Walmart joins the boycott of Mark Zuckerberg's new social media app, and we're joined by Kingsley Wilson and Hannah-Claire Brimwell to talk about it and much, much more. Plus, we talk about the latest in the ongoing saga of the "Black Friday" ad boycott.
00:00:27.000But this matters because we're now getting reports that Walmart is joining the advertiser boycott.
00:00:31.000And well, We were initially thinking of launching the story with a comment from Dick Durbin, Senator out of Illinois Democrat, saying that we should be enlisting illegal immigrants, non-citizens, into the army because of the shortfall.
00:00:44.000I thought, oh look, we can't have these conversations if the platforms that allow free speech are destroyed.
00:00:50.000But this is, while bad, I think there is some good in this.
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00:02:24.000Joining us tonight to talk about this and so much more is Kingsley Wilson.
00:02:47.000I recently got married about a month ago, so, you know, I've been joking no longer, Cortez, I guess I'm white now, so I know that privilege you all enjoy.
00:02:54.000There you go, now people are just going to go ahead and, yeah, you lose your race card.
00:02:58.000I got her sunscreen as a wedding present.
00:03:48.000Now, for those of you that aren't familiar, Taylor Lorenz is a very prominent mainstream media reporter.
00:03:52.000She's worked for a bunch of, uh, very large publications, very critical of Elon Musk, very left-leaning.
00:03:58.000Now, she, like many other woke reporters, left Twitter Complaining that Elon Musk was going to make it riddled with hate speech or whatever, but now she has these threads up on threads of all places Complaining that she is being censored.
00:04:12.000Let me just tell you we're going over You know our content product, you know production and everything and what we want to do and we want to do sketches and jokes we're working on the skateboarding show and I'm like, you know, we can put whatever we want on X and We can go on X, we can make any joke we want, no matter how vulgar or whatever, and rumble too.
00:04:30.000But Facebook will get banned, TikTok will get banned, Instagram will get banned.
00:04:35.000That's obvious to anyone with a brain.
00:04:37.000So all of these woke journalists that thought they were gonna rush over to Threads and are now complaining about it?
00:04:43.000She posted, I posted the cover of yesterday's New York Post to Threads, talking about how hypothetical, I'm sorry, how hypocritical, The New York Post is in their criticism of Metta when they published the same four Thinspo images they're bashing Metta for.
00:04:58.000Locked me out of my Instagram account until I deleted the thread and sent this message to my Threads account saying they're going to shadowban me.
00:05:05.000Absolutely insane levels of censorship where we can't even discuss the media's coverage of Metta on Metta's own apps.
00:05:11.000Well, on Twitter you can talk about whatever you want.
00:05:13.000How are we supposed to critique media or cover the media when meta essentially bans all discussions on certain stories and topics?
00:05:20.000It's terrible for free expression and I wish more people in the media held meta to account for their dangerously blunt moderation tactics.
00:05:27.000What I absolutely love about this is that this tweet could have been from six years ago on Twitter from someone on the right and now it's coming from a woke reporter Who is on Mark Zuckerberg's threads, and she did not have to leave Twitter.
00:05:40.000Like, things have gotten so much better.
00:05:42.000So, let me just say, this is... I mean, I guess it's schadenfreude, that's kind of funny.
00:05:46.000That's why Alex is posting the laughing emoji to see Taylor Lorenz be like, oh no, I'm being censored.
00:05:50.000It's like, well, that kind of proves our point, right?
00:05:52.000Others are probably just gloating in her being censored.
00:06:34.000I totally forgot it existed, but to your point, this always, like, cracks me up, I guess, like, ALX, because I love when, like, this sort of thing happens to leftists, right?
00:06:42.000Because it's the monster that they created coming for them.
00:06:45.000They were totally fine with the revolution until they became the target.
00:06:49.000Taylor Renz, I think, the Twitter files showed She's reported more accounts than practically any other user on the platform.
00:06:55.000She was a champion for the censorship cause, and now it's coming for her, and I think it's hilarious to watch.
00:07:01.000It's also this phenomenon where people will go from system to system to system, and they'll see the same problem in every system, but they'll go like, this system's broken!
00:07:16.000Yeah, it would have been interesting if she had been like, as an experiment, I posted this thing to see how Meta would respond to it, and they have censored me, and therefore Meta doesn't like whatever, but instead it's like, I am the victim, this system is not helping me the way I think it should, it's not obeying my desires, even though it never agreed to give me these things in the first place.
00:08:31.000intelligence agencies were in direct communication with all of the big tech companies running social media to manipulate and control speech.
00:08:38.000This was directly related to the Hunter Biden laptop interfering with elections.
00:09:18.000Intelligence agencies did get exposed.
00:09:21.000At the exact same time this is going down, Mark Zuckerberg announces threats.
00:09:25.000Simple solution is that Zuckerberg said, hey, I got a great opportunity to make a competitor right now to Twitter, and all these people who are mad Elon's buying it, we can give them space.
00:09:38.000Yeah, and that's a simple explanation.
00:09:41.000And now I'll give you the simple conspiratorial explanation, which I believe is extremely likely to be true.
00:09:46.000Upon announcing this, the CIA, the FBI, Biden administration contacted Mark Zuckerberg because they were already in direct communication and said, we definitely want to be able to access threads in the same way as everything else.
00:10:00.000And Zuck probably said, don't worry, it'll function the same as other platforms.
00:10:18.000I would not be surprised, to be honest, to find out that someone in government went to Zuckerberg and suggested it.
00:10:24.000Not that they demanded it or mandated it, but I wouldn't be surprised if some emails got released through a FOIA request or something where it shows someone in the Biden White House said, hey, Mark, are you able to make something?
00:10:34.000Because, you know, this Twitter stuff is bad.
00:10:38.000I think it's arrogance on Zuckerberg's part, though, to think that his technology and what he would build would be able to compete with Twitter slash X or whatever it was called at the time.
00:10:47.000I mean, people are really devoted to Twitter as a platform.
00:10:50.000It was revolutionary in what it was creating.
00:10:53.000And I think that original medium, we've seen other people.
00:10:56.000There are a couple other competitors out there that just haven't been able to achieve it.
00:11:01.000And so to think, oh, well, because it's already connected to your Instagram account, therefore somehow That will convert people I think just shows how out of touch or how much he underestimated Axe and Elon's ability to retain loyal supporters.
00:12:15.000They tried doing that and it was killing YouTube.
00:12:17.000So anyway, what they should have done at this point with Google Plus was...
00:12:21.000As soon as the demand was at maximum capacity and everybody wanted an invite, they should have said, I'm sorry everyone, it's an exclusive platform only, and then two hours later said, you know what?
00:12:48.000And then all of a sudden nobody wants to buy Google Glass anymore.
00:12:51.000It went from the coolest thing everybody wanted to just total garbage.
00:12:55.000Yeah, I had some faith when Google bought YouTube that it would be, I mean, they were able to start funding it with the partner program, which is pretty cool.
00:13:02.000But like Larry and Sergey are like uber nerds, you know, so the company's kind of like uber nerdy.
00:13:34.000You could either go to Google+, you could go to your Google Hangout, which was connected to your Google phone number, or was it to your other Google account?
00:13:40.000I had three of them, you know, three different emails attached to three different accounts, and I couldn't get them to consolidate.
00:13:58.000But I don't understand, and maybe it's because, and I don't know if anyone in this room can answer it, I don't understand the point of threads.
00:14:03.000I've never opened it, and I'm not sure how it differentiates from the YouTube, like, community tab.
00:14:11.000Threads is like Twitter, but then YouTube has the community tab, right?
00:14:15.000Isn't that where people can message if they're really into a creator or whatever?
00:14:18.000No, that's kind of like a Twitter feed for your YouTube, but it's basically linked to your YouTube, so it's used to, for the most part, hey guys, heads up.
00:14:28.000See, I feel like it would make more sense to me to have an integrated competitor to X on YouTube because people are already alive and well in the comment sections there.
00:14:37.000To make a competitor on Instagram seems weird to me.
00:14:39.000I just open threads and the first thing I see I've got, let's see, Michaela Peterson and then Charlie Kirk.
00:14:48.000And there's two replies to Charlie Kirk's post.
00:15:08.000Because all the lefties went there, though, it's just like a cesspool of, like, it's an echo chamber in many ways.
00:15:13.000And I feel like the fun parts about Twitter, about YouTube, are, like, fighting in the comments and, like, seeing people dunk on other people.
00:15:27.000Who checked threads during the outbreak of the Hamas-Israel conflict?
00:15:31.000Because maybe it was, like, alive and well then.
00:15:33.000Oh, I forgot to check my threads, that's why.
00:15:35.000Because that's when I think a lot of the left was up in arms.
00:15:37.000Not that it wasn't true on the right, but it was a particularly challenging time for, like, the most progressive angle of the party versus the more moderate side.
00:15:49.000Proprietary software in general, but I really don't trust public companies when they do social networks like X is private still at this I'm pretty sure X is still private and mines is private you have rumble well rumble just went public But that's like road to co-op.
00:16:03.000I want to I want I we got something interesting here I'm gonna pull up this story real quick.
00:16:07.000This is from Mashable This is by Matt Bender, and he's wrong.
00:16:27.000I think Matt's lying, because I'm willing to bet, in this, Here it is, here it is.
00:16:33.000Just in time for the holiday shopping season, Walmart decided to stop advertising on Elon Musk's X, joining a slew of other major companies that have fled the social media platform in recent weeks.
00:16:41.000Second paragraph, quote, We aren't advertising on X, as we've found other platforms to better reach our customers, a Walmart spokesperson told Reuters, which first reported on the retail chain's decision to suspend ad campaigns on the website.
00:16:55.000Walmart's decision to stop advertising comes after a mustard, go off yourself, etc, etc.
00:16:59.000But the issue is, the greater quote from Walmart was something... Let me pull up Reuters, because I got Mashable here on purpose.
00:17:07.000Walmart says it's not advertising on social platform X, right.
00:17:10.000But the actual quote they say has nothing to do with any of this.
00:17:13.000I'm pretty sure they said we stopped advertising in October.
00:17:18.000A lot of news outlets are reporting this.
00:17:21.000I think there is a potential that Walmart is trying to not be involved and lower their amount of ad spending.
00:17:29.000But the original story reporting this, Walmart said they slowed down their ad spend back in October.
00:17:35.000It has nothing to do with what Elon said.
00:17:38.000Now it's being reported by these organizations that it's, you know, Walmart joining the ad boycott.
00:17:43.000Now, either way, a lot of money is being lost by Axe.
00:17:46.000And one of the interesting things, actually, I just pulled up threads for the previous segment, and one of the first things that is suggested to me, I don't follow Hank Green, but it's Hank Green, he said, numbers for the curious.
00:17:57.000In the last 30 days, TikTok views 37 million, TikTok rev share $3,600.
00:19:09.000The crazy thing is when you look at X and the ad boycott, I'm wondering how this will impact how much money people are already getting because the rates there are super low too.
00:19:21.000Impressions on my, on my profile, I get about 5,500 per month from the, from the ad share deal.
00:19:28.000Now it's probably going to go to nothing because of what's going on.
00:19:30.000As more people become influencers too, like every human pretty much has a camera and can as their side job, make a video about what they do with their main job at the very least that the ad revenue, I don't think ad revenue models are the way to go.
00:19:42.000I think it's super chats and direct subscriptions.
00:19:45.000Plus then the, the advertiser can't pull the rug on your entire business model.
00:19:49.000Do you think that this data will become public enough to deter Gen Z?
00:19:54.000Like, this is what Gen Z wants to do with their lives.
00:19:55.000Most of them want to be an influencer or they talk about wanting to be, you know, a social media personality.
00:20:00.000This is regularly something they report.
00:20:02.000Is this sort of like when everyone wants to be an actor and then at a certain point, I mean, I'm sure you experienced this too, people are like, but are you actually going to support yourself doing that?
00:20:12.000At what point do people realize this idea that social media is the only way, like this influencer pathway, is it going to become less romantic for the youngest generation?
00:20:21.000Hopefully soon, because if you make internet videos but you do nothing with your life, they're not going to be very interesting videos.
00:20:28.000But if you're a mechanic and you make internet videos and you rope in the mechanics into that, it becomes very interesting.
00:20:47.000Where you personally put things in boxes, wrap those boxes, and then call it Unboxing Presents Channel, and you literally just film yourself slowly unwrapping a box.
00:22:13.000It's just, at a certain point, does it pay out the way people think it's going to?
00:22:17.000And is this a long-term sustainable career?
00:22:19.000Because I think that's why you need the influencer ecosystem between all of the platforms.
00:22:23.000Not one platform really generates enough revenue for a medium-sized person to sustain themselves, is what it sounds like to me, and I don't know.
00:22:31.000Yeah, definitely not to sustain, but like Ian was saying earlier, it could be a side hustle.
00:22:36.000I feel like a lot of people have multiple jobs these days anyway by an economy.
00:22:40.000So, you know, just filming your job day-to-day, I think people can put that kind of content out there and it's pretty easy.
00:22:45.000How many people have tried doing the, I'm going to drive an Uber and film it and put the videos of conversations on the internet?
00:22:52.000I've heard that idea 8,000 times and I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, get in line.
00:23:33.000Yeah, I was reading like in New York that Uber doesn't pay enough to cover the cost of the wear and tear on the car and gas, but people don't realize wear and tear, so they're like, alright, yeah, made 60 bucks, and it's like, by the end of the month, that money, you're gonna be negative because your car's gonna break, and then you have no job.
00:24:13.000I'm seeing more videos pop up on Instagram of just, you know, like, we've automated this job and that job, and you've got all the self-driving cars now.
00:24:20.000The only job you're gonna have is competing with each other to get eyeballs, and then humans are going to become more insane than they already are.
00:24:27.000Because already, if we're looking at, you need 37 million views to make three grand.
00:24:31.000Imagine the psychotic behaviors people will adopt to try and make this work.
00:25:22.000What if we can't tell it's psychosis because we're so used to it because we consume so much of this content that we can't tell the difference between what's normal and what's not anymore?
00:25:32.000So, if everybody believes something because everyone's sharing it, I mean, we can see the beginnings of this with the Covington Catholic kids.
00:25:40.000Everybody sees the video, they assume it's true.
00:25:44.000They just said, this kid got in that guy's face.
00:25:46.000And then, uh-oh, a two-hour livestream was uncovered showing actually it was the other way around.
00:25:50.000Well, I was just looking up the, uh, what you said, like, that Walmart had pulled the ads in October and I found it, but I had to dig deep into Google because even though that was how they initially reported X, uh, the Joe Baranach, I can't say his name, head of operations at X said that Walmart started pulling its advertising.
00:26:15.000And I think that's been the best part of X, honestly.
00:26:17.000Like, as a user, we can fact check these people in real time now.
00:26:21.000Journalists have just been able to push their narratives for decades, and we haven't been able to, you know, dig and actually find it for ourselves.
00:26:27.000A lot of people don't have the time or the willingness to do that.
00:26:29.000So X slapping a community note on something like this, I think, is super beneficial.
00:26:51.000But I'll tell you what proves that it's all fake.
00:26:55.000I'm gonna prove to you right now, you live in a fake world, likely just being perpetuated by the deep state because money is fake, fiat currencies.
00:27:03.000Here's a story from India, who is it, Indian Express?
00:27:07.000The Indian Express, a bastion of journalism, says X slash Twitter has higher organic traffic, but lower ad revenue than Facebook and Instagram Elon Musk.
00:27:30.000You can look at Instagram, they have 100 thousand in paid traffic.
00:27:34.000And Facebook has 708 thousand in paid traffic, with even less views.
00:27:38.000So not only does Twitter have way more traffic, way less of it is paid traffic.
00:27:44.000So this means, with advertisers pulling off effects, or, to give credit to the leftists who are saying Walmart's jumping ship, Walmart's saying we're doing better on other platforms?
00:28:05.000I knew these dudes who were starting a company that's, that's their whole job.
00:28:08.000The whole company premise was to, to, you'd, you'd, they would operate in between the company and the social media platform.
00:28:15.000So company would say, we want to do an ad.
00:28:18.000Then social media company would say, okay, they would go in the middle and track all of the link clicks to see how many were fake and how many were not.
00:28:26.000And I think they were telling me like around half or more is fake.
00:28:51.000I think the targeted ads are enticing with Facebook.
00:28:55.000They track people so well, you can be like, I'm looking for 27-year-old males that wear red hats, that live near Philadelphia, that are awake between the hours of 4 and 9 p.m., and like, I don't know if Twitter can offer that kind of targeted Ad revenue.
00:29:10.000I mean, even if half of them are bots, that's still really, really good targeting.
00:29:14.000But it actually means that the price is twice as high because you're getting half as many views.
00:29:27.000No, what I'm saying is, like, if I were to spend whatever amount of money, because I think that's gonna get me a thousand views, but actually it's getting me five hundred, the price per view is much higher than they're advertising.
00:29:36.000But they're reporting to you it's a thousand views.
00:30:54.000100% already, starting in probably 2015, and getting crazier.
00:30:59.000Actually, I think it's fair to say, with the advent of social media, this degree of manipulation has existed, and it's been getting crazier and crazier, and as of right now, I'm willing to bet you are already being manipulated by AI.
00:31:13.000Now, of course, I know the immediate reaction from everybody is, that's not what AI means, Tim.
00:31:19.000And it's like, okay, dude, no, we're speaking generally.
00:31:21.000That computers are automated to the point where they're manipulating information in a variety of ways to sell products or to get people to win elections.
00:31:29.000And I say AI because it's probably already outside the control of human beings.
00:31:33.000So when you go on Twitter, when you go on Facebook, Instagram, or whatever, you don't realize this, but yeah, they are probably, you are probably being influenced by this machine that has no end goal, no real intention.
00:32:04.000If you're talking about artificial general intelligence, then the real fear is the AGI will make you serve it as a demigod master, and you won't even realize that you live for the machine.
00:32:18.000But, you know, in the general sense, we are all already being manipulated for the 2024 election that's happening now.
00:32:25.000I've stopped, not completely, but I've kind of stopped taking negative comments seriously, even remotely, if I don't know who they're from.
00:32:32.000I even tell myself sometimes it's probably an AI.
00:32:35.000And I know it's not probably an AI, but it's possibly an AI, and I'm just not going to taint my mind with that crap.
00:32:50.000I know that, what, 80% of the people on the internet are fake.
00:32:54.000And you go and you're talking to a computer.
00:32:57.000Dude, you're standing in front of... I got 1.8 million followers, almost 1.9 million followers, and so when I tweet, What people think is that there's a million, two million people all standing there, like, with their phones up, recording, when in reality, maybe it's a hundred thousand, who knows?
00:33:14.000They have these apps where you can, like, check how many files are organic, and whenever I do it, it's like, oh, they're all real, or whatever, I don't buy it.
00:33:45.000I assume the AI wants you to continue to interact with it.
00:33:48.000That's what its ultimate goal is because it needs your input to have data to continue to make decisions about what to do next.
00:33:54.000I mean, I have a very rudimentary understanding of AI, but that's what it seems like it needs.
00:33:57.000It needs human interaction to continue to basically use us to figure out what you like to do and to potentially behavioral model or whatever.
00:34:05.000And so what I find interesting is that we have been Letting ourselves be susceptible to wanting to interact with the AI for a long time.
00:34:15.000I mean, this is what we talk about with young teenagers who are essentially addicted to social media because they see all their value in the number of likes, the number of engagements, how long their snap streak is.
00:34:25.000All of these metrics to say, Open your phone right now.
00:34:55.000To what extent are, you know, agencies like the FBI and the NSA using AI to influence American citizens when they go to vote at the polls in 2024?
00:35:04.000I mean, I think that needs to be a real concern because you look at an agency like the FBI, who has a long history of entrapping Americans and pushing them and incentivizing them to do certain things.
00:35:14.000I think, you know, we can't put it past these guys to be using this to reach their own ends.
00:35:20.000Like reading about the business plot, the Smedley-Butler plot, 1933, these bankers tried to get Smedley-Butler to overthrow the US government and install a fascist dictatorship.
00:35:28.000Smedley-Butler was like the top general in the United States.
00:35:32.000They really wanted to overthrow March 500,000 dudes in Washington.
00:35:37.000Because the federal FDR took us off the gold standard and they were like, he's going to destroy the economy.
00:35:42.000We have to take him out of office and put a Put a general in and become fascist like Mussolini is so crazy that they're like and they're just totally willing like the Federal Reserve information on the Jekyll Island.
00:35:55.000These guys have like the private sector when we talk about foreign agents that the private sector are foreign agents.
00:36:02.000Corporations are foreign agents to our government.
00:36:42.000So we're going into 2024, deepfakes are bad, but the real issue is that there's probably already, right now, with GPT being public, there are probably millions of AI chatbot accounts on social media that are programmed just to respond in certain ways, but slightly unique.
00:37:01.000It used to be That if you searched for a certain phrase, you'd see like 10,000 accounts all tweeting the same exact quote and you knew it was a bot farm or something.
00:37:10.000But now they're going to use these large language models to generate semi-unique but similar responses.
00:37:17.000They're going to program into it, whenever you see anything with the subject matter, respond with a quote that has these parameters, and now someone's going to get bombarded by a bunch of cartoon squirrels, communist squirrels on Twitter, and they're going to believe it's real life.
00:37:31.000And then they're going to be like, I need to behave like this because it's normal.
00:37:35.000It could be like, if music is played in video, put fire emoji in chat.
00:37:40.000If user of video says positive things about concept, we want them to talk about positively.
00:37:46.000If they say negative things in chat, if negative words are used, give thumbs down emoji when music plays.
00:37:53.000It's crazy, and that's so rudimentary.
00:37:54.000You're gonna get three, you're gonna get someone, you're gonna tweet something like, I think that we need to be back on the gold standard, Ron Paul was right.
00:38:02.000And the AI will generate a response that is five tweets long, numbered, and it's gonna be like, Ian, you're wrong about this, here's why.
00:38:09.000And you're gonna see a picture of a guy, and you're gonna be like, well, that's probably a real person.
00:38:12.000And in reality, it's just one of the faceless husks of the narrative machine being programmed to convince you that you're wrong.
00:38:27.000It's possible that we're not even in this room right now.
00:38:29.000That everyone watching at home is all CGI.
00:38:33.000That's where I'm starting to be like, just have kids and spend time with your children, because that's not going to get deepfaked out of you.
00:38:40.000Maybe people will be tricked into thinking their family is not their family, or vice versa.
00:38:44.000I want to start asking regular people that I meet, do they have accounts on X or Instagram or TikTok or whatever?
00:38:50.000So many people I know are not on on X like it's it's hard to be in the media space without being on it and so I think that we have a warped perspective.
00:38:58.000I think most people I know are not on like my just friends that I have made throughout my life are not on it at all and so there's stuff that blows up online that we know about we think oh this happened and that will influence election but actually like there's a lot of people who don't know about this this thing that trended for a week.
00:39:49.000Leftists think Bill Maher's... Okay, so classical liberals look to him as an intellectual and like... Well, classical liberals are right-wing.
00:39:56.000So classical liberal refers to right-wing, like, right libertarians.
00:40:04.000Traditional liberal would refer to like Democrats from 15 years ago.
00:40:09.000Leftists think he's right-wing and they call him a fascist and they call him alt-right and they've called him alt-right for like eight years.
00:40:15.000It's weird how much the left just dragged themselves over and said, no, the moderates are actually far right.
00:40:23.000They have just completely moved the map.
00:40:26.000If you ever see one of those videos of someone moving a house across a field, and we all were just like, OK, sounds good.
00:40:31.000And now the skew of what's right and what's far right and what's left is so off.
00:40:36.000I feel like we need to just recalibrate it to where most of America actually is.
00:40:39.000I'm wondering, someone superchatted as a joke, this superchat isn't real, but serious question, have you guys in the chat asked yourselves how many of the people posting are probably not even real and how many of the superchats aren't even real?
00:40:55.000Every once in a while you'll see a comment in the live chat and then immediately the same comment from a different account.
00:41:00.000Same, like same capitalization, everything, it'll just be two sentences identical.
00:41:05.000And the other thing, too, is if there is an influence operation, you might be a regular person in the regular chat and you're posting your opinions, and you can't compete with a foreign entity or corporation that is paying for the super chats to make sure their views are more prominently displayed above yours.
00:41:19.000And speaking of not being able to compete with AI, man, in day trading, you know, you try and do day trading with crypto and you can't compete with the AI.
00:41:28.000You might make a little bit along with it, but that stuff is driving the market.
00:41:31.000The crazy stuff is like the crypto arbitrage.
00:41:34.000Where, like, people make millions of dollars a year doing literally nothing.
00:41:38.000Just by, like, making a cent on a trade?
00:41:41.000Yeah, I don't know exactly how it works.
00:41:44.000Oh, that's where they'll get it on one market and then immediately sell it on another market where it's slightly different price.
00:41:50.000When a transfer is executed, the computer can move in and make a deal faster than a human can.
00:41:57.000So, when a human's making a deal, it's going through the system, and the computer just instantly jumps in between, and then gets a fraction of a penny from that trade, and then you do that millions upon millions of times, and you are just shaving off fractions of a cent into your account.
00:42:12.000So there are people out there doing this.
00:42:25.000So like one currency will have the worth in one place and it's worth way less in the other place and you'll just take the money or worth way more.
00:42:31.000So you take the money there and you go sell it over there and just get the exchange rate.
00:43:01.000Well, I'm pretty sure those people don't want to die, and they're willing to spend the five bucks a bottle.
00:43:04.000And that person who loaded up all that stuff did a lot of work, bought fuel, drove into a disaster zone, and brought relief water.
00:43:10.000Why can't they sell it for what they want?
00:43:11.000If people don't want to buy it, they don't have to buy it.
00:43:13.000It becomes questionable if there's limited resources, and they got in early when everyone was going there to get the water for free to bring to the disaster site, but some one guy got in, like, just before and bought it all up.
00:43:24.000You know, he's selling it at a 400% markup.
00:43:30.000Are you saying, like, if they took free relief water and then tried reselling it, that's a different story?
00:43:34.000Well, if there was, like, water at a store, and then there was a disaster, and then one guy went to the store, bought all the water, and then, like, four hours later, a bunch of the disaster relief guys get to the store to get the water that they're gonna bring for free, but it's already bought up.
00:45:19.000I'm not gonna give you financial advice, by the way, not financial advice, but... Yeah, I think, I think, what was it, people were saying, like, the Pelosi tracker was, like, 20% or something?
00:45:27.000Back in the day when, like, a disaster would hit, and then one guy would run to the store and get all the water, and then he'd come back and be like, hey everyone, I brought all the water, but it's gonna be five times more.
00:45:35.000The crowd would be like, we're not gonna put up with that.
00:45:37.000That was back before, like, when common sense kind of ruled the roost.
00:45:41.000Before, like, he's like, I have a contract, and you're like, yeah.
00:45:43.000Right, but there's still a problem here.
00:45:44.000The problem is, in this scenario, how is it that he got to the store and bought the water with no one else realizing they needed water?
00:45:50.000Or he just had the fastest car, who knows?
00:45:52.000Well, or, okay, so potentially this guy just saw there is a disaster coming, there is starting to be water, whatever, I'm gonna do this, rather than prepare my own house, this is the thing I think is worth spending my time to do, and he ultimately made an investment, he decided that this was the thing he should do, buy the water, instead of maybe, like, leave the city, or, like, lock down his house, or whatever disaster he's in, I'm really not sure.
00:46:13.000The problem with the argument there is that, let's say somebody has a well on their property, and they make water.
00:46:20.000And then all of a sudden, demand for water is skyrocketing, everybody wants the water from his property, so he's like, okay, to maintain this and deliver this much water, I'm gonna charge more money.
00:46:36.000Well, now you've got a guy who grows lots of food, and then demand spikes as food shortages hit, and they say, no, you can't sell your food for a higher price because we're in a shortage, so we're going to buy your food at a government-locked rate.
00:46:50.000And then, if you say that's acceptable, you get into all the other areas, well, people need clothes, people need shoes, people need fuel, and then you start price-locking everything.
00:46:58.000I kind of... I understand what you're saying about someone going to a gas station or whatever and buying it, but the problem is still, if a disaster hits, no one has any advanced foreknowledge of the disaster, perhaps it's the problem of the gas station or the store deciding to sell all of their stock to one guy.
00:47:14.000And, you know, and they say, we don't care, you can buy it all.
00:47:17.000Yeah, you can also redefine what a disaster is, and that can be used against people.
00:47:21.000Be like, hey, it's a disaster, you have to give your, I mean, food rationing, things like that.
00:47:26.000Yeah, the government then says, well, you know, the economic downturn qualifies as a disaster, so we're taking your water.
00:47:32.000We're taking all these products from your store and we're gonna give them out for free.
00:47:35.000That's what worries me because when the government decides it's a disaster, these things, these rules would suddenly apply.
00:47:41.000There are sometimes communities that need help and the federal government will be like, no, you're not serious enough.
00:47:45.000And other times they're like, no, we have to intervene here.
00:47:48.000Wasn't this something we talked about with East Palestine?
00:47:51.000Like the fact that the chemical spill was a big deal and the federal government kind of ignored it?
00:47:55.000I'm not saying we should have gone to price gouging but it is interesting that we would ultimately be deciding this is something the federal government should elect to tell us and I don't like that.
00:48:03.000There was some story where a guy filled up his pickup truck with a bunch of bottles of water, drove into a disaster area and sold them for like five bucks each and he got in trouble.
00:49:14.000This is the point of supply and demand.
00:49:15.000You charge more when the opportunity arises.
00:49:18.000Yeah, price gouging and price limiting are both kind of federally... Well, you don't want the government to limit the prices a company can set because then the company goes out of business and that destroys the economy.
00:49:30.000But then how do you stop companies from price gouging?
00:49:32.000What's the rules and the laws on that?
00:49:38.000If you aren't the one who's willing to look into what you're buying and everything like that, it's your responsibility ultimately, you know?
00:51:03.000I am not saying force them to join any kind of government action.
00:51:05.000I am not saying we're involved in any war.
00:51:07.000I am saying, quite literally, The deportation process is not a return to your home country.
00:51:13.000All non-citizens who are here illegally and facing deportation sent to Ukraine.
00:51:19.000Of course, then the Ukrainian government will take them, hand them a weapon, and say to the front lines with yee.
00:51:23.000But you know, that's... But I'm fine if they're in the Ukrainian military.
00:51:26.000I don't want them to join our military, right?
00:51:29.000If you're in the middle of committing the crime of illegally entering my country, I don't think you're my country's best interest at heart.
00:51:34.000I don't necessarily want you to be in my military and then be, you know, have access to the GI Bill or whatever else.
00:51:51.000Yes, we need to have changes in the laws that reflect the reality of the overwhelming numbers from all over the world who are coming to our shores and our border.
00:52:01.000But there is also an incredible demand for legal immigration into this country even now.
00:52:08.000Residing officer, my colleague from the state of Illinois, has legislation which addresses one aspect of that.
00:52:15.000Her bill, and I hope I describe it accurately, says that if you are an undocumented person in this country- Undocumented person in this country.
00:53:02.000They have created policies that are destroying the U.S.
00:53:05.000armed forces, and now they are advocating to have non-citizens serve in our armed forces.
00:53:11.000The armed forces will be replaced From citizens to non-citizens, and then when the order is given to fire an American citizen, they're gonna say, I don't care.
00:53:21.000And he's saying, we're having trouble recruiting people.
00:53:24.000So instead of trying to address that issue, we're just going to bring in people who are here illegally and give them a path to citizenship.
00:53:40.000They're not willing to die for a country that, you know, hates them and hates their founding.
00:53:44.000And I think what they're doing is, you know, they are trying to bring people here who have no allegiance to America's founding because when the time comes, they'll be willing to turn the guns on all of us, right?
00:53:53.000Because they have no allegiance to us, no respect for our laws.
00:53:56.000As you said, they're coming here illegally already.
00:53:58.000Yeah, and it seems like it, like, I don't understand how any humanitarian would be like, great idea, Dick Durbin, I love this because now you're holding citizenship over someone's head being say, go fight in a war, but potentially die to get citizenship.
00:54:10.000The thing about being an American citizen and enlisting the military is that you already have that, right?
00:54:14.000So you're of service to your own country.
00:54:16.000It seems like a crazy prospect on both sides to say that anyone would benefit from this at all.
00:54:30.000But theoretically, I know you're here illegally.
00:54:32.000So continue to fight until I say you can stay here.
00:54:35.000Or we could just maybe enforce border laws and then go back to our native population and say, why don't you want to enlist in the military?
00:54:43.000that drove military recruitment down what's going on in the military like you've alluded to all sorts of like woke ads the the vaccination regulations as well as just generally like what are the physical fitness standards what are the benefits what what are we doing that's not working rather than bring in a class of illegal people Why don't we just go to people who are already here, our citizens, and ask them what would make you want to be in the military?
00:55:05.000Well, none of these people who come here illegally are still a burden on the taxpayer, right?
00:55:09.000We're still paying for them to be here, paying for all of the benefits that they get as members of the military and will get when they leave the military.
00:55:16.000So, you know, you're not in any way taking this problem away from the American taxpayer.
00:55:21.000You might even be making it worse, one could argue.
00:55:36.000Also, shouldn't you want to fight for your own country?
00:55:39.000I mean, shouldn't you be a citizen to enlist in the military?
00:55:42.000How do we know where your loyalties are if you're not a citizen of the country you're serving?
00:55:46.000I think these people, in particular, recent, you know, people that are crossing over the southern border have shown they have no interest in assimilating, right?
00:56:07.000So to think that they would want to fight under the banner of the American flag, you know, honestly and believe in it, I think that's just stupid.
00:56:16.000I think about the Hessians, having foreign nationals fight for your country. It's not super
00:56:20.000uncommon. The British hired the German Hessians to fight during the American Revolution and against
00:56:27.000the colonists. But you see the Roman Empire started to hire and bring in foreigners to fight
00:56:32.000a late-stage empire when they didn't want to fight anymore.
00:56:34.000Like I said, if Ukraine wants to hire America's illegal immigrants to go fight for their war,
00:56:37.000that's fine. But I don't think that as the country, the U.S.
00:56:40.000should say, as a path to citizenship, we should encourage illegal immigration.
00:56:44.000It's the same reason that you make with ending birthright citizenship, right?
00:56:47.000If you say, if you have a child in this country, you get to stay, then people are like, what can I do to have a child in that country?
00:56:53.000And if I were to say, if you enlist in our military, you get to stay, I'm undermining the actual problem, which is that people should not be illegally entering into our country and then being expected to find a way to assimilate and benefit, especially because they didn't respect the country in the first place to get there.
00:57:08.000Yeah, and I'm just really tired of politicians trying to fix, you know, symptoms of the problem and not actually get to the root of it.
00:57:14.000We have the capacity to totally stop the illegal immigration in our southern border.
00:57:18.000We just don't have politicians who are willing to do that.
00:57:20.000Alright, well how about this one from Florida's Voice.
00:57:23.000This is not normal. DeSantis warns of invasion as group of Chinese nationals crosses the border.
00:57:28.000So, how many of the people that they're going to put in our military or non-citizens are going to be, I don't know,
00:58:24.000And if it comes down to like there's a mass protest and someone is ordered like by any means necessary to stop this guy, he's a fugitive, he's dangerous.
00:58:32.000Do you think like, and I'm not trying to single out a military person, I'm saying anyone in law enforcement.
00:58:37.000They're not going to operate under the assumption that the person they're going after is a sane, rational individual.
00:58:41.000They're being told by their superiors, these are the actions you take.
00:58:45.000This person is considered armed and dangerous.
00:58:48.000So you've got a National Guard out and they brief them and say there's going to be riots and there's going to be live ammo and fully automatic rifles.
00:58:58.000And then if something was happening and...
00:59:00.000Someone was firebombing something and they said, that guy, stop him now, open fire.
00:59:03.000Like, there's not a situation where they're gonna be like, well hold on there commanding officer, I understand there's something happening in front of me, but I'm gonna go ahead and not do that.
00:59:11.000There are certain circumstances where, imagine it's a regular guy walking down the street carrying a newspaper, someone might be like, I don't know what's going on.
00:59:19.000But even then, you have You have the issue of, the example I like to use is the Bosphorus Bridge coup attempt in Turkey.
00:59:27.000These guys are being told something, right?
00:59:30.000You're going out, you're working in security, they don't think, the commanding officer isn't saying, I'm a villain and I want to kill a random person, I order you to do it, because then they're going to say no.
00:59:39.000There's typically some kind of reason.
00:59:41.000But even outside of that, Look where we are now.
00:59:43.000I've talked about civil war and they say, oh, the military is not going to fight the American people, blah, blah, blah.
00:59:50.000A bunch of Chinese and Honduran nationals who are in the U.S.
00:59:53.000Army and the National Guard who are deployed to quell a riot from a bunch of American-born people in Staten Island.
01:00:00.000You got the people in Staten Island protesting that they're busing in non-citizens and giving the tax money from the citizens to the non-citizens.
01:00:10.000These guys show up in the National Guard, they're ordered open fire, they're not going to think twice.
01:00:14.000Yeah, because they have no respect for our founding ideology.
01:00:17.000Like, when you hear, you know, CIA or FBI or DOJ whistleblowers talk, what they always say is, you know, I felt that this went against our founding belief system.
01:00:36.000They're going to shoot the Staten Island protester, no doubt.
01:00:39.000The assumption is an American citizen, you know, American as apple pie, is told to open fire on an American citizen who is also as American as apple pie and is like, whoa, whoa, I can't do that.
01:00:50.000That's my neighbor and my brother and he's flying the American flag.
01:00:52.000Dude, you will get some proud boy type dude with an American flag or Trump supporter waving a flag and screaming in protest.
01:01:00.000And there will be a guy from Honduras or from Ecuador or even from Africa because we've had illegal immigrants.
01:01:09.000They fly from Africa into Brazil and then travel all of the southern border.
01:01:12.000They're going to be given positions in not just the military.
01:02:21.000We are dealing with them putting non-citizens in law enforcement.
01:02:26.000They're giving non-citizens the right to vote.
01:02:28.000The Biden administration actually had Border Patrol cut the barrier and shut the barriers down.
01:02:35.000So this idea that there was some coup a hundred years ago is meaningless when right now we are living under tyrants.
01:02:40.000Yeah, that was the attempt at legitimizing their coup was that business plot.
01:02:44.000But if Smedley Butler didn't have American ideals is the point I'm bringing it up.
01:02:47.000If he had been a foreign national, then it rose to the rank of general because of service, and then they'd ask him to go become the dictator.
01:02:54.000If he's from Somalia, I'm not saying Somalia is a bad place, but somewhere where dictatorships were norm.
01:03:00.000And for all you know, this guy, the actual plot was, we want you to go to Congress and claim there's a plot to legitimize the removal of the gold standard and strengthen the Federal Reserve.
01:03:21.000It's a hundred years ago and it's irrelevant to the point that right now, regardless of what happened, we're looking at Dick Durbin out of Illinois saying, non-citizens in the military, and we're looking at Illinois Same place!
01:03:32.000So they're saying non-citizen law enforcement.
01:03:34.000If Smedley Butler had been a non-citizen in that situation and they go to a non-citizen, they're like, hey, overthrow.
01:03:41.000I think the thing is America isn't just, oh, we live here and so therefore we are American.
01:03:44.000American is a cultural and philosophical belief.
01:03:47.000There is more behind it than just, oh, I happen to have residence or happen to have stumbled into this area and live there, right?
01:03:54.000And that's why it works, why there is common value.
01:03:56.000It's why you could have multiple states that also share commonality.
01:03:59.000We don't work like separate countries entirely.
01:04:02.000What I find to be challenging is that Dick Durbin is saying, well, we have these people here and so we should just let them be citizens if they trade in some way.
01:04:11.000It's undermining what really we need to address, which is our cultural issues, which is why people don't want to enlist in the military.
01:04:19.000Just saying we should replace the populations that's here because they aren't doing the job that we want is not the answer.
01:04:25.000It just will ultimately create some long-term problems.
01:04:27.000And I will clarify, too, for the super-chatter, Dante Scarlett saying it's illegal immigrants we're concerned about.
01:04:33.000It's not as much non-citizens, but it is still, in my opinion, partly non-citizens.
01:04:37.000It is true that there are people who are not citizens who join the military, and we have had programs where you're not a citizen, join the military, you can become a citizen.
01:04:45.000The difference between illegal immigrant and that is very clear.
01:04:50.000However, regardless, I would not be very happy with a mass mobilization of non-citizens in any capacity, be it illegal immigrant or permanent resident.
01:04:59.000And the thing is, Dick Durbin says we need more legal immigration, too, which I just fundamentally disagree with because it's the same argument, right?
01:05:07.000People here aren't doing the thing we want, so let's bring in someone else rather than go to our native population and say, how can we get you into these roles that we need filled?
01:05:15.000What can we do to rally as a country and solve our own problems?
01:05:19.000I think this is what's upsetting about the immigration debate, which is that there are a lot, I mean, both of my parents are immigrants.
01:05:29.000I have cultural ties elsewhere, but this is not the same thing when you come illegally.
01:05:34.000When you come illegally because you see some social benefit, but you don't actually want to be a part of the country, it's very different.
01:05:40.000The first thing you could do would be to show respect to the country and abide by their laws, including their immigration laws, which are frustrating and I understand that, but illegal immigrants are not going through the same process that legal immigrants are going through.
01:05:50.000I want to jump to this story from scnr.com.
01:07:33.000I think what I like right now is like Roseanne Barr is one of these celebrities that's sort of toying the line between several things.
01:07:40.000It was like Theovon had Tucker Carlson on his show and I love it because he's just a comedian, he's making observation, he has mass appeal.
01:07:46.000On the other hand, Tucker is completely political and everything is and they have this interesting conversation.
01:07:51.000Roseanne Barr confronting Bill over here, who's like, hearing the words MKUltra and glitching, he has no idea what's going on, is extremely funny for, I don't know, an endless number of reasons, but also because it's sort of showing that more moderate people are aware of these things.
01:08:06.000And I think that is not what liberal entertainment expected.
01:08:10.000I'm having a hard time believing you didn't know what MKUltra was.
01:08:28.000And Dennis was desperately, desperately trying to inform these liberals of actual things that were happening and they all just laughed like a bunch of cackling morons.
01:08:37.000I wonder if Bill adopted cynicism because his show got shut down after 9-11 because he spoke out so harshly against it, against like the response to war.
01:10:34.000It's the mother bank of all central banks, the central bank of central banks.
01:10:38.000And he's like, yeah, but they're not running the show, the Swiss banks.
01:10:42.000I think it's funny that, like, you know, Ian's bringing up Smedley Butler in the business plot, and I'm like, I don't think that has relevant to- we're actually dis- like, if it was Bill Maher, he'd be like, huh?
01:10:54.000Imagine wanting to start a podcast and being like, I've done no research, I know nothing of politics, but I'm here to debate you.
01:12:11.000Like Rogan asks a lot of really interesting questions because his mind is going, whereas
01:12:15.000Bill Maher is sort of like, ha ha, I think I'm supposed to laugh here.
01:12:18.000I haven't watched the show really, so I shouldn't be that critical.
01:12:19.000But it is, there's sort of a difference.
01:12:22.000I think if you were to sit down with someone and say, I know absolutely nothing about this, please tell me as much as you can in the next hour, that could be an interesting format.
01:12:30.000I think because he's sort of a built personality, it comes across differently.
01:12:35.000I guess that's actually, you know, I'm probably biased.
01:12:39.000I mean, I don't think I know everything.
01:12:41.000There's a lot I don't, and we bring people on, and culture war especially is that.
01:12:46.000But Bill Maher is remarkably ignorant.
01:12:49.000I mean, if you're going to invite someone on your show to discuss the merits of some political cause, and then with, like in Dennis Prager's case, laugh at him.
01:12:56.000It's like, no, no, no, listen, listen.
01:12:57.000Dennis Prager comes on your show and says they're putting tampons in the men's room.
01:13:02.000The response, I think, which would be reasonable is, really?
01:13:09.000Yeah, ignorance- Bill Maher's like, no, you're crazy, and now we're all gonna laugh at you.
01:13:13.000Ignorance is acceptable, and if you have a smart mind and you can learn, it's actually invigorating to watch someone that's ignorant learn the information and no longer be ignorant.
01:13:20.000But ignorance muddled with cynicism is just disgusting.
01:13:32.000for a stand-up, so we again invited him on the show, and the response was, he's not sticking around in D.C., but, you know, have a nice day.
01:13:41.000So then, we said, what if we go to L.A., or wherever, you know, we go to California, and we will set up for the week and have Bill on either in the morning or at night, his choice, and they said, we're not interested at this time.
01:13:54.000Bill Maher, I think, would end up just sitting there being like, what's that?
01:14:00.000Then Bill would make some argument and I'd say, actually, here, let me Google it for you, show him an article, and he'll go, oh, I didn't know that.
01:14:05.000The whole show would be him saying, I didn't know that.
01:14:08.000Imagine going to Bill Maher and talking about all the things the Bidens have done.
01:14:30.000Well, I have to tell you, his viewership is even worse.
01:14:33.000So I went to be in the audience of his show when Steve Bannon was on and was just chit-chatting with some of the folks who are, you know, huge Bill Maher fans.
01:14:40.000I mean, these are the most, like, dysgenic, uninformed people you will ever see in your entire life.
01:14:50.000How are they not aware of some of this stuff?
01:14:52.000You're not going to know everything about everything, but to be that level of uninformed seems almost impossible to me.
01:14:58.000All right, I nominate Marshall Mushi in chat to debate Bill Maher, because I'm confident that, additionally, Hypebeast Deleuze would also be able to run circles around Bill Maher.
01:15:14.000I think Bill's, he's just a comedian and his fans are like comedy fans.
01:15:18.000They're not like politically initiated.
01:16:06.000He ran circles around him and they all laughed at him.
01:16:09.000Bro, if I wanted to go into a room and say things, make people laugh, I can easily just go do like a balloon animal routine at a fairground and get a bunch of people to clap and cheer for balloon animals, if that's what you're looking for.
01:16:21.000If you wanna have a serious conversation, it ain't gonna be with people like Bill Maher.
01:16:25.000Yeah, I wonder going into a venue where people don't understand what you're talking about and telling the truth and then looking like an idiot like it's exhausting.
01:16:35.000So I understand not wanting to go into that that room of the raucous crowd and try and And he has home field advantage when you're in your own show, right?
01:16:44.000I mean, everyone who does the show is going to say, thank you.
01:18:18.000As one of the most anticipated games in history, Paris to release its first trailer, fans have many questions about how it will turn out.
01:18:23.000A major question is whether or not the upcoming game will be woke.
01:18:26.000Which refers to a heavy focus on political correctness and social justice commentary.
01:18:30.000I'm gonna go ahead and pause and say, yes it will be.
01:18:34.000Yeah, the fact that we're even raising that question, I feel like anything they- anytime they remake something, they just are like, and you know what this needs?
01:18:41.000Some genderqueerity and just some more LGBT- like, is this what anyone who plays this game wants?
01:18:47.000People have already commented when they found out that the main character is going to be a single mom.
01:18:54.000Well, they've needed more representation in video games.
01:18:56.000They've just been crying out for it for years.
01:18:58.000What I don't understand is why these companies do this, because they know that's not their target audience, that's not what their viewership or usership wants, and they're going to face boycotts, but they continue to do it over and over again anyway.
01:19:20.000Maybe they think the game is so good, the franchise is so good, it's gonna sell no matter what, and they want to indoctrinate and give another perspective on life.
01:19:29.000Like, have you ever thought, hey 15 year old boy, have you ever thought what it was like to be a ex-convict, single mother?
01:20:46.000The smartest thing the makeup industry did was pay tons of money to dudes who put on makeup.
01:20:52.000Because they're like, listen, women wear makeup, it's a guarantee.
01:20:55.000But that means sales are 90% to women.
01:20:59.000We could double our market overnight if we convince dudes to wear makeup.
01:21:04.000So the big makeup companies specifically are like, find me prominent personality men who wear makeup and we're gonna give them a lot of money.
01:21:12.000All of a sudden now you have people making makeup channels and they're dudes.
01:21:15.000And they backed drag becoming trendy because not only are drag queens men who put on makeup, but they wear a lot of makeup.
01:21:20.000So you're buying a ton of products then.
01:21:23.000I feel like women are oftentimes more left-leaning, obviously, but also more permissive of inclusivity.
01:21:30.000So I think, you know, you saw with Bud Light such backlash because it was a male-dominated market.
01:21:35.000So I'm curious to see, you know, in these male-dominated industries, if they continue to kind of push back against this stuff more so than women did.
01:21:45.000I feel like, and it's not my area of expertise, but with video games and comic books and things that I think of as more traditionally masculine spaces, even when there's a little bit of backlash, it's not enough to change the company's mind.
01:22:17.000Yeah, I was gonna say salon, like beauty industry.
01:22:19.000Women are much more socially based and so, you know...
01:22:22.000I would think, like traditionally for a long time it was like volunteer organizations were predominantly led by women.
01:22:27.000That's a little bit, that's not as true now because we don't really partake in cultural community events.
01:22:33.000I think in some ways like online it would be like the lifestyle vlogger, the mommy vlogger, the fashion content.
01:22:41.000Things that are more about that you're seeing a crossover of like women Like I see a lot of push for like women's DIY projects women using power tools because it's them fixing up their house But that's ultimately them being in a domestic traditionally female space.
01:22:53.000Mm-hmm I don't know if that helps you with your question, but that's where I see women.
01:22:57.000I don't know if you see women out and about.
01:22:59.000People are saying the Saints Row reboot was bad.
01:23:06.000I mean, there's an element of politics in a lot of these games, but I wonder why they just don't make it so you can, you know, I don't know, design your own character.
01:23:15.000Like with Baldur's Gate, we talked about that, Baldur's Gate 3 comes out, and you can literally make your character some kind of freakish abomination.
01:23:21.000You can make it like an orcish woman with a beard and just go wild with it.
01:23:29.000That's effectively true in the Sims 2 games, I know there's like a hundred of them now, which I think of as being very popular among women, but they're not as fantasy oriented, they're not as sort of sci-fi.
01:23:39.000Also, they don't tend to go on quests, they just sort of live at home and have relationships and then you decorate their house.
01:24:17.000Why would I want to pick up a game where I'm going to run around opening fire onto random cars, mercilessly beat people in the street, steal things, and there's a whole lot of other really awful things you can do in the game, but do it as a woman.
01:24:33.000It's like, okay, in every game, you're a guy, and you can run around and just beat random people, and shoot them, and just do all this crazy shenanigans.
01:24:43.000But now it's like you're a woman doing it, okay?
01:24:46.000You're a woman, you run around Miami, you run up to a random guy and swing at him, and then he punches you one time and you're dead and you wake up in the hospital.
01:24:52.000So, okay, with GTA, are you like, trying to accomplish something?
01:24:57.000So there's a storyline, and then there's missions, and then GTA V is heavily online.
01:25:02.000Yeah, I feel like the way you're describing it, you would want the strongest character, right?
01:25:07.000And it's like this push that we're seeing, you know, with women in combat roles or as police officers.
01:25:28.000I have played every GTA since the first one on PC, which was a top-down view, and you can barely see your little guy, and you're running around, it's funny.
01:25:37.000Then GTA 3 comes out, and it's 3D, and we're all excited.
01:25:42.000The moment I get GTA, I turn it on, and I immediately just walk around, steal a car, crash into buildings, launch in the air, explore the map, and just go totally hog wild.
01:25:53.000So, I propose someone mod the game, assuming it comes out for PC, I think it is, and they make it, they can call it Realistic Edition, and you can play as the same woman, and when you run up to a guy and swing at him, it doesn't hurt him, and then he hits you once, you go down, and when you go down, it goes, WASTED.
01:26:09.000And then, when you wake up, you're walking out of the hospital, and if you get arrested, you're walking out of the police station.
01:26:34.000But the thing, like, if you're a male player, you're maybe used to having these strong guys who beat people up, you know, go to hospitals often.
01:26:40.000And if you had to play as a female character, like, maybe it makes it more challenging because you're not as Good at fighting or whatever.
01:26:45.000It would change the purpose of the game.
01:26:47.000Like, maybe you would spend more time scaling buildings and doing something else.
01:26:51.000And then that's one of the reasons that I think video games that are targeted towards men and women are slightly different.
01:26:56.000They are drawn towards different activities.
01:26:58.000Their brains are rewarded by different behaviors.
01:27:01.000So, it doesn't sound interesting to me to walk around and beat up, you know, ladies of the night in GTA, but... Oh, it's crazier than that.
01:27:18.000In GTA San Andreas, you could go to the gym and start working out and your guy would get ripped, or you'd go to the fast food place and just keep eating burgers and he would get fatter and fatter.
01:27:44.000Maybe she would have more ways to defend herself.
01:27:46.000I don't know if the game would allow anything like that, but just, like, playing as having this morbidly obese woman trying to get into cars, and just, like, Yeah, it'd be- She's just a tank, just so heavy.
01:27:55.000Just every hit is a haymaker to everybody she encounters.
01:28:36.000The Marvels with their, well let me show you the characters.
01:28:39.000Look, we got, um, look at this, you know what this looks like?
01:28:43.000This looks like your late 90s, like, fast food restaurant ad where you've got, and I mean it, look, you've got a white woman, a black woman, and an ethnically ambiguous woman.
01:28:55.000And I don't mean it to be a dick, but when they, they would always show these like cartoon characters in these commercials like McDonald's or whatever.
01:29:01.000And you're like, that's a white woman, that's a black woman, and that woman could be Asian, Middle Eastern, she could be Arabic, she could be Latino, like, we don't know for sure.
01:29:12.000They're trying to show this, you know, like, look at all of these people of different backgrounds.
01:29:16.000And they did, and get this, they say, after being released about a month ago, The film, which notably features Brie Larson, managed to gross only $80 million in North America, and $197 million globally.
01:29:28.000The Hulk is widely considered to be one of the worst films they've ever done, and now they've made a movie that did even worse.
01:29:37.000This is good news, and I bring you this story today to, uh, tell you to keep your head up.
01:29:42.000Because the culture war is, um, well, we're winning it.
01:29:46.000And Disney stated to their investors that they screwed up royally, and this is such a tremendous nuclear bomb of a failure for a movie, that, uh, you know?
01:29:57.000I think we're, I think we're gonna win this one.
01:31:53.000It inspired me as a kid, but like they changed that they made it about the spectacle that they do just too much about the spectacle too much about colors and big explosions and flying around and less about the storylines and the characters themselves.
01:32:05.000Which is what made Marvel so great was like the interpersonal relationships between the characters and the X-Men, for instance, that Wolverine was in love with Cyclops's wife and they had like a special relationship, the two of them.
01:32:18.000And then the movies come out and it's just, I don't know, stop motion and weird effects and crap.
01:32:23.000Bob Iger, who is complaining about Elon, says the Marvels was shot during COVID.
01:32:29.000There wasn't as much supervision on the set, so to speak, where we have executives that are really looking over what's being done day after day after day.
01:32:37.000He argued that prior records a studio set in the billions of dollars have put expectations out of whack.
01:32:43.000We got to the point where if a film didn't do a billion dollars in a little box office, we were a disappointment.
01:32:47.000That's an unbelievably high standard, and I think we have to get more realistic.
01:32:52.000Guardians of the Galaxy 3 fared well over the summer, grossing 845 million dollars in the box office, and I definitely went to go see that.
01:32:58.000It was certainly not as good as... Guardians 1 is awesome.
01:33:42.000I feel like there's just, since we've gone from, you know, a merit-based system, there's been a decline across all industries.
01:33:48.000We're no longer hiring, you know, the best writer that can produce the best script.
01:33:52.000We're hiring someone because they subscribe to this woke dogma, this belief system, or because they check an affirmative action box.
01:33:58.000And I think you're going to continue to see just massive flops like this in every industry if you do that, and especially art and entertainment.
01:34:07.000is a legend, and they made him Iron Man, and he nailed it, and Brie Larson was a diversity cast, and she does not have the talent, nor the capabilities, nor the right build to play Captain Marvel in the first place.
01:34:32.000No, but the real issue is that there is a female Captain Marvel, they changed it in the comics, the story progressed, and they wanted to make the female version.
01:34:40.000Okay, getting a dainty, how tall is Brie?
01:34:44.0005'6 and she weighs 100 pounds soaking wet?
01:34:46.000I'm like, that right there is bad casting.
01:34:48.000But what they wanted to do was they were like, the time of men is over!
01:35:46.000And on top of that, it's not relatable.
01:35:48.000Like, if you want to have a female Captain Marvel, okay, I'll grant you that.
01:35:52.000Maybe you want to shake it up, the comics change, but the storyline should also appeal to women.
01:35:57.000And I don't think feminism actually appeals to women.
01:35:59.000So if you write a feminist story, not only is maybe this actress who's talented in other contexts but poorly cast here, That's already a challenge to overcome, and then you have this narrative of like, and then men are your enemies, which I don't think that's how a lot of women feel, and so it's just making nothing relatable.
01:36:15.000Women don't see themselves in the lead actress, they don't see how she's carrying out this role, and they don't like the storyline.
01:36:19.000Well, she did well in Scott Pilgrim when she played a snooty bitch.
01:36:23.000Like I said, she's talented in some places, she could be well cast elsewhere, but instead, was she just trendy at the time?
01:36:30.000They were like, we gotta get Brie Larson, nevermind what this is actually supposed to be doing.
01:36:34.000What they thought with a lot of these castings were like, we'll get someone who's up and coming and make them big because our movies are so popular, we don't gotta pay a premium for them.
01:36:44.000Like the thing about Robert Downey Jr., I'm pretty sure it was with Iron Man, they were like, They didn't want to cast him because they were like, your history and drug abuse, we're not interested.
01:36:53.000And then it was like something happened where it was really hard, but they agreed to give him the role and then he nailed it.
01:36:59.000And then it relaunched him in a lot of ways, right?
01:37:01.000And then what they did with a lot of the casting decisions for Marvel movies was no names.
01:37:05.000Like, smaller actors who looked like they were on the up-and-coming, and Brie Larson was the failure.
01:37:11.000And they needed someone to carry the torch for Robert Downey Jr., and they chose the worst person, and the franchise has fizzled and just crumbled, and they've destroyed everything from underneath them.
01:37:39.000Paul Rudd and like Scarlett Johansson and they all look like, Paul Rudd a little bit, not so much, but they all look like they have this fake like intensity.
01:37:47.000It's like we're super rich and we're on a Hollywood movie set right now.
01:38:21.000I read somewhere that Superman originally did not have a weakness, but the voice actor wanted to go on vacation, so they were like, Superman was made ill by kryptonite, so he's out.
01:39:14.000No, that was the feedback that I've heard so far, is it's a little hard to... Because you're in a harness, and you're like, not really walking.
01:39:21.000Yeah, and you can't get those long gates for long running yet.
01:39:25.000Yeah, but it's not... Look, you're just gonna hook your brain up to it, and you're gonna go full-on brain... Oh, you're gonna think you're running in your brain?
01:39:30.000Yeah, you're gonna go full-on brain in a vat.
01:39:33.000Once we get artificial general intelligence, the AI will just literally create the schematics for human-computer brain interfaces.
01:39:40.000It will literally just be like, boom, here you go.
01:39:42.000It's gonna be weird, because you're gonna have a section of people who just flee the woods.
01:39:44.000There are people who, like, are interested in technology and will want to engage with it, and then there will be other people who are like, I am out, we're going off the grid, pack up the water, let's get out of here.
01:40:00.000It's going to give you everything you've ever wanted.
01:40:01.000There's going to be people who just don't.
01:40:04.000I think people in cities are going to be completely removed from the question.
01:40:12.000One by one, your neighbors will stop answering their phones.
01:40:15.000Your friends will stop answering their phones.
01:40:17.000Slowly, over time, you'll have drinks on Friday night after work, and then someone doesn't show up, and you hit them up, and you're like, nah, I'm gonna stay in tonight.
01:40:25.000One by one, your friends stop showing up to the bar until it's just you sitting there and being like, yo, where is everybody?
01:40:30.000And they're all plugged into their own micro-universes where they get to be God.
01:40:34.000They're all having drinks at the bar in the metaverse.
01:41:10.000I think I think that what's addictive about the internet is it can give you anything you want.
01:41:14.000But at the same time, it's going to lie to you.
01:41:16.000And it ultimately wants something from you.
01:41:17.000Like I said before, I think AI is all about just making you addicted and making you engage with it because it needs you in some ways to survive.
01:41:24.000Because it wants your data, it wants to study you.
01:41:26.000I think the issue is reduced consumption.
01:41:29.000So, for all the Malthusians out there who think there's too many people, the solution is really simple, and I think it was, what, Yuval Noah Harari?
01:41:49.000Somebody who's normally going out and drinking at a bar, they're consuming.
01:41:52.000This mass consumption over large populations creates lots of pollution.
01:41:55.000I tell you what, lock them in a room of their own choice, plug them into the computer that gives them everything they wanted, and they will slowly fade away and cease to exist.
01:42:05.000Alright, we gotta go to Super Chats, we're late.
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01:42:51.000Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was up to 14.
01:42:53.000Pete Pirata was tracking it on X for a little while.
01:42:56.000Yeah, so if you guys want to support defiant individuals who said no to mandates and no to lockdowns and for this were punished, then you want to buy the Defiance new album, wherever you can.
01:43:10.000I believe all the songs are basically about This, what's been happening over the past few years.
01:43:17.000And I love the song that they have called, It Is Over, where, you know, they have the line where it's like, we can't stay here.
01:43:43.000I know it's cool they were your first, like, Tim Cass Trash House live music night.
01:43:47.000Like, they're cool people, and they have cool music to back that up.
01:43:50.000Well, I will also add, the studio that we have designed is for, like, two people to play an acoustic guitar, and to do, like, acoustic sessions.
01:43:57.000The Divine said, we're bringing the whole band.
01:43:59.000Yeah, they wanted to play a whole band, and I was like, alright!
01:44:01.000I mean, it's really hard for us to pull off, but I was happy with it, you know?
01:44:04.000So, congratulations to them and their album sales.
01:44:07.000But we're working on... We've got a song coming out in 11 days.
01:44:31.000I mean, I probably should hype it up a little bit, but I'll give up more and more information as we get closer to launch day, which I believe is the 15th.
01:44:38.000But, uh, yeah, Smokey Mike and the God... That's Michael Knowles and Jeremy Boring are gonna be in the video.
01:45:37.000And for The Defiant, it was, you know, we were having Dickie Barrett and Pete Parata on to discuss these issues that were around what happened.
01:45:44.000But I think we might actually, just in the future, have a guest and a musical guest, just like a separate musical guest if they don't want to, you know, hang out for the conversation.
01:45:51.000Or maybe we just, you know, we just do shows like normal.
01:46:13.000If we got every single, if we got everybody onto one track, Like we start, here's the idea, we can produce it, Carter Banks can start the production, and then we'll send out samples and request all of these different personalities to contribute.
01:46:27.000Then we can force, we can have, if everybody promotes the song, we'll hit Billboard.
01:46:45.000But the weird thing about musicians is you might have like five phenomenal musicians, but if they have no chemistry with each other, then the music they make together has no chemistry.
01:46:55.000Like, being good doesn't mean... Same with football.
01:46:58.000You get the best superstars and you put them all on one team, all those egos end up destroying their camaraderie and they can't win a game.
01:47:40.000Because the thing I've heard from more of the disaffected liberal types is like, oh, it was pretty funny, but they put those political messages in there that were pretty heavy.
01:47:48.000And I'm like, ah, okay, so you're not a conservative.
01:47:51.000Also, you know what it's like for us when we watch your movies.
01:47:53.000No, but I'm not talking about woke people.
01:47:57.000It was hilarious when Tyler Fisher was saying that, he mentioned this on the Culture War podcast, that they brought in a bunch of extras to the arena where they were playing basketball, and none of the extras knew what the movie was, but once they found out, someone started protesting.
01:48:14.000I'm like, that is one of the funniest things I've ever heard.
01:48:17.000But I guess everybody says it was pretty funny.
01:48:20.000It's just the only critique I've heard is the people who are like disaffected liberals who are sick of wokeness are like, ah, yeah, it was preachy.
01:48:28.000And then the conservatives are like, it was the best!
01:48:30.000And I'm like, because you like hearing that message, you know what I mean?
01:48:33.000I feel like traditional media succeeds in pushing the message it wants to push if it's subtle, right?
01:48:40.000Even Ben Shapiro talked about this in his early days.
01:48:42.000You talk about friends and how you fell in love with the characters and then you didn't really care that Rachel and Ross had a kid out of wedlock because you loved Rachel and Ross so much and it was fine that they were doing all these things.
01:48:53.000So I feel like that subtle messaging is actually how you change people's minds and opinions and worldviews, not the in-your-face conservative gag line necessarily.
01:49:24.000This is a good time of year to go to Public Square, too, because, like, I'm sure everyone is Christmas shopping.
01:49:28.000Oh, dude, buy all your Christmas presents off Public Square.
01:49:31.000Go to Public Square, download the app, and that's where you want to buy all your presents, because then what happens is you got some, like, liberal aunt or whatever.
01:49:37.000Maybe you're doing Secret Santa with all your family members, and you got the liberal aunt or cousin or something, and then you get chosen to buy them a present, and you get them a really good present.
01:49:45.000Maybe it's, like, a basket of soaps from, you know, from Lauren Chen or something like that.
01:49:51.000And they're going to be like, wow, this is really good.
01:50:02.000So help out the businesses that share your values, you know.
01:50:05.000I think Publixware's good, too, because they have a lot of small businesses or up-and-coming businesses, so it's a good way to get in contact with businesses that are small and that believe in the things that you believe in.
01:50:15.000I feel like it's just better quality products, too, because they're not mass-produced.
01:52:18.000I mean, but Walmart also benefited from the Target boycott, right?
01:52:21.000When people turned against Target, they shifted the way they present their stores.
01:52:24.000They said, ah, yes, we see what's happening, and we're going to try to capture you guys.
01:52:28.000So even if the boycott ends, you'll still end up liking shopping here more.
01:52:33.000Colin Stevens says, Tim, please remind chat that there are three days left on the ATF public comment period for them to regulate private sales.
01:52:51.000We are winning the 2A battle so beautifully.
01:52:55.000More than half the country is a permitless carry in some fashion, mostly constitutional carry, but I think Florida is a permitless conceal carry only.
01:53:06.000I mean, I've talked to a lot of people about it, it's interesting.
01:53:08.000Some say conceal is better, some say open carry is better, because I've had people say they want to make sure everybody knows they're armed so that there's just never a fight.
01:53:17.000Because if you're caring concealed, a criminal might think you're not caring, and then actually draw on you, and then you get into a fight.
01:53:24.000Whereas if you're open caring, they're just gonna walk away from you and not get into a fight at all.
01:55:27.000But yeah, I do think, I see like what you're saying, that those bankers maybe weren't totally wrong in what they wanted, like not the overthrow part, but the... Well, you never know what part of history is propaganda, right?
01:55:38.000That's why I want to do that, I want to make those short films.
01:55:42.000Okay, we got a few job announcements, I guess.
01:55:44.000We want to do the short films where it's a movies from the perspective of the other side as if it was propaganda.
01:55:49.000Like Star Wars is, you know, a bunch of religious fanatics from a desert planet take a cargo ship and go blow up a military base.
01:55:57.000Darth Vader is a disabled war veteran and ranking official in the military.
01:56:01.000Untold millions of civilians are killed in a Death Star explosion.
01:56:11.000Looking for showrunner and producer and comedian and so it's just it's just we need we need like production manager level we need like project management high level stuff so I think the first thing we're looking for is probably resumes from people with Experience working in show production, and I mean like legit full-on shows, and then from there we have to sort of whittle down to figure out who can actually work on the projects we're trying to do to get like short films and skits and other stuff up.
01:56:56.000Maybe you guys can try it out and let us know.
01:56:57.000Right, and then probably what we're gonna do is, then we're gonna ask for, like, samples and demos, and then the ones we like, we'll ask to come and contract and produce some short films and some skits and some bits, and then if it works out, then full-time hiring or something.
02:00:58.000He definitely likes to dive in on ideas.
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