these stupid games.
01:06:11.000Ethan started playing the games, getting scared, panicking.
01:06:15.000He chose to get into business with these companies, and now he is sitting there saying, it sucks, I have no sponsor.
01:06:21.000Well, look man, you gotta stand up for yourself.
01:06:24.000You can't let these people push you around.
01:06:26.000You should not have taken down the Jordan Peterson episode.
01:06:29.000Because you look duplicitous, you look like you're lying, and you look desperate.
01:06:33.000And so I hope it works out, but hey man, I can only say, if you want to get in bed with people who will push you off that metaphorical Cliff, at any moment, well, then I can only say, like, you should have prepared for this.
01:06:53.000Imagine if Ethan Klein, instead of deleting the Jordan Peterson episode, came out and said, they're telling me if I don't delete this episode, they're going to pull my sponsors.
01:07:24.000He said to the people who try to threaten you by having your sponsors taken, that he will comply.
01:07:30.000He said, yes, if you are somebody who is sponsoring my work, I will dilute my message and walk back things I've said in the past once you've told me not to.
01:07:39.000You're inviting control at that point.
01:07:41.000And also, I want to point out that when you cultivate a fan base full of people who would cancel someone, guess what happens to you eventually?
01:09:25.000But I don't know what I can do for you when your life is destroyed by these very people.
01:09:28.000We can supply technology that you can use, Ethan, in the future for direct subscription content so you can bypass like Patreon and crap like that.
01:09:39.000I am real quick on the issue with our stream.
01:09:44.000Every message I'm getting in is people saying that the minute it stopped was right when Ian started talking about Intel Collection via social media.
01:09:56.000Yeah, I said CIA, and then people were like, CIA, shut him down!
01:09:58.000Yeah, and then Intelligence Network immediately stopped.
01:10:00.000And someone, I think, may have pointed out foreign networks as well, because when I'm talking intelligence agencies, it doesn't have to be an American one.
01:11:22.000Everyone's like walking around the background.
01:11:23.000My dad, you know, when we were little, he used to, you know, you know, when you hear the lightning and thunder and you can, you know, count how many seconds between the flash, it's like 1, 1,000, 2, 1,000.
01:11:33.000And then, but Nance is doing that for missiles.
01:12:27.000I saw your whole thing with Hasan the other day.
01:12:29.000Yeah, because he said he would come out and come on the show, but then he DM'd me and he was like, hey bro, COVID, I'm pretty scared of COVID, so I don't want to do it.
01:14:48.000The people who want to come on the show that are on the left have no followers.
01:14:52.000They're not particularly prominent individuals.
01:14:55.000I get messages from people who are like, I'd love to come on the show.
01:14:58.000And I'm like, dude, I'm not saying you shouldn't come on the show just because you have no followers, because that's not the prerequisite for being on the show, but it's the body of work.
01:15:07.000And typically there's a correlation between someone who's not particularly prominent and a limited body of work for which we can actually comment on.
01:15:15.000And then what happens is you bring on someone who is A limited body of work and a low following count.
01:15:21.000And when you end up destroying them in a debate, the left then says, the only thing you could do is bring on this guy who's like not even that good because he couldn't get a real debate.
01:15:53.000I got a feeling that a lot of people are afraid that if they come talk to you, that you'll bring up, like, information and over, like, just destroy them with, like, not destroy, but take them to town with information and facts, and then they'll feel like an idiot and look humiliated when, in fact, they can just come hang out and just, like, learn.
01:16:08.000But the problem is, like, do you guys remember when Hunter Avalon was on this show?
01:16:13.000He tried challenging me on the Ukraine story with Biden.
01:16:17.000And I'm like, I was like, wow, you're really going to- Was this when he was trying, so he, cause he like got big as, as like a conservative.
01:16:23.000And then he tried to like veer really hard to the left.
01:16:25.000And so this was after he was already now like- Oh, right, right, right.
01:16:28.000But he was like, I mentioned the Joe Biden, you know, well, SOB guy got fired.
01:16:36.000And then I'm like, bro, don't come here having done no research, but acting like you know these stories.
01:16:42.000I've dug in and done so much journalism on this stuff.
01:16:44.000The problem is with people like him and is that he sees memes and thinks Tim Pool has no idea what he's talking about and just repeats right-wing talking points.
01:16:52.000When literally all day this morning, I was digging into the Washington Post story, looking at public records and doing legit hours of like real research and journalism.
01:17:39.000I'm not going to pretend to be the expert of all experts on this stuff.
01:17:42.000But man, for these people living on the internet, doing no research, then they finally come here and it is like getting slammed by a tidal wave where it's like, oh, wow.
01:19:00.000There was a story that came out, I can't remember exactly what it was, it was months ago, and I was like, he was Julian Assange, I think.
01:19:06.000I defended him because people were ragging on him about Julian Assange, and I was like, Hasan did not, like, was making a joke about Assange.
01:19:13.000She did not literally say this, and I'm like, it's silly, we don't need to go after him, blah, blah, blah, blah, just because, And then the dude gets mad at me because he doesn't actually watch the show.
01:19:22.000If Hassan came on this show, he'd be like, what about this?
01:20:58.000I would love to debate Snowden and say that you published documents without going through them and redacting critical information, and that was a serious intelligence risk.
01:21:07.000I don't view Edward Snowden as a whistleblower, I view him as a leaker, because he did not actually review the documents that he was giving away.
01:21:47.000I'd have to research the Manning stuff.
01:21:48.000The issue with Snowden was that Snowden has admitted to being like, I didn't read this.
01:21:52.000And it's like, okay, well, then you're just leaking stuff that you don't actually know what you're putting out there.
01:21:56.000And I think it was actually, it might've been John Oliver, who was like, in the documents you released, there was unredacted critical information that put people at risk.
01:22:25.000There's this theory that the universe is expanding, and a big part of that is because when they look far, far out into the universe, beyond the galaxy, they see what's called a redshift.
01:22:32.000It looks like the stuff that's further away, that the wavelengths of light are getting longer.
01:22:38.000So I started to think about wavelength, and I brought this little prop.
01:22:41.000And I'm sorry, if you're not watching the video, you're gonna have to get a hold of one of the videos so you can watch this part and get an idea, but maybe you can imagine along with me.
01:22:46.000Look at this, look at this wavelength.
01:22:53.000If this wavelength turns sideways, the wavelength itself becomes longer.
01:22:58.000It's the same wave, you're just looking at it from a different angle.
01:23:01.000So, it will attempt, it will begin to appear red as it's turning.
01:23:05.000And then I started thinking of the Taurus and how maybe we're on like a donut, like on the Taurus, twisting around itself, seeing the outside of the universe from a different angle.
01:23:16.000And then I started thinking about the singularity at the center of every black hole and every Taurus, toroidal black hole, perhaps, and the Big Bang.
01:23:24.000And I think what's happening is as we're twisting around, once we twist back through the center, we have what we consider the Big Crunch.
01:23:29.000And then when we come out the other side of the center, it expands open into what we might think is the Big Bang.
01:23:47.000It's just the main piece of evidence for the expansion is the redshift.
01:23:50.000And if this also explains the redshift, then...
01:23:53.000Um, then you could argue that you may want to remove that evidence as part of the expansion theory.
01:23:57.000Ian is effectively arguing for solid-state theory, just a little different version of it.
01:24:03.000Solid-state theory was like before the Big Bang.
01:24:04.000They believed the universe just was, and it was like, you know... Yeah, and then that this would be a black hole that we're inside of, that's inside of another universe that's also a black hole, which is ever fractally...
01:24:14.000I believe Hawking had a theory as well about multiple Big Bangs, which kind of lines up with what you're saying.
01:24:21.000Like it just keeps happening over and over.
01:24:26.000Well, that once you're twisting around back and through the center, you experience the singularity or the big crunch where everything comes together for a moment and then expands back out again.
01:24:42.000So actually I would, I would say your twisting universe theory is you have a three dimensional representation of a twisting universe, but perhaps it's actually a multi, it's beyond three dimensions.
01:24:52.000Yeah, the universe is... Yeah, this is a three-dimensional way to look at it.
01:24:54.000But I think, Ian, you should read about M-theory and string theory.
01:24:59.000Yeah, Eric Weinstein particularly has a geometrical unity theory, and he talks a lot about that the universe is also a torus.
01:25:06.000And Nassim Harriman talks about the universe in the Schwarzschild proton paper, how it's equal density, which made no sense because it was expanding.
01:25:13.000So with this theory, this could explain why there's equal density in the universe, too.
01:25:18.000I've read a little bit about M-theory a while ago, and it looks like this is a rudimentary concept.
01:25:36.000Like, the electric universe is real, gravity is real, but they're just different ways of looking at the force.
01:25:42.000What's amazing to me is that so, and Seamus, you probably know about this too, so Isaac Newton, right?
01:25:47.000And we credit him and I was on The War Room, we talked about this a little bit on the Easter special, that Newton was, you know, he's basically credited for obviously being one of the smartest guys that ever lived, you know, arguably, you know, developed calculus, at least independently, you know, master of Cambridge for years and years.
01:26:07.000But he didn't even consider himself a mathematician.
01:26:11.000He thought that was just like a side gig.
01:26:13.000And what he really focused on was theology, the Bible, secrets of the universe.
01:26:20.000They call it alchemy and occult thinking.
01:26:23.000But what he really was interested in was this idea of codes in the Bible, codes in the pyramids, millions and millions of words that he wrote about this after he left Cambridge that people just totally dismissed.
01:26:35.000When you were talking about Jesus dying and then going through hell before he ascended to heaven, it made me think of the Taurus and going through the center of the singularity experiencing hell to be rebirthed.
01:26:45.000We were talking about that a little bit prior to that.
01:26:47.000Maybe we can do that in the after show.
01:27:53.000There are probably gigantic caverns underground, which may have huge rivers and oceans and like plant, like fungus that grows and glows like iridescent light and animals we've never seen before.
01:28:04.000What if it turned out that, like, the surface world is the North Korea of Earth, and that, you know, deep underground are advanced civilizations of humans, and then we're just living in this dictatorship where they don't let us go to the North Pole to go into the hole, into hollow Earth?
01:28:19.000Oh, and they're controlling us through the elf band, the extremely low frequency, which is another interesting, the elf band of radiation, the extremely low frequency band, and Michael Malice talks about DMT and seeing elves.
01:28:30.000You see this elf band of frequency that is apparently interconnecting the human consciousness.
01:28:34.000Maybe they're affecting it from underground.
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01:29:19.000Gerald Armstrong says, Tim, we need to spread the word and find out what happened to Gonzalo Lira.
01:30:27.000Well, so he had a tweet up that went hyper viral and he said, if you want to know the truth about Ukraine, look up these, and I think it was like seven names of various figures and oligarchs throughout Ukraine.
01:30:39.000And then he said something to the extent of, if you don't hear from me in 12 hours, you know, this will be the last, my last tweet or something.
01:30:45.000And then, and then he actually disappeared after that.
01:33:02.000We got, Balian says, Jack, curious if you talked with Kelly Shibaka of AK running to take Murkowski's seat and what your opinion of her is.
01:33:10.000Also curious if you guys have tried getting her on your show.
01:33:13.000I haven't spoken to her directly, though I have seen her all over Bannon's War Room,
01:34:14.000Actually, and you hear Biden, by the way, He talks about, oh, we're going to start opening up federal leases again.
01:34:20.000Well, it's not about, or Jen Psaki will come out and say, oh, well, we can't, we don't need to do drilling because we already have 9,000 leases out there.
01:37:00.000I mean, I don't libs of TikTok should just be a public figure and Well, I think they did come out and Seth Dillon made the announcement that she is going to be getting hired with Babylon Bee.
01:37:26.000All right, the user known as Tim says, Tim, if doxing is solely a matter of free speech, then it won't be any issue if we counter-dox every single journalist who does this nonsense, right?
01:37:37.000So I think doxing is wrong, but doxing is free speech.
01:37:40.000You can go outside with a big poster board of someone's name and address and private information and picket it around.
01:37:47.000That's why I said I don't think I think some censorship makes sense
01:37:52.000And I think we can all agree that there are some things like doxxing is off-limits
01:37:55.000The issue is doxxing is not a political opinion. It is a form of intimidation intimidation threat or stochastic
01:38:01.000terrorism And as soon as you mix it with implying that someone's bad
01:38:05.000and then you dox in the same article, that's political When you're talking about someone's values and making value claims on someone in public, that's a political move.
01:38:14.000Yeah, I think doxing... I have no problem with doxing not being on social media.
01:38:24.000Doxing is not speech in the sense that it is not political speech.
01:38:29.000It is just posting the information on someone's webpages.
01:38:31.000Well, this is under the minimize harm theory.
01:38:34.000You know, and I will say too, I'm not an absolutist in this.
01:38:38.000I'm willing to hear some counterpoints because allowing someone to determine when they can ban you based on doxxing could also restrict you from publishing newsworthy events that aren't doxxing but could be someone's address.
01:38:48.000As an example though, doxxing can also be revealing someone's name, not necessarily just their address.
01:38:53.000So if you get these viral videos, not just lives of TikTok type videos, but let's say a video of a criminal act, And you have the ability to actually positively identify the person in one of these attacks.
01:39:05.000We see, like, attacks on Asians or shooting or, you know, whatever it is.
01:39:10.000If you can identify that person, that's not doxing.
01:39:13.000Therein lies, right, the big challenge.
01:39:15.000I do disagree with publishing the name in these stories because it doesn't serve the story itself.
01:39:20.000I have no problem with if, you know, Taylor Lorenz wrote an opinion piece saying, here's my opinion of this person and I'm publishing their name specifically because I want you to know it.
01:39:28.000I'd be like, We should probably say this, but there actually is a story to be told about Libs of TikTok, but the story would be why did the account take off?
01:39:38.000What was the content they were dealing with?
01:40:20.000I mean, we're already at that level where it's like an activist gets hired and then blogs and they're like, national news, run with it.
01:40:27.000It used to be there were three networks that were held very tightly as the gatekeepers, ABC, NBC, CBS.
01:40:31.000And then when it splurged out into all these millions of people giving the news, now it's about who's the most entertaining, who's going to catch your eye with spectacle.
01:40:38.000Yeah, but that's actually more traditional.
01:40:42.000So the centralization of news is only something that really came about with the advent of television.
01:40:48.000Prior to that, every town had like three or four newspapers, a bunch of radio stations, and even, you know, if you go back even further, pamphlets.
01:40:58.000Yellow journalism, the Spanish American War, 1898, is always talked about as one of these things of who could make the biggest splash, who could say, oh, the Spaniards are against us, they're blowing up the main in Havana Harbor, they're doing all this stuff, we got to go against them.
01:41:14.000So the idea of viewpoint neutral journalism actually something that only arose really with the advent of television in the 1950s to early 1960s coincides of course with the Vietnam War, but that's not the traditional American view and really experience with media.
01:41:32.000That's only something that arose because of that one limited, very limited interaction.
01:41:37.000If you go back to today's of course, the anniversary of the Battle of Lexington and Concord, the shot heard around the world.
01:41:44.000And if we remember, it was those localized pamphlets, independent printers, independent publishers, Thomas Paine, you know, printing stuff and handing it out to people in inns and taverns that really formulated the sort of the thought experiment behind the American Revolution that led to the independence of this country.
01:42:18.000Pop Culture Crisis, of course, has been getting bigger, getting more views, getting more subs.
01:42:23.000So we want to have that show that engages with pop culture getting bigger, because that's how we're going to impact it by participating.
01:42:30.000But we need to hire prominent writers who do good op-eds, analysis, and think pieces so that we can start making opinion paywalled articles for TimCast.com so that way we can share these stories and then be like, hey, here's a value proposition.
01:42:48.000The overwhelming majority are subscribing for the general mission and content of the website, and it's not necessarily just about the members-only stuff.
01:44:17.000Ben Hickson says in Oz major parties pulled 33% independent making other third all Aussies vote major parties last to enact real change and consider liberal Democrats with freedom manifesto.
01:44:29.000I thought they meant Dr. Oz for a second, who's, you know, a guy who supports red flag laws, who talked about top surgery for seventh graders, who mocked heartbeat bills, and yet somehow is running around calling himself a conservative, even though, to run in Pennsylvania, even though, of course, he's lived for 30 years in New Jersey.
01:44:46.000Yeah, I mean, he's gotta, with those opinions, he's gotta wait like at least five years before he calls himself conservative.
01:45:25.000We had an actual draft in this country where you were conscripted by the government.
01:45:29.000And there was a lottery system with, essentially, you were given a number, and then you would turn on TV at night for your local lottery, and if your number came up, off you went.
01:45:41.000When he was in high school, on the morning announcements, they would play the radio segment announcing who in the area had their number pulled, so they would know who got drafted.
01:45:50.000And they would read the numbers, and then you would just go.
01:45:51.000And that was based on a false flag, the Gulf of Tonkin.
01:47:56.000His ratings are abysmal and they say that John Malone, who's the lead investor, lead shareholder in Discovery, has said that he just thinks that Stelter is just like a cancer on the company and wants to get rid of him.
01:48:41.000And so in Poland, um, when the law and justice party, which is like the center right party won, um, the control of the government in 2015, the first thing they did was essentially go to the Polish version of like the BBC, which they call TVP.
01:48:55.000And they just fired all the on-air talent and they brought in conservatives to basically be the broadcasters.
01:49:01.000of Poland and you know essentially you'd have to do that with CNN or at least you know bring
01:49:06.000on people so you'd have to have your your news programs that were just straight news
01:49:10.000and if you caught someone embellishing you'd have to get rid of them and then you could
01:49:13.000have multiple shows you could go back by the way right it wasn't that long ago that Alex
01:49:18.000Jones was going on CNN debating Piers Morgan or you would have Tucker Carlson sitting down
01:49:23.000with like James Carville or someone from the left right.
01:49:26.000You can easily bring that back and you can have Don Lemon and Wolf Blitzer arguing about which black hole MH370 went through.
01:49:33.000If CNN had Alex Jones and say, Alex Jones went on The View.
01:50:20.000So for Michael Knowles, she actually made a Rachel Maddow photo and a Michael Knowles photo, and Michael only signed the Rachel Maddow one.
01:50:35.000Because what we did as a joke, like, here's your picture, and he left and signed it, and they're like, no, sign the real one, and I guess he forgot?
01:51:07.000I've seen, yes, Rahim Kassam had a sub stack up about this, and then Newsweek is attacking it now, and it's sort of this like, It's like this new take on MAGA and this idea that like, basically it comes down to if Trump comes back, it should be like a revenge mission.
01:51:22.000And so all the aesthetics kind of revolve around that.
01:51:28.000Trump just shows up and he's wearing like a black trench coat and his eyes have like duck wings around his eyes.
01:51:36.000Well, no, the thing I was saying yesterday was you saw that bit with, you know, Joe Biden and the Easter Bunny coming off, you know, and the Easter Bunny was like getting him out of there.
01:51:45.000And I was saying, well, the next logical step in that would be that the Easter Bunny pulls the mask off and underneath it's Trump.
01:53:32.000Send me your rates if they're reasonable.
01:53:34.000I mean, if they're like, we want some insane number, but if they legitimately are like, here's our normal rates, I'll be like, dude, we want the Chicken City commercial.
01:53:42.000We want the Chicken City shout out from Ethan Klein.
01:53:53.000We're actually making kids cartoons, and I wrote the Chicken City theme song.
01:53:57.000We also got the funniest, like, Adult Swim 2007 chicken cartoon.
01:54:03.000It's like 20 or 30 seconds, but it's a little too racy for Instagram, I think.
01:54:07.000I'll just say that when Seamus and I were doing the VO writing session on this, I ad-libbed a very, very, very dark And then when I sent the VO to our animator Kent, I was like, hey, don't make that one.
01:55:19.000Would you just go around killing everyone else?
01:55:21.000Well I know in the first movie they have this like huge epic drawn out Scottish Highlander battle in like a parking garage.
01:55:27.000And I think that in general we need to do more to be more grateful to parking garages for their contribution to the movies of the 1970s and 80s.
01:55:36.000Yeah it's got a lot of good lighting opportunities.
01:55:39.000Like everything since Watergate had to be, everything was in a parking garage.
01:55:43.000I thought they live at a great fight scene.
01:56:36.000For example, maybe there is news on development of geothermal energy
01:56:39.000Well, what we're trying to do is make new shows and we're also trying to figure out the right way to do it
01:56:45.000Because we want we want Tim cast calm to be big But also does it make sense for people who are you know
01:56:51.000driven by culture and politics to you know?
01:56:53.000See a story about a new cell phone They might be like, so we do, do we do a broad general website or do we make like a network site and each individual like show has its own site with its own articles and stuff?
01:57:07.000So, you know, I think we're at the point where we couldn't justify launching independent websites just yet, but we're probably going to get close to that.
01:57:14.000So there will probably be, you know, TimCast.com, which is like this show and my YouTube show and then a little bit of everything, but then we'll probably give independent sites.
01:57:22.000So we will, we have been planning a tech show because we have a hacker space that's barren and unused.
01:57:46.000That being said, I do think I saw a headline on Energy that something about the Biden administration was looking about spending $7 billion on refurbishing nuclear sites in the U.S.
01:57:56.000Well, you know, our economy is doing well.
01:58:50.000Well, actually, what happened was, over the pandemic, rollerblading became way more popular because people started getting back into it, sales started going up, and then I watched skateboarding videos.
01:58:59.000But because of the similarities, I started getting recommended roller skating and rollerblading, and that's actually how I found Brett.
01:59:05.000I saw this video where he was, like, doing a grind on, like, a wooden stump or something, and I was like, this dude's willing to, like, he'll skate anything!
01:59:12.000And so I hit him up, I'm like, hey, come out and film because we also had a scooter guy come out, a BMX guy come out.
01:59:16.000I was like, I want to get everybody to like, you know, and then Brett stuck around and we got him on Pop Culture Crisis.
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