On this week's show, we have a call from Billy Bennington about refinancing your home, we talk about China being the next great superpower, and we discuss why we should all be sterilized to protest Donald Trump.
00:01:12.000Whether it's a medical procedure or financing your home, call the pros at American Financing today at 1-800-974-6500 or visit www.americanfinancing.net slash Crowder.
00:03:13.000It's kind of shocking as to how uninformed people are and how much propaganda people actually buy, which also brings us to Vance gave a great speech, Vice President on AI over, I believe, in France today, or yesterday, in defense of the United States and innovation.
00:03:28.000Also, Denmark wants to buy California.
00:06:36.000I will find tears welling up in my eyes if I'm at the gym and I see someone really trying to get it done, and I'll give them words of encouragement.
00:06:42.000That's not the same thing as advocating an early death, which is what is happening here.
00:06:48.000That being said, it also makes for great comedy fodder.
00:06:51.000I guess here is the next clip where she fell at a concert?
00:11:50.000Radically pro-abortion, feminist, exactly how you would think she looks, Michigan State Rep Lori Pahutski, I think it's pronounced, Pahutski from Livonia, in protest of the fascism of Donald Trump.
00:12:06.000You're going to see a clip, so you know I'm not making it up.
00:12:13.000Michigan State Rep Lori Pahutsky says she had discussed undergoing sterilization with her husband for years.
00:12:19.000And then, this year, Donald Trump became president.
00:12:23.000And that made me worried about things like insurance coverage, whether or not all hospital systems would even continue providing that level of care.
00:12:31.000Depending on what came out of Washington.
00:12:32.000So we decided to keep the surgery date and I got it done.
00:12:36.000But Husky fearing the fate of contraceptives after the first administration's effort to roll back insurance coverage.
00:12:42.000I think a lot of people decide if they don't want to have kids anymore that they just would like a more formative perm of birth control.
00:13:27.000No one is talking about doing away with birth control, and you already voted to include, to preserve radically pro-abortion policies in Michigan.
00:14:06.000has been doing some interviews, and we have this one for you in Spanish.
00:14:10.000And I call the cookery, "Risita, come to the kitchen, come to the kitchen, come, that at the 2am they are already here, look, the bath, the shankla, all painted, because I didn't give time to put the bath and the bath.
00:14:27.000I'm going to the beach, I've been up to the sea.
00:14:30.000And I found the bath and I put the bath in the bath and I found it because the bath was on the glass, and I met the bath in the chipion and the fire.
00:14:59.000And when I enter into the restaurant, I see the cookery with the bath and I go to the bath and I go to the bath.
00:15:09.000And I go to the bath and see where the bath will come.
00:15:15.000I came to the bath and I had a few water.
00:18:00.000We don't even really know who you are.
00:18:03.000If Denmark as a country walked into this room right now, I wouldn't recognize it.
00:18:07.000So in response to President Trump's legitimate interest in purchasing Greenland, the Danes have now announced a campaign to buy California for $1 trillion.
00:18:20.000And just so you know, that number is not even close.
00:18:24.000Not even close to what would be required.
00:21:39.000You're going to need some outside investment, potentially.
00:21:42.000I get that it must really bother you to understand that the United States legitimately could purchase Greenland or, you know, God forbid, just take it.
00:22:15.000This is an entire country who, by the way, in the international stage, these summits and organizations, they get to sit with just as much of a legitimate voice as the United States.
00:22:24.000They can't even purchase a tenth of a state.
00:25:26.000But first, let's start with his outlined four-pronged approach on America and the future of AI. This was a great speech.
00:25:35.000Number one, this administration will ensure that American AI technology continues to be the gold standard worldwide, and we are the partner of choice for others, foreign countries, and certainly businesses, as they expand their own use of AI.
00:25:50.000Number two, we believe that excessive regulation of the AI sector could kill a transformative industry just as it's taking off, and will make every effort to encourage pro-growth AI policies.
00:26:05.000Number three, We feel very strongly that AI must remain free from ideological bias and that American AI will not be co-opted into a tool for authoritarian censorship.
00:26:17.000And finally, number four, the Trump administration will maintain a pro-worker growth path for AI so it can be a potent tool for job creation in the United States.
00:26:28.000Why waste camera time on Justin Trudeau?
00:26:32.000I was surprised he got an invite still.
00:26:35.000By the way, he's definitely wearing eyeliner, right?
00:27:02.000Without mentioning China specifically, I think you can tell who he's talking about here.
00:27:06.000He warned, really, the entire EU about what the future could look like if AI were to not only fall in the hands of perhaps a fascist regime, but if said fascist regime would actually find themselves in the driver's seat because they'd been empowered by members of the EU. This is really important.
00:27:30.000As they do with other tech, some authoritarian regimes have stolen and used AI to strengthen their military intelligence and surveillance capabilities, capture foreign data, and create propaganda to undermine other nations' national security.
00:27:47.000And I would also remind our international friends here today that partnering with such regimes, it never pays off in the long term.
00:27:55.000From CCTV to 5G equipment, we're all familiar with cheap tech in the marketplace that's been heavily subsidized and exported by authoritarian regimes.
00:28:04.000Partnering with them means chaining your nation to an authoritarian master that seeks to infiltrate, dig in, and seize your information infrastructure.
00:28:15.000Should a deal seem too good to be true, just remember the old adage that we learned in Silicon Valley, if you aren't paying for the product, you are the product.
00:28:26.000When you think of the fact that you are the product, meaning your information, your personal data, and you consider what China wants to do.
00:28:53.000They have outright, they've refused to answer any queries, for example, or sorry, when you try and put these in, as far as the AI, DeepSeek, they also refuse to answer questions just like TikTok does, or they simply deny it.
00:29:04.000But DeepSeek, if you try and ask DeepSeek about Tiananmen Square, it's like, what you're talking about?
00:29:58.000Anything about Xi Jinping, including whether he even exists, anything about Taiwan being an independent country, when you consider that you're often reaching AI with customer service or for product support these days, imagine all of that being in the hands of the communist Chinese.
00:30:19.000Of course they seek to destroy the United States of America.
00:30:22.000They want to be the next superpower of the world, and they want us to falter.
00:30:25.000Why would we give away that territory?
00:31:19.000I don't think that's true, and I'll lay out the case as to why that's not true and why there's been one person who has really been the fulcrum for this shift in our approach to China.
00:31:28.000So last month, a U.S. intelligence report, it actually reported that China is building a new military compound in Beijing 10 times The size of the Pentagon.
00:32:02.000And this is just the tip of the iceberg on some of the moves that Beijing is making.
00:32:07.000China, obviously, is trying to come on fast and strong, and they will if they will be allowed, keyword is allowed, to do so.
00:32:15.000As the Pentagon signaled the emergence of the United States as a major military power.
00:32:20.000China wants to cement its military status in the present day.
00:32:24.000On December 26th, China's aerospace sector flew a sixth-generation fighter design for the first time.
00:32:31.000A Chinese artificial intelligence model, DeepSeq, sent shockwaves around the world last week, hopping the free download charts in 140 countries and regions.
00:32:45.000China has become the world's largest car exporter, overtaking When it comes to solar power, China is outpacing everyone.
00:32:58.000Last year it commissioned as much solar energy as the entire world did in 2022. For the first time, it's establishing a new naval outpost in Southeast Asia.
00:33:11.000Launched in June 2022, the Fujian is a massive leap forward for China's navy.
00:33:16.000A stunning show of ambition and innovation.
00:33:19.000Ten years ago, this arsenal was around 50 or 60. It's now over 100. We see them deploying larger numbers of nuclear weapons.
00:33:31.000China will reach parity with the United States.
00:33:33.000And what I'm saying as an expert in my field is that when you reach parity, you've lost.
00:33:40.000And I know this is me being pedantic and childish, but I don't like taking any type of international finance advice from someone who looks like he wears toe shoes.
00:34:05.000It always worries me when you hear people in the United States going along with this, because we know the propaganda line, and we also know the intent of China.
00:34:12.000They're very explicit about their goals.
00:34:14.000You can read about them in their state-run media outlets.
00:34:20.000This is written in, I think we translated this, by 2050, two centuries after the opium wars which plunged the Middle Kingdom into a period of hurt and shame, China is set to regain its might and reascend to the top of the world.
00:34:31.000Even though the Chinese government certainly has not planned the timetable and roadmap to become the world's number one, this is a people's war.
00:35:41.000Well, I think China is a real interesting country, I have to say.
00:35:45.000The thing to appreciate about China is just that there's a lot of really smart, really hardworking people there, and they're going to do a lot of great things.
00:35:59.000This is sort of independent of Chinese government policy.
00:36:04.000They're just going to do a lot of interesting things.
00:36:05.000The thing that will feel pretty strange is that the Chinese economy is going to be probably at least twice as big as the U.S. economy.
00:36:18.000Maybe three times, but at least twice.
00:36:29.000So let me give you some numbers here on growth.
00:36:32.000Since 1990, China has averaged about 9% annual growth.
00:36:35.000Even two times, they were as high as 14%.
00:36:38.000But in 2023, they struggled to meet the 5% growth target from the government.
00:36:44.000And then in December, Xi banned a top Chinese economist from speaking after he actually questioned an official government report because he believed it was worse.
00:36:51.000Here's what you also have to understand.
00:36:54.000They can't transition to a consumption model.
00:36:57.000They have a bunch of people who are effectively modern slaves, and they can create, they can support the goods and services that we need in a free enterprise society.
00:37:05.000But at a certain point, these slaves are going to want to take part.
00:37:09.000And for China to move to a consumption model, they would have to empower their own citizens to be able to have freedom of choice.
00:37:14.000That's antithetical to the communist regime.
00:37:16.000So the only way it happens is if the regime topples, or there's a civil war.
00:37:21.000Especially with their social credit score, limiting what you can and can't purchase, where you can travel, that really constrains the economy.
00:37:52.000This is rotten-tailed buildings, a term coined to describe unfinished homes in China, where towards the end of the construction, lack of funding causes the entire project to stop.
00:38:04.000But it's corruption at the core, where developers create Ponzi schemes to lure people to make down payments, and the fund is used to make more projects and bribe local officials.
00:38:13.000When the money dries up, banks start asking people to pay, even if the buildings aren't done.
00:38:18.000And contractors resort to subpart material or simply In 2022, a survey conducted found over 45% of homebuyers in China encountering this rotten-tail problem.
00:38:29.000That means no elevators, running water, electricity, or gas.
00:38:38.000So if people are telling you in the media, oh yeah, they're going to be the second or third, or they're going to be two or three times the size of the American economy, and they don't fill you in on that information, what's the motive there?
00:39:08.000they're going to overtake all other countries because so many Chinese.
00:39:13.000So that assumes GDP per capita still less than the US.
00:39:18.000But this is to have about four or five times the population, then it would only require getting to a GDP per capita of half the United States for their economy to be twice the size of ours.
00:39:34.000And as I'm sure people in this room know, the foundation of war is economics.
00:40:22.000And they're at a crest right now where it's really going to prove to be a problem, especially because it's an immoral, godless nation, despite what the Eastern gurus try and tell you, and they drowned plenty of their young girls in the bathtub.
00:41:01.000And by the way, they said that that's not just a blip.
00:41:03.000That is going to be an accelerated trend in the future.
00:41:06.000Yes, it is an accelerated trend because birth rates, fertility is low, and that's not going to be fixed when you also understand that people aren't getting married.
00:43:38.000So the marriage rates are shrinking year over year, and that's not the only thing that's shrinking in China, as seen by this international chart.
00:44:30.000Here's another claim, the third claim that you're going to hear a lot in accepting the inevitable, that China is going to be the world's greatest.
00:44:38.000It could be if we keep screwing up and propping them up.
00:44:42.000They claim that our economy, the U.S. economy, and this is a given, is totally dependent on China.
00:44:48.000While Trump brandishes the threat of tariffs like a bull with a bazooka in a China shop, nobody dares correct him on how they actually work.
00:44:56.000Let's break it down in the simplest possible terms, taking tariffs aimed at China as the example.
00:45:03.000Americans depend heavily on all kinds of products from China.
00:45:07.000Smartphones, digital automation systems, toys, media transmission systems, lithium batteries, display monitors, computer parts and plastic goods, to name but a few.
00:45:17.000Any tariffs on these Chinese goods will be paid by the American companies importing them.
00:46:07.000Washington is largely responsible for this.
00:46:10.000They hamstrung the mining industry with all kinds of regulation here.
00:46:13.000Not to mention, of course, allying with unions who give 99% of their donations to Democrats making production, manufacturing, unfeasible here in the United States.
00:46:21.000So they then outsource for cheap labor.
00:46:23.000And this was done under the false guise that China would moderate.
00:46:28.000They'd become more moderate and they would come into the 21st century.
00:46:31.000Well, we're not actually seeing that, and so it's time to change course.
00:47:55.000And by the way, Korea's been very successful in leveraging their chip advantage over China.
00:47:58.000So it's not like this is something that's completely unprecedented.
00:48:01.000Here's another one that you hear, another claim, right?
00:48:04.000a myth that you will hear from those who seem to have a vested interest, and I'm sure we'll discover more in relation to their finances, as far as our public servants, where they will try and convince you, well, here's the thing, too.
00:48:15.000I mean, you may think that we're better than China, but actually China is a very harmonious society, also crime-free, so maybe we should tear a page from China's book.
00:48:25.000Do people feel free to work alone anywhere in America at any time of the day or night?
00:48:34.000Well, this freedom, by and large, does exist in China.
00:48:37.000The statistics are absolutely incredible.
00:48:39.000You're 70 times more likely to be victim of a violent crime in the US than you are in China.
00:48:45.000This is anecdotal, but in my seven years in China, not only have I never been a witness or, God forbid, victim of any crime, but I've never had anyone in my acquaintances who was.
00:49:30.000Well, I think that's a valid question, and usually you can follow the money trail.
00:49:34.000Over just the last year, we've heard a ton of stories, by the way, of these killings, these attacks that are considered revenge against society attacks, in particular using vehicles.
00:50:38.000These are just the ones we know about.
00:50:40.000Imagine what goes on where you don't have a perfectly positioned camera or the CCP doesn't get to that footage to destroy it before it makes its way out.
00:50:59.000Now, I wouldn't argue that there probably is lower overall crime because you have a society that is subservient, effectively, to their overlords.
00:51:07.000They live in absolute fear and terror.
00:51:09.000Also, there's an argument to be made that there are much harsher punishments if you commit violent crimes against white Western tourists because they want to keep up appearances.
00:51:17.000You've all heard of, read about the Blazin' Saddles fake towns in North Korea when people visit.
00:51:23.000That's pretty much all of China as it relates to their society and crime.
00:51:27.000If anyone tells you that it's a harmonious society where people look out for their fellow neighbor, they're lying to you and you need to ask why and then question the premise that China is coming, China is coming.
00:51:38.000So they do this around the world in places where big tourist zones, they actually put more police.
00:51:53.000I think we're in four or five that you will hear from the people who want to beat you into submission mentally.
00:52:00.000They want you to simply give yourself over to the notion that we're all going to be speaking Mandarin within 20 years.
00:52:07.000And they've been saying this really since the 90s, to be clear.
00:52:10.000The claim they make is that, well, okay, not only are we reliant on China, not only do they have the population, but China is actually the world's biggest innovator.
00:54:02.000Because they knew that many in the media would carry the water and tell you, well, if China's doing this for six million and you look at these other companies, well, you just can't be competitive.
00:54:48.000They said, Chinese scientists deliver a kung fu kick to the American imperialist nuts.
00:54:55.000Huawei and SMIC, both under U.S. sanctions, have created 7 nanometer chips without the gear from Dutch firm ASML, which shamelessly obeyed the U.S. empire.
00:55:08.000First off, isn't it always kind of funny when anything from China is calling the United States an empire?
00:57:27.000By that, I mean our public servants, both Democrat and Republicans, even people out there who claim to be conservatives, they've gone along with this for a very long time.
00:57:36.000There's really been only one voice in my lifetime that has spoken up against this.
00:57:42.000boldly, made it known, and has pointed out that the emperor has no clothes, and this very well may be a paper tiger.
01:00:44.000You really saw the tea leaves start to change because there was a...
01:00:48.000Like you said, before Trump really took the wool off people's eyes, there was this idea that China and America were going to be friendly towards each other.
01:01:55.000The thing about them being a paper tiger, I would slightly push back upon only because our policies failed so long that it allowed them to become not the paper tiger.
01:02:04.000You see the moves that they're making and a really interesting graph just came out.
01:02:09.000if it was The Economist or somebody, but it showed countries around the world that supported China's full annexation of Taiwan by any means.
01:02:27.000Through the Belt and Road and through, yeah, any sorts of loans and diplomatic outreach.
01:02:31.000So, yeah, I think that they have amassed a great deal of power that they are...
01:02:37.000Probably going to use because of what you said.
01:02:40.000I think they are getting more dangerous because they are seeing that they're reaching the peak of their abilities with the demographic problems, with the economic problems.
01:02:48.000Well, I remember we talked about this when the Ukraine war started, where we kind of had a little bit of a disagreement, where I don't know if it was you or Geraldson, well, the Chinese and Russians are not good bedfellows.
01:02:58.000I said, you might see that start to form, and we've definitely seen it since, where it's been an unlikely alliance and might embolden them quite a bit.
01:03:05.000Yeah, and even within that relationship itself, which, you know, up until the last 10, 20 years, Russia would have clearly worn the pants in that relationship.
01:03:13.000Now it's China manipulating Russia, China allowing or not allowing Russia to do certain things, because Russia has become dependent upon them.
01:03:21.000Sort of the way we've let our own economy become dependent upon them through bad policymaking.
01:03:49.000When you talk about power, do we think it's important, though, to separate the CCP and the people?
01:03:54.000I've heard quite a few, and I can't prove this because no one's going to study this empirically, that a lot of the citizens are fed up that if they have children who come here to universities, some of them are trying to send all their money to the states, and as soon as they can, get their tiny asses over here.
01:04:08.000They're not necessarily loyal to China, whereas there used to be a greater sense of that.
01:04:12.000Yeah, and I think you can really see that.
01:04:15.000If you're online terminally, as I am, if you look at the China propagandists, they're always saying about how great China is to live in.
01:04:21.000I retort with why are there so many Chinese trying to illegally cross the border to get into our country and not vice versa?
01:04:27.000Because there is a lot of disillusionment with the government.
01:04:30.000But the government has figured out how to preclude revolution by making sure people have enough money through economic growth.
01:04:38.000Now that the economic growth is starting to fizzle out, I do think you're going to start to see You know, the revenge against society attacks, the more willingness to push back against the government.
01:04:48.000But I think that's only going to, you know, encourage the government to repress even harder the 90s, like continuum and square sort of situation.
01:04:56.000So, kind of on that same track with the economy not doing as well, that obviously probably would hamper their ability to be spending so much money around the world on these development projects and these partnerships.
01:05:07.000Do you think the rest of the world that they've been kind of buying the loyalty from, kind of like the Panama Canal thing, the United States steps back in, Immediately an announcement comes out that they're not going to renew the 2017 agreement that they had with them for the Belt and Road Initiative.
01:05:19.000Do you think that kind of destabilizes them a bit as well?
01:05:21.000I would say to a certain extent, certainly, because if they have less economic means to pursue projects, yes, they're going to pull back.
01:05:29.000But a lot of these economic projects are just kind of aimed at getting conciliatory measures from these countries.
01:05:37.000Giving them huge loans that they're never going to be able to pay back, basically just so they can occupy territory.
01:06:40.000Because sometimes people are surprised.
01:06:42.000And I know when I was young, I thought, okay, everyone has to fake when Kim Jong-il died.
01:06:46.000They have to fake as though they're sad because they don't want to be, you know, taken on a helicopter ride.
01:06:51.000But some of those people in North Korea actually do believe that he's a deity and that he can read their thoughts and he got 11 holes in one in his first golf round.
01:07:03.000Are they loyal to the CCP or are they disenfranchised?
01:07:09.000I would say there is a healthy disenfranchisement among a large...
01:07:12.000I don't want to say majority, but a large number of the population.
01:07:15.000But what the CCP has done very well at is over the last 10, 20 years, and especially since Xi Jinping took power, is ingraining this nationalist sentiment.
01:07:25.000of the rest of the world is the one trying to hold you down.
01:07:28.000We are the only people that can protect you.
01:07:30.000And if you look at our historic right, for most of the world's history, we were the powerful country.
01:07:35.000And look at what all these Western powers have done to you over the last hundred years.
01:07:39.000And I think that does resonate with a lot of those people because it's kind of the opposite of what we've been doing in our school systems for so long.
01:07:48.000If you look at England, I think we sent in that poll a couple weeks or a couple days ago that like 11%, correct me if I'm wrong, only 11% would fight for Britain and less than half felt proud to be British.
01:07:59.000I'm willing to bet in China that's much higher because the indoctrination has been quite successful.
01:08:04.000Yeah, I would be willing to bet that it's higher as far as people who are proud, but I would also be willing to bet that the people who are willing to fight against that for some type of revolution is significantly higher than in Western nations too.
01:08:25.000So really quickly, just a quick update.
01:08:27.000Tim Pool is actually going to come on just a little bit earlier, so just about six or seven more minutes, so hang out for that.
01:08:33.000But on this front, you saw it with Russia.
01:08:35.000Russia kind of experimented with kind of freedom, and immediately the people went back to what was uncomfortable but at least familiar and secure, which was, okay, well, at least the government fed me.
01:08:46.000At least the government made sure I had a house.
01:08:47.000At least the government made sure XYZ happened.
01:08:49.000Yes, there were shortages that we had to deal with, and life wasn't great, but it's better than the unknown that you're kind of going into.
01:08:56.000So as far as social conflict goes, I don't see them running towards freedom.
01:09:00.000I see them running to another form of authoritarianism.
01:09:02.000It's very rare for the Western liberalism to work outside of Western liberal things.
01:09:38.000I would love to see the CCP fall, but if you look at what the CCP is, it's basically just the latest iteration of whatever dynasty came before it.
01:09:46.000And communism is something that they sort of, they say, socialism with Chinese characteristics.
01:09:56.000So really, we come back to the same solution.
01:09:57.000The only solution is for the United States to enact better policy, that we use our leverage, because if our liberal Western ideas won't work in China, basically, okay, it works for us, and we need to cripple the government of China, and that certainly is feasible.
01:10:10.000Like, it doesn't take that many policy changes to have an impact.
01:10:13.000No, and the one thing I did want to touch on, I completely agree with everything you said.
01:10:28.000But speaking of Trump, I think in agri, he's done very good things.
01:10:33.000In regards to China, I do worry about his association with Elon Musk when it comes to that because of his market exposure and also just the way that he's talked about China.
01:10:40.000But also, the de minimis thing kind of trips me up.
01:12:33.000He's the only one who's taken a hard stance on that.
01:12:35.000And I think that's a big reason for, I mean, not that I'm pro-union, but the support of a lot of union representatives and people because they were always furious about NAFTA, about TPP. And here we are.
01:12:45.000This is the first time that a Republican, first time any president and it's a Republican saying these were horrible deals.
01:12:49.000The idea of modernization theory, if you open up these markets into Western products and trade and ideas they're going to moderate, like Bill Clinton said and George W. Bush thought, When they put him in the WTO, it's stupid, it's wrong, and Trump saw that in the 1990s, and he's as good as we could have hoped for at this point.
01:13:07.000Yeah, well, and I hope that we start using the leverage that we do have.
01:13:09.000I do believe with the de minimis thing, also it ended up affecting packages not just from China.
01:13:54.000I was looking for An aerosol sprayer that you could fill with something for when we use cigars here that will create nanoparticles, a really, really fine mist.
01:14:03.000There were 50 bottles that were the exact same with different company names and a price difference of four cents here, six cents there, bunch of reviews with bad grammar.
01:14:13.000It's about gaming the system and screwing the American consumer.
01:14:16.000And I think at a certain point, you know.
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01:16:50.000I'll give you some just real simple nitty-gritty stuff.
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01:17:42.000The Timcast IRL Uncensored show where we take callers from our Discord server is now Rumble Premium as well.
01:18:31.000Gosh, I don't know if it was a couple years ago.
01:18:32.000At some point, there's going to be tip jar fatigue and subscription fatigue where everyone has a Patreon and everyone has a GoFundMe and now where you used to just have maybe Amazon Prime and Netflix and a creator, then it's like Amazon Prime, Netflix, Peacock, Paramount, Max, even though you don't get Westworld, but you get Chris Wallace.
01:18:48.000Now you need all of these different subscriptions and it's hard to keep track of content.
01:18:52.000You know, we always wanted to grow into something where it wasn't just, you know, we have Mug Club and a very large, loyal subscriber base, which has sort of insulated us from being canceled.
01:19:01.000But we always wanted to make sure that those people wouldn't feel like they have to decide between multiple creators that they like.
01:19:07.000And being able to get all of this additional content now, where it's basically a lineup, the likes of which really hasn't been seen anywhere else.
01:19:13.000That's what, you know, excites me from that perspective, from the consumer, knowing that you're here and everyone will have access to you.
01:19:39.000Actually, no, I think it was like 70% more views on the episode than we normally get.
01:19:44.000Maybe that's just the big announcement everybody wanted to watch.
01:19:47.000But we really do think viewership is going to increase from this.
01:19:49.000But the coolest thing was in the uncensored call-in show, a bunch of the chats that were coming in were people saying, we're Mug Club and we're now watching Timcast.
01:21:05.000The opportunity cost where they were concerned about viewership.
01:21:07.000This hopefully solves that problem for creators, or at least helps, and it certainly solves some issues for the viewer out there.
01:21:14.000I know that's a big complaint that people are like, ah, I just, you know, $99 is a lot of money to people, and when you add that up over the course of the year with a bunch of different subscriptions, hey man, like, we gotta give them something.
01:21:55.000These guys are saying, we want to sell against YouTube now.
01:21:59.000And I said, when we sold audio podcast ad reads, you never came to us and said, you want to sell Apple, you want to sell Spotify, you want to sell Google Podcasts.
01:22:09.000You literally just said, whatever your downloads are for the podcast, we don't care what platform it's on.
01:22:15.000So what's changed now with Spotify going video is when these companies came to us, I said, you mean streams versus audio?
01:23:38.000And when we put that press kit, that package together, that sales kit for advertisers, we just say, here's our total VOD, our stream delivery, and our views are up.
01:23:46.000This is a huge opportunity that I hope people realize that when it comes to these sales, you're going to make way more money if you're approaching this from a broad standpoint.
01:24:29.000Then we're not going, this isn't going to work.
01:24:31.000Now industry standard is they ask you to put it a certain length of time into the show, and of course video is more valuable real estate.
01:24:38.000These people, this is the thing, a lot of these industries out there that exist, it's just about making money on what currently exists, not looking toward the future, and ultimately that ends up hurting the consumer.
01:24:47.000My focus is always, how do we give them the best value for their dollar?
01:24:51.000These ad agencies out there and a lot of these networks, they don't care.
01:26:01.000We averaged probably around like 21 or so throughout the night.
01:26:05.000YouTube still was much bigger, but we saw a bigger viewership.
01:26:08.000with all due respect to spotify who is this big player where their stock is at like 400 we don't get nearly that much i think we get like 30 to 40 on spotify yeah so how is it that we've been on spotify for so long and that's the best we can do and we want to do better we go on rumble we end up with substantially higher viewership yeah what this says to me is uh i don't know what i'm allowed to say or not say but let me just put it this way
01:26:38.000rumble is in a better position than spotify for delivering the future of podcasts as they have become video and spotify with all due respect i'm not trying to be a dick they're playing catch up to the video podcast platform yeah youtube not YouTube nuked video podcasts.
01:27:16.000Which is another reason, look, when Rumble comes and they're like, we want to work on a deal, and I'm talking to them, I'm talking to my, obviously, my family, my wife.
01:27:23.000And I'm like, I think Rumble's going to be massive.
01:27:26.000I think in 10 years, they're going to rival the biggest podcast platforms.
01:27:28.000And it might be, especially with Crowder, with Bongino, with Rubin, with Russell Brand.
01:27:34.000If they keep making these moves, plus the massive investment they just got from Tether, I don't see how Rumble can fail when you've got Tether investing in it.
01:27:43.000Not to mention the other big backers to it.
01:27:46.000And the fact that they are the ones that picked up video podcasting.
01:27:50.000When these other platforms were dumping it or playing 10-year catch-up.
01:27:55.000And not only that, but they've done it without compromise.
01:27:57.000And what I see when you talk about those viewers is that it's real.
01:28:00.000Like I notice, and this is, well, you know, I'm not trying to be a dick, but I'll be a dick.
01:28:03.000I noticed you didn't include X views in there because we all know that those views, you can't run for advertisers because you only know that 98% are two-second views or less.
01:28:11.000You see so much of this in the industry.
01:28:12.000People, if you're watching right now, you see these numbers and people will brag about numbers and you go, yeah, but they're not real.