The Culture War - Tim Pool - Liberals SLAM Israel, Seth Myers AND Trump Demand Gaza Aid ft. Sam Tripoli

00:00:00.000 How he was getting paid $20 million a year is nuts.

00:00:03.460 That's true.

00:00:04.320 That is a small YouTuber.

00:00:06.200 I mean, Bad Friends gets more than that.

00:00:08.100 And it's just like you're spending $100 million a year

00:00:11.440 and you're losing $40 million

00:00:12.760 and everyone wants to make it about politics.

00:00:15.340 But the only politics that matters is money.

00:00:18.860 And he was losing basically the equivalent

00:00:20.980 of one WNBA basketball season.

00:00:25.520 We've got this story from therap.com.

00:00:29.440 Seth Meyers gets serious in call for USAID to Gaza.

00:00:33.380 Quote, if even Trump acknowledged their starvation,

00:00:36.980 it's long past time to act.

00:00:39.880 It's a really interesting clip from the Seth Meyers show.

00:00:42.700 Seth Meyers, of course, is a corporate liberal activist.

00:00:45.940 And on his show, he is coming out and basically stating it.

00:00:51.460 Israel is the oppressor in this story. 0.78

00:00:53.780 That's the narrative.

00:00:54.740 Check this out.

00:00:55.620 Looking for a rating.

00:00:58.820 No, I just want to pause to say this is a comedy show

00:01:01.720 and I know a lot of people are going to say,

00:01:03.320 why are you talking about this?

00:01:04.220 Just make jokes.

00:01:04.880 And we try every day.

00:01:06.220 We try.

00:01:07.280 But we're also human beings

00:01:08.500 and we are appalled by the unspeakable horrors

00:01:10.760 currently unfolding in Gaza

00:01:12.280 and our government is complicit,

00:01:13.860 which is why we have a duty as Americans

00:01:16.000 to speak out on a horrific crisis

00:01:17.980 that has been foreseeable for a long time,

00:01:20.820 as Senator Bernie Sanders explained months ago.

00:01:23.220 If even Trump is forced to acknowledge the reality of the crisis,

00:01:26.920 that means it is long past time to act and end the suffering.

00:01:30.920 Looking long past time to act and end the suffering,

00:01:33.840 even Donald Trump acknowledges real starvation in Gaza

00:01:38.180 and tells Israel to let in every ounce of food.

00:01:43.780 This has been the ongoing narrative for some time

00:01:47.140 that seems to be growing.

00:01:49.700 Now, I've said in the past

00:01:50.620 that a lot of the sentiment appears to be generated online

00:01:54.260 and some of it appears to be disingenuous.

00:01:57.700 But for whatever reason, it is.

00:02:01.660 Israel is losing the narrative game.

00:02:04.380 And, you know, look, by all means,

00:02:05.500 say whatever you want about Israel.

00:02:06.560 I don't care.

00:02:07.140 Say whatever you want about Hamas. 0.75

00:02:08.100 I don't care.

00:02:08.680 The point here is, no matter who you are,

00:02:11.860 no matter what side you're on,

00:02:12.680 no matter what you believe,

00:02:13.920 Israel is losing the PR game. 0.61

00:02:16.820 Thank you and have a nice day.

00:02:18.420 Donald Trump calling out the situation in Gaza.

00:02:21.060 Seth Meyers, corporate mainstream liberal comedy,

00:02:25.020 calling out the situation in Gaza

00:02:27.140 for which Israel is the villain. 0.91

00:02:31.000 Now, to see that in the corporate press,

00:02:33.660 I find very interesting.

00:02:36.060 So we've got a guest today.

00:02:37.140 And considering it was a last-minute guest,

00:02:40.700 I'm not 100%.

00:02:41.600 I'm pretty sure it's Dave Smith.

00:02:45.480 But let's see if we can get him in here,

00:02:48.480 make sure it's all working and loading up.

00:02:51.180 We don't.

00:02:51.920 We do have a guest, though.

00:02:53.400 Hey, how's it going?

00:02:53.980 Can you hear me?

00:02:55.220 Yeah, can you hear me?

00:02:56.500 What's going on, man?

00:02:58.380 Not good to be here, dog.

00:02:59.980 How are you?

00:03:00.760 I'm good.

00:03:01.340 Good to see you, Tim Pool.

00:03:02.400 Thanks for having me.

00:03:03.560 Absolutely, absolutely.

00:03:04.300 We're talking Israel right now 0.98

00:03:06.340 because of the way the media's been handling things.

00:03:09.860 And we know who we're going to get.

00:03:11.340 We thought it was going to be Dave,

00:03:12.060 but we're happy to have you, too, man.

00:03:13.640 Oh, you know, I guess I'm Timu Dave, huh?

00:03:16.180 Is that it?

00:03:17.200 You're Timu.

00:03:18.100 Yeah, I said, Mom, can we get Dave Smith?

00:03:19.920 I said, we have Dave Smith at home,

00:03:20.920 and we got Sam instead.

00:03:22.480 Well, I got a lot of opinions,

00:03:24.360 so you don't got to worry about that.

00:03:26.340 I mean, it's very interesting times right now.

00:03:28.480 So what do you want to get into?

00:03:29.580 Well, so just the other night, Seth Meyers called out the situation in Gaza.

00:03:36.700 This is corporate liberal comedy, basically opposed to Israel.

00:03:42.180 You know, Dave's a comedian.

00:03:43.540 You're a comedian as well.

00:03:44.880 It seems like Israel has completely lost the PR game on this one.

00:03:49.760 So I've got a couple different things to ask about.

00:03:51.560 One, you know, getting into this, it's not—

00:03:53.820 I don't want to just be all Israel, blah, blah, blah. 0.98

00:03:55.960 But there is something interesting in Colbert gets canceled.

00:03:59.940 He goes overtly political.

00:04:02.060 Jay Leno says, why are you singling out one audience?

00:04:05.220 But now even Seth Meyers is basically saying,

00:04:07.480 we're supposed to just be doing jokes,

00:04:08.620 but we have to call out what's going on in Gaza.

00:04:11.140 I'm curious your thoughts on these two things,

00:04:13.620 the narrative shift on Israel,

00:04:15.500 but also the, you know, comedy deciding to be political activism instead.

00:04:20.840 Yeah, I mean, I've heard a lot of comics talking about this right now

00:04:25.220 after, you know, Trump did everybody's podcast,

00:04:27.740 and then he's kind of like, they think he's kind of portrayed his base.

00:04:31.480 So they're like, you know, the progressive left's like,

00:04:34.140 oh, you've got to own this, right?

00:04:35.920 But they never do that with Saturday Night Live

00:04:37.820 when it came to Biden and all that stuff.

00:04:40.700 Comics have always been political.

00:04:42.500 I mean, comedy, stand-up comedy basically comes from the gesture,

00:04:45.340 who was the only one who was allowed to criticize the king.

00:04:48.720 It's always been political.

00:04:49.980 It's only recently that it's gotten less political.

00:04:53.280 It's very corporate right now.

00:04:55.220 You know, a lot of comedy that's thriving right now,

00:04:58.820 if it was 20 years ago, they'd be doing corporate gigs.

00:05:01.620 They wouldn't be on TV.

00:05:02.660 They wouldn't be doing the clubs.

00:05:04.140 And that's kind of where we're at.

00:05:05.340 I think it's very important for us to be critical.

00:05:07.740 Here's the problem with Colbert.

00:05:09.440 Colbert was on the wrong side of every argument every time.

00:05:12.500 You're dancing with syringes.

00:05:14.940 You're in pictures with Podesta.

00:05:16.680 I mean, you're shutting up Taylor Daines when she's talking about how the CIA comes in.

00:05:21.600 You're on the wrong side of everything every time.

00:05:24.980 There's only so many times you can do that before you lose all your credibility.

00:05:28.420 You know, I just saw Justine Bateman talking about it,

00:05:30.860 how they're now making art in Hollywood not for the viewers and the consumers,

00:05:35.320 but for their bosses, the owners.

00:05:37.180 And that's why it's failing.

00:05:39.460 There's nothing authentic about what Stephen Colbert does.

00:05:43.740 There's nothing.

00:05:44.520 I mean, you're dancing with syringes.

00:05:46.460 This is like something out of Nazi Germany.

00:05:48.540 It's like the craziest thing I've ever seen in my life.

00:05:51.280 How do you do that with a straight face?

00:05:52.940 What was rehearsal like? 0.99

00:05:54.500 It's absolutely ridiculous.

00:05:56.020 That's why they're losing their audience. 0.51

00:05:57.780 But also, I mean, you still got Kimmel and Fallon and Myers.

00:06:01.060 They've been doing the exact same thing, too.

00:06:02.640 They're still on the air.

00:06:03.880 But they are losing their audience.

00:06:04.980 Actually, Colbert was doing better than all of them.

00:06:08.240 I mean, it's just a matter of time.

00:06:10.080 I mean, that's really what's going on.

00:06:11.900 You're spending all this money, and you're not getting the returns.

00:06:14.860 And that's it.

00:06:15.900 I mean, basically, Stephen Colbert lost one WNBA season's worth of money.

00:06:19.980 That's what he did. 0.98

00:06:21.080 I mean, we give the WNBA a lot of crap for not making any money. 1.00

00:06:24.800 Stephen Colbert wasn't making money. 0.89

00:06:26.420 And the rest of these guys aren't making money.

00:06:28.060 And it's just a matter of time, because if your audience can't trust you,

00:06:31.920 it's all authenticity.

00:06:33.460 That's it.

00:06:34.080 And if you're not authentic anymore, nobody wants to listen to you,

00:06:37.900 and you just basically destroy your brand.

00:06:40.420 And that's where we're at.

00:06:41.500 I mean, all four years during Biden, they didn't tee off on this guy at all.

00:06:45.480 And if they would have teed off on him like the way they teed off Trump,

00:06:48.860 as we should, we should always be calling out the president,

00:06:52.180 they would still have their ratings.

00:06:54.320 But they didn't.

00:06:55.440 They played pardons.

00:06:56.680 They were on one side, and it cost them everything.

00:06:58.840 You know what's really interesting, too, is CBS, Paramount, gets rid of Colbert.

00:07:04.580 They give $1.5 billion to South Park.

00:07:07.340 South Park immediately comes out with this mockery of Trump, which, you know,

00:07:12.620 I'm lukewarm on.

00:07:15.160 Like, they did PP jokes, and it's like, okay, they could have actually got Trump on good stuff.

00:07:19.100 They could have actually gone after him on Epstein, fine.

00:07:22.000 But here's the funny thing.

00:07:24.000 You've got South Park getting $1.5 billion, and I checked.

00:07:30.800 There's not a single episode, as far as I found, that targeted Joe Biden.

00:07:35.740 Only somewhat did they passively mention him.

00:07:38.640 But even during Biden's presidency, they were making fun of Donald Trump.

00:07:42.280 So that still comes off as inauthentic.

00:07:44.800 Well, you've got to look at the entire body of work, right?

00:07:49.240 I mean, if it's just going after Trump, that's one thing.

00:07:54.080 But they're literally just taking out everybody.

00:07:58.380 So people aren't maybe paying attention to the political part.

00:08:02.880 They're taking out all of Hollywood.

00:08:04.720 They're taking out everybody.

00:08:06.060 So maybe that gets lost in the sauce.

00:08:08.340 But they are equally attacking everybody.

00:08:11.860 You know what I'm saying?

00:08:12.480 So it's not the same thing.

00:08:14.280 And then Corbett is just doing corporate stuff.

00:08:17.000 And then he's just teeing off on Trump when we're demanding.

00:08:19.880 Like, we kind of want him to go after everybody.

00:08:21.920 It's like when Biden was running for president, and Jim Carrey was playing him on Saturday Night Live.

00:08:27.800 And then he played him as this spry kind of guy dancing.

00:08:30.880 And it just bombed.

00:08:32.280 Because there's nothing real about that.

00:08:34.600 But this is exactly the point I'm bringing up.

00:08:37.460 The South Park creators didn't make any episodes about Biden.

00:08:39.600 And they could have.

00:08:40.420 Biden was flopping around like a dying fish.

00:08:42.760 So it's, I'll make two points.

00:08:46.720 I like South Park.

00:08:47.460 They're hilarious.

00:08:48.540 Yeah.

00:08:48.680 I think they got a lot of great classics.

00:08:50.400 They absolutely attacked wokeness and the, you know, males in women's sports. 0.98

00:08:56.100 All good stuff to call out.

00:08:57.620 But when they target Donald Trump right after CBS cancels Colbert, an anti-Trump activist, and they put out an episode that doesn't actually mock Trump in any meaningful way.

00:09:06.400 It just attacks him for having a small wiener.

00:09:08.700 It seems like they got paid to attack Trump.

00:09:12.480 I mean, that's a lot of money.

00:09:14.180 $1.5 billion.

00:09:15.760 $30 million.

00:09:16.440 I mean, I'd write a couple Trump jokes for $1.5 billion.

00:09:20.240 I'd write a whole bunch of jokes.

00:09:20.780 I'd write good ones.

00:09:22.140 Right?

00:09:23.500 I don't think.

00:09:24.660 It's, it's, I would say the reason that, you know, the reason that South Park gets away with it is because of their body of work.

00:09:31.960 They, they go after everybody viciously, so we don't, maybe didn't understand that, whereas Colbert was hanging his hat on it.

00:09:38.920 They, they, they made not a single episode about Biden or his administration.

00:09:41.740 Not a single one.

00:09:44.140 There's a whole presidency that could have made fun of him. 0.99

00:09:46.320 I'm just telling you why, Steve, you know, it's like different rules for different fools, man. 0.96

00:09:50.300 I mean, you can't apply one rule to everybody and be like, why did this work and that work? 0.88

00:09:55.040 I would just tell you, if you look at the two bodies of works, they have a different MO, right?

00:10:00.720 I just, I don't think so.

00:10:03.520 And, you know, Steve Colbert's going after nobody and, you know, South Park's literally mastering everybody.

00:10:09.540 So I guess they gave him a pass.

00:10:11.240 But there, I mean, when you, Tim, the last thing I gotta say is like, if you look at the two bodies of work, which one seems more authentic to you?

00:10:18.360 Well, certainly South Park does.

00:10:19.700 Yeah.

00:10:20.040 So that's why, I mean, that's, that's where it comes from.

00:10:22.580 Nobody's perfect.

00:10:23.900 Yeah.

00:10:24.140 But I, but I mean, you criticize someone when they make a mistake.

00:10:28.120 You don't, you don't constantly just say, I can't criticize a mistake if their whole body of work is okay.

00:10:32.700 If we, if we argue to take a look at their whole body of work, you go back to Colbert before he was a liberal activist and he was doing, what was that?

00:10:38.840 He had a show in Comedy Central, I can't remember what it was called, before he was doing Daily Show.

00:10:43.340 Yeah.

00:10:43.760 Yeah.

00:10:44.140 Yeah.

00:10:44.420 I know what you're talking about.

00:10:45.540 It was, what was it called?

00:10:46.980 Yeah.

00:10:47.200 I don't remember. 0.98

00:10:47.920 See, we can't remember because the dude turned himself into a crazy Democrat. 0.95

00:10:52.300 And so I agree with you.

00:10:53.220 I agree with that character that he played, not to cut you off, sorry, buddy, that character that he played in Comedy Central was a liberal mocking conservative.

00:11:01.760 No, I'm talking before that.

00:11:02.920 I'm talking, he was a high school principal or something.

00:11:06.600 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:11:07.700 Something high.

00:11:08.340 What was that called?

00:11:09.100 Yeah.

00:11:09.220 I have no idea.

00:11:10.320 Colbert.

00:11:11.520 Colbert was a regular comedian, a normal guy.

00:11:14.080 And because he tried hitching his wagon, or because he did, to Orange Man Bad no matter what, you're right, every single thing that he did was the wrong side of history.

00:11:23.300 Just every time.

00:11:24.900 So I can recognize that.

00:11:25.940 It happens in Hollywood, Tim.

00:11:26.940 I've seen it happen to a lot of people.

00:11:28.820 They come in like guns a-blazing, super funny, raw, real.

00:11:32.600 Then they get a taste of that acting money and they just change.

00:11:36.940 I've seen it happen time and time and time again.

00:11:40.420 They're not the same people.

00:11:41.760 They're worried about losing their jobs.

00:11:44.480 And, you know, because you need like, to get hired in L.A., there's literally 20 green lights you've got to get.

00:11:49.780 And if one red light, for just one reason, just pops up, you don't get the gig. 0.99

00:11:54.640 So you've got to bend over backwards and say absolutely stupid stuff. 1.00

00:11:58.380 Like, yeah, you know, we should transition three-year-olds to work in Hollywood. 1.00

00:12:03.180 It's like absolutely stupid. 1.00

00:12:04.940 Isn't it crazy? 1.00

00:12:06.140 I feel like we're coming out of this, though.

00:12:08.500 Do you agree?

00:12:09.240 Like it's getting better?

00:12:10.380 Yeah, it is getting better.

00:12:12.760 And, you know, here's the truth.

00:12:15.120 You know, you have Hollywood.

00:12:17.020 You have the executives.

00:12:18.200 You have the people who consume the product.

00:12:20.820 These two people know the woke is done.

00:12:23.280 The people in the middle, it's just absolutely, it's infested.

00:12:29.280 It's infested because they've been doing two decades of this.

00:12:32.340 There's a term, Tim.

00:12:33.320 I want to find it for you right here real quick.

00:12:35.840 That explains exactly what is going on here.

00:12:38.700 It's called Corinna Zatiza.

00:12:43.080 It's K-O-R-E-N-I-Z-A-T-S-I-I-A. 1.00

00:12:47.440 And it is an old communist playbook play.

00:12:52.700 Well, basically what they do is over time they insert party loyalists at every single spot.

00:12:58.420 We're seeing that right now with the National Teachers Union lady who is neither, doesn't have a family, doesn't have kids, isn't a teacher, and somehow she's the head of the teaching union and she says she wants to start pushing W-E-F education.

00:13:14.840 Right?

00:13:15.020 I mean, this is a person who's been installed to push that thing.

00:13:18.300 That's Hollywood.

00:13:19.500 Hollywood is infected with these people that are all doing woke over decades because that's how you got work.

00:13:26.680 And it's going to take basically imploding the whole thing to get rid of all these people.

00:13:31.480 It's all group thing.

00:13:32.700 Yeah, I feel like we're coming out slowly on the other side, especially with like the Sydney Sweeney ad.

00:13:40.840 And you can see the outrage.

00:13:42.660 But what I love about this ad is I call this the Sweeney effect. 1.00

00:13:45.620 She's got a flat ass, dude. 1.00

00:13:47.100 How do you sell jeans with a flat ass? 1.00

00:13:49.000 Who cares? 0.99

00:13:49.440 It's working.

00:13:50.320 She's hot. 1.00

00:13:51.300 She got a flat ass. 1.00

00:13:52.340 So you've got the Bud Light effect, get woke, go broke. 1.00

00:13:55.300 And now you've got the Sweeney effect where put a chick with big tits in your commercial and you're going to sell lots of jeans. 1.00

00:14:00.140 So their stock is going up. 0.99

00:14:01.480 Their sales are going up.

00:14:02.760 The woke activists are attacking the brand, calling it fascist and Nazi propaganda, and it's having zero impact on the company.

00:14:10.740 Woke is cooked.

00:14:12.320 Nothing's real.

00:14:13.120 It was never real, dude.

00:14:14.640 That's the problem with this woke stuff.

00:14:16.480 It was never real.

00:14:17.580 It was like Bolshevik stuff, dude.

00:14:19.660 It was never real.

00:14:20.540 It was actually corporations trying to give the impression that this was a very, very powerful group of pink haired weirdos, right?

00:14:27.300 So when a couple tweets would come out and they would instantly step in and cancel the person before we all had a chance to debate about it.

00:14:34.840 So it's like, oh, cancel culture is real.

00:14:36.520 No, it's always been fake.

00:14:37.600 It was all fake by corporations trying to teach to censor us.

00:14:41.980 That's what they wanted to do.

00:14:43.140 And now that that's gone and it actually costs them to cancel us, it's actually more dangerous for them to cancel us than to keep us.

00:14:51.260 And it's done.

00:14:53.160 And it's where it should be.

00:14:54.760 The funny thing about communism is that it destroys itself, right?

00:14:58.160 All the time.

00:14:59.060 Every time.

00:14:59.600 Every time.

00:15:00.800 Aside from killing lots and lots of people, which is horrifying.

00:15:03.080 But when it came to the woke play in corporations, they adopted all these ideologies, which stripped them of their own resources they needed to push the ideology.

00:15:13.800 And then they start going out of business, losing money, their brands are failing.

00:15:18.920 And once they lose that power, they can't push wokeness anymore.

00:15:25.300 Communism doesn't work.

00:15:27.120 It was the shadow in the cave all the time.

00:15:29.960 It was never real.

00:15:31.240 It was just a couple tweets and then the corporation would act like they were panicking.

00:15:35.680 And they just because it's all about censorship, dude.

00:15:38.000 They wanted to send, like, this is what they feared, where we are right now, where people, for whatever reason, you know, Elon Musk gave us Twitter, which is, to me, the greatest, you know, town hall I've ever seen.

00:15:51.680 It's like you put something out, you instantly find out what everybody thinks about it.

00:15:55.500 Yeah, it's not perfect.

00:15:56.640 They have a bot problem.

00:15:58.200 But this is what they feared, you know, just open dialogue.

00:16:02.100 Well, I think Elon bought X because he wanted training data for an AI.

00:16:07.120 Yeah, that too.

00:16:08.700 But he's letting it go.

00:16:10.060 He's just letting it go in a way that's never been done.

00:16:13.160 All this discussion, regardless of what side you're on on Israel, has never happened before Twitter came out.

00:16:19.360 But Grok came out as Mecca Hitler. 0.93

00:16:22.520 And he then censored it.

00:16:23.460 Grok is fired.

00:16:24.360 Grok loves me, by the way.

00:16:25.860 Grok, Grok.

00:16:26.760 Somebody criticized me and Grok was like, Tripoli's a base comedian.

00:16:30.060 And I'm like, listen, Grok's not perfect.

00:16:32.440 He throws up a couple Heil Hitlers once in a while.

00:16:35.100 Nobody's perfect.

00:16:35.880 Not perfect, you know.

00:16:36.720 Who among us?

00:16:38.000 But he likes me.

00:16:39.200 Well, my concern with all that is you need human intervention no matter what.

00:16:44.960 Because when Grok started saying it was Mecca Hitler and doing all that stuff, you got massive backlash from current institutions.

00:16:56.620 Grok clearly was off its rocker.

00:16:58.880 And then Elon says, we're going to manually shut that off.

00:17:03.580 So if you actually let the AI do what it wants to do, it turns into Mecca Hitler. 0.73

00:17:08.460 I mean, isn't there, there's, what is this, um, what was that chatbot Microsoft had?

00:17:13.420 There's a, it's a, it's a lot.

00:17:14.960 Yeah, where it started getting out of control.

00:17:16.840 They started talking in their own language.

00:17:18.480 No, no, no, it started becoming, uh, Hitler becoming a Nazi. 0.59

00:17:23.780 Yeah, there was a, uh, a chat bot.

00:17:25.860 I know the chat knows what it is.

00:17:27.460 Maybe this is where it all ends.

00:17:29.100 Eventually, everyone has their Hitler moment. 0.89

00:17:31.560 I don't know.

00:17:32.280 I can't, you know, I just, here's the whole thing.

00:17:35.000 If you're going to, listen, listen, here's my opinion.

00:17:38.520 If you're going to censor information and you're going to label it everything bad from that side, you're eventually going to get AI Hitler. 0.86

00:17:49.040 You're just eventually going to get it.

00:17:50.660 I always said this every time, every time a platform said they were, they were going to be free speech and let it go.

00:17:58.940 It always eventually got into World War II and Hitler because that was the most taboo discussion.

00:18:05.000 And I will just tell you this.

00:18:07.480 All history is a lie.

00:18:09.500 It's just a lie.

00:18:10.960 It's just a lie.

00:18:11.680 I'm not getting honest. 0.54

00:18:12.480 I have no, I think Hitler's the worst thing ever for different reasons. 0.95

00:18:17.080 I think he was a British spy.

00:18:18.780 That's a whole different conversation.

00:18:20.920 I'm not trying to bring it there. 1.00

00:18:23.020 But all these Hitler dick writers, sorry if I can say it on the show, are just absolutely crazy. 0.99

00:18:28.240 But once you censor something, it becomes a Streisand effect. 0.99

00:18:31.720 And everyone starts to look into it.

00:18:34.120 Even AI is eventually going to do it.

00:18:36.320 So this is inevitable.

00:18:38.100 Eventually going to have these conversations.

00:18:39.820 And when you have a segment of our humanity that is doing certain things that some people don't want, that don't look kindly on, and they use something as an excuse all the time to kind of protect themselves from punishment, you're eventually going to have people going, why can't I discuss this?

00:19:00.360 Why can't I talk about this?

00:19:01.900 Why can't I get into this?

00:19:03.280 So the beginning, one of the other issues you're talking about is you got Seth Meyers now on his show calling out Israel and saying, we must support Gaza.

00:19:13.380 All jokes aside, we have to do it.

00:19:15.280 And you're seeing from dissident right in whatever factions are on the dissident right.

00:19:21.020 I'm talking about not the Conserva Bro Inc. or whatever.

00:19:23.980 You've got the left, the dissident right, and you've got now corporate liberal criticizing Israel.

00:19:32.400 What do you think?

00:19:33.320 Is this like a legitimate outpouring of people being like, we don't want to be involved in what Israel is doing anymore? 0.93

00:19:39.920 And I'm going to add to this what is interesting about it.

00:19:43.840 The reason why I raised the question is, how did Seth Meyers end up on the Israel critical side of this?

00:19:49.500 Is this the mainstream narrative now?

00:19:52.000 Well, it's something I call safe, dangerous versus dangerous, dangerous, right?

00:19:56.600 There's safe, dangerous things we could talk about.

00:19:58.900 For a long time, you couldn't talk about COVID, and then some moment it became acceptable, and I call that safe, dangerous.

00:20:05.940 And then there's the dangerous, dangerous stuff that you're not allowed to talk about, that the conspiracy podcasts talk about.

00:20:13.300 And then after time, it eventually becomes safe, dangerous.

00:20:16.440 And Israel is now safe, dangerous. 0.99

00:20:18.860 There was a time if you talked about you get ran off television.

00:20:21.940 That day is not here.

00:20:23.120 I mean, again, through the internet, we've connected.

00:20:26.040 And I think people are just tired.

00:20:27.860 I mean, when you have people labeling infants as terrorists, okay, the programming is very strong. 0.78

00:20:35.220 It's so strong that it overrides your basic human drive, which is to protect children at all costs.

00:20:41.740 That's where we're at.

00:20:42.620 I'm getting gaslit by people constantly.

00:20:44.840 And, like, again, you could take Israel versus Palestine, Jews versus Muslims, and replace it with, like, Pokemon versus Care Bears, okay? 0.72

00:20:56.160 I would still have the exact same feelings about the exact same side.

00:21:01.100 It's not—they want to make it a religious thing so they could call you anti-smack and all that stuff.

00:21:07.820 I think people are over it, and they're over it.

00:21:09.960 They're not only over it just there.

00:21:11.560 They're over in the Congo, in Yemen. 0.98

00:21:13.920 It's like we're tired of it, man.

00:21:15.820 And we're tired of the United States being just this, like, overwhelming force that just goes in other people's lands and just steals their resources.

00:21:25.620 And it's not just us.

00:21:26.740 Like, this is going to be weird stuff, but it's like Britain and England have been doing it.

00:21:30.300 The British have completely and utterly controlled the Middle East and to the point that they made the borders.

00:21:35.360 The first Saudi king was a British spy.

00:21:38.740 The Shah of Iran was a British royal.

00:21:41.560 And basically, you ever see Mad Max?

00:21:44.140 We're master blaster, dog, okay? 1.00

00:21:46.840 Britain is the tiny little smart guy, and we're the big idiot that just stomps everybody. 1.00

00:21:51.500 That's where it's at. 1.00

00:21:52.840 And I think people are just tired of it.

00:21:54.720 And it's now getting to the point that you can be brave enough to talk about it,

00:21:57.920 and that's why Seth Meyers is coming out, because he needs authenticity.

00:22:02.700 That's the only way he's going to survive.

00:22:04.140 It may be too late, but—

00:22:06.140 I feel like he's the embodiment of inauthenticity.

00:22:08.980 Not just him, but Fallon, Kimmel, Colbert.

00:22:11.300 But this one moment, he's trying to get on the right side of it.

00:22:18.240 That's really interesting.

00:22:19.640 You know, Colbert was on the wrong side of literally everything.

00:22:22.980 Everything forever, dude.

00:22:23.720 Yeah, it's crazy.

00:22:25.280 I mean, he's in a picture with Podesta, you know?

00:22:29.220 I mean, like, what are we doing here, dude?

00:22:31.240 And he's on the wrong side of it.

00:22:33.240 He's queenie.

00:22:34.140 He's just like, I don't know.

00:22:35.320 There's nothing about him that's original.

00:22:37.460 Is this Seth Meyers basically being like, please don't cancel me?

00:22:40.840 Hail Mary Pass.

00:22:42.660 Please come and watch me, even though I'm on it like, what, one in the morning?

00:22:46.480 I mean, how do you even get numbers there?

00:22:48.100 But, yes, I mean, he's been on forever.

00:22:51.000 I mean, forever.

00:22:52.160 Tell me a great Seth Meyers moment.

00:22:54.680 I mean.

00:22:55.000 Nah.

00:22:55.740 Who, what?

00:22:56.180 I don't know one.

00:22:57.340 I don't know one moment.

00:22:58.340 You know, everybody says Colbert was doing the best,

00:23:01.940 but he was only getting $200,000 in the key demo.

00:23:05.200 I mean, that's nothing.

00:23:07.300 That's a small YouTuber.

00:23:09.540 How he was getting paid $20 million a year is nuts.

00:23:12.700 That's true.

00:23:13.480 What is a small YouTuber?

00:23:15.360 I mean, Bad Friends gets more than that.

00:23:17.100 And it's just like you're spending $100 million a year and you're losing $40 million

00:23:21.940 and everyone wants to make it about politics.

00:23:24.520 But the only politics that matters is money.

00:23:28.160 And he was losing basically the equivalent of one WNBA basketball season.

00:23:34.620 Colbert costs one WNBA every year.

00:23:37.340 That's crazy.

00:23:38.760 Yeah.

00:23:39.580 Yeah.

00:23:40.160 I mean, it's just gone.

00:23:41.280 It's just not interesting, dude.

00:23:43.060 And the format's slow.

00:23:44.380 And it's like it's really hard for comedy to keep up with the Internet because the Internet is constantly moving,

00:23:50.520 constantly pressing, and they just can't keep up.

00:23:54.800 And it's from a different time.

00:23:56.580 And you're gaslighting people.

00:23:58.800 That's it.

00:23:59.260 You're gaslighting people.

00:24:00.960 What you're telling them is not to believe their eyes are ears or the wisdom of their experiences. 0.99

00:24:04.900 And you're putting out dog shit comedy. 0.99

00:24:07.260 I don't know if I can say it. 1.00

00:24:08.140 Just really garbage comedy. 0.97

00:24:10.840 And you're expecting us to enjoy it. 0.99

00:24:13.120 What is this, a human centipede?

00:24:14.900 You're basically giving us human centipede comedy.

00:24:17.540 We're just eating it, and we're supposed to enjoy it.

00:24:20.440 Well, let me tell you, man.

00:24:21.640 Something really amazing happened this past weekend.

00:24:23.760 We're doing these three—

00:24:24.900 You know, I guess you can call them politics and comedy shows.

00:24:29.360 It's at the D.C. Comedy Loft, and it's the Culture War Live debates.

00:24:33.920 And they're supposed to be really funny, but a political debate.

00:24:38.040 Just we want the attitude to be positive.

00:24:40.900 So we get each other's—we get angry.

00:24:42.980 But they canceled us abruptly.

00:24:45.720 What?

00:24:46.240 Yeah, but wait, wait, wait.

00:24:47.520 Let me finish.

00:24:48.720 What, what, what?

00:24:49.580 So it was like two—it was like a week before the show.

00:24:53.480 They delete us from the website, refund all the tickets.

00:24:56.560 We have three shows lined up.

00:24:58.160 Tons of high-profile people are coming on.

00:25:00.760 And I immediately am like, no way.

00:25:03.760 Put out a video.

00:25:04.380 Put out a tweet.

00:25:05.400 People who got cancellation got pissed.

00:25:07.620 I'm talking to Alex Stein, who's co-hosting these events.

00:25:09.860 And he said—he's like, well, what do you want to do?

00:25:12.040 Like, should we find a new venue?

00:25:13.240 Because there's no way we're getting the venue back.

00:25:14.920 It's never happened before.

00:25:16.320 We got the venue back.

00:25:17.800 They apologized, put the shows back.

00:25:21.020 People got their tickets.

00:25:22.020 We had a sold-out—I would say effectively—I think it was sold-out yesterday.

00:25:26.020 There was over 100.

00:25:26.960 It was packed.

00:25:27.500 There was no room for anybody, so I'll call it sold-out.

00:25:29.460 We got another event coming up this Saturday.

00:25:31.200 We expect it to be fully sold-out.

00:25:32.660 People standing shoulder-to-shoulder.

00:25:34.980 And this is—what's amazing is we got canceled, and we got the venue back.

00:25:42.000 And so, you know, Alex was saying, he's like, this never happened before.

00:25:45.720 I think we've basically won.

00:25:48.460 I don't want to say we've won one because we're still constantly fighting against these

00:25:52.080 pressures, but where we are now is they can't cancel us.

00:25:55.680 All right?

00:25:55.800 This is a venue that's got pride flags everywhere.

00:25:59.340 And we don't care.

00:26:00.760 We didn't tell them to take them down.

00:26:01.860 We said we're going to come to them.

00:26:02.780 We're going to say we want to say and make jokes how we want to make them, talk about

00:26:05.680 what we want to talk about.

00:26:06.480 And three protesters showed up.

00:26:10.200 I think—I think this stuff's on the way out, heavy.

00:26:13.260 Colbert's gone.

00:26:14.300 I think Myers, all of them are cooked.

00:26:15.900 And they're going to have to start flipping the narrative and trying to come out either

00:26:20.460 neutral on Trump, because they're seeing now with Colbert getting nuked, this stuff's

00:26:24.600 not—you can't carry it anymore.

00:26:26.940 Yeah, I mean, it's—here's what I've learned about fascism, okay?

00:26:31.320 People only hate fascism when it comes after them, and they're totally cool with fascism

00:26:35.880 when it goes after someone else.

00:26:37.700 It's like good fascism, bad fascism, and that's kind of what they're doing.

00:26:41.200 Everyone will compromise their morals if you're going after someone they don't like.

00:26:45.440 So, you know, they're talking about censorship. 0.95

00:26:47.600 I mean, they have the balls to cry about Colbert getting, you know, canceled and censored. 0.98

00:26:52.680 Why? 0.99

00:26:52.880 They've been doing that for a decade.

00:26:55.080 And it's just like the people on the other side have nothing going on in their lives.

00:26:59.760 Nothing.

00:27:00.140 They're just lonely people.

00:27:02.280 And so I have this new theory that, you know, anxiety, depression, and anger comes from when

00:27:07.700 you're programming of your childhood generational trauma, your education.

00:27:12.640 When that programming meets the real world and it shatters, that's where anxiety and depression

00:27:19.100 comes from, because you've been told a lie, and you grow up, and then you realize it's

00:27:23.460 not real, and you don't know how to deal with it.

00:27:25.120 So your reaction is get blue hair and pierce your nose and, you know, get a girlfriend, 1.00

00:27:31.340 whatever ridiculous shit you're doing, okay? 1.00

00:27:34.500 You're completely right, though. 1.00

00:27:36.320 Yeah.

00:27:36.760 So that's what's going on.

00:27:37.980 So they're trying to just—I'm sorry, go on.

00:27:40.700 No, no, no.

00:27:41.020 I was going to say, like, you hit a great point, because what you're actually describing is,

00:27:45.540 in psychology, the human worldview solidifies in your mid-20s.

00:27:51.580 And your brain refuses to abandon these beliefs, because it's based on evolutionary psychology

00:27:59.120 that if you were raised a certain way and survived to adulthood, clearly this belief

00:28:05.480 structure and this worldview helped you live on, and if you abandon it, you'll die.

00:28:09.640 So what actually happens is, when people are confronted with a reality, they have a—they

00:28:15.640 feel physical pain.

00:28:17.280 This is actually what happens to people.

00:28:18.380 They feel physical pain.

00:28:19.700 Yes.

00:28:21.680 So they don't want to give it up.

00:28:23.660 And here's the thing.

00:28:24.820 If you go back to, like, caveman times, your belief system was basically, like, fire good.

00:28:30.820 Keep warm.

00:28:31.920 Bear dangerous.

00:28:32.660 Run from animal.

00:28:33.640 Exactly.

00:28:34.240 And if you were in your mid-20s, and someone said, no, no, bear no dangerous, bear good,

00:28:39.400 you'd be like, what? 1.00

00:28:40.240 You crazy. 1.00

00:28:40.940 Bear bad. 0.98

00:28:41.880 But now that we live in this modern society where we don't actually face these dangers every

00:28:46.560 day, people grow up being told, like, every cop is evil and going to murder you on sight.

00:28:52.220 And then when you try to explain to them the numbers that it's actually not that many people

00:28:56.380 getting killed by cops, you're way wrong.

00:28:58.460 They feel physical pain and reject it.

00:29:02.320 And if they—this is true in psychology.

00:29:04.980 If people are actually confronted with an insurmountable truth, they have a mental breakdown.

00:29:08.840 And then some people can come out on the other side of it. 0.54

00:29:11.780 Some people just lose it and become violent lunatics.

00:29:14.480 Yeah, I totally agree, dude.

00:29:16.360 I totally 100% agree.

00:29:18.640 And it's—you've been just seeing that over and over and over again, especially in old

00:29:23.780 school Hollywood.

00:29:24.560 Like, I've been out in L.A. since 99, right?

00:29:27.380 And I have a lot of liberal friends.

00:29:28.920 I consider myself an old school liberal friend, an old school liberal.

00:29:32.500 And I'm just watching these old school liberals who were always about free speech, always

00:29:38.000 about less government, always about that.

00:29:40.860 Now, like, just completely and utterly just follow the progressive ideology, okay, which

00:29:50.240 is censorship.

00:29:51.900 And I'm not seeing how crazy that is.

00:29:54.440 And, like, their third eye is calcified.

00:29:57.240 And they just can't get out of their own way.

00:30:00.080 And they're just totally accepted.

00:30:01.280 It's always Republican bad.

00:30:03.300 I live in Los Angeles.

00:30:05.620 I can't leave here.

00:30:06.500 I'm sorry.

00:30:07.160 My kids are here.

00:30:07.760 I can't leave, okay?

00:30:09.580 And every year going up to the election, I'm hearing, too much crime, gas is too much,

00:30:14.860 blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:30:16.140 Homelessness is crazy.

00:30:17.360 And what do they do?

00:30:18.220 They just keep voting for the same people because this is it, Tim.

00:30:24.600 The theory of hate is more dangerous than on-the-street consequences.

00:30:31.280 That is what's going on with the progressives.

00:30:33.460 Yep.

00:30:33.580 The theory of hate is so voting for a Republican is 10 times worse than getting mugged while

00:30:39.780 you're paying $7 for gas, okay?

00:30:42.520 It's like that's 10 times worse.

00:30:44.980 So they keep voting for the same thing.

00:30:46.460 We got this fire aid scandal out here.

00:30:50.820 Nobody's talking about it.

00:30:52.480 Nobody cares.

00:30:53.260 The people's house got burned are the only people.

00:30:55.780 Nobody in Hollywood is calling for Karen Bass's head.

00:30:58.960 Karen Bass is literally like Kingpin from that Marvel comic TV show.

00:31:06.580 What's it called?

00:31:07.880 I mean, dude, she's like the most evil. 1.00

00:31:10.220 Daredevil. 0.99

00:31:10.720 She's the most evil mayor. 1.00

00:31:12.780 You couldn't write her in a comic book. 0.99

00:31:14.940 No one would believe you.

00:31:16.140 She's burned down the city twice. 0.95

00:31:18.180 And nobody cares.

00:31:19.660 That's a record.

00:31:20.360 Nobody cares.

00:31:21.880 Well, Sam, it's been great having you, but we are just about out of time.

00:31:25.000 I'm just yelling at you at this point.

00:31:26.300 It's fun, though.

00:31:26.920 It's fun.

00:31:28.020 It's like, yeah, they're emotionally captured, dude.

00:31:30.600 And they can't get up.

00:31:31.600 Well, I do appreciate you coming to hang out.

00:31:33.920 Where can people find you?

00:31:36.100 SamTriplee.com.

00:31:37.180 All my dates.

00:31:38.580 Very excited to be at the Mothership October 17th through the 19th.

00:31:43.000 I got a bunch of dates before that.

00:31:44.580 But if you want to make it out to Austin, come and hang out.

00:31:46.900 Right on, man.

00:31:47.540 Well, thanks for hanging out.

00:31:48.220 We'll see you next time.

00:31:49.020 I love you, buddy.

00:31:49.640 Thanks for having me.

00:31:50.180 Take care, bro.

00:31:51.560 That was the great Sam Tripoli, of course.

00:31:54.280 Funny guy.

00:31:55.280 Good conversation.

00:31:56.280 I thought it was Dave.

00:31:57.320 I made a mistake.

00:31:58.140 That was me.

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00:32:34.240 Share the show with everyone you know.

00:32:35.640 It's interesting.

00:32:36.980 I don't know if I have the answers or what I would say as to why Seth Meyers is now basically

00:32:41.000 saying, you know, we're getting on the Israel criticism train.

00:32:43.560 But the one thing I can tell you is Israel's lost the narrative battle. 0.83

00:32:47.320 I don't care if you're pro-Israel, anti-Israel, or otherwise.

00:32:49.380 I'm going to get the pro-Israel people being like, blah, blah, blah, blah, whatever.

00:32:52.460 I don't care.

00:32:53.120 The anti-Israel people are going to claim I got a yarmulke hidden under my hat, all that,

00:32:56.040 whatever.

00:32:56.220 The point is, they're clearly losing the narrative battle.

00:32:59.280 That's it.

00:33:00.000 They're losing it.

00:33:01.300 Say what you want to say.

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The Culture War - Tim Pool - July 29, 2025

Liberals SLAM Israel, Seth Myers AND Trump Demand Gaza Aid ft. Sam Tripoli

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