Coronavirus has reached 100,000 confirmed cases in the United States and 1,500 deaths have already been reported. This is the largest increase in confirmed cases of coronavirus out of any country in any single day. What does this mean for the economy and the rest of the world? Is this a pandemic? And what is being done about it? We discuss the latest numbers, the relief package passed by Congress and signed by the President, and the impact it will have on the economy. We also talk about the impact on the US health care system and how it will impact the economy in the short and long term. We also discuss the impact of the crisis and what's being done to try to prevent it from becoming worse. And we talk about what that means for the victims and the families affected by the outbreak. America First with Nicholas J. Fuentes is a casual Friday show on the show America First, where we chat about the latest news and discuss the day's happenings in the world, and what to do to prepare for the worst possible pandemic in the coming days and weeks. It's casual Friday, not serious Friday, but it's a chill stream you can tell it's going to be a relaxed, low-key, casual Friday. We'll talk about all things casual Friday! Thanks for listening and share it with your friends and family! and stay tuned for more episodes like this one! in the next few days! -Nate & the latest in our newsletter, America First. -Nick - The FluMistakes of the Week: . . . . , and the latest update from the CDC ...and much more! , and much more... Check out our new podcast, Subscribe to our new show ! Learn more about our new ad-free version of America First! Subscribe and subscribe to stay up to date with all the latest updates from our social media platforms! Subscribe and let us know what you're listening to us on your favorite streaming platform? so you can be apart of our convo! Thank you for listening to our newest episode! ...so much love you'll be heard from us on social media and we'll be hearing from us! . Thank you, Nick, Nicky, the host of the America First crew! ? & much more coming soon!
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00:02:39.000That means that it will be up to the hospitals to evaluate and decide who will get treated who will get care and then consequently who will not get treated and who will not get care and
00:03:06.000And this is something very sad and very tragic and not at all fun.
00:03:09.000It really is probably going to be the toughest thing when you see a pandemic like this.
00:03:14.000The hospitals will be so overwhelmed that it will be up to the healthcare professionals to decide and they will have to do a risk evaluation.
00:03:22.000For example, they might look at an old person.
00:03:53.000He is using that to force General Motors and other manufacturers to begin to build this critical medical supplies, things like the ventilators and
00:04:06.000So there is going to be a reaction to that, but it's really going to get rough in the coming weeks.
00:04:11.000We've not peaked in terms of our daily new coronavirus cases yet, so if you've been following this show for the past week, the cases in the United States just keep rising dramatically every day.
00:04:24.000And not only does the number of cases increase every day, obviously, but the number of new cases
00:04:31.000The rate at which we are adding new cases is increasing as well.
00:04:35.000So of course we have more cases than the day before, but the differential is also bigger too.
00:04:41.000So I think yesterday we had 10,000 new cases in 24 hours, and the day before that we had 8,000, and the day before that we had 6,000.
00:04:49.000And between today and yesterday we had 20,000 new cases.
00:04:53.000And I think it's safe to say that as the testing becomes more available across the country, because again in
00:05:01.000In the first stages of the testing rollout, it was only widely available in Washington State and New York City.
00:05:08.000Now that you're going to see the testing expand across the country and become more available across the country, these numbers are going to increase and the rate at which they're increasing will increase too.
00:05:41.000They have a smaller number of cases than we do.
00:05:43.000They have about 20,000 less cases, but they also have a population that's about one-sixth the size.
00:05:50.000So if you do the math on that, if we have a similar curve that they do, if we have a similar rate of infected and death rate that they do, then you can expect that our numbers might be six times what theirs are.
00:06:02.000So we'll look at the numbers, we'll talk about the hospital shortages, we'll talk about the relief package that got passed, and a few other things.
00:06:13.000Hey, I'm more excited that it's Friday.
00:06:15.000I'm like, thank God it's Friday already.
00:06:19.000I've been behind this desk and you know normally I love, and I love doing the show, I love to do it, it's fun, I get to talk to you, I get to do my, get to do my thing, get to do my dance, some dance moves, got some dance moves going on there, some, a little bit of a dance move, a little bit of a Friday, hey it's Friday, a little bit of a Friday dance move for you there, a little subtle dance maneuver.
00:06:42.000I like doing the show, but it is just so fatiguing.
00:07:22.000And it's just every night it's the same I'm like okay here we go whiteboard we got pulling up the BNO tracking and I don't know if you guys are tired of it yet but I'm just like out of my mind and then every night I do this I do the corona thing and then I jump on jaded and shallots stream and we play the same games we play warzone and animal crossing and I'm just like losing track of time I feel like I'm in the bubble I feel like I'm under the dome
00:08:25.000I decided I'm gonna grow the corona beard.
00:08:28.000I'm not gonna shave until this is over and I don't even know if I'll be able to get a haircut until this is over because it's one thing to go to the drive-thru, it's one thing to go to Walmart and you could take some reasonable precautions but you figure you go to your barber and you're up close and personal the whole time and they're literally just
00:09:12.000I'm gonna have to find a new long hairstyle.
00:09:15.000Maybe I'll have to figure out... I looked up the other day, Googled, uh, thick, long hairstyle, because my hair's thick, and it usually looks like shit when it gets long.
00:09:24.000So I'm gonna have to figure something out.
00:10:01.000I think there's an exception if there's like, you know, extenuating circumstances like that.
00:10:07.000So I go on the stream on Friday afternoon, two weeks ago, and I say, yeah, I had a turkey sandwich, and people are saying, Nick, Nick, it's Friday, it's a luncheon Friday, and you had a turkey sandwich!
00:10:17.000I said, oh, I forgot, I didn't even realize, I woke up, I just, you know, it was the first thing I ate, and I said, so I gotta get better.
00:10:24.000So I gotta be more conscientious about that.
00:10:27.000So I didn't eat any meat today, hope you're not gonna do that either.
00:10:31.000I ate all my, got my fill yesterday with the Taco Bell.
00:10:34.000Maybe I'll have to make a stop at 1am or so.
00:11:33.000So, I can tell you that the America First movement, once this coronavirus stuff ends, you're gonna see the plan really start to take shape.
00:11:44.000Not just the site, but a lot of other things.
00:11:47.000I can tell you that I am hard at work behind the scenes making a lot of different things happen and they're all kind of interconnected and that makes it difficult because some elements of the project
00:12:00.000Well, they're all dependent and contingent on other things, so you have to do one thing before you can do other things, and I can explain more about that later on, but lots of big things are happening behind the scenes.
00:12:11.000I've been telling you, infrastructure, networks, the groundwork is being laid, that's all happening.
00:12:17.000Rest assured that behind the scenes of all these coronavirus shows, which may seem somewhat boring, at least they are to me, big, big things are happening, and it's all very exciting.
00:12:37.000The news isn't exactly great today on where we're at with coronavirus, but I just want to give you a little bit of a heads up, and I can't tell you any more details.
00:12:46.000So, if I see any super chats saying, can you tell us more, so is the website gonna have, so is it?
00:12:52.000If I hear any more questions about that, I'm gonna get really agitated.
00:12:57.000I just wanted to give you a little bit of a white pill and say in a completely ambiguous and opaque and simple way that things are going very well behind the scenes.
00:13:08.000And that's all you need to know for now.
00:13:10.000So I don't want to hear any, Nick, Nick, Nick, so is it gonna have this and what about this and you should do that and X, Y, and Z. I don't want to hear it.
00:14:51.000The problem with this whiteboard is my markers are getting worse, my eraser is getting worse.
00:14:56.000This whiteboard is such a pain in the ass, you have no idea, it's like... I can't even begin to tell you some of the, uh... Just annoying things about handling this whiteboard.
00:15:39.000And we very well could be up to 700,000 by the time we return from the weekend on Monday.
00:15:56.000To give you an idea of how fast, how quickly this thing is spreading, and how many people are out there that are sick, how we're discovering new cases.
00:16:05.000We're gaining 100,000 every other day now, which is pretty spooky.
00:16:10.000We're up to 105,000 cases in the United States.
00:16:14.000For the first time, we're the first country, according to the official numbers, to confirm more than 100,000 cases, which is not good.
00:16:26.000And as I said, we logged close to 20,000 new cases just in the last 24 hours.
00:16:31.000And you may remember that yesterday we were behind... I'm sorry, we were number one yesterday.
00:18:03.000I mean, obviously, each European country will not surpass the United States, but all the European countries together, if you add all these up, it's astronomical on the European continent.
00:18:14.000But the United States will be by far the country that's worst off.
00:19:42.000How we weren't testing as many people per million as South Korea overall.
00:19:47.000How our testing capabilities were lower than the average for South Korea on a daily basis.
00:19:54.000Last week we saw 22,000 tests in one day and you know today we're now up to 626,000.
00:19:58.000That is a pretty rapid increase and I'll also find for you some of the data on the tests per million per state to give you an idea of where we were two weeks ago.
00:20:10.000Two weeks ago as I said the United States was testing five people for every 1 million people.
00:20:16.000And Italy was testing 800 people for every 1 million people.
00:20:20.000And South Korea was testing, I think, thousands for every 1 million people.
00:21:09.000And now in every state you've got hundreds, and in a lot of states more than a thousand.
00:21:13.000In New York, more than 5,000 tests per million.
00:21:18.000And that is really, really incredible when you think about it.
00:21:21.000And we have to give the President credit.
00:21:22.000I've seen a lot of people attacking the President over the relief package or because he didn't act quickly enough on the coronavirus, but I think you have to give him a lot, a lot, a lot of credit on this because if you look at every aspect of the government's response to this virus, it has been swift, it has been effective, we've mobilized it quickly and competently.
00:21:46.000You know, whether you look at the stimulus, which we'll get into, $6.2 trillion stimulus.
00:21:52.000That's the biggest stimulus by far in history.
00:21:55.000And that is one week after the, I think that was one week ago, right?
00:22:00.000The Oval Office statement about social distancing and all of this.
00:22:18.000I think they were released last Monday.
00:22:20.000And so we really think about how quickly we ramped up.
00:22:23.000From a public health point of view and from a financial point of view in response to the crisis.
00:22:30.000In two weeks we got testing available across the country.
00:22:33.000Biggest testing capability by far in the world.
00:22:36.000More tests than any other country has conducted.
00:22:39.000And if you're looking at the economy, biggest stimulus in history, 6.2 trillion dollars, a direct cash payment to working people, a bailout for a lot of these affected industries, which is not a great thing, but it is necessary, a monetary stimulus, the market's picking back up again, who knows if that's actually a recovery, if that's actually, or if that's a bull trap, we don't really know, but, you know, it seems that investors are reassured at least.
00:23:49.000If this was the Obama administration, they would be, you know, this guy would go down as an angel or a saint or something like that, you know.
00:24:17.000Getting 20,000 confirmed cases, while it's bad, the first step to solving the coronavirus crisis, obviously, at least with this seasonal cycle of it, is of course to test everybody, confirm the people that have it, and then quarantine them.
00:24:34.000So, in as bad as it is to see how much the virus is transmitted, we need that information as quickly as possible so that we can treat those people, quarantine them,
00:24:46.000And so insofar as 20,000 people are being added to the list in 24 hours, in a way that's a good thing because it's a testament to the fact that the testing is being conducted, it is effective, and we're getting those people in hospitals, we're getting them off the streets, they're getting treatment, or they're being quarantined.
00:25:53.000First you had the epidemic, right, which is it spread all across the country.
00:25:58.000And then the next stage was the shutdown and the reaction.
00:26:01.000And then the next phase, I guess you could say, the next element of the crisis will be the shortages with the hospitals and the build-up of dead people.
00:26:13.000And obviously all these things are sort of happening concurrently.
00:26:16.000It's not to say that it's perfectly chronological-like.
00:26:19.000You know, first the disease spreads, and then the government responds, and then people start dying.
00:26:24.000It's really more like these things all happen concurrently, but the priority, maybe, or what you need to respond to evolves as time goes on.
00:26:34.000You know, for in the United States, as an example, the virus has been spreading for a long time.
00:26:39.000It's only been in the last two weeks that we've really gotten a hold on that, and done the testing, and saved the economy, and put everybody on lockdown.
00:26:58.000And now the next part that we're going to have to cope with, the next new challenge, the next phase, will be, okay, our hospitals are overflowing.
00:27:31.000I don't mean to say, okay, and then we're good.
00:27:33.000I mean, we're not going to be good and we're not going to be out of the woods here for a long time, but that seems to me what a full cycle looks like.
00:28:21.000To treat hundreds of thousands of people with a severe respiratory virus that has no known treatment and has no known cure or vaccine.
00:28:31.000It's just not built for that because people that are sick, they can be sick for a long time and they require a lot of them intensive care.
00:28:38.000And they require things like ventilators, which requires the FDA to approve them.
00:28:43.000You know, one of the big problems with respirators and ventilators and a lot of the technology that you need or the resources that you need to treat and to prevent these diseases is that they are subject to regulations by the government.
00:28:57.000So in order to produce these things, it's not like General Motors can just spin them up on any given day normally.
00:29:05.000You need to get approval from a regulatory agency and that's why you can't ramp that up as quickly as you can.
00:29:12.000The good thing is the president's cutting a lot of the red tape so maybe that'll happen more quickly than it otherwise would have.
00:30:01.000It says, quote, President Trump on Friday signed into law the largest economic stimulus package in modern American history, backing a $2 trillion measure designed to respond to the coronavirus pandemic.
00:30:14.000Under the law, the government will deliver direct payments and jobless benefits for individuals, money for states, and a huge bailout for businesses battered by the crisis.
00:30:24.000Mr. Trump signed the measure in the Oval Office hours after the House approved it by voice vote and less than two days after the Senate unanimously passed it.
00:30:34.000The legislation will send direct payments of $1,200 to millions of Americans, including those earning up to $75,000.
00:30:42.000an additional $500 per child so if you made according to your 2018 tax returns if you made up to 25 I'm sorry if you made up to $75,000 on those or rather your your tax returns I guess from 2019 the income you made in 2018 if you made up to $75,000 you're gonna get a check of $1,200 and $500 per child and
00:31:10.000Steve Mnuchin said that that will be paid out within three weeks.
00:31:14.000Three weeks of the passage of the bill, after the passage of the bill.
00:31:17.000So we can expect that by, I don't have my calendar for April up yet, so I guess that would be what, April 17th?
00:31:26.000Yeah, by April 17th, hopefully we'll, all of us 75,000 and under for 2018, we will have our checks in the mail for $1,200, and $500 per child if you got a big family.
00:32:35.000Where's my $600 a week for my jobless benefit?
00:32:40.000The measure will also offer $377 billion in federally guaranteed loans to small businesses and establish a $500 billion government lending program for distressed companies reeling from the crisis, including allowing the administration the ability to take equity stakes in airlines that received aid to help compensate taxpayers.
00:33:03.000It will also send $100 billion to hospitals on the front lines of the pandemic.
00:33:08.000So we finally, finally, finally have gotten this bill passed.
00:33:15.000And as we've been talking about for the past few weeks, this is the third phase of the relief if you've been following it closely.
00:33:23.000We had phase one a couple weeks ago and phase one was free testing and that was paid sick leave and a few other things.
00:33:30.000The second bill was an expansion largely of the first phase.
00:33:34.000Phase two was a hundred and some billion dollars and they added on to the first one.
00:33:40.000This was phase 3 and phase 3 included that 2.1 I'm sorry 2.2 trillion dollars which includes the direct cash payments, the bailout for the affected industries, the jobless benefits, the extension, the enhancement
00:34:13.000So you put the $4 trillion in liquidity from the Federal Reserve together with the $2.2 trillion in fiscal stimulus with this Phase 3 relief package.
00:34:57.000Our daily number of cases, we'll be looking at phase 4 or 5 on the relief package and I'm sure another news conference and Dr. Fauci and all that.
00:35:07.000So the saga goes on, but this is very good.
00:35:10.000This relief package, in a lot of ways this relief package is bad and people have been showing me a lot of bad things in the bill.
00:35:17.000For example, the bill gives hundreds of millions of dollars for refugee and migrant programs.
00:35:23.000It gives $25 million for the Kennedy Center and
00:35:32.000Pork is when you work out an appropriations bill in the House of Representatives and the way that the two parties are able to come to an agreement or the way that a sponsor of a bill is going to gain support for his bill
00:35:46.000Is they will put in certain things for the other party or for even members of their own party to get them to vote for it.
00:35:53.000So, for example, the Democrats came to the negotiating table and they said, look, you need to save the country right now.
00:36:01.000You have your guy in the White House and he is going to succeed insofar as he can pass a major fiscal stimulus.
00:36:09.000Well, we don't want to give them a political win unless we get something out of it too.
00:36:13.000So what we want is money for the refugees and what we want is money for the Kennedy Center and X, Y, and Z. And that's simply how it works.
00:36:21.000And a lot of people are bent out of shape about the fact that it's a huge bailout for Wall Street, which I said that yesterday, and the cash payments are not very good, and there's problems in the bill, that it gives money to things that are bad, and there's extra money for other people.
00:37:22.000If you look at the graph, it's like...
00:37:25.000For 20 years, a flat line, and then it goes up vertically 100 feet.
00:37:29.000I mean, that's... There was like an unprecedented record of jobless claims that we haven't seen since the Great Depression, that we haven't seen in a very, very long time.
00:37:40.000And the fallout from the coronavirus economically is not even like it was in 2008, where banks and insurance companies and major companies are collapsing in the stock market.
00:37:50.000It's sort of like a very complicated financial problem.
00:37:54.000It's like people can't pay their bills because they can't work, because the places that they work aren't getting revenue, because everybody's been ordered to stay in their houses.
00:38:03.000You know, everybody knows that, but think about the very direct and immediate economic effect of suddenly 3.3 million people aren't getting a paycheck, and suddenly 3.3 million people aren't going to be able to pay their bills in the next three weeks.
00:38:17.000And so when you're approaching this problem, this economic problem, and that's what it is when you're looking at it from a fiscal point of view, is this is an economic problem.
00:38:26.000When you're looking at that, what you have to do is get the money out as quickly as possible.
00:38:31.000And you're talking about cash payments.
00:38:33.000For example, the president was talking about doing a payroll tax cut.
00:38:37.000And he talked about that for a long time a couple weeks ago until he learned, and we all learned, that the effect of a payroll tax cut would not
00:38:45.000You would not see the impact of that on the economy for six to eight months.
00:38:50.000And we don't have six to eight months to provide relief and stimulus to the economy.
00:40:24.000Think about all the government shutdowns.
00:40:26.000Think about all the last-minute appropriations bills that have had to have been signed at the 11th hour before the government runs out of money and shuts down.
00:40:35.000Or even last year they had to move the State of the Union ahead a week because the government was shut down for four weeks.
00:40:42.000So when I think about how Congress is, and the nature of politics, and the nature of the game these days with this administration, it's kind of a miracle that we got something as good as we did.
00:40:52.000That we got something this far-reaching, this dramatic, with the cash payments.
00:40:58.000And again, I'm not saying that that's a great bill and it's terrific and perfect or anything like that, but you have to kind of have a glass half-full approach here, and you kind of have to keep in mind there are a lot of constraints and considerations, maybe chief among them, that the president is not the one that writes the bill.
00:41:16.000That's maybe the biggest consideration that you have to keep in mind, which is a lot of people look at the relief and they say, oh, this is the president's relief.
00:41:25.000And maybe you know this, maybe you don't.
00:41:28.000Some people might consider it common sense.
00:41:48.000So, surely the administration gives guidance on the stimulus, the administration gives guidance on the budget, and on appropriations, and on a lot of different legislative efforts.
00:41:59.000But fundamentally, a stimulus package is the responsibility of the Congress.
00:42:03.000It legally has to originate in the House, which is a Democrat-controlled organ of the government.
00:42:08.000So, with all that in mind, this is, number one, primarily the doing of the Congress.
00:42:14.000And the president had a lot of say in that and a lot of push and all that, but the president has said for weeks, we need more than $1,200 and we need a big and dramatic stimulus and so on.
00:42:24.000Well that's really the best that he could do is say, well this is what I want and this is what I'm pushing for, and he can push the Republican caucus and he can push the Democrats, but legally that's really all he can do is push.
00:42:37.000I'm going to veto this $6 trillion stimulus because the cash payment needs to be $300 more, and the Congress would call his bluff.
00:42:45.000This is just the way the system works.
00:42:46.000And I don't love that that's the case, and I don't love the bill, but I think people need to keep in mind that all things considered, a rapid... You're talking about a timeline of a week and a half that we put together a $6 trillion stimulus with direct cash payments.
00:43:03.000All things considered, that is a pretty admirable accomplishment.
00:43:06.000So, there are things that I don't like about the bill, there are things that I like about the bill, but overall, I think the biggest priority about this relief package was the expediency, the urgency that we got it through as fast as possible, and it was providing that wide variety of relief.
00:43:24.000cash payments some bailouts certainly were necessary of certain industries and the liquidity and for the hospitals a lot of that was necessary all of that was touched on so I think it's a good bill
00:43:38.000And if we have any problems with that we'll have more bills coming down the pike anyway you know fourth and fifth and this thing's not over anytime soon but with this one it was speed and scope and we accomplished both of those things.
00:43:49.000So that's the relief bill we're gonna move on to talk about the shortages though this is maybe a rough patch.
00:43:57.000If I have a lot of positive things to say about the testing and the relief, the shortages are going to be the next big problem.
00:44:18.000I didn't want to do it because I hate giving the media money.
00:44:23.000But it's like $1 a week and we needed it to cover the primaries because the New York Times is offering really good primary coverage and also I figure
00:44:37.000I know people are going to say, you're giving money to your enemy, you're giving money to the media, but it's like a dollar a month is not going to make or break the New York Times, right?
00:45:32.000If you're scratching your head wondering, why does he keep citing the New York Times?
00:45:36.000But this is the report on the shortages.
00:45:38.000It says, quote, officials in nearly 200 U.S.
00:45:41.000cities, large and small, report a dire need for face masks, ventilators, and other emergency equipment to respond to the coronavirus outbreak.
00:45:50.000The United States Conference of Mayors questioned officials in 213 municipalities
00:45:56.000and found serious shortages that underscore the scope and severity of the crisis more than 90 percent or 192 cities said that they did not have an adequate supply of face masks for police officers firefighters and emergency workers excuse me in addition 92 percent of cities reported a shortage of test kits in 80
00:46:52.000It says roughly two-thirds of the cities said they had not received any emergency equipment or supplies from their state.
00:46:59.000And of those that did receive state aid, nearly 85% said it was not enough to meet their needs.
00:47:05.000In total, the conference tabulated that cities need 28.5 million face masks, 24.4 million other items of personal protection equipment, 7.9 million test kits, and 139,000 ventilators.
00:47:23.000And this is sort of the foreshadowing for what we're going to see in the coming weeks.
00:47:28.000We looked at the numbers a moment ago with Italy, and there are up to 10,000 people dead.
00:47:33.000And just a couple of weeks ago we heard rumors about, or reports rather, about hospitals having to decide who gets care and who doesn't, and elderly basically being left to die, and shortages of hospital beds.
00:47:45.000This is what's going to happen in virtually every American city in the coming weeks, and we have to prepare for that.
00:47:51.000People think that, well, maybe the worst is over as far as the transmission goes or the testing, but maybe the worst part of the pandemic is just on the horizon, and that's going to be the body count.
00:48:02.000That's going to be the overwhelming of the health care resources.
00:48:05.000And that's the next big challenge to face.
00:48:07.000The good news is today the President took some action that might alleviate that.
00:48:12.000This is further on in the same report.
00:48:14.000It says, on Friday afternoon, President Trump said that he had directed his administration to use any and all authority available under the Defense Production Act to require General Motors to accept, perform, and prioritize federal contracts for ventilators.
00:48:29.000He said quote our negotiations with GM regarding its ability to supply ventilators had been productive but our fight against the virus is too urgent to allow the give-and-take of the contracting process to continue to run its normal course.
00:49:14.000Every step of the way it seems almost like we're avoiding the worst case scenario because as the situation develops the president responds and mobilizes as quickly as possible and does everything that we need to do, right?
00:49:27.000When it was the testing the president was out there with Google and with Roche and with some laboratory company
00:52:08.000Still, even though we've been de-industrializing for 30 years, you still have enough manufacturing and philanthropy and
00:52:16.000I don't want to be too optimistic just yet because we have yet to be tested on this and by tested I mean
00:52:38.000We've yet to meet the challenge that's still on the horizon it's still coming down the road but I I think that I'm very confident about where we are looking at everything that I've been seeing over the past two months or seeing everything that I've seen in the past few months
00:53:55.000Who knows what it's going to look like coming down the line, but I almost feel like, based on what I've been hearing and seeing, that the worst-case scenario has been completely avoided.
00:54:05.000That's my intuition, and we'll see how it pans out, but my gut feeling, just based on everything I've been reading and hearing over the past few months and as I've seen the situation evolve,
00:54:16.000It seems like the worst case scenario that we were talking about three weeks ago has been decidedly averted.
00:54:23.000Because three or four weeks ago they were talking about 80% of the population gets the virus and like millions of people die.
00:54:31.000And the numbers are getting bad, frankly.
00:54:33.000100,000 cases is nothing to sneeze at.
00:54:36.000But the number of new cases in Italy appear to be stabilizing a little bit.
00:54:40.000And they've got 10,000 dead, which is tragic.
00:54:43.000But if our numbers begin to stabilize and we're able to treat a lot of people, then a million seems like it's out of the question at this point.
00:55:31.000There's a medical application for those obviously and the reason that you use the respirator as opposed to a surgical mask or a cloth mask is the respirator seals with your face and you breathe through it and it filters out all particles.
00:55:47.000Whereas if you have a face mask you know if you've got particles or droplets rather in the air and you're breathing I guess they find a way around or through
00:55:56.000The fabric through that that you know whatever the membrane of that but the respirator blocks it and you need that for medical personnel you need that for firefighters police people that need to do their jobs when they're dealing with sick people and they can't get sick right and then the ventilators are pumping oxygen I mean they're they're essentially breathing for people that cannot breathe once somebody gets in the hospital I just a clarification if you're not following the terminology the ventilator from what I understand
00:56:25.000If you have a severe case of the coronavirus and you're struggling to breathe, the ventilator does the work of the breathing for you.
00:56:30.000It pumps oxygen into your lungs, it takes out the carbon dioxide, and that's required in severe, severe cases when you have people that are, I mean, from what I hear, even healthy people, the struggle to breathe is really, really intense if you have a severe case of the virus.
00:57:10.000Those are going to be the two key words as this situation unfolds over the weeks is looking at the ventilators, respirators, masks, and just even surgical masks for the general public and for everybody else.
00:58:16.000sip streaming is so ridiculous you know i'm doing this show it's like oh i'm gonna take a sip of water a hundred people in chat sip sip drink department hello hello sip department sip check right like i don't know there's just something uh sib something funny about that i don't know why slurp sip
00:59:18.000It's awkward with a show like this because there's nothing else to do.
00:59:22.000Normally in literally any other show that exists...
00:59:26.000You have, like, guests, or you have graphics, you have a video, a transition, something that you could play, so it's like, okay, you know, I can blow my nose, get a sip of water, take a piss, you know?
00:59:37.000Like, you watch some of these radio shows, and it's like five minutes of content, and then three minutes of commercial, and then ten minutes of content, and then five minutes of commercial, and this show, it's just like three hours, and it's just literally me behind the desk, right?
00:59:48.000I'm the only dynamic element on the screen.
01:00:44.000That's not like it's not common knowledge but I see that all the time people are out there smoking cigarettes and I'm thinking what are you did you not pay attention in like grade school and they told you about and some people say with cigarettes it'll like builds up your tea or something I mean I guess that's true but why don't you just eat cabbage why don't you just do red light therapy or something you know why do you need to do something that'll destroy your lungs but sorry to hear that my friend praying for you hope you're doing okay let me know if you need anything I know we're connected on discord there
01:01:32.000I'm not I'm not one to dish out so many compliments and especially not inauthentic comments or insincere comments rather but I met this Justin guy and I saw him at the National File event and then he was at the Harry's bar and you know he's just just such a cheerful just like a good energy you could tell these are good people you can tell right away and you all know what I'm talking about you get a sense just on people's demeanor and by their expression and physiognomy to an extent and how they talk
01:02:58.000I can't... I don't watch the chat, so I have no idea if the mods are going crazy, if they're over modding, or if the chat is just daring them.
01:03:07.000I have no idea, but I just hope the moderators will exercise some good judgment.
01:03:18.000Some guidelines for the moderators, that way everybody's on the same page.
01:03:22.000Because I think the problem is there's a disconnect between what I think is appropriate, what the moderators think is appropriate, and what the chat thinks is appropriate.
01:03:31.000Because you have people in the chat that'll be like, oh, I said this one thing and I got a permanent timeout, you know, and I didn't know or...
01:03:39.000It's something that the moderator over, you know, maybe they're over enforcing.
01:03:43.000So maybe I'll write some rules this weekend for the channel.
01:03:47.000I'll put it in that about section and people can read through them and the moderators can read them and familiarize themselves.
01:03:54.000And if you do this, you get this penalty.
01:04:16.000Thanks for that, Bobby D. This guy, he's given Ninjettes.
01:04:20.000Who has, I don't understand who is out there that can afford to send multiple Ninjettes during the coronavirus, in a given, any given week for that matter, but then also be saying,
01:04:34.000Who has the kind of money where it's like, oh, you know, here's, here's, you know, a few hundred dollars this week during the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, but then they're also attaching to the chat, something like that.
01:05:02.000And I'm glad you are a former atheist progressive.
01:05:05.000I love to hear when people make those big transitions, you know.
01:05:10.000Not to say that I don't appreciate people that are Trump supporters, or right-wing, or maybe former alt-right, or dissident right, but I think there's something to be said about how good the show is, or how good the messaging is, rather, that you can have people that make it all the way from, you know, they don't believe in anything on the show, to they come full circle.
01:05:41.000The movie came out in 2008 and I saw that with my mom in 2008.
01:05:46.000My dad took me to Toys R Us at midnight.
01:05:49.000They had a big blowout toy sale when that movie came out back in 08.
01:05:56.000I remember they had like a midnight and midnight they opened and all the you know all the new toys came out at Toys R Us and we waited in line and we bought a bunch of stuff and Then like that weekend me and my mom saw the movie fond memories But no, I don't think I really watched the TV show too much.
01:06:14.000I don't like the CGI animation It just doesn't look right Something about especially like a fighting show.
01:12:51.000Maybe I'm just retarded, but I think it's like my brain is faster than my body at times, or maybe it's just disconnected.
01:12:58.000Maybe that's a different way to say it.
01:13:00.000Maybe a nice way to say it is that my brain is simply too fast.
01:13:03.000Another way to say it is that my brain is completely disconnected from my body.
01:13:07.000Because I would just get so hyped up, and then I'd end up just like whipping it into the ground, you know?
01:13:11.000I'd get real excited, I'm gonna chuck it really hard, and then I'd just end up, you know, totally fucking up the throw.
01:13:17.000When I focused on my technique, you know, and I... and I did the fundamentals then, I had a good arm and I was precise, but... I would just get overexcited and just wanna, you know, whip it, and... I'd just goof it, because I had really bad sort of like, you know... It's not so much hand-eye coordination so much as it is like...
01:13:37.000You know, brain-body coordination, so to speak.
01:13:40.000More just like a physical intelligence, which I never had.
01:13:44.000So, uh, so as far as it went in grade school, I mean, I was probably average, but, um, we never played it in high school, probably because of this, like, politically correct stuff, like, can't play dodgeball because it's, like, dangerous and it leads to bullying, so... We never played anything like dodgeball in high school.
01:15:12.000It's so hard for me to just kind of like draw on stories just with free, just kind of like,
01:15:19.000Freely without any kind of association.
01:15:21.000It's one thing if you're having a conversation and somebody offers something up and it's like Oh, you know, it makes me think of something that I can relate to that It's another thing just be like, you know come up with something.
01:15:33.000Tell me the your favorite frame in a movie That was the other day.
01:15:36.000What's the most beautiful frame in a movie, dude?
01:15:38.000I don't know you think I categorize in my head like beautiful movie frames So a funny story from Model UN
01:15:49.000Well, I can think of a few funny stories.
01:15:52.000One time, when I first became a freshman, it was very funny.
01:15:57.000This might make some of you guys laugh.
01:16:00.000When I was a freshman, and I first started in the program, I got one of the worst assignments that you could get.
01:16:07.000They gave me, like, Indonesia in the World Health Organization.
01:16:19.000But my freshman year of high school, my second conference, I think, I had to get partnered up with somebody, and we were Indonesia in the World Health Organization.
01:16:29.000And I was, like, I'm, like, one of the best delegates here, even as a freshman.
01:16:32.000And they gave me this shitty assignment.
01:16:39.000And they said, yeah, we totally just gave you the worst position because you had a Mexican last name and we assumed that you were just some like... We assumed that you were just some Mexican kid who like wasn't gonna take it seriously and whatever.
01:16:52.000And the irony to me is so rich because all those people, by the way, have like unfriended me on Facebook and they don't want to talk to me because I'm racist and so on.
01:17:01.000And they prided themselves on being like these liberals and whatever.
01:17:45.000Telling stories to you just like that, it just seems... Unless there's a really, really funny story, I just feel like a jerk telling stories.
01:17:52.000Maybe I'll save it for a gaming stream when we're just hanging out, you know?
01:17:56.000But yeah, I've got some funny stories, some very, very good times from back in the day.
01:18:04.000And that's really where I gained a political consciousness, was Model UN.
01:18:08.000You guys gotta understand that before... And you gotta think about somebody like me.
01:18:12.000Where does somebody like me come from?
01:18:19.000When I started this show I was like 18.
01:18:21.000Where do you get this guy who's 18 years old and is doing this show and he's got all these strong opinions and he's pretty good at what he does.
01:18:28.000He's kind of like the best at what he does.
01:18:32.000You gotta understand that before I was me on America First, before I was Nicholas J. Fuentes on America First, I was Nicholas J. Fuentes, the model UN delegate.
01:18:43.000Like, even in high school I had sort of like a...
01:19:50.000So you gotta remember that back in the day, when I was going to Model UN, I would go to these conferences, and people would meet me and they'd be like, who the fuck is this guy?
01:19:59.000Because I'd give these speeches that were like, blow everybody out of the water, and I would do stuff that nobody else would do, and I remember when I would go into some of these conferences,
01:20:11.000Uh, I would, I would literally go, I would walk inside the committee room, these conferences, some of them would last like three or four days, and you'd go into the first session of committee on the first night, and people would literally, I would watch their faces, I would walk into the room, and people's faces would drop, and they would say, aw, shit!
01:20:30.000I'm in a committee with Nick Fuentes from Lions Township.
01:20:55.000We were in the Russian Security Council, and we were all around the roundtable, we were in the Situation Room for the National Security Council, and this one delegate, who I had just been bullying relentlessly, man, I was really... and this guy, I just like... that was the second time I made someone cry in Model UN.
01:21:16.000And he was like on the verge of tears and he's like, this guy is like the devil, you know, he's just not playing fair and blah, blah, blah.
01:21:25.000And the chair banged the gavel and said, Decorum, I, you know, I raised my placard right away and I said, yeah, point of personal, I think it was a point of order, point of order, you know, this guy's clearly attacking me.
01:21:37.000I forget now if it was a point of order or a point of personal privilege or whatever, but the chair was like, yeah, you know, knock it off.
01:21:46.000I don't want to get too into this story because it's kind of like a long story and the details are kind of unimportant.
01:21:51.000But basically the way that it works in Model UN is the objective is you're in a committee, you're in a body, whether that's the General Assembly or the World Health Organization or the Economic and Finance Committee, and the end game of the conference, the goal, is to pass resolutions.
01:22:09.000Resolutions are like bills, it's like legislation.
01:22:11.000The House of Representatives passes resolutions.
01:23:17.000And we had been co-sponsors on the first resolution that passed, and it was a very laborious process.
01:23:26.000The first resolution was on, I think, like economic development, and we came to this really grand, it took a long time, it was a super long resolution, we had to negotiate on this, lots of unmoderated caucuses, it took a long time, and we finally passed it.
01:23:42.000And it was maybe like the third day of the conference, or the second day,
01:23:46.000And in my mind, my thought process was this.
01:23:50.000If the judge or the chair is deciding who wants to win, well, you see two delegates who have spoken a lot and they did everything and they both sponsored a resolution that passed.
01:24:26.000We're both sponsoring the second resolution!
01:24:43.000And I said, you know, if we both pass two resolutions, well then it's a coin flip as to who's going to get the gavel, who's going to win first place.
01:24:49.000So what I did is, I brought on board two people from my school to be the other co-sponsors.
01:24:55.000I brought on board two of my friends who went to my school.
01:24:59.000They were different countries, but they came on board as sponsors.
01:25:02.000So we ended up having four sponsors on the bill, and one of them was me, two of them were people from my school, and one of them was my rival, Cuba.
01:25:09.000So we pulled him aside in the hall, and if you have a majority of the sponsors, you can kick off other sponsors.
01:25:15.000A majority of the sponsors can make decisions about the paper.
01:25:18.000So we brought him into the hall right before it passed, and we said, uh, you're off the resolution.
01:25:23.000We made up some completely nonsensical reason.
01:25:26.000We were like, we just don't think our values align.
01:25:29.000We just don't think it's, like, a good look.
01:25:30.000Like, we don't want to have you on our resolution.
01:26:30.000Because the chair was like, you're a jerk, and the point of this committee was consensus building, and all you wanted to do was win, so they didn't even give me an award!
01:26:40.000I was by far and away the best delegate, they didn't give me an award because I was like, too mean or something.
01:26:46.000I remember the first day I came there, this girl came up to me.
01:26:49.000I was like leading the conversation in an unmoderated caucus.
01:26:52.000I was basically governing the whole committee.
01:28:46.000You know, there are times in high school where I would take off the mask and people would say, Joe, you're like, you're kind of a dick, you know, you're a very mean person.
01:28:54.000But that's what you have to do, especially in a competition.
01:28:57.000You have to do whatever it takes to win.
01:28:59.000And sometimes, that was my problem in Model UN, is I was too much of a schemer.
01:29:05.000I didn't quite know yet how to kind of be tactful, how to be patient with people.
01:29:11.000Because back in the day, if I was impatient, I would just
01:29:16.000The clause would come out, you know, and you would see kind of a different side.
01:29:20.000So, maybe you see that in these super chats sometimes, although to a lesser degree.
01:29:25.000So, there were times then when I would just really, you know, go off the goop and I would have to... There was one time when I was partnered up with this guy who was much bigger than me.
01:29:37.000We were the United States... No, we were the United Kingdom and the Security Council.
01:29:42.000and there is one occasion where this guy was really screwing us over so what we plan to do is we said we should just physically intimidate this guy because my partner he did rugby and he was like a big big like a thick guy
01:30:46.000And my friend was like, oh, oops, like, I think I bumped into you, but...
01:30:51.000It was so funny because I was literally creating a diversion for the chair and I saw out of the corner of my eye, I saw this guy just plowing through the aisle, coming full speed ahead at this guy.
01:31:23.000Like, maybe if you're in Model U and you get it, maybe if you're not, you don't, but we were playing the game in such a sophisticated way that we literally had to go up to the chair at one point and say, like, I don't think you understand what we're doing.
01:31:36.000Like, we're doing this, that, and the other deliberately.
01:31:39.000We have, like, this super sophisticated plan to get everything we want and, like, we just did that.
01:31:53.000Yeah, well, you know, you don't understand what we're doing, you dumb bitch.
01:31:57.000You're not even as good at Model UN as me.
01:31:59.000I'm 17, you're some stupid roasty in college.
01:32:03.000You're literally not even smart enough to understand how good we're doing, and they would give us third place.
01:32:08.000That's why I couldn't wait to get out of college, because I was like, I'm tired of having to go to some retarded adult and say, this is how good I am.
01:32:17.000When you're in the world, you do things,
01:32:20.000And if you're good, you succeed, right?
01:32:22.000Like, in Model UN, you only win if the judge decides that you did a good job.
01:32:28.000And you have to, like, impress people.
01:32:43.000And I couldn't wait for that when I got out of high school.
01:32:45.000I said, just wait when I don't have to impress some whore, when I don't have to impress some, you know, jag off teacher, some academic, you know.
01:32:54.000I couldn't wait and now here we are so so anyway we could talk more about that maybe I'll do a casual stream tonight or tomorrow or something because Lots of lots of good memories from back in the day that I'd like to share But I don't think this is the place for it because I got to get through a hundred thousand super chats
01:35:25.000My parents aren't, like, super affectionate.
01:35:27.000They're, uh, that's just not, you know, they're in their, um,
01:35:31.000DNA, I guess they're just I mean don't get me wrong They've been married for like 30 years and you know, they're been through a lot together, but it's just not that kind of a thing You know, I think after you hit the 30-year mark, you're like, okay We're over a lot of the lovey-dovey type stuff, right?
01:35:47.000But I always ask about when they met and they're like well we met on a blind date and my mom says that she didn't really She didn't really care for my dad the first time.
01:36:04.000He was having an off night, but I think that then after that he like called her back and had another date and they had a great time and they hit it off and he was a gentleman and everything but but the the story that I'm always told is there was a blind date.
01:36:19.000I think it was a double date and it was a blind date and it was a double date with my father and his brother and
01:36:28.000And it didn't go so good and then the next week my father, or I don't know, later on my father called my mother and they had another date and it went much more smoothly is the story that I've heard.
01:36:41.000Thanks for being an honest voice in a world of deceivers.
01:36:42.000We'll donate more after graduating with a new job.
01:37:01.000I don't really like Lego Star Wars, I gotta tell ya.
01:37:02.000I mean, it's nostalgic and I played it a lot as a kid, but
01:37:31.000I'm a grown-ass man and I can't play these games where it's like you just have to go down and you know do the force on every lever and every little thing and it's minikits and you got to collect all the studs and you got to kill all the guys and it's like there's just too much with these platformers going on.
01:37:51.000I like games where, well, I just don't like games where it's like, oh, there's like a hidden level, there's like a hidden prize, and you spend hours just like searching and...
01:38:05.000I want to just get through I like like the Call of Duty campaign You just progress through the thing you kill the guys and then you're done You know like Star Wars should be that way you go through you kill the guys you do the thing Forget the puzzles and oh I got a collective million studs and I got to find this minikit piece And oh if you go behind this corner, there's a hidden area.
01:40:21.000He looks healthy to me, but he's just gotta keep it under control, right?
01:40:26.000He's living a very risky lifestyle some might say but you know we we decided on his show when I was on the show back in December that we're like arm's-length allies so we throw a little banter back and forth but it's all it's all in good fun Erlin says and you know I should say Milo has helped a lot behind the scenes you know and this is
01:40:51.000You know, something that was controversial back in December when I went out to do a show, and even talking with Milo on Telegram or whatever, people were like, oh, you know, you can't do that!
01:41:01.000He's, he's bad optics, or he's gay, or whatever.
01:41:05.000And, you know, granted, I don't, you know, don't agree with his lifestyle, and I don't think we agree on everything on politics, and some of the, you know, some of the things he says about groipers I'm not a fan of, but, um,
01:41:19.000I think there is some overlap on some of the issues and certainly there have been some things behind the scenes that he's been helpful with.
01:41:30.000Allies, Big Tent, and that doesn't mean that everybody's in our faction within the Big Tent, but it means that we want to be a faction that's inside the Big Tent.
01:42:06.000I don't say that in a mean way, but that's just simply what it is.
01:42:10.000You know, Milo said, I don't like a lot of what you say, and you don't like a lot of what I say, so maybe there's like this arm's length, you know, overlap, right?
01:42:19.000And a lot of people still don't understand that concept.
01:42:21.000And some people deliberately misunderstand it so that they can, you know, undermine me and say, oh, Nick is insincere, Nick is not credible because he talks to somebody that isn't fully on board.
01:42:32.000But, you know, that's life, is talking to people that aren't fully on board and working with people that aren't fully on board sometimes.
01:42:39.000And especially when you don't have the resources or the strength in numbers that Turning Point USA does, as an example.
01:42:45.000You have to, you know, we just have to be resourceful.
01:42:49.000So anyway, yeah, that's my reaction to that.
01:44:02.000So many aspects of this job are just beyond my skill set, you know?
01:44:07.000I think about, like, fashion and, like, style and it's like I don't know the first thing about this stuff.
01:44:13.000I need to hire somebody to come in and, you know, fix up my wardrobe.
01:44:17.000I need somebody to come in and throw all my clothes away and, you know, figure out... I go to Macy's and I have to go to the Macy's stylist to, like, pick out shirts for me.
01:46:03.000mcdonald burger says nick nick nick so is the website gonna have this okay yeah thank you piss bone says gonna miss the stream due to being anglo but paying my dues up to the boss appreciate all you do big guy well thanks a lot buddy thanks for the ninja guinea holy servant says but will the website have dump truck casey stickers probably not
01:46:24.000Reptard says canned bread then bass clarinet jam session.
01:46:28.000Yeah, I'm living in Squidville I thought it would be ideal and it's like that montage of you know, he's shopping for the canned bratty's in the dance class the clarinet and Then gradually just getting more and more miserable.
01:46:42.000I'm in Squidville and maybe Jaden is like Spongebob and
01:46:48.000Jake Lloyd is, or no, Patrick Casey is Patrick's star.
01:50:01.000It's definitely up there for me I don't know if I'd say it's my favorite my favorite right now is father stretch my hands Life of Pablo's got to be my favorite album from Kanye I gotta say the more I listen to it the more I like it and it's just very close to my heart so
01:50:18.000But I don't know, maybe my favorite song of all time might be Runaway.
01:50:22.000I gotta say Runaway is probably my favorite.
01:50:28.000Power's up there, Black Skinhead is up there, On Sight, Everything I Am.
01:58:06.000Delphric says, did Ryan Dawson convince you to try getting your YouTube back, or is it a lost cause?
01:58:11.000Yeah, I went on his stream, by the way, and he got more viewers than he's ever had on his stream, and he was really nice to me, and then I find out that he's talking shit behind my back, and then people are posting screenshots where he's saying that I'm a clown, and I'm a racist, and blah blah blah, and I saw all these screenshots, so I'm done with that goof.
01:58:34.000That guy literally has autism, his problem.
01:58:37.000You know, I was ready to bury the hatchet with him.
01:58:40.000We got into a fight, you know, maybe like a year ago, and I was ready to make amends, and I came on his stream, which was doing him a big favor.
01:58:46.000He made super chats, and he got a lot of live viewers, which he never gets, and I did him a favor, and he did me a favor by giving me some guidance on how to get my channel back, and then he goes around, he's telling people, oh, I'm a racist, and I'm a clown, and whatever, and it's like, you know,
01:59:43.000A lot of these characters nobody believes me but they're liberals they just happen to be you know politically incorrect or they happen to be you know aware about racial differences or whatever so so yeah I mean he helped me and I helped him but then he wanted to get nasty so I think we're done with that clown Scorch Titan says it's sad to see how far from grace James has fallen yeah yeah very very tragic and totally avoidable too you know the thing is
02:00:11.000With somebody like James, I wanted nothing but to get along with him when we started out and even last summer when we talked.
02:00:20.000I am somebody that wants to get along, and I'm somebody that basically, if you just treat me with respect, I'm gonna be friends with you.
02:00:28.000And generally, if you follow my advice, you're gonna do well.
02:00:32.000Somebody like James Alsup, everything that he went through was totally avoidable.
02:02:37.000And what people do is they push, and they push, and they push, and they do this passive-aggressive stuff, and they subtweet, and they, you know, talk behind my back.
02:02:46.000And then I hit them from the front, and then I'm the bad guy, right?
02:03:42.000Their priorities may be, and I'm not talking about James specifically, but just generally about the alt-right, their priorities might be booze or sex, or their priorities might be career, you know, for maybe people in conservative ink, or their priorities might be, you know, social affirmation.
02:04:00.000And for a long time, in like the dissonant right, if you were not being the most offensive, obnoxious,
02:04:07.000Like Wignatt, then people would call you a cuck.
02:04:10.000And people are more interested in the dopamine from getting retweets about being the edgiest guy in the room than actually moving the ball forward.
02:04:17.000And I think that's a classic case of what James Alsup is, something like that, where there was a priority that was other than doing whatever it takes to win.
02:04:25.000And that doesn't, you know, doing whatever it takes to win means that you're willing to do whatever it takes.
02:04:41.000I wanted to host Fascination with Jazz Hands McFeels and we're riding shotgun on Fascination and send in some donations and we're gonna have pool parties.
02:04:57.000And everybody hated me in the alt-right because when I came on the scene, I said, hey, who's actually interested in finding pragmatic ways to change the zeitgeist?
02:05:07.000Who's actually interested in pragmatic ways to change our circumstance?
02:05:12.000And I said, this isn't working, and that's stupid, and you don't know what you're doing, and people didn't like that.
02:05:18.000Because they wanted their social club,
02:05:49.000If people come to me and they say, you know, it's not just anybody, I'm not going to take advice from randoms, but people that are not in this and people that should have no reason to take their advice, but if I get advice from a trusted person or somebody who's been in this or somebody who has experience, I take it seriously and I adjust.
02:06:07.000And I've been doing that for years and I seriously did for a long time and I still do.
02:06:12.000But a lot of these people are incapable of growing.
02:07:32.000All my friends and I were into WWE, you know?
02:07:36.000And when I told you about amateur wrestling, that was one thing.
02:07:40.000But whenever we'd get together, when we were in like 6th or 5th grade, whatever, we'd all, what we would do, the parents would be downstairs or they'd be upstairs, you know, if we were in the basement or in whatever.
02:07:51.000and uh we would quietly set up the ring you know we put up the pillows and and you know we would set up the ring and we would do matches and we would wrestle and you know other people jump in and you beat the shit out of each other that's what you do when you're like a kid and i understand the concern because if you're doing like
02:08:08.000If you do a stone-cold stunner on somebody, you're gonna like break their neck, but to an extent, that's what boys do.
02:08:17.000But I remember growing up, you know, it'd always be, oh, you can't roughhouse, you can't do that, you can't do this, you can't do whatever, and you can't play dodgeball, and you can't do this, and...
02:08:28.000Then they turn you into like this pariah, you know Then you feel like I remember going up in school and feeling like I was this this bad guy because I was just a normal boy You know because I was just sort of you know, whatever Because you had that natural aggression or competitiveness or you?
02:09:27.000I like 2008 a little better, because in SmackDown Vs. Raw 2007, you can only run in straight lines, is what I remember about that.
02:09:37.000In SmackDown Vs. Raw 2008, you can run in circles.
02:09:40.000There are just a lot of better features starting in 2008, but I think I played 7, 8, 9, and 10.
02:09:48.000I own all the SmackDown Vs. Raw games up until 2010, but I mainly played 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010.
02:09:56.000But yeah, that was, I remember going after school to my friend's house and he had this little TV on top of his, he had like one of those, not an armoire, but one of those, like a desk and like shelves and stuff.
02:10:09.000He had like a little TV on top of this thing in his bedroom and we would sit there and he'd be on the bed, I'd be on the computer chair and we'd play on this tiny TV playing Smackdown vs. Raw 2007.
02:10:21.000Good times, good times back in the day.
02:10:24.000And now, and now I'm an atomized, neat, socially distanced, socially isolated gamer.
02:10:33.000Delphrix says, listen here, Jack, how do I open PDF?
02:12:22.000It's like, there's you, and then there's your internet you.
02:12:27.000And it's not like I put on a persona, but you know what I mean.
02:12:31.000There's like a perception and a reputation and there's like, there's a concept of Nick Fuentes which exists in the public consciousness, which is not me, Nick, in essence.
02:13:02.000you know somebody that's rising in popularity or fame or whatever you want to call it it's like I'm struggling for that you know and I guess it's in a way you can just ignore that because I you know of course I just do what I do I do what I want to do but I can see where a lot of celebrities get that sort of rebelliousness you can't control me I'm not who you think I am because there is that that dissonance that conflict between sort of like yourself and your shadow self that is out there
02:13:29.000That's why I relate to Kanye, actually.
02:13:31.000You know, more fame, I only got wilder, that kind of thing.
02:13:43.000that's uh that's how i feel that's how i feel sometimes uh josh says the cereal that runs the world is called juicy o's okay wow so funny bro lord maryland says model un is where the knife was forged it's true and i told my parents this i told them i said they're like you're spending too much time thinking about model un and not enough time on your schoolwork and i told them
02:14:06.000Presciently I said the skills that I'm learning here are way more important than the skills.
02:14:11.000I said a model you got I'm learning about The things I'm interested in I'm learning about relationships I'm learning about like power diamond power dynamics and by relationships.
02:14:22.000I don't mean like romantic or sexual relationships I mean like relating to people on a team and a competition in influence manipulation things like that
02:15:36.000But we were really good friends, and he got involved with some of my other friends, and they were big potheads, and he started smoking pot.
02:15:44.000And every time that they got together, and I would hang out with them, but I would never smoke.
02:16:01.000And it just was so disheartening to see.
02:16:04.000I remember being so disappointed because here is somebody who I got along with and we were able to have a good time without that, you know, because he was with kind of a different crew and they drank a lot, but it was just a little different, different dynamic.
02:16:17.000And, uh, you know, the idea that that was the only thing that was on their mind and that was the only way that we could have an enjoyable night was if they were going to go and get high.