The Culture War - Tim Pool - Youtuber MONETIZES Abortion In INSANE Viral Story That MAY BE A HOAX

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00:00:26.420 This story has gone massively viral, shocking the conscience of so many conservatives.

00:00:33.020 It's a story of a YouTube influencer who announced that after getting a special test done, they found out that their baby that they were expecting may have Down syndrome or more specifically ailments of and related to Trisomy 21, I believe it is called.

00:00:51.760 I could be wrong.

00:00:53.140 For this reason, he announced that they had aborted the baby.

00:00:57.480 Now, conservatives are losing it.

00:01:00.340 They're saying you chose to kill your child, not give them a chance.

00:01:04.360 And then you're acting like you lost your child accidentally.

00:01:08.700 This guy, Jesse, has gone on to say that it's insane how he's getting attacked so mercilessly

00:01:13.420 after having just lost a child, to which, once again, it fans the flames.

00:01:17.660 And conservatives respond by saying you ended the life of your child.

00:01:23.100 Now, certainly there are many questions to bring up in whether or not this is truly abhorrent or evil.

00:01:28.680 And I will just say definitively outright, right off the bat, pure evil for a variety of reasons.

00:01:34.620 Now, there's a lot more to the story that makes it evil in question.

00:01:39.380 And I'm sure there are many people who are liberal minded who are saying, look, man.

00:01:43.100 they agree with this family getting an abortion when the baby was showing signs or was tested

00:01:49.220 testing positive for Down syndrome. I'm sure a lot of you agree with that. Okay. Well, I'm going

00:01:54.740 to make a couple of other arguments. First, the monetization and contentization of something like

00:02:02.960 this. How could you deny that it's evil? These are people, if on the surface, it's true that

00:02:10.320 They had to abort their baby, or I shouldn't say they had to,

00:02:12.840 but they chose to because of the Down syndrome diagnosis.

00:02:16.780 They have made YouTube videos about this, made posts on social media,

00:02:20.680 for which they had no reason to do at all, generating millions of views and controversy.

00:02:26.520 And I would say outright, this is the sickness that plagues the modern era.

00:02:30.440 But wait, there's more.

00:02:32.400 This individual is being accused of hoaxing the whole thing.

00:02:35.140 So you want to talk about evil, let's talk about the next degree of accusation.

00:02:40.320 People are saying this guy is a long-form, deep-cover hoaxer.

00:02:44.560 He makes videos over very long periods of time that turn out to be fake,

00:02:49.240 and this is probably just another one of them.

00:02:51.260 Now, I can't say for sure.

00:02:53.080 Maybe that's the case.

00:02:54.140 We've got two tweets where they go through the history of the content this guy has created,

00:02:58.380 but sure enough, it's getting him more attention than he's ever gotten.

00:03:02.020 And you know what?

00:03:03.320 Liberals will line up behind him to agree with him on the surface claim.

00:03:08.720 If you look at a country like Iceland, they brag about how they've eliminated people with

00:03:13.040 Down syndrome by aborting them.

00:03:15.800 But I just, guys, I'm not a staunch conservative.

00:03:20.060 I'm not, I don't even consider myself pro-life.

00:03:21.460 But if you're bragging, that's like, well, we killed them all.

00:03:25.100 Okay, you got to understand why people think that's evil, don't you?

00:03:29.360 Now, of course, this gets into the whole abortion debate, which we'll have to go through.

00:03:31.920 But let's start here with this story from TMZ.

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00:04:21.080 Let's grab this story.

00:04:22.800 We'll start from the beginning.

00:04:24.840 Influencer couple end pregnancy over Down syndrome concerns.

00:04:28.320 I'm going to go ahead and say shenanigans.

00:04:29.600 I actually lean towards this may be a hoax, but I don't know for sure.

00:04:33.860 Influencer couple Jesse and Ashley Ridgway are opening up about a devastating family

00:04:38.400 decision, revealing they terminated a pregnancy after learning their unborn child had Down

00:04:42.700 syndrome.

00:04:43.800 Jesse, better known online as Mick Jugger Nuggets, shared the news on Wednesday in a

00:04:48.600 series of emotional Instagram stories, telling their followers the couple recently ended

00:04:52.920 the pregnancy after doctors diagnosed the baby with Trisomy 21, also known as Down syndrome.

00:05:00.960 He made a post on social media saying 50% of babies with Down syndrome have heart defects, 70% will have hearing challenges, over 50% will have vision problems, impaired immune function, developmental disabilities, learning disabilities, delayed physical development, poor muscle tone, structural issues with face, decreased lifespan, et cetera.

00:05:18.460 Sadly, the list is long.

00:05:20.180 Feel free to look it up.

00:05:20.920 Down syndrome isn't a blessing.

00:05:22.820 It's an objectively-ish form.

00:05:26.780 Ish from, he says more.

00:05:28.580 This is way bigger than I expected.

00:05:30.000 I thought it would be I thought it'd be lower, given I hear so many say they kept or would keep

00:05:34.620 the baby, because I believe that's because most terminations happen privately. It feels shameful.

00:05:40.400 A lot of judgment is being cast. The way Jesse tells it, the decision came after extensive

00:05:45.700 conversation with medical experts. He says he initially felt optimistic about raising a child

00:05:49.880 with a condition, but later learned more about the potential health complications.

00:05:53.640 So here's the initial post Jesse Ridgeway made for which he is getting massive, massive viewership

00:05:59.980 at 20.2 million hits, a massive story.

00:06:05.360 We got some community notes.

00:06:06.640 What is this?

00:06:07.920 It says, well, carrying a child with Down syndrome

00:06:09.060 does carry some risks.

00:06:10.420 The risks are minor.

00:06:11.680 The increase only in older mothers,

00:06:14.160 which does not apply to this woman.

00:06:15.960 Down syndrome occurs about one in 640 births,

00:06:18.360 not one in 1,000.

00:06:19.660 Life expectancy is now around 60 plus,

00:06:21.760 and 99% of people with Down syndrome

00:06:23.060 have reported being happy and satisfied

00:06:24.800 with their lives and relationships,

00:06:26.540 fully dependent more often than not.

00:06:29.980 is not accurate as a generalization.

00:06:32.040 These are proposed, not confirmed.

00:06:33.800 Well, here's the post that he made.

00:06:35.960 I'll try and read it quickly for you.

00:06:38.000 He says,

00:06:38.600 This week, my wife and I made the very difficult decision

00:06:40.560 to terminate the pregnancy due to Trisomy 21.

00:06:42.520 The choice was not made lightly.

00:06:43.700 We really appreciate all the personal stories

00:06:45.340 that you guys shared with us,

00:06:46.280 especially the unconditional support we received from fans

00:06:48.180 with no matter what we decided.

00:06:50.360 I know some of you may be very disappointed to hear this news.

00:06:52.220 We're devastated.

00:06:52.680 This has been extremely traumatic for both of us,

00:06:54.080 especially Ashley.

00:06:55.260 She underwent the procedure earlier this week

00:06:56.600 and is on the mend.

00:06:57.200 Thankfully, everything went smoothly,

00:06:58.600 but emotionally, we are drained.

00:06:59.980 Trisomy 21, also known as Down syndrome, is caused by an extra chromosome.

00:07:03.460 It is caused by an error in cell division, like a glitch.

00:07:05.680 The odds of a baby having is about one in 1,000.

00:07:07.740 When I first confronted the news, I was shocked but optimistic.

00:07:10.200 If they're a little slow intellectually, then we'll make it work.

00:07:12.780 I signed on to be a parent, come what may, but I just didn't fully understand what Down syndrome entailed.

00:07:17.240 Once we made it public, it became clear that most people don't know what Down syndrome entails.

00:07:21.140 And what we already read about the ailments.

00:07:24.400 I didn't realize just how rough it is for the child, let alone the family.

00:07:27.720 More often than not, they would be fully dependent on others for the rest of their life.

00:07:30.980 The miscarriage risk is also close to 50%, which made matters worse.

00:07:34.160 They may never see the light of day, and it puts Ashley further at risk.

00:07:37.080 We spoke to doctors, friends, family, and genetic counselors,

00:07:39.220 and learned that 90% of women terminate their pregnancies after learning the baby has trisomy 21.

00:07:43.120 This is way higher than I expected.

00:07:45.080 I thought it would be lower given that I hear so many say they kept or would keep the baby.

00:07:49.060 I believe that's because most terminations happen privately.

00:07:50.900 It feels shameful, a lot of judgment being cast.

00:07:53.240 You never think you'd be in this type of situation until it happens to you and then things change.

00:07:56.280 To all of my fans who have weighed in on this topic, who have autism, Down syndrome, or any other conditions, we appreciate you.

00:08:01.840 You matter a lot, and we're glad you're here.

00:08:03.860 I commend you and your families for having the strength and courage to push forward.

00:08:06.760 As for us, we made the difficult decision that we believe in the long run will be beneficial for our family.

00:08:10.980 Thankfully, we had a choice.

00:08:12.300 It will take a little time to move on, but we are excited to try again in the future and hopefully have a better outcome.

00:08:17.460 Love you guys, and thank you for understanding.

00:08:19.920 He followed up by saying,

00:08:21.440 I've never seen such hate and vitriol for two people grieving the loss of their unborn child

00:08:25.600 and making an impossible decision.

00:08:27.680 The last 24 hours have exposed a side of humanity that is deeply disturbing,

00:08:31.580 being called murderous pieces of ish evil compared to Hitler and receiving nonstop death threats.

00:08:38.140 Seeing my six-year-old dog with stage four kidney disease be used as a weapon,

00:08:42.780 manipulating my words and intent in a tweet or saying we'll regret this decision forever

00:08:45.880 and must repent to God is absolute insanity.

00:08:48.340 If you ever wanted to marvel at the depravity of people in line,

00:08:50.440 just check the replies on my latest tweet. It's an is show of epic proportions. This is reflective

00:08:55.200 of the current world and landscape we are living in. What's more troubling is a lot of these people

00:08:58.800 use God or Jesus as their justification for threatening us and wanting to cast us into

00:09:03.180 hell. So many saying they would have kept the child, put it up for adoption, or are suddenly

00:09:08.080 ready to adopt a downstream child. That's great. You can do all of those things. However, many of

00:09:13.300 you throwing stones don't even have children, let alone one with a condition, and most likely will

00:09:17.200 never do the things they say they're going to do. There's been some heinous ish said about my wife

00:09:21.360 and I in some extremely large accounts. It baffles me that there are such trashy people

00:09:26.180 who have significant followings. If you can't contribute anything meaningful to the conversation

00:09:30.460 aside from insults, then just don't post. On the other hand, there's been tremendous stories of

00:09:33.820 people who kept their Down syndrome baby, and that's awesome. Very courageous, and they do

00:09:37.680 look very happy. That is your choice, and I support it. This was ours, and we can do that.

00:09:41.860 It's very easy to accept the differences between us when it has no actual bearing on your life.

00:09:46.400 What shocked me most of all was that this story has become mainstream news.

00:09:50.440 A couple's abortion is suddenly newsworthy in 2026.

00:09:53.960 There are over one million abortions every single day for a myriad of reasons.

00:09:57.140 This is happening on a daily basis.

00:09:58.740 Hey, hey, hey, let's play, brother.

00:10:00.700 That's because you made a video about it on YouTube with 53,000 views on May 27th.

00:10:06.640 The results of our amniocentesis came back.

00:10:11.080 You made a video talking about how you were tracking for this.

00:10:15.040 that's where we are brother

00:10:16.780 you have a YouTube channel

00:10:18.600 where you decided to make this

00:10:21.180 a point

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00:11:19.000 OK, well, when you make a video about it for your 87000 subscribers, don't I'm so shocked this became news.

00:11:27.140 I mean, we did a big tweet. We made we made content on multiple platforms talking about it, of which the purpose is to generate interest and viewership.

00:11:35.860 And then it became a mainstream story. How strange. That's what I would say right off the bat is evil.

00:11:43.660 is evil. Bro, let me just say it like this. I think abortion is wrong.

00:11:50.920 Abortion is contraception. Abortion for legitimate medical reasons, pro-lifers don't

00:11:58.380 consider to be abortion in the same sense. Let me clarify why this debate is so difficult.

00:12:03.540 If you are a woman and your life is at risk, serious risk, and then I say like you're going

00:12:10.940 to die, and then the baby will die. We must terminate this pregnancy. Liberals will call

00:12:16.660 that an abortion. Pro-lifers typically do not. I say typically because it is a nuanced conversation.

00:12:23.340 But I've had this conversation with numerous pro-life Christian conservatives, and they say

00:12:27.440 in the event that a woman's life is being threatened and the only choice had is you have

00:12:34.380 to end the life of the pregnancy. There's a preference towards do whatever you can to save

00:12:40.920 the life of the child and the mother. But there is a challenge. And this is why I consider myself

00:12:45.640 to be traditional pro-choice. I don't like saying pro-choice because it's used by progressives to

00:12:51.940 advocate for abortion as contraception and to the point of birth, which is happening and is allowed

00:12:57.380 in some states and is absolutely insane. And they tried to pass in Virginia. My argument is

00:13:01.820 take responsibility for your choices. If you've a man and a woman, you want to get together.

00:13:06.900 There are challenges over the issue of rape because a woman did not consent to provide

00:13:10.320 her body, for which pro-lifers and I disagree. And that's the real disagreement.

00:13:13.920 And there's questions of true medical issues and the difficulty in requiring

00:13:18.560 like a judicial writ in order to get a medical procedure. Those are challenges that I see

00:13:25.340 when it comes to this conversation. But I would agree with my conservative friends,

00:13:29.440 women should not be getting abortion as contraception. Like I went out, partied,

00:13:34.400 we banged. Oh, I'm pregnant. Better go get an abortion. That is wrong. But I believe Ron Paul

00:13:40.540 said it best. And I agree with him largely. It shouldn't be illegal. It should be unthinkable.

00:13:44.800 And we have cultural problems exemplified by this. A guy who says, I'm going to blast out

00:13:51.860 our abortion of the world for content. Heavens, I'm so shocked. People are mad at me.

00:13:55.680 Now, I want to highlight Trisomy 21. It is not always guaranteed. And this is one of the big

00:14:02.140 controversies around the issue. When you get diagnostic tests like amniocentesis or it's

00:14:09.840 chorionic villicis sampling, these are the gold standard and they directly examine fetal cells.

00:14:14.800 They're over 99% accurate, sometimes even more. A confirmed Trisomy 18 on paper diagnostic carry

00:14:20.640 type is extremely reliable and considered definitive in the vast majority of cases.

00:14:23.900 But I want to stress certain screening tests, they are not always correct.

00:14:30.300 They are not definitive.

00:14:31.580 And therein lies one of the big challenges.

00:14:33.340 Now, of course, he said this is amniocentesis.

00:14:35.940 I'm probably pronouncing it wrong.

00:14:37.180 So they're saying they definitively, like 99.9.

00:14:41.100 And therein lies still a very big challenge.

00:14:44.440 Because I know pro-lifers know this.

00:14:47.580 There have been many instances where individuals were told your baby will have Down syndrome.

00:14:51.940 And they said, you know what?

00:14:53.900 if this is what God wants. And not even all Christians, right? Some people just say,

00:14:58.320 well, then so be it. And guess what? They give birth and the baby does not have Down syndrome.

00:15:05.300 That is scary. I've heard stories from so many people where they were told by the doctor,

00:15:09.800 you will die. Your baby will have a serious heart defect. You are condemning this child

00:15:15.460 to a life of suffering. And then they give birth and the baby was fine. That is what is terrifying.

00:15:23.900 Now, I suppose when a woman is told by a doctor, you're going to die, your body can't handle the pregnancy in instances where, you know, it's fascinating because, again, where I disagree with conservatives, you know, you see like Charlie Kirk challenged on this one.

00:15:41.320 And this is, again, where I disagree with the pro-lifers.

00:15:43.880 They say there's like a 12 or 13 year old girl who is raped, who is raped.

00:15:47.660 She gets pregnant.

00:15:49.560 Yeah, my answer is I'm sorry to the pro-lifers.

00:15:51.860 um in many of these circumstances a 13 year old's body cannot handle that pregnancy properly now in

00:15:59.060 some instances it can but i'm i'm sorry i think this is a product of a violation of of uh of

00:16:06.600 nature in in my art in my in my view a man who rapes a child you know a 13 year old whose body

00:16:13.280 is not ready to carry a child they're they're they're not even done growing that to me is just

00:16:21.380 I'm sorry. I do. I draw the line at some, you know, 20 year old woman goes out clubbing and

00:16:27.340 bangs a guy and then says like, ah, crap, got to get an abortion again. We all agree. That's

00:16:31.000 horrifying. But liberals and progressives, they say, well, she can choose her choice. I'm like,

00:16:34.640 yeah, she chose to have a baby. She chose to hook up with a guy. Contraception exists using

00:16:39.120 abortion. That's messed up. But I think it's an unfortunate reality. And this is why I say I'm

00:16:44.260 not pro-life, though. I think abortion is wrong when it's used as contraception.

00:16:49.720 there are circumstances in the instance of rape. And, you know, incest is another interesting

00:16:55.980 argument, which I think is disgusting. But I think the true pro-lifers are the ones who say

00:17:00.440 no circumstance, rape, for instance, or otherwise. But so many traditional conservatives will say,

00:17:04.680 they'll say, instance of rape and incest, we agree on these compromises. And I'm like,

00:17:09.740 but the baby's, like, being killed, the baby didn't rape. There are conservatives, I think,

00:17:15.160 the typical position is agreed. And that's why they don't agree that we should be able to get

00:17:18.540 abortion. I'm not with you on that one. Sorry, guys. We have to disagree on this one. And I'll

00:17:22.220 tell you, I believe that a woman has to consent in order to carry that baby and give her body

00:17:28.820 to this baby that cannot be taken from her. It's a violation of autonomy. And I look at it more so

00:17:36.740 on the rights and duties of human beings, be fruitful and multiply, being one of them.

00:17:41.920 Stripping a woman of her agency and choosing when she has that child is horrifying. So in rape,

00:17:46.100 I say yes. Incest is more interesting because it's like our birth defects really grounds for killing

00:17:51.600 the baby. You know, long story short, there's no easy argument on there on abortion. There's

00:17:58.400 no middle ground. You're either for it or you're against it. And the problem is the progressives

00:18:03.040 have gone to the point of abortion, the point of birth when the baby is viable. And that's

00:18:05.960 psychotic. My view on this case and Down syndrome is have the baby. It is have the baby. And I'll

00:18:12.800 put it like this. If you are someone who says, I don't want to raise a down syndrome baby. Well,

00:18:19.860 there's a lot of down syndrome people who are successful and they, they, they can intelligently

00:18:24.660 articulate to you why that is sad, why it's sad. But if that's the case, adoption, and you know

00:18:31.980 what? There are babies born every day with horrible defects and there are intersex babies and there

00:18:36.100 challenges humans face. But life is precious. And there are instances where a baby is born in such

00:18:43.200 a way that it can't survive at all. Like scarred, damaged heart that's not pumping properly and

00:18:48.880 then separation of the umbilical cord, it dies. These are sad things. I would argue there's a

00:18:55.080 chance that you could have that baby and that baby is going to be fine. There's a chance that

00:18:59.800 you have that baby with Down syndrome. And from the moment you look at that baby, the love in your

00:19:04.580 heart is insurmountable and you would do anything for them. Terminating, it's really insane to me.

00:19:11.700 My brain doesn't go there. I just, I don't understand. And there are challenges on who to

00:19:16.680 trust. If the doctor told you that the baby had a busted up heart that wasn't developing properly

00:19:21.340 and was not going to survive, then I understand. And therein lies the challenge with the blanket

00:19:26.500 pro-life. That's the argument that I have. In the event the doctors screen and say, listen,

00:19:31.180 the heart is not developing the baby will survive a you know in utero will survive

00:19:37.920 with the umbilical cord supplying oxygen and blood but once that baby is born it's instantly dead

00:19:43.380 i i i i feel like there are circumstances where you're just like that then the pregnancy is to

00:19:49.200 be terminated you know but i think we agree on the moral worth of life i believe life begins

00:19:54.560 at conception i believe it's silly to argue otherwise and i think this is largely just

00:19:59.520 that people don't want to accept responsibility. When it comes to having a kid, there are challenges.

00:20:04.320 All that being said, you want to debate abortion, we can. But there's something else here. And it's

00:20:09.160 this. Black Dumpling tweeted, Ridgeway abortion hoax. The reality is that Jesse Ridgeway and wife

00:20:14.760 may have staged the abortion as a click driving storyline. That's right. They may have faked

00:20:18.940 killing a Down syndrome kid for clicks. Not as bad as actually killing the kid, but still

00:20:22.760 unbelievably sick. She says, this is a post. This is just like Google. Let me just look it up,

00:20:29.840 see if I can get the same Google results, because Google didn't tell me. Ridgeway, let's see,

00:20:35.280 psycho series, huh? Let's see if Google gives me the AI-generated response. Yep, indeed.

00:20:47.080 Jesse Ridgeway content. Let me just pull it up straight on Google.

00:20:51.980 Jesse Ridgeway, better known as Mr., as Mick Jugger Nuggets, is an American YouTuber,

00:20:56.440 actor, and filmmaker celebrated for his highly immersive web series, dramatic vlogs,

00:20:59.980 and meta storytelling. He built a following exceeding 4.3 million subscribers by blurring

00:21:04.100 the lines between scripted fiction and reality. His breakout project, the 600-episode saga,

00:21:09.300 documented a chaotic escalating through his hyper-strict on-camera father, Psycho Dad,

00:21:12.800 over his gaming and career choices. Following the Psycho series, Ridgeway expanded into

00:21:16.760 complex, multiverse-style stories like The Devil Inside, My Virtual Escape, The Spirit of Ursula.

00:21:22.040 In late 25, Ridgway wrote, directed, and starred in a full-length feature drama titled Don't Dream

00:21:26.900 About Me. In 2026, his content largely features updates on his personal life alongside occasional

00:21:31.080 returns to his psycho universe for special updates or role reversals. Recently, he and his wife

00:21:36.600 announced they had made the difficult decision to terminate their pregnancy. And there it is,

00:21:40.340 famous for making meta-scripted content. Check this out. Publius says, for those who are unaware,

00:21:46.760 Jesse Ridgway is a deep-cover, long-form actor who does years-long projects as if they're real.

00:21:52.080 I will say as a content creator myself, well done.

00:21:53.620 You hit the outrage button hard.

00:21:54.840 But as someone familiar with your content, you've lost your touch.

00:21:57.940 Here's the video.

00:21:58.760 That it was a baby doll.

00:22:00.240 The whole audience just couldn't get past it.

00:22:03.400 That it was a baby doll.

00:22:04.960 It ruined the whole experience.

00:22:06.380 It completely took you out of it.

00:22:07.780 Suddenly, you're looking at it as a movie and not an experience.

00:22:10.580 So I think reality definitely adds to it.

00:22:13.400 You want to get lost in it.

00:22:14.360 You want to really immerse yourself in the story, and if it's fake, then...

00:22:18.740 How's this show any different than just, say, Survivor?

00:22:21.860 That's a good question.

00:22:23.200 Especially with Jesse that was straining out on the island.

00:22:26.120 Because I don't believe Survivor's real.

00:22:29.840 No.

00:22:30.460 I mean, how could it be when they're talking to the camera?

00:22:33.200 I do think it's real.

00:22:34.900 But it's still, I say, scripted to a certain extent.

00:22:37.400 I guarantee they say, here's where we want you to go with this.

00:22:40.240 This is the character drama we need for this episode.

00:22:42.420 This is the character drama we need for this episode.

00:22:47.880 Okay.

00:22:49.020 Well, Google says it.

00:22:50.700 Your work says it.

00:22:52.060 No one will ever believe you again.

00:22:53.980 It's one thing to create a reality TV show where you create a persona that's hated.

00:22:57.840 You know, you're a Spencer Pratt, for instance.

00:22:59.820 It's another thing when you don't tell people that it's a reality show.

00:23:03.800 You create a series that intends to seem real and people believe it and smart.

00:23:09.980 That's a really good idea.

00:23:10.720 You know, I've talked about it quite a bit with, you know, on Tim Castile and other shows.

00:23:18.740 Faking content is easy.

00:23:20.540 There are people on YouTube right now.

00:23:21.740 What they're doing is they'll take a video of me.

00:23:23.820 They'll take a video of some liberal personality.

00:23:27.740 We never, like, they'll take a clip from this show where I'll say something.

00:23:31.940 They'll put my face in a little box.

00:23:33.880 They'll take a clip from Cenk Uygur from a different show.

00:23:36.160 Someone actually did this.

00:23:37.620 Put his face in a little box.

00:23:38.700 put it on the screen as if we're debating, and then use loops and editing. So I'll be going like

00:23:43.140 this, and then it'll be like a loop. And then Cenk will say something like, I can't believe

00:23:47.940 people actually think that, you know, with the war going on in Iran. And then it'll cut to me

00:23:52.740 going like, oh, just stop. Like, it looks like we're debating. But they were monologue videos

00:23:59.620 speaking generally. This is what people do online. So I don't believe this guy for a second

00:24:06.140 that his latest series about, look at this, he's got a new channel or whatever. He's got 87,000

00:24:13.360 subs and it's all, I'm having a baby. Will the Psycho series ever return? Stuck in a blizzard.

00:24:19.480 We need to get away. Oh no, the results came in. Indeed. It looks like, I'm going to say it like

00:24:27.120 this. It looks like his latest campaign was, I'm going to do a lifestyle vlog and then we're going

00:24:35.320 to slowly ramp it up and it works. Listen, man, maybe it's not a hoax. Maybe he's actually coming

00:24:41.500 out genuinely saying like, guys, this is a thing that happened. But this is a dude who knows that

00:24:45.540 the game is played and he's got 20.2 million views. So how are you going to prove it? That

00:24:52.740 it's real. So this is what I say, my friends. The current sickness, the disease affecting the minds

00:24:58.980 of so many people, the content world. When I pull up Instagram and I'm swiping through,

00:25:03.960 You know what really, really irks me?

00:25:06.340 I'm going to tell you.

00:25:07.740 I see this video.

00:25:08.700 There's a guy and a woman.

00:25:09.520 They're standing in front of a bunch of oranges, a bunch of oranges, and she's got a bag full

00:25:13.360 of oranges, okay?

00:25:15.220 And the man grabs an orange, and he shows it to the wife, and she looks at it, and then

00:25:20.280 she puts it back, and then she starts grabbing other oranges.

00:25:23.340 She then grabs one, puts it in the bag, and goes to the right.

00:25:26.140 The guy looks at the camera, reaches in the bag, and pulls out the orange she just put

00:25:30.720 in.

00:25:31.520 He then shows it to the wife.

00:25:33.400 She takes it.

00:25:34.180 She looks at it.

00:25:35.160 She throws it back into the pile.

00:25:37.720 She then grabs another orange, puts it in the bag.

00:25:40.240 He pulls it right back out and shows it to her.

00:25:42.680 She looks at it and throws it away.

00:25:43.960 The point being, every orange she gives her, she says, no, it's bad.

00:25:48.240 And then when she picks the orange, it's good.

00:25:49.860 So when he shows her the exact same orange, she goes, no, it's bad proving she's only

00:25:56.200 doing it because it's him.

00:25:58.140 OK, now here's the issue.

00:26:00.860 I have seen this video 5,000 times.

00:26:05.160 Not kidding.

00:26:05.960 People just keep remaking the same jokes.

00:26:08.560 Now, there's memes.

00:26:09.420 Memes are fine.

00:26:10.600 A meme is like the ice bucket challenge.

00:26:12.800 Remember that oh so long ago?

00:26:14.760 Everybody says, I'm going to do the ice bucket challenge.

00:26:16.800 Or the cinnamon challenge.

00:26:18.160 Don't, that one's dumb.

00:26:19.540 They put a teaspoon of cinnamon in their mouth.

00:26:20.960 Those were challenges, and we liked watching each other do it.

00:26:25.520 But when you're just stealing the same content over and over again, and they do.

00:26:30.340 I have seen probably 300 different pizza restaurants doing the same jokes.

00:26:36.580 There's one that's really funny where a guy walks in and goes, yeah, what kind of pizza

00:26:40.280 you got?

00:26:41.040 And the guy goes, what do you mean what kind of pizza I got?

00:26:43.340 It's a pizza restaurant.

00:26:44.420 We got pepperoni.

00:26:45.080 We got sausage.

00:26:45.720 Can't you see?

00:26:46.400 Is something wrong with your eyes?

00:26:47.560 And that's it.

00:26:48.660 And it's meant to be a funny video.

00:26:50.640 Okay, I have seen that video 3,000 times.

00:26:54.700 There's a bunch of these things where the guy, he'll be like, if you can beat me, if

00:26:59.360 you can name the right answer. I'll give you a free pizza. There's a trick question. There's a

00:27:03.500 funny one where he's like, I'm going to, I'm going to put a glass of, I'm going to drink this glass

00:27:07.340 of water. He puts a hat over it. And he says, if I can drink this glass of water without lifting

00:27:13.220 that hat, you get, you got to, you got to pay double for the pizza. Otherwise it's free. And

00:27:19.280 the guy goes, okay, you're on. Then the pizza shop guy looks at the hat and he goes, done.

00:27:26.080 And the guy looks at him and says, what?

00:27:28.540 You didn't do anything.

00:27:29.360 I win.

00:27:30.120 So the guy grabs the hat to look at the glass.

00:27:32.300 Then the pizza shop owner grabs the glass and drinks it and puts it back down and says,

00:27:35.220 I didn't touch the hat.

00:27:36.900 And there are a million of these identical trash videos.

00:27:42.740 I think this is gutting content.

00:27:45.300 It's like you scroll.

00:27:46.600 I mean, maybe it's a good thing.

00:27:47.400 You scroll through Instagram and TikTok, and then you see the same video over and over

00:27:50.980 and over again.

00:27:52.580 So in that regard, maybe this guy's doing something special.

00:27:55.940 Here's my ultimate point.

00:27:57.820 People's brains have turned to jello, jello, because of this.

00:28:04.260 It's insanity.

00:28:05.960 It is like the drive and the desperation to make content.

00:28:09.680 There have been days, if you look at my YouTube history, I will only make a couple of videos.

00:28:13.920 I used to every day do six videos on this channel.

00:28:18.600 I'm sorry, on the other channel.

00:28:19.420 I do one on this channel at 4 p.m. and five on TimCast News.

00:28:23.920 Some days, as of recent, I'd just be like, I'm not.

00:28:26.240 I'm not going to make a video for the sake of making a video.

00:28:28.920 It used to be that there was a lot of stuff being written about,

00:28:31.220 but news organizations have been falling apart.

00:28:33.480 And you know what?

00:28:34.860 It's just things change.

00:28:37.520 The place people consume and share information, it's changing.

00:28:40.940 And I suppose I'll put it like this.

00:28:43.500 In 2018, I'd pull up a news article, our website,

00:28:46.620 and I'd see all these interesting videos and stories.

00:28:48.860 I remember there was one from the Daily Mail where it was like,

00:28:51.360 the story was literally just man punches to him in the face in front of a bar. Not a particularly

00:28:56.940 grandiose national story. And then I grabbed it, reacted to it, and I got like 500,000 views or

00:29:02.400 something. I can't remember. Here's the thing. That video is just viral in and of itself on

00:29:07.460 Instagram and TikTok. It's not interesting. We saw it right when it happened. Times, they are

00:29:11.900 changing. So I don't really got anything to react to. I'm like, listen, I've already seen 70

00:29:16.740 Instagram people react to it. We all know it happened. There's nothing for me to add to the

00:29:19.800 story, I'm not going to talk about it. Maybe that means I'll make less money or whatever, but

00:29:23.460 that's the way it is. This stuff, this social media drive, we can put it one of two ways.

00:29:29.020 Jesse Ridgeway got an abortion with his wife and turned it into content. They could have just not

00:29:35.780 done that. They could have just said that they lost the baby. Instead, they decided to turn it

00:29:44.600 into content. And that's disgusting. In the inverse, you can look at another way. Perhaps

00:29:49.580 it's true this guy is just one big hoaxer who faked the whole thing, in which case, man, people

00:29:55.920 have become sick. You know, I guess I can just say it this way. Whether he is actually just turning

00:30:01.560 his abortion into content or faking the whole thing, there is an illness affecting the minds

00:30:06.980 of so many people. Now, listen, it wasn't invented by these people. Reality TV was also bad. And

00:30:13.280 don't get me started on mystery box shows. I can't stand mystery box shows. Hey, let's make

00:30:18.080 a show where literally nothing happens and then you never find out what happens. And then the

00:30:21.200 show ends and you're like, well, that sucked. Thank you. Lost and from reality TV is also bad

00:30:26.680 for a variety of reasons. It's not reality. Certainly there are things in reality that

00:30:30.940 are entertaining. I see it on a day to day basis, but it's one thing to have a show where you put

00:30:35.820 weird people in a room together to watch drama. And that kind of is real. It's another thing to

00:30:40.780 make the fake stuff online that purports to be real where you're monetizing your abortions.

00:30:46.200 Guys, when we get to that point, it's just we're off the cliff. It's one thing for Colorado to

00:30:50.680 say abortion to the point of birth. It's another thing to say I should be allowed to monetize it

00:30:55.760 after the fact. This is like we you think you think the future is going to be like Wally or

00:31:01.500 Terminator. No, it's going to be much, much worse. I'm going to wrap it up there. Smash the like

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The Culture War - Tim Pool - June 05, 2026

Youtuber MONETIZES Abortion In INSANE Viral Story That MAY BE A HOAX

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