The Culture War - Tim Pool - Violent Mob BEATS DOWN Innocent Civilians, Social Fabric Of America Is TORN APART ft. Wade Stotts

00:00:00.120 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.

00:00:10.900 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.

00:00:18.480 It is amazing, actually, how many different things taking care of our immigration problem would solve.

00:00:24.040 Obviously, I'm not Tim Pool. I don't know what Matan did to him, but he's he's out today.

00:00:28.440 So he looked to the bench. He called me up. I answered the call. I'm here.

00:00:32.340 If you don't know me, I'm producer Tate, Tate Brown, producer here at TimCast.

00:00:36.460 Pop on the shows every once in a while, but we're holding it down today.

00:00:39.340 I see you. I see you. You're hovering over the X button. You're not giving me a chance.

00:00:43.040 That's not right. That's not cool. You got to let me cook a little bit.

00:00:46.500 I don't know if you guys saw this story. Cincinnati, there's this guy running around like a GTA server.

00:00:51.220 He was just like decking random people. It was unbelievable stuff.

00:00:55.780 If Elon's on it, zero stories. It's true. There's nothing out there except for the post-millennial.

00:01:00.620 They had a great story. Brutal mob attack in Cincinnati.

00:01:04.720 So I wanted to bring in Wade to talk about this.

00:01:06.900 You guys have probably seen this story, so I can set it up real quick.

00:01:08.980 They're investigating a violent assault in the city's downtown area early Saturday morning

00:01:12.720 where a man and a woman were attacked by a group, leaving the woman unconscious.

00:01:16.120 The incident captured in a disturbing video. It's gone viral.

00:01:19.100 I'll just show you a quick vid.

00:01:23.840 So they're just going around.

00:01:28.440 Just wailing on people for no reason.

00:01:31.880 This is happening over and over and over again.

00:01:34.260 And Americans are really starting to get a little fed up with this

00:01:36.940 because it's like nothing ever really happens. There's no reaction.

00:01:40.060 So, yeah, I want to bring in Wade.

00:01:43.520 He's probably got the correct take. He tends to have the correct take.

00:01:47.400 So, Wade, what's up? Can you hear me?

00:01:49.960 I can hear you, yes.

00:01:51.120 Okay, cool.

00:01:51.860 Good to be here. Thank you, Tate.

00:01:52.780 Yeah, before we get situated, do you want to give people a quick intro,

00:01:55.480 who you are, what you do?

00:01:57.080 Yeah, my name is Wade Stotts.

00:01:58.700 Wade Stotts on X. I do the Wade Show with Wade.

00:02:01.660 That's a weekly monologue sort of thing where I pick out something in the news

00:02:05.860 and try to summarize it, try to do it in an entertaining way.

00:02:09.080 I also do a podcast over on Canon Plus.

00:02:11.880 Cool.

00:02:12.320 That's my style.

00:02:12.900 Yeah, so we have this story out of Cincinnati.

00:02:15.060 It's all over the place. You're seeing a mob just running through the town,

00:02:19.700 whooping up on people that were otherwise minding their business.

00:02:22.700 I mean, sometimes you see these videos and there's this pretense

00:02:24.680 where there was like a disagreement or a fight.

00:02:26.340 By all accounts, this looks like it was just an indiscriminate attack.

00:02:30.120 I played the video, but I don't know.

00:02:31.900 What's your takeaway on this whole story?

00:02:34.460 Yeah, anytime you see these videos, my news brain tries to immediately try to figure out

00:02:41.060 the context, right?

00:02:41.880 So we've seen, as a guy who's followed the news for years, we have seen violent altercations.

00:02:46.520 We've seen arguments at sports games and tried to figure out, okay,

00:02:49.040 what could have happened before this that would have made this make some sense or more sense?

00:02:54.840 And the reason that this one has held on as hard as it has, yes, because of the lack of coverage,

00:03:01.580 but also because it's really hard to imagine anything that, obviously nothing can make it make sense.

00:03:08.480 It's not a good thing.

00:03:10.100 Nothing could ever make this turn out to be good.

00:03:12.280 But even to justify this kind of behavior or this kind of attack on these people,

00:03:18.820 I think that one of the things that is so striking about this is that it's not just that people are

00:03:23.780 watching this going, what happened in this particular scenario?

00:03:26.560 What they're wondering is they're watching this going, trying to make a calculation,

00:03:29.760 trying to think, okay, so if I go to the Cincinnati Jazz Festival,

00:03:33.460 and let's say what happened was it sounded like there was some loud music playing,

00:03:37.580 and let's say somebody said, hey, turn down that music.

00:03:40.960 We're at a music festival.

00:03:42.040 I'm trying to hear in here.

00:03:43.280 If that kind of altercates, you say the wrong thing, something gets up on the wrong foot,

00:03:47.700 people are trying to make the calculation.

00:03:49.200 That's why they want to know, okay, am I going to get beaten or am I going to get filmed while beaten?

00:03:54.480 It makes sense that people are going to wonder those things,

00:03:56.900 especially because, again, it was treated in such a way that everybody standing around

00:04:01.660 just thought it was some kind of show that they were there to watch.

00:04:05.480 And so it's not just people want to know the details or people want to figure out,

00:04:09.900 it's not just a voyeuristic, I want to know what happened,

00:04:14.100 but it's also people wanting to know what can I do?

00:04:16.580 How can I treat my family well?

00:04:18.840 If I want to take my wife to a jazz festival, is that going to be a bridge too far? 0.97

00:04:22.560 Even if I say the wrong thing or if I drink too much and there's an altercation like that,

00:04:27.680 is it going to maybe end my life in that sort of scenario?

00:04:31.100 As you were talking in the opening, there's enough of a social trust problem in America

00:04:36.920 without dumping all these illegal immigrants going on and immigrants generally coming in. 0.99

00:04:43.020 But the social trust thing is a real deal.

00:04:45.760 And what people are trying to, again, calculate is how much can I count on?

00:04:50.220 Okay, so this stuff can happen at the margins, right?

00:04:53.420 So somebody can fly off the handle, knock somebody out, punch somebody.

00:04:57.480 As long as there's a relatively healthy culture around that ugliness,

00:05:01.440 then people will jump in to help.

00:05:03.480 People will jump in to stop it, slow it down.

00:05:05.920 But if you can't count on that, if you can't count on bystanders thinking,

00:05:10.560 hey, this is now my responsibility to jump in, then yeah, it's an ugly thing.

00:05:15.380 So I think that's why people are focused so much on this

00:05:17.920 and why people are, again, trying to find the logic.

00:05:21.420 If not find the logic, then find what are my responsibilities after seeing this.

00:05:25.740 Right. I mean, that's what kind of stuck out to me.

00:05:28.980 It kind of encapsulates this feeling that a lot of Americans have,

00:05:32.420 which is the streets are completely populated with a lot of people that have nothing to lose.

00:05:38.100 And that's a very, very scary thing.

00:05:40.540 And like you were hitting on, the social trust is in the basement right now.

00:05:44.680 It's a total disaster.

00:05:46.640 And there's also, it's unfortunate this is the case,

00:05:49.220 but there is this racial element to it as well, 0.98

00:05:51.060 where it's a group of black people assaulting white couples and families. 0.84

00:05:56.280 That's always going to obviously animate the issue as well.

00:06:00.340 What is the, I mean, I was covering earlier in the story,

00:06:03.240 we have the immigration is totally out of control. 0.99

00:06:07.100 Trump's finally, you know, stifling it.

00:06:09.360 And Stephen Miller, Patriot, he's stifling the flow.

00:06:12.640 And then you have this trade deal that Trump's trying to reel in.

00:06:15.840 He's trying to, you know, people have been cooking the books for a long time.

00:06:19.740 So Trump's actually addressing these issues on trade, but we're making progress.

00:06:24.720 But stuff like this, I don't really know how you fix at a federal level.

00:06:28.460 It's a social trust issue, like you said.

00:06:31.280 I mean, what have you identified?

00:06:32.880 Is there a way out of this?

00:06:33.960 Or are we just going to descend into Brazil or South Africa?

00:06:37.880 Well, the good thing is that the local police have at least commented on this

00:06:41.520 and said that it's a bad thing that it happened.

00:06:44.260 There's nobody in the administration or like local administration or anything like that,

00:06:48.740 or even the statewide people, none of them have said,

00:06:52.080 actually, this was a brave thing that happened or a good thing.

00:06:55.360 Or everybody seems to be taking the right side, at least on the official capacity.

00:06:59.260 So that's good.

00:07:00.080 And I think that that means that there's, I don't know,

00:07:03.680 it would be really bad if we were in a situation where everybody just automatically

00:07:07.500 took the side of who they thought was, you know, like racially the problem or whatever,

00:07:13.380 especially in the government capacity.

00:07:16.520 So, yeah, I don't know if there is a political solution on this stuff.

00:07:20.020 Again, it's a social trust thing.

00:07:22.120 And there's, I mean, Russell Kirk said that men, like Rome, descended as Romans descended.

00:07:28.980 So like there's, there's this personal capacity to all of this is the social trust

00:07:33.120 that drives the political direction and drives a lot of the, um, the, you know,

00:07:37.860 whether something can hold together as a people and, and you can't ignore the racial element.

00:07:43.240 I think that would be, um, you know, I think that part of it is also that you have to wonder,

00:07:48.780 okay, so again, I'm making a calculation.

00:07:51.000 Can I go to this festival?

00:07:52.180 All right.

00:07:52.740 Am I going to encounter people there who think it's okay to beat me for some,

00:07:57.200 for a reason that doesn't have to do with a, uh, so let's say I have an altercation

00:08:01.380 and somebody thinks it's okay to go above and beyond just, uh, like, okay,

00:08:05.840 let's say I deserve to get my lights knocked out.

00:08:07.640 Right.

00:08:07.900 I've done, I've done a terrible thing.

00:08:09.520 Somebody, somebody punches me, uh, and the, and I deserved it. 0.98

00:08:13.080 Um, if somebody goes above and beyond what I deserve, then yeah, again, I have to,

00:08:18.000 you know, think, okay, what's going on in their head?

00:08:20.660 Why do they think that's okay?

00:08:22.180 Um, like, like I said, I don't want to do anything.

00:08:24.660 I don't want to say anything that necessarily like would preclude me from serving on a jury,

00:08:27.880 especially when this kind of thing just blows up and, and shows up in my face.

00:08:31.380 Sure.

00:08:31.560 But again, it's, it's, uh, it's hard not to see all these angles and try to, again,

00:08:37.060 get to the bottom of it so that I can adjust my own behavior.

00:08:40.200 Yeah.

00:08:40.920 Yeah.

00:08:41.160 I mean, that's, it's cool.

00:08:42.740 I mean, there is malicious ignorance.

00:08:44.780 Like you said, it's hard to ignore this element.

00:08:47.680 Well, the other side's maliciously ignoring it.

00:08:50.460 There was the, it was the deputy mayor came out and they're like, Oh, it was a altercation

00:08:54.880 between two adults.

00:08:55.820 That was the official line.

00:08:57.760 And you're sitting there like, I'm watching, like I said earlier, it's literally a GTA server

00:09:01.520 come to life where some guy's just going around probably as, I don't even know if he had a

00:09:04.580 five-star warning or, you know, wanted level.

00:09:06.600 I think he was just going at it.

00:09:07.960 I don't even know.

00:09:08.280 Maybe a cheat's enabled because I didn't see any police.

00:09:10.120 Grim, grim stuff.

00:09:13.300 And I'm sitting there and I'm like, okay, it is true that the police are addressing it,

00:09:16.420 this sort of thing.

00:09:16.900 But I don't want to live in a country where there has to be police everywhere at all times

00:09:21.920 for me to like safely navigate, you know, downtown Cincinnati.

00:09:25.120 I mean, it's Cincinnati.

00:09:26.760 We're not talking about like, you know, Baltimore or something.

00:09:29.740 Yeah.

00:09:30.460 So that's kind of the thing.

00:09:31.340 And if you're a young person, you're seeing this, you're seeing your downtown's off limits.

00:09:35.140 And then I was hitting on it earlier.

00:09:36.260 I wonder if you had any thoughts on this.

00:09:37.620 Is the social trust, the immigration, especially the illegal immigration, is just dumping gasoline 0.99

00:09:43.880 on the fire.

00:09:46.320 I was talking earlier about the housing market crunch.

00:09:48.580 And we're thinking if we can deport however many illegal immigrants that are here, the 1.00

00:09:52.540 estimate's like 14 million.

00:09:54.120 It's probably higher.

00:09:57.280 If we can free up that housing stock, I mean, do you think that people need to maybe feel

00:10:02.580 a bit more like they have more skin in the game?

00:10:04.740 Do you think that would have maybe improved things from a social trust perspective?

00:10:08.340 I think so.

00:10:09.300 I mean, there's really, there's a reason that people kind of might get annoyed and say,

00:10:14.820 oh, these Trump people are, or the right wing right now is really focused on immigration

00:10:20.000 and think that it's some kind of monomania.

00:10:22.640 But yeah, a lot of these downstream consequences are things that people just take for granted

00:10:26.640 as, okay, well, I guess things have to get worse in this way.

00:10:29.680 Um, it is amazing actually how many different things taking care of our immigration problem 0.99

00:10:34.780 would solve.

00:10:35.860 So yes, I think, I think like social trust would go a long way there.

00:10:40.160 Um, but, and, and also like, uh, slowing down immigration, slowing down legal immigration,

00:10:45.400 um, taking care of the illegals.

00:10:46.800 I think that there's a certain level of, I don't know who my neighbor is, right?

00:10:50.560 I don't know what, what is going on in their heads.

00:10:53.380 I don't know how to calculate whether, again, if I get in a bad situation, whether somebody's

00:10:58.200 going to help me out or if they're going to pile on, which, I mean, I, I, I glanced past

00:11:02.160 this earlier, but again, if you, if you watch this guy filming the, uh, this altercation

00:11:07.620 between two adults, uh, the guy who's filming is yelling, oh, oh, oh.

00:11:12.060 And he does that for like three minutes straight.

00:11:13.860 Yeah.

00:11:14.100 And, and only at one point, I think, uh, to maybe make sure that his audience doesn't

00:11:19.020 see him as a bad person.

00:11:20.060 He says, help her up, but it's after this woman's laying on the ground unconscious.

00:11:23.580 Yeah.

00:11:23.880 Um, it's, it's, it's a, it's a horrible thing.

00:11:26.300 And so I go, okay, well, um, every, like I've, we watched the movie Nightcrawler, right?

00:11:32.560 And so we watched Nightcrawler and we get disgusted at this kind of sleazy guy who tries

00:11:36.280 to sell his clips to the news.

00:11:37.640 But if that's everybody, or if that's at least like a large percentage of people who

00:11:42.760 are going to be like treating their phones as their personal Nightcrawler machine and

00:11:47.540 putting their, putting stuff on their, on their, like hoping they blow up because they

00:11:52.360 got to witness somebody being beaten half to death, then yeah, again, that's, that's

00:11:57.180 something that I, I like, that's not a housing problem.

00:12:00.080 Um, and I think that that, you know, so there are elements of this social trust that can be,

00:12:04.940 uh, repaired by federal actions.

00:12:07.880 Uh, but yeah, there's a really ugly, um, again, but that's, that's just jumping in on top of

00:12:13.840 a really ugly social trust problem that already exists.

00:12:17.540 Um, so I, I, I don't, I don't, again, I don't think that that's necessarily a political thing

00:12:22.440 or a political solution, but we can at least stop pouring gasoline on it.

00:12:25.740 Yeah.

00:12:26.460 Yeah.

00:12:26.880 I mean, that's, that's kind of the thing we're seeing with the, the world starification of

00:12:31.340 fight documentation where it's just like, they're trying to develop a personal brand

00:12:35.840 around someone, you know, getting beaten half to death.

00:12:39.380 Yeah.

00:12:39.620 Uh, it's a horrible thing.

00:12:41.200 Um, and it, and it's sad.

00:12:43.340 It was, that was the saddest part of the video was that no one seemed to want to intervene.

00:12:47.720 I don't know if it was fear or if it was just a lack of empathy.

00:12:50.940 It's a social trust thing.

00:12:52.100 I used to live in, uh, Queens, Queens, New York.

00:12:54.880 It's like, it's like half foreign born. 0.99

00:12:57.120 And this is praised routinely by all the, uh, all the civic civic leaders.

00:13:01.380 They're like, this is this wonderful thing.

00:13:03.060 You can like, you can have an Arepa and then have like Chinese food on the same day.

00:13:07.940 It's just that they only talk about the food really when it comes to diversity.

00:13:10.300 They don't really talk about the downstream effects because the downstream effect is like

00:13:13.800 you hit on it.

00:13:14.960 You don't know your name.

00:13:15.680 Not only do you not know your neighbor, you don't know like how they evaluate the world.

00:13:19.860 I mean, you don't know much about their culture and the city, the, the, the borough at least

00:13:24.500 is filled to the brim.

00:13:25.440 And it's like, it's created this situation where no one speaks to each other because this

00:13:29.080 reputation of New Yorkers are really rude.

00:13:31.400 I actually find that native New Yorkers are quite pleasant, but there is this, uh, general

00:13:36.200 feeling of, um, just disdain for strangers because you just don't know anything about them.

00:13:42.160 You don't know if they're going to stab you or, or what, and you don't know if anybody's

00:13:45.080 going to intervene.

00:13:45.820 And I suspect, I think a large reason is because you don't even know if the person speaks English,

00:13:48.900 let alone, let alone if they're on the same page, um, you know, ethically.

00:13:53.760 So, um, yeah, I mean, that, that's kind of, that's kind of the thing for me is like, like

00:13:57.820 you said, there's, it's like, why are, why is the GOP hammering so hard on immigration?

00:14:02.480 And I'm like, cause these cities, you saw Los Angeles.

00:14:06.180 I mean, the deportations haven't really even gotten to these insane numbers that we're expecting

00:14:11.420 and people are already coming unglued there and rioting and flying foreign flags.

00:14:15.040 And, uh, and I, I don't see how we're going to get out of that.

00:14:18.320 I mean, Trump just has to keep the foot on the gas and, and, uh, yeah, I don't know.

00:14:23.220 Um, yeah, well, and I think part of the tragedy of it is that we had it and we lost it.

00:14:28.440 So in any place where there has been a social trust that's eroded, then we're mourning it

00:14:34.960 all the more.

00:14:35.540 So we, we only notice it because we had it before.

00:14:38.400 I mean, the, the whole, um, sort of, uh, what's the, the sort of boxes where people will

00:14:42.660 like set out their fruit or set out whatever potatoes that they're growing honesty boxes.

00:14:47.040 So like the fact that honesty boxes have existed and have had to be taken down and some people

00:14:51.700 are still like, are trying to put some up to try to again, test out, Hey, if this works

00:14:56.720 out, then we can make more money and I don't have to hire somebody who just runs this stand

00:15:00.580 all the time.

00:15:01.580 Um, then everybody can kind of function in a better way.

00:15:04.640 The fact that that can still exist in part of our country is really great.

00:15:07.580 Um, but the fact that broadly that stuff starts to go away, that's, that's the, the tragedy

00:15:14.100 that Americans are seeing it's, it's, uh, there are some people who wouldn't notice it because

00:15:17.860 they've never lived in a place that was like that, that, that had any kind of social trust.

00:15:21.580 Um, and again, like New Yorkers, I think probably have a few more barriers than, uh, sort of,

00:15:27.080 you know, me growing up in Northeast Arkansas, but I think that's, again, there's, there are

00:15:31.860 definite gradations of that.

00:15:33.820 Um, I mean, uh, Carl Benjamin talked about when he visited, uh, from the UK and visited

00:15:39.700 West Virginia and he realized as he was talking to people, as he was interacting, that he had

00:15:44.940 way more of a guard up than he should have and was actually being rude to people.

00:15:49.460 He found himself accidentally being rude.

00:15:51.400 And he said, I'm, I'm a good English boy.

00:15:53.160 You know, I grew up with, with manners.

00:15:54.580 I know what I'm supposed to do, but he realizes that as social trust has eroded around him

00:15:59.080 within his lifetime, that he was treating people in a way that he would never treat them normally.

00:16:03.200 And he, and he felt bad about that.

00:16:04.940 And he wished that he, he wished that he could go back and be more open.

00:16:07.700 He's, he sees himself as an open guy who has slowly had to kind of put walls up around

00:16:11.840 himself as social trust has eroded around him.

00:16:14.760 I think that that's, that's a sad thing to see.

00:16:17.040 And I think that, uh, Carl sees that, but also we, we don't want that here.

00:16:21.100 Uh, again, he visited rural West Virginia.

00:16:23.060 That's a different sort of place.

00:16:24.560 Uh, but I'd like to be able to preserve that for people to not have to have their guard up

00:16:29.080 again, going to a jazz festival, just going downtown, um, taking their wife out for a dinner.

00:16:34.940 Um, it's, it's, it's something that I think we can, you know, again, if, as people are committing

00:16:39.640 crimes, we can punish crime.

00:16:40.840 Um, and I think that as if there's an attitude like that at the top, uh, again, fixing things

00:16:46.620 federally, that was the question you asked.

00:16:48.040 If there's an attitude like that at the top, I think it gives permission for local officials

00:16:52.340 to act in that same way and know that they're not going to get a mob after them.

00:16:56.660 Yeah.

00:16:57.180 Oh yeah.

00:16:57.400 You are seeing like, um, orange County, California, like they are able to start cracking down

00:17:01.420 on shoplifting more.

00:17:02.320 I think, yeah, like the primary reason for that is because they feel like the boots off their

00:17:05.620 neck from the federal, from the federal government.

00:17:07.420 So that's going to pay dividends because yeah, you go, you go to these cities and you

00:17:11.180 go to like Walgreens and you got to like get on your knees and beg for a stick of deodorant

00:17:15.100 because they have it like locked down. 0.94

00:17:16.320 Like it's, I mean, it's the most ridiculous thing ever. 0.89

00:17:18.340 And then the people will come up, these shoplifters, they come up with their garbage bag and they 0.84

00:17:21.400 ring the bell and the guy will come unlock and give them the deodorant.

00:17:24.520 And then they just walk out with it.

00:17:25.540 So it's like, it's only punishing people that are actually just trying to shop the shop.

00:17:29.460 And then the craziest thing is the shoplifters still stink.

00:17:32.160 So it's like, they're not even using the deodorant.

00:17:33.540 I don't know what they're doing with it.

00:17:34.680 I don't know.

00:17:34.920 Maybe they're eating it.

00:17:35.600 I don't, I don't know what the thing, but I'm selling it out of their car.

00:17:38.660 Who knows?

00:17:39.300 Yeah.

00:17:39.420 Yeah.

00:17:39.700 I don't know.

00:17:40.000 Maybe there's this underground deodorant ring.

00:17:41.680 I don't know about it.

00:17:42.320 I'm going to get involved in that.

00:17:43.440 You can get a roll on for a, for a good price, but yeah.

00:17:46.920 Yeah.

00:17:47.120 So anyway, I mean, enough about the speed sticks.

00:17:49.300 One thing I'm noticing is it's coming along where you're seeing Gen Z really becoming adults 1.00

00:17:55.400 and interacting.

00:17:56.980 We're lacking a lot of conventional social skills that previous generations had.

00:18:02.000 And this is a huge topic that's going to be tough to cover in what, what, 15 minutes.

00:18:07.480 But I do think there's, we're very neurotic Zoomers. 1.00

00:18:11.240 Gen Z, I'm a Zoomer.

00:18:11.960 I'm 24.

00:18:12.920 I think we're a very neurotic generation.

00:18:14.560 And I suspect, not even suspect.

00:18:16.120 I think it's kind of obvious.

00:18:17.000 This does stem from the fact that you don't know who your neighbors are.

00:18:20.620 You don't know anybody in your community.

00:18:21.980 You don't know who's like your elected officials are.

00:18:23.860 There's the low trust society has completely one-shotted Zoomers. 1.00

00:18:28.920 What do you think this is going to look like?

00:18:30.220 Because boomers are still generally pretty trusting of, of the general public.

00:18:33.800 They typically give people a fair shake.

00:18:35.580 And then this kind of descent, this, this quality kind of disappears to go down generations.

00:18:39.120 Where I think Gen Z is the first generation where this is completely gone, where they're 1.00

00:18:42.100 just neurotic, distrustful, honestly, rightfully so as well.

00:18:46.440 What do you think, what changes do you think we're going to see as, as this generation

00:18:49.800 sort of starts taking, taking hold?

00:18:51.860 Yeah, I think another big piece of this before I talk about the changes going forward is the

00:18:57.240 fact that two years at least of a lot of people's lives got taken away.

00:19:01.580 And so the closer to the formation of your personality that 2020 and 2021 and 2022 was,

00:19:10.040 that has a huge impact on you.

00:19:11.860 So if you were planning, if your graduation, let's say your, your like high school graduation

00:19:15.940 got shut down because of this and all of your, your scholarship opportunities got ruined

00:19:21.100 because of a disease.

00:19:23.780 That's, that automatically puts a huge lack of social trust in you and goes, okay, well,

00:19:29.380 everything I'm prepared for, everything that somebody told me was going to be my ticket

00:19:33.180 out of here is not going to be there.

00:19:34.880 Yeah.

00:19:35.040 Um, and not that, not that zoomers needed any help, uh, with that, because again, like I

00:19:40.420 think that broadly millennials trusted the, the, uh, promises of the boomers that the boomers

00:19:45.580 thought that there were like, okay, now we have, uh, attained, like, this is the end of

00:19:49.540 history.

00:19:49.840 This is the way that the world is going to work forever.

00:19:52.240 Millennials kind of believe those promises and Gen Z hasn't believed those promises at the

00:19:56.840 same level.

00:19:57.360 Uh, but starting out from cynicism, yeah, it's, it's a really ugly thing and I don't

00:20:03.400 see, uh, I think, I think that there will be studies a hundred years from now on the COVID

00:20:09.020 kids and all the people who, uh, and that's, you know, Gen Z onto Gen alpha, um, and where

00:20:14.640 people were when that broke up their ability to speak or be able to see somebody, see somebody's

00:20:20.560 mouth move when they're speaking, when people's faces are covered constantly, social interaction

00:20:24.940 again.

00:20:25.640 Um, but there's, there was a broad culture growing up as a millennial, uh, there's a

00:20:31.200 broad culture of going out, seeing people doing things and like concert venues have been

00:20:36.280 shutting down, um, like ticket master.

00:20:39.500 Again, people talk about ticket master prices going up.

00:20:41.820 Also, there's a huge piece of that, that is that nobody really wants to go to concerts

00:20:45.240 anymore, except for the Uber wealthy or the people who can afford, uh, like paying these

00:20:50.100 exorbitant prices.

00:20:51.200 Um, it's, it is, there's a, there's a really strange and like, okay, well, if, if my, um,

00:20:59.080 dopamine hits are from a crowd, I at least know what it feels like to go and be a part

00:21:04.240 of a crowd and have a good time, be at a 4th of July parade and let it go.

00:21:07.960 Um, and somebody doesn't know that that's its own kind of rush and its own kind of excitement.

00:21:12.880 Then introducing that is saying you have to get past a lot of discomfort to be able to

00:21:17.920 do something that, um, again, Americans have seen as normal for a long time.

00:21:22.020 Um, so I, I don't think, I think that part of that is going to be, uh, people just taking

00:21:26.540 responsibility for their own, uh, self.

00:21:29.640 But broadly, as far as a pattern goes, I don't see that going really anywhere.

00:21:33.400 Great.

00:21:34.100 Um, I, there's, there's, uh, I, I, it's going to be really ugly when people are having to,

00:21:40.020 uh, have relationships with people when their first relationship or their second relationship,

00:21:45.160 or when was with an AI or, or if they've had some kind of back and forth discussions with,

00:21:51.180 with AI.

00:21:51.940 And again, people, there are people who are trying to do it right.

00:21:54.320 Uh, but they're, they're also, they're fighting a huge, uh, uphill battle.

00:21:58.640 And I, I, I feel for that, but I think, you know, again, there, we, we both think that Trump

00:22:03.840 is going to do good things that will have a positive impact on that.

00:22:07.280 Um, but it, it can't, it's, it's the kind of thing that can't just be from the top to make

00:22:12.020 it a comfortable environment for that to happen, uh, taking responsibility and going, Hey,

00:22:16.200 again, this, this sounds like a bootstrap sort of thing.

00:22:18.320 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.

00:22:26.640 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

00:22:58.940 that as something that's worth meeting.

00:23:01.400 Yeah.

00:23:01.880 Yeah.

00:23:02.040 I mean, I am finally starting to see some signs of life from zoomers. 1.00

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

00:23:24.680 because you're seeing the divide.

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 1.00

00:23:38.400 2000, uh, they're actually kind of in line with millennials, politically speaking with

00:23:43.780 a myriad of other traits.

00:23:45.180 And then the zoomers that were born after 2000 are to the right of Genghis Khan or to 1.00

00:23:50.100 the left of Karl Marx.

00:23:51.380 So, uh, you're seeing that.

00:23:53.000 And, and, and it's like you said, I think it's that cynicism that, that came into play during

00:23:56.540 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

00:24:06.740 issue.

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

00:24:15.080 community.

00:24:15.880 So there's a lot of Southern Baptists, but they're getting married.

00:24:18.300 They're having kids.

00:24:19.260 It's, it's starting to happen.

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? 1.00

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. 1.00

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.

00:24:57.820 Yeah.

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

00:25:14.900 things passed down to them.

00:25:16.340 Uh, it's also striking.

00:25:17.600 I mean, you look at, even on our side, you see, well, you've got Trump who is a boomer

00:25:22.700 and then who's his successor.

00:25:24.620 You got, um, you got JD Vance, or at least like, that's how people see him as a successor.

00:25:30.560 Um, and so like.

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.

00:25:54.580 Who knows?

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,

00:26:14.040 it's, it's, uh, the, the, it is interesting.

00:26:17.200 Yeah.

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

00:26:25.400 we can tell.

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

00:26:40.620 way.

00:26:41.240 Um, because people recognize again, like the, these, the people coming after have to be

00:26:45.560 equipped.

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

00:26:52.320 than, okay.

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.

00:27:01.520 Like the succession is inherently difficult.

00:27:03.640 Yeah.

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

00:27:19.500 place broadly.

00:27:20.300 Yeah.

00:27:20.920 Yeah.

00:27:21.240 I mean, that's good.

00:27:21.860 And that's a great, great point.

00:27:23.000 I mean, Gen X really got shafted cause like, well, that's kind of, that's kind of their

00:27:26.980 fault though.

00:27:27.440 Cause every song they wrote like in the eighties and nineties was about like fighting and partying

00:27:31.060 and stuff.

00:27:31.460 So like fight for your right to party.

00:27:33.100 I don't know.

00:27:33.420 Maybe you should have fought for your right for like election, like the, you know, elections.

00:27:36.580 I don't know.

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.

00:27:42.480 And they forgot to like run to the office.

00:27:44.000 So I don't know.

00:27:44.340 It's kind of on there, but it's true.

00:27:45.740 I'm sorry.

00:27:46.240 I love Gen X.

00:27:47.120 I have Gen X parents.

00:27:47.940 They're awesome.

00:27:48.440 But, um, yeah, yeah.

00:27:49.600 The, the boomer thing that the generational, uh, passing of the torch, it's really scary

00:27:54.160 stuff.

00:27:54.560 Imagining zoomers, uh, being in charge of these things. 1.00

00:27:57.460 Um, yeah.

00:27:58.240 Well, being a millennial, I'm also, I'm scared of millennials getting in charge of this stuff. 1.00

00:28:02.260 I mean, if I don't, we're going to be like Star Wars.

00:28:05.880 Yeah. 0.83

00:28:07.720 It's so gross.

00:28:08.900 Frigging tofu, like mandatory tofu.

00:28:11.060 Yeah.

00:28:11.420 I'm not ready for that, but, uh, I don't know.

00:28:13.420 J.D.

00:28:13.640 But if our, yeah, if he's, if J.D.

00:28:15.760 Vance is remembered as our guy, you know, like the, the head of the millennials,

00:28:19.060 I think we're going to be okay.

00:28:20.120 Yeah.

00:28:20.260 You're set.

00:28:21.320 Yeah.

00:28:21.520 Yeah.

00:28:21.720 I mean, yeah.

00:28:22.320 Millennials, they kind of get a hard, they get a hard time, but there's some pretty,

00:28:25.640 there's some pretty based, uh, based.

00:28:27.460 I think Stephen Miller is a millennial too.

00:28:29.580 Um, okay.

00:28:30.560 I think.

00:28:31.180 Love Stephen Miller.

00:28:31.700 Yeah.

00:28:31.780 He's goaded.

00:28:32.680 Um, yeah.

00:28:33.700 So I, I don't know the way I do agree.

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.

00:29:15.940 So it's a really beautiful thing.

00:29:17.140 Yeah.

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

00:29:30.500 be leading the world.

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

00:29:41.200 of your generation.

00:29:42.000 Yeah.

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.

00:29:54.620 Um, yeah, I don't know.

00:29:55.940 I kind of want to leave you with, with, with the, with the Trump agenda, people are starting

00:30:00.760 to black pill a little bit.

00:30:01.640 The Epstein stuff's really getting to people.

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?

00:30:10.540 What's your grade?

00:30:11.980 Yeah.

00:30:12.360 On the Epstein stuff.

00:30:13.420 I think that the, uh, I think the rollout was not as good as it could have been again,

00:30:17.400 from my perspective, from the outside.

00:30:19.240 Um, but I think that recognizing that the, uh, Russiagate thing is a bigger dragon, I think

00:30:26.360 is, is a good thing for them to see.

00:30:28.140 So I think, like I said, the Epstein rollout, I think could have been improved.

00:30:31.240 I have, I have my complaints about that.

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

00:30:38.960 addressing the deep state problems?

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.

00:30:51.120 Uh, and, and it's personal to Trump.

00:30:52.640 It's more, it's obviously closer to his heart.

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.

00:31:06.040 I love the direction.

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.

00:31:13.740 Yeah.

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,

00:31:23.600 you know, why not do a hundred thousand?

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

00:31:37.440 that's a positive thing.

00:31:38.300 I think self deportations can be a big deal.

00:31:40.460 Uh, a lot of my answers are going to be about immigration because that's, again, I see 0.84

00:31:43.440 that as a huge, having huge downstream consequences.

00:31:46.780 Uh, but I'm pleased with that.

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.

00:32:07.080 Um, this is all going to explode.

00:32:08.280 And one of those things was the tariffs.

00:32:10.460 Um, and people said, Oh, the tariffs are going to blow up MAGA.

00:32:13.460 Elon jumping ship is going to blow up MAGA.

00:32:15.900 I haven't seen that happen.

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

00:32:30.520 president Donald Trump, uh, is, is number one.

00:32:34.100 That dude.

00:32:34.680 Well, this is great.

00:32:35.400 Wade.

00:32:35.680 Uh, you want to give a quick shout out.

00:32:36.760 We gotta, we gotta wrap up here, but yeah, quick shout out to anything.

00:32:39.580 Yeah.

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

00:32:44.580 time.

00:32:44.920 Dude, let's do it.

00:32:45.440 Well, appreciate it.

00:32:45.880 Wade.

00:32:46.060 Talk to you later.

00:32:47.580 Thank you.

00:32:48.320 Alrighty, gents and gentle women's, uh, thanks for, uh, joining me on the Tim, Tim 0.76

00:32:53.620 Poole noon live rumble show.

00:32:56.160 That's a great time.

00:32:57.280 Um, I think we're going to do a raid here.

00:32:58.920 I think we're raiding, um, are we raiding?

00:33:00.620 I think Russell Brand, I believe is, is up, up next.

00:33:03.640 I probably should have done my homework on that.

00:33:05.420 Apologies, everyone.

00:33:06.620 Uh, yeah, yeah.

00:33:07.200 So thanks to Wade.

00:33:08.360 It's a great show.

00:33:08.940 We got a lot covered, hit a lot of, hit a lot of topics.

00:33:11.760 Um, we're going to leave you with that.

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.

00:33:22.060 Um, yeah.

00:33:22.680 Buy tickets for culture.

00:33:24.180 That's the pressing thing.

00:33:26.040 Um, August 2nd, August 9th, get your tickets.

00:33:29.220 It's going to be, it's going to be baller.

00:33:30.680 So yeah, we're sending you over to Russell right now.

00:33:33.240 Um, let's see raid bang. 0.52

00:33:35.660 Look at that, dude.

00:33:36.360 We got producer Andrew in the cut.

00:33:38.060 Shout out producer Andrew.

00:33:39.700 Go give him a follow.

00:33:40.520 It's kind of, it's kind of making me mad that he doesn't have like a million followers

00:33:43.520 actually makes me furious.

00:33:44.660 So yeah.

00:33:45.260 Thanks for watching.

00:33:46.080 You can follow me on X and Instagram at real tape Brown.

00:33:49.200 Uh, go follow me there.

00:33:50.700 Hopefully we'll, Tim will be back for Tim cast IRL.

00:33:52.660 If not, well, no, it may be Phil cast.

00:33:54.400 Who knows?

00:33:54.760 It's going to be a great thing.

00:33:55.680 So, uh, yeah.

00:33:56.860 Thanks for hanging out.

00:33:57.860 See you next time.

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The Culture War - Tim Pool - July 28, 2025

Violent Mob BEATS DOWN Innocent Civilians, Social Fabric Of America Is TORN APART ft. Wade Stotts

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