The Culture War - Tim Pool - August 13, 2026


Tucker Carlson Says Ben Shapiro IS A PSYOP, Israel MADE HIM Smear Hunter Biden

Topics
affordability crisis
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Tim Pool Phil Labonte Hannah Claire Brimelow
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Tucker Carlson Ben Shapiro Hunter Biden Trump Joe Rogan Jack Posobiec Miriam Adelson Tyler Robinson Nick Fuentes Charlie Kirk Bill Maher Breitbart Tim Cast IRL Corey Lewandowski Michael Jackson Brandon Herrera Hillary Clinton Anna Kasparian Candace Owens Wolf Parades and 15 more
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00:00:00 Tucker Carlson accuses Ben Shapiro of being manufactured, of being created.
00:00:06 They propped him up.
00:00:07 He was a tool to spread a boomer neocon ideology to young people.
00:00:12 And it worked for a while.
00:00:14 I saw this and I just got to say it's all fake and everyone's lying.
00:00:20 And it's just so boring.
00:00:23 You know what I'll tell you?
00:00:24 So this is all about Burrito Gate.
00:00:27 For those that aren't familiar, there was a viral post where some Gen Z young men said burritos shouldn't cost $20. 1.00
00:00:34 And they are correct. Burritos should not cost $20.
00:00:38 And this sparked the great burrito debate. 0.90
00:00:40 Now, I know it's kind of silly.
00:00:42 It latches on to our psyche because it's the burrito.
00:00:45 And it's a kind of funny way to meme-ify the conversation around affordability of good, healthy food.
00:00:51 Because the truth is, if you want to get a burrito from Taco Bell, you can get one for about $3 or $4.
00:00:55 It's just not a burrito you'd want to eat.
00:00:58 That being said, I love Taco Bell.
00:01:01 I can probably go get Taco Bell later today, and that's not a joke.
00:01:04 But I stay away from their flour.
00:01:06 I don't eat none of that stuff, okay?
00:01:08 The point is, if you want to get real food, if you want chicken breast,
00:01:13 if you want real rice and some actual cheese and sour cream and guacamole,
00:01:17 all the things that a growing boy needs, yeah, your burrito's going to cost $20.
00:01:20 When the Burrito Gate debate started, Jack Posobiec came on Timcast IRL, and we ordered five burritos from Chipotle.
00:01:27 To be fair, we used DoorDash.
00:01:29 The total cost, at the end of the day, was about $20 per burrito.
00:01:34 Now, a chicken burrito from Chipotle actually is $13, and the steak burrito was $16, but with delivery tip and all that stuff, came out to about $21, $22 per burrito.
00:01:43 I guess, technically, you could just go pick the burrito up.
00:01:46 The point is, we want to eat good food.
00:01:48 This sparked a big debate where Ben Shapiro said, here's what you do.
00:01:52 You save money, you move in together, and you work really hard.
00:01:57 We've got it better than we've ever had it.
00:02:00 And of course, there are other people on the right who said, guys, no, we've got to talk
00:02:03 about affordability.
00:02:04 We're going to lose elections because of this.
00:02:06 And there lies the big challenge.
00:02:07 Me, I'm a moderate guy.
00:02:09 I'm not a hardcore conservative.
00:02:10 No matter how many times people try to say it, this ain't going to be true.
00:02:13 And I actually think, yes, there is an element.
00:02:17 I do agree with working hard and sacrificing, but come on, we need a functioning system.
00:02:23 The solution to the fact that people can't eat good food is not just to say work harder.
00:02:28 I agree to a certain extent with Ben Shapiro that life is better these days, but young
00:02:33 people are not having families. 0.92
00:02:35 They can't afford houses.
00:02:36 The burrito debate is a memification of the affordability crisis and our cultural problems.
00:02:44 That being said, I heard what Tucker Carlson had to say about Ben Shapiro.
00:02:49 And guys, it really makes me want to just bash my face on the table in front of me.
00:02:54 I'm going to be real, which is we're in a political lull.
00:03:00 It's fairly obvious to everybody.
00:03:03 Surprisingly, I will say, you know, everybody's viewership is down to a certain degree on YouTube.
00:03:08 We're doing pretty well.
00:03:09 we're doing between 25 and 30,000 concurrent viewers on Timcast IRL, which is like kind of
00:03:14 normal for the same point where we were four years ago. But four years ago in the previous cycle,
00:03:19 we had we had the BLM riots. We had Trumpism at its peak at the 2020 election. This resulted in
00:03:27 the covid lockdowns. I mean, people were glued to the screens. And right now, people are desperate.
00:03:36 There's so little to talk about.
00:03:38 I'm not going to pretend.
00:03:40 You know, sometimes I do stories.
00:03:41 I did a story yesterday.
00:03:42 I wasn't even talking about.
00:03:43 I talked about, you know, the Gen Z family crisis pretty well. 0.97
00:03:46 It's got like 250K views or something. 1.00
00:03:49 That's the business.
00:03:50 But I see a lot of this stuff.
00:03:52 And I see Tucker Carlson talking about Ben Shapiro on my slow news day there, Tucker. 0.88
00:03:57 And although it's fair to say probably to me a slow news day there, Tim, the first thing I'll say is you damn right.
00:04:04 It's a slow news day.
00:04:06 No, but there's a lot of things that I could talk about.
00:04:09 We've got the, you know, Brandon Herrera just went and bought a suppressor.
00:04:12 Let's go.
00:04:13 Probably the coolest thing ever.
00:04:15 The NFA tax being erased.
00:04:17 Suppressors are now on the table, boys, but we're not quite there.
00:04:20 Still waiting for ATF rules, but it's good, good news.
00:04:23 I'll talk about that stuff.
00:04:24 We'll get those videos going.
00:04:25 But I saw this video from Tucker, and I want to play it for you, and I want to play for
00:04:29 you what Ben said.
00:04:30 And the bigger question is, was Ben Shapiro created?
00:04:33 And I love I love the inner workings of the media. And so I'm going to, as I often do, spill the beans on the inner workings of the media. Conversations that I've had with people, conversations I've had with The Daily Wire. I don't really know much about where they are right now. Conversations that I've had with powerful political ideologues and the money they want to spend and why they want to spend it.
00:04:54 That is to say, Ben Shapiro is not a psyop. He wasn't created, but he certainly was funded.
00:05:02 That's true by people with ideological interests. And that will always be the case.
00:05:09 X Trending says Tucker Carlson accuses Ben Shapiro of being created by Israel.
00:05:13 I don't think that Tucker explicitly said Israel on the show. Carlson dismissed Shapiro's advice
00:05:17 to appreciate affordable foods like burritos amid inflation and whining over goyslop
00:05:21 while questioning Shapiro's Harvard admission 0.69
00:05:24 and Daily Wire deals as propped up by Israel
00:05:27 to a certain extent.
00:05:29 Did you guys know that 7-Eleven's brand is called Go Yum?
00:05:34 I just want to point that one out.
00:05:37 Go Yum.
00:05:38 And now you get out of these people,
00:05:39 they're like, it's Go Yum!
00:05:41 It's slop food from 7-Eleven.
00:05:43 You know, you don't have to eat it.
00:05:46 The issue is that people do.
00:05:48 Let's talk about it.
00:05:49 Here's the clip from one of the clips from Tucker Carlson's show.
00:05:52 Many of you may have seen, but let's play.
00:05:54 We're not playing this to suggest that Ben Shapiro was like a shaper of history, a mover in American politics.
00:06:01 He's not. Ben Shapiro is.
00:06:04 OK, look, man. I think Tucker is as fake as they come. 0.97
00:06:08 I just do. I know that, you know, I've had producers come to me and I've had companies come to me in big networks.
00:06:15 And they say, Tim, you should chill out, not accuse people of things, open up.
00:06:21 They're all, you know, look at Lex Fridman.
00:06:22 He can interview anybody because he's not going to.
00:06:24 I'm like, listen, I call it like I see it, but fair point.
00:06:27 And so I'll try to be better in the future.
00:06:31 We got a big thing.
00:06:32 Like, it's massive here at Timcast.
00:06:34 It's crazy.
00:06:36 We got a massive expansion.
00:06:37 We're spending hundreds of thousands of dollars.
00:06:39 It's nuts what's going on.
00:06:41 Agency connections, big deals on the horizon.
00:06:43 and it's, it's, it's, it's, it's big, you know, and this is part of it, which I'll get to a
00:06:48 second, but I've got these people saying, you know, we just launched the Tim Pool show, guys,
00:06:51 go subscribe to the Tim Pool show if you haven't already, and already I got these people being
00:06:55 like, bro, you got to chill, you can't just call Tucker Carlson fake, and I'm like, okay, okay,
00:07:01 okay, because they're like, are you ever going to go on his show, are you going to talk to him,
00:07:05 he's going to be offended by it, he's not going to invite you on, look, Candace,
00:07:07 you know she's she's pissed at you and i'm like yeah yeah yeah look man i've only ever just been
00:07:14 a random guy who complains on the internet that's kind of the thing which is why i want to talk
00:07:18 about this so let me let me let me let me get back to it i do want to give a quick shout out
00:07:21 though to casprew.com guys if you haven't already this is what helps sustain us we have a coffee
00:07:25 company it seriously is some of the best coffee no all jokes aside i normally do a bunch of jokes
00:07:30 about this but we uh we started this several years ago selling coffee like crazy uh my family
00:07:36 in a coffee shop when I was a little kid, so I've always been around coffee and worked with it.
00:07:40 I formulated the blend of Appalachian Nights personally, because I like a dark roast,
00:07:44 earthy, chocolatey kind of flavor. And I got to be honest, it's the best coffee I've ever had.
00:07:50 Seriously, I was given a bunch of different blends. I combined the flavor profiles that I liked.
00:07:54 We told them the percentages that we want. They go in the machinery. They blend it all into a bag,
00:08:00 send it to us. And I was like, holy, this is perfect. It sells like crazy. So guys,
00:08:05 go to cast brew.com pick up some cast we got whole bean we got ground coffee we got k cups get it all
00:08:11 and i and we got bottled water and flavored coffees a bunch of really great stuff support the work
00:08:16 we're doing let's get back to play what tucker carlson has to say he's an employee like most
00:08:21 everybody else he's doing what he's told he represents larger interests obviously so why
00:08:26 bother to replay and then rebut something that ben shapiro said well in an effort to speak to
00:08:34 the people who put him up to it. So the whole point of Ben Shapiro, and there is a point to
00:08:40 Ben Shapiro, this is not like some organic phenomenon. Ben Shapiro was just so charming
00:08:43 and brilliant that he somehow got into Harvard Law School and then eyebrows and all emerged as
00:08:48 a social media titan. No, of course not. Ben Shapiro had a deal with Facebook, a deal no one
00:08:54 else got. And so the point of Ben Shapiro was, here's a way to send a very specific message to
00:09:01 outline and sell a very specific worldview to young people. Ben Shapiro is an old person's 0.58
00:09:08 idea of a young person. He is a spokesman for a group of older people aimed at younger people.
00:09:16 I have an idea. Let's get Ben Shapiro. This guy, Ben Shapiro, he's brilliant. He's a really
00:09:20 promising young kid. And we'll get him to sell free market economics and a robust Reaganite
00:09:25 foreign policy to the young folks. And by the way, it kind of worked for a while,
00:09:30 thanks to the trans movement, which you suspect they also kind of concocted
00:09:34 the same group, but whatever, wherever that came from, for a while, Ben Shapiro seemed like he was 0.79
00:09:40 on the side of common sense and he's for free speech and he's against the trans lunacy,
00:09:44 et cetera, et cetera. But always from day one, the point was Ben Shapiro is going to sell this
00:09:50 very specific version of economics, not capitalism, bears no resemblance to anything Adam Smith
00:09:58 advocated for, but the kind of modern American monopoly arrangement where six companies can
00:10:06 behave like countries, have sovereignty, unlike our own nation, and control every part of your
00:10:12 life through debt, which is kind of broad but fairly accurate definition of our current economic
00:10:19 system. So sell that and then sell the even harder to pitch idea that it's unpatriotic
00:10:27 to oppose wars for Israel. Like, first of all, it's obviously anti-Semitic. I mean,
00:10:32 it's just an expression of hate if you don't want to regime change some country you can't
00:10:36 find on a map. Obviously, you're a bigot. You're basically a Nazi. In fact, you must
00:10:40 be for Hitler. You probably are opposed to the Second World War too. You probably have 0.70
00:10:44 problems with churchill it's literally immoral to oppose ben shapiro's employers foreign policy
00:10:53 and there it is kind of his employers foreign policy i'm gonna interject here um this all
00:11:01 started because ben shapiro said eat cheap burritos i guess but it's it's bigger than that
00:11:06 ben shapiro is not created by anybody and i'm gonna i'm gonna lay uh lay it out uh for you
00:11:12 guys how it works. I don't know the inner workings for the most part of Daily Wire, but I do know
00:11:15 that they received investment. I do know that is a fact right now that they are prominent,
00:11:19 wealthy individuals that are reaching out to many people on the right, hoping that they can
00:11:23 create a culture and center around more conservative ideals. This should not be
00:11:29 surprising to any of you because this is just the way things go. Look, I started a skateboard
00:11:34 company because I didn't like that skateboarding was going in this weird direction, and I love
00:11:39 skateboarding. So we created a brand and we said, we're not going to play any of these weird
00:11:43 political games. And boy, did they try to destroy us. I brought some people on pro skateboarders.
00:11:49 Are you going to say these pro skateboarders were made by them? They weren't made by me. I just
00:11:53 hired him. Ben Shapiro was already working in the space. He's got some crazy story about how he's
00:11:59 like a young, one of the youngest writers and producing content. And it worked. Ben Shapiro
00:12:04 spoke to an older crowd. It wasn't an old person's idea of a young person. It was a young person
00:12:09 speaking to them more articulately, articulately and quickly. So what happens? Powerful individuals
00:12:15 that, you know, wealthy individuals say, you guys should do a company. They got investors.
00:12:22 They did a company. They didn't necessarily have a special deal with Facebook. They just played
00:12:27 the game. You know, it's you could say that Tim has a special deal with YouTube, but that's no,
00:12:33 I just have a rep. Tons of people have reps and I really talk to them. But sometimes I'll email
00:12:38 being like, yo, what's going on? Here's an example. Like Timcast IRL is blacklisted. We
00:12:43 weren't before. But last year we were featured in the live page. Timcast IRL, despite live
00:12:50 concurrent viewership, is down across the board. We still have, and this is weird, the highest
00:12:55 live viewership, second or third typically, because there's like Spanish channels that do
00:13:00 like 40K. But we've been averaging about 15,000 on Timcast IRL. And then on Rumble, we do about
00:13:06 13 to 14,000. So we average, you know, 25 to 30K, depending on the day, depending on the news. It's
00:13:12 the summer, not a lot happening politically. And Trump has a trifecta, not surprising. In 2021
00:13:18 into 22, another midterm year, is relatively the same amount of concurrent viewership. We saw a
00:13:24 big burst into 24. Our viewership's generally been increasing. You know, it is what it is.
00:13:28 Nobody critted us. Nobody told me what to say, but they certainly don't like what I say.
00:13:34 I don't think anybody created Tucker Carlson. What he's doing is he's trying to effectively
00:13:40 criminalize, and I mean that figuratively, not literally, the idea that we live in a society,
00:13:47 that there are people with special interests that are going to be like, I want to give funding to
00:13:51 Daily Wire. I want to buy sponsorships with them. I like what Ben says. Similarly, with Tucker
00:13:55 Carlson, he makes ad revenue. He has subscribers. They estimate that he's doing about 20 million
00:14:00 per year. Pretty crazy, right? He's making more now than he was at Fox News. Wow. I will also
00:14:07 stress, you know, it's really crazy. And this is just an aside. I'll tell you all the inner
00:14:11 workings of the business. When Tucker was working at Fox News, I was making more than he was. We
00:14:16 were making more as an independent company, despite the fact we got lower viewership.
00:14:20 And it's because that's why the companies do what they do. Tucker was speaking to a crowd
00:14:26 And he got a lot of views from it, millions, three to five million, mostly older.
00:14:31 But he was crushing the key demo better than anybody else.
00:14:34 And Fox News profited from this.
00:14:37 So while he was getting paid, of course they were making more money off of what he did
00:14:42 than he was going to get.
00:14:43 He goes independent.
00:14:44 He gets all that money himself.
00:14:46 It's silly, in my opinion, to try and play this conspiracy angle about who Ben Shapiro
00:14:53 is and what he believes.
00:14:54 Let's play more from Tucker.
00:14:55 But it's also un-American. 0.69
00:14:57 Like, this country was founded to fight wars for Israel. 0.92
00:15:00 That's why we're here.
00:15:02 I mean, our founders said explicitly,
00:15:04 America exists as a Judeo-Christian country to support Israel. 0.62
00:15:08 Okay? 0.71
00:15:09 So whatever prime minister of that country wants, we're doing.
00:15:12 I mean, that's why we're here.
00:15:13 So if you're against it, you don't believe in America.
00:15:16 You're against America.
00:15:18 Why don't you just leave? 0.84
00:15:19 Maybe we'll revoke your green card.
00:15:20 Oh, do I have a green card? 1.00
00:15:21 We'll strip of your citizenship.
00:15:21 And that's what ICE exists to do now.
00:15:24 In any case, you should know watching this that these are not just Ben Shapiro's opinions.
00:15:29 They said he actually has opinions.
00:15:31 Who knows?
00:15:32 But these are the opinions of the people who prop up Ben Shapiro, who created Ben Shapiro.
00:15:36 And this is what they think.
00:15:38 This is the argument they sincerely believe apparently is going to appeal to young people who are worried about the price of burrito.
00:15:47 He mentions the burritos because it's all about burrito gate.
00:15:51 Wow.
00:15:51 So, um, whatever your accusation against Tucker or whatever, listen, there's a question that
00:15:59 Americans have.
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00:16:30 About the funding of Israel and U.S. wars and whether or not we should be involved in the
00:16:36 Middle East, it extends well beyond Israel. And Israel is a component, but it's not Israel and
00:16:41 the Jews. It's the liberal economic order, which certainly places a large, let's say, just, I don't 0.94
00:16:48 know, concentration of its power in the territory of Israel. But it is not the Jews. And that is. 1.00
00:16:57 I don't know, I guess it's just like low ordered thinking. They you know that for people who don't
00:17:02 know how to or are incapable of calculating beyond step one, that's kind of what they think.
00:17:08 I I wish I was smart enough to be a billionaire. I certainly have the work ethic. But as I've
00:17:14 stated many times, I don't think I'm the smartest person. I'm probably smarter than average, you
00:17:18 know, but where I lack the capabilities and the willingness of someone like Tucker Carlson, I make
00:17:24 up for in work ethic. I work double shifts. I do work on the weekends periodically. It's becoming
00:17:29 more difficult now that I have a family and we're trying to focus on that stuff, but I'm willing to
00:17:32 work twice as hard. And that means I've done really well. I've made a lot of money. I wish I was as
00:17:38 talented as Theo Vaughn or Joe Rogan, and I could work a quarter of the amount of time that I work
00:17:43 and make substantially more money, but I recognize that this is the nature of reality.
00:17:47 Now, Tucker Carlson is playing a game because Tucker Carlson's smarter than I am.
00:17:51 This guy's been smarter than I am his whole life, and it's exemplified by his abilities,
00:17:56 his willingness, and the fact that he's much more successful while doing much less.
00:18:01 There's a willingness that I don't have. I'm not willing to make a video where I claim that
00:18:06 Israel's controlling everything because there's just no evidence for it. I suppose you could
00:18:10 argue that Tucker's not smarter than me. It's just that he's willing to cater to a lowest common 0.92
00:18:14 denominator of viewers. Blame Israel. Get your scapegoat. Lowest common denominator first order 0.67
00:18:22 thinkers aren't going to think much beyond it. You've given them an easy out. It's easy to
00:18:25 understand. Well, I don't play those games. I'm not willing to play those games. And for that,
00:18:30 you know, this will never be the biggest show, I guess. I certainly know that there are topics
00:18:34 that will generate more viewership than the video I'm doing today about Tucker Carlson and his
00:18:37 opinions on Ben Shapiro. But let's talk about the structure of the media and where we're at
00:18:41 and what's currently going on and who's creating who and what we're seeing and blah, blah, blah,
00:18:44 blah. Tucker Carlson did an interview with Hunter Biden recently. Hunter Biden said that Trump
00:18:52 poses an existential threat to the liberal economic order. This is true. Trump is restructuring this
00:18:57 order. There's a lot to break down in this. And again, I'm I don't know, a zit on the ass of
00:19:03 mosquito compared to this machine? You know, maybe I'm a bit more worrying than that to these 0.99
00:19:08 people because they've certainly tried to besmirch my name. And I'm just, and who am I? Middle East
00:19:13 died. Tucker Carlson says Israel pushed him to report false allegations against Hunter Biden.
00:19:19 It's just so easy, isn't it? Look, Hunter Biden signed off on dropping off that laptop. Maybe it
00:19:26 was a plot by the deep state, you know, or by Trump or Russia or who knows what. Certainly think
00:19:32 people are fighting for power right now. They don't like Trump. They think he's a threat to
00:19:35 the liberal economic order. But Tucker could have at least asked him about it. Hunter said he has
00:19:41 no recollection of dropping that thing off. And it's like, well, are you kidding me? That's when
00:19:46 I have no recollection of doing such a thing. What? You say I never did that. And then if
00:19:51 someone's like, well, we got a receipt of you doing it, be like, man, I don't know. I don't
00:19:54 remember. Like, I guys, I got to be honest. I don't remember what was going on like every single
00:20:00 day, going to a bunch of parties in New York, meeting people. I got invited to a Clinton
00:20:04 Foundation meeting, and they wanted me to wear a black tie, and I was like, nope.
00:20:07 So I'm going to find the emails where they're like, Hillary Clinton invited Tim Poole. That
00:20:10 proves it. And I'm going to be like, bro, I don't even know what that was about. You know what I
00:20:13 mean? My point ultimately is, people are questioning Tucker Carlson's allegiance.
00:20:21 Tucker Carlson tried to use Hunter Biden to get his son into Georgetown. Interesting. Am I going
00:20:26 to accuse Tucker Carlson? No. But I'll tell you what I think, my genuine thoughts on Tucker Carlson.
00:20:31 I don't know him all that well.
00:20:33 I've known him a little bit.
00:20:35 Texted with him sometimes.
00:20:37 I think he's just, I don't think he's genuine.
00:20:42 You know, he can be offended by that all he wants.
00:20:44 I don't care, whatever.
00:20:45 These people certainly don't like me.
00:20:47 Tucker Carlson seems to have flipped on a dime.
00:20:49 He did an interview with his brother where he apologized for supporting Trump, saying
00:20:53 he had no idea.
00:20:54 And it's a really great thing to say if you want to capture an anti-Trump, anti-Israel
00:20:59 base from populist left and right. It's great if your goal is to have a show that makes a lot of
00:21:04 money. Then his brother said maybe that money from Miriam Adelson was for something and Tucker
00:21:10 does his. For those who don't know, Miriam Adelson is a huge proponent of Israel, donated 100 plus
00:21:16 million to various Trump supporting PACs and messaging to help Trump get elected. It was
00:21:20 reported at the time that this was the goal. The wink, wink, nudge, nudge was we want Israel to 0.89
00:21:27 take the West Bank. So Trump gets elected. That's what they want to see. So if you think Trump is
00:21:32 working at the behest of Israel, well, take a look at his donors. Everyone knew this was the case.
00:21:38 And while I'm certainly not happy with the war in Iran and the state of the economy, it's brutal
00:21:42 to pretend that you didn't know this. It's just fake, guys. You know, I'd make way more money if
00:21:50 I just screamed, Israel did it. But if there's no evidence for a thing, I'm not going to say 0.98
00:21:55 there's evidence for a thing. I know Ben Shapiro loves Israel. He's Jewish. He's entitled to that
00:22:01 opinion. I disagree. I don't think we should be funding Israel's military and their weapons there
00:22:06 and things like that. And, you know, they always like to claim, and by they I mean proponents of
00:22:12 Israel in the United States, be it Jewish or otherwise, evangelicals, whoever. Well, we're
00:22:17 not just, they're buying weapons from us. We're giving them money, but then they're buying. Yes,
00:22:22 I get it. You're pumping money into the military industrial complex. I'm not stupid. I understand
00:22:28 that. We're putting a rock in a hard place these days. And I'll tell you what I think.
00:22:35 I represent you actually, you know, I'll cite Nick Fuentes. He had a video that people were
00:22:42 sharing as it was some kind of secret where he said that, you know, he doesn't like the
00:22:46 wackaloons who have these weird conspiracies about the Jews and all that stuff. He has Nick
00:22:51 Nick views himself having a legitimate criticism of Israel and Jewish special interest groups
00:22:56 and that people like Candace make it all look insane.
00:23:00 So he said that he's been trying to, he didn't say moderate, but better articulate so that
00:23:06 he's like, look, you know, Tim Pool likes me now.
00:23:08 And he's like, kind of, I view him as kind of the normie guy, you know, like where people
00:23:13 are.
00:23:15 I respect that.
00:23:17 And Nick is correct.
00:23:18 Listen, you're allowed to say there are groups like AIPAC.
00:23:23 Their interest is advocating for a foreign country, and they are deeply influential.
00:23:28 That was always allowed.
00:23:29 You're allowed to say, I don't like that, and I don't want it to be.
00:23:31 And I'll say, yeah, yeah, I hear you.
00:23:33 I don't like these foreign lobbying groups.
00:23:35 I don't like AIPAC candidate, left AIPAC candidate, right.
00:23:38 I mean, we're allowed to have arguments on these things.
00:23:41 A lot of concern that is legitimate, that AIPAC provides a lot of funding to defeat candidates,
00:23:45 and like to a lot, you know, like we've had congressional races like with Massey where
00:23:50 they spend, what is it, like tens of millions of dollars. Now, I'm not going to pretend that
00:23:54 AIPAC is the most powerful lobby in the country. It's just not true. But they certainly do have
00:23:59 an outsized influence based on the amount of money they do spend. So I have no problem with
00:24:03 people who take issue with that. Nick certainly said shocking and offensive things. And I think
00:24:08 it was, was it Ben Shapiro actually said he's a comedian. He says things that are funny at the
00:24:15 time, but, you know, what does he really believe? And, uh, well, I certainly think Nick does believe
00:24:20 things, right? But to a certain extent, yes, like Nick makes jokes and he makes funny ones. And he's
00:24:25 also said very offensive things. Ultimately it comes down to this, right? Let me tell you stories
00:24:31 about Daily Wire. They have investors. They made a lot of money. Here's my understanding. Daily
00:24:35 Wire starts, Ben Shapiro, he leaves Breitbart. There was that whole thing with, you know, who was
00:24:40 it? Uh, I don't want to get the name wrong. So it's been a while, but I, Corey Lewandowski or
00:24:44 whatever, something like that. I don't know. So Ben Speer leaves Breitbart and he starts writing
00:24:49 articles. And these articles are challenging wokeness at a time when woke was dominant.
00:24:52 The only message that we were getting in the corporate press was DEI, critical race theory,
00:24:57 feminism, and people were just sick of it. So the Daily Wire starts writing articles to the
00:25:02 contrary, actual real news. People loved it. The same thing is true for me. I'm a little bit later
00:25:07 of the game. But Daily Wire's pumping money through articles. I never did articles. And
00:25:14 Facebook still generates a hefty amount of money. It's pretty nuts. However, Facebook started to
00:25:19 change how they made money because of politics. And then this stripped money from Daily Wire. So
00:25:23 they focused on YouTube. It was the anti-woke era. People were sick of this machine. We were
00:25:29 the underdogs. Now, I'm saying not just Daily Wire, but, you know, Tim Kast as well. Well,
00:25:35 Trump won a trifecta in 2024, and that's when it kind of hit like a sack of bricks. We won.
00:25:42 We did. No longer was there a great fight. There was no great mission. We did it.
00:25:50 So what do you do next? I mean, right now you got Royce White and Enes Kanter,
00:25:54 and they're mocking the WNBA. It's kind of hilarious. So where do we end up?
00:26:00 There's no great challenge, no great fight anymore. A little bit. The midterms are coming
00:26:04 up and the challenge will arise again. Deeper ordered thinkers are currently paying attention
00:26:08 and passionate about these issues because we know we lose today, we lose tomorrow.
00:26:13 But for most people, it's not really affecting their lives anymore.
00:26:16 Like the woke stuff. What is? The war. I mean, it's the easiest thing to point at.
00:26:23 We're in this war and our prices are going up. Guys, I can see the strength of the economy in
00:26:28 ad rates. The economy is in bad shape because the ad rates on YouTube represent small businesses
00:26:34 buying ads in their local communities.
00:26:37 And if they're not doing that, the ad rates go down.
00:26:40 And we are seeing that.
00:26:43 Interest in these topics related to woke
00:26:45 and what Trump is doing, not interested.
00:26:48 If you want to make money, you point at Israel.
00:26:52 Why? 0.87
00:26:52 It's easy to say the war and the problems 0.80
00:26:56 you're experiencing are because of Israel. 0.98
00:26:57 So Tucker's playing that game.
00:26:59 He's playing that game now with Ben Shapiro. 0.85
00:27:02 Certainly, Israel is a component of this war.
00:27:04 But there's so much more to this with the Panama Canal, the pacification of the Caribbean, oil exports.
00:27:12 We are looking at massive oil exporting for the United States, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, cutting off of China from their oil.
00:27:20 If you want to be a lowest common denominator personality that has the biggest audience in politics, you've got to find who the boogeyman is.
00:27:26 And woke ain't it anymore because we sort of crushed it.
00:27:30 Don't get me wrong, it's still kind of there, but even AOC says woke one was crazy.
00:27:34 We did it.
00:27:36 They are flattened and kicked out.
00:27:38 So what are people looking for now?
00:27:40 The truth is there is no great boogeyman.
00:27:43 There is a general malaise and chaos in government.
00:27:46 The Democrats are fighting amongst each other and the right has begun fighting amongst each
00:27:49 other.
00:27:49 So there's no unified message to be had.
00:27:52 So to put it simply, if you are trying to maximize audience to get the most amount of
00:27:58 views, what you're going to do is, well, there's a couple of things you can do because I'll
00:28:02 tell you what we do versus what Tucker does.
00:28:04 Tucker's show is way bigger than mine.
00:28:05 It always has been.
00:28:07 But Tucker knows he's an individual, not a news network.
00:28:12 Focus on the maximization.
00:28:15 By doing so, he can do the least amount of work with the most amount of views.
00:28:18 Bravo.
00:28:20 It works. 0.98
00:28:20 And that is Israel.
00:28:22 Ben Shapiro.
00:28:23 Make your enemies.
00:28:25 What does he care?
00:28:26 He's got $20 million a year.
00:28:27 Here's what we did at TimCast.
00:28:30 Last year, we were doing like 50,000 concurrence on average on TimCast IRL.
00:28:33 It's kind of crazy, but the show is just getting bigger and bigger.
00:28:36 And we've got more subscribers than ever.
00:28:38 We have a combined 12 million subs across the board.
00:28:41 I just announced this today.
00:28:42 We're doing a massive expansion in D.C., spending hundreds of thousands of dollars,
00:28:45 probably close to a half a million on this massive expansion, because business is good.
00:28:50 And we launched the Tim Pool show.
00:28:53 There's some stuff I can't announce yet, but it's been going pretty well.
00:28:56 And all of this is being built.
00:28:57 Why?
00:28:58 Well, it's being built now because it's the summer.
00:29:00 This is the point.
00:29:01 I played the World Series.
00:29:02 Why?
00:29:02 Well, some people take summer hiatus, but I know that we're in a lull period, and lulls will always happen.
00:29:08 This is the nature of reality.
00:29:09 We've sustained growth through different platform strategies.
00:29:15 So while it's true that Timcast IRL is getting a lower concurrent viewership rate, revenue is still absolutely fantastic.
00:29:21 And we've made up for this by targeting different platforms and different strategies.
00:29:24 So we've done website subscriber growth.
00:29:26 We've got 350,000.
00:29:28 And, you know, I kind of wish we took some of these strategies several years ago.
00:29:33 But for us, we're sitting pretty.
00:29:36 You may have heard stories about, you may hear this,
00:29:40 certain people who were here for a long time at Timcast are no longer here.
00:29:44 And there's a variety of reasons for that.
00:29:46 But ain't no real beef that I got with anybody.
00:29:50 You know, they try to make claims like, ha-ha, this proves, like, you know,
00:29:54 the company is going under, blah, blah, blah.
00:29:55 Let me just tell you guys, we're putting like half a million to this expansion.
00:30:00 It's pretty crazy, which means we're building out.
00:30:05 It's like level three, you know, or level four.
00:30:09 We started in a basement in my house.
00:30:12 Why?
00:30:13 Well, COVID happened.
00:30:15 We were locked in.
00:30:15 We said, let's do a live stream.
00:30:17 We moved upstairs.
00:30:18 The show got a little bit bigger.
00:30:19 We're getting bigger streams.
00:30:20 We're making a ton of money.
00:30:20 It was pretty crazy.
00:30:21 This is COVID.
00:30:22 Everyone was locked inside, so they were just watching.
00:30:24 We started doing guests at the end of the year,
00:30:27 and our guests started getting bigger and bigger.
00:30:29 I remember the first few emails.
00:30:30 It's like, dude, we're getting millions of views.
00:30:32 You know, we were getting like a million per episode
00:30:33 during COVID.
00:30:34 It's crazy.
00:30:34 We're doing like 600 now.
00:30:36 It's off season.
00:30:37 What can I say?
00:30:39 In total viewership from the episode and clips,
00:30:41 we're doing like 5 million
00:30:42 because we'd break segments out from the shows.
00:30:45 It was massive.
00:30:46 And we didn't do any direct sponsorships
00:30:48 or membership webs.
00:30:49 It was just YouTube rev.
00:30:51 Hey, man, you live and learn, right?
00:30:53 So we then upgrade, we go to level three, we get the Maryland studio, the castle, we called it.
00:31:00 And then we built a new, like this studio that we built, the original one was like,
00:31:04 we took four desks, nailed them together, put up a bunch of random lights, we had no idea what we
00:31:08 were doing. Level four, we built a formal studio in the castle, opened up a new room, built this
00:31:13 big desk, and things took off. Money was pouring in, Kanye West showed up, it was pretty crazy.
00:31:19 and then came the next big level.
00:31:23 Freedamistan, we call it.
00:31:24 Man, we hired a big production company.
00:31:27 We balanced out the lights.
00:31:28 We have professional lighting installed.
00:31:30 We're just an independent company.
00:31:32 It's just, you know, me and doing what I do.
00:31:34 And then, my friends, the next level.
00:31:37 And that's what we're looking at right now.
00:31:39 A formal DC studio, television quality levels
00:31:43 with big cameras, a half million dollar studio production.
00:31:46 we're opening up three new offices. It's like an office, but three new units. Pretty dang crazy.
00:31:55 And I'm sitting here being like, I can't believe it's all come to this point.
00:32:00 I could play the game that Tucker plays. I think it's silly. You know, all of a sudden, 0.91
00:32:06 Hunter's not the bad guy. Israel made me do it, he said. Can we seriously just pull that up?
00:32:10 Israel made Tucker Carlson say everything that he said. Come on, it's just not real. Guys,
00:32:16 this company that we got here at Timcast, it's crazy. We've got network offers. We've had them
00:32:24 for so long. And I've always just said no, because it ain't about the money.
00:32:28 Part of me thinks back and I'm just like, Tucker is a black pill for me. It breaks my heart.
00:32:35 I looked up to him for a bit. I don't agree with everything he says, but I see this. I'm like,
00:32:39 is this the game? Is this what we're supposed to be? Am I supposed to just be the guy that
00:32:45 takes the letter from the marketing company and says, your maximum viewership will be just blaming
00:32:50 Israel. Guys, like Israel's done nothing here. I just make videos. We generate money. I track
00:32:58 revenue. We've got vendors. We've got clients. We've got advertisers. We've got sponsors. Some
00:33:01 pay a lot. Some pay low. We track all that money. I navigate global trends in media. It's just a
00:33:07 business. And I try to make a good product. I hate calling it that, but this is it. I try to just say
00:33:13 like, here's what's currently happening. Here's what I'm hearing. I try to respect privacy the
00:33:16 best of my ability. But, you know, like I said, we got these network guys and they're like, Tim,
00:33:20 you got to stop insulting people. Like you can criticize them, but you're kind of a dick. 0.99
00:33:24 And I'm like, nah, I know. Because I've always just been a dude talking to the camera, 0.99
00:33:29 explaining how I think about things and how I feel. And it's done pretty well for the company.
00:33:33 But I do respect this, right? I can certainly be critical and say I don't agree with this or
00:33:40 believe it. But calling someone, you know, a see you next Tuesday, if you know what I mean,
00:33:44 probably a bad idea. So I did apologize for calling Candace that. Not like it matters because
00:33:49 her fans don't care, but it's not for her fans. I sincerely apologize. You know, I should,
00:33:53 it's unprofessional, you know, got a lot of attention. And a lot of people were like,
00:33:57 thank you, Tim, for saying that. And I'm like, well, I'm not here to pretend to be someone else
00:34:02 to put forward some fake narrative about Israel. Israel did not make Tucker Carlson say anything.
00:34:07 He said it because it was good for his show.
00:34:09 And he's saying Israel made him do it now because it's good for his show.
00:34:12 I read the news.
00:34:13 I tell you what I think.
00:34:14 I try to be careful.
00:34:16 Nobody came to me and made me say anything about Hunter Biden.
00:34:20 It was in the news.
00:34:22 But it is a Game of Thrones, my friend.
00:34:24 Manipulations far and wide.
00:34:27 So we're not going to play that game.
00:34:29 We're just going to be what we are here at Timcast.
00:34:31 We got a big expansion coming up in D.C.
00:34:34 We have a new documentary coming out.
00:34:35 It's about technology and AI.
00:34:37 We've been working on it for about a year or two, so it's going to be big.
00:34:40 And we're just doing our thing.
00:34:42 I think what you're seeing with this next level that we do, the new studio, the truth, I'm old.
00:34:50 Started doing all this in my late 20s.
00:34:53 Timcast started expanding rapidly in my early 30s.
00:34:56 It was a decade of making this content.
00:34:58 Now I'm 40.
00:35:00 Finally had a kid, late to the party.
00:35:02 but that takes precedent. It takes priority, 100%. My wife used to work with me on all of
00:35:08 this stuff, helping build the company, and now she's like, we need to make some changes. It's
00:35:12 family time. She's right. I agree. We both completely agree, which means we're bringing
00:35:18 in companies to do management production, marketing. We're not just going to be that
00:35:22 wild child goofing off in skateboarding anymore, but I'm certainly never going to be the person
00:35:27 that just panders to the lowest common denominator. You know who we're going to pander to?
00:35:32 the people who expect the truth. So when we're wrong, we're wrong. When we're right, we're right.
00:35:37 It is what it is. I'll give I'll give I'll give a big we'll make a point here.
00:35:43 Charlie Kirk assassination. Tyler Robinson's defense is not even arguing he's he's innocent.
00:35:49 They're arguing he shouldn't get the death penalty. Their defense is not that he didn't
00:35:53 kill Charlie. Their defense is that it should be a lesser lesser charge. He's not guilty of these
00:35:59 things, they should drop these charges because they don't apply. That's the argument. So where
00:36:03 are all these people who are like, there's no way the 30 at six, the exploding microphone,
00:36:07 the paving of, I thought, I thought they were saying Tyler Robinson was a pet seat because
00:36:11 they're lying, man. Guys, I am not on good terms. I'm not going to say I'm on bad terms,
00:36:19 the TPUSA guys, but we had a falling out because I called them out. I said, I don't, you know,
00:36:25 they got mad at me for.
00:36:26 They got to hurt their ego.
00:36:27 Fine.
00:36:28 Jack Posobiec is always a good friend.
00:36:31 And he's sort of,
00:36:32 we had a falling out.
00:36:33 Jack said, guys, figure it out.
00:36:36 And so I'm just neutral with TPUSA.
00:36:39 I'm not a big fan of how they've done things.
00:36:40 It is what it is.
00:36:42 But I'm not going to play games.
00:36:45 You know?
00:36:48 That's the nature of media.
00:36:50 And I'll tell you,
00:36:51 these big media companies,
00:36:53 I know what they're going to say to me.
00:36:54 they're going to say, Tim, this is what the audience wants. But let me tell you a story
00:37:00 about who I am. I worked for Vice. There's a really great article on Mitchell Jackson about
00:37:05 Vice and what happened to it. I recommend you check it out. And Shane was interested in following
00:37:12 the trends. During the Vice period, we had a few things happen. Joe Rogan was doing his show,
00:37:17 his Ustream show at the time, the godfather of podcasting. I know he's not the one who invented
00:37:22 it, but he made podcasting the thing. Great shows, interesting, crazy, and just really fun to listen
00:37:28 to. At the same time, Vice was edgy. He had Barstool, edgy as well. Outkick. Of these players,
00:37:37 Shane said, we're going to get the investment from the corporations and we're going to do what they
00:37:40 want. And what did the corporations say? Woke. And so he wanted to be Team Vogue. He didn't like it
00:37:46 that other people were getting recognition. But guess what? While Joe Rogan certainly wasn't any
00:37:51 big networks. Barstool was a magazine being handed out in a new website, and Outkick was telling
00:37:55 everyone to go shove it. Vice decided to play the game of pandering to the machine, saying whatever
00:38:02 needed to be said, what he was told to say. Where are they now? Bankrupt and gone. Sad, really.
00:38:09 Meanwhile, Joe Rogan's pulling in 80 million a year. Barstool sold for half a billion,
00:38:14 and then he bought it back for a buck, outkick, sold the Fox, play Travis, and I'm not sure whoever
00:38:21 else, but they get paid. It may be the case that viewership declines because you refuse to play
00:38:28 that game. All the money and coming out and just saying Israel and the deep state and, you know,
00:38:33 whatever, and play the game that Tucker's playing. He's making money, you know, good for him. And
00:38:38 maybe he's smart enough, and I think he is, to navigate through this. Look at the game he's
00:38:41 playing. When it was popular to say on the right that Hunter Biden was a bad dude, he said it.
00:38:48 Now that the target is Israel, sorry, Hunter, Israel made me do it. Hunter's all right. 0.99
00:38:53 Sure. Sure thing, buddy. I'm not going to play these games. I think we'll always just be a
00:39:01 middling podcast. I don't get me wrong. We are one of the biggest podcasts in the world. It's
00:39:04 not like we're in the top 200 globally, which is just crazy to see. Shout out to Bill Maher.
00:39:09 at the end of last year, we beat Bill Maher by one ranking on podcasting, which is pretty dang
00:39:15 nuts. I think the audience that Timcast will always have are people who don't completely agree,
00:39:20 but are looking for an honest assessment, something that they can parse through and say,
00:39:24 I think Tim's wrong, but he's not lying to me. I can't say the same for people like Candace or
00:39:31 Tucker, but hey, they're rich. Part of me thinks back, you know what? Maybe at the height of the
00:39:38 viewership and the big explosion during COVID, take all that money, invest in nothing, put it in
00:39:43 the S&P and some high-yield savings, and just live off the interest. That's boring, though.
00:39:49 You know? Nah, we're here to do stuff. We're here to have a mission. It is pretty wild.
00:39:54 I'm 40. You know? Halfway to 41. Part of me is just like the young guys. You guys got to start
00:40:04 picking up the slack. In 10 years, we're going to be passing that off to y'all. You know what I mean?
00:40:10 There's not that many young people. Gen Alpha is pretty small. And so we'll see how it plays out.
00:40:15 I'll just tell you what we'll always do. And I guess why I'm saying all this is because I see
00:40:19 this thing about Ben Shapiro. Ben Shapiro is who Ben Shapiro is. And the respect that I can give
00:40:24 Ben is that he's in the same spot he's always been. Yeah, he advocated for masks and vaccines
00:40:30 early on. They pushed back later and rejected the mandates. He's always been, I guess, kind of like
00:40:35 a neocon. At least he's not lying about who he is. But you know what I will say to all of you guys?
00:40:41 YouTube numbers may be down for everybody, but if that's the only world you live in,
00:40:45 you're missing the big picture. You know, across the board on all platforms, our subscribers are
00:40:49 up. Our website is up. Our views are actually up. Don't get me wrong. During COVID, it was crazy.
00:40:55 I was getting 120 million views per month. And yet these liberals being like, why won't anyone
00:40:59 talk about Tim Pool. He's the biggest conservative podcaster. Pretty crazy. And I was like, I don't
00:41:05 know. And, you know, we didn't do ad reads. We didn't do website stuff. It was just an insane
00:41:09 amount of money from YouTube alone. That's crazy. These days, we're still pretty big, but we're not
00:41:16 the biggest. And, you know, it is what it is. But we've built up our viewership comparably in other
00:41:23 areas. So our shorts are way up. We don't do them on YouTube the same because it's not really worth
00:41:26 it. But Instagram, TikTok, we've got a bunch of plans and we're just tracking general growth
00:41:30 across the board. The subscriber of the website is really the biggest thing. We're trying to
00:41:35 figure out right now this big new investment in D.C. We want to kind of just like reassess our
00:41:40 investments. Companies is all the time. We want to make sure that we're spending our money as
00:41:43 efficiently as possible. So we make a lot of money here and it's thanks to you guys as members. It's
00:41:48 thanks to our sponsors and everybody that we've done. The midterms are coming up. Politics will
00:41:52 be changing. We're always going to be who we are and where we are, and we'll see where the dust
00:41:57 settles. Right now, it's fairly chaotic. The left is fighting amongst itself. The right is fighting
00:42:01 amongst itself. Both sides are fighting each other, and we don't know where the dust will settle,
00:42:04 but maybe a realignment. There may be a new left. Tucker might find himself—I mean, look,
00:42:09 Candace Owens and Anna Kasparian, they like each other. Their issue is Israel. Tucker Carlson is 0.74
00:42:15 positioning himself on the left. I hope you guys realize that. He's arguing that this is not
00:42:22 capitalism. It's not free market. Food shouldn't be so expensive. Israel is a problem. He is going
00:42:27 to find himself aligned with the young Turks. I'd argue they already is. When the dust settles up 0.99
00:42:33 to the midterms, I would say you should not be shocked if it turns out that Tucker Carlson
00:42:38 becomes a Democrat. And many people say it's not possible. It won't happen. You're wrong.
00:42:42 When the Democrats oust the, you know, whoever wins on the Democrat side, be it moderate or left.
00:42:48 What is Tucker arguing for right now? Hunter Biden, I'm sorry, Israel made me do it. I'm 0.79
00:42:54 sorry I supported Trump. I was wrong. Prices should be brought down. America, there is going
00:43:01 to be a new left and right. I'm not interested in being left or right. I'm interested in being
00:43:06 where truth lies. So we'll see. I'm going to wrap it up there, my friends. I hope you had fun on
00:43:11 this one it's uh it's it's it's kind of crazy i've had this uh this feeling over the past several
00:43:18 months as many of you know like you know shane cashman uh has has departed from the company
00:43:22 and uh you know i told him it's it's it's the end the dream is over right it's the end of an era
00:43:28 i was like it's sad it's i'm welling up right we had this period at the cast castle we're goofing
00:43:33 off we're skating we're in our 30s but we're acting like kids to a certain extent not not
00:43:37 shane like you know he's had a family and he's worked hard all the time i'm just saying like
00:43:40 We made all this money. We did Chicken City. It was just one big let's go. Let's have fun.
00:43:46 But now we're all getting older and something new is going to happen. There's going to be a new
00:43:50 system in place. And I hope that the result is that this civil war, cold civil war, whatever,
00:43:55 abates. And that may happen because of the likes of Tucker and Candace and whoever else.
00:44:01 And then something new will happen and things will be different. It's just change. And it's
00:44:07 sad to see that era go. The cast castle jokes, MTG plays MTG. But does it mean it's over? It just
00:44:14 means it's going to be different. I don't know what we're going to do here because as we're in
00:44:19 DC, things are getting a bit more serious. The caliber of our guests that we're getting requests
00:44:24 on, it's pretty dang crazy. What you guys don't understand is that it's summer. And so we're
00:44:29 largely holding off for a lot of big guests. Senators, celebrities, people are reaching out
00:44:34 We're like, guys, we should wait until we're in D.C.
00:44:36 It's going to be about a month and a half, about a month, month and a half.
00:44:39 We will be in D.C. at the new TV quality, high level production studio.
00:44:44 And it's kind of crazy to think.
00:44:47 You know, weird places, but it's just change.
00:44:52 We'll see how things play out.
00:44:54 We'll see how they play out.
00:44:56 Look, I've always just been a fairly middle of the road guy and the dust is kind of settling.
00:45:00 People are pissed at Trump for a variety of reasons.
00:45:02 I'm never going to come out and play these games where, oh, Trump is bad or Trump is always good.
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