Elon Musk has a deal in place to buy the entire social media giant, and it could be done in the next 72 hours. We'll talk about why this is a good thing and what it means for the future of the company.
00:00:00.000So I guess Elon Musk is buying Twitter.
00:00:29.000And he filed to close the deal at the original price, which is kind of weird because after
00:00:34.000all the fighting he just said, all right, yeah, I'll buy it for what I agreed to buy
00:00:38.000And then Twitter has formally responded saying, okay, we're going to sell.
00:00:42.000And now apparently there are messages being posted anonymously by Twitter staff freaking out because, well, here we go.
00:00:48.000So, I don't know what else to add to the story, because it's just like an echo of the story that already happened back in, when was this, like April or something?
00:00:56.000Elon announces he's gonna buy the platform, all these woke journalists and leftists are screaming like, no, we'll lose control of the narrative!
00:01:02.000And then Elon says, I don't wanna buy it, and they all start laughing, saying, haha, you're not gonna buy it.
00:01:07.000Now he's buying it, and their brains are exploding.
00:01:54.000Seeing a bunch of bots advocate for what is potentially World War III.
00:01:58.000And he was like, okay, we're gonna buy Twitter and just finally put an end to this.
00:02:01.000Like, this was the straw in the camel's back.
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00:03:51.000A lot of people are saying the notifications aren't being sent out right before the midterm.
00:05:08.000That's the official name of it, with, of course, Elon Musk smoking a doobie inside of the Twitter logo, which you could exclusively get as a member of lukensensor.com for the cost of its production.
00:05:18.000And because you do that, that's why I'm here.
00:05:34.000From Engadget, Twitter confirms it intends to close deal with Elon Musk.
00:05:40.000Twitter has again agreed to let Elon Musk buy the company.
00:05:44.000They say the agreement follows months of legal drama after Musk tried to back out of his original agreement to buy the company for $44 billion this spring.
00:05:52.000The two sides were set to go to trial later this month as Twitter attempted to force Musk to keep up his end of the agreement.
00:05:57.000Musk had claimed Twitter had misled him about the number of bots on the platform and had raised concerns about issues disclosed by the company's former head of security who filed a whistleblower complaint.
00:06:21.000Why did Elon Musk try backing out, go into this big legal drama, and then abruptly just agree to the original sale price?
00:06:30.000I mean, my attitude was, couldn't he have at least tried to lower the price?
00:06:36.000Like, oh, okay, we're gonna go to core, it's gonna be a waste of time.
00:06:38.000How about we do 50 bucks per share, call it a day?
00:06:41.000Twitter would probably have been like, okay, fine, just, well, if you agree to that, then we're gonna get an approval from the shareholders, and then we're done.
00:06:47.000Instead, he just comes out like, yeah, it's good.
00:07:01.000Yeah, well, there's a number of theories.
00:07:03.000The corporate media is running with a theory that he was hiding from disclosure, that already the text messages that were released were allegedly embarrassing and that he didn't want more disclosure.
00:07:13.000That's one of the theories that's out there by the corporate media, that they're touting as the truth.
00:07:18.000But I think personally, I think a lot of it had to do with the spat that he had with the Ukrainian president, especially with him trying to offer some kind of negotiation or peace deal, bring that conversation to the forefront where he was dogpiled by the NPCs and by the corporate establishment that of course punished him and tried to make him seem like a bad guy because he was trying to prevent a nuclear war.
00:07:41.000So that to me was just absurd to see that kind of conversation unfold with Zelensky's advisor literally sending out a photo of him photoshopped as a Ukrainian trader.
00:08:03.000This is another thing to understand here around the Elon Musk Ukraine controversy, because Elon Musk provided Ukraine with Starlink, which a lot of military analysts and experts are saying is one of the reasons why Ukrainians are having such major victories inside of this larger proxy war between Russia, because of the GPS, satellite tracking, the weapon systems all depend on the internet.
00:08:26.000And The Google CEO Eric Schmidt former Google CEO who's also working on the Pentagon lead defense innovation board came out and said that Elon Musk is the true hero when it comes to the war in Ukraine so to have the Ukrainian president who has to have his advisors to have the Ukrainian people.
00:08:45.000Lash out at him and punish him when he already contributed so much to the Ukrainian people for this conflict is really something that I think might have hurt Elon Musk and might have added to this larger decision for him to buy Twitter since of course he was painted as the boogeyman as the bad guy for trying to prevent a nuclear war.
00:09:03.000Yeah, diplomacy nowadays is so rare that they frame it as treason.
00:09:07.000Yeah, I mean, look, I'm really happy about Elon Musk barring Twitter, finally.
00:09:11.000I think I've been waiting for this for a long time.
00:09:13.000But, you know, he is kind of the bad guy because I've lost like 2,500 followers within the past day.
00:09:22.000I don't know why a lot of us, I think, here and Spike Cohen, the VP candidate for the Libertarian Party in 2020, tweeted out that he had lost 2,000 followers, too.
00:09:32.000So I don't know what the theory is for why that's happening.
00:09:35.000Perhaps Twitter's cleaning up all the bots and hiding that so that when Elon Musk takes control, he'll look under the hood.
00:09:44.000I got two conspiracy theories for you.
00:09:49.000All right, we'll start with the anti-Elon one first.
00:09:51.000Elon Musk announces he wants to buy Twitter because he really does.
00:09:54.000He says, I'm going to buy it at $54 a share.
00:09:57.000He then tries to back out and plays this big game, which ultimately saw Twitter's stock drop down into like the mid-30s or something like this.
00:10:05.000One of the things we heard with this deal, Elon is going to some of the other investors, like that Saudi prince I think, and he's telling them, vote to let this go private.
00:10:17.000Keep your shares, I'm gonna buy up as much as I can, and then you can keep yours if you agree to take the company private, because I'm gonna fix it, and then when it goes public again, your stocks are gonna be worth way, way more.
00:10:30.000So the idea is, he doesn't need to buy every single share from every single person if he can work out these agreements with the big investors.
00:10:39.000A bunch of people hearing the news he's gonna do this, start buying up stock at the cheap price, thinking, ooh, maybe I'll get a chance to hold onto this when it goes private, because then once it goes public again, I'll make a bunch of money.
00:10:53.000And Elon then basically knows if a ton of people buy at the low rate, agree with him to take it private, He doesn't need to buy their shares.
00:11:09.000I was talking to him in the context of, he does this, his buddies buy up from people at 35 bucks, then, you know, knowing they're not going to have to sell to Elon, that them holding it basically allows him to take it private.
00:11:21.000And he said, it's a really bad time to try and do any kind of financial malfeasance because you're under such scrutiny.
00:11:32.000He was saying, you know, hey, vote on this.
00:11:35.000Should Ukraine offer up some kind of peace agreement?
00:11:37.000He was saying that, um... Should the people of Ukraine vote?
00:11:40.000But no, he was saying the UN should oversee the Donbass region elections, and then Crimea should be returned to Russia as it's, you know, it's been for a long time.
00:11:48.000And then the Ukrainians started attacking him.
00:12:02.000I mean, look, he's been playing games with this lawsuit for a long time.
00:12:07.000If he was really concerned with the lawsuit, wouldn't he have just conceded a long time ago?
00:12:11.000So I'm wondering if he saw this, and he got really, really pissed off at a bunch of bots voting to say yes to potentially nuclear World War III, and he's like, I'm buying it.
00:12:21.000And he's gonna go in, because bots are what he's been complaining about for the longest time, and he's just gonna just wipe the slate on all these bots, and then he's gonna bring Donald Trump back.
00:12:30.000Do you think Donald Trump will hurt or help the stock price?
00:12:58.000I don't know if his opinion changed, especially with, you know, all the presidential races.
00:13:03.000I think, you know, we understand the importance of big tech social media, so does Elon Musk.
00:13:08.000And there was a couple things leading up to this.
00:13:10.000Before the whole spite between Ukraine and Elon Musk, he sent out a meme a couple days ago that said, those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it, yet those who do study history are doomed to stand by helplessly while everyone else repeats it.
00:13:25.000So, him, after posting that meme, came up with a proposition to bring peace to Ukraine.
00:13:31.000It wasn't a perfect proposition, but at least the conversation started.
00:13:35.000There hasn't been a conversation on peace deals.
00:13:38.000There have been a lot of peace deals offered that were very close to being achieved, especially one by Turkey, especially one that the Ukrainians and Russians agreed to.
00:14:26.000So I was thinking about this with nuclear war and how they're really, really advocating for this conflict.
00:14:33.000They really don't want any kind of settlement arrangement.
00:14:36.000And I was thinking also about depopulation conspiracies and things like that.
00:14:41.000And what I like to say is the only difference between what's actually happening in a conspiracy theory is the conspiracy theory implies intent.
00:14:48.000If you remove the hypothesis of intent from an individual, you no longer have a conspiracy theory, you have literally what's happening.
00:14:55.000So for example, what's going on with everything on the left?
00:14:58.000Telling farmers not to farm, there's a food shortage, sterilizing kids, aborting kids, advocating war.
00:15:04.000If you want to say it's because they intend to reduce the population, okay, that's a conspiracy theory.
00:15:09.000If you say, I don't know why they're doing it, but the end result is the reduction of population, well, that's literally what's happening.
00:15:15.000So I thought about something interesting.
00:15:17.000I have a series of tweets that I tweet frequently where I just, you know, I say something, I tweet things that I kind of feel are like, they should be cancelable things.
00:15:27.000Like I tweeted several times, have you considered spaying and neutering your kids to prevent overpopulation?
00:15:33.000And I've tweeted things like the upside to abortion is that there's too many children and we need less people on the planet.
00:15:38.000Like these should be things that ever, like anyone ever had seriously, people should be like, whoa, whoa, whoa, come on.
00:15:43.000But not only does it break no rules on Twitter to ask people to consider sterilizing their children, there's no outrage from the media at all.
00:16:48.000So, like, taking a step back, I mean, Elon Musk started this whole conversation about acquiring Twitter because he said it was so important.
00:17:36.000You have enough money, you could have done that.
00:17:38.000But I think he also understands that big tech social media is a power that is even beyond the US government when it comes to flexing its ability to influence society.
00:17:49.000And you could even see through the disclosures, through the text messages that were received, him saying, quote, he wants to reign in big tech.
00:17:57.000These are the words of Elon Musk from the text messages that were released.
00:18:00.000He's saying, quote, our public square needs not to have arbitrary sketch censorship, and that, quote, we have right now, what we have right now is hidden corruption.
00:18:10.000We're allowed, uh, we're, we're allowed to do this segment right now, this next one.
00:18:14.000We're, we've earned it, and, um, we are now going to gloat over the woke Twitter employees who are losing their minds.
00:18:21.000So Mediaite reports Twitter employees explode over Musk deal.
00:18:27.000I bet a lot of these people are going to quit.
00:18:29.000Daniel Sullivan says, the reaction from Twitter employees on Team Blind, an app that allows people at different companies to post anonymously, is something to behold.
00:18:46.000Twitter employees heard the news of the latest development in Musk's potential purchase while they were in a meeting discussing the company's goals in 2023.
00:18:53.000Living the plot of succession is effing exhausting.
00:18:56.000Raman Chowdhury, Twitter's Director of Machine Learning, Ethics, Transparency, and Accountability, tweeted in reaction to the Musk news.
00:19:02.000Daniel Sullivan said, this Twitter employee sums up what I'm hearing from folks inside the company today.
00:19:49.000And I'm like, it's the perfect example.
00:19:51.000These people are freaking out because the only way the cult exists is that they isolate people from information.
00:19:58.000The only reason why these young people support BLM is because they don't read the news.
00:20:02.000They're more subject-driven and not object-driven.
00:20:04.000So you get older, you start focusing more on your family, you start reading the news and seeing what's going on in the world, and you say, oh, okay, here's what's happening.
00:20:11.000When you're younger, you're like, what are my friends doing?
00:21:18.000So obviously a lot of people at Twitter will be scrambling with this news today.
00:21:24.000According to the New York Post, 68% of Twitter employees disapprove of Musk and his vision for Twitter.
00:21:30.000And for what he sees for the company that especially wants to make sure that people are going to be at the workplace and not just doing all the work at home.
00:21:38.000But it's not just Twitter employees that are going to be scrambling here.
00:21:41.000It's also a lot of government officials who are now going to be like, OK, now we have to prevent this from happening, because once you open the floodgates of free speech, You have the potential of really making the world a better place.
00:21:53.000You have the potential of exposing a lot of sinister, nefarious things in our existence that could be stopped through transparency and accountability.
00:22:01.000The government is deathly afraid of this, and I could imagine, I could see new rules, new regulations when it comes to social media, as already they have a lot of secret orders.
00:22:10.000They have a lot of secret actions that they take part in, as we recently learned from Alex Berenson, that they are the ones, the federal government, the White House, ordering the censorship of political voices, of scientists, of doctors, medical professionals, and even memers, and individuals who, of course, do parody accounts of Dr. Fauci, have all had their accounts shut down because the federal government and the Biden administration said, no, we can't allow this, which is absolutely crazy.
00:22:36.000And they're not going to be able to censor those New York Post articles.
00:22:39.000Well, Elon Musk also a couple days ago was interacting with the CEO of Rumble, and he was showing interest in working with Rumble before this major acquisition of Twitter, which he now has announced as of today.
00:22:53.000There is something called the Twitter Trusted Partnership and Twitter Partner Support Portal that allows the government to issue censorship orders.
00:23:01.000Twitter agreed to comply with this to avoid regulatory oversight.
00:23:08.000This was a few years ago where this happened and there's one newspaper that covered it because nobody's gonna talk about that.
00:24:07.000There's one dude from NBC who's claiming, this is funny, this tweet where he's like, now that they're going private, the rules can be whatever they want.
00:24:14.000And it's just like, you've literally been advocating for that the whole time.
00:24:58.000Well, even in the disclosures of Elon Musk's text messages, there's one conversation he had with an anonymous Twitter employee that's not named because of the, quote, sensitive nature of the conversation.
00:25:10.000The sensitive nature of this conversation was, quote, how to navigate, how to let right-wingers back on Twitter.
00:25:17.000So this is an official text message that was happening between Elon Musk and an employee at Twitter.
00:25:27.000I could send you the copy of it right now or I could just tweet it out right now.
00:25:31.000But the DMs and the private messages, some of them are leaked and people could read them online and they really do tell a very interesting tale of what's happening behind the scenes here.
00:25:40.000We need to get a video ready of like Trump suiting up, like putting his shoes on and then walking and straightening his tie.
00:25:50.000You know, bring Trump back because there were so many journalists when he got banned, there were these threads where journalists were like, I would have to have my phone on alert, because it was my job, and so I would get an alert at three in the morning.
00:26:02.000My boss would be calling me, being like, Trump tweeted, write it up!
00:26:05.000And they'd be like, it's three in the morning.
00:26:07.000This is one of the reasons I think so many journalists probably hated Trump, because he would tweet at like two a.m.
00:26:13.000They'd have to wake up, and then be like, write the story like, Trump says something about North Korea, I don't know what's going on.
00:26:19.000And then everybody's like, I wish the guy would just play ball, and just do what he's told.
00:26:25.000Instead he, He pisses off all these journalists so they just write lies about him endlessly.
00:26:30.000I think a lot of Twitter is a consensus between the bots, between the bands of the right-wing people.
00:26:39.000So when people who aren't that, same thing with, you know, you have the media, you have Hollywood, you have big tech, you have the corporate press, you have the government, the career politicians, you have socialism everywhere.
00:26:53.000And I think a lot of that is about consensus.
00:26:56.000And it's so when somebody who's maybe an armchair, you know, they vote, you know, so they're going to go and they're going to research and they're going to find everybody thinks this way.
00:27:21.000I was scrolling through Facebook today, notifications, and they were saying, well, we're going to, you know, there's going to be, I didn't read through all of it, but it seemed like they were priming you to be ready for censored content when the election comes up.
00:27:35.000And so it's like, they're already sending us warnings, like there's something's coming.
00:28:13.000It's estimated, according through a lot of accounting, that a lot of the most popular accounts
00:28:20.000have the most amount of bots, since bots are usually following those accounts.
00:28:24.000Like Biden is expected, according to some estimates, having at least 49.3% of his entire Twitter followers to be bots, to be fake.
00:28:33.000So when you look at the consensus, and when you look at what people really think, and you look at the reality on Twitter, it's a totally different reality.
00:28:40.000There's a Quincy poll showing how the majority of Americans, 57% of them, want negotiations, want to end the war in Ukraine as soon as possible.
00:28:50.000But that wasn't reflected in the Elon Musk poll that he did asking around the similar question of peace in Ukraine.
00:29:29.000I think it's a lot of nothing to be honest.
00:29:30.000I was looking at it just for a little bit.
00:29:32.000And let's just talk about what their proposal is.
00:29:35.000And this was released today, the same day Elon came out and said he's going to buy That's right.
00:29:41.000Safe and effective systems, algorithmic discrimination protections, data privacy, notice and explanation, human alternatives, consideration, and fallback.
00:29:49.000Now I don't know, these are kind of like nebulous terms, but some of it's actually I agree with.
00:29:54.000Safe and effective systems, automated systems should be developed with consultation from diverse communities.
00:30:21.000The World Economic Forum says we have to move beyond shareholders and move towards stakeholder economy, which is who is affected by this as opposed to who owns it.
00:30:29.000So this is basically World Economic Forum, Davos-type language.
00:30:35.000They say domain experts identify concerns, risks, potential impacts on the systems, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:30:43.000If you don't know what an algorithm is doing to you, like when Facebook was experimenting on people, we got a problem and they shouldn't be allowed to do that.
00:30:49.000The next one's actually really interesting.
00:31:02.000They say you can't be discriminated on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, sex, pregnancy, childbirth, medical conditions, inter-identity, intersex status, religion, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by law.
00:31:52.000He did something like that on a state level.
00:31:55.000The thing is, the defense will just be, well, we banned them for something else instead of political reasons.
00:32:00.000But it's not working because As we saw with Alex Berenson, when he sued, I guess the ruling was they have to explain what they did because you have a contract with them.
00:32:13.000You know, I can put in a contract, I have, I can terminate this contract for these specific reasons.
00:33:05.000There was a lawsuit and Patreon abruptly changed their rules and tried to get everyone to agree to the new rules because they don't know what it is.
00:33:13.000And it was because the suit required them to go to arbitration and they had to pay the cost of arbitration.
00:33:19.000So if like a million people sue, they got to pay, you know, a hundred million dollars or some ridiculous amount.
00:33:25.000So they tried changing the rules, and the judge was like, when these people signed up, they signed up and agreed under these terms, and the action you took, which violated the terms, happened before you changed the contract, so we are gonna operate under the previous rules.
00:33:38.000I don't know where that case ended up going, but this is interesting because I believe big tech platforms should not have the right to just ban you for no reason.
00:33:47.000That should be stricken as just, like, not applicable.
00:33:52.000And so the example I'll give you is we need to start treating this all like being a tenant, a landlord.
00:33:58.000The big tech platforms are landlords renting you space in exchange for something.
00:34:03.000In this case, for Twitter, it's by you being on the platform, they can sell advertisements.
00:34:17.000And you're like, okay, now here's the reasons I can evict you.
00:34:20.000If you smash the windows, if you're throwing food out the window, if you're too noisy and you won't stop, and also for literally any reason at any time.
00:34:32.000So I view this stuff like, no, no, no, no.
00:34:34.000Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, they don't get to say, we're going to enter into a monetization contract where you can start a business You can monetize yourself on this platform.
00:34:44.000We're going to monetize you, but we can terminate the contract at any reason with... No, no, no.
00:34:50.000I think... Imagine if the world operated this way.
00:34:53.000Like, you go to a landlord in downtown of your city, and you're like, I'm gonna open a bakery.
00:34:58.000And they say, okay, so long as you're not making, like, swastika cupcakes, I don't care, you're fine.
00:35:02.000And then one day, for no reason, he says, you know, you...
00:35:07.000You know, you made mint chocolate chip cupcakes and I hate it so I'm kicking you out.
00:35:19.000Now that most businesses are moving online, now that tons of people make their living on the internet, we absolutely have to, today, ensure protections for people as if they're a tenant.
00:35:31.000I agree with that because I went through it right after the, not after the election, but after when Biden got into office, January 21st.
00:35:43.000I ended up getting banned from Twitter and I was never told why.
00:35:45.000I was just banned, arbitrarily banned.
00:35:48.000And I was gone until the last week in April this year when Elon said he was going to buy Twitter and I miraculously reappeared.
00:36:00.000But that was really tough because, you know, I had like kind of built this brand and I was, you know, Like, growing, and I was spreading a message, and I was just gone one day, and I was no longer in the public square, and I didn't do anything wrong.
00:36:20.000No, just like, you violated terms, and you can appeal this, so I appealed it, and then they were like, you know, three months later, they're like, no, no, now you're permanently suspended, and I'm like...
00:36:52.000I haven't read through the whole thing yet, but this one, I mean, the timing of it with Elon saying- Well, who gets to enforce this AI Bill of Rights?
00:36:58.000And a lot of the language is very broad, you know, so I would have to take a closer look at it.
00:37:03.000But there are points that I do agree with in there, like the arbiter banning of why whatever, you know, but- But of course that's not going to be in there and you should never trust the government and you should never trust the government ever if they use broad generalized language because they will use it for their own personal interest and they have been manipulating social media for their own personal benefit already in such an extensive bastardized way that it's sickening to most people.
00:37:28.000I agree with this one right here, human alternatives.
00:37:30.000It says you should be able to opt out where appropriate and have access to a person who can quickly consider and remedy problems you encounter.
00:37:37.000That would grow jobs too because nobody works at Twitter.
00:37:50.000And considering their profits are in the billions, They can afford to hire a lot of customer service agents.
00:37:55.000But what they usually do is they outsource it.
00:38:00.000They go to places like Africa, they go to places in Asia, and they get cheap labor markets to do a lot of the banning and censoring.
00:38:06.000And there was even a controversy with one big tech social media company hiring a specific group of people that hated uh people for their uh you know sexuality and they they went on a purge banning people and there was no way to get any justice from it because there's no way of contacting google and being like hey uh why did i get banned can i talk to somebody can i please have some kind of way to have some accountability here none of that
00:38:31.000I'm just concerned that this only helps Twitter keep their market share and the big providers.
00:38:38.000It could be a barrier to entry requiring additional costs to enter the market and start up a new social media platform.
00:38:46.000I mean, it is a problem that you have companies that say, we're not... I mean, look, if you start a company that people are signing up for and then they encounter a problem that breaches the contract and you say, I'm not going to remedy that, then they sue you.
00:39:01.000And I suppose the issue is poor people can't afford to sue, so what, companies just get away with screwing over customers?
00:39:08.000Like, imagine if this was a brick-and-mortar store, and customers came in and said, how do I return this product that was defective?
00:39:14.000You could say, we actually don't have any customer service.
00:40:07.000I do think one of the biggest problems with all these platforms is that they keep catering to these whiny babies.
00:40:12.000Now, let's do another brick-and-mortar, you know, analogy.
00:40:15.000Imagine you own a cupcake shop, and there's a dude sitting there talking with his buddies, minding his own business, in the corner, and he's talking about how he voted for Donald Trump.
00:40:23.000So some other guy on the other side gets up and says, kick him out now!
00:40:48.000System is... I just don't see how this works.
00:40:50.000Granted, I think the White House AI stuff is...
00:40:54.000Some people are mentioning in the chat, they're trying to save themselves because they know Elon is going to come in and take control of the narrative.
00:40:59.000Exactly, that's why the timing, I was like, as soon as I saw that, shot chaser.
00:41:22.000As we learned recently, there's certain rules for very famous people, and there's a certain rule for people who don't have as many followers, people who don't have as much influence, who of course get punished more.
00:41:32.000This was specifically detailed with Facebook, who of course get to play by a different set of rules.
00:41:40.000It's not just There's no clear rules, and I think they want no rules, so you have to live in fear.
00:41:46.000So you have to think twice before you post anything.
00:41:48.000So you have to worry, hey, will I lose my ability to have a voice in our conversation, in the national dialogue, if I dare talk about this idea?
00:42:07.000Well, Elon Musk specifically talked about opening up the source code and the algorithm where people get to see what they are subscribed to see.
00:42:16.000He also talked about rules, especially when it comes to adult content, especially when it comes to illegal content that is already illegal in the United States and punishable with, you know, law enforcement stepping in and punishing people for saying and doing certain things.
00:42:30.000So obviously there are some rules here, but when it comes to an algorithm where you see exactly what you're subscribed to see, I think that's an amazing thing that made the internet so popular in the first place.
00:42:42.000I wonder, aside from the fact that a lot of the people with the larger followings are protected, I wonder if it also has to do with ads.
00:42:54.000They're going to sell more ads because these people have, or there's going to get more viewership to the ads on the accounts of the larger followings.
00:43:03.000I think they do a cost-benefit analysis and they say, if we ban X people, how many followers will leave for those people being banned?
00:43:14.000And they ultimately determine, you know what?
00:43:17.000The left is more cantankerous than the right.
00:43:20.000If we ban someone on the left, they get really, really mad and they lose their minds, and then they threaten boycotts and they organize boycotts.
00:43:52.000We only need to keep 100,000 wealthy Democrats happy on Twitter, but we have to keep a million Republicans happy to get the same level of purchasing power.
00:44:04.000So it's obvious which direction this goes.
00:44:08.000Some people are saying that with Elon Musk potentially taking over Twitter in a matter of days, it will have an impact on the midterms, which brings me to this next story.
00:45:03.000I think Elon Musk taking over Twitter will help the Republicans in the midterms, but if Donald Trump comes back, I think that hurts the Republicans.
00:45:11.000I think if Trump comes back on Twitter, it's gonna hurt him.
00:45:14.000Because the only thing Democrats have to campaign on is hating Donald Trump.
00:45:33.000So yeah, I think that does hurt overall, not in all places, the Republicans.
00:45:40.000In the way that it falls with the midterms after taking the House and taking the Senate, it's statistically improbable that they're going to keep the House.
00:45:47.000It's just the way history has showed it.
00:45:49.000I want to read this email that I got from Nancy Pelosi because I was added to a mailing list.
00:45:54.000Yes, Nancy Pelosi emailed me and she titled the email, Honestly.
00:46:00.000I told you my September 30th deadline was the biggest of the year.
00:46:05.000I told you we failed to meet our goal for the first time ever.
00:46:08.000So today I'm asking you one final time, will you please chip in $15 before midnight to help me finally meet my goal so that we have the resources to close out strong and expand our historic majorities.
00:46:22.000I thought she had so much confidence in that this was going to be a landslide victory.
00:46:32.000One, either we let the Republicans win, capitalized, the fundraising battle flood, capitalized, our vulnerable Democrats with expensive attacks and barge their way back into power, or, or, we step up, we regain the fundraising edge and stop Republicans momentum in its tracks.
00:46:56.000Isn't the Democratic Party funding a bunch of the Trump candidates in some states?
00:47:00.000Yes, they are because they're doing what Hillary Clinton did that screwed up.
00:47:04.000Hillary Clinton had called Trump the Pied Piper.
00:50:47.000Coming into the midterms with the Democratic Party and Pelosi, the leadership being despised this much, I gotta say it doesn't look good for them and this idea they're going to retain it doesn't seem to add up in the polls.
00:50:57.000However, I'm gonna go back and I'm gonna pull up the Republican Party.
00:51:01.000Let me see if I can get the Republican Party here.
00:51:04.000Because the Republican Party is always the funniest one to me.
00:51:49.000But I do find it funny that even among the Republican Party, they generally, like, I remember seeing this when it was like, this is, you know, back in 2017, 32% unfavorable.
00:52:00.000Like Republicans really just did not like the Republican Party.
00:52:03.000And even now, but I think the funniest thing is when you go to like Mitch McConnell.
00:52:11.000The big question is where Independents are going to go.
00:52:14.000They hate the Republicans a little bit less than the Democrats.
00:52:17.000I mean, I think they go with... It depends.
00:52:20.000I'm mostly buried in the education stuff.
00:52:22.000The independents are going with the Republicans.
00:52:25.000And if you just look at what people prefer as far as what's important to them, yes, I think the independents are going with the Democrats on the abortion issue.
00:52:44.000Just overall economic output's not doing really well, which doesn't help Biden, and I think it's going to help the Republicans.
00:52:50.000There are two types of independents that I know from living in Massachusetts.
00:52:54.000One is Bernie Sanders, who's an independent, and another is the people who are, they don't want to say that they're Democrats, so they're independents because they don't like, you know, the socialist aspect or whatever, and they see how that party is going.
00:53:09.000I guess there's three because then there are the people who don't want to say that they're Republicans, you know, because they don't want the stigma attached to it, you know.
00:53:17.000So yeah, those are those are kind of the three main.
00:53:20.000I mean, most voters are independents, right?
00:53:26.000Yeah, so it's, you know, you see the way the independents are leaning, then you're like, okay, I can kind of gauge it, you know, from there by who, how they kind of lean within their independent.
00:55:15.000And it's like, if there's even one thing that that they draw separately on like take abortion for instance you know like there was a point where there was even republicans were sensitive to the fact that there could be a 16 year old pregnant girl and you know like we get that that's that's terrible you know like she made mistakes and whatever like there was a point where that was a thing but then the democrats are like nope
00:55:45.000And now it's a point where it's like there is no, no, no level ground at all.
00:55:53.000Like you can't, you can't be a Democrat and say, yeah, well, I, I kind of, you know, would oppose abortion in the first trimester because there's like, nope, you're, you're a far right fascist.
00:56:05.000Seamus is sitting over here, pro-life, catholic, conservative.
00:56:08.000Matt Bender's over here, progressive, pro-abortion.
00:56:10.000I'm the traditional, you know, pro-liberal, pro-choice, like, after the, you know, after viability, and then he's arguing with me like I'm the pro-life guy, and I'm like, dude, I'm the pro-choice guy, you're the pro-abortion guy.
00:57:56.000There's a lot of art that I like and there are people that are like 50 years old still working.
00:58:01.000And then I'm like, why is it that it's considered weird?
00:58:04.000You know, like a band puts out some new music and they're like in their 50s and their 60s and people are like, wow, they're still making music.
00:58:12.000And it's because back in the day they weren't still producing.
00:58:15.000They were doing consulting stuff, they were doing some stuff, but they had a family, and they were raising their family, and they were moving out their lives.
00:58:21.000Today, everybody's working, and I was like, why is it that these people... And then I looked, I'm like, none of these people have kids!
00:58:26.000So, like, their whole lives are just product, and not family.
00:58:30.000And so, it's a really interesting phenomenon to see.
00:58:33.000I don't know if like for these millennials uh and and just this current generation or whatever I don't understand you know I don't think it's it's prolonging childhood necessarily I I think it's it's it's maybe just programming it's just you know there was uh an article I saw On the Daily Mail, and it was like a mother's post about how they regret having kids and what their lives were like before kids.
00:59:00.000There was another post where it was like, you know, mothers talk about their regret and how awful their children are.
00:59:07.000And I'm just like, man, they really don't want you to have kids.
00:59:10.000They really want to prop up these narratives about how having kids is bad.
00:59:13.000Yeah, and you can just control everybody else's kids through the government school system.
00:59:17.000Well, in the UK they even had advertisement being like, do you want a baby or do you want to play video games?
00:59:22.000As if video games were a good thing, which again, a lot of people were finding, you know, themselves addicted to.
00:59:28.000And again, I think a lot of this is multifaceted.
00:59:32.000I think there is an element of it that is running away from personal responsibility.
00:59:36.000I think there's also an element of it that is pro-consumer, pro-multinational corporation
00:59:41.000that understands that if people don't have kids, that they don't have strong family units,
00:59:46.000people will of course use that energy towards supporting them rather than themselves and
00:59:58.000We need to do population control We need to do eugenics, but we're you know doing it in many other handed ways that of course is essentially at the end of the day and Reducing the number of people in this world, which already has hit a critical level where we are going to be dealing with a civilization crash very soon.
01:00:33.000So the left's thinking of we have too many people and we have to control population is the fixed pie fallacy.
01:00:42.000That there's a finite amount of resources and you divide it among this many people and if you have more people then that means fewer resources for each individual person.
01:00:51.000But that assumes that people don't create these resources themselves.
01:00:56.000And so I think we don't have enough people.
01:00:58.000Yeah, that's based in socialism too, like, you know, because they want, you know, the more people in their fixed, finite, whatever, like, you're not, you're going to get one bar of soap that you get to choose from, you know, they drop stuff like that.
01:01:10.000So that's coming from kind of their communist or their socialist, you know, perspective.
01:01:14.000And then if you look at getting rid of the family, that's a tenet of Marxism.
01:01:20.000Like a lot of these go back to Marxism.
01:01:23.000And it's not just financial ramifications of less people being around, but statistically the population is increasing, but is expected to go down dramatically.
01:01:31.000If you look at the Western world, people aren't reproducing enough.
01:01:34.000This is not only going to lead to a financial crisis, but this is going to lead to a very serious one, which Elon Musk...
01:01:41.000Has even compared to the potential, potentially the greatest risk to humanity is people not reproducing enough.
01:01:48.000And if you look at also what's happening behind the scenes with testosterone levels, sperm levels, all of them dramatically going down, there's a big probability that human beings could become infertile very soon with the rates of just estrogen, with the rates of chemical warfare that is happening that no one really wants to talk about, which is absolutely absurd.
01:02:09.000Well, certainly resources are not infinite, and more people doesn't mean more resources, it means less.
01:02:14.000Like, there's a finite amount of rare earth minerals that we can extract from the planet.
01:02:20.000It may be such a great number, we're nowhere near reaching that cap, but the planet is finite in terms of what its mass is and what we can extract.
01:03:16.000I would say right now, the systems we put in place a couple hundred years ago can't account for this because they were expecting, I think, like 35,000 people per member of Congress.
01:04:00.000And again, that's not the answer here.
01:04:02.000The real answer here is people finding themselves in nature and becoming dependent on themselves and not responsible and not dependent on the federal government.
01:04:10.000And this is another reason why I don't trust any of their narratives on climate change overpopulation.
01:04:15.000Because they keep, they had that video, The Line, The City, where they're gonna put everybody in a super condensed space.
01:04:21.000And I'm like, population density is supposedly the problem, the pollution, the waste.
01:04:25.000But they're not, I don't think they actually care about climate change.
01:04:29.000I don't think they actually care about overpopulation.
01:04:31.000They care about creating a reason to scare you into living under their control.
01:05:31.000You know, like, go back several hundred years and it's like, you're in the middle of the wilderness with a hatchet and you're like, I'm gonna stop hunting and go make chocolate.
01:05:48.000I think these powerful elites know this.
01:05:50.000So their attitude is, we don't necessarily want to get rid of people.
01:05:53.000We want to get rid of certain people and have everybody else live in the cities, eat the bugs and do what we want them to do so we can have nice things.
01:06:00.000I think what you hit on earlier is important too, though, that it depends on the system that we operate in.
01:06:05.000And so if we have more personal responsibility, more of a free market competition and trade, then the thing that I was pointing out earlier, that you can get stuck in a fixed pie fallacy if you don't have those incentives in place.
01:06:20.000But if you do have a free market and there is competition, there's capitalism, you can have an incentive to produce more even though there is more people on the planet.
01:06:29.000You'd have more resources per person as opposed to the opposite.
01:06:32.000And I think it's more than I just want to have nice things or I want to have it all.
01:06:36.000I think there's a deeper religious, spiritual aspect to this that I think, you know, it may be not worth talking about now, but there's a lot of circumstantial evidence highlighting how You know, human progression has been created with, of course, abundant energy, and we see a lot of central controllers deny energy to populations, which, of course, denies the progression of humanity, progression of human beings, progression of innovation and technology that, of course, creates life, a better life that is more resilient, that is more amazing, that is more incredible.
01:07:08.000What if Moloch is real, and he wants the blood of children.
01:07:12.000For all we know, Bill Gates is down in the deep dungeon, and there's a big door with big chains across it, and there's a bunch of guys holding the door.
01:07:24.000brings in a bunch of kids. They used to sacrifice, you know, children and ancient civilizations,
01:07:28.000and this is a practice that, of course, probably didn't go away, from my own personal opinion and
01:07:33.000perspective. Just the way I see the way society plays out right now, you see everything going
01:07:39.000towards one trajectory, and that is destruction of humanity, destruction of the human spirit,
01:07:44.000and the will of humanity to progress, build, and grow. You see the government standing in the way,
01:07:50.000you see the multinational corporations standing in the way, you see the bankers,
01:07:53.000You see the central controllers and billionaires standing in the way of the.
01:07:57.000biggest amazing human potential that we could unleash on the world and they're literally trying to control our thoughts through social media which is and and limit those thoughts and limit our energy and limit our ability to do so which is infuriating because there's so much wonders about our existence there's so many questions there's so much science there's so much intelligence but all of that is just being Pooped on by all these child-hurting, nasty human beings that don't like the human spirit and stand against it.
01:08:34.000So there's a Japanese term, it's called ikigai, and iki means life and gai means worth.
01:08:39.000And essentially, it's the intersection of what you're good at, what you love to do, what gives you, what gives you purpose.
01:08:48.000And we're at a point where we're just, we're privileged, you know, I hate using that word because they've repurposed it, but the fact that we can, we can be chocolatiers.
01:09:02.000We can be whatever we want to be, you know.
01:09:05.000And the people that love what they do are the people that add goodness and joy to the world.
01:09:12.000And, like, we're blessed to be living in a place where we don't have to, you know, hack up trees and, you know, like, grunt to communicate with each other, you know.
01:09:23.000And we got to kind of figure out how to hold that.
01:09:27.000You know, on a side note, too, I was just thinking when we were talking about all the people preventing Ikigai, essentially, the banks, there was one banker, CEO of somewhere, and he was questioned by Congress on ESG.
01:09:44.000And it was Rashida Tlaib who asked the question and she didn't even know what, yes, and she didn't even know what to do.
01:09:49.000She was just like, oh, and she was like all, you know, flabbergasted and she was like, oh, okay, well, I guess that you just want climate change.
01:09:56.000I don't even know, like, she said something totally irrational, like, and reactionary to him.
01:10:00.000But yeah, I was like, okay, well, you know what?
01:10:02.000This is good because ESG is to the economy what CRT is to schools.
01:10:27.000The world goes through normal undulation when it comes to hot and cold temperatures.
01:10:32.000It goes up, it goes down, it goes up, it goes down.
01:10:35.000We got to jump to this next story here from the Daily Mail.
01:10:38.000Germaphobe Howard Stern leaves his apocalypse bunker for the first time in two years for A-list dinner with Jennifer Aniston, Jimmy Kimmel and Jon Hamm and admits he's been afraid of catching COVID.
01:11:02.000It's not gonna be He's going to get everything.
01:11:07.000It's going to be like when Mr. Burns, you remember that Simpsons and the germs through the door?
01:11:11.000He probably bought a whole jug of like antiseptic, alcohol sanitizer, which again, that kills your immune system too.
01:11:21.000Kills your immune system and kills the good bacteria as well as the bad bacteria.
01:11:24.000And you need, you know, a combination of good bacteria to have a healthy gut.
01:11:28.000The radio host admitted on Monday the outing was emotionally exhausting and it was the first time in two years I ventured out of the house.
01:12:09.000The point is, the dude is agoraphobic.
01:12:13.000Like, this is not the kind of person that you should be listening to consistently.
01:12:17.000Does anybody listen to this guy consistently?
01:12:19.000Yeah, he's got like tens of millions of listeners on Sirius or whatever he's still on.
01:12:23.000Well, he imprisoned himself in his own mind, which is absolutely terrifying because he was a perfect byproduct of what the corporate media wanted the average citizen to be.
01:12:33.000And as we were talking, you know, you need good bacteria and bad bacteria, but when you lack good bacteria in your gut, this is correlated with a lot of people having very negative mental health.
01:12:45.000So I think there's a correlation with him being overly protective, using too much hand sanitizers, using too much stuff, not going outside, not being in nature, not feeling the dirt, not getting any sun, not getting any vitamin D. That correlated with his mental decline that has led to a situation where he literally imprisons himself and doesn't go outside for two years.
01:13:10.000You don't even want to leave now, yeah?
01:13:12.000It's agoraphobia, it's not germophobia, it's agoraphobia.
01:13:14.000Maybe it was Trump derangement syndrome.
01:13:17.000Maybe if Trump would have said, yeah, you guys should all stay in your house, he would have freaked out and he would have been partying every night.
01:14:08.000And then he's like, I got it, I went out.
01:14:10.000I got to go back in for two more years.
01:14:11.000I mean, he's got to be shots, boosters, he's got to have it all.
01:14:14.000Yes, which again, a lot of data is coming out highlighting some interesting findings that highlight that he probably will be getting sick, especially if he...
01:15:13.000We used to get a lot of nutrients because we would pull the vegetables out of the ground or off branches and they have like, not like thick dirt, you're eating dirt, but there's like dust and dirt still on the plant and you'd eat it.
01:15:24.000We started cleaning all that stuff off and I was reading about how that lowered the amount of B vitamins we were getting.
01:15:30.000Not just that, but because of monocropping, because of simply just growing corn and soy and allowing Monsanto to control the entire agricultural industry along with other big corporate giants, we have destroyed nutrition from our vegetables and fruits.
01:15:44.000A lot of the fruits, a lot of the vegetables don't contain the same amount of macronutrients as they previously did before decades ago
01:15:52.000and therefore our food is slowly and surely being wilted away to absolutely be mush
01:15:58.000that is meaningless without any kind of sustenance for you as a human being.
01:16:02.000So do we have to buy 10 tomatoes and eat them instead of five?
01:16:08.000Do I eat double the salad now or what do I do?
01:16:11.000Well, you gotta be careful with the glyphosate inside of there.
01:16:14.000I went to Stonewall Jackson's Shenandoah compound, because it's in Winchester, I think.
01:16:21.000It was like, he used it for a few months while he was planning the defense of the Shenandoah during the Civil War.
01:16:25.000And in the kitchen, they had a musket from like 1820 up on the wall, and they said what they would do is, when they're making dinner, they would have the door open, and if they saw a critter outside, they'd grab the musket and just shoot it, and then take it and throw it in the stew.
01:16:42.000It's kind of a crazy thought, eating squirrel, groundhog, rabbit, or badger, whatever they happen to see, but also the crazy thought of something so fresh, Taken right from the yard!
01:19:23.000I mean, I guess unless he started doing his own thing in his yard.
01:19:28.000Look, we got a bunch of critters and deer all over the place.
01:19:31.000And I'm not going to pretend like we would be able to survive off the land or anything like that.
01:19:36.000But I'm confident that after some hardship, if everything were to collapse, we'd be all right out here.
01:19:44.000We'd figure it out and we would find a way.
01:19:47.000People in cities and people like him, they would just melt.
01:19:50.000They would be sitting there, he would just like slowly become one with his chair and just like get stuck to it and be like, and then within a couple weeks he'd be gone.
01:20:03.000He even, Howard Stern, specifically said that if you're unvaccinated, you should be denied treatment out of hospitals.
01:20:12.000Hospitals should be, quote, closed to individuals who are not vaccinated.
01:20:15.000So this is a man who wants to see other people suffer, who wants to see other people die, as, of course, he's taken for granted his lifestyle that, of course, the average poor person can't afford.
01:20:25.000An average person can't hide in a 20 million dollar mansion and not be able to work or do hard labor or blue-collar work.
01:20:34.000So for him to go out and say this on the heels of his paranoia is just mind-boggling.
01:20:40.000I remember you had people advocating on the news, on CNN, doctors advocating for not allowing you to fly state to state.
01:20:51.000That's a federal issue now, unless you're vaccinated.
01:21:45.000Does Velma need to be attracted to someone for her character to work?
01:21:48.000Is there a reason why after what has been like 50 years they said she's gay?
01:21:52.000Because they lean too heavily on gender and sexuality and explosions now and they don't have good storylines anymore so they're gonna pull in a whole different demographic of people to watch it who are like, oh I feel seen, it's my representation, representation is important.
01:22:50.000But there's, like, not a big sexual component of Scooby-Doo to begin with, so this is just out of place, period, for the show.
01:22:57.000Like, you don't, you don't see, like, in the cartoon, it's like, almost every single episode of the show, ever, is that some dude is trying to lower property value by pretending to be a ghost or a mummy or something.
01:23:09.000And then they're like, he was trying to scam people.
01:23:11.000It just shows you that the monsters are adults, and the monsters are, you know, scammers.
01:23:34.000Why are they interjecting sexual preference in a kids movie?
01:23:39.000I think everyone should be asking themselves after this.
01:23:41.000Well, Disney also does a lot of sinister subliminal messages and puts wieners everywhere, so they have a horrible track record, especially with a lot of their younger stars.
01:23:53.000But as Tim pulled up here, there's... Well, I think we need to point out that Shaggy is trans.
01:23:59.000It's been that way for a while, right?
01:24:02.000I've seen my fair share of Scooby-Doo.
01:24:05.000I mean, it's been around, it's older than I am.
01:24:07.000And I'm like, Shaggy's been dressing like a lady for a while.
01:24:11.000Like, it's a common trope in the Scooby-Doo series.
01:24:14.000And so I gotta wonder if these doctors are saying that kids who play with dolls or want to dress like girls are trans.
01:24:19.000Maybe Shaggy's trying to tell us something, or the producers are trying to tell us something about Shaggy.
01:24:24.000I was looking back at this and I was like, there's cross-dressing in every kids' movie.
01:24:52.000Because I can tell you, like, Freddie Prinze Jr., Matthew Lillard, and Sarah Michelle Gellar are famous enough to where I'm like, I remember who they were.
01:24:57.000But, like, I have no idea who this lady is.
01:24:59.000Did she, like, did she do other stuff after this?
01:25:47.000They were calling her a Karen saying she was like you're in big trouble now and the squad car grabs the person and like people are posting videos of LeBron getting arrested and then people were even leftists were tweeting like yo, is this like kind of weird that Velma's arresting this black guy?
01:26:01.000And then the squad car drives off the cliff and then you die.
01:26:08.000Velma is a lesbian, but she's also a Karen.
01:26:09.000We won, but I lost because my chances with Velma are forever gone.
01:26:14.000I never get to dream about her ever again.
01:26:15.000Well, it's always kind of been a dynamic between LGBTQ and, you know, Black Lives Matter, like especially in June, you know, when they have like their month and then every, like every time the LGBT or Black Lives Matter would get something, It would always be like, they'd have to share it.
01:26:34.000And I remember this being like a big controversy between the two different factions.
01:26:38.000So there is always something between the two.
01:26:40.000I don't know if they're trying to pit it against each other or what it is, but...
01:26:43.000They also tried saying that Samus from Metroid was a trans, trans woman.
01:26:53.000It's, uh, originally, it's like, it was NES, and you're a person wearing this, this suit, and you, you know, shoot from your hand or whatever, and then do flips.
01:27:02.000And at the end, if you get the good ending, it reveals that the character Samus was a woman the whole time!
01:27:07.000And, like, Nintendo, she takes the helmet off and there's blonde hair, and it was like, ah, reveal!
01:27:12.000And so then, throughout the years, you know, the character has been developed, and Metroid's got a ton of games, and Samus in the Metroid suit, or whatever it's called, is in Smash Bros., and they were saying, like, this proves that Samus is actually a trans woman the whole time.
01:27:26.000They were trying to change the character, and the problem was, there's like a bunch of art.
01:27:30.000And Samus, Zero Suit Samus, is a character in Smash Brothers, and it's like, that's a chick.
01:27:34.000It's like, it's overtly a woman with, you know, big tits and a butt.
01:27:39.000So instead of being like, oh, look at what women can achieve, you know, it's like, nope, it was a man the whole time, who, you know, is a woman.
01:28:04.000Velma was explicitly gay in my initial script.
01:28:06.000The studio just kept watering it down, and watering it down, becoming ambiguous, the version, then nothing, and finally having a boyfriend in the sequel.
01:28:22.000But, um, someone said, Velma being gay is actually massive.
01:28:25.000We're at a point in time when this major character full of decades-old history and fans gets to actually be a lesbian, and that's just another part of her canon now.
01:28:32.000Sometimes we need to celebrate these wins.
01:28:34.000I just don't understand why it's like, don't you want your own characters?
01:28:38.000So we were talking the other night that they can't make people famous anymore.
01:28:42.000The ability to make celebrities is weakening.
01:28:45.000And the ability to create content and characters has failed.
01:28:48.000Nobody wants to make a... Here's a character.
01:29:10.000Yeah, Stan Lee had actually come out and said that, you know, like the way he wrote his characters, he wrote them specifically like he wrote people.
01:29:18.000Like, you know, and he was attached to people, you know, so you get like...
01:29:27.000You know, that's something I hear a lot about.
01:29:29.000But, um, you know, like, but, but they just reimagined the characters as being different than who, who they were created to be at their foundation.
01:29:37.000Well, I'm, I'm really upset about the little mermaid because they put an actress in ginger face.
01:29:43.000It's very disrespectful to the Irish people that we highly respect here on the show.
01:29:50.000But also more importantly, uh, More importantly, I wish characters in entertainment actually had personalities, actually had interesting storylines, instead of just like, hey, this is my sexual preference, because we're seeing that more and more and more, and it's like, okay, who are you as a real person?
01:30:06.000Who are you when it comes to actually making decisions?
01:30:08.000They want to reduce people to their sexuality or their race, and it's damaging.
01:30:12.000Do you guys think this is going to reduce profitability of these shows?
01:30:40.000There was a viral video from some show, Boston Legal maybe it was, And it was, um, it might have been James Spader and William Shatner, I could be wrong, and they're friends.
01:30:52.000William Shatner is, I think it's Shatner and Spader, I could be wrong, but I think Shatner is like the mentor to this younger guy who's a liberal and he's a Republican, and then they make a joke about each other being Republican and liberal and then smile and look off into the sunset or whatever.
01:31:04.000Like, that's the kind of politics where we're like, oh yeah, you know, like, express your idea, challenge the idea, and then have a nuanced conversation.
01:31:31.000But they've done Scooby having a girlfriend or whatever, and then, like, Shaggy had a girlfriend, but it turned out she was an alien, I guess.
01:31:57.000And then the other issue is, why would I want, like if you're gonna have your kids watch something, why would you want them to watch this kind of stuff?
01:32:08.000So I don't think that this is any longer a child show.
01:32:11.000I think, and I will say, I'm gonna have the controversial take after giving it some thought.
01:32:15.000I think it's fine that they have a lesbian representation in this show because, I don't know if you guys are familiar with the lesbian bar scene, probably not.
01:33:23.000So what's going to happen is, we're all going to be 50 or 60 or whatever, and we're all going to be working and producing still, and Millennials aren't going to have kids, and then you're going to get a big promoter who says, we want to do a show, a rock concert, and we want to make the most money.
01:33:39.000And they're going to say, oh yeah, the Generation Beta artist, he can attract about 20 million people, but the Millennial artist is going to bring in 75.
01:33:51.000It's just that it's a market size thing.
01:33:53.000It used to be that the new generation was always slightly bigger than the last, so it was always more profitable to target the next generation because it's a bigger market share when they move in the key demo.
01:34:02.000But now you're going to have 18 to 35 year olds, there's going to be 20 million of them, and there's going to be 70 million millennials or whatever, and they're going to be like, what's the point?
01:34:12.000And they're going to have to live in the shadow of the millennial and Gen Z's I actually think that's positive, because then they're going to have to create their own culture.
01:34:18.000They're going to have to make their own art.
01:34:19.000They're going to have to develop their own music styles.
01:34:21.000I think this is where we break from corporatism, so I'm feeling very optimistic about this.
01:34:27.000Like, we'll have to wait for a few years.
01:34:29.000But I think you're right, because it is never going to change, because now, I think Gen Z is the largest demographic right now.
01:34:36.000I was reading something about that yesterday, and then I think after that it's going to Super taper off because Gen Z is the product of Gen X, right?
01:35:14.000I mean, if you look at, like, even the 80s, like, you know, they were the product of the hippies, and they all went and became Republicans, you know?
01:35:21.000Like, it was their way to lash out against their hippie parents.
01:38:05.000Have you ever noticed that when you go to diners the pancakes are always the same?
01:38:09.000It's probably because it's just Cisco.
01:38:11.000Yeah, I knew somebody who worked for a bakery and they sourced their own ingredients and apparently Cisco went to them, this is what I was told, that they went to them and said we'll give you five months free supplies, whatever you need for your shop, for free, but to do a contract with us for X amount of years.
01:39:29.000Child of Ash says, Elon is going to add the doge to Twitter.
01:39:33.000When he does, he gets double the money.
01:39:35.000I mean, look, you think it's a joke, but Elon, seriously, if he says we're gonna implement
01:39:42.000Doge as a tipping mechanism, and then his Doge holdings skyrocket, he's not stupid.
01:39:47.000He's probably like, I'm going to double my money.
01:39:49.000Or to buy Twitter premium, which he talked about getting rid of advertisers and making it a subscription model for certain users, for certain features.
01:39:57.000That probably is going to happen through Doge.
01:40:00.000It's going to be 2042 and everything's going to be Dogecoin.
01:40:03.000You're going to be like going to the store and you'll be like, uh, I'll, you and McDonald's, you're like, I'll get the number seven.
01:42:59.000Internet's for... But that's one thing they don't consider.
01:43:02.000If we base our AI off humans, when, like, the Terminators come and they're, like, marching and they're like... All you do is grab a cat and hold it and it goes... Disarming.
01:45:22.000It's a weird analogy to make, and I gotta say, the idea that, because there's been a lot of people who've tried making that argument, that YouTube is an employer, that Uber's an employer, and it's like, no it isn't.
01:46:35.000The way it works with YouTube is, we have a contractual agreement, but I do not work for them, and that is easily exemplified by, they are not our sole source of revenue.
01:46:43.000In fact, they're not even the majority source of our revenue.
01:46:47.000They can try and terminate a contractual agreement, but that will have a negative impact on both parties, and so there has to be terms as for this agreement.
01:46:54.000I think the issue is, we need to start treating these platforms like landlords.
01:46:59.000You own a pizzeria, you want to franchise and open up a new store, so you go to a building and you say, I'm going to rent your building from you and have my business, but for certain reasons, you only can kick us out if we break these certain rules.
01:47:13.000You can't just arbitrarily be like, terminating your lease, get out.
01:47:16.000The idea that a landlord could tell people that we have laws for this reason.
01:47:20.000I think we need laws for this on digital.
01:47:28.000But most importantly, let's take away all the money and all the tax incentives that were unfairly given to all the corporations that of course they have a hand in.
01:48:26.000Like if I had a child, hypothetically or legitimately, I wouldn't be posting it on social media for Bezos and Bill Gates to be able to track and database.
01:48:37.000I don't want any of that private information out there.
01:48:40.000I got to keep the teachers' unions away from my personal life.
01:48:43.000Well, considering all the swattings, all that private stuff is going to remain private, so you probably will just not know.
01:50:13.000There's a funny meme about some scientist who invented some laser or something.
01:50:17.000And it was like the scientist was walking down the beach with his wife when all of a sudden he got the idea for this particular laser.
01:50:23.000His wife was talking and he told her to be quiet for a moment while he thought, and then he invented this famous laser device now used in every home.
01:50:30.000And then right next to it is the two muscular dojos, and it's a futuristic city and it says, Society of Women Stopped Talking for a Few Minutes.
01:50:40.000But we're on track historically to go into another ice age, right?
01:50:43.000So we might want to have more and more kids, seven each, and contribute towards global warming so we don't go into an ice age.
01:50:51.000Tyler Adams says, Tim, do you have a jersey giant hen that you are willing to sell?
01:50:55.000A batch of dogs killed my chicken Sunday and it's been very tough experience with the gore and all I saw.
01:51:00.000I can't find a hatchery that has any on hand either.
01:51:02.000We only have four and they're only like I think 10 or 12 weeks old so they're fairly small but we are not selling them.
01:51:11.000If you want an official Cocktown Rooster, we got so many, I want to eat them!
01:51:16.000But Chris doesn't want to eat them, so we're not eating them, I guess.
01:51:18.000Because, I mean, it's kind of that simple, right?
01:51:20.000When it comes to something like the death penalty for a rooster, one veto is kind of like, okay, well, you can't do it.
01:51:27.000I look at it like, the joy I would get from tasting that delicious pressure-cooked rooster stew is not as much as the anger and pain someone would feel by having the rooster killed if they liked it.
01:51:38.000I saw Chris eating Popeyes a couple days ago.
01:51:42.000Yeah, but like, these are the roosters that he was incubating, so it's kind of like he created them.
01:51:49.000I have no say to say we can kill them all.
01:53:16.000So it's like, don't, like when the bank robbers see him and he slams his head in the ground, they're like, okay, don't let him know we're doing this.
01:53:24.000Go and lie to him and tell him everything's okay.
01:53:26.000And then, you know, as they're looting the bank, one guy's like, no one's robbing the bank.
01:54:38.000It's basically, you know, when you're forming a party, you have someone who heals the group, the tank is the one who's fighting the dragon to take all the damage, and then the DPS are the ones causing as much damage as possible to get them down.
01:54:50.000And then I used to play Rogue in World of Warcraft.
01:54:53.000So you deal so much damage, eventually you take aggro from the monster, because you're hitting it too much and it turns and the tank has to then pull it back off, otherwise you'll die faster.
01:56:20.000So a lot of the medicals, you know, things that people depend on won't be available to them because there's not enough people to facilitate that.
01:56:29.000Everyone says, good name, Ian for President 2024.
01:58:45.000Shaggy, because he looks like a layabout.
01:58:47.000Well, what I was saying earlier before we went on air about the five colleges, there's five colleges in Massachusetts called the Five College Area.
01:58:55.000And there's a theory that the Scooby-Doo family is modeled after the five colleges.
01:59:00.000You have Amherst College, which is the preppy Guy College, you have Holyoke College, you have the Holyoke,
01:59:06.000Mount Holyoke, which is the preppy girl college, and you have Smith College, which is the gay
01:59:10.000college, then you have Hampshire College, which is the stoner college, and then you have UMass, which
01:59:15.000is the party college. So yeah, that would make sense. Scooby's the party college. Scooby's
02:01:25.000Yeah, so like he can take the space of a door by bending space-time and put the port of the door on the other wall, but it still leads to the same place.
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