Violent Mob BEATS DOWN Innocent Civilians, Social Fabric Of America Is TORN APART ft. Wade Stotts
Summary
A woman was brutally attacked by a mob at a music festival in Cincinnati, Ohio on Saturday morning. The incident was caught on video, and has since gone viral. On today's show, we talk about what happened, why it happened, and what we can learn from it. We also have a special guest, Wade Stotts of The Wade Show with Wade Stotsky.
Transcript
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There's a reason that people might get annoyed and say, oh, these Trump people are or the right wing right now is really focused on immigration and think that it's some kind of monomania.
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But yeah, a lot of these downstream consequences are things that people just take for granted as, OK, well, I guess things have to get worse in this way.
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It is amazing, actually, how many different things taking care of our immigration problem would solve.
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Obviously, I'm not Tim Pool. I don't know what Matan did to him, but he's he's out today.
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So he looked to the bench. He called me up. I answered the call. I'm here.
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If you don't know me, I'm producer Tate, Tate Brown, producer here at TimCast.
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Pop on the shows every once in a while, but we're holding it down today.
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I see you. I see you. You're hovering over the X button. You're not giving me a chance.
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That's not right. That's not cool. You got to let me cook a little bit.
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I don't know if you guys saw this story. Cincinnati, there's this guy running around like a GTA server.
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He was just like decking random people. It was unbelievable stuff.
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If Elon's on it, zero stories. It's true. There's nothing out there except for the post-millennial.
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They had a great story. Brutal mob attack in Cincinnati.
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So I wanted to bring in Wade to talk about this.
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You guys have probably seen this story, so I can set it up real quick.
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They're investigating a violent assault in the city's downtown area early Saturday morning
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where a man and a woman were attacked by a group, leaving the woman unconscious.
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The incident captured in a disturbing video. It's gone viral.
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This is happening over and over and over again.
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And Americans are really starting to get a little fed up with this
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because it's like nothing ever really happens. There's no reaction.
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He's probably got the correct take. He tends to have the correct take.
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Yeah, before we get situated, do you want to give people a quick intro,
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Wade Stotts on X. I do the Wade Show with Wade.
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That's a weekly monologue sort of thing where I pick out something in the news
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and try to summarize it, try to do it in an entertaining way.
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It's all over the place. You're seeing a mob just running through the town,
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whooping up on people that were otherwise minding their business.
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I mean, sometimes you see these videos and there's this pretense
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where there was like a disagreement or a fight.
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By all accounts, this looks like it was just an indiscriminate attack.
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Yeah, anytime you see these videos, my news brain tries to immediately try to figure out
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So we've seen, as a guy who's followed the news for years, we have seen violent altercations.
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We've seen arguments at sports games and tried to figure out, okay,
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what could have happened before this that would have made this make some sense or more sense?
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And the reason that this one has held on as hard as it has, yes, because of the lack of coverage,
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but also because it's really hard to imagine anything that, obviously nothing can make it make sense.
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Nothing could ever make this turn out to be good.
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But even to justify this kind of behavior or this kind of attack on these people,
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I think that one of the things that is so striking about this is that it's not just that people are
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watching this going, what happened in this particular scenario?
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What they're wondering is they're watching this going, trying to make a calculation,
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trying to think, okay, so if I go to the Cincinnati Jazz Festival,
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and let's say what happened was it sounded like there was some loud music playing,
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and let's say somebody said, hey, turn down that music.
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If that kind of altercates, you say the wrong thing, something gets up on the wrong foot,
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That's why they want to know, okay, am I going to get beaten or am I going to get filmed while beaten?
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It makes sense that people are going to wonder those things,
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especially because, again, it was treated in such a way that everybody standing around
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just thought it was some kind of show that they were there to watch.
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And so it's not just people want to know the details or people want to figure out,
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it's not just a voyeuristic, I want to know what happened,
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but it's also people wanting to know what can I do?
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If I want to take my wife to a jazz festival, is that going to be a bridge too far?
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Even if I say the wrong thing or if I drink too much and there's an altercation like that,
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is it going to maybe end my life in that sort of scenario?
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As you were talking in the opening, there's enough of a social trust problem in America
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without dumping all these illegal immigrants going on and immigrants generally coming in.
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And what people are trying to, again, calculate is how much can I count on?
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Okay, so this stuff can happen at the margins, right?
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So somebody can fly off the handle, knock somebody out, punch somebody.
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As long as there's a relatively healthy culture around that ugliness,
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But if you can't count on that, if you can't count on bystanders thinking,
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hey, this is now my responsibility to jump in, then yeah, it's an ugly thing.
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So I think that's why people are focused so much on this
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and why people are, again, trying to find the logic.
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If not find the logic, then find what are my responsibilities after seeing this.
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Right. I mean, that's what kind of stuck out to me.
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It kind of encapsulates this feeling that a lot of Americans have,
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which is the streets are completely populated with a lot of people that have nothing to lose.
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And like you were hitting on, the social trust is in the basement right now.
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And there's also, it's unfortunate this is the case,
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but there is this racial element to it as well,
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where it's a group of black people assaulting white couples and families.
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That's always going to obviously animate the issue as well.
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What is the, I mean, I was covering earlier in the story,
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we have the immigration is totally out of control.
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And Stephen Miller, Patriot, he's stifling the flow.
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And then you have this trade deal that Trump's trying to reel in.
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He's trying to, you know, people have been cooking the books for a long time.
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So Trump's actually addressing these issues on trade, but we're making progress.
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But stuff like this, I don't really know how you fix at a federal level.
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Or are we just going to descend into Brazil or South Africa?
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Well, the good thing is that the local police have at least commented on this
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and said that it's a bad thing that it happened.
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There's nobody in the administration or like local administration or anything like that,
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or even the statewide people, none of them have said,
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actually, this was a brave thing that happened or a good thing.
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Or everybody seems to be taking the right side, at least on the official capacity.
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And I think that that means that there's, I don't know,
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it would be really bad if we were in a situation where everybody just automatically
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took the side of who they thought was, you know, like racially the problem or whatever,
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So, yeah, I don't know if there is a political solution on this stuff.
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And there's, I mean, Russell Kirk said that men, like Rome, descended as Romans descended.
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So like there's, there's this personal capacity to all of this is the social trust
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that drives the political direction and drives a lot of the, um, the, you know,
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whether something can hold together as a people and, and you can't ignore the racial element.
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I think that would be, um, you know, I think that part of it is also that you have to wonder,
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Am I going to encounter people there who think it's okay to beat me for some,
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for a reason that doesn't have to do with a, uh, so let's say I have an altercation
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and somebody thinks it's okay to go above and beyond just, uh, like, okay,
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let's say I deserve to get my lights knocked out.
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Somebody, somebody punches me, uh, and the, and I deserved it.
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Um, if somebody goes above and beyond what I deserve, then yeah, again, I have to,
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you know, think, okay, what's going on in their head?
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Um, like, like I said, I don't want to do anything.
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I don't want to say anything that necessarily like would preclude me from serving on a jury,
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especially when this kind of thing just blows up and, and shows up in my face.
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But again, it's, it's, uh, it's hard not to see all these angles and try to, again,
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get to the bottom of it so that I can adjust my own behavior.
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Like you said, it's hard to ignore this element.
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Well, the other side's maliciously ignoring it.
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There was the, it was the deputy mayor came out and they're like, Oh, it was a altercation
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And you're sitting there like, I'm watching, like I said earlier, it's literally a GTA server
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come to life where some guy's just going around probably as, I don't even know if he had a
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Maybe a cheat's enabled because I didn't see any police.
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And I'm sitting there and I'm like, okay, it is true that the police are addressing it,
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But I don't want to live in a country where there has to be police everywhere at all times
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for me to like safely navigate, you know, downtown Cincinnati.
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We're not talking about like, you know, Baltimore or something.
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And if you're a young person, you're seeing this, you're seeing your downtown's off limits.
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Is the social trust, the immigration, especially the illegal immigration, is just dumping gasoline
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I was talking earlier about the housing market crunch.
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And we're thinking if we can deport however many illegal immigrants that are here, the
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If we can free up that housing stock, I mean, do you think that people need to maybe feel
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a bit more like they have more skin in the game?
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Do you think that would have maybe improved things from a social trust perspective?
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I mean, there's really, there's a reason that people kind of might get annoyed and say,
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oh, these Trump people are, or the right wing right now is really focused on immigration
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But yeah, a lot of these downstream consequences are things that people just take for granted
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as, okay, well, I guess things have to get worse in this way.
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Um, it is amazing actually how many different things taking care of our immigration problem
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So yes, I think, I think like social trust would go a long way there.
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Um, but, and, and also like, uh, slowing down immigration, slowing down legal immigration,
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I think that there's a certain level of, I don't know who my neighbor is, right?
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I don't know what, what is going on in their heads.
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I don't know how to calculate whether, again, if I get in a bad situation, whether somebody's
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going to help me out or if they're going to pile on, which, I mean, I, I, I glanced past
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this earlier, but again, if you, if you watch this guy filming the, uh, this altercation
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between two adults, uh, the guy who's filming is yelling, oh, oh, oh.
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And he does that for like three minutes straight.
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And, and only at one point, I think, uh, to maybe make sure that his audience doesn't
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He says, help her up, but it's after this woman's laying on the ground unconscious.
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And so I go, okay, well, um, every, like I've, we watched the movie Nightcrawler, right?
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And so we watched Nightcrawler and we get disgusted at this kind of sleazy guy who tries
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But if that's everybody, or if that's at least like a large percentage of people who
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are going to be like treating their phones as their personal Nightcrawler machine and
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putting their, putting stuff on their, on their, like hoping they blow up because they
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got to witness somebody being beaten half to death, then yeah, again, that's, that's
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something that I, I like, that's not a housing problem.
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Um, and I think that that, you know, so there are elements of this social trust that can be,
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Uh, but yeah, there's a really ugly, um, again, but that's, that's just jumping in on top of
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a really ugly social trust problem that already exists.
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Um, so I, I, I don't, I don't, again, I don't think that that's necessarily a political thing
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or a political solution, but we can at least stop pouring gasoline on it.
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I mean, that's, that's kind of the thing we're seeing with the, the world starification of
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fight documentation where it's just like, they're trying to develop a personal brand
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around someone, you know, getting beaten half to death.
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It was, that was the saddest part of the video was that no one seemed to want to intervene.
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I don't know if it was fear or if it was just a lack of empathy.
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I used to live in, uh, Queens, Queens, New York.
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And this is praised routinely by all the, uh, all the civic civic leaders.
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You can like, you can have an Arepa and then have like Chinese food on the same day.
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It's just that they only talk about the food really when it comes to diversity.
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They don't really talk about the downstream effects because the downstream effect is like
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Not only do you not know your neighbor, you don't know like how they evaluate the world.
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I mean, you don't know much about their culture and the city, the, the, the borough at least
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And it's like, it's created this situation where no one speaks to each other because this
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I actually find that native New Yorkers are quite pleasant, but there is this, uh, general
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feeling of, um, just disdain for strangers because you just don't know anything about them.
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You don't know if they're going to stab you or, or what, and you don't know if anybody's
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And I suspect, I think a large reason is because you don't even know if the person speaks English,
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let alone, let alone if they're on the same page, um, you know, ethically.
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So, um, yeah, I mean, that, that's kind of, that's kind of the thing for me is like, like
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you said, there's, it's like, why are, why is the GOP hammering so hard on immigration?
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And I'm like, cause these cities, you saw Los Angeles.
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I mean, the deportations haven't really even gotten to these insane numbers that we're expecting
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and people are already coming unglued there and rioting and flying foreign flags.
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And, uh, and I, I don't see how we're going to get out of that.
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I mean, Trump just has to keep the foot on the gas and, and, uh, yeah, I don't know.
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Um, yeah, well, and I think part of the tragedy of it is that we had it and we lost it.
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So in any place where there has been a social trust that's eroded, then we're mourning it
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So we, we only notice it because we had it before.
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I mean, the, the whole, um, sort of, uh, what's the, the sort of boxes where people will
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like set out their fruit or set out whatever potatoes that they're growing honesty boxes.
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So like the fact that honesty boxes have existed and have had to be taken down and some people
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are still like, are trying to put some up to try to again, test out, Hey, if this works
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out, then we can make more money and I don't have to hire somebody who just runs this stand
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Um, then everybody can kind of function in a better way.
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The fact that that can still exist in part of our country is really great.
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Um, but the fact that broadly that stuff starts to go away, that's, that's the, the tragedy
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that Americans are seeing it's, it's, uh, there are some people who wouldn't notice it because
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they've never lived in a place that was like that, that, that had any kind of social trust.
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Um, and again, like New Yorkers, I think probably have a few more barriers than, uh, sort of,
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you know, me growing up in Northeast Arkansas, but I think that's, again, there's, there are
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Um, I mean, uh, Carl Benjamin talked about when he visited, uh, from the UK and visited
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West Virginia and he realized as he was talking to people, as he was interacting, that he had
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way more of a guard up than he should have and was actually being rude to people.
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I know what I'm supposed to do, but he realizes that as social trust has eroded around him
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within his lifetime, that he was treating people in a way that he would never treat them normally.
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And he wished that he, he wished that he could go back and be more open.
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He's, he sees himself as an open guy who has slowly had to kind of put walls up around
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I think that that's, that's a sad thing to see.
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And I think that, uh, Carl sees that, but also we, we don't want that here.
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Uh, but I'd like to be able to preserve that for people to not have to have their guard up
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again, going to a jazz festival, just going downtown, um, taking their wife out for a dinner.
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Um, it's, it's, it's something that I think we can, you know, again, if, as people are committing
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Um, and I think that as if there's an attitude like that at the top, uh, again, fixing things
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If there's an attitude like that at the top, I think it gives permission for local officials
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to act in that same way and know that they're not going to get a mob after them.
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You are seeing like, um, orange County, California, like they are able to start cracking down
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I think, yeah, like the primary reason for that is because they feel like the boots off their
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neck from the federal, from the federal government.
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So that's going to pay dividends because yeah, you go, you go to these cities and you
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go to like Walgreens and you got to like get on your knees and beg for a stick of deodorant
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Like it's, I mean, it's the most ridiculous thing ever.
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And then the people will come up, these shoplifters, they come up with their garbage bag and they
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ring the bell and the guy will come unlock and give them the deodorant.
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So it's like, it's only punishing people that are actually just trying to shop the shop.
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And then the craziest thing is the shoplifters still stink.
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So it's like, they're not even using the deodorant.
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I don't, I don't know what the thing, but I'm selling it out of their car.
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You can get a roll on for a, for a good price, but yeah.
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So anyway, I mean, enough about the speed sticks.
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One thing I'm noticing is it's coming along where you're seeing Gen Z really becoming adults
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We're lacking a lot of conventional social skills that previous generations had.
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And this is a huge topic that's going to be tough to cover in what, what, 15 minutes.
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But I do think there's, we're very neurotic Zoomers.
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This does stem from the fact that you don't know who your neighbors are.
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You don't know who's like your elected officials are.
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There's the low trust society has completely one-shotted Zoomers.
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Because boomers are still generally pretty trusting of, of the general public.
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And then this kind of descent, this, this quality kind of disappears to go down generations.
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Where I think Gen Z is the first generation where this is completely gone, where they're
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just neurotic, distrustful, honestly, rightfully so as well.
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What do you think, what changes do you think we're going to see as, as this generation
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Yeah, I think another big piece of this before I talk about the changes going forward is the
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fact that two years at least of a lot of people's lives got taken away.
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And so the closer to the formation of your personality that 2020 and 2021 and 2022 was,
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So if you were planning, if your graduation, let's say your, your like high school graduation
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got shut down because of this and all of your, your scholarship opportunities got ruined
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That's, that automatically puts a huge lack of social trust in you and goes, okay, well,
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everything I'm prepared for, everything that somebody told me was going to be my ticket
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Um, and not that, not that zoomers needed any help, uh, with that, because again, like I
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think that broadly millennials trusted the, the, uh, promises of the boomers that the boomers
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thought that there were like, okay, now we have, uh, attained, like, this is the end of
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This is the way that the world is going to work forever.
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Millennials kind of believe those promises and Gen Z hasn't believed those promises at the
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Uh, but starting out from cynicism, yeah, it's, it's a really ugly thing and I don't
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see, uh, I think, I think that there will be studies a hundred years from now on the COVID
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kids and all the people who, uh, and that's, you know, Gen Z onto Gen alpha, um, and where
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people were when that broke up their ability to speak or be able to see somebody, see somebody's
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mouth move when they're speaking, when people's faces are covered constantly, social interaction
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Um, but there's, there was a broad culture growing up as a millennial, uh, there's a
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broad culture of going out, seeing people doing things and like concert venues have been
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Again, people talk about ticket master prices going up.
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Also, there's a huge piece of that, that is that nobody really wants to go to concerts
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anymore, except for the Uber wealthy or the people who can afford, uh, like paying these
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Um, it's, it is, there's a, there's a really strange and like, okay, well, if, if my, um,
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dopamine hits are from a crowd, I at least know what it feels like to go and be a part
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of a crowd and have a good time, be at a 4th of July parade and let it go.
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Um, and somebody doesn't know that that's its own kind of rush and its own kind of excitement.
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Then introducing that is saying you have to get past a lot of discomfort to be able to
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do something that, um, again, Americans have seen as normal for a long time.
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Um, so I, I don't think, I think that part of that is going to be, uh, people just taking
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But broadly, as far as a pattern goes, I don't see that going really anywhere.
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Um, I, there's, there's, uh, I, I, it's going to be really ugly when people are having to,
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uh, have relationships with people when their first relationship or their second relationship,
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or when was with an AI or, or if they've had some kind of back and forth discussions with,
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And again, people, there are people who are trying to do it right.
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Uh, but they're, they're also, they're fighting a huge, uh, uphill battle.
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And I, I, I feel for that, but I think, you know, again, there, we, we both think that Trump
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is going to do good things that will have a positive impact on that.
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Um, but it, it can't, it's, it's the kind of thing that can't just be from the top to make
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it a comfortable environment for that to happen, uh, taking responsibility and going, Hey,
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again, this, this sounds like a bootstrap sort of thing.
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Uh, but going like, Hey, I, I also have to meet the standard now.
00:22:23.360
So it's not like, you know, nobody's going to have to, nobody's going to come chase me.
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Like Trump, isn't going to walk over and hand me the deed to a house there.
00:22:30.240
There's, there's some thing that I've got to do as well.
00:22:33.020
So I'm all for everything that can be done at a, at a federal level, at a government level.
00:22:37.160
Um, the, the cultural problems, yeah, Gen Z has been treated extremely poorly.
00:22:41.880
Uh, but I hope that as they're aging in to adulthood and trying to make those first few
00:22:48.120
big steps, um, that yes, they have a comfortable environment for that, but also that they see,
00:22:53.060
all right, no matter what, this is going to be a, a, a huge, uh, challenge and, and see
00:23:02.040
I mean, I am finally starting to see some signs of life from zoomers.
00:23:06.380
Like, uh, I mean, my freshman year of college was when COVID hit.
00:23:09.660
So the time of my life when I guess matriculation should have occurred was virtually, it was
00:23:15.920
with masks on if I was lucky, but typically it was virtually.
00:23:18.820
So it was like everyone from that, my, that from my age and younger has been this general
00:23:25.600
So there was, um, there was, I think it was Gallup had the polling.
00:23:27.820
Uh, there was actually like two Gen Zs is the 24 and up.
00:23:31.480
So my age and older, and then my age and younger, those two generations.
00:23:34.400
And you see it politically where the, the, the zoomers that are like born basically before
00:23:38.400
2000, uh, they're actually kind of in line with millennials, politically speaking with
00:23:45.180
And then the zoomers that were born after 2000 are to the right of Genghis Khan or to
00:23:53.000
And, and, and it's like you said, I think it's that cynicism that, that came into play during
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COVID where it's like, okay, I don't know where I am politically.
00:23:59.820
I just know whatever this is needs to be destroyed.
00:24:02.560
And unfortunately a lot of people are running to the left as well to, to address that, that
00:24:07.300
Um, but yeah, it does freak me out, but it is, I'm starting to see some signs of life.
00:24:10.740
Uh, like in my friend circles, at least, I mean, I come from a religious, uh, religious
00:24:15.880
So there's a lot of Southern Baptists, but they're getting married.
00:24:20.260
There are some signs of life, but it's, and it's anecdotes.
00:24:23.540
If you look at the general numbers, things aren't looking too hot.
00:24:27.120
Um, there's a lot of, there's a lot of struggle.
00:24:29.780
Um, it's, it's this interesting thing when the baby boomers die off, right?
00:24:34.100
Because you're seeing like stories of how there's a power plant, you know, there's a
00:24:37.440
power plant somewhere and it's being propped up almost entirely by like three baby boomers.
00:24:41.820
So the baby boomers get a lot of flack for a lot of things.
00:24:44.120
And, you know, a lot of it's pretty fair, but one thing that does need to be said is what's
00:24:48.140
going to happen when they die to a lot of these institutions that are like solely propped
00:24:51.500
up by baby boomers, it's a really, really horrifying thought.
00:24:54.960
I mean, I don't know if you've thought about this much.
00:24:58.260
The, the boomer succession problem is a big deal.
00:25:00.660
And I think that that's, I mean, I saw a chart the other day that was like the percentage
00:25:04.640
of congressmen or Congress human beings who are above the age of 70 has just skyrocketed.
00:25:11.180
And like, we've, we're seeing something that again, people aren't getting these
00:25:17.600
I mean, you look at, even on our side, you see, well, you've got Trump who is a boomer
00:25:24.620
You got, um, you got JD Vance, or at least like, that's how people see him as a successor.
00:25:32.620
There are a whole generation, like the gen X at some level got skipped in terms of being
00:25:36.920
able to pass things down and so when, when the boomer generation is having to pass things
00:25:42.020
down, broadly speaking, uh, it's, it's skipping a generation and it's only happening when it
00:25:46.960
has to, uh, which I think is, is not good for gen X and not good for the millennials who
00:25:51.780
end up just getting handed this stuff maybe before they're ready.
00:25:55.040
I mean, I like, I hope that, uh, you know, like I love JD Vance.
00:25:58.500
I, I, I, I'll, you know, sign on for whatever he has coming up, but the, um, the fact that
00:26:04.480
that leadership has had to skip a generation is, uh, is not a good thing.
00:26:08.880
Uh, but I, my hope is again, that all these people will get on board and recognize, Hey,
00:26:17.300
That the cynical generations, that's the generation that gets skipped for power.
00:26:20.860
So gen X being the cynical generation doesn't, doesn't get a president at least as far as
00:26:26.260
Um, so yeah, it's, it's, it's a problem generally, but there are places where it's happening.
00:26:30.380
Um, and again, I'm going to, I'm also in a, in a religious community and the, the passing
00:26:36.120
down of passing of the torch is happening at a, at a different rate and in a different
00:26:41.240
Um, because people recognize again, like the, these, the people coming after have to be
00:26:46.400
Um, so yeah, I, I don't, I don't see, um, I don't see a broad solution to that, uh, other
00:26:53.240
People who have these institutions being able to pass down before they have to, before they're
00:26:57.080
forced to, um, is, is something that can be done and, but it's difficult.
00:27:04.000
If you've done something that you're proud of, if you've done something that you think
00:27:06.520
is really great, being able to hand that off to anybody, uh, is, is a daunting task.
00:27:11.380
And so broadly the general, the boomer generation didn't do that.
00:27:14.960
Um, but my hope is that we can get better at that because we're going to be in a way better
00:27:23.000
I mean, Gen X really got shafted cause like, well, that's kind of, that's kind of their
00:27:27.440
Cause every song they wrote like in the eighties and nineties was about like fighting and partying
00:27:33.420
Maybe you should have fought for your right for like election, like the, you know, elections.
00:27:37.320
I'm spitballing, but, um, yeah, it's really, really sad stuff.
00:27:40.260
They're just really into Nickelback and like Corvettes and stuff.
00:27:49.600
The, the boomer thing that the generational, uh, passing of the torch, it's really scary
00:27:54.560
Imagining zoomers, uh, being in charge of these things.
00:27:58.240
Well, being a millennial, I'm also, I'm scared of millennials getting in charge of this stuff.
00:28:02.260
I mean, if I don't, we're going to be like Star Wars.
00:28:15.760
Vance is remembered as our guy, you know, like the, the head of the millennials,
00:28:22.320
Millennials, they kind of get a hard, they get a hard time, but there's some pretty,
00:28:35.900
Like you are seeing anecdotally in some of these circles that things are, that are moving
00:28:40.000
as you would expect them to like, you know, over the grand course of history.
00:28:43.480
And Tim actually talks about this a lot is this will actually play into the hands of
00:28:47.560
the birth rate dropping will actually play into the hands of conservatives because they're
00:28:50.340
the ones that are having children and, you know, raising these children up and they will
00:28:54.720
also be conservatives and Christians, presumably.
00:28:57.180
Uh, so I think there actually is a situation where we'll have some growing pains for like
00:28:59.880
20, 30 years, but they're right now they're infants.
00:29:02.860
They're in diapers, but the, the, the people right now that are under 10 years old, uh, it's
00:29:07.580
probably actually a pretty conservative generation.
00:29:09.380
Even with the waves of immigration, there's just, you're seeing these conservative families
00:29:13.220
and they're popping out kids like, you know, like Pez dispensers.
00:29:17.520
Um, well, and yeah, that's, that's the Dana white point where you talked about, like,
00:29:20.400
if, if you kids are going to be as, if you're at any level, a monster, if you're like competent
00:29:25.940
at anything, you're going to way outshine the sort of iPad kids and, uh, you're going to
00:29:32.040
Uh, if, yeah, if, if, if you have any, you know, capability, if you can speak in front
00:29:36.440
of people and if you can think through things clearly, you're, you're an alien, uh, to most
00:29:42.340
If you like, don't have an interest in buying a low boo boo, or I guess in your case, a Funko
00:29:46.740
pop, then like, you probably have a decent chance of being in the next admin.
00:29:50.280
So, uh, that's a good, yeah, that's a good, it's a good, uh, yeah, yeah.
00:29:55.940
I kind of want to leave you with, with, with the, with the Trump agenda, people are starting
00:30:03.160
Um, how are you, how are you feeling with Trump?
00:30:05.720
Do you have any, do you have any serious gripes?
00:30:07.340
I mean, do you have an, what's your, what's your general assessment so far?
00:30:13.420
I think that the, uh, I think the rollout was not as good as it could have been again,
00:30:19.240
Um, but I think that recognizing that the, uh, Russiagate thing is a bigger dragon, I think
00:30:28.140
So I think, like I said, the Epstein rollout, I think could have been improved.
00:30:32.620
Um, but I'm glad that if, if it's a deep state thing, if, if, if the question is, is Trump
00:30:40.720
Uh, something that the, uh, news that every single news organization was forced to talk
00:30:45.740
about for two years, at least, um, is something that we should also see as a big deal.
00:30:54.260
So I, uh, I recognize that, uh, there are things again that I would do differently, but that's,
00:30:59.820
that's me, I'm just a guy in a bunker in Idaho.
00:31:02.500
Um, but I think that, yeah, I, I'm extremely pleased.
00:31:07.180
I think that a lot of the, um, the, the fact that the left is as upset as they are is great.
00:31:14.060
And I think that Trump should just see that as a permission slip to do more, because if
00:31:18.680
they're going to give him 110%, every single, like if they do one deportation, then, Hey,
00:31:25.040
Um, so I also recognize, Hey, they're like, there's a huge jump going from zero deportations,
00:31:32.540
which is what we're seeing to going to thousands of deportations, which, uh, like, I, I think
00:31:40.460
Uh, a lot of my answers are going to be about immigration because that's, again, I see
00:31:43.440
that as a huge, having huge downstream consequences.
00:31:48.120
I think that as they stay, we talked about Stephen Miller, as they stay on that train, as
00:31:53.120
they stay on that, uh, thing, I think they're going to be okay.
00:31:56.300
There, there are plenty of there since January, since January 20th, there has been constant
00:32:02.020
prediction of the end of MAGA and the end of Trump and, Oh, it's finally time to end.
00:32:10.460
Um, and people said, Oh, the tariffs are going to blow up MAGA.
00:32:17.000
And I don't think that it's going to, uh, so I, I'm a much more of a plan truster this
00:32:21.340
time around than I was, uh, back in 2016, uh, and on, but, uh, I was a plan truster at
00:32:26.960
that point, but you know, I still have my doubts, but president Trump, uh, loyalty to
00:32:36.760
We gotta, we gotta wrap up here, but yeah, quick shout out to anything.
00:32:39.800
Well, uh, follow me on Wade's at Wade starts on X and, uh, yeah, we'll, we'll have a good
00:32:48.320
Alrighty, gents and gentle women's, uh, thanks for, uh, joining me on the Tim, Tim
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I think Russell Brand, I believe is, is up, up next.
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I probably should have done my homework on that.
00:33:08.940
We got a lot covered, hit a lot of, hit a lot of topics.
00:33:13.660
Um, we got some just MAGA Patriots all in chat.
00:33:17.180
I love looking at chat and just seeing all these Patriots.
00:33:19.260
So we're getting that, we're getting that raid ready to go.
00:33:30.680
So yeah, we're sending you over to Russell right now.
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It's kind of, it's kind of making me mad that he doesn't have like a million followers
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You can follow me on X and Instagram at real tape Brown.
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Hopefully we'll, Tim will be back for Tim cast IRL.