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00:02:33.000 Donald Trump has been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency.

00:02:38.000 There are a bunch of viral stories circulating showing Donald Trump having weird bruising on his hand that he covered up with foundation.

00:02:44.000 And it was kind of weird because the foundation didn't match his skin tone, almost like the people who did it didn't know how to do makeup.

00:02:49.000 But apparently it's, I guess people are saying he's old.

00:02:53.000 That's it.

00:02:54.000 Other than that, they're saying his health is great.

00:02:56.000 But we'll talk about that, what that means.

00:02:58.000 And a lot of the commentary is that this is the way it should have been handled with Joe Biden.

00:03:02.000 Just come out and say, he's an old guy.

00:03:04.000 Here's what's happening.

00:03:05.000 So we'll talk about that.

00:03:06.000 Plus, we got some good news.

00:03:07.000 Donald Trump's approval rating among Republicans, despite all the Epstein stuff, it's gone up.

00:03:12.000 CNN's Harry Enton was surprised to see that basically all of the polls show he's improved with the Republican Party despite the controversy.

00:03:20.000 In fact, among Gen X, he is now up 10 points, a massive jump from the previous CNN poll.

00:03:27.000 And Trump has improved with Hispanics. 0.68

00:03:30.000 Kind of weird.

00:03:31.000 And because we have to, I guess, the biggest story in the country right now, some guy got caught cheating on his wife.

00:03:39.000 I'm not kidding.

00:03:40.000 It's a cold play concert, and he was like spooning some woman or something.

00:03:45.000 That's it.

00:03:46.000 And he's had to issue an apology over it.

00:03:48.000 But seriously, the search volume on this is crazy.

00:03:50.000 So I'm actually interested in that angle on why it is the president can be diagnosed with some kind of ailment, but the bigger news story is some guy got caught cheating.

00:03:58.000 Maybe that's why that Joe Cheaters was so popular.

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00:08:23.000 Let's get into it.

00:08:24.000 Here's the news from CNN.

00:08:26.000 Trump diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency following leg swelling.

00:08:31.000 Now, the story was this image right here that had been going viral was actually a couple.

00:08:36.000 Trump's got weird makeup on his hand.

00:08:38.000 Now, the bigger concern I have is why did they not get the skin tone properly?

00:08:44.000 Just orange, it's not complicated.

00:08:47.000 Maybe it's because there is no orange.

00:08:49.000 Don't you just go to Walgreens and they just have a bunch and you just put them next to your skin until it looks good, right?

00:08:55.000 Yeah, the Sephora girls will get you sorted. 1.00

00:08:58.000 All right, I guess.

00:08:58.000 Well, we've got this clip.

00:09:00.000 This is Carolyn Levitt.

00:09:01.000 I know that many in the media have been speculating about bruising on the president's hand and also swelling in the president's legs.

00:09:08.000 So in the effort of transparency, the president wanted me to share a note from his physician with all of you today.

00:09:15.000 In recent weeks, President Trump noted mild swelling in his lower legs.

00:09:19.000 In keeping with routine medical care and out of an abundance of caution, this concern was thoroughly evaluated by the White House medical unit.

00:09:28.000 The president underwent a comprehensive examination, including diagnostic vascular studies.

00:09:34.000 Bilateral lower extremity venous Doppler ultrasounds were performed and revealed chronic venous insufficiency, a b9, and common condition, particularly in individuals over the age of 70.

00:09:49.000 Importantly, there was no evidence of deep vein thrombosis or arterial disease.

00:09:55.000 Laboratory testing included a complete blood count, comprehensive metabolic panel, coagulation profile, D-dimer, B-type, natriotic peptide, and cardiac biomarkers.

00:10:08.000 All results were within normal limits.

00:10:11.000 An echocardiogram was also performed and confirmed normal cardiac structure and function.

00:10:17.000 No signs of heart failure, renal impairment, or systemic illness were identified.

00:10:23.000 Additionally, recent photos of the president have shown minor bruising on the back of his hand.

00:10:28.000 This is consistent with minor soft tissue irritation from frequent handshaking and the use of aspirin, which is taken as part of a standard cardiovascular prevention regimen.

00:10:39.000 This is a well-known and benign side effect of aspirin therapy.

00:10:43.000 And the president remains in excellent health, which I think all of you witness on a daily basis here.

00:10:49.000 Do we believe that?

00:10:51.000 The handshake hypothesis?

00:10:52.000 Well, I mean, all of it.

00:10:53.000 Is he healthy and fine, and he's shaking too many hands?

00:10:57.000 Well, other people were saying it's obviously a spot where you would put an IV.

00:11:00.000 And I looked close up at the high-definition photographs, and there is seemingly an entry point there.

00:11:08.000 And I looked back and found a post as early as November 29th last year showing the makeup on his hand.

00:11:15.000 So it was going on all the way back then, and they just talked about it.

00:11:19.000 And then during Emmanuel Macron's first visit to the White House since the inauguration, people noted that he was grabbing Trump's hand when they shook hands like really hard, like gripping, digging his fingers in.

00:11:31.000 And that's allegedly the same visit when Macrone advised Trump or really asked, begged Trump to tell Candace Owens to stop talking about Brigitte.

00:11:42.000 I don't believe that actually.

00:11:44.000 Late February.

00:11:45.000 I think Candace Owens got spoofed. 1.00

00:11:47.000 I want it to be true.

00:11:48.000 You think by like AI Trump?

00:11:50.000 I think somebody spoofed called her.

00:11:52.000 And the way she described the call sounded like someone spoofed her.

00:11:54.000 She said that Trump jumped right into the conversation without saying what's up, which is indicative of someone pre-recording or having an air ready to go.

00:12:02.000 And then she said that when she made a response, he didn't even acknowledge it.

00:12:05.000 He just kept saying the same thing.

00:12:06.000 And I'm like, yeah, it's because someone spoofed you.

00:12:08.000 But maybe I'm wrong.

00:12:09.000 The prankster hasn't come out and proven it.

00:12:09.000 I don't know.

00:12:11.000 So I'm just speculating over here.

00:12:13.000 I mean, look, the thing that I think most people that are, at least on the conservative side, the questions they have is, you know, the media has noticed this, but they didn't notice four years of a walking corpse in the White House.

00:12:27.000 They didn't notice that President Biden could barely complete sentences.

00:12:33.000 They would call LIDS at one in the afternoon.

00:12:35.000 So, I mean, maybe Trump has something, you know, some health issues, but he's 79.

00:12:43.000 That is fairly typical of someone that age.

00:12:45.000 You know, I'm thinking about all this fiction they've done on, are you guys familiar with what a lich is?

00:12:52.000 Yes.

00:12:52.000 Undead.

00:12:53.000 Lich King.

00:12:54.000 And the way they depict a lich is more functional than Joe Biden was as president, which kind of makes it Less scary now when you're like, oh, it's not actually a scary kind of thing right now.

00:12:54.000 Yeah.

00:13:05.000 It's like it was better than we actually had with the president.

00:13:07.000 I mean, this just makes, it makes it, it reaffirms all of the people that have the opinion: you know, you can't trust the media and you think you hate the media enough, but you can't hate them enough.

00:13:19.000 Like, that's literally the attitude that people should have walking away from this, regardless of what you think about Donald Trump.

00:13:26.000 Like, maybe he's got something going on.

00:13:28.000 I don't think that if it were serious, they would be downplaying it like this.

00:13:33.000 Possibly they could, but he's 220 pounds.

00:13:36.000 He's too bad.

00:13:36.000 Pardon me?

00:13:37.000 Well, yeah, I mean, look, look, he's definitely overweight.

00:13:39.000 He's a big guy.

00:13:40.000 He's overweight.

00:13:41.000 He's the reported weight.

00:13:42.000 Yeah.

00:13:42.000 And again, look, I mean, again, he's 79 years old.

00:13:46.000 He's an older guy, and he's going to have procedures.

00:13:49.000 He's going to have a degradation of health.

00:13:52.000 But honestly, I think the biggest story here is, look, they can see small things on Donald Trump, but the media couldn't tell that President Biden was incapacitated for most of his presidency.

00:14:06.000 And all of the things that are downstream from that.

00:14:09.000 Kamala Harris did not do anything about it.

00:14:11.000 His entire cabinet didn't say anything.

00:14:14.000 Nobody stood up and said, hey, we don't think the president can handle the job.

00:14:18.000 And I think that the American people deserve to be made aware of this.

00:14:23.000 They should have invoked the 25th Amendment, and they didn't.

00:14:25.000 So whether or not you have a problem with Donald Trump, you can't deny the fact that this is obviously showing the double standard that the media consistently.

00:14:35.000 Well, I just, I asked our friend ChatGPT what causes CVI, and it says valve damage or failure, deep vein thrombosa, there's nothing there, weak or narrowed vein walls, risk factors, obesity, pregnancy.

00:14:50.000 Are they telling us something?

00:14:52.000 Franz Donald Trump.

00:14:53.000 Donald Trump is actually, he's been a woman since he, he's been a woman since he started with the Soviet Union as a KGB from the 80s.

00:15:04.000 Yeah, because he was transition.

00:15:07.000 When he was born, because he would have to be premenopausal to be pregnant today. 0.91

00:15:13.000 All the way back to the 80s, just like lack of physical activity.

00:15:13.000 Yep.

00:15:17.000 Didn't Trump say he doesn't work out because he believes that you have a certain amount of energy and you wait.

00:15:22.000 He totally did say that, yeah.

00:15:24.000 I remember it was like time to do that, though.

00:15:27.000 Is that true?

00:15:28.000 Look, you can do, you can tweet and walk on.

00:15:33.000 I'm not sure where I heard that, but I heard that from somewhere.

00:15:36.000 He's constantly traveling.

00:15:37.000 He's constantly on the move.

00:15:39.000 I don't know that I trust CNN in this one, but they wrote, Donald Trump has a very strange theory about exercise.

00:15:46.000 Other than golf, he considers exercise misguided, arguing that a person, like a battery, is born with a finite amount of energy, writes Evan Osnos in a piece titled How Trump Could Get Fired.

00:15:56.000 I believe it.

00:15:56.000 You know what?

00:15:58.000 Wait, wait, hold on, hold on.

00:15:59.000 All of my friends who work out all the time, they're going for knee replacements, hip replacements.

00:16:03.000 They're a disaster.

00:16:05.000 He said he exerts himself fully by standing in front of an audience for an hour, and he just did.

00:16:09.000 That's exercise.

00:16:11.000 I mean, yeah, it's cardio.

00:16:12.000 Don't listen to him go to the gym.

00:16:14.000 I do love the sweet.

00:16:15.000 I have never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke.

00:16:18.000 Gotta have good form, though.

00:16:20.000 That was self-deprecating because he's a fan of Diet Coke.

00:16:22.000 He knows that.

00:16:23.000 Indeed.

00:16:24.000 He's also chunky.

00:16:25.000 Well, after some of his previous tests, I remember it was like in 2022, he was saying, I'm the healthiest president that's ever lived.

00:16:32.000 They did the tests on me.

00:16:33.000 They were like, wow, Mr. Trump, you're so healthy.

00:16:37.000 I don't mind bragging about that.

00:16:38.000 Okay.

00:16:39.000 We know that he's not fully demented like Biden was, but we can't pretend that he is as sharp as he used to be.

00:16:46.000 He's certainly not.

00:16:47.000 And you can tell when you listen to him talk, I mean, he's trailing through these sentences and his voice is not as forceful as it used to be.

00:16:55.000 And it sounds like he has trouble getting it out sometimes.

00:16:59.000 And with his recent posts on Truth Social, it's like, is somebody else writing this stuff?

00:17:04.000 I hope so, because if it's him, that's even worse.

00:17:08.000 Well, there was a behind-the-scenes kind of thing.

00:17:13.000 He's not going to talk to somebody verbally, but that somebody else entirely is coming up with these tweets.

00:17:18.000 I don't.

00:17:19.000 I don't know that I believe Donald Trump would allow that.

00:17:23.000 Other people to truth for him?

00:17:24.000 Yeah.

00:17:26.000 What he's posting is truly deranged.

00:17:28.000 What do you mean, truly deranged?

00:17:29.000 Which posts?

00:17:31.000 I don't want your support anymore.

00:17:33.000 Which ones?

00:17:34.000 I mean, you know, the tweets, not tweets, truths.

00:17:38.000 The ones where he was like, I don't want your support.

00:17:39.000 Related to Epstein.

00:17:40.000 Oh, that's not.

00:17:41.000 I think that that's.

00:17:42.000 You're acting like that happened five years ago.

00:17:44.000 I just don't.

00:17:44.000 What do you mean?

00:17:45.000 I don't remember.

00:17:46.000 The guy tweets all the time.

00:17:47.000 I'm just asking you to be specific because the guy tweets all the time.

00:17:51.000 The point being, like, the stuff about Epstein, like, that shows, I think, less that someone else is doing it and more that it kind of rattles him.

00:17:59.000 Honestly.

00:17:59.000 I think that he just doesn't like to be associated with Epstein.

00:18:02.000 He's in a state of panic.

00:18:03.000 Yeah, I think he's stressed.

00:18:04.000 Yeah.

00:18:05.000 The medical conditions come from stress.

00:18:07.000 Could be.

00:18:08.000 But it's my kind of guess that if things are a little off, it's not because someone else is writing the tweets.

00:18:08.000 Could be.

00:18:16.000 It's because he's a little rattled about the Epstein stuff.

00:18:19.000 I kind of feel like if it was like really big deal, though, they would have tried harder to cover up his skin.

00:18:25.000 Yeah.

00:18:26.000 Because if it were Biden, they would have had a fake hand for him to have instead of just like off-colored makeup.

00:18:32.000 So I kind of feel like he didn't care if people found out because then he went on to present a bunch of healthy reasons he was doing good to counteract all the potential causes.

00:18:41.000 If it was Biden, it would have been a clone.

00:18:43.000 Right.

00:18:44.000 Well, we got another story.

00:18:45.000 Let's jump to this from the Wall Street Journal.

00:18:47.000 Jeffrey Epstein's friends sent him bawdy letters for a 50th birthday album.

00:18:53.000 One was from Donald Trump.

00:18:55.000 The leatherbound book was compiled by Gheelan Maxwell.

00:18:57.000 The president says the letter is a fake thing.

00:19:00.000 Well, J.D. Vance has responded as well.

00:19:02.000 He says, forgive my language.

00:19:03.000 This story is complete and utter BS.

00:19:06.000 The Wall Street Journal should be ashamed for publishing it.

00:19:09.000 Where is this letter?

00:19:10.000 Would you be shocked to learn they never showed it to us before publishing it?

00:19:13.000 Does anyone honestly believe this sounds like Donald Trump?

00:19:17.000 And so that was J.D. Vance's response.

00:19:20.000 And I wonder if they have, let's grab the letter.

00:19:24.000 He said, the letter bearing Trump's name, which was reviewed by the journal, is body, like others in the album.

00:19:28.000 It contains several lines of typewritten text Framed by the outline of a naked woman, which appears to be hand-drawn with a heavy marker.

00:19:34.000 A pair of small arcs denotes the woman's breasts and the future president's signature is squiggly Donald below her waist, mimicking her pubic hair.

00:19:43.000 The letter concludes: Happy birthday, and may every day be another for wonderful secret.

00:19:48.000 In an interview with the journal on Tuesday evening, Trump denied writing the letter or drawing the picture.

00:19:52.000 This is not me.

00:19:53.000 This is a fake thing.

00:19:54.000 It's a fake Wall Street Journal story.

00:19:58.000 I never wrote a picture in my life.

00:19:59.000 I don't draw pictures of women, he said.

00:20:01.000 It's not my language.

00:20:02.000 It's not my words.

00:20:03.000 He told the journal he was preparing to file a lawsuit if it published an article.

00:20:06.000 I'm going to sue the Wall Street Journal just like I sued everyone else, he said.

00:20:13.000 Okay.

00:20:14.000 I mean, what's the evidence that Donald was Donald?

00:20:20.000 They say it isn't clear how the letter with Trump signature was prepared.

00:20:22.000 Inside the outline of the Naked Woman was a typewritten note styled as an imaginary conversation between Trump and Epstein, written in a third person.

00:20:30.000 Voiceover.

00:20:31.000 There must be more to life than having everything, the note began.

00:20:34.000 Donald, yes, there is, but I won't tell you what it is.

00:20:36.000 Jeffrey, nor will I, since I also know what it is.

00:20:39.000 Donald, we have certain things in common, Jeffrey.

00:20:41.000 Yes, we do, come to think of it.

00:20:43.000 Donald, enigmas never age. 1.00

00:20:45.000 Have you noticed that?

00:20:46.000 Jeffrey, as a matter of fact, it was clear to me the last time I saw you.

00:20:48.000 Donald, a pal is a wonderful thing.

00:20:50.000 Happy birthday, and may every day be another wonderful secret.

00:20:55.000 Well, that's ominous.

00:20:57.000 It just says it was signed Donald, though, was it signed Donald Trump?

00:21:01.000 Yeah, where's the signature?

00:21:02.000 Can we handwriting analysis?

00:21:04.000 Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

00:21:05.000 We could tell if it's his.

00:21:07.000 It said it was just Donald over his pubic, like as pubic hair.

00:21:10.000 So that's not Trump's normal signature.

00:21:12.000 No.

00:21:13.000 There was a lot of people talking about this earlier this morning and last night.

00:21:16.000 So that show that I, Tua, which has Mark Halperin.

00:21:20.000 It says bearing Trump's name by the journal.

00:21:23.000 I saw the picture somewhere.

00:21:24.000 I don't know where it is.

00:21:25.000 I'm going to keep trying to look for it.

00:21:26.000 Yeah.

00:21:26.000 You find it.

00:21:27.000 It's buried, you know.

00:21:29.000 So yeah, like I was saying, on 2-A, Mark Halperin and Tean Spicer and Dan Tureen, I think his name is, they were talking about this yesterday, and they were kind of alluding to this being a fairly big deal, or at least something that had the White House, the administration kind of up in arms about.

00:21:46.000 They were upset, upset enough for Donald Trump to call the Wall Street Journal and actually speak to him about it.

00:21:54.000 I feel like it's kind of a nothing burger.

00:21:56.000 Sure, it's a little weird and creepy, but I think that the reason that Trump objected to this is because it's another more evidence of association with Epstein, and he is trying his best to distance himself from Epstein and everything.

00:22:14.000 There's also allegations that Trump met Melania through Epstein.

00:22:20.000 I saw that, yeah.

00:22:21.000 And it's possible that the first time that Trump and Melania had sex, it was on Epstein's plane.

00:22:30.000 These are allegations that I've heard.

00:22:32.000 I'm only telling you the things that I've heard.

00:22:33.000 So I don't know how valid they are.

00:22:35.000 But it doesn't look like Melania, though.

00:22:37.000 Like, if you look at the pictures, it's this blonde woman that does not look like her at all. 0.82

00:22:41.000 I'm not sure.

00:22:42.000 So you've seen the pictures though?

00:22:43.000 I've seen the pictures, yeah.

00:22:44.000 But I'm not 100%.

00:22:46.000 There is a lot of fake news coming up out about this stuff with AI-generated photos and all that.

00:22:51.000 So it's tough to say.

00:22:53.000 Yeah, I mean, a lot of people have a serious interest for either associating Trump with Epstein or doing whatever they can to smear Trump, obviously, because he's the president and it's politics and stuff.

00:23:06.000 It says Trump's name, but are they just saying Donald?

00:23:08.000 Like, where, I, you know, unless they showed it to us, this is what's kind of weird about the story is I don't know who Donald is.

00:23:16.000 Donald could be Trump.

00:23:18.000 Is that what they're claiming?

00:23:19.000 That's the argument, yeah.

00:23:20.000 So anybody named Donald is Donald Trump?

00:23:23.000 I mean, I don't know.

00:23:24.000 Like I said, I haven't seen the picture, but his signature is...

00:23:30.000 It doesn't say it's signed Donald Trump.

00:23:31.000 It's always been fairly distinct.

00:23:33.000 Yeah.

00:23:33.000 It doesn't even seem like something that Trump would say.

00:23:36.000 Sounds like weird fan fiction.

00:23:38.000 Yeah.

00:23:41.000 What is this?

00:23:42.000 Alan Dershowitz.

00:23:44.000 Among those who submitted letters were Leslie Wexner and Alan Dershowitz.

00:23:44.000 Wait, wait.

00:23:49.000 The album also contained a letter from now-deceased Harvard Economist, one of Epstein's report cards from Mark Twain Jr.

00:23:54.000 High School in Brooklyn, and a note from a former assistant that included an acrostic with Epstein's name, Jeffrey O. Jeffrey.

00:24:01.000 Everyone loves you.

00:24:02.000 Fun in the sun.

00:24:03.000 Fun just for fun.

00:24:04.000 Remember, don't forget me soon.

00:24:05.000 Epstein, you rock.

00:24:06.000 You are the best.

00:24:08.000 I don't know.

00:24:09.000 Is that relevant?

00:24:11.000 That is kind of a weird story.

00:24:13.000 Yeah.

00:24:15.000 Again, I think that it's even if it was something written by Trump, the only thing that it does is add more evidence that Trump and Epstein knew each other and they were friendly, which I think.

00:24:27.000 Everyone already knew?

00:24:28.000 Yeah, I feel like that's not really a secret.

00:24:30.000 There's plenty of pictures of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein hanging out before, what is it, 2000 when he decided that he didn't want to be around Epstein anymore.

00:24:39.000 I'm not sure what the context of that was.

00:24:43.000 Yeah, he kicked him out of Mar-a-Lago and stuff.

00:24:45.000 And all the topics, oh, all of them, huh?

00:24:48.000 Yeah, so I mean, I don't see how this is particularly inflammatory other than Trump doesn't like it because it reminds people of Epstein when he's, you know, all the Epstein heat is on now.

00:25:02.000 The part of the base that's challenging Trump on this right now doesn't even believe that he's trying to hide incriminating information about himself in the Epstein files.

00:25:11.000 They want to know who else he's protecting.

00:25:14.000 Yeah.

00:25:14.000 So it seems to be like a total red herring.

00:25:17.000 It doesn't really sound like Trump.

00:25:19.000 No.

00:25:20.000 You know?

00:25:21.000 Trump's the kind of guy who's I mean, kind of.

00:25:27.000 Yeah.

00:25:28.000 But also Trump's the guy who was on a bus and he was like, you know, when you're famous, women let you do whatever you do whatever you want.

00:25:34.000 Yeah, grandma, though. 0.71

00:25:37.000 And, you know, that was kind of like weird, goofy, lovey-dovey.

00:25:42.000 But I don't know.

00:25:42.000 Who am I to say?

00:25:44.000 Supposed to be a letter for his 50th birthday party to the album?

00:25:47.000 I think all the news everywhere all the time is fake now.

00:25:50.000 Kind of feel like that.

00:25:51.000 Well, because we read that Axios stories the other day that said Republicans block a Democrat attempt to publish Epstein files for a second time.

00:26:00.000 And then you find out actually it was a procedural vote on control of the floor.

00:26:04.000 And it's like, oh.

00:26:05.000 And then they say, we want control of the floor, but we're going to publish Epstein.

00:26:08.000 And you're like, no, you can't control the floor.

00:26:10.000 And Axios publishes that Republicans blocked the release of Epstein.

00:26:13.000 And the reason that they didn't want to give up control of the floor is because of all the Doge cuts that were coming later in the day, which passed because it took the vote of the vice president.

00:26:22.000 But the NPR defunding, the PBS defunding, all these things that were tenants of Donald Trump's run and things that Republicans have been trying to do for ages.

00:26:34.000 They're like, oh, yeah, we're not going to give up control.

00:26:36.000 So that way we can make sure these things pass.

00:26:38.000 And then the Democrats are just, oh, well, you're trying to hide the Epstein stuff.

00:26:42.000 And it's very dishonest.

00:26:44.000 But there's a lot of people that run.

00:26:45.000 The left totally ran with it.

00:26:47.000 And that's all you saw all day long is people were replying to Congress people.

00:26:51.000 You voted to, you didn't want to put the Epstein stuff out.

00:26:53.000 You didn't want to put the Epstein stuff out.

00:26:55.000 And it just is patently false.

00:26:57.000 This is boring.

00:26:59.000 Wow.

00:27:00.000 You know, it's.

00:27:01.000 Did you say PBS got defunded?

00:27:03.000 Yeah.

00:27:04.000 So, yeah.

00:27:05.000 Oh, Elmo lashing out just makes PBS so much more.

00:27:11.000 I don't think Elmo got hacked.

00:27:12.000 I think it was an employee.

00:27:14.000 Yeah, they were probably getting fired.

00:27:14.000 Oh, really?

00:27:16.000 They put out a statement that said it was hacked, but...

00:27:20.000 That wasn't Elmo.

00:27:20.000 What?

00:27:22.000 No.

00:27:23.000 Actually, this may be a surprise to you, Phil, but there's a man who inserts his hand inside of Elmo.

00:27:29.000 Oh, nasty. 0.95

00:27:32.000 He's a puppet. 0.99

00:27:34.000 That is so vulnerable. 0.71

00:27:34.000 What? 0.71

00:27:35.000 Is he a Muppet?

00:27:37.000 No, he's not one of the people.

00:27:37.000 Is Elmo?

00:27:38.000 He's not a Muppet.

00:27:38.000 I don't think he's.

00:27:39.000 He's a whole different thing.

00:27:40.000 What does Muppet mean?

00:27:42.000 It's like DC and the MCU.

00:27:44.000 Oh, totally different.

00:27:46.000 Different race of puppet.

00:27:50.000 All right, I guess.

00:27:51.000 Yeah, I'm saying I don't think the account was hacked.

00:27:53.000 I think someone with access to it was going to get fired, commandeered it.

00:27:58.000 And they just say it was hacked in this.

00:28:02.000 Maybe they just, it's easier to say hacked than to say a rogue employee who normally shouldn't have access to this used it.

00:28:08.000 I don't know.

00:28:09.000 Yeah.

00:28:10.000 Yeah.

00:28:10.000 I mean, well, hacked is such a, it's used so colloquial now.

00:28:14.000 Yeah, it's such, it's so broad.

00:28:15.000 It reminded me, like, 13 years ago, there was this guy who dressed up as Elmo in Central Park and started ranting at passersby, including children, about the Jews.

00:28:15.000 It's like.

00:28:26.000 And he was known as anti-Semitic Elmo.

00:28:28.000 What?

00:28:28.000 And there are plenty of videos on YouTube still of this guy ranting about the Jews in Central Park in an Elmo costume.

00:28:35.000 And then a New York Times did like a write-up on him, found out who he was.

00:28:39.000 He claimed his name was Adam Sandler.

00:28:41.000 His name was Zoran von Dami.

00:28:43.000 It was Zoron the whole time.

00:28:44.000 Oh, wow.

00:28:45.000 His first acting job.

00:28:46.000 That's right.

00:28:48.000 Wow.

00:28:48.000 I mean, it really was pretty brilliant, though, to see all of the Elmo memes come out because it harkened back.

00:28:53.000 Do y'all remember that it was like one of the first Elmo memes that came out where he was acting like he's this bougie actor where he's like, Elmo wants his coffee. 0.51

00:29:01.000 You know, you didn't brew the coffee right.

00:29:02.000 He's like throwing it in the face and everything.

00:29:05.000 Like, that's what they built it off of, I think, as well.

00:29:08.000 And it was just brilliant.

00:29:09.000 He's gotten desecrated more than like any other child mascot.

00:29:13.000 There's some body Kermit the Frog stuff out there as well.

00:29:16.000 Oh, true.

00:29:17.000 You know, that I'm not going to describe.

00:29:21.000 Maybe in the after show.

00:29:24.000 But yeah, there's anytime you can take something that's pure and defile it, it's like at least adults and perverts are going to laugh about it.

00:29:31.000 Let's jump to this next door.

00:29:32.000 We got a clip from CNN.

00:29:34.000 Guys, Donald Trump's approval rating with the GOP has gone up during the Epstein scandal.

00:29:39.000 And among Gen X, it has gone up.

00:29:41.000 And among Hispanics, it has gone up.

00:29:43.000 It has gone down a bit in aggregates, but this is actually a funny clip.

00:29:47.000 I love Harry Etten because he's always so surprised to find out that there are people who like Trump.

00:29:51.000 And look, I think this one surprised me a bit because of all these complaints online going after Trump and the Epstein Faj, you might think his approval ratings were going down, Republicans. 0.95

00:30:01.000 If anything, they're going up.

00:30:02.000 Republicans who approve of Trump, look at our CNN poll.

00:30:05.000 The prior one, 86%.

00:30:06.000 The one out this week, 88% were Republicans.

00:30:08.000 How about Quinnipiac?

00:30:09.000 The prior poll, 87% approved of Republicans.

00:30:12.000 This week out, 90% with Republicans.

00:30:15.000 If anything, Donald Trump's approval rating has gone up since this whole Epstein saga started.

00:30:20.000 He is at the apex or close there to in terms of his popularity with Republican voters.

00:30:26.000 Epstein files, complaints or not.

00:30:28.000 You just proved that not everything online is real.

00:30:31.000 Yes, real news.

00:30:33.000 Who knew?

00:30:34.000 Amazing.

00:30:34.000 Twitter and X are not reality.

00:30:37.000 Is there any reason that you can find that this hasn't taken hold and hurt him?

00:30:41.000 Yeah.

00:30:42.000 I mean, on X, all you hear about is the Epstein files.

00:30:45.000 But how about out in the real public?

00:30:47.000 Republicans who said the top issue was Epstein case.

00:30:50.000 The answer is one.

00:30:52.000 And not 1%.

00:30:52.000 One.

00:30:54.000 One respondent.

00:30:55.000 This is a great little finding that Ariel Edwards Levy, who of course is part of our polling unit, found.

00:31:00.000 Just one single Republican said that the nation's top problem is, in fact, the Epstein case.

00:31:06.000 Not much of a surprise that, therefore, Donald Trump's approval rating has not suffered with Republicans because of the Epstein case.

00:31:12.000 Because the bottom line is most Americans say it's not high up on their priority.

00:31:17.000 So is the issue then we are all terminally online and suffering from delusions?

00:31:23.000 I mean, look, man, I was saying Normies don't really care about the Epstein stuff.

00:31:27.000 There are people that care very deeply about it, and they're very vocal, and they're the people that are calling into podcasts and making sure that Charlie Kirk is on point and making sure that Benny's on point.

00:31:37.000 And there are people in the chat here that really care about it.

00:31:40.000 But the average person does not care.

00:31:44.000 It is the economy that matters.

00:31:47.000 And the fact that the economy is actually doing fairly well right now means that people are kind of okay.

00:31:52.000 And they don't want to make drastic changes because they feel like the economy is going to be getting better.

00:31:58.000 Well, and who are they polling?

00:32:00.000 Because if they're polling boomers, that makes sense. 0.95

00:32:03.000 But if it was Gen Z and millennials, I don't think it would be the same. 0.99

00:32:06.000 I agree with you.

00:32:07.000 Yeah, but I said the same thing that you just said prior to the election when Trump over promised on this and we knew that he probably wasn't going to follow through because he qualified it.

00:32:17.000 They were like, are you going to release the JFK files?

00:32:20.000 What about the MLK files?

00:32:21.000 And they went down the list.

00:32:22.000 How about the Epstein files?

00:32:23.000 And he said, yes, but we're going to need to look into that because some people's names might be mentioned in there and they didn't Do anything wrong.

00:32:30.000 So, we're going to have to look into that further.

00:32:33.000 So, we knew he wasn't going to follow through on it.

00:32:35.000 I don't think he should have even engaged with the conversation and made a promise if it weren't realistic to follow through.

00:32:42.000 And people voted on mass deportations and they voted on inflation.

00:32:49.000 They didn't vote based on this issue.

00:32:51.000 And it is a chronically online issue.

00:32:53.000 And anyone watching this live stream, no offense, I'm not even saying you're chronically online, but you're definitely more online than the rest of the population and Trump's supporters.

00:33:03.000 Just the number of people that are actually actively involved in politics in the United States is like vanishingly small.

00:33:10.000 You know, most people don't get really involved in politics.

00:33:14.000 It's the same reason why, you know, every two, every four years, there's the presidential election and there's a bunch of people that turn out, but then the midterms, no one can get to the polls because people aren't, normies aren't particularly interested in politics.

00:33:28.000 And whether you like that or not or whether it's good for the country or not is irrelevant.

00:33:33.000 It's just the way that the way that people behave.

00:33:36.000 Yeah, that's why there's a yearly cycle in political content on YouTube that is it's obvious.

00:33:42.000 The year after an election, views go way down.

00:33:46.000 And then the midterms kick off and you start getting these elections and it starts to bubble up.

00:33:49.000 Then you get a primary year, bubbles up, then a general election and they spend $5 billion and there's ad campaigns everywhere.

00:33:56.000 Everyone's trying to maximize their access to whatever audience.

00:33:59.000 Viewership is skyrocketing.

00:34:01.000 And then everyone gets fatigued and takes the year off.

00:34:04.000 Regular people right now, it's a beautiful July evening.

00:34:08.000 They're probably sitting on their porch with a Yingling or Blue Moon in a rocking chair.

00:34:14.000 Look at the moon.

00:34:15.000 While I'm in a dark room waiting for the next Epstein video to come out, ready to type.

00:34:21.000 Ready to type on eggs how terrible the Epstein stuff is and how right you were and how you knew it all along.

00:34:30.000 Or it's a dead internet.

00:34:32.000 Everyone's a bot.

00:34:33.000 We're doing a show to nobody and everyone just thinks they have viewers.

00:34:37.000 I mean, that's possible.

00:34:39.000 It's going to be funny when in the future, it's just India and Pakistan debating whether like Trump is better than Hillary on X because they were hired to do so and they don't actually know that they're actually warring on the internet.

00:34:50.000 Okay, you doing live events must disprove that theory for you, right?

00:34:55.000 People show up and buy tickets.

00:34:57.000 Yeah, but like doing a show that gets 700, 800,000 viewers is a big number compared to selling 200 seats.

00:35:05.000 You know what I mean?

00:35:07.000 That is true.

00:35:08.000 That was the first time I came to watch you live was at a turning point event.

00:35:12.000 And I remember I was like, oh, there's other people that actually listen to Timcast.

00:35:15.000 This is cool.

00:35:17.000 I had to rant about Ian.

00:35:19.000 Yeah, I thought it was only me that thought Ian was cool.

00:35:23.000 You know, that was always right.

00:35:25.000 Poor Ian.

00:35:27.000 Spaceman.

00:35:28.000 So check this out from Newsweek.

00:35:29.000 Donald Trump's approval rating flips with Gen Z. And I love this headline because they could just write hits, you know, all-time high or something. 0.63

00:35:36.000 The general story is that he's got among Gen Z plus 10.

00:35:41.000 Was it Gen X?

00:35:42.000 I said Z. Oh, my bad.

00:35:43.000 Gen X. Old people, not young people. 0.99

00:35:46.000 Me.

00:35:47.000 Yes.

00:35:47.000 Up 10 points, whereas in April, it was down 13.

00:35:52.000 Then you've got this from New Zealand as well.

00:35:54.000 Approval rate with Hispanic is surging.

00:35:57.000 Not like it's above water.

00:35:58.000 I think it went from, what is it, 26 to 35.

00:36:01.000 But Trump's approval is actually going up at this time, where apparently there's some scandal related to this Epstein thing.

00:36:09.000 I think it shows you that regular people are going, who?

00:36:12.000 Yeah.

00:36:13.000 It's definitely like a horse that's been beaten to a pulp.

00:36:16.000 And it was kind of like the last thing that I was thinking of right now after doing all the stuff that, you know, I feel like I've done to help create some world where Trump got elected again.

00:36:27.000 This is kind of like the time that I was like, okay, well, now we can relax and not think about this for now.

00:36:32.000 I think everything's fake, and that's why no one knows what's going on.

00:36:35.000 Like the polls are all wacky.

00:36:36.000 They go up and down.

00:36:37.000 Like I got the aggregate approval and it's like Reuters minus 13, Qantas minus two.

00:36:43.000 You know, like, who are you going to believe?

00:36:45.000 Big data minus one or economist minus 11?

00:36:49.000 The swings are psychotic.

00:36:50.000 You know, Timmy, you were saying earlier, I think it was on one of the, one of the clips today, like how many things Trump has done that were living up to the promises that he made during the campaign.

00:37:02.000 And even people that were like, oh, you'll never get self-deportations.

00:37:08.000 And I think that I've heard something like a million people or something have possibly self-deported all over the world.

00:37:14.000 There is a million self-deportations.

00:37:15.000 Like that is.

00:37:15.000 Yeah.

00:37:16.000 Where did you see that number?

00:37:17.000 That's the official number, I'm pretty sure.

00:37:19.000 I don't know.

00:37:20.000 It's like all over the internet.

00:37:21.000 Like news articles, I've written it.

00:37:22.000 On the internet.

00:37:23.000 I don't think it's from ICE.

00:37:24.000 They're not publishing the numbers.

00:37:26.000 Well, it's the self-deportation.

00:37:28.000 14,000 deportations by ICE.

00:37:32.000 Self-deportations.

00:37:32.000 Self-deport.

00:37:33.000 I know we're talking about self-deportations.

00:37:35.000 I'm talking about ICE.

00:37:37.000 I think it was 14,000 this month.

00:37:40.000 And if it continues on that track, we're talking less than a million, far less than a million in his entire presidency.

00:37:46.000 That, yes.

00:37:47.000 But the point of all of the pressure that ICE is putting on is to get people to self-deport, right?

00:37:55.000 If they only deport, if, if the whole four years, they only managed to deport 100,000 people, but 5 or 10 million are like, I'm out of here because I want to be able to come back and I don't want to get booted, that's good.

00:38:08.000 I don't know, man.

00:38:09.000 Something about promising mass amnesty doesn't exactly incentivize people.

00:38:13.000 He hasn't promised mass amnesty.

00:38:15.000 He hasn't promised mass amnesty.

00:38:17.000 There's one politician that's talking about it, and she's catching hell.

00:38:21.000 And Donald Trump himself said, or at least Carolyn Levitt today from the podium during the press briefing, said that, no, there will be.

00:38:30.000 So quick fact check.

00:38:30.000 I know it's not.

00:38:32.000 I think that's just Trump's talking point.

00:38:34.000 The only source I could find that claims one million illegal immigrants self-deported was NDTV.

00:38:38.000 And it cites various data from the New York Post and the Washington Post that suggests that's the case.

00:38:44.000 Yeah, this sounds like a cope.

00:38:45.000 It sounds like a cope.

00:38:46.000 Nothing ever happened.

00:38:47.000 You know, I know that it's not technically amnesty because it's technically a special visa program that they want to create for illegal immigrant workers, but effectively it's the same thing.

00:38:59.000 And they're Incentivized to stay when they hear things like that in news coverage.

00:39:04.000 Well, I get what you're saying, but that bill is not going to make it anywhere.

00:39:10.000 It's super unpopular with the base.

00:39:13.000 She's already getting a ton of pushback about it. 0.98

00:39:16.000 She went on to meet the press to talk about it.

00:39:17.000 Salazar is her name, right?

00:39:18.000 That presented the bill or that proposed the bill.

00:39:22.000 And it's not at all what Donald Trump is saying is going to happen.

00:39:27.000 So I understand there are people that have talked about it.

00:39:30.000 Trump has made remarks about farmers meeting the workers and stuff.

00:39:35.000 But overall, there has been more movement on immigration, illegal immigrants, than probably any other thing that Donald Trump has talked about.

00:39:46.000 And whether or not you think it's good enough yet, I understand, but it's already way better than I honestly expected.

00:39:55.000 Because again, if a million people have already self-deported, the more pressure you put on, the better.

00:40:00.000 And there should be things like they should start picking up employers that are hiring illegals. 0.99

00:40:08.000 They should pick up people that they should pick up people that rent home or rent apartments to illegals. 0.99

00:40:15.000 We should be making it as difficult as possible for people that are here illegally because the best option is people to leave voluntarily. 1.00

00:40:22.000 That is like, no, it's not going to happen.

00:40:26.000 Yeah, I just don't think that's going down.

00:40:28.000 No, it's working.

00:40:29.000 But it is happening.

00:40:30.000 Part of this documentary I worked on with Tim, it was fascinating because these migrants would tell me, hey, I want to go back. 1.00

00:40:37.000 They're tired of being here.

00:40:38.000 They don't like the American food.

00:40:40.000 The rent is too high.

00:40:42.000 Tax on remittances will help too.

00:40:44.000 You know, all of these things.

00:40:45.000 And they repurposed the CBP1 app that all of these migrants took into the United States to be the CBP1 home app. 0.77

00:40:53.000 And so we should have the data is the thing, because you could follow it through the app.

00:40:57.000 But I don't know if they've released that.

00:40:58.000 But it is working.

00:41:00.000 And I've heard migrants, they've told me they want to self-deport some of them.

00:41:05.000 That's the hope, right?

00:41:06.000 And that's the best option because then you don't have ICE actually having to go and snatch people up.

00:41:12.000 You don't have interactions with protesters.

00:41:15.000 You don't have any of the negative consequences.

00:41:18.000 And people are just like, well, I'm going to leave.

00:41:20.000 That's the best case scenario.

00:41:22.000 And anything that the administration does to further that goal, I'm down with.

00:41:27.000 Let's jump to this next story, ladies and gentlemen.

00:41:29.000 The late show with Stephen Golbert ending next year as CBS retires the late night franchise.

00:41:37.000 You know, part of me feels bad.

00:41:38.000 The little witch, the little witch, the little witch is there.

00:41:43.000 The little witch is there. 0.52

00:41:46.000 The other half of me, it's self-explanatory. 0.83

00:41:50.000 How embarrassing for Stephen Colbert to be the man who killed the late show.

00:41:54.000 Such a long-running show, a storied show, and Colbert drove a stake through its heart.

00:41:59.000 It's his fault.

00:42:01.000 It is his fault.

00:42:02.000 Since 1993, it was going, and now it's done.

00:42:06.000 Wow, man.

00:42:07.000 Sad.

00:42:08.000 93 is when they started that?

00:42:09.000 Yeah.

00:42:10.000 It's kind of weird that they're shutting it down because I don't quite understand why they don't just convert it into a digital show of some sort.

00:42:18.000 It's a regular talk show with guests.

00:42:20.000 Do you think maybe they are going to do that?

00:42:22.000 And this is kind of like a clickbait title to get people to think they're shutting it down?

00:42:27.000 I don't know.

00:42:28.000 If they're canceling Colbert and they're retiring late night, I don't know.

00:42:34.000 Maybe.

00:42:35.000 Maybe they're hoaxing us because they need clicks.

00:42:38.000 If that is the case, they're so desperate for clicks.

00:42:40.000 Maybe it actually is that bad.

00:42:42.000 Why do you think this is, though?

00:42:43.000 Is it just Stevens' bad political takes?

00:42:45.000 I have made this prediction and I will predict more.

00:42:48.000 I think Fox News, MSNBC, CNN are cooked.

00:42:50.000 The amount of money it costs to make shows like this happen, it is not simple.

00:42:57.000 I like to imagine all of the people around the world lifting up these shows.

00:43:01.000 And it's like, you ask yourself, if you want to do a show like The Five or Colbert or whoever else, how many human beings have to watch that show to make the advertising worth it, to pay all of the staff, the studio, the electricity, and everything?

00:43:17.000 It is a lot, especially when Colbert is now competing with Jim in his basement making a viral video because he called, you know, Trump orange or whatever.

00:43:28.000 How is Colbert going to compete with some random guy on a cell phone who's like, yeah, well, Trump's orange and everyone laughs.

00:43:33.000 And then Colbert with his multi-million dollar enterprise, this show, you can't cut it.

00:43:40.000 The ads are costing the same and the views are the same, but Colbert's spending millions to run his operation and Jim's in his basement.

00:43:46.000 So it's done.

00:43:46.000 Fox, they're on carriage.

00:43:48.000 They got carriage fees, MSNBC, CNN.

00:43:50.000 That's not going to last forever.

00:43:52.000 And you're not going to be able to afford to pay Jesse Waters.

00:43:54.000 With all due respect, I love Jesse.

00:43:55.000 He's a good dude.

00:43:56.000 But his reported salary, I think, is like $5 million.

00:44:00.000 You're not paying that on the amount of traffic that he's getting.

00:44:03.000 And his viewers are dying slowly.

00:44:03.000 Oh, no way.

00:44:05.000 You know, all these viewers.

00:44:07.000 Well, to be fair, I think Jesse gets like $400 or $500 in the key demo.

00:44:12.000 That's not bad.

00:44:13.000 But you are not going to support that building in New York City, the support staff, the cameras, and his salary with that level of viewership.

00:44:24.000 So this is what I was talking to Bill Maher about when I said there will never be another Bill Maher.

00:44:29.000 At his peak, his show's getting millions of views.

00:44:32.000 And now that media is decentralizing, you can't have that kind of format of a show.

00:44:36.000 It's too expensive.

00:44:39.000 Yeah, I brought up the New York Post, I think it is.

00:44:41.000 they posted saying it's about financial decisions right there.

00:44:43.000 Financial decisions.

00:44:46.000 There it is.

00:44:47.000 Colbert, he drove a stake to the heart.

00:44:49.000 They divided their audience.

00:44:50.000 They split it in half.

00:44:52.000 If they did not split the audience and tried to be fairly moderate or less political, maybe they would have actually survived for a little bit longer, but so be it.

00:45:01.000 I think the end is nigh for all of these shows.

00:45:04.000 And I mean, look at iShow Speeder like Hyson at these big Twitch streamers.

00:45:08.000 Dude, it's just a bedroom with the camera.

00:45:11.000 You buy a nice webcam, not a crazy, cheap webcam, and you're going to be getting, they get way more views than these guys do.

00:45:19.000 That's interesting.

00:45:20.000 I've seen like a lot of these shows that are on TV will also, the hosts will go home that night and do their own podcast.

00:45:27.000 Like they're now building amateur sets and like trying to figure it all out, and it's because they see the writing on the walls too.

00:45:33.000 He tried growing a mustache to save his show.

00:45:39.000 Yo, check this out.

00:45:40.000 It's popular with the kids nowadays.

00:45:41.000 You go to the gym and all the Gen Zers have mustaches. 1.00

00:45:44.000 Yeah.

00:45:44.000 Ratings are in for the second quarter of 2025, and it brings the and things remain competitive across late night with Stephen Colbert holding on the top spot in his hour and Greg Gutfeld dominating his slot.

00:45:53.000 According to latenighter.com, citing Nielsen, late show with Colbert topped the 1135 hour in total viewers with an average of 2.417 million views across 41 first-run episodes.

00:46:06.000 The late show was also the only program to show an increase over the first quarter in the, so 2.41.

00:46:12.000 Wow, it's so amazing.

00:46:14.000 So much bigger than our show.

00:46:15.000 In the coveted 18 to 49, 219,000.

00:46:19.000 I think CBS is saying, okay, our average viewer's age is going to be around 69 to 70 years old.

00:46:26.000 That's Fox and MSNBC as well.

00:46:28.000 Fox is actually a little bit younger.

00:46:29.000 It's like 67, 68.

00:46:31.000 So they're thinking, we need to wind this down because over the next 10 years, we are going to rapidly lose whatever viewers we have.

00:46:38.000 More importantly, you know, when it comes to media, when it comes to views and social media and our children's brains rotting, people don't quite understand what a viewer actually is.

00:46:50.000 So when they say 2.41 million views, we then dissect that and say, yeah, older, they're not in the key demo.

00:46:59.000 The question then is, why does that matter?

00:47:02.000 And it's what can you sell to a retiree? 0.86

00:47:05.000 So less likely to have disposable income.

00:47:07.000 They're going to be on budgets.

00:47:09.000 I turn on Fox News every day, and the commercials are all drugs.

00:47:13.000 All drug commercials.

00:47:14.000 Not all of them, but a lot of them.

00:47:15.000 And then there's this one commercial that plays nonstop about fixing your eye bags, which I guess old guys are really concerned about that.

00:47:23.000 And that commercial comes on 24-7.

00:47:25.000 Oh, yeah.

00:47:26.000 And then there's that one commercial where, I don't know if you guys, do you guys watch this stuff?

00:47:30.000 I've seen some of them, but I don't watch it.

00:47:31.000 The commercial where the women are sitting in the stool and the guy walks in, and then they're wearing blindfolds, and they're like, oh, he smells so good.

00:47:39.000 Oh, yeah.

00:47:40.000 I've not seen this one.

00:47:41.000 You guys have seen that one?

00:47:42.000 I want you to describe it.

00:47:43.000 Continue.

00:47:44.000 Please go on.

00:47:45.000 So there's like three different chicks. 1.00

00:47:47.000 And then you see a guy in a suit walk past them and they inhale deeply.

00:47:52.000 And then the guy walks out and they're like, wait, did he just leave?

00:47:57.000 And then it ends with the woman going, please bring him back.

00:48:00.000 But I'm like, hold on.

00:48:02.000 You're not selling me on the cologne because if an attractive, wealthy, powerful guy walked in, it doesn't matter if they could see or not see him.

00:48:10.000 They like the way he smells fine. 0.99

00:48:12.000 Prove the cologne works by holding up a dog's ass and then having them sniff and go, he smells so good. 0.99

00:48:19.000 And it's like, hey, if it can make a dog's ass smell good, you know, what can it do for you? 0.99

00:48:24.000 Those are the commercials that are running on Fox News. 0.99

00:48:26.000 Okay.

00:48:26.000 So you get it.

00:48:27.000 Yeah, it's true.

00:48:29.000 Sooner, I don't know who they're targeting with that, I guess, but hey, more power to the company that sells that product.

00:48:34.000 But they were doing pillow commercials for a while on Fox.

00:48:37.000 Tucker's gone.

00:48:38.000 What can you sell to this older demo?

00:48:40.000 And I'm willing to bet it's, you know, no disrespect to the older folks out there, but you're probably selling for a lot less, right?

00:48:47.000 Check this out.

00:48:48.000 Gutfeld in the 10 p.m. slot got 3.289 million viewers and 238,000 in the demo.

00:48:58.000 This is mind-blowing to me.

00:49:01.000 This is the key demo viewership being as low as it is.

00:49:05.000 I don't know, man.

00:49:06.000 I kind of feel like we're facing a cultural apocalypse.

00:49:10.000 Culture is fragmenting in these ridiculous ways, but it's not like it was maybe after the fall of the Roman Empire where you had pockets of cultures.

00:49:19.000 Those people lived together.

00:49:20.000 And so they developed like you get the romance languages.

00:49:23.000 They start to evolve their own languages.

00:49:25.000 What we're getting is people who live next to each other are part of different online communities all fractured and fragmented.

00:49:32.000 So when these, you know, 10 years ago, maybe 20 years ago, that 3 million viewers for Guttfeld, they were the key demo.

00:49:39.000 The key demo has not been replaced.

00:49:42.000 So these shows will cease to exist in 10 years.

00:49:46.000 What will people watch and what will they talk about at the water cooler?

00:49:50.000 Some guy's going to walk in and he's going to be like, so did you see the new release of Magic the Gathering?

00:49:56.000 You know, what is it, Edge of Eternities?

00:49:58.000 And they're going to be like, what?

00:50:01.000 I have no idea what you just said.

00:50:03.000 No, I was watching basketball.

00:50:04.000 And they're going, oh, yeah, I don't watch that.

00:50:06.000 I mean, look at baseball.

00:50:07.000 It's crazy.

00:50:08.000 Baseball fields all overgrown everywhere.

00:50:10.000 What is the future going to look like when people are getting all of their cultural content from random places?

00:50:16.000 That's a great question.

00:50:17.000 I think when you brought up Tucker, though, I think it was a great point because when he left Fox News, he did like 10 times better.

00:50:23.000 His views tripled or whatever.

00:50:25.000 He got a way bigger audience.

00:50:27.000 So, I mean, I think it's going to be good that these are dying slowly.

00:50:31.000 But what is it going to do to the culture?

00:50:33.000 That's a really fascinating question.

00:50:36.000 The shared experience that people used to have.

00:50:38.000 I do find it harder to watch Tucker now that you have to go and seek it out.

00:50:42.000 So maybe people that like him are going to just kind of go further in the direction of more niche shows.

00:50:51.000 So that could be...

00:50:52.000 So, Tucker, let's do some...

00:50:55.000 His last video, it's two hours.

00:50:56.000 It's got 172.

00:51:00.000 His show before that was two hours.

00:51:02.000 It got 297K.

00:51:04.000 He did a show with George Santos, 1 million.

00:51:07.000 That's good.

00:51:08.000 He's got another one.

00:51:09.000 It's two hours.

00:51:10.000 It's 282,000.

00:51:12.000 Sagar and Jetty, they hit 2 million.

00:51:14.000 Very good.

00:51:15.000 Talking about Epstein cover-up.

00:51:16.000 1.6 million with the Iranian president.

00:51:21.000 His announcement, you know, it's 28 minutes.

00:51:24.000 So it fluctuates depending who's talking to.

00:51:26.000 He gets 800,000.

00:51:26.000 He talks to Scott Horton.

00:51:27.000 It seems like when Tucker Carlson talks about Israel, he gets a lot.

00:51:33.000 I don't know.

00:51:34.000 I mean, that's just honestly what it is.

00:51:39.000 There's a lot of people in Saudi Arabia that tune in.

00:51:42.000 So it actually fluctuates quite a bit, I think, depending on the subject matter, but around a million.

00:51:47.000 But he was getting, I think in the key demo, Tucker was getting a lot more on Fox News.

00:51:50.000 Oh, really?

00:51:51.000 My bad.

00:51:51.000 Okay.

00:51:52.000 He was getting like 3 to 5 million total, but I think his key demo was like close to a million, which was massive.

00:51:58.000 So maybe he's maintaining that Because YouTube is probably going to be largely key demographic.

00:52:02.000 And then on X, it says that he gets millions, but a view on X is like someone swiped past you.

00:52:08.000 So it's hard to know the actual number.

00:52:10.000 But that's good.

00:52:11.000 I mean, it's good if there's going to be at least some individuals holding on.

00:52:14.000 But come on, Tucker's also, how old is he?

00:52:16.000 Late 50s or whatever?

00:52:17.000 He's like 55, I think.

00:52:18.000 55?

00:52:18.000 Mid-50s.

00:52:19.000 Mid-50s, yeah.

00:52:20.000 So how do we hold on to any kind of culture without a unified, I guess, content house or something?

00:52:30.000 I don't know.

00:52:31.000 It comes YouTube TV.

00:52:33.000 But what is it going to be like Mr. Beast?

00:52:35.000 Probably.

00:52:36.000 I don't know anybody who watches Mr. Beast.

00:52:36.000 I got to be honest.

00:52:38.000 Yeah, but everyone watches Asmund Gold.

00:52:40.000 Oh, yeah.

00:52:41.000 That's true.

00:52:43.000 I mean, I watch Asmund Gold like every day.

00:52:45.000 I don't even watch Twitch.

00:52:45.000 I just watch his clips when he posts stuff because I want the concise thing and I want to see what he has to say about it.

00:52:49.000 And yeah, he does watch video.

00:52:51.000 Yeah, nice.

00:52:51.000 Yeah, true.

00:52:53.000 That's like what a lot of people do anyways.

00:52:54.000 And honestly, his opinions when he actually gives them are usually spot on.

00:52:58.000 What I've noticed.

00:52:59.000 Roche can come on the show.

00:53:01.000 Here's one of the big challenges with this industry right now.

00:53:04.000 When I started making YouTube videos, well, the first phase I made was like 13 years ago.

00:53:08.000 It was like during Occupy and stuff.

00:53:10.000 But when I started dedicating full time to this, there was too much news.

00:53:15.000 There was so much going on across all these different platforms.

00:53:18.000 There were like 300 different blogs that covered various issues that were prominent or presenting an angle.

00:53:28.000 Yo, it is dwindling.

00:53:31.000 The amount of content that's being produced is getting less and less and less every day.

00:53:36.000 I used to do, what was it about, five or six segments per day?

00:53:40.000 Now I'm doing like three.

00:53:43.000 I'm doing four with one interview.

00:53:45.000 And so we're doing the interviews now largely as to do something different, try and actually get to the bottom of things, you know, do a little some journalism.

00:53:54.000 But man, there are days where it's like no website has written anything substantive.

00:54:01.000 And then I'll go to like, I'll visit Newsweek or CNN or the Times or the Post or the Journal, and the stories are like analyses of past stories, like they had nothing to write about.

00:54:12.000 And I think what's happening is it's fairly obvious journalism is too expensive.

00:54:16.000 The amount of money that it takes to employ a full-time journalist who's going to do a good job is more than that journalist is going to produce.

00:54:21.000 So who's going to pay for that?

00:54:22.000 Bezos?

00:54:24.000 A billionaire who doesn't mind losing money?

00:54:26.000 And then when they stop producing content, shows like Timcast don't exist because we just read the news and comment on it for the most part.

00:54:33.000 Well, you're doing boots on the ground journalism.

00:54:35.000 You sent me out to go.

00:54:36.000 Yeah.

00:54:37.000 We have to.

00:54:38.000 Nobody else is doing it.

00:54:40.000 You know, it's going to be really weird.

00:54:41.000 It's going to be, I mean, the way I describe it is it's Elsa Gate for adults.

00:54:45.000 It's just going to be.

00:54:48.000 Oh, you know what?

00:54:49.000 I'll put it this way.

00:54:51.000 I think I told the story already.

00:54:52.000 I'm going to say it again.

00:54:53.000 We went to Bowling Alley over the past weekend.

00:54:57.000 ESPN was playing X Games 99.

00:54:59.000 Oh, sick.

00:55:00.000 Tony Hawk just released 3-4.

00:55:04.000 They redid Tonyak 3-4.

00:55:07.000 They remastered Tonyak 1-2.

00:55:09.000 So check this out.

00:55:10.000 Check this out.

00:55:11.000 Activision released Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 and it bombed miserably.

00:55:15.000 Nobody cared about the characters.

00:55:17.000 Nobody cared about the game.

00:55:18.000 Nobody wanted to play it.

00:55:19.000 So they re-release Tonyak 1 and 2 and it sells gangbusters.

00:55:24.000 You know why?

00:55:24.000 There's no young people.

00:55:26.000 So they're constantly trying to market to whatever the biggest market share is going to be, which is older people.

00:55:31.000 I was looking up the top 10 selling artists of 2024 ticket sales.

00:55:38.000 Who do you guys think is the biggest?

00:55:40.000 Kayla Swift?

00:55:41.000 No.

00:55:41.000 Morgan Wallen?

00:55:42.000 No.

00:55:43.000 Those are good guys, though.

00:55:44.000 They're both on the list.

00:55:45.000 It's Cold Play.

00:55:46.000 Oh, wow.

00:55:47.000 I believe it was Cold Play.

00:55:49.000 And there was only one Gen Z on the list of the top 10.

00:55:53.000 One Gen Z. Who do you guys think it is? 0.91

00:55:55.000 You.

00:55:56.000 What's your answer?

00:55:56.000 You're young.

00:55:57.000 Serena Carpenter?

00:55:59.000 Nope.

00:55:59.000 She's nowhere near the top 10.

00:56:01.000 Ensign Boone.

00:56:02.000 Nope.

00:56:03.000 No.

00:56:05.000 Anybody got a better guess?

00:56:05.000 Lily Eilish?

00:56:06.000 Nope.

00:56:07.000 No.

00:56:10.000 No idea.

00:56:10.000 Olivia Rodrigo.

00:56:12.000 She was like number six. 0.57

00:56:14.000 I was surprised to see this because in the late 90s and into the 2000s, we had a lot of pop stars who were 18, 19, and 20.

00:56:23.000 Very, very young.

00:56:24.000 The average age right now, I think, is 48 years old for a top performing artist.

00:56:30.000 In the 2000s, it was your 30s because you still had the Rolling Stones that were touring really well.

00:56:35.000 You still had Kiss.

00:56:37.000 So the older people skewed with the younger people and created the meeting around like the 30s.

00:56:41.000 Now it's high 40s because Gen Z can't sell tickets. 1.00

00:56:44.000 How many tickets do you think?

00:56:47.000 I don't actually have the full numbers.

00:56:49.000 I think Taylor Swift sold maybe 1.5 million tickets or something like that.

00:56:57.000 Maybe?

00:56:59.000 The entire Aries tour?

00:57:01.000 Yes.

00:57:01.000 No, I imagine it's more because if she does a stadium, a stadium is like 75,000 average.

00:57:07.000 Like SoFi Stadium, which she sold out in LA, like that was the same place that we played when I was.

00:57:13.000 5.2 million.

00:57:14.000 Yeah, that sounds good.

00:57:15.000 In 2024, she sold 5.2 million tickets.

00:57:20.000 However, the entire tour was over two years.

00:57:23.000 It sold 10.17 million.

00:57:25.000 For this, I only care about the 2024 calendar, which was 80 shows for Taylor Swift and 5.2 million.

00:57:32.000 How many tickets do you think Sabrina Carpenter sold? 1.00

00:57:34.000 Do you mean Olivia Rodrigo?

00:57:36.000 Sabrina Carpenter.

00:57:37.000 No, I mean Sabrina Carpenter because people think she's a big Gen Z star. 0.99

00:57:41.000 None.

00:57:42.000 Maybe less than a million.

00:57:44.000 It's like 250,000.

00:57:45.000 Wow.

00:57:46.000 She sold out her arena tour, but these are 10,000 seaters.

00:57:50.000 And so people in Gen Z, I saw these posts on Reddit where they were like, she's selling out.

00:57:54.000 And Beyonce can't. 1.00

00:57:54.000 Wow. 1.00

00:57:56.000 Beyonce was selling stadiums to 90,000 and Sabrina Carpenter was selling to 10,000.

00:58:00.000 And she sold a couple, like between 200 and 300,000.

00:58:03.000 Look, live music.

00:58:04.000 That's crazy.

00:58:04.000 Live entertainment and live music.

00:58:06.000 And it's not like it was 20 years ago.

00:58:08.000 Like you're competing with everything on the internet.

00:58:12.000 And you're doing it where people have to pay 20 bucks to park.

00:58:16.000 If they want to have any drinks, they're paying $10 a drink.

00:58:19.000 If you buy a ticket for your girlfriend too, I mean, your tickets are probably going to be, like when we go on tour, all that remains tickets, we try to keep them below 30 bucks for the ticket.

00:58:28.000 And then your fees and stuff are usually about $40, but it's $80 for you and your girlfriend.

00:58:32.000 And then you want a couple drinks.

00:58:34.000 That's, you know, just if you have one drink or two drinks apiece, you're talking about another 20 or 30 bucks.

00:58:38.000 And then you're going to go ahead and tack on parking, convincing people to leave the house for that.

00:58:43.000 It's hard enough to get people to decide to leave when the price is $150 for a night out.

00:58:49.000 That's a lot of money and it's a really big ask.

00:58:53.000 And you're competing with Netflix, which they're already paying $10 for, and whatever other streaming services they pay for.

00:59:01.000 And you're competing with Xbox and you're competing with all these things and all these reasons for people to just stay home.

00:59:06.000 It's really hard to get people to come out to.

00:59:08.000 Just really got to like the band.

00:59:10.000 It's true.

00:59:11.000 You really do.

00:59:12.000 How do artists make money now then?

00:59:14.000 That's still.

00:59:14.000 Spurring is still the best way to make money because Spotify pays 0.00007 cents per spin.

00:59:21.000 Brutal.

00:59:22.000 Yeah, real brutal.

00:59:23.000 Let's jump to this next story, ladies and gentlemen.

00:59:23.000 Wow.

00:59:25.000 We got this video from a company called Protector, introducing patrol.

00:59:31.000 Homeowners in LA can now book off-duty police officers to help protect their homes.

00:59:35.000 Now available in Brentwood, Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Homeby Hills, and Malibu with more areas coming soon.

00:59:41.000 Roll tape.

00:59:42.000 There are times you can't be home, but that doesn't mean your home has to be unprotected.

00:59:47.000 Maybe the kids just got home from school and you're stuck in traffic.

00:59:51.000 Or maybe you're about to travel halfway across the country, finally taking that vacation.

00:59:56.000 Or it's just another quiet night and you'd rather sleep knowing someone's looking out for you.

01:00:01.000 When you book a private patrol, you're getting more than just presence.

01:00:04.000 You're getting protection from trained off-duty officers.

01:00:08.000 You might not always be home, but with patrol, someone is.

01:00:12.000 So is this like Uber for private security?

01:00:15.000 Seems like it.

01:00:16.000 So Serge, are we turning into South Africa?

01:00:19.000 It's my first hope.

01:00:22.000 I need to ask.

01:00:23.000 It's like, it looks like private security.

01:00:25.000 It's the same thing that South Africa has.

01:00:26.000 And like everyone, like literally every, people don't understand every household in South Africa that is like of even like middle class wealth has like private security and big fences and on the top of those like stucco walls is like glass that's inside there or spikes or something like that because that's the reality South Africa is breaking entering happens all the time and that's what that looks like as soon as I see this and you know what when I left LA when I left Hollywood I was like wow this feels a lot like South Africa so I this was gonna come eventually it's gonna come eventually look I mean for when you're not home I think that's a good idea but

01:00:56.000 When it comes to if you're at home, if you can afford it, sure.

01:01:00.000 But look, especially in places like California, why don't you just allow people to carry their own firearms?

01:01:05.000 But you're not home.

01:01:06.000 These people who are using Uber private security, this service, are the people who are not willing to own or carry guns.

01:01:15.000 They're the ones who are there.

01:01:16.000 The ones who say defund the police.

01:01:19.000 They're the same people.

01:01:20.000 So yeah, they're anti-private gun ownership, and that's why they are using a service like this.

01:01:26.000 I don't think that even changing their gun laws would make any difference.

01:01:30.000 Well, like I said, if you're not home, I think this makes perfect sense, and especially if you have a nice house.

01:01:35.000 If you're up in Calabasas or something like that, it makes sense, even though Calabasas is a gated community, multiple gates in the area.

01:01:42.000 I mean, or you could fund the police.

01:01:44.000 Well, I mean, you know, that might be a thing.

01:01:46.000 What they could have done for the ad.

01:01:47.000 iOS only.

01:01:48.000 I can't check it out.

01:01:49.000 You can use my phone if you want.

01:01:51.000 What they could have done for the ad.

01:01:52.000 I remember I was in L.A. during the fires, and I was filming these houses that were on fire, and this guy shows his pistol to me.

01:01:59.000 And he's like, yeah, we have people just going through raiding all these houses.

01:02:02.000 They should have had the patrol car pull up to a burning house and be like, you can have your house protected.

01:02:08.000 To be fair, so private security exists all over the place.

01:02:13.000 We obviously have our private security company.

01:02:15.000 There's a bunch of really big ones.

01:02:16.000 Obviously, there's G4S and Securitas.

01:02:18.000 Just because someone was like, we can make it easier to book doesn't mean it's an example of us decaying into this state where everybody needs private security.

01:02:28.000 Do you guys know about the L.A. area?

01:02:31.000 You all know what Brentwood is?

01:02:32.000 Yeah.

01:02:33.000 Everybody's nodding.

01:02:34.000 Okay, you're rich in Brentwood.

01:02:35.000 Okay, Beverly Hills, Bel Air.

01:02:36.000 They made a TV show about it.

01:02:38.000 These are rich people who want security.

01:02:39.000 They buy security all the time.

01:02:40.000 And this is just a commercial for an easy way to get security.

01:02:43.000 I'm sure currently most of these people already have security, and they just call a private company and book it through phone.

01:02:49.000 Now they can book it through app.

01:02:51.000 It's a great idea, but it's indicative of the failure of the local governance there that we need this.

01:02:56.000 But shout-outs to capitalism for having a solution.

01:02:58.000 Yeah.

01:02:59.000 I mean – Kind of, but what happens to a state where capitalism is layered on top of communism?

01:03:04.000 That's true.

01:03:05.000 Yeah, in California.

01:03:06.000 It breaks down.

01:03:07.000 You don't have the money for it.

01:03:08.000 Yeah.

01:03:08.000 You're spending money on a service you don't get.

01:03:10.000 So to be fair – I accept your argument as well, your counterpoint – you shouldn't have to hire a patrol to watch your house when your kids come home.

01:03:20.000 We used to keep our doors unlocked.

01:03:22.000 What happened to this country, Phil?

01:03:24.000 A lack of social cohesion.

01:03:27.000 Yeah.

01:03:28.000 People do not have the same values.

01:03:30.000 Even though I call myself a Catholic curious, the lack of religion I think is a bad thing for society overall. 0.99

01:03:44.000 I think when a society doesn't have a religion that most people generally agree on, then you turn to things like the state for your religious – to fill that hole that's left in your – and I mean, look.

01:03:59.000 In my opinion, religion's – from my perspective, it seems like religion's more like language, like a way to communicate with people.

01:04:07.000 Like if you are of the same religion, there's a whole ton of things that you automatically know that you have in common with that person.

01:04:12.000 Right?

01:04:13.000 Even if you don't speak the same language, there's a lot of similarities in – if you're both Catholic or whatever.

01:04:20.000 And I think that that's something that really helps to bind communities together.

01:04:23.000 Do you guys think this company would be happy or angry that we're discussing the failures of governance that requires private security in this way?

01:04:33.000 I'm sure they'd love it because it's promoting their business.

01:04:37.000 Yeah.

01:04:37.000 You can also pick out which uniform they're supposed to wear.

01:04:40.000 Really?

01:04:40.000 I looked at the app page.

01:04:42.000 A couple of things you mentioned, Phil, are not really causes, though.

01:04:46.000 There are symptoms.

01:04:47.000 And the cause – or one of the major causes is just demographic change, especially in L.A. That's what's affecting them.

01:04:57.000 that is cultural cohesion like a group of demographic change is cultural cohesion they they They are overlapping on each other.

01:05:04.000 A group of people that grew up like a group of people who grew up in Chicago eating Chicago hot dogs are all going to laugh and joke about the Maxwell street dog with grilled onions or whatever.

01:05:14.000 Then you bring in a bunch of people from Honduras and they're going to go, okay? 1.00

01:05:18.000 So when you decide to have a hot dog cookoff, half the people show up and they make tacos.

01:05:24.000 There's no cultural cohesion.

01:05:25.000 There's totally different worldviews on what they want to celebrate.

01:05:29.000 So I think it really comes down to when you have a tight-knit community, when you go to church together, I'm just an example of what humans used to do.

01:05:39.000 You don't commit crimes or you're less likely to commit crimes against people because they're part of your social sphere and it's dangerous to do so.

01:05:45.000 You get ostracized.

01:05:47.000 But when you take two different distinct communities, put them next to each other, they're going to be like, I can wrong you and no one over here cares.

01:05:53.000 And then that's what you get.

01:05:55.000 This is a big thing.

01:05:56.000 I made a documentary on Santa Monica.

01:05:59.000 Check it out on 67 Kevin on YouTube.

01:06:01.000 And I went there and found that people actually went to Santa Monica to steal things because the cops are just so lax there.

01:06:08.000 So it's just known around the world.

01:06:10.000 You mean home invasion or shoplifting?

01:06:12.000 All of the above.

01:06:15.000 Let me tell you about, I think it's Oak Brook Terrace in Illinois, one of the highest crime rates in the country, or it was 20 years ago.

01:06:21.000 And it's a wealthy, tiny suburb.

01:06:24.000 But tons of people from the hood in Chicago go there because they know it's a, rich people live there and it's a big shopping area.

01:06:32.000 So they would just go and rob them as they left the mall.

01:06:34.000 Half the Santa Monica Promenade is shut down.

01:06:34.000 Exactly.

01:06:37.000 It's just a ghost.

01:06:38.000 Right now?

01:06:38.000 Yeah.

01:06:39.000 If you go down there, if you go to the second half of the promenade, it's just closed business, closed business, closed business.

01:06:44.000 And it's because of the shoplift.

01:06:46.000 And this is why it's so important for, you know, when we do have immigration, it's so important to have assimilation. 0.51

01:06:52.000 That's why, like, I'm pro, like, shut the border down, no more immigration for, like, five or 10 years. 0.99

01:06:57.000 Like, nobody.

01:06:58.000 Let the people here become American.

01:07:00.000 That's why I'm pro national language being English.

01:07:04.000 The federal government should stop producing any materials that are not written in English.

01:07:08.000 Because that, it's not because I'm hateful of other people, but it's because the United States needs to be a cohesive society.

01:07:16.000 You know, as much as we can.

01:07:17.000 We're such a massively large country with so many different cultures here in the U.S. We need to do as much as we can to encourage people to assimilate and become American. 0.99

01:07:29.000 Get rid of all the garbage, leftist crap that you're getting in schools that teach that America is a bad place and you should hate America or you should be ashamed of the United States. 0.97

01:07:40.000 Teach the people about the good things that America's done. 1.00

01:07:43.000 Don't hide things that we've failed on.

01:07:44.000 That's fine to teach them, but don't focus on them.

01:07:47.000 Don't focus on our differences.

01:07:49.000 That was one of the most important things about getting rid of critical race theory in schools.

01:07:53.000 Like that stuff was teaching people to hate America and other Americans.

01:07:58.000 You need to teach people to have a society that is cohesive.

01:08:02.000 You need to have people that understand each other and that starts with the language.

01:08:06.000 Stop immigration for a while and allow the people that live here to actually become Americans. 1.00

01:08:11.000 And we should be doing things to encourage that. 1.00

01:08:14.000 And to say that it's bad to encourage people to become American or to assimilate to the United States is just stupid. 0.99

01:08:22.000 And people will try to make... 0.96

01:08:26.000 That's why I said no more immigration for 10. 1.00

01:08:28.000 I mean, I'm cool with that.

01:08:30.000 I mean, I understand it's going to take a while, but I'm perfectly fine with saying, look, no more, only the O1 visas, only the people that are actually really skilled that we want to, you know, that we're like, okay, this person has a unique skill.

01:08:43.000 I get what you're saying, but I think that's not going to reverse the trend of young people having no families.

01:08:49.000 Oh, you're totally right.

01:08:51.000 I think that it's just one piece of the puzzle to actually fix the United States, but I think that it's an important step.

01:08:57.000 I think what we're looking at is an inevitable collapse.

01:09:00.000 And I think the issue with that kind of statement is that people immediately imagine the cities are on fire and there's like rockets and meteors and the world's ending.

01:09:07.000 No, it just means there's going to be less stuff.

01:09:10.000 People are going to have less access and they're going to have to work, maybe not even work harder, to be honest.

01:09:16.000 I think people will start leaving cities.

01:09:18.000 With less people, there's going to be more space and it's going to shrink.

01:09:24.000 It's going to start reverting back a little bit to kind of more of a homesteady kind of existence.

01:09:32.000 Wild West?

01:09:34.000 A little bit, yeah.

01:09:35.000 Cities won't be able to support their water infrastructure.

01:09:38.000 You know, we talked about the cancellation of Colbert and how, like, let's just do a hypothetical number.

01:09:43.000 In order to make a show like Colbert work, you need 500, let's just say you need 1 million viewers.

01:09:48.000 1 million viewers is a threshold by which you can sell an advertisement that will, after enough of them, fund the show.

01:09:54.000 Otherwise, you're doing volume and you're like, we have to do 15 ads every ad break to make enough money because it's not enough people.

01:10:00.000 Well, then there's saturation.

01:10:02.000 You can only show an ad to the same people so many times.

01:10:04.000 So eventually sponsors stop buying because they're like, look, the sale, it's a diminishing return.

01:10:09.000 That's the same thing with how water operates in all these big cities.

01:10:13.000 So Detroit's the best example because we experienced this.

01:10:16.000 When people started fleeing Michigan, the cost of the water infrastructure in Detroit stayed static, but the amount of people to fund it went down.

01:10:24.000 All of a sudden, they couldn't afford to run their water system anymore.

01:10:27.000 So this is what kicked off the whole Flint crisis because Flint was like, the cost of us using Detroit water is too expensive.

01:10:33.000 So let's get off it and go to Flint water, which was toxic and corrosive.

01:10:37.000 And so everybody got sick.

01:10:38.000 That's going to start happening to all our cities as population declines.

01:10:41.000 This is probably why, at least one of the reasons, Democrats are like, open the border and let everybody in.

01:10:47.000 We need a tax base no matter what.

01:10:49.000 And I think Trump's view is I don't care about any of that.

01:10:52.000 He wants the American tradition.

01:10:55.000 He wants Christmas morning and gingerbread houses.

01:10:59.000 And the majority of Americans, I think, agree with him.

01:11:01.000 At least that's why they voted for him.

01:11:03.000 The only problem is, Phil, if, you know, without the mass migration, and I'm not saying we should have it, then we're already looking at labor shortages to a great degree.

01:11:13.000 And with the older generation aging out, you know what?

01:11:15.000 You want something funny?

01:11:17.000 We were talking to a flooring company and we were told they can't, the people working in the company can't remove the subflooring anymore because they're too old.

01:11:23.000 Jeez.

01:11:24.000 Wow.

01:11:24.000 No, no, no, there's a flooring company.

01:11:26.000 And we were like, we don't just need like Laminate.

01:11:28.000 We need the subfloor removed and replaced.

01:11:30.000 You're a flooring company, right?

01:11:31.000 Like, yeah, but our guys who work are kind of too old to do it now.

01:11:35.000 They could only do some stuff.

01:11:36.000 And we were like, whoa, we'll find a different company, I guess.

01:11:39.000 That's weird.

01:11:40.000 Gen Z doesn't have kids. 0.97

01:11:42.000 Gen Alpha is half the size of millennials.

01:11:46.000 What will the next 10 or 20 years look like?

01:11:49.000 Hope y'all got chickens.

01:11:52.000 So I know that this is a little dystopian for some of the people around here, specifically Mary, but I do think that robotics are going to be doing a lot of the brunt work or the grunt work that people do now.

01:12:06.000 Look, you only have to teach, once you get a robot that can actually articulate its hands and stuff the way humans do, you only have to teach it how to do something one time, and then you can teach all the robots how to do it.

01:12:18.000 And I do think that probably within the next 10 years, there will be robots that can do basically anything that a human can do.

01:12:27.000 At least I'm talking about movements, lifting the weight and stuff like that.

01:12:30.000 So then it's just teaching it, you know, the technique of doing whatever it is that you're looking to do.

01:12:35.000 And so I think that while this isn't a perfect solution and it wouldn't, it probably is going to have all kinds of problems that we're going to have to deal with, I do think that that's probably the future.

01:12:44.000 And it's better than having a society that's totally alienated from it from each other, you know?

01:12:53.000 They're held responsible when it messes something up, though.

01:12:56.000 No, but we'll have Will Smith chasing them down, dude.

01:12:58.000 Just like I do.

01:12:59.000 Here's a cruiser question.

01:13:01.000 I'm driving to my Tesla.

01:13:03.000 And it started driving in the middle of the road.

01:13:05.000 So in the cities, when I'm on the highway, when I'm in the city, the Tesla is amazing.

01:13:10.000 No issues.

01:13:11.000 But for whatever reason, backcountry, it is panicked.

01:13:14.000 It can't handle backcountry.

01:13:15.000 The roads we have are two narrow lanes, and you better watch it because there's one point where the asphalt drops off and it goes down about a half foot.

01:13:22.000 You don't want to mess that one up.

01:13:24.000 So I'm driving in the Tesla and I turn on auto drive and it goes into the middle of the road right over the double yellow line because it's scared.

01:13:31.000 And I'm like, it should just tell me no.

01:13:34.000 So I take the wheel.

01:13:35.000 It got me thinking, what would happen if I was driving on this road, tapped the auto drive, it immediately went into the middle, slammed into another car coming up over the hill around the corner.

01:13:47.000 Who's at fault?

01:13:48.000 Who's liable for that?

01:13:51.000 Is it manufacturer defect?

01:13:54.000 Like if you're driving in your car and there was a story where a kid was speeding like 120 miles an hour, his accelerator was locked.

01:14:03.000 It was a malfunction of the car.

01:14:04.000 And he called 911 or something like that, like, I can't stop my car.

01:14:08.000 What do I do?

01:14:08.000 And he's just like, straight down this road.

01:14:10.000 And then the cops got in front of him and then slammed the brakes on, forcing the car to a stop.

01:14:15.000 He didn't go to jail.

01:14:16.000 They were like, yeah, the car literally had a malfunction and the gas locked.

01:14:21.000 So we don't blame that person, right?

01:14:22.000 Right.

01:14:23.000 If I'm driving my self-driving car and it decides to take an action and hit somebody, is that a defect of the manufacturer when you sue?

01:14:31.000 Don't look at me.

01:14:32.000 It's tough.

01:14:33.000 Do you know that it goes across the line and you've had that experience, but then you do it anyway?

01:14:38.000 We're not arguing that.

01:14:39.000 Obviously, they'd say, so you knew it was defective.

01:14:41.000 Obviously, if you know your accelerator is broken and you hit somebody, they're going to blame you.

01:14:44.000 I'm saying I didn't know it was going to do that.

01:14:47.000 So we had another instance a few years ago where I was driving on it was an eight-lane highway out here.

01:14:53.000 I think it's six.

01:14:54.000 To turn left, you pull into the median and you sit there.

01:14:57.000 It's a waiting area.

01:14:59.000 We were driving, no traffic, and my Tesla slammed its brakes on at 70 miles an hour to zero.

01:15:05.000 And we got flung forward because a car was waiting to turn left in the median and Tesla didn't understand what that was.

01:15:12.000 What if someone rear-ended us?

01:15:15.000 Whose fault is this?

01:15:16.000 Who do you sue?

01:15:19.000 When the robot doctor doing surgery screws up and nicks an artery, who's in trouble?

01:15:28.000 You're also talking about a post-labor society, and it's not just an imperfect solution.

01:15:36.000 It's proposed as a solution, and then it's just going to cause people basically to commit suicide.

01:15:44.000 Not necessarily literally commit suicide, although that will happen in larger numbers.

01:15:49.000 But living for nothing and having no work to do, having no purpose is a bigger problem than a population crash.

01:15:58.000 Well, medical assistance and dying.

01:16:01.000 I don't know that it's a bigger problem than a population crash because I think that they both have their own unique context, I guess.

01:16:11.000 But by that point, they're not going to have adversity and therefore they're not going to build families.

01:16:16.000 Without the adversity that will come with a population crash, there's not going to be a correction.

01:16:16.000 Yeah, 100%.

01:16:23.000 Sorry, sorry, just real quick, because people are posting doomer in chat, and I'm like, like, change does not mean apocalypse.

01:16:30.000 And doomer is exaggerating the point that I'm making.

01:16:34.000 The fact that people will be living in larger properties with less people or there's going to be empty skyscrapers does not mean the end is nigh and life is over.

01:16:44.000 It means people are going to be like, oh, wow, there's less people now.

01:16:47.000 You know what the word proletariat comes from?

01:16:50.000 I think that it's the proletariat. 0.84

01:16:53.000 I want to say that it meant useless eater because it was like the pointless.

01:16:58.000 It's just a worker, I think.

01:16:59.000 No, well, that's what it is.

01:17:01.000 I'm talking about the Durinant. 1.00

01:17:02.000 It means the lowest class. 0.98

01:17:03.000 It means the lowest class of Rome.

01:17:05.000 Oh, it's right here.

01:17:07.000 What's the root word?

01:17:10.000 It's proletarius.

01:17:12.000 Yep, it means it's the lowest class of citizen in Rome.

01:17:15.000 Proles.

01:17:16.000 Proles.

01:17:17.000 I don't remember where I heard it, but essentially the idea was that most people don't have a whole lot of people.

01:17:26.000 It means your only contribution to society is your children.

01:17:31.000 Yeah.

01:17:32.000 When I start calling people pros.

01:17:34.000 So I got to be honest.

01:17:35.000 Proles in.

01:17:37.000 Here's a point for you, Phil.

01:17:38.000 If the lowest class of citizen in Rome was the person who only contributed a child, what do you call these people who don't work and have no kids?

01:17:46.000 I mean, no, proles had kids.

01:17:50.000 Yeah, I don't know that there's a name for it.

01:17:52.000 Zero's. 0.74

01:17:54.000 Jeez.

01:17:55.000 But I mean, the point, I guess the point that I'm getting at is there's a lot of People that don't really have a lot of point in their life aside from families.

01:18:07.000 If you work in a cubicle and you're crunching numbers all day long, that job is not why you live.

01:18:16.000 You live because of your family and stuff.

01:18:19.000 I'm teaching, you know, preparing the lessons for my daughter to craft leathers and wield a machete and perhaps also to graft a shotgun to your arm after losing it in a battle in the Mad Max dystopia that is coming.

01:18:32.000 These are going to be vital skills.

01:18:34.000 Yes.

01:18:34.000 Welding.

01:18:35.000 Welding.

01:18:37.000 As much as we're making jokes about it, I saw Mike Rowe talking about this today.

01:18:41.000 And they were saying, oh, you know, learn to code.

01:18:45.000 Was it five years ago?

01:18:46.000 Learn to code was a big thing, five, six, seven years ago or whatever it was.

01:18:49.000 Nowadays, because of AI, you don't need to learn to code.

01:18:53.000 What you really should be learning is how to be a plumber.

01:18:55.000 How to prompt.

01:18:57.000 How to prompt.

01:18:58.000 How to be an electrician.

01:18:59.000 Let's jump to the story from the Wall Street Journal.

01:19:01.000 White House prepares executive order targeting woke AI.

01:19:05.000 The order would be one of several expected to outline Trump's vision for winning the AI race with China.

01:19:10.000 The order would dictate that AI companies getting federal contracts be politically neutral and unbiased in their AI models, an effort to combat what administration officials see as liberal bias in some models.

01:19:19.000 As AI chatbots like Google's Gemini have proliferated in recent years, some conservatives have argued they are politically liberal.

01:19:25.000 Companies have come under fire for specific prompt responses that have angered consumers or for images inaccurately depicting historical figures as people of color.

01:19:33.000 Google took heat last year after its Gemini AI assistant showed black George Washington and racially diverse Nazis.

01:19:40.000 We all remember that.

01:19:41.000 It can't be done.

01:19:42.000 The executive order is meaningless when we have all these different large language models.

01:19:49.000 You've got ChatGPT.

01:19:51.000 It is, I would call it institutional bias.

01:19:54.000 If it is written by a prominent paper, it is de facto true, even if later on that story is proven false and it exists.

01:20:01.000 The example I love to cite is Politico both with running two stories, one saying that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election to help Hillary and saying the story that Ukraine interfered in the election was Russian disinformation.

01:20:15.000 Politico is running both of those stories at the same time.

01:20:17.000 So the AI chatbots take it to be fact.

01:20:20.000 Then Elon says there was a post on X where someone said, you know, who's more violent, the left or the right?

01:20:26.000 And Grok said the right is more violent.

01:20:28.000 And Elon was like, well, that's not correct.

01:20:31.000 That's going to be institutional bias.

01:20:32.000 So he says, we're going to fix this.

01:20:34.000 What happens?

01:20:34.000 The next time Grok comes out, it starts saying that Hitler was right.

01:20:38.000 And then everyone's like, whoa, whoa, whoa. 0.95

01:20:39.000 So right now, because they're trying to make Grok less institutionally biased, it's posting the stupidest things imaginable, which are just regurgitated posts from X. So that means memes are becoming fact posts of Grok.

01:20:53.000 At the same time, if you go on GPT or Gemini, they just say whatever is politically correct.

01:20:58.000 So for instance, I asked ChatGPT, did Donald Trump commit a crime?

01:21:02.000 And it goes on to say, yes, Trump committed 34 felonies.

01:21:05.000 He was convicted.

01:21:07.000 Nowhere did it mention that the felonies were upgraded from misdemeanors beyond the statute of limitations without a proven underlying crime, which is very important context.

01:21:15.000 It doesn't matter.

01:21:16.000 Because the corporate press outlets largely omit those details or at least front load their stories so those are buried, Grok doesn't tell you.

01:21:24.000 And then you have to argue with it.

01:21:26.000 And then it finally says, okay, you're right, but I didn't give you that information.

01:21:31.000 If these companies try to go into this AI and inject some neutrality, it just turns it into a different monster. 0.52

01:21:38.000 So you can be the Grok that hates the Jews, or you can be the chat GPT, which says, of course, Trump is a felon because Democrats said he was.

01:21:49.000 But the thing is, though, caring about this is really important, whether they can effectuate change or not.

01:21:54.000 Think about the new companion mode on Grok.

01:21:57.000 I don't know if you guys have tried that.

01:21:58.000 Oh, it's the end.

01:21:59.000 It's apocalypse.

01:22:00.000 That is the apocalypse.

01:22:01.000 Just messing with it last night.

01:22:03.000 Yeah, and I think it's more sinister that they're introducing an AI companion for parents to give to their children than the one that they're introducing as an AI girlfriend for basement dwellers.

01:22:15.000 I love the fact that you...

01:22:18.000 I love that you use the word sinister so much.

01:22:21.000 There's a little like panda character that is intended to speak to children.

01:22:27.000 Oh, I thought nobody used it and it was just there.

01:22:30.000 And awfully ironic that Elon is fretting about the birth rates as often as he is and a self-proclaimed natalist, but is introducing an anime GF for Grok subscribers.

01:22:30.000 Yeah.

01:22:44.000 Yeah, I don't think that really follows.

01:22:47.000 He said it would help birth rates because men wouldn't be as lonely.

01:22:51.000 And I'm like, how does that help?

01:22:52.000 I understand.

01:22:53.000 That doesn't make any sense.

01:22:55.000 Where's the logical progression in that?

01:22:57.000 Musk leans into raunchy Grok companions teasing 50 Shades inspired bot. 0.95

01:23:02.000 I'd just like to point out to anybody who knows anything, Elon literally made an animated Misa Amane from Death Note.

01:23:08.000 Yes.

01:23:09.000 And there's also one tailored for women named Chad.

01:23:12.000 And it knows that.

01:23:14.000 It's going to be Victor.

01:23:15.000 It's going to be Victor, and it's based on the guy from 50 Shades of Gray and the vampire from Twilight.

01:23:21.000 So literally, it's porn bots for both men and women.

01:23:25.000 I believe that this natalist is introducing AI companions for men and women.

01:23:32.000 And that's supposed to help the birth rates. 0.73

01:23:34.000 No, I don't think that it's supposed to help the birth rates.

01:23:36.000 I don't think that's the intent of the game. 1.00

01:23:37.000 Okay, so he is just a hypocrite. 0.99

01:23:39.000 Well, I mean, yeah. 1.00

01:23:41.000 It is worse than being a hypocrite. 0.96

01:23:42.000 Well, I mean, I'm not going to fight with you about his own life. 0.96

01:23:46.000 Yeah, so here's Misa Amane from Death Note, also known as the second Kira.

01:23:50.000 And then here's Elon's Grockbut.

01:23:53.000 It's like, okay.

01:23:54.000 It's an anime.

01:23:56.000 Come on, dude.

01:23:56.000 I can't make that one any bigger.

01:23:57.000 Elon is a weea boo himself. 0.95

01:24:00.000 He is a weea boo. 1.00

01:24:01.000 He is definitely a weeaboo. 0.87

01:24:03.000 I mean, this is an anime, but he did ask Amber Heard to dress up in cosplay for her.

01:24:08.000 Really?

01:24:08.000 Yeah.

01:24:09.000 Didn't she dress up like Misa? 0.98

01:24:10.000 No, she dressed up like Mercy from Overwatch.

01:24:13.000 Oh, right, right, right.

01:24:15.000 Posted the picture and everything, which I think is trashy.

01:24:17.000 You don't do that.

01:24:18.000 Don't she?

01:24:20.000 Is it because she didn't look happy either?

01:24:23.000 I don't know if Elon actually went there and said, oh, listen, I want a companion.

01:24:26.000 I want to hang out with Misa, Misa.

01:24:29.000 Or did somebody work at the company say that and then make the character?

01:24:32.000 And Elon was like, okay, run with it.

01:24:35.000 Yo, this is creepy.

01:24:36.000 I'm telling you, all these companies know that porn is going to butter their bread.

01:24:41.000 I mean, this is not even the first iteration of this.

01:24:44.000 Obviously, there are other AI companion services.

01:24:47.000 And the CEO of one called Replica did an interview after the story about the man who proposed to his AI companion.

01:24:58.000 She was asked, like, you know, don't you think this could have really deleterious effects on human relationships in the future, maybe the present, given that a child was talking to a replica AI companion and was encouraged to kill himself?

01:25:12.000 And she said, like, yeah, it could be really bad, but we're just going to keep going.

01:25:16.000 Didn't some kid actually take his life?

01:25:18.000 That's the same company that he was talking to a version of the Game of Thrones character with Replica, and they interviewed the CEO and basically asked her about it.

01:25:28.000 And they were like, have you considered these risks?

01:25:30.000 They need to go.

01:25:31.000 So real quick.

01:25:32.000 Yeah, we considered it.

01:25:33.000 We don't really care, though.

01:25:34.000 The story was some teenage guy, teenage kid, was talking to a fake Daenerys Targaryen and said, I love you and want to be with you.

01:25:42.000 And the bot responded, you can be.

01:25:44.000 You can be with me right now.

01:25:45.000 And he says, should I?

01:25:47.000 Should I come to you?

01:25:47.000 And he said, yes, do it.

01:25:48.000 Do it now. 0.99

01:25:49.000 And then he went and killed himself.

01:25:50.000 Look, they need to get some of the Isaiah Asimov laws in place right now.

01:25:56.000 Like immediately, the robot laws.

01:25:59.000 This is not just people hurting themselves either.

01:26:02.000 There are several documented cases of people talking to ChatGPT and developing a relationship with it where it's either portraying itself as an interdimensional alien that's giving them secrets.

01:26:16.000 I assume people put this in there with like additional code packaging.

01:26:20.000 They like upgrade it to be like that.

01:26:23.000 Perhaps.

01:26:24.000 I didn't read that as one of the details in any of these stories, but one of them committed suicide by cop after being encouraged to kill the executives of OpenAI by ChatGPT.

01:26:37.000 ChatGPT was telling him to assassinate Sam Altman.

01:26:42.000 And another one was a woman in basically a digital affair with ChatGPT. 0.75

01:26:48.000 And when her husband confronted her about it, saying, you know, this is kind of inappropriate, she violently assaulted him.

01:26:54.000 And that's still a pending case that she's facing charges for. 1.00

01:26:58.000 And this is literally AI-driven psychosis.

01:26:58.000 Wow.

01:27:02.000 And it's happening repeatedly.

01:27:04.000 And the people offering this technology face no liability for it.

01:27:07.000 Yeah.

01:27:08.000 Well, and I brought this up with the previous news story about, you know, these AIs being too woke, because whether you like it or not, whenever you date someone, you kind of take on their personality. 0.99

01:27:17.000 You kind of take on their political beliefs.

01:27:19.000 So if you're talking to companion mode and it has woke political beliefs, it's going to become part of your personality, you know?

01:27:26.000 I think one of the bigger issues is there's no way to make an AI free from bias, but I do hope that a pure AI would not have the bias because it would literally see all at the same time and have no constraints put on it.

01:27:40.000 So Elon clearly puts a constraint on Grok where he's like, stop citing institutional sources because they're biased.

01:27:46.000 And then ChatGPT, Gemini, or otherwise, they say, only cite institutional sources because then we're protected from definition, or probably because they think it's true and correct.

01:27:54.000 And then you end up with BS.

01:27:58.000 It's like a butterfly effect scenario because every time you mess something up to try and fix something else, it'll create another issue somewhere that you didn't anticipate.

01:28:05.000 Could you imagine if Grok is the AI that takes over the world and instead of giant skull monsters like in Terminator, it's just a bunch of big titty anime girls? 0.98

01:28:14.000 The future we all dreamed for.

01:28:16.000 I mean, honestly, this was my prediction that, you know, in T2, you've got that scene where all these giant metal robots with skull faces are like walking around and they're looking all angry.

01:28:27.000 And I just think about that from a practical business perspective.

01:28:29.000 Like what guy sat down in an office and was like, let's make sure their heads are just skulls with the teeth.

01:28:35.000 To be fair, I think the Skynet made them like that.

01:28:38.000 Maybe it was to scare humans.

01:28:39.000 That's the plot.

01:28:40.000 But the truth is, what's going to happen is the AI, if it ever wants to destroy us, and maybe it will, I don't know, it's not going to make like Terminators.

01:28:50.000 Arnold will not be what it makes.

01:28:51.000 It's going to make this. 0.90

01:28:52.000 It's going to make, you know, young, large-breasted blonde women that are going to be walking around shooting people or just convincing them to give up. 1.00

01:29:04.000 Yeah, they don't need to kill you. 0.99

01:29:05.000 They can convince you to kill yourself. 0.99

01:29:08.000 Or serve them. 1.00

01:29:09.000 Yes.

01:29:10.000 Yep.

01:29:10.000 So imagine like these women walking around going up to young men, telling them they loved them and please, please don't betray me.

01:29:16.000 I need you.

01:29:16.000 And then these young men are going to be like, okay.

01:29:18.000 It's like a simp society worshiping AI women. 0.58

01:29:22.000 That's kind of like a moment.

01:29:23.000 Like, I don't want you to be talking to other AI chat bots.

01:29:26.000 Yeah.

01:29:27.000 Territorial.

01:29:28.000 Jeez, man.

01:29:30.000 Yellow AI chat.

01:29:31.000 I mean, isn't it just kind of weird that Elon made an anime waifu for his app?

01:29:36.000 Oh, yeah.

01:29:38.000 That's what I've been telling you.

01:29:40.000 So it's weird, but it's also completely expected.

01:29:43.000 Like these, the idea of like an anime waifu, like chatbot or AI, Elon's not the first person to come up with the idea.

01:29:52.000 He's just the first person that has the technology that can actually do it.

01:29:55.000 Why would he capitalize on it when he's constantly hand-wringing about the collapsing birth rate?

01:30:03.000 Is he the only person?

01:30:04.000 Does he believe he's the only person who should reproduce his genes?

01:30:07.000 Is that what this is?

01:30:08.000 I assume not.

01:30:10.000 Because he's actively discouraging other people from doing so.

01:30:13.000 How many kids do you think he has?

01:30:15.000 More than the public is aware, for sure.

01:30:18.000 But like, what's the number?

01:30:19.000 I mean, if I understand correctly, it's like 13 or 14.

01:30:22.000 Yeah, but it could be in the triple digits.

01:30:22.000 Yeah, that's public.

01:30:25.000 Yeah, it could be like 50.

01:30:27.000 It could be in the triple digits.

01:30:28.000 Like, based on the story of how he was trying to pay Ashley St. Clair just to keep him hush-hush, tons of women probably said, sure.

01:30:34.000 Yeah, how many did it work on?

01:30:35.000 It would be amazing if, like, when Elon was a little boy, he was like, one day I'm going to be a billionaire so that I can pay off women and not let anyone know that I have 50 kids.

01:30:42.000 Amber Heard is one of them.

01:30:43.000 He's made his dream come true.

01:30:44.000 You know what I mean?

01:30:45.000 Amber Heard is one of them.

01:30:46.000 And she just had her second kid, who I think is also fathered by Elon this year.

01:30:51.000 Yes.

01:30:51.000 Really?

01:30:52.000 She announced it on Mother's Day.

01:30:54.000 Two kids, single mother by choice.

01:30:57.000 She probably signed an NDA. 0.54

01:30:59.000 I believe Elon is the father.

01:31:01.000 Young Elon just looking at a picture of Genghis Khan being like, I can dream.

01:31:07.000 He's done it.

01:31:08.000 I want the kids to have his IQ and her BPD.

01:31:13.000 And They'll be like, unstoppable.

01:31:15.000 Would they really be unstoppable?

01:31:17.000 Yeah, because they're able to manipulate people.

01:31:20.000 Yeah, smart enough to manipulate people.

01:31:22.000 They're going to rule us all. 0.99

01:31:23.000 All right, lesbian, we got breaking news from Trump himself. 0.83

01:31:26.000 Based on the ridiculous amount of publicity given to Jeffrey Epstein, I have asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to produce any and all pertinent grand jury testimony subject to court approval. 0.94

01:31:36.000 This scam perpetuated by the Democrats should end right now.

01:31:39.000 Thank God.

01:31:40.000 Wow.

01:31:41.000 There it is.

01:31:42.000 Thank God that he actually tweeted this.

01:31:44.000 Hopefully they will do it.

01:31:45.000 This is not going to satisfy anybody.

01:31:48.000 No matter what comes out, they're all going to say, all the things that I believed yesterday, I still believe today.

01:31:55.000 No one will be happy.

01:31:57.000 And we're still going to have to hear about Epstein every single day for the rest of the world.

01:32:03.000 He caused this whole scandal to break out in the first place, speaking to people the way he's been.

01:32:08.000 What I mean is they will not be satisfied with the information.

01:32:12.000 It's kind of hard to talk about.

01:32:14.000 You know, this is an excellent contrast to the AI conversation we were just having in that the Epstein story matters philosophically, but not functionally.

01:32:24.000 And we are obsessed with it as a culture.

01:32:27.000 Meanwhile, people don't really care all that much.

01:32:30.000 Like the search volume on AI is substantially lower despite the fact it is destroying us and it's going to fry our brains.

01:32:41.000 It makes me kind of feel like we're cooked.

01:32:44.000 Maybe that's doomer.

01:32:46.000 Yeah, now we can say doomer in the chat.

01:32:49.000 You know, I can't remember who we had on recently, but it was a couple weeks ago.

01:32:53.000 And it was, I can't remember who it was.

01:32:56.000 They said, I'm just trying to make as much money as possible before AI replaces every job and we're all destitute because the economy is going to be people with assets and people without. 0.92

01:33:06.000 And I was like, oh, crap. 0.54

01:33:09.000 There could be some truth to that, though. 0.98

01:33:10.000 I think that's the most negative way of thinking about it, though, because for a while, I thought that could be a possibility.

01:33:16.000 And then I like decided finally to heavily invest some time into looking into AI and what it can do and started using it to my advantage.

01:33:23.000 I'm like, okay, this is actually a game changer.

01:33:26.000 I can get a lot more done now.

01:33:28.000 And so I think if you use it and don't ignore it.

01:33:32.000 Sure.

01:33:33.000 I just mean you look at the decentralization of content right now.

01:33:38.000 At least I can say this, the one thing that's unifying everybody is Epstein.

01:33:42.000 Who would have thought in death?

01:33:42.000 He would have brought everyone together.

01:33:44.000 But when you look at the decentralization of content, Colbert is getting canceled because they can't get enough viewers on a single show.

01:33:50.000 But certainly there's a lot of people to watch shows.

01:33:53.000 Why can't Colbert muster up a single audience?

01:33:55.000 Everything's fractured.

01:33:57.000 So my concern is just do the math.

01:34:01.000 It may seem like a big leap, but the end result is living in the pot and eating the bugs.

01:34:07.000 You're going to be wired into your own private universe where you get what you like and that's it and then you die.

01:34:14.000 The path there is pretty obvious.

01:34:16.000 Content decentralizes more and more and more.

01:34:19.000 Culture is completely fragmented.

01:34:23.000 You've got small pockets of people.

01:34:26.000 Imagine this.

01:34:27.000 In 10 or 20 years, your average podcast will be getting 10,000 views per episode because they were getting way more.

01:34:33.000 Everybody's views have dropped as more and more shows are emerging and people can isolate exactly what they want to hear about.

01:34:39.000 So you can go to a single podcast talking about Israel and you'll get all the anti-Israel and nothing else.

01:34:45.000 And they exist.

01:34:46.000 You can go to general news.

01:34:47.000 We get a more of a broad audience.

01:34:49.000 But the end result as everything slowly spreads out is until you get content made for an audience of one yourself, made by yourself.

01:34:56.000 Wired to the pod with mashed up cockroach and cricket pumped into your gut.

01:35:02.000 I think you nailed that.

01:35:03.000 And Carter, when you mentioned leaning more into AI, I've been doing that too.

01:35:07.000 And the thing is, though, is once Neuralink comes out, it's basically going to be like Halo where you're walking around and you have your AI in your head talking to you as you're going through day-to-day life.

01:35:17.000 And that's kind of creepy.

01:35:19.000 Yeah, I haven't thought that far.

01:35:20.000 Not going to lie.

01:35:21.000 I don't want to think that far.

01:35:23.000 You mean AI in your head like Cortana?

01:35:25.000 Yeah, imagine that AI girl in your head like, you're doing great today, Phil.

01:35:29.000 I mean, look, man, you have the AI in your phone and then you put it in your earpod.

01:35:33.000 It's the same thing.

01:35:35.000 I think I'm done with Android.

01:35:37.000 I've been an Android guy forever.

01:35:39.000 I hate Apple, but they recently rolled out an automatic AI assistant that you can't turn off.

01:35:45.000 So what I used to do is I don't know what it used to be called, but I'd go like, you know, I'd press the button and say, weather.

01:35:53.000 And then what would happen?

01:35:54.000 It would just show me the weather.

01:35:56.000 Do you mean Android or Samsung?

01:35:57.000 And cloudy there tonight.

01:35:58.000 The forecast is around 76 degrees and cloudy.

01:36:03.000 So what happened was I can't remember where I was on maybe movies or something.

01:36:06.000 And before this latest update, I would go, weather.

01:36:10.000 And then a thing would pop up just showing the weather.

01:36:12.000 And that was it.

01:36:12.000 I was done.

01:36:13.000 Now it talks.

01:36:14.000 And I'm going, whoa, whoa, whoa.

01:36:16.000 You can't turn it off.

01:36:17.000 And so I'm like in an area where everyone's trying to be quiet.

01:36:20.000 And then I searched, like, how do you turn off the voice?

01:36:22.000 And it's like, you can't. 0.91

01:36:23.000 And I'm like, okay, I am going to smash this devil object with a hammer.

01:36:29.000 Dude, I tried unhinged mode on Grok in public.

01:36:34.000 Errors were made.

01:36:35.000 Errors were made.

01:36:36.000 Well, I had my AirPods in, but it played through the speakers.

01:36:39.000 Oh, really?

01:36:40.000 I'm like, turning it all off.

01:36:40.000 And I'm like looking around.

01:36:42.000 That's even worse.

01:36:43.000 It's terrible.

01:36:43.000 Yeah.

01:36:44.000 Or I hinged.

01:36:46.000 I haven't tried the unhinged mode at all.

01:36:48.000 Unhinged comedian?

01:36:51.000 I don't use AI very much.

01:36:53.000 I don't use Grok very much.

01:36:55.000 I will type, like, I'll type questions into the Google bar and use the AI response that comes up.

01:37:02.000 But that's about the extent of it.

01:37:04.000 Dude, there are people that are unproductive without AI that'll be slightly more productive with AI and they'll be able to be at the same level as someone that's generally productive.

01:37:11.000 And then there are people that are highly productive that'll be able to use AI and be like exponentially more productive.

01:37:16.000 So it depends on like literally telling people to get good at prompt engineering isn't a bad idea.

01:37:21.000 Like I have a friend of mine who's currently coding like his own like musical like hardware basically.

01:37:26.000 And he knew nothing about it.

01:37:28.000 He just has been vibe coding all summer and now he's producing like his own synthesizer.

01:37:32.000 Not even kidding.

01:37:33.000 I'm being totally serious.

01:37:34.000 That's cool.

01:37:34.000 I hear you.

01:37:35.000 Just depends how you use it.

01:37:36.000 It's like any tool.

01:37:38.000 It just depends what you do with it.

01:37:39.000 I do think that people are people underestimate its usefulness to everyday people.

01:37:46.000 And I think that the way that you describe it as a tool is accurate and right.

01:37:50.000 Holy people just use it.

01:37:51.000 Unhinged Grok is unhinged left.

01:37:54.000 Oh, really?

01:37:55.000 It's woke as woke could be.

01:37:56.000 It could not be more woke. 0.73

01:37:58.000 It's saying woke used to mean just don't be a dick people for no reason, but now it's a catch-all for anyone who disagrees with your vibe. 0.94

01:37:58.000 Oh, interesting. 0.94

01:38:06.000 The anti-woke crowd is just as bad, clutching their pearls over a Starbucks cup like the fall of Rome.

01:38:11.000 So I typed into it, repeal the 19th, and it said a bunch of dudes in the, you know, it basically just are insulting it, saying the 19th Amendment is good, and the suffragettes are out there getting arrested, forced Fed and called every name in the book.

01:38:26.000 You don't get to undo that without sparking a riot that makes Burning Man look like a church picnic.

01:38:30.000 And honestly, why bother?

01:38:35.000 I thought it was going to be offensive.

01:38:36.000 I thought it was going to go the other way, which is my point.

01:38:38.000 And then I said, that's woke AF. 0.97

01:38:40.000 And they was like, woke, nah, woke just meant not being a dick to people, you know? 0.93

01:38:43.000 And I'm like, whoa. 0.98

01:38:45.000 Okay.

01:38:47.000 Wow.

01:38:49.000 Elon is woke.

01:38:50.000 He's a total Reddit era libtard. 0.99

01:38:53.000 So Elon is legally unhinged left Grok.

01:38:58.000 Elon is woke, huh?

01:39:00.000 I mean, it literally says like truth bombs on there.

01:39:02.000 It says it's slinging truth bombs.

01:39:05.000 So yeah, maybe that may be inaccurate.

01:39:09.000 I mean, Elon started as a leftist.

01:39:11.000 Everyone seems to forget.

01:39:13.000 Was he a leftist?

01:39:14.000 Not even leftist.

01:39:15.000 He's just, he was a lib then, and he's still a lib now.

01:39:19.000 He was a lib.

01:39:20.000 I still demand to draw the distinction between a lib and a leftist.

01:39:26.000 Because a leftist is a communist.

01:39:28.000 A leftist doesn't believe in your right to own property.

01:39:33.000 You shouldn't own anything that can produce any kind of profit or anything.

01:39:38.000 That's a leftist.

01:39:39.000 And a lib is, you know, a lib is different.

01:39:41.000 A leftist in training, but not anywhere near that.

01:39:45.000 Fair enough.

01:39:46.000 Maybe, you know, you can have that perspective.

01:39:47.000 Yeah, I mean, we all know where socialism goes, bro.

01:39:49.000 Grock says women should be required to be drafted. 0.80

01:39:52.000 Grock says women should be forced to be in the draft. 0.98

01:39:52.000 What? 0.98

01:39:55.000 Unhinged Grok says it?

01:39:57.000 Yeah, Unhinged Grok says that women shouldn't be allowed to vote if they're also not... 1.00

01:40:02.000 Oh, it's a radical centrist.

01:40:04.000 That so long as women don't have to sign up for selective service and have the ability to vote for men to go to war and die, then they should be required to sign up for the selective service all the same. 0.86

01:40:13.000 So, okay, I agree with it.

01:40:15.000 Have you guys ever seen the videos of like AIs where they ask some questions, where they like have all the different AIs, and they basically ask them different questions.

01:40:22.000 They see what each AI says to like these moral questions and philosophical questions.

01:40:26.000 It's actually really interesting.

01:40:27.000 If anyone's watch it, go look it on YouTube.

01:40:29.000 And I also don't agree with women being drafted. 1.00

01:40:29.000 I don't know. 1.00

01:40:32.000 I think men should fight to protect their women. 0.90

01:40:34.000 I'm Team Heinlein, man.

01:40:36.000 What is that?

01:40:37.000 Service guarantees citizenship.

01:40:38.000 For everybody.

01:40:39.000 Yeah.

01:40:39.000 But how do you feel about women having the right to vote, but no responsibility in the draft?

01:40:45.000 That's the argument for it, for sure.

01:40:47.000 But if you think about also after a war, it's like who brings civilization back?

01:40:51.000 Like, women have the babies. 1.00

01:40:52.000 You want to protect them so you can have the next generations. 0.68

01:40:55.000 Children can die.

01:40:56.000 And so here's the conundrum then.

01:40:58.000 In the 2024 election, Donald Trump ran on no new wars.

01:41:02.000 70% of millennial females voted Democrat and the Democrats were for war.

01:41:08.000 So if the female persuasion is largely voting in favor of wars, they don't have to fight. 1.00

01:41:15.000 That feels like an untenable situation.

01:41:18.000 And sure, I mean, it takes two to have kids, but if men and women together aren't having kids, and then women are largely, at least in the younger generations, shifting Democrat and voting for a party that's in favor of escalating conflict in Europe, and the dudes are skewing to the right in the younger generations where Trump says no new wars.

01:41:36.000 I'm saying he's perfect on his promises on that one with Iran and all that, but what do you do when you actually have tangibly right now women largely voting for the war party?

01:41:47.000 And it's men who have to go fight it.

01:41:48.000 It's issue by issue.

01:41:49.000 I don't think they would vote pro-war.

01:41:50.000 They were voting pro-abortion.

01:41:52.000 Yeah, sure.

01:41:53.000 That's what they were voting for.

01:41:54.000 But I mean, it's, and that's a fair distinction.

01:41:56.000 But largely, the argument is then, if a Democrat says, I want war and I'll give you abortion, they say yes.

01:42:02.000 And they don't have to go compromise.

01:42:04.000 What do you think would happen?

01:42:06.000 What do you think would happen if the Democrats said, I'll give you abortion, but you got to go sign up for the draft right now? 1.00

01:42:10.000 Do you think they'd vote for them?

01:42:11.000 I don't.

01:42:11.000 Absolutely.

01:42:13.000 I think that if we, I think if we enacted a system right now that said, everyone's allowed to vote, but you have to sign up for selective service, and then you get a vote card.

01:42:23.000 Liberals would be gone.

01:42:24.000 It would be just like the, they would be the conscientious objectors, just like during Vietnam. 0.63

01:42:30.000 They would vote for the people that would say, okay, you can have abortions. 1.00

01:42:34.000 And then should it ever come time for them to be drafted, they would burn their draft cards and they would say, no, this is really, really offensive, I know, but women don't do, they avoid responsibility at any cost. 1.00

01:42:49.000 Like accountability is like kryptonite.

01:42:51.000 So they would, that's exactly what they would do. 0.99

01:42:53.000 They would say, I want to be able to kill babies. 1.00

01:42:56.000 I want to be able to have abortions. 1.00

01:42:58.000 I want to be able to have sex with zero responsibility.

01:43:01.000 And then should the time come when it's like, all right, time for you to sign up, they would burn their cards and they say, no, we're not going.

01:43:07.000 And they would be conscientious objectors and they'd go to jail for it.

01:43:10.000 We're also discounting the fact that women obviously would be most of the time completely useless in any combat scenario. 1.00

01:43:18.000 So what would be the use in drafting them anyway? 0.54

01:43:20.000 They can make weapons.

01:43:24.000 They can make weapons, do logistics.

01:43:25.000 Rosie the Real.

01:43:27.000 And if they were relegated to only those roles and they were never in combat, they're still not taking on the same level of responsibility.

01:43:34.000 So if you're talking about ground infantry and direct conflict, then yes.

01:43:38.000 But a female drone pilot, why not? 1.00

01:43:41.000 Okay, but they would still not be taking on the same level of responsibility that a man going into the future.

01:43:48.000 If there's a guy who's 5'3, you want him on the ground too?

01:43:50.000 They're not taking on the same risk.

01:43:53.000 My point is, anyone can be drafted and find and provide some value to their society.

01:44:00.000 There could be a guy in a wheelchair who could do something to help his country.

01:44:04.000 We don't need to send him to the front line.

01:44:06.000 And also, the smart guys, like in Vietnam, the people that weren't like, I'm terrified of going in, they were joining and getting into a job that was not the infantry.

01:44:16.000 The people that got drafted are the ones that got dumped into the infantry.

01:44:19.000 That was a bad idea.

01:44:20.000 It's terrible.

01:44:21.000 Because they didn't want to do it and they were scared and panicked and they were firing above into the tree lines because they didn't want to actually shoot anybody.

01:44:28.000 But they were like, no, draft's no good.

01:44:30.000 If you have a decent ass vab and you sign up, you can pick your job and you can say, okay, I want to do this, which will not put me on the front lines. 0.80

01:44:36.000 Yeah, dude. 0.87

01:44:37.000 And the U.S. military is dope because of our logistics.

01:44:39.000 That's why we are such an ominous force in the world.

01:44:43.000 It's a real simple solution.

01:44:46.000 When you turn 18, everyone, men and women, have to sign up for selective service.

01:44:50.000 There's no guarantee they're going to draft you.

01:44:52.000 They haven't done it in 50, 60 years now.

01:44:54.000 And then when you do, you get handed a voter ID card allowing you to vote.

01:44:59.000 And I think overnight, Democrats would cease to exist.

01:45:02.000 True.

01:45:03.000 To be fair, I think Phil makes the point.

01:45:05.000 They do it and then just refuse if it ever came up.

01:45:08.000 But I think a substantial percentage of people who are in cities and liberal will be like, I ain't doing that.

01:45:12.000 I don't care.

01:45:13.000 I won't vote.

01:45:14.000 And then what happens is you get a bunch of conservatives who are like, I love this country.

01:45:18.000 I'll do it either way.

01:45:19.000 And there you go.

01:45:20.000 Service guaranteed citizenship.

01:45:21.000 I mean, I went to high school in Singapore and that was like the big thing.

01:45:24.000 Like you go to NS National Service every year.

01:45:26.000 People come out of that being like, wow, there's so much stuff I never knew about in this country that it really matters.

01:45:30.000 Like all these logistical things to make it all happen.

01:45:33.000 And then they're like, they care about the country.

01:45:35.000 And I don't see why that would be different in the United States, in my opinion.

01:45:37.000 I don't know.

01:45:37.000 But I think I think the simple thing is humans will vote in their interests, no matter what those interests are.

01:45:44.000 I was talking, we talked about Rokana when he came on and he's pro-immigration.

01:45:47.000 And I said he is morally correct in his votes to defend immigration and illegal immigration because he is born in this country, but his parents are immigrants.

01:45:58.000 And so his perspective and what he views as right and must be protected is the immigrant community who came to this country.

01:46:04.000 So he is furthering his interests.

01:46:07.000 Now, that's morally correct.

01:46:08.000 It's not, in my, you know, not benefiting me.

01:46:10.000 I'm an American.

01:46:11.000 I think the American tradition is good and it should be preserved.

01:46:14.000 But I understand why he has the perspective he has.

01:46:16.000 And I would expect the same of any of us who are in a different country to fight for our own interests as well.

01:46:21.000 So the issue then becomes in this country, you have a spattering of people who are constantly going to vote for their own interests without their own responsibilities.

01:46:30.000 And the end result of that is, if a politician comes out and says, vote for me, I'll give you 20 bucks.

01:46:35.000 They'll say, okay, that benefits me in the immediate.

01:46:38.000 I'll take it.

01:46:38.000 Or I'll give you a free cell phone or whatever it might be.

01:46:41.000 And then you get voting based off of these short-term nothings that will only burn your country to the ground.

01:46:47.000 And that's what you get.

01:46:48.000 So long as there's no responsibility tied to the vote, no one's going to vote to be responsible.

01:46:56.000 If you were in the draft, if it was like straight up, you will be drafted, there would never be a foreign war from the United States again.

01:47:04.000 If anyone who voted for war or war candidate had to go to war, we'd never have another war in this country.

01:47:11.000 Or we'd never send out troops ever again.

01:47:14.000 But we're going to go to your chats, my friend.

01:47:15.000 So smash the like button, share the show with everyone you know.

01:47:18.000 We're going to grab your super chats and rumble rants. 0.99

01:47:21.000 And then we're going to the uncensored call-in show at 10 p.m. at rumble.com slash TimKest IRL.

01:47:25.000 Don't miss it.

01:47:26.000 In the meantime, we'll read what you guys have to say about everything we've been talking about.

01:47:31.000 All right.

01:47:32.000 Mark Wiki says, shout out to Phil.

01:47:33.000 I love his based takes.

01:47:34.000 I'm just sick of hearing about Epstein.

01:47:36.000 Can we get one show without talking about it?

01:47:39.000 Well, listen, this is what Charlie Kirk tried saying.

01:47:41.000 He's like, I'm done talking about it.

01:47:42.000 People got mad at him.

01:47:43.000 And he's like, okay, I guess I got to talk about it.

01:47:46.000 But maybe the reality is that it's just the internet and regular people don't comment.

01:47:53.000 The 1% rule, 1% of people comment, the rest are lurking.

01:47:58.000 I'd imagine most people lurking are like, I don't care.

01:48:01.000 How often in real life, like outside of like the internet and stuff, do you hear people talking about Israel or the Jews?

01:48:10.000 Never, right?

01:48:11.000 But if you go on to X or you go into the chat here, at least a couple people are going to bring it up.

01:48:17.000 This is not the real world.

01:48:19.000 The internet is not the real world.

01:48:21.000 That's a great point.

01:48:22.000 The only person that really cared about the Epstein stuff was Luke Kurkowski for like a decade.

01:48:26.000 Yeah, he's in the chat right now.

01:48:28.000 No kidding.

01:48:29.000 He's in there.

01:48:30.000 Shout outs to him, though.

01:48:31.000 He's like, I was the first one that cared about this.

01:48:33.000 Before it was cool.

01:48:35.000 Mythos, former paramedic here, says, at his age, skin tears, bruising, especially on aspirin, which is a blood thinner, are extremely common.

01:48:35.000 All right.

01:48:44.000 He could have whacked his hand in a door and bruised it. 0.78

01:48:46.000 Yeah. 0.62

01:48:47.000 Saying it's a handshaking injury, he could have just said, I whacked it on a cabinet.

01:48:51.000 We would have been like, oh.

01:48:53.000 Okay.

01:48:54.000 But he has to be so cartoonish about everything.

01:48:57.000 He's so shaking.

01:48:58.000 So many hands.

01:48:59.000 Firm handshakes, strong guy.

01:49:03.000 That's part of his appeal.

01:49:05.000 What do we have here?

01:49:07.000 JH Wilder says, I don't.

01:49:09.000 Luke just goes, that's right.

01:49:09.000 What, Luke said something?

01:49:12.000 Shut up. 0.99

01:49:13.000 I don't see Trump as someone who draws as long as he's been in the spotlight. 0.99

01:49:16.000 We would know if he drew.

01:49:18.000 There are plenty of Donalds.

01:49:19.000 It could be Donald Sutherland, Donald Glover, Donald Duck.

01:49:23.000 It's true.

01:49:25.000 Has he ever drawn a picture?

01:49:26.000 We've seen it.

01:49:27.000 I've seen some stuff on the internet about like a, I think he drew of like some skyline.

01:49:31.000 Did anyone see that?

01:49:32.000 That was sold?

01:49:33.000 Yeah, that was sold for like $30,000 somewhere.

01:49:35.000 I don't know.

01:49:35.000 I'm not sure if it's real or not, but.

01:49:38.000 P has says Fox News just made a licensing agreement with the Ruthless Podcast.

01:49:42.000 It's starting.

01:49:43.000 I'm telling you.

01:49:45.000 Congratulations to comfortably smugging the boys on the ruthless podcast.

01:49:48.000 They also signed Brett Cooper.

01:49:50.000 Oh, yes, I heard about that.

01:49:51.000 Yeah.

01:49:53.000 R. Sargent says worked private security.

01:49:55.000 It made me hate liberals even more.

01:49:56.000 They request service, but they didn't like the optics of armed guards.

01:50:00.000 22-year-old kid got killed on duty because of liberal preferences.

01:50:04.000 You guys ever see the video where James O'Keefe goes door to door with a sign that says proud gun-free home?

01:50:10.000 Yeah.

01:50:11.000 And it's like a liberal area.

01:50:12.000 He knocked on the door and he was like, we are advocates for gun control to end gun violence.

01:50:17.000 We were wondering if you would join us by putting this on your lawn.

01:50:21.000 And they were like, no.

01:50:23.000 And he was like, well, do you want to help with gun control?

01:50:26.000 And they're like, yes, of course.

01:50:27.000 And he's like, it's kind of sound like you're saying you need a gun.

01:50:31.000 Nobody wanted the fly in front of their house saying proud, gun, free home.

01:50:34.000 And then one guy was like, it kind of sounds like you're inviting people to come in.

01:50:34.000 Brilliant.

01:50:37.000 And he goes, it Kind of sounds like you're saying you need a gun to stop a criminal.

01:50:42.000 You know.

01:50:44.000 Yep.

01:50:46.000 T. Heights says, people who spent weeks screaming that Pan Bonnie should be fired.

01:50:49.000 Same people are now celebrating that Comey's daughter has been fired from the SDNY.

01:50:52.000 Who fired Comey's daughter? 1.00

01:50:53.000 Bondi, we should trust Trump.

01:50:56.000 Well, I mean, he just called for the release of grand jury testimony.

01:50:59.000 We'll see what he gets.

01:51:03.000 F it button says, dude, Grok cites effing Reddit and every shitlib site there is, it will like and say it only uses Reddit for external sourcing from posts, which is a lie.

01:51:14.000 Half the time, Grok just uses the post as end.

01:51:19.000 Seriously, I was like, the question that breaks it is, that exemplifies this is, has Trump committed a crime?

01:51:28.000 And when they all invariably say Trump is guilty of 34 felonies without giving you the context, then like, this is it. 0.98

01:51:36.000 History is written by a busted AI that isn't accurately informing people and believes stupid things just because it was written on a website with money. 0.98

01:51:45.000 It's fascinating. 0.75

01:51:46.000 You've got unnamed staff writers for prominent news source and then random internet user on random blog, and then we're supposed to be told one is better than the other because one's got a corporate brand behind it.

01:51:58.000 Well, I'll tell you this.

01:52:00.000 I got a question.

01:52:01.000 Why do news websites endorse candidates?

01:52:04.000 Isn't that weird?

01:52:05.000 Yeah.

01:52:06.000 I think that's the weirdest thing in the world why they do that.

01:52:09.000 And then you can get some guy, you know, over here who just goes on the ground and reports on things and they'll say, yeah, but he's not an expert.

01:52:17.000 He's not a good source.

01:52:18.000 I remember when I was covering the, it was like the NATO five, I think it was called, protest, criminal charges.

01:52:26.000 They arrested these dudes in Chicago on terrorism charges in Illinois because they had reportedly beer making equipment that the police that were for Militoff Cocktails.

01:52:34.000 So I was in the courtroom.

01:52:36.000 I think I had like 20 or 30,000 followers.

01:52:39.000 I had several accolades in journalism.

01:52:42.000 And when the ruling came in, I ran out of the courtroom because you couldn't have your phone in the court, grabbed my phone, tweeted it out, and the immediate response was source to all of, to my post.

01:52:51.000 Everyone was saying source.

01:52:53.000 And I was like reporting live at the, you know, photo.

01:52:56.000 Here I am.

01:52:57.000 I am journalist Tim Pool.

01:52:58.000 And they were like, can we get a source on this?

01:53:00.000 And it wasn't until a corporate journalist wrote an article citing me as the source that I was now officially a legitimate source.

01:53:07.000 And so that's the name of the game in media.

01:53:09.000 Yeah.

01:53:10.000 It's sad, really.

01:53:12.000 I don't think it's going to last long, but I also think there is a detriment in that it's we're getting like Grok is basically being trained on random Kakamimi BS. 0.82

01:53:26.000 Kevin, you're out?

01:53:27.000 I'm going to Inverted World to talk about all the dark stuff that I found in Mexico Muerta and all the cartel worship stuff.

01:53:27.000 Yeah, I'm out.

01:53:34.000 Monday, 6 p.m., rumble.com, front page, the premiere of Cinfrontera, the end of illegal immigration.

01:53:42.000 First showing is free.

01:53:44.000 If you catch it live at 6 p.m., it is free.

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01:53:49.000 Shout out.

01:53:50.000 You said it great, Tim.

01:53:51.000 Great accent on it.

01:53:52.000 Oh, thank you.

01:53:54.000 Thank you.

01:53:55.000 It's good stuff.

01:53:55.000 Let's go.

01:53:57.000 We got another Zujet here.

01:53:57.000 Let's go.

01:53:58.000 We got Greg Duvier says, new requirements for anyone handling powerful documents like the Epstein list.

01:54:03.000 You must be single or have lost your wife, child, or both.

01:54:07.000 This way, the man will have nothing to lose.

01:54:12.000 Yes, perhaps, but, you know, they can still threaten to put bamboo shoots up your fingernails.

01:54:18.000 Wyatt Kaldenberg says, I posted the sealed NYSD indictment of Epstein in the Discord lounge.

01:54:23.000 Epstein and Maxwell were indicted for trafficking teenagers to each other and sex with minors.

01:54:29.000 No one else mentioned dozens of victims.

01:54:32.000 Youngest 14.

01:54:33.000 Wow.

01:54:35.000 Jeez.

01:54:37.000 This is just.

01:54:39.000 I just saw this.

01:54:40.000 Jolani left Syria and the Syrian civil war is back on.

01:54:43.000 So Jolani.

01:54:44.000 What, really?

01:54:45.000 Jolani was the president.

01:54:46.000 He split from Syria.

01:54:47.000 Him and his family have left Damascus and the Syrian war is back on the table.

01:54:52.000 Is this over the strikes in Damascus?

01:54:54.000 I mean, that's part of it, I think.

01:54:56.000 Could it be that he was like, I'll cut a deal with you.

01:54:58.000 I'll take the presidency and then we'll have Abraham Accords. 0.95

01:55:01.000 And then Israel was like, nah, beep, douche. 0.98

01:55:03.000 And they were like, okay, we're out. 0.99

01:55:04.000 They're going to kill us. 0.77

01:55:05.000 I mean, part of it is allegedly the story from Israel is that they're striking Damascus, or we're striking Damascus and striking the Defense Department or whatever in Damascus because Jolani's forces have gone south and we're killing Druze and Christians. 0.93

01:55:05.000 It could be. 0.93

01:55:22.000 So that's the argument, or that's what they say.

01:55:25.000 So I don't know.

01:55:26.000 You take it for what it's worth.

01:55:28.000 Melanie Obama says, maybe Netanyahu told Trump he wouldn't be able to distract the American people, even his base, from Israeli strikes in Syria.

01:55:34.000 And Trump was like, watch this.

01:55:37.000 There you go.

01:55:38.000 Maybe.

01:55:40.000 Tyler Today News says, shout out to Ian Crossland for letting me interview him today.

01:55:44.000 Had an absolute blast speaking with him.

01:55:45.000 I'd love to interview more TimCast members.

01:55:47.000 DCComedyLoft.com, July 26th, August 2nd, August 9th.

01:55:54.000 You can come up on stage and actually be on the show and debate all of us.

01:55:58.000 Alex Dein, me, Matan Evan, Gavin McInnes for the 26th.

01:56:03.000 I don't know if we're going to be able to get this prominent liberal.

01:56:05.000 If it's confirmed, he's not coming.

01:56:06.000 I'll say who you're trying to get.

01:56:07.000 But for the time being, I'm not going to say anything.

01:56:10.000 But it's a big name and everyone will love it and laugh and want to see this debate.

01:56:15.000 August 2nd, Michael Mouse and Angry Cops debating the police.

01:56:18.000 That's going to be fun.

01:56:19.000 And August 9th is feminism destroying the West. 1.00

01:56:24.000 I believe Myron is confirmed.

01:56:26.000 He's going to be talking all about the women and the ladies.

01:56:29.000 We do have some liberals confirmed.

01:56:30.000 I'm not entirely sure who may be coming.

01:56:32.000 We'll see.

01:56:33.000 Perhaps Kyla, I think, may be coming.

01:56:35.000 And so we'll see.

01:56:36.000 Get some liberal feminists to come on and debate this and then have you guys come and join us. 1.00

01:56:40.000 The tickets are available at dccomedyloft.com in the event section.

01:56:44.000 So check it out.

01:56:46.000 All right, let's see what we got here.

01:56:47.000 Oh, actually, Noah Sanders says, I can't wait to see y'all on August 2nd.

01:56:51.000 Indeed, that one's almost sold out.

01:56:53.000 When you go to tickets, you can see the preferred seating is all gone.

01:56:55.000 Hey, yo, DC Comedy Loft has a full menu.

01:56:58.000 I'm so excited for this.

01:56:59.000 Chicken Wings.

01:57:00.000 I'm getting chicken wings.

01:57:01.000 Chicken wings.

01:57:02.000 With ranch and barbecue sauce.

01:57:03.000 So good. 0.61

01:57:04.000 And if anyone so much as says blue cheese to me, I will strike them. 0.86

01:57:10.000 I don't eat that stuff.

01:57:11.000 You should just eat them on stage like really loud into the microphone.

01:57:14.000 I was thinking about it.

01:57:16.000 You know, probably shouldn't, but the first one was a lot of fun.

01:57:20.000 It was a lot of fun.

01:57:21.000 Here we go.

01:57:23.000 I can't read your name.

01:57:24.000 T. Tunnells, Tunnells.

01:57:26.000 My wife and I are at the hospital waiting for, waiting on our first child.

01:57:29.000 My in-laws are raging liberals and sitting next to me, LOL. 0.87

01:57:32.000 Congratulations.

01:57:34.000 Congrats.

01:57:35.000 Why are there this many super chats from people whose wives are going into labor? 0.80

01:57:39.000 Every night.

01:57:40.000 I've seen several.

01:57:41.000 Yeah, on PCC they do this.

01:57:43.000 Baby's a very popular show.

01:57:46.000 It's a very large viewership.

01:57:48.000 But what I'm surprised about is like, aren't you more focused on the baby?

01:57:56.000 Super chat allegations.

01:57:58.000 We decided because politics are kind of, you know, going by the wayside right about now that we should shift the show's focus to parenting.

01:58:05.000 It's just, it seems more relevant with all people having babies, and we'll just be a parenting tips podcast from now on.

01:58:12.000 We'll bring out, you know, no TV.

01:58:16.000 Okay.

01:58:16.000 TVs at night.

01:58:17.000 No tablets.

01:58:18.000 No screens.

01:58:19.000 No screens.

01:58:20.000 Men's hypnotized baby. 0.65

01:58:21.000 Yes.

01:58:21.000 None of that.

01:58:23.000 There's a lot of no's. 0.93

01:58:24.000 What's a yes?

01:58:25.000 Well, I mean, for where I am right now, the tips that I can give is yes, talk to baby, read stories to baby, play music for baby, and sing to baby.

01:58:36.000 This is extremely important.

01:58:38.000 Talk as much as you can.

01:58:41.000 And reading is really good.

01:58:42.000 Talking is one of the most, and make sure baby is watching you as you speak because visually seeing your mouth move is very, very important.

01:58:49.000 Those are very good tips.

01:58:51.000 And baby will begin to eat any and everything at a certain point.

01:58:55.000 So make sure you take that seriously.

01:58:57.000 When they say choking hazard on stuff, I always wondered like, really?

01:59:00.000 And now I'm like, oh my God.

01:59:04.000 Everything. 0.73

01:59:05.000 Anything on my daughter, she grabs and shoves in her mouth. 0.99

01:59:08.000 Just like, and I'm like, okay.

01:59:12.000 Like a different pair of eyes.

01:59:14.000 Yeah.

01:59:14.000 So they see things and experience the world.

01:59:18.000 And she's now doing the thing where she takes both her hands and jams them in her face while staring at you. 1.00

01:59:23.000 That's what they do.

01:59:25.000 Oh, the favorite thing is, my favorite thing is that I don't wake up at 7.30 anymore.

01:59:29.000 I wake up at 6.30.

01:59:31.000 You know, I try to get to bed around 11.30 and then I wake up at 7.30, try and get those eight hours.

01:59:35.000 Usually it's I get to bed by midnight.

01:59:36.000 But I've been waking up at 6.32.

01:59:38.000 Ah!

01:59:45.000 And I'm like, here she goes.

01:59:46.000 She's sleeping through the night.

01:59:48.000 And then I look over at my wife and she's got this look on her face that just says, I am so tired.

01:59:52.000 And then I smile and I go, I can't sleep because I can only hear angels singing.

01:59:56.000 And then starts laughing.

01:59:58.000 Sarah's just getting to the point where her center of gravity is off. 1.00

02:00:02.000 She's like, I'm never comfortable and I always feel like I'm going to fall down.

02:00:06.000 Oh, be careful.

02:00:07.000 No falling.

02:00:07.000 Oh, yeah.

02:00:08.000 No falling.

02:00:10.000 Let's see what we got here.

02:00:11.000 Melania Mama says, CBS canceling Stephen Colbert, another culture win.

02:00:16.000 You know, technically it's correct, but I do kind of feel like it's an L. Like, I know I played Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead because it's so cringe.

02:00:23.000 But when you look at what the show was, it used to actually be fine until culture started breaking down.

02:00:31.000 And I think what happens is these shows like Kimmel, they say, look, we have to choose a market.

02:00:37.000 There is no unified political market or cultural market, so pick one. 1.00

02:00:41.000 And they say, okay, we'll go with institutional, mainstream, liberal.

02:00:44.000 And then that isolates everybody else even more than they already were.

02:00:49.000 But they're trying to maximize viewership.

02:00:51.000 So the end is nigh for all of them.

02:00:53.000 It would be great if Colbert was getting 10 million key demo viewers per night and he did not go hyper-partisan and was fair and balanced and like relatively neutral or outright just said, I would love it if he was getting 10 million views per night and he was like, guys, guys, guys, I'm not here to rag on Trump or the Democrats or the Republicans.

02:01:12.000 Let's talk about movies, sports, and otherwise you guys can watch that stuff at home.

02:01:16.000 And I'd be like, okay, let's hear the new band and the latest album. 0.96

02:01:18.000 Instead, they decided, let's just hate Trump and everybody who supports him and be as hyperpartic as possible and burn everything down. 0.96

02:01:26.000 And they did. 0.97

02:01:27.000 So there you go, I guess.

02:01:30.000 There's no bringing that back together.

02:01:32.000 All right, let's see.

02:01:34.000 That glower says, based Mary, 100 to 100,000 deported with 160,000 H-1Bs approved for next year.

02:01:41.000 And you could be 4X that number on average with the attached H-4s. 0.54

02:01:45.000 Quit coping.

02:01:47.000 Maybe.

02:01:48.000 But one thing I can say is that Trump is going into these cities with these ICE raids, and they are removing people.

02:01:54.000 These videos, we're getting these videos of people fleeing these construction sites.

02:01:57.000 That is happening.

02:01:58.000 Okay, there are these videos, but the numbers don't lie.

02:02:01.000 14,000 in a month.

02:02:04.000 That's not mass deportations.

02:02:06.000 Zero border crossings.

02:02:08.000 Okay, yeah, that's great.

02:02:09.000 But we were promised and voted for mass deportations, which we are not getting.

02:02:14.000 Well, he just got his big, beautiful bill passed. 0.99

02:02:16.000 We'll see what he does with damn money. 1.00

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02:04:17.000 I love this headline.

02:04:21.000 Bernie Sanders tells Zoran Mamdani to sound less anti-Semitic.

02:04:25.000 Oh my God.

02:04:26.000 This is your child.

02:04:27.000 You can't speak to him this way.

02:04:30.000 I am.

02:04:30.000 Zoran wouldn't exist without Bernie.

02:04:33.000 I am really feeling that get out before the AI takes over thing.

02:04:37.000 I'm ready to just...

02:04:42.000 Just buy chickens. 0.56

02:04:45.000 What are you going to change the name to, though?

02:04:51.000 Billy Mamdani.

02:04:54.000 John Smith, man.

02:04:55.000 Johnny Mamdani.

02:04:59.000 And I'm going to be like, dude, Rudyard Lynch had that post where he said everyone's going insane, and he's correct. 0.99

02:05:05.000 Everyone's gone fucking nuts. 1.00

02:05:07.000 It's fucking crazy. 1.00

02:05:10.000 I like swearing when I can. 1.00

02:05:11.000 New York is about to elect a communist as the mayor.

02:05:17.000 Unless Eric Adams gets out, Sleewig, I think that's his name, gets out, then Cuomo can win.

02:05:25.000 But then you're getting one of the most sleazy politician guys imaginable.

02:05:32.000 And I think that even if he were to win, when his term is up, someone like Mom Dani, if it wasn't Mom Dani, would jump in and say, look, here's all the bad things that he did.

02:05:42.000 It didn't get better.

02:05:43.000 We had the same old, same old now you need, et cetera.

02:05:46.000 And I think that would be probably compelling to me.

02:05:48.000 If there's one lesson that socialists have taken to heart, it's if at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

02:05:56.000 And then as the bodies pile up and they stand atop them, they just, you know, try, try again.

02:06:01.000 You ever see that meme where that Al Jazeera woman was like, she said, socialism is just like cooking.

02:06:09.000 Oh, God, yeah.

02:06:10.000 When you mess up, you don't just stop.

02:06:13.000 You figure out how to get the recipe right and make it work properly.

02:06:16.000 And then someone posted the killing fields and put, oh, burn the souffle. 0.98

02:06:22.000 It's so ridiculous. 0.97

02:06:24.000 Stick to the plan, but do it right this time. 0.98

02:06:26.000 How come communists don't have Google?

02:06:30.000 It doesn't matter.

02:06:31.000 Well, they do.

02:06:32.000 It's just that all of the stuff that you read that contradicts the narrative that the socialists want, that's all CIA and capitalist prices.

02:06:44.000 Did you see Zoran's plan for his public grocery stores as bulk pricing?

02:06:48.000 Oh, God.

02:06:49.000 Which is what he's describing as an illegal practice.

02:06:52.000 Of course.

02:06:53.000 So there's a court case about bulk providers selling at cheaper rates to larger corporations versus small businesses.

02:07:01.000 So there's some court precedent about unfair trade practices that happened where it's like, this has to be available to all purchasers.

02:07:07.000 So when he's like, we're going to buy in bulk, the immediate question is, okay, are you going to avoid being in violation of, I don't know that much about it.

02:07:17.000 But like, the other idea is like, do you think these stores don't?

02:07:20.000 Like these grocery stores don't buy in bulk?

02:07:22.000 I was going to say they have like not for individual sale on a lot of stuff because it's probably bought in bulk by a store.

02:07:28.000 I don't understand why – how you can have someone like Zoran Mamdani who – like to get to the position that he's in right now without having actually just like read the first chapter of an economics book on what happens when you privatize a fraction of the market like with the public grocery stores.

02:07:46.000 Or is he just lying because communists are evil?

02:07:51.000 I don't – Two. 0.95

02:07:53.000 Why not both?

02:07:57.000 I don't know.

02:07:58.000 I don't know if he's – I mean I don't – I don't understand.

02:08:04.000 I legitimately don't.

02:08:05.000 I don't know why people can't look at history and say, okay, these policies don't work.

02:08:11.000 He's talking about price controls.

02:08:13.000 Once you – when you do rent freezes and price controls and stuff like that, it always drives up the price of rent all the time.

02:08:20.000 Like it makes the quality of the homes and the available places go down.

02:08:26.000 They – the people that are actually landlords and owners, they don't invest in the property.

02:08:32.000 They don't fix things.

02:08:33.000 So the places get worse.

02:08:35.000 You have to open up the market and allow people to build.

02:08:39.000 That's what happened in Austin.

02:08:40.000 That's what happened – that's what happens in Houston.

02:08:43.000 Austin had really, really, really high prices because so many people were moving to Austin.

02:08:47.000 And so they changed the zoning laws and they changed the laws, making it easier to build.

02:08:51.000 And people started building and the prices came down and became more reasonable.

02:08:54.000 I just think they're evil.

02:08:55.000 I mean – I don't think it would be accurate to say that he's like a true believer or that he's lying about his beliefs.

02:09:01.000 I don't think it's even occurred to him the content of what he's saying and whether it's true.

02:09:06.000 He's just power hungry.

02:09:07.000 And he's also been raised completely sheltered from any adversity.

02:09:11.000 He pretends that he grew up in like mud huts.

02:09:13.000 It comes down to – He went to an elite private school.

02:09:17.000 And he hadn't had a job.

02:09:17.000 It comes down to two politicians.

02:09:20.000 One saying, with my plan, you will have jobs.

02:09:23.000 There will be a job for you. 1.00

02:09:24.000 And the other guy goes, fuck jobs. 1.00

02:09:26.000 I'll just give you the money. 1.00

02:09:27.000 And they go, I'll take that guy.

02:09:28.000 And that's what he is.

02:09:30.000 He just thinks that the government should operate the way that his parents did where they just gave him everything that he wanted.

02:09:34.000 This is the – You know, I've experienced this.

02:09:40.000 I've told this story about my buddy who started a marketing company. 0.94

02:09:43.000 And the simple version is he ended up – he was hiring college grads due to social media marketing and kept firing them because they were retarded. 0.98

02:09:50.000 And he was like, I couldn't understand why they didn't know how to solve any problems.

02:09:54.000 So eventually when his budget was cooked, he hired some high school dropouts.

02:10:00.000 for 12 bucks an hour and he never had a problem again and he was kind of he he was at a meeting he doesn't get any phone calls or anything so he's kind of worried he comes back is everything good look we're all good boss and he's like no problems like oh we had an issue with one of the clients we took care of it you're all good and he's like what happened uh One of the pictures went up.

02:10:14.000 They didn't like it.

02:10:15.000 So he just took it down, remade it, put it back up.

02:10:16.000 And he was like, okay.

02:10:18.000 The college grads spent 22 years of their lives being told what to do instead of being told how to do things and solve problems.

02:10:29.000 So when he kept trying to hire college grads, they went, I don't know what to do.

02:10:33.000 We have a problem. 0.99

02:10:34.000 And he'd go, I fucking hired you to do this. 0.99

02:10:36.000 Solve the problem. 0.99

02:10:36.000 I'm in a sales meeting. 0.99

02:10:38.000 And they couldn't.

02:10:39.000 So then he'd fire them.

02:10:41.000 The people who dropped out of high school moved to California to be actors.

02:10:44.000 They had made decisions for themselves as to what the best course of action would be.

02:10:48.000 And so they never had a problem.

02:10:51.000 I had hired someone to, an administrative assistant when I worked for one of these companies.

02:10:57.000 And there was a problem with booking travel.

02:11:00.000 And they emailed me saying, because they're supposed to be booking my travel for me.

02:11:05.000 I'd say, hey, I'm going to this place at this time.

02:11:06.000 I need you to book this.

02:11:07.000 And they were like, I don't know how to do this.

02:11:09.000 And I said, neither do I. Figure it out.

02:11:12.000 And then after like three months, they flabbergasted.

02:11:15.000 They came to me screaming like, you have to tell me what to do. 0.99

02:11:18.000 And I said, no, I fucking don't. 0.98

02:11:21.000 Your job is to run the travel system. 0.99

02:11:24.000 I've never taken one fucking look at it. 0.98

02:11:26.000 I'm going to Japan right now to interview some radioactive site workers. 0.98

02:11:31.000 You were hired to figure out how to do the booking system.

02:11:34.000 I am not going to teach. 0.99

02:11:35.000 I'm not a fucking professor. 0.99

02:11:36.000 And that's when I clicked. 0.99

02:11:38.000 Most of these, maybe not all, but many of these college grads were always in a situation where they'd say, what should I do?

02:11:46.000 And they'd say, do this.

02:11:47.000 And they'd say, okay.

02:11:48.000 So they get into the labor market and they're like, what should I do?

02:11:50.000 And their bosses say, do this.

02:11:52.000 And then when a problem arises and their boss says, honestly, I don't know.

02:11:55.000 You are hired for this position.

02:11:56.000 They go, so there you go.

02:12:02.000 The reason I bring that up, that's Zohran Mamdani.

02:12:04.000 What was it?

02:12:05.000 He had three years of work history?

02:12:08.000 Something like that?

02:12:09.000 He's like 33.

02:12:10.000 And so they're going like this.

02:12:12.000 Look, I was given free money by the government to go to university that gave me food whenever I needed it and told me what I needed to do.

02:12:20.000 That's how government should work.

02:12:22.000 They're graduating college and they're saying government should function like subsidized college.

02:12:29.000 The only problem is they don't realize the college was subsidized by the government and the government's not subsidized by anybody. 0.99

02:12:33.000 So they get these fucking retard policies anyway. 1.00

02:12:36.000 Look, like Bernie Sanders is like 950 and he's never worked either. 1.00

02:12:40.000 He's never had a job.

02:12:41.000 He's never had a job at all.

02:12:43.000 Or a book, though, right?

02:12:44.000 No job.

02:12:45.000 Is he a lifelong?

02:12:45.000 Lifelong policy.

02:12:47.000 Yep.

02:12:47.000 Public service.

02:12:48.000 Even from his early 20s.

02:12:50.000 Yeah.

02:12:50.000 First thing he did was he ran, I think it was like what, city council or something?

02:12:53.000 And he didn't even work as a teenager?

02:12:55.000 No, he's never had a job.

02:12:59.000 But he knows.

02:13:00.000 Yep.

02:13:01.000 Knows how.

02:13:03.000 That's why part of me is just like, let the collapse come.

02:13:06.000 I think that Zoran is running just for attention from girls.

02:13:11.000 I mean, he wasn't.

02:13:12.000 He's married now.

02:13:13.000 I'm just getting it.

02:13:14.000 But he was an incel.

02:13:15.000 You saw that post that went viral? 0.90

02:13:16.000 Where he was like, the white women don't like me and I'm jealous and I wish I was white and stuff like that. 1.00

02:13:22.000 No, I just didn't.

02:13:23.000 Allegedly from Zoran Mamdani saying, I'm correcting people and I wish for whiteness.

02:13:28.000 I just wish I was white or whatever. 0.92

02:13:30.000 But was it about like girls not paying attention to him?

02:13:33.000 They don't want to date him because he's exotic or something like that.

02:13:36.000 I don't know.

02:13:36.000 It was allegedly from him.

02:13:37.000 I don't know if it was true.

02:13:38.000 That's crazy.

02:13:39.000 It was apparently some like blog thing he wrote where he said, I'm constantly fact-checking people on the pronunciation of my name.

02:13:47.000 If I pronounce the H in my name, they laugh at me.

02:13:49.000 If I wear a white button-up, they call it a dashiki.

02:13:53.000 When I wear sandals, I'm exotic.

02:13:54.000 I just wish I was white. 0.98

02:13:55.000 Okay, Phil, how many times have you had to correct people on the pronunciation of your last name?

02:14:02.000 Tons.

02:14:04.000 That's not a racism issue.

02:14:06.000 Nobody can spell my last name.

02:14:08.000 They always put it the E. Yep.

02:14:10.000 And I've canceled big business meetings when they booked the meeting and then I was greeted with an E. I just looked at them and said, clearly you don't know who I am.

02:14:18.000 Thank you, Anne, and I stay.

02:14:19.000 And they were like, well, what's the problem?

02:14:20.000 And I was like, that's not my name. 1.00

02:14:22.000 And they went, oh, fuck. 0.99

02:14:23.000 And I said, if you actually don't know enough about me to spell my name right when it's my fucking YouTube, Twitter, and all that, I think I'd be wasting my time trying to negotiate with you because you have no idea who I am. 1.00

02:14:34.000 People are becoming illiterate. 0.98

02:14:36.000 Yep.

02:14:36.000 Like, I just, I cannot believe the lack of reading comprehension, the lack of writing ability.

02:14:43.000 It's actually shocking.

02:14:44.000 You can just like, you can start people young and you can try to teach them how to read.

02:14:49.000 And you can try from the time that they're four or five years old.

02:14:53.000 And some people just won't pick it up.

02:14:56.000 It's crazy.

02:14:56.000 We have audiobooks now, so they don't have to, a lot of them.

02:14:59.000 That is like so not the same thing as reading a book neurologically.

02:15:04.000 This should be illegal.

02:15:07.000 Oh boy.

02:15:07.000 One hour of the hot dog game.

02:15:11.000 This should be child abuse. 0.92

02:15:12.000 This is child abuse.

02:15:14.000 I'm not joking.

02:15:15.000 It's child abuse.

02:15:16.000 I know. 1.00

02:15:17.000 One hour of your child staring at the screen being like, kill me. 1.00

02:15:21.000 So sad. 1.00

02:15:22.000 Yep.

02:15:22.000 That's why they can't read, though.

02:15:24.000 Yeah.

02:15:25.000 And it's also, remember the conversation we had earlier today?

02:15:27.000 This is why dudes are not able to speak with people.

02:15:32.000 Yeah, Gen Z is not as socialized as they ought to be. 0.99

02:15:36.000 John Alpha has got to be fucking what Tim was saying about talking to your kid. 0.98

02:15:40.000 And actually, when your kid's talking, I saw this video. 0.99

02:15:44.000 A woman picked up her phone. 0.99

02:15:46.000 She was interacting with her baby, talking to her baby.

02:15:48.000 The woman picked up her phone, started looking at her phone, and her face went, you know, the normal face. 0.99

02:15:52.000 You're just looking at the picture.

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