00:02:43.000In a new court filing from the defense in the Charlie Kirk assassination case, the defense argues that the ATF was unable to identify the round used to kill Charlie Kirk to the rifle.
00:02:55.000We're also learning from this filing who the prosecution intends to call in this preliminary hearing, which includes the parents of Tyler Robinson.
00:03:05.000Of course, many people already, as this story is breaking, are claiming this proves it.
00:03:10.000Well, it doesn't really prove anything.
00:03:12.000So we're going to analyze this, break down what it really means.
00:03:15.000But of course, because of the massive popularity of the Charlie Kirk assassination conspiracy theories, I would argue, and many do, Tyler Robinson is likely to be found not guilty because of the massive amount of attention given to alternate theories, especially with statements now from Joe Kent.
00:03:33.000I think they are going to use all of this.
00:03:36.000And they've stated they will use the filings from the ATF to make their case and try to create reasonable doubt.
00:03:44.000It's going to be interesting to see how this plays out.
00:03:46.000And then on to the big news, my friends: the Bulls, they just booted a player for speaking out against these pride events because he follows Christ.
00:03:56.000They're basically saying you fired, which is absolutely nuts.
00:03:59.000Many people are saying woke is coming back.
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00:04:05.000Democrats are saying they need a straight white man for 2028 if they're going to win straight white men.
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00:07:35.000Bullet used to kill Charlie Kirk did not match rifle allegedly used by suspect Tyler Robinson, new court filing claims.
00:07:44.000The bullet that killed Charlie Kirk did not match the rifle, according to a new court filing.
00:07:49.000Defense attorneys are arguing that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and Explosives, quote, was unable to identify the bullet recovered at autopsy to the rifle allegedly tied to Mr. Robinson.
00:08:00.000The defense team may now offer the ATF firearms analysts testimony as exculpatory evidence.
00:08:05.000They said in motion filed on Friday to push the preliminary hearing back at least six months.
00:08:10.000It also notes that DNA reports, excuse me, filed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and ATF, will take time for the defense team to analyze because reports indicated that several different DNA were found on some of the evidence.
00:08:23.000Quote, as some, I'm sorry, as these cases indicate, determining the number of contributors to a DNA mixture and determining whether the FBI and the ATF reliably applied validated and correct scientific procedures is a complicated process, which requires the assistance of various types of experts, including forensic biologists, geneticists, system engineers, and statisticians, all of whom must review and evaluate several different categories.
00:08:46.000Robinson's attorneys added that they have received about 20,000 electronic audio files, videos, and written documents that prosecutors have presented as evidence in the case.
00:08:55.000So right away, my friends, I'm going to go ahead and ask, is it normal, and it might be, for the suspected assassin of a prominent public figure to have the masses submitting evidence to assist the alleged assassin?
00:09:12.000I don't think that it's generally normal.
00:09:14.000There are times where, you know, like people that are murderers have, especially like if there's a male murderer that women, like for some reason, decide they want to throw themselves at him.
00:09:24.000But I've never heard a situation where there are people actually submitting evidence to help someone who is accused of murder in this type of fashion.
00:09:33.000I'm sure that there's been some, but this kind of magnitude, I don't think that I've ever heard of it in my lifetime.
00:09:38.000So I'm just pointing out that with the massive amount of attention brought to the Charlie Kirk case and doubt sewn about, that's what I was trying to say, from the prominent podcasters, namely, of course, Candace Owens, there is a massive audience that believes this man is innocent.
00:09:59.000So of course, they would submit what they view as evidence to assist the defense in this matter.
00:10:04.000I believe the popularity of these conspiracy theories is going to create so much doubt in the public.
00:10:10.000That alone is enough to get Tyler Robinson acquitted.
00:10:13.000But you add on top this statement that they were unable to identify the bullet to the gun.
00:10:18.000Now, that may be typical, but you combine that with the public evidence, like the story and the narration and the perspective, you are easily going to get jurors who are like, reasonable doubt.
00:10:29.000Look how this is, and this story will sow reasonable doubt.
00:10:33.000It says that the bullet did not match the alleged rifle.
00:10:37.000Now, they didn't test it, so they couldn't match it.
00:10:40.000It wasn't like they tested it and it was the wrong bullet.
00:11:50.000By the time this goes to a trial, I don't see how they're going to find any human being who honestly is going to say, I have no idea about this.
00:11:58.000And then what I fear is that you're going to get people who are going to be motivated by ideology who will lie in court and say, I'm totally unfamiliar.
00:12:05.000And then as soon as they get in, they'll be playing Candace or whoever else and they'll be saying, like, I'm going to vote not guilty no matter what.
00:12:12.000Yeah, I mean, look, it still is a narrow segment of the population that pays very close attention to this stuff, but it is also worth, you know, considering the fact that this is such a high-profile thing and there's so many people that are on, you know, on X or that, you know, I'm sure this stuff goes on Facebook.
00:12:29.000I don't have a Facebook account, but I'm sure that this stuff is happening on Facebook.
00:12:33.000So just to come up with an actual, you know, a jury that's not been tainted already, I don't know that they're going to be able to do that.
00:12:42.000And that's terrible because I tend to agree with you, Tim.
00:12:45.000I think that the guy's going to walk because they can't actually get a non-biased jury.
00:12:52.000The internet has changed the way our legal system, our courts work in such a drastic way.
00:12:57.000Well, even the question I would have, they're saying 20,000 pieces of evidence, but at the same time, are they also just pulling social posts too?
00:13:03.000Because like you said, people may have submitted things, but I'm sure it's a lot of its social posts they're pulling too.
00:13:09.000Because those things are getting insane reach right now, especially on X.
00:13:11.000This is good for their defense of the defense because at the very least, they're going to string it out.
00:13:15.000I think they said they're going to string it out another six months as they tend to do.
00:13:18.000And let's just longer detain a jury then.
00:13:20.000Longer to take longer to get the jury, which means more people are going to be tainted ahead of time.
00:13:26.000And then, I mean, as far as this defense guy, he's probably like, let's just make this case go 10 years and make sure Tyler can rest comfortably in a jail and not have to organize.
00:13:34.000Also, one of the reports, Fox News, we have here talks about the prosecution's intention.
00:13:40.000They say the filing made by defense attorneys on Friday states that prosecutors intend to call Robinson's parents and his roommate and romantic partner, Lance Twiggs, testify at the preliminary hearing.
00:13:49.000Robinson's defense team is also asking the judge for a minimum of a six-month delay for the preliminary hearing, which is currently scheduled for May 18th.
00:13:58.000In the filing, they said that they did not, they were not given adequate time to analyze much of the forensic evidence that is going to be presented by the prosecution.
00:14:08.000Again, whatever your thoughts are on this, it is massively lined up for an acquittal for whatever reason that may be.
00:14:17.000Well, the bigger question I would have as well is the concern I've had, I believe he's the guy that pulled the trigger, but I do think there's more associated with him.
00:14:26.000And if he gets acquitted, we don't find out about that.
00:14:28.000That would be the thing I'd be concerned about.
00:15:01.000Does it help whatever cause they're trying to also push forward by not allowing some larger group to get discovered?
00:15:06.000Yeah, YouTube has explicit rules against conspiracy theories, like explicitly phrased conspiracy theories, things that go, you know, they only allow authoritative news sources when you search.
00:15:17.000But when it comes to this story, this one's a special, special example that they'll allow anybody to just say whatever they want.
00:15:42.000It was funny because, I mean, you know, just to kind of be a little candid here, when we went to Turning Point after Charlie was assassinated, you know, Jack was like, we're setting up the show and he was like, hey, Erica, do you want to, you want to, I don't know if you want to meet up with her and just say hi or anything.
00:17:00.000Well, I mean, I suppose the question I have for you then, as someone who does PR, would you advise Erica to cry on TV and like really be emotional?
00:17:12.000Or would you ask, would you, would you tell her to be composed and to deliver a message?
00:17:17.000I would say it's more about being composed because at the same time, if she cries, then people are going to say that's a put-on, right?
00:17:22.000So you have to at the same time be who you are at all times.
00:17:25.000And I think in a situation like that, especially after somebody passes under those conditions, people want to feel safe and they want to feel like the organization is strong, not like it's something that's not going to last.
00:19:35.000And so Erica's in a position where she has to walk that line with Gigi and with the organization and with the government who's probably getting her on testimony and stuff.
00:20:23.000I suppose then one could argue the whole family was created by the CIA and it's all one big op and the dad is actually part of it and it's all fake.
00:20:46.000And I think the reason is that you've got a mass formation psychosis.
00:20:52.000I am not saying I know that Robinson did it.
00:20:54.000I am not saying that it's proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
00:20:57.000I'm saying that so far in the public, we have seen a preponderance of evidence.
00:21:00.000The idea that the FBI, the family, the news media are all in on one big massive assassination plan, while these things are possible, it's just substantially less likely.
00:21:12.000So I would argue that probability dictates this is likely the guy.
00:21:16.000I do believe that the evidence we've seen in the public also dictates there are others involved and they are covering that up, or at the very least, not trying to investigate.
00:21:25.000But again, that being said, based on the social media stories, one thing you must understand is that perception is reality.
00:21:33.000And so long as Candace and others in that space argue that Robinson is innocent and that a foreign nexus did it, you will get people who will be called for jury duty.
00:22:06.000Perception matters more than what is presented.
00:22:09.000If you've already tainted the well and told everybody that this is not a real story, that the evidence is fake, then the prosecution is going to be like, here's the gun.
00:22:18.000And you're going to be thinking in your mind, that's not real.
00:22:21.000Maybe it's too little, too late that what I'm about to say about, because I already kind of mentioned that Gigi, you know, their kid, that daughter, Charlie and Erica's daughter, she doesn't know what's going on or didn't seem to, but she can feel what everyone around her is feeling.
00:22:36.000And that's how she's living right now.
00:22:37.000So for Erica to intentionally not espouse grief is understandable.
00:22:43.000She doesn't want to send her child into a desperate depression, confused depression.
00:23:03.000And then I can just say to anybody who thinks it was untoward or a conspiracy, let's just agree to see what the evidence is presented and whether or not it sways our opinions in the matter.
00:23:14.000Because I would say this, if in court the defense says, and it's on TV, you did not match the bolt to the gun, and the ATF guy goes, we couldn't.
00:23:22.000And when they say why, they'll be like, it didn't seem to match.
00:23:25.000Then I'm going to be like, whoa, that's huge.
00:23:28.000But if unable to just means the bullet was damaged, so it's not possible.
00:23:33.000Then I go, well, I mean, that's not good, but it doesn't prove anything.
00:23:37.000So it really just depends on what this means and what they present in court.
00:23:45.000I think the bigger part of it, too, is people have been through in the last couple of years, especially post-pandemic, is they've seen they've been messed with in so many different ways.
00:23:53.000They don't want to believe a lot of things.
00:23:54.000Conspiracies almost become mainstream and people don't want to believe things.
00:23:57.000And that's actually a very dangerous position to be in.
00:24:01.000It's one of the main things I look at.
00:24:03.000And there's enough strange things that happen in history that are true that you don't need to really kind of go down a lot of these rabbit holes.
00:26:04.000That was like one of the most measured statements I've ever heard.
00:26:06.000Honestly, if I saw a video from a communist who calmly was just like, I have deep concerns about how capitalist structures will accommodate people when AI and industrialization takes place.
00:26:18.000And that's why I believe, I wouldn't call that ranting.
00:26:20.000I would be like, well, that's an argument.
00:26:21.000This is a guy who's expressing his views on Christianity and pride.
00:26:24.000And this is what waiving is they fired him, right?
00:26:28.000Yeah, well, they waived and they say that I don't think they fired him.
00:27:11.000You don't just like ideas don't just stop being.
00:27:14.000The people who hold these ideas don't just give up on them.
00:27:16.000So right now, the play is going to be win back the White House, the House, and then they're slowly going to bring all of this woke stuff back.
00:27:30.000See, they're keeping it quiet, but when this dude steps over the line, you see how they go, I mean, look at what happened in Virginia, right?
00:27:36.000Spanberger just basically she was running as I'm a very centrist Democrat, I'm middle of the road, et cetera, et cetera.
00:27:44.000And as soon as she gets into office, all of the left-wing policies that the far left-wing policies all come flooding in and she's signing bills that are passed by the Democrat House or by the Democrat legislature.
00:27:57.000Have you guys seen the population map for West Virginia?
00:28:24.000I mean, look, the left doesn't think that you should be allowed to homeschool your kids, right?
00:28:28.000They think that your children are their property.
00:28:32.000And I mean, I've got a, you know, I've got a five-month-old, and I have absolutely no intention of sending him to state schools at all, period.
00:28:51.000The left is going to do everything they can to either limit your ability to educate your kids at home or to downright take away your right to educate your kids at home.
00:29:04.000And I mean, there's a lot of parents' groups that are very against this.
00:29:08.000But if you do not, if you're, if, if parents are not vigilant, the left will take that right away from you.
00:29:15.000And they will say, you have to give your kid up.
00:29:17.000And they will say, if you don't, and well, they'll say if you don't, then you have a, then this is, then you are doing, you are, you know, we're going to call child protective services because it's not about whether or not you want to give your kid up.
00:29:28.000It's that you're harming your kid by not giving your child to the state to educate them.
00:30:29.000And then they bring their problems with it.
00:30:31.000You know, I'll quote T'Challa from Black Panther, a great icon of black culture, when he said, you can't let these people in because they'll bring their problems with them.
00:30:45.000Well, we have the kind of the opposite problem in New Jersey, where New Jersey and New York is kind of the tri-state area for me.
00:30:51.000And the pandemic policies were so harsh, people just moved to Florida, which just means for the most part, we've lost all of our red voters.
00:30:58.000They even redistricted our congressional district, which used to be one of the reddest in the state.
00:31:04.000And we've had a Josh Gottheimer's been our congressman for, I think, three terms now because we don't have representation, even though it's the reddest area in the state.
00:31:11.000Yeah, I mean, it's a similar thing happens in, or had been happening in New Hampshire.
00:31:17.000The Free State Project, the right-wing, right-wingers of the Free State Project are very aggressively anti-left, and they've been doing a lot to scare the, for lack of a better term, scare the left-wingers in New Hampshire.
00:31:34.000They're very pro-liberty, and they're very much right-wingers.
00:31:39.000It's not the same kind of libertarian that a lot of people think of when they think of libertarian.
00:31:44.000It's very, like I said, it's very right-wing libertarian in New Hampshire.
00:31:48.000And the legislation, the legislature in the state is all Republicans because the free staters have been running as Republicans.
00:32:53.000Yeah, I mean, look, the biggest reason why I stay in New Hampshire is because of the fact that my family's in Massachusetts and Bain in Massachusetts and it's an hour away from me.
00:33:04.000Otherwise, you know, I don't see a significant rise in the state.
00:33:08.000West Virginia is going to turn to a giant data center anyway, so not sure that it matters.
00:33:13.000The governor keeps announcing all these big data center projects all over the state, which will bring a ton of money into the state, which is good.
00:33:19.000Considering the state is sparsely populated as it is, that might actually be pretty great.
00:33:43.000The big picture for the people of West Virginia is they're going to get billions of dollars in state funding for infrastructure improvements and things like that.
00:33:50.000And you're largely not going to see the data centers.
00:33:53.000The way that it looks now, a lot of the companies that are trying to build data centers are also building, they want to build the power generation along with the data centers.
00:34:03.000And the argument for that, the pro argument for the people that are, you know, oh, they're going to raise our cost of electricity is going to go up and blah, blah, blah.
00:34:11.000If these companies do build data centers with a power generation station there, the amount of power that a new data center will take is so, so much more than a city will be.
00:34:24.000Say, for instance, it's 1,500 megawatts to run the data center.
00:34:28.000Your average city runs at about 80 megawatts.
00:34:30.000So you're talking about 5% of the power.
00:34:34.000So the company that generates the power will likely give the power to the town for dirt, dirt cheap because they're already generating it.
00:34:42.000And the amount of power that's left over for the needs of the town is basically a rounding error.
00:34:49.000So I think our power grids are chaic anyway, though.
00:35:08.000But it still is better for the companies that actually want to generate the power to build the power plant for its own use because the power is right there.
00:35:20.000And then again, overproduction or whatever, because they need a specific load for the data center.
00:35:28.000Whatever's left over going to the town, making the power for the town cost nothing.
00:35:34.000That will make people far more amicable to the idea of having a data center in that town.
00:35:40.000Right now, people are really, really against the data centers because they have these ideas that it's going to drive their electricity costs up.
00:35:46.000But that doesn't do anything positive for the people that want to build the data center, right?
00:35:52.000Like if they come into town and they piss off the town, like that does nothing good.
00:35:55.000All it does is make the people that are in town hate the data center.
00:35:59.000And so they're going to want to be like, hey, how can we make this a positive thing for the town and for us?
00:36:05.000And if they build a power generation station with the data center and they're just like, look, we'll give you free power, give you power, whatever, a cent for whatever, you know, where you're paying 10 cents or 15 cents now.
00:36:16.000And they're just like, we'll give it to you basically for free.
00:36:18.000That'll do a lot to move the needle when it comes to people saying, oh, we don't want a data center here.
00:36:25.000Like we used to have the steel towns, the rubber boom in the 50s and Firestone in Ohio.
00:36:30.000That's where I'm from, actually, Akron.
00:36:31.000You know, the gold rush, where these towns pop up around an AI data center, a big power plant, all jobs, and then a technology will shift and it will require like 10 million times less electricity to run these things.
00:36:42.000Everybody will move out because they can work locally elsewhere.
00:36:45.000And then you'll have a lot of eventually you're likely to see data centers in space.
00:37:02.000When I talked about the grandfather with his kid looking up and saying, what are those gigantic black things in the sky moving left and right?
00:37:09.000And he's going to say, oh, that's the machine.
00:37:52.000They still want it, but you can't sell people something they don't want to eat.
00:37:55.000You got to steal power, then force it on them.
00:37:58.000So, likely, what's going to happen is you got Joe Rogan ragging on Trump and MAGA saying there's a lot of MAGA dorks.
00:38:03.000Some are genuine patriots, but they got to deal with these dorks.
00:38:06.000The Trump supporters do not, not all of them, but many of them do not want to hear that Trump is losing support over the Iran war in the Epstein files.
00:38:26.000Democrats are going to try and capture them.
00:38:27.000Now, I'll say this: I ain't voting for the likes of Adam Schiff, nor am I going to vote in any way to help that guy get power.
00:38:33.000So I don't know who the Democrats think they're going to run, but if the Democrats do purge a majority of the far left and we start seeing more like Tulsi Gabbard types running, they're moderate, anti-woke Democrats, you will actually start seeing.
00:38:47.000I wouldn't be surprised if Joe Rogan endorses the Democrat in 2028.
00:38:50.000I wouldn't be surprised if I do it because this will be surprised by that.
00:38:53.000The war machine just doesn't have party affiliation.
00:38:55.000Right now, it's got control of the Republican Party.
00:38:58.000The liberal economic order, the technocracy has control of the Republican Party.
00:39:02.000Four years ago, they had control of the Democratic Party instead.
00:39:10.000Like, I don't want people naming airports after themselves and putting their signatures on the dollar bills and getting us into wars that they told us they weren't going to get us into.
00:39:22.000Like, we've been talking about it for years.
00:39:23.000We were, you know, I remember in 2024, we were all sitting around this table just talking about how we just needed a president who would start a war with Iran.
00:40:15.000The better question is, does this track alongside anything in Rome?
00:40:18.000So the three key things I look at are inflation, immigration, meaning poor border control, and then lack of ethics of people in political position.
00:40:27.000They don't kind of look at the future, they look at what's now.
00:41:29.000And so now they've created this position where they have to argue that Trump can't use executive authority to alleviate a problem everyone's pissed about.
00:42:28.000Like, I feel like it was the moral fracturing of the Senate that led towards their fear of Caesar and then their inevitable ultimatum to Caesar of give up your property or and Caesar's like, you leave me no other choice.
00:42:41.000Now I'm going to invade and take the control.
00:42:43.000The problem is everybody was doing it.
00:42:45.000The trope about Roman office was your first year was to get out of your out of debt.
00:42:49.000Your second year was to build wealth and your third year was to avoid prosecutions.
00:42:52.000You need at least three years in office.
00:43:16.000So members of Congress are like, okay, quick, grab as much China as you can on the way out.
00:43:20.000I feel like the end result is just going to be, you know, some people, we've talked about the idea of civil war, but it could just be Balkanization.
00:43:27.000I thought that when Caesar, when Trump, I mean, was running for office in 2020.
00:43:33.000Yeah, if they had, like, they prevented him or whatever happened, he didn't get into office in 2020.
00:43:38.000And then they were trying to arrest him and make it so he couldn't run again.
00:43:41.000If that had succeeded, that would have been like Caesar, and he probably would have crossed the Rubicon.
00:44:01.000Have we even gotten a ruling from the appellate court on the criminal case in New York?
00:44:06.000Well, only that his hand wasn't forced in 24.
00:44:08.000I feel like if he'd been arrested, somebody's hand may have been forced in 24 to do what Julius Caesar did when he crossed the city.
00:44:16.000I wonder if all of this is just emergent and predictable.
00:44:22.000That all societies will go through these ebbs and flows naturally for a variety of reasons.
00:44:29.000Meaning, we talk about immigration, inflation, and all of these things, political corruption, but these are just inevitabilities based on, you know, it's one plus one equals two.
00:44:57.000It's like World War I was not a population issue.
00:45:01.000Well, all of these things do somewhat relate to it.
00:45:04.000We've not gotten to a point where like red-tailed deer as a planet, but certainly there's been tons of resource wars, if not all of them.
00:45:10.000And I will say the funniest thing is how many people the East India Trading Company killed because they wanted black peppercorn on their steak, which I get.
00:46:08.000Should we be trending alongside comparable to Rome, what's next for us?
00:46:12.000Well, I think the biggest thing is hailing the currency because people often talk about Constantine being the guy that brought Christianity into Rome as a legal religion.
00:46:38.000What does that mean, mint 100 gold coins?
00:46:40.000So he gradually, over a 20-year period, puts them on a gold standard.
00:46:45.000And from that year, 300 until about 10, I think it's 1054, it goes to that point without inflation.
00:46:51.000So he actually, one of the main reasons that the Eastern Roman Empire survives, besides the fact that Constantinople is so hard to attack, is they have a currency they can stand on.
00:47:01.000And if you look at why the West fails in the 270s, Aurelian mints a new silver coin that's much more pure than all the silver coins, even though they've been debasing, but people didn't trust the money anymore.
00:47:11.000So Constantine brought back gold, forced taxes to be paid in gold, and that forces gold into circulation.
00:47:16.000And then the currency actually is valued as well.
00:47:18.000That's what Trump is doing with the petrodollar.
00:48:15.000You said that currency and population, right?
00:48:18.000Population, but handling your borders.
00:48:20.000Because in the third century, Roman emperors are basically raising an army, declaring themselves emperor, fighting each other, and the strongest becomes the next emperor.
00:48:28.000Does Trump need to be like, have babies?
00:50:21.000But the presumption would be that we are tracking for like a dissolution, like a break, like a breakdown or something, right?
00:50:27.000Well, so the third century, and that's you've talked about civil war and there's been discussions of national divorce and things like that.
00:50:34.000And if you look at what happens when the center gets weak, that's when the edges start to break away.
00:50:39.000In the third century, Rome has two different breakaway empires.
00:50:42.000They have a Gallic Empire in the West that breaks off, the Palmyron Empire in the East.
00:50:47.000And that was only because they were looking at we're paying taxes to a center in Rome that can't defend us.
00:50:55.000And Posthumus, who's the general in the West, decides he's just going to form his own empire rather than trying to take over Rome.
00:51:01.000And that is what you see when an empire starts to fade is the edges start to break off because they know the center can no longer support them.
00:51:08.000So that discussion coming up is a big point of showing how people feel about things.
00:51:14.000It's hard to see anything other than that.
00:51:16.000And it's because our political, our Congress is corrupt, doesn't do their job.
00:51:20.000So the president just says, I'll do it myself.
00:51:47.000At this point, if Trump just said, no, the results of the election are immaterial.
00:51:52.000We are going to give JD Vance the presidency, file a lawsuit against me, they'd have to file a lawsuit.
00:51:57.000And then if you, and that could take, like, imagine what would happen if Donald Trump said the results of 2028, 28 are called into question.
00:52:25.000You're going to have another no-kings protest and complain about how.
00:52:30.000I just, I feel like if Trump truly did, listen, the idea that Trump can decree to pay TSA, like imagine if that happened 70 years ago.
00:52:41.000The people in this country would freak out.
00:52:43.000I hope that if he were to appoint someone or try to appoint someone, that the deep state would step in, like the Roman Praetorian Guard, you know, the security state and stop the psychopath from.
00:52:54.000Well, there's a lot of ways you could do it.
00:52:56.000The problem is, let's say there's an election in 2028, and people already don't trust elections.
00:53:08.000And then they show a bunch of data and they do Michael Indell times 20.
00:53:12.000And then they say, you know, Kash Patel comes out, or if he's still FBI director, and says, we have seized these voting machines to analyze the data because we have evidence of foreign intrusion and potential fraud.
00:53:25.000So these can't be counted towards the totals, which calls California into question.
00:53:29.000And then the vote then goes to a delegation instead of a popular vote.
00:53:33.000The delegations are then based on Congress and they vote in the Republic.
00:53:36.000And the Democrats then say, no, it's not possible.
00:53:38.000We've speculated on these things before, mind you.
00:53:40.000But my point ultimately is, if we ever come to that point, if the deep state did come out and try and stop Trump, it would enshrine him as king for life.
00:53:51.000Imagine Donald Trump saying, look, I don't really know entirely what's going on.
00:53:55.000Our FBI says they found evidence of fraud.
00:53:57.000And then the CIA takes a shot at the king and misses.
00:54:00.000Trump will then rise before the Senate and say, the attempt at my life has left me scarred.
00:54:22.000Two emperors got rid of the Praetorian Guard for that reason and then put their own men in it.
00:54:25.000You have Septimius Severus in the early second century got rid of the Praetorian Guard because he realized that was going to be a problem for him.
00:55:29.000We kind of coalesced in England in the early 1100s.
00:55:33.000And then our founding fathers wanted it to be a combination of republicanism, monarchy, and other forms of government to make something better than the Council of Elders.
00:55:45.000But basically, the Founding Fathers were brilliant because they said, instead of doing just one government, why don't we do three at the same time?
00:55:52.000And unfortunately, now, all that really matters is the executive branch.
00:55:56.000And every day that Congress doesn't do their job and just fights for political, it's political bickering for donations.
00:56:02.000Trump is just given leeway to do literally whatever he wants.
00:56:06.000I mean, listen, allocating funding for TSA by decree is nuts.
00:56:32.000They want to be able to be in Congress and get all the benefits of being in Congress without actually having any of the responsibilities.
00:56:38.000That's why they gave the president the power to, you know, the whole military author, the authorization for use of force when it came to the war on terror, because they didn't want to have to actually say yes or no.
00:56:48.000You know, they didn't want that responsibility.
00:57:40.000I'm waiting a little bit so that we get into it before I actually say you will never have two men stand side by side locking arms when one says chop off a child's genitals and the other is a Christian.
00:58:24.000And I talked about this with Dan Holloway.
00:58:26.000Friendships and alliances are not the same thing.
00:58:27.000You might hate the person you're allied with, but my point is Congress cannot function when the moral worldviews of the two political ideologies are so distinct from each other.
00:58:40.000Now, if the Democrats, as their play, is to start excising the whack-aloon lefties and you end up with Tulsi Gabbard versus Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr. Versus JD Vance, we're good.
00:58:52.000Because they're going to be like, ah, those guys are great.
00:58:54.000They're my friends, but we disagree on certain policies and we're going to get along.
00:58:57.000But you have to excise the fringe psycho element of the left.
00:59:07.000There will be no cohesion between a regular American who wants to just go to work and the people who are like children should get sex changes.
00:59:14.000You could see Marco Rubio working with a moderate Democrat.
00:59:18.000I can tell you they're doing it right now.
00:59:19.000RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard are in the Trump administration.
00:59:22.000If moving forward, the Democrats embrace, like, you have the Trump admin and it breaks into two, a left Trump and a right Trump, everyone's good.
00:59:42.000And I just want to congress, like, as American people, I don't, you know, technology is such that we don't have to rely on sending someone to Washington, D.C. to hope that they do it for you anymore.
00:59:51.000You can just kind of interface through the internet through technology.
01:00:18.000The 17th Amendment was a, what was, was, I'm sorry, the reason people say to repeal the 17th Amendment is because initially when it came to the appointment of senators, the idea was that you would elect a state senator or a state rep who would then vote among a group of people, a better man, who would go to Congress to represent the state.
01:00:38.000A question on that, just a clarification.
01:00:39.000Are the better men just the senators or were they the reps?
01:01:01.000And with the age of education, it's like, do you still want to live like that?
01:01:04.000Where you must suffer as a poor farmer and hope that that guy who's probably dumber than you is going to do it better because he's more charismatic?
01:01:11.000Don't vote for a guy who's dumber than you.
01:01:12.000Well, most of the people in Congress are dumber than me, no offense, but they're just do you know what Dunning-Kruger means?
01:02:43.000It doesn't have to be that they're geniuses.
01:02:46.000And not to say that they're smarter than you, but most people in Congress, most of the time when people get frustrated with people in Congress, it's not because they think they're actually dumb, which there are some people in Congress that actually I think that are, you know, when Corey Bush was in Congress, I think she was, I don't think Corey Bush is particularly intelligent.
01:03:33.000There are people marching down the street with no kings signs and they will tell you that Donald Trump is a stupid person who was there accidentally.
01:03:41.000And they will say that Elon Musk is a trust fund kid whose dad owned an emerald mine, emerald mine, and that's why he's rich and powerful by chance and he's actually really dumb.
01:03:53.000And if you ask them, do you genuinely believe, having not studied any of the work that these men have done, having not built anything comparable to them, or even understanding the basic mechanisms of an LLC at S Corp or C Corp, that you are smarter than they are?
01:04:11.000And that is why Democrats as a party have existed the way they have for so long.
01:04:15.000Because with all due respect, they're not wrong about Dunning Krueger.
01:04:21.000The fact that they have, what was it, like 3 million estimated across the country at these No Kings protests, these people genuinely believe they're smarter than the world's richest man who has brought, what is it now, three companies over a trillion dollar net worth?
01:04:37.000And they're like, I'm smarter than him.
01:04:38.000It's like the dude is landing rockets.
01:04:41.000He is bringing rockets to space and then landing them on platforms in the ocean.
01:05:48.000And he does it over and over and over again because the simple thing about being smart is being it's it's recollection and being able being able to utilize that recollection to connect dots to make future predictions and Elon has that in spades.
01:06:03.000It's the difference between strategic thinking and tactical thinking.
01:06:06.000Tactical thinking, you're trying to solve just one situation, whereas strategic, you're looking at doing something more long-term and that has more moving parts to it.
01:06:13.000And there's just, it's wild to me that like, you know, we'll have somebody on this show, usually when it's contentious and they're a lefty.
01:06:20.000And I always just ask, like, you've not Googled this.
01:06:25.000You've not read anything about it nor listened to the quotes from the individuals involved.
01:06:30.000Do you actually believe you are correct?
01:07:07.000I mean, I can't even get into the Save Act.
01:07:10.000I don't think people in Congress are the smartest people on the planet.
01:07:12.000I think many of them are underachieved and they go to Congress because it's the best thing they can attach to for some kind of legacy or notability.
01:07:21.000That being said, it is extremely difficult to succeed to get into Congress.
01:07:27.000It is not something anyone can just do.
01:07:29.000It takes clever planning, hours of working overtime nonstop.
01:07:33.000It is very, very difficult to accomplish.
01:07:35.000These are not necessarily all good or honest people.
01:07:37.000They're not going to solve complex equations, but they are certainly smarter and a lot smarter than the average person.
01:08:08.000I know we, let's see, we got a couple of stories pulled up.
01:08:11.000And let's jump to, you know, we talked a lot about the Roman Empire already.
01:08:16.000We were going to talk about DeSantis naming the airport after Trump, but it kind of played into what we've already discussed with Trump ruling by decree and all that stuff.
01:08:27.000We've got this post from at Jason, and we got a story from the New York Post.
01:08:31.000The New York Post reports AI dangerously close to solving tests that only the brightest minds on earth, human expertise still, earth could, human expertise still matters.
01:08:41.000At Jason says, the truth is we've already reached artificial general intelligence.
01:08:46.000We just haven't implemented it broadly.
01:08:48.000Millions of jobs are being lost as we speak.
01:08:52.000The rich and powerful investors and founders who implemented AGI will get bizarrely rich beyond what makes sense.
01:08:58.000It will break people's brains on both sides.
01:09:01.000It's going to suck a lot of our friends and family, for a lot of our friends and suck for a lot of friends and family who aren't obsessed with their careers because things are moving so fast, they won't have even left the starting gate by the time the awards are handed out.
01:09:13.000We're going to have to solve for a lot of second and third order effects, some of which will suck, job loss, and some of which will be awesome.
01:09:19.000AI will create free, cheap energy, free education, cheaper and better food homes that build themselves and medicine that makes you as healthy as a 30-year-old when you're 100.
01:09:29.000Change is hard, but humans are the most adaptable species nature has ever created.
01:09:38.000So exactly what Owen Schroer described seeing, I saw something similar when I was driving in West Virginia.
01:09:44.000I bring this up because I'm wondering if these sightings that people are reportedly seeing, like the drones and stuff, are actually just a function of advanced technology.
01:10:06.000Andy was telling me, my boy Andy works here, that late at night, he'll see, actually, I think it was Andy saying this, you'll see lights in the sky, just like you'll see UFOs flying around like crazy.
01:10:23.000However, there are a lot of people who this advancement in drones has come so quickly, they see these things in the sky and they freak out.
01:10:34.000So, as it relates to the artificial intelligence stuff, I think it's very likely that we are substantially more advanced in AI than anyone knows, but the implementation is happening only in key areas.
01:10:45.000For instance, there's a big story right now where they've got AI cow herding.
01:10:50.000The cows all wear collars, and the farmer looks at his phone and he draws a circle as the grazing area, and the cows all get like a brah, bram, brahm that makes the cows start moving to the appropriate area to graze.
01:11:03.000He no longer needs dogs to do anything.
01:11:05.000These kinds of things are happening rapidly, but a plumber doesn't know this.
01:11:09.000So, one day he sees a cow with a collar on going and it's talking, and then he sees the cow walking down the street, and he goes, What is that thing on that cow?
01:11:20.000And the device is going, and then the cow's moving, and he's like, So, my point is technology is advancing faster than human culture can adapt to it.
01:11:32.000They say that AI has jagged edges because there's a lot of capabilities that artificial intelligence has, but that doesn't mean that there's an adoption of it.
01:11:42.000So, there's a lot of things that your AI could do, but it hasn't really filtered out into the population yet.
01:11:50.000So, the adoption of AI is actually lagging compared to what the capabilities of most of AI are.
01:14:50.000And then he looks over at Claude and it's just running these crazy programs.
01:14:54.000And he's seeing a money incrementer go up.
01:14:56.000And then he's like, eh, it'll be good if I leave it for a little bit.
01:14:59.000Then he goes to grab lunch with Phil before the show.
01:15:03.000And then Phil's like, yeah, yeah, no, I'm still at work right now, but I figured I'd take some lunch.
01:15:07.000And then he looks at his phone and Claude is just doing all of the work for him.
01:15:11.000It's like doing, and then you're seeing a money incrementer go up.
01:15:14.000And society basically has AI digital versions of everybody that works in white-collar jobs while you do whatever you want.
01:15:23.000Right now, the way that young people can actually become, at least for the next, you know, probably decade, five years, 10 years, can become extraordinary, well, extraordinarily wealthy is learn a trade.
01:15:35.000Like if you're an electrician and you get a job, speaking of Optimus Pro.
01:15:40.000Well, I think, I mean, I do think that that'll be eventually, but the thing about artificial general intelligence is that if we are at this point, let me put it like this.
01:15:51.000You guys know about time dilation, obviously, right?
01:15:55.000The idea was that if we created a spaceship to go to Alpha Centauri, loaded up a bunch of humans on it, and then said it's going to take 100 years to get there.
01:16:04.000They're going to accelerate as fast as possible.
01:16:05.000At the halfway mark, start decelerating.
01:16:08.000By the time they're halfway there, another spaceship full of colonists will fly past them because technology will have advanced so much due to time dilation back on Earth that they will be going slow.
01:16:20.000And you'll fly past them and go, wow, the old colony shit.
01:16:24.000That's what's happening now with Optimus bots.
01:16:27.000AI is, by the time we get to AGI in full implementation, it's going to be like you wasted all your time designing Optimus.
01:16:36.000I'm going to give you a schematic for a perfect human android and go, here's how to build it.
01:16:40.000I thought that's why they closed Sora because they're like, that's old technology now.
01:16:54.000It was a Spotify link and it was like, oh, this is pretty good, but it looks like an AI band.
01:16:58.000Like, I can't even imagine what this is going to do to the music industry because it's, you know, you can tell if you listen, but you know, eventually it's going to be even better.
01:17:16.000The issue is if you are a music producer and you break down a song, you'll notice where things are AI, but the average person will absolutely not absolutely not notice.
01:17:27.000I've got a bunch of so first, first and foremost, all instrumental music is over.
01:17:33.000So I knew a guy who used to sit in his room all day writing songs that were instrumental and he would upload them to various music databases.
01:17:40.000Then he would get paid per month per how many songs he had in the database.
01:17:43.000So he would just start cranking out songs.
01:17:46.000And there were orchestral compositions.
01:17:48.000They were like dance beats because people would license the songs for their media projects.
01:18:35.000When you go to the grocery store, the door opens and you've never thought twice.
01:18:40.000But would you rather there be two guys standing there, grabbing the door and opening it and closing it every time you're walking through with your family?
01:19:28.000So is it just the idea that we get further away from the change and the next generation doesn't care because they haven't experienced it the other way?
01:19:45.000When Xbox 360 first came out, like when they first did the update, it was like, it was a big deal that it was always connected to the internet and it had a camera that could watch you.
01:20:03.000And so young people, people that are in their 20s and younger, they don't have the same concept of privacy that older generations do because they live in a world where there are cameras all the time, where they're constantly taking pictures and loading them to the internet and stuff.
01:20:20.000The idea of privacy just has gone away.
01:20:23.000So it's not a situation where people are going to be like, oh, you know, I don't want to lose my privacy.
01:20:28.000It's like they're not really going to have the same attachment to privacy that older generations that have.
01:20:34.000Yeah, because I know for me, like I'll be 40 in a year.
01:20:36.000And I remember when you went into Windows, you had to type in W-I-N to get to Windows of the MS-DOS prompt.
01:20:40.000And it's, I've had enough experience of life the other way.
01:20:44.000And I guess not having that life experience, you wouldn't know what you're missing.
01:21:29.000It broke last month, but there's a lot moving right now.
01:21:34.000New York and Washington are taking on loot boxes and video games.
01:21:37.000Letitia James, the Democrat AG from New York, has filed a lawsuit against Valve for hosting illegal gambling.
01:21:45.000We've got this from her website from the end of February, basically saying that Counter-Strike 2, Team Fortress 2, and Dota 2 enable gambling by enticing users to pay for the chance to win a rare virtual item of significant monetary value.
01:22:00.000In Valve's most popular game, the process resembles a slot machine with an animated spinning wheel that eventually rests on a selected item.
01:22:06.000The randomly selected virtual items have no in-game functionality, but can be sold online for money, with one of them reportedly being sold for more than $1 million.
01:22:16.000I believe New York and Washington are going to win.
01:22:46.000Now, these casinos are probably going, these big corporations, to Letitia James, to Washington, saying, we will open these casinos and you will make bank off of your tax share from gambling only if you eliminate any competition.
01:23:03.000The reason I think Letitia James is going after loot boxes, it's not a coincidence that it's happening around the exact same time New York just issued three gaming licenses to major casino operators.
01:23:13.000So what they're arguing is, let me put it like this.
01:23:18.000The first slot machines, the reason why they have cherries, lemons, and bar is because gambling was illegal.
01:23:23.000You'd put a coin in, you'd pull the lever, it would go bar, bar, bar, and a bar of gum would fall down, a vending machine.
01:23:29.000You would then take that bar of gun next door to a different business that purchases gum.
01:23:34.000You'd hand them the gum, they'd hand you cash.
01:23:36.000So that's how you were legally allowed to gamble.
01:23:39.000Loot boxes, they're arguing, do the exact same thing as the OG slot machines.
01:23:45.000You pay some kind of money or value that allows you to then use virtual currency or to actually spin the slot to get your rare item, which can then be sold for money to somebody.
01:23:59.000So the argument is you are wagering money not on a definitive item.
01:24:04.000The argument she's making is it doesn't matter after the fact.
01:24:08.000What matters is you are giving money for a chance at something, not for something.
01:24:13.000Well, the difference here is that there's no organization that's encouraging to buy your product back from you at a profit.
01:24:19.000So there is no like quid pro quo where you're going to go next door and sell the loot box back.
01:24:24.000And they need to prove that these items are of actual value.
01:24:27.000Just because some rando from China will give you $1,000 for a red hat and a video game doesn't mean that the red hat and the video game has any actual value.
01:24:34.000And what if these gaming companies open a secondary business that purchase these items?
01:25:07.000But if you had a business where you were gathering away Magic Cards and then your other business was on buying them back next year.
01:25:12.000Magic the Gathering knows there is a secondary market that drives the value of their cards for purchase, which is why they have what's called the reserve list.
01:25:27.000They have never been properly adjudicated because the arguments in the 90s over Pokemon booster packs as gambling were thrown out not on the merits, but on standing, arguing that the people who exchanged money for a booster pack received a physical product.
01:25:42.000Therefore, there's no formal gambling loss.
01:25:45.000However, Hasbro, I believe the owners of Magic the Gathering have something called the reserve list.
01:25:51.000These are cards they will never reprint.
01:25:53.000And this is because there is a secondary market and these cards retain their value.
01:25:58.000The secondary market makes their booster packs valuable and people will buy them, which guarantees the sale of booster packs.
01:26:06.000If there is no secondary market, cards are worthless.
01:26:27.000Because they probably make more money selling you a $4 booster pack with a bunch of seven cent cards in it.
01:26:31.000Where you're hoping you will get the card that you need, and you have to buy more and more and more in the chance you might get a card that you need.
01:26:38.000No pro player of any of these trading card games buys boosters to get the cards they need for their decks.
01:26:44.000They buy singles directly from a card shop on the secondary market.
01:26:47.000And the secondary market exists because Magic has created a reserve list to guarantee the price of these cards so that people will buy at random chance and then try and resell them to a shop for the secondary market.
01:27:14.000I don't think you can ban baseball cards.
01:27:16.000The difference with baseball cards, secondary market is limited because there's no function to the baseball cards.
01:27:20.000They're a collector's item for being collector's items.
01:27:23.000The issue with Magic the Gathering is that players need specific cards which are in limited print, which drives up demand, guaranteeing secondary market value.
01:27:33.000And because standard play requires you to use the best cards and they limit the production of the best cards, meaning everybody knows this is about magic.
01:27:40.000I can't speak for Pokemon or other card games.
01:27:42.000The new deck comes out for standard and you want to win, $600 on the spot to buy all the cards you need.
01:27:47.000If you don't have $600, congratulations, you are not winning tournaments.
01:27:54.000You're not going to spend a grand on random chance packs.
01:27:58.000So there are people who will buy boxes of boosters the moment they come out, crack them all open, hoping that they will get a slightly EV plus on their return.
01:28:09.000And this will set the value of rarer cards that are in limited print, specifically because they know the function of the game requires people to buy that.
01:28:33.000If any person bet or play at any such gaming table, bank, or device, as is mentioned in the first section, or if at any hotel, tavern, or other public place or place of public resort, he play any game except bowls, chess, or batgaming drafts or a licensed game, or bet on the sides of those who play at any game, whether the game be permitted or licensed or not, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction, shall be fined not less than five or more $100, blah, blah, blah.
01:29:02.000The point is, there is no formal licensing of TCGs in West Virginia.
01:29:07.000Games that are licensed are games like three-card poker at a casino, and the casino gets a license to play via Shufflemaster or otherwise.
01:29:14.000Pokemon, Magic, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Lorcana, these other games, they are not licensed games.
01:29:19.000The law predates the existence of these games.
01:29:22.000I do not think they should be illegal, but the point is this.
01:29:25.000If they go for loot boxes, which they are, they are going to attack this whole space.
01:29:30.000And I think it's fair to say, let me put it like this.
01:29:34.000I'm going to ask you guys a question in the comments.
01:29:37.000If there was a vending machine and you could walk up to it and it said, buy a Pokemon mystery box for $20, in it, you will find a card potentially worth $10 or up to $200.
01:29:51.000You don't know what that card is going to be.
01:30:36.000It sort of sounds like old video arcades where you'd win tickets and then the tickets aren't worth anything, but you could trade them for something.
01:30:42.000It came in that box and it came in the plastic piece when you, the plastic protector when you bought it?
01:32:30.000Ken Paxton goes to meet with Trump and Trump says, shut down these card rooms and get these casinos in.
01:32:37.000Because when the casinos come and they are coming, these card rooms are competitors and we don't want it.
01:32:41.000That's the conspiracy that I don't know necessarily is true.
01:32:44.000But after the lodge got shut down, which is the largest card club in the world, the speculation right away was that Ken Paxton was meeting with Trump, needed the endorsement and said, what do you want from me?
01:32:53.000And Trump said, Miriam Adelson wants casinos in Texas and wants these card rooms out of the picture so that gaming is controlled by them.
01:33:01.000Loot boxes from Letitia James, exact same play.
01:33:04.000Again, I'm not saying I know it's true, but I don't think it's a coincidence that they're trying to list things as gambling, which would put them solely under the control of the casinos.
01:33:20.000How do you get your new random chance skins?
01:33:22.000Valve signs a license deal with Rivers Casino and then says the Rivers logo appears and 10% of all of the loot box spins go to Rivers because they own the permits.
01:33:32.000I'm not saying I know it's going to happen, but it's not a coincidence that all of these states are now filing these gambling charges against a bunch of players at the same time.
01:34:50.000It was Richard Garfield was trying to make a board game that was targeting young adults, largely based on like the DD fandom and things of that nature.
01:34:57.000But they couldn't afford a full board.
01:35:02.000And it was the first trading card game ever made and explicitly included a gambling element.
01:35:07.000There are even cards that allow you to swap your ante mid-game, which was a crazy trick.
01:35:12.000You'd be like, I'm going to ante up a very rare card, a mocks, and they'd put up a mox.
01:35:16.000Then mid-game, you'd draw a card and says, I'm swapping the anti-at for this dummy card.
01:35:20.000And they'd be like, you son of a, and now even if they win, they get junk, but if you win, you get their rare, expensive card, which at the time was still only 10 bucks or whatever.
01:35:56.000I believe with the expansion of these casinos, card rooms are going to start asking the question: if we own the rights to all card games where in a tournament you make a wager of cash, why don't we own this?
01:36:11.000So what's going to get weird is that the first question I have for everybody who doubts this is, do you think the multi-billion dollar multinational corporations, being told they can win this court case, would they give up a multi-billion dollar card industry like Pokemon if they could lay claim to it?
01:36:28.000The other question is, if, according to the law, any game, West Virginia says you can't even play a game.
01:37:05.000We have the exclusive permit in this state for that function.
01:37:10.000And if the state allows that function to exist outside a casino, the court, the casinos could lose future cases.
01:37:17.000This is exactly what I've been working on with various AGs and discussing with them about.
01:37:21.000If Pokemon Yu-Gi-Oh! Magic allow tournaments where children will put money up front, play a card game, and then win cash, this is threatening the exclusivity that casinos have over other card games like Hold'em, Pot Limit Omaha, et cetera.
01:37:34.000The casinos absolutely will try to take this or at least get it banned.
01:37:38.000I wonder how long that is before that happens in professional sports because you even watch a baseball game now and they're giving you betting lines and things throughout an entire game.
01:38:05.000So the thing is, when card games started expanding across the country, casinos were not anywhere.
01:38:09.000They were on reservations and in Vegas and Atlantic City.
01:38:12.000Now that states are saying you can open a casino in the city and state proper, regulated by the state, are they going to just say you can wager on card games, card games, any card game outside of our facility?
01:38:40.000It's like, well, it's 52-card poker, but it's not poker.
01:38:46.000But you want to make poker hands with your hand of 12 or 10 and you get rares and wilds that can change the so there are some cards and then poker cards.
01:39:16.000But again, the restrictions on Balatro are specifically because they try to avoid falling into gambling territory.
01:39:22.000The question then is: if the predominant factor test needs to be applied to the existing popular card games like Pokemon, it has never been done.
01:39:32.000The argument by Pokemon fans is that it is a skill game, not a chance game.
01:39:37.000And because it is a skill game, it is not gambling.
01:39:42.000In fact, I asked Grok and Chat GPT and it argued Pokemon, Magic Gathering, and Yu-Gi-Oh have greater chance involved because of a greater draw.
01:39:52.000Two separate decks, 120 cards or more with seven cards drawn between each player increase substantially more variance than a poker game.
01:40:05.000He's got a huge likelihood of winning.
01:40:07.000Chance is defined as what a player can control.
01:40:09.000And if you can't control the cards the other player has, that is legally gambling.
01:40:14.000It's a question they ask when it comes to the predominant factor test.
01:40:16.000So the issue is: if I invent a new card game and we start playing it and it's an entry fee, how will casinos control for gambling if I can just keep creating new card games with new names and new variables so that I can keep wagering money on a game of skill?
01:40:35.000The casinos are going to say no to this.
01:40:38.000And they are dumping tons of money to win this war.
01:40:42.000I don't want to consolidate power up into the casinos' hands.
01:41:39.000So I think we're going to, I think a nuclear bomb is about to drop.
01:41:43.000I think the closure of the lodge in Texas has just set a bunch of high net worth people on edge.
01:41:49.000And as soon as this goes into courts, it's going to spark off a Tinderbox involving video games like Dota, games like Pokemon, and the mass expansion of casinos across the country.
01:42:00.000And it's going to get real crazy real quick.
01:42:03.000It'd been going hard on loot boxes for a little while.
01:43:53.000However, Letitia James, as a representative of state law and criminality, is arguing they are violating state law or facilitating the violation of criminal law.
01:47:08.000And so if they got rid of booster packs completely and they only sold singles, they could still make rare singles that you would have to spend 80 bucks on to win a tournament.
01:47:17.000It still feels like pay to win, though.
01:47:19.000It wouldn't be gambling in the speech.
01:47:20.000Imagine if on the website, rares were $10, uncommons were $3, and commons were $1.
01:47:25.000And if you wanted to build the best deck possible, you still had to spend a little bit extra money, but that wouldn't work because then you're basically, again, making pay to win and only the rich people can afford the stronger decks.
01:47:34.000So maybe everybody's deck has to have a cap, a value cap, like in World In Warhammer.
01:47:39.000Everybody's army has to have a value cap.
01:47:42.000This is why in Magic right now, everyone's playing with proxies.
01:47:45.000For those that know what that means, it means they take a random, they'll print a card out.
01:47:49.000They will print an uncertified version of the card to use to play with because they want to play with strong decks, but they don't have $20,000 to buy the ultra-rare cards.
01:47:59.000I've been playing with proxies for 30 years.
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01:48:42.000And so I do kind of agree, but Charlie's children's names are like every 17th post on X. If you Google Charlie Kirk and family, they list the names of their children.
01:48:56.000It's not particularly like Charlie posted photos with their names and everything.
01:49:00.000You better believe that if her name was not public, I never would have mentioned it.
01:49:21.000And as an American who is 5% Japanese, born and raised here, I volunteer as ambassador on X to bring the Japanese, and I'm kidding, by the way, way more Japanese people than me who are American as well.
01:49:41.000And the algorithm is auto-translating Japanese posts into English for American people in the algorithm when the content aligns and everyone's laughing and having a lot of fun.
01:50:19.000The Republic boss says the current deep state does act like the Praetorian Guard.
01:50:22.000If they do not get their bribes, they JFK you and install a new emperor.
01:50:27.000Well, the trope I made during the last election, that if the Praetorian Prefects, the guy that was in charge of the Praetorian Guard, and they would kind of do whatever he wanted, and Obama, with the way that they were deciding, you know, who the next president was going to be just by naming her, to me, seemed like he was trying to control the powers of state like a Praetorian Prefect.
01:50:45.000So I think in a lot of ways, you could say that there is something deciding who is president and who gets to live.
01:50:50.000Christian UNC says with the next Mass Effect in production by BioWare, do you think they will try to go back to its roots that made everyone fall in love with it or go woke?
01:50:59.000And could it happen with the TV series too?
01:51:48.000If Frakes and Shatner could not stand up for this and they can't because they're attached to it, then what hope does Mass Effect have?
01:51:57.000They're going to wear your culture like a skin suit, and then they're going to pull their pants down and take a dump on the floor.
01:52:02.000I mean, the argument that they're not going to, like, the evidence is basically the past 10 years, right?
01:52:08.000Like, every property has had, you know, woke basically touch it and ruin it, whether it be Star Wars, the Marvel stuff was good for a few years, and then it all became Star Wars.
01:52:37.000And they had like, they had, you know, actually the guy that played Obi-Wan Kenobi, they had, I forget what his name is off the top of my head.
01:52:52.000If they created a new Star Trek on the new Enterprise with a new cast that were relatively reasonable, pragmatic individuals, it was following, maybe you couldn't do 80 years after the Dominion War.
01:53:08.000You could do such incredible things with that storyline.
01:53:12.000The story was opened up so massively after Deep Space Nine, and they burned it all to the ground because they, you know, I think it's largely our fault because we need to step up more and take command of these things.
01:53:23.000But the truth is, the woke psychopath cultists, whatever, infiltrated intentionally to destroy these cultural icons.
01:53:31.000So I would love to write a Star Trek series that is maybe 80 years after the next generation.
01:53:38.000And the Alpha Quadrant is largely united under a loose federation.
01:53:42.000The Federation has an active alliance, the Klingons, the Romulans, the Cardassians, and they are now advancing technology into the Gamma and Delta and other quadrants of the galaxy, which introduces old foes and new foes.
01:53:56.000But you could see the advancement from the original series to the next generation, the next generation, Voyager and Deep Space Nine into the next era.
01:54:02.000Instead, they just keep prequel, prequel, prequel, and then weird woke garbage.
01:54:06.000And then we're a thousand years in the future and everyone's gay or something.
01:54:48.000If the argument is you are paying money for a chance to be with a woman who will hook up with you, you are implying that the hooking up has cash equivalent value and that you are making a wager on something that you will get something of equal value or greater value.
01:55:08.000You know, you're always just negotiating the price, I guess.
01:55:12.000I gamble with my low fuel light a lot.
01:55:36.000He's done a few races, but full disclosure, we have not sponsored Cody again for this year.
01:55:41.000And this has to do more with, I don't know, reallocating budgets and marketing and things like that.
01:55:49.000And I suppose when we're looking at setting up satellite studios, truth be told, Cody's fantastic, big fan, good friend, and we're happy to have sponsored him for the past couple of years.
01:56:00.000But now we're allocating budget towards building satellite studios.
01:57:06.000Remember when I was talking about how we would have, you'd like be in your middle of nowhere and you'd wake up in the middle of the night and there'd be like a guy in a flannel shirt with his, tucked into his jeans, with suspenders on and a handlebar mustache stealing one of your chickens?
01:57:19.000I was like, that's when you know it's getting bad.
01:57:22.000Yeah, I mean, well, we were driving in rural West Virginia, and I saw exactly this man mowing the lawn of a dilapidated old house.
01:57:32.000And I looked at my wife and I was like, it's happening.
01:57:35.000The hipsters from the city have no choice but to move to the rural areas.
01:57:39.000That's true, but at least he's working.
01:57:57.000We never got the Civil War flag, though, because someone offered to allow us to hold this massive Civil War flag, and we were like, dude, we cannot be responsible for an original flag like that.
02:01:20.000And I think it's fair to argue that the Pokemon company knows full well the value of their cards and how insane people go to try and buy them.
02:01:53.000When I tweeted out Pokemon's Gambling, I'm saying if all of these things, including chance, make it gambling, then literally all of these things are gambling.
02:02:01.000That's why I think they should be allowed because they're not.
02:02:03.000The skateboard thing is not gambling because no matter what, you're getting the value that you pay for with a skateboard of economic.
02:02:08.000And there's no secondary market for the serialized boards.
02:02:42.000There's no secondary market to sell those skateboards on.
02:02:45.000There's no demand for those skateboards as value.
02:02:47.000It's just a special version you might get.
02:02:49.000All of the boards are basically designed as art pieces, with some being slightly better than others.
02:02:54.000But each and every one of them is valued at the exact same price.
02:02:58.000Unless there's a secondary market where someone determines that those one of fives are worth so much more money, which doesn't exist and there's no demand for, then no matter what, you are getting a skateboard that is valued as a skateboard.
02:03:11.000The thing that Ian's pointing out, which is good, which is interesting, is that when you spend five bucks on a booster pack, you get cards that are worth zero.
02:03:17.000You could open that pack and get cards that are worth zero.
02:03:20.000And you're just like, it's literally throwing the garbage.
02:03:34.000And so what happens is people donate commons and uncommons in big boxes to the shops that they can sell as singles for like 10 cents.
02:03:41.000The secondary market argument is dangerous because if some random guy wants to create a secondary market for a product that I've been delivering, and now all of a sudden I'm treated like a gambling salesman because some guy wants me out of business and created a secondary market.
02:04:10.000And if these games really, like, let's be honest, a game of skill like chess doesn't require you to buy a $7,000 queen.
02:04:16.000Could you imagine, like, I said this already, you're playing chess with someone and they have 10 queens and they're like, well, I can afford it.
02:08:24.000This game's fucking awesome, but it got kind of boring playing alone.
02:08:27.000You're playing up against a computer, and every round, it's more challenging score you got to get.
02:08:31.000And then, like, I'll make my three of a kinds worth more with this rare.
02:08:34.000So then you're looking to get three of a kinds, and maybe your three of a kind beats of Royal Flush because you pump so much bonuses into it.
02:08:40.000We were just talking right as we're switching over to the uncensored.
02:08:45.000We have this job list thing for this video producer so we can make stuff like this.
02:08:48.000I would, I want to make a commercial for chess, the trading, the trading piece game, where it's like there's a guy who's just got a whole thing of queens and one king in the middle.
02:09:01.000And it's just a guy cracks open a booster pack of chess pieces and he's like, ah, just pawns again.
02:09:09.000And then they go to a tournament and he's like, well, my family couldn't afford any of the really good pieces, but I wanted to play.
02:09:14.000And he's just got like pawns in like two nights.
02:11:06.000Was in Rome, this is where I was like, I don't want to be contrived and ask you about everything in Rome, but did gambling spike when the empire started flailing?
02:11:14.000It was always a thing, if that makes sense.
02:11:16.000And the thing that's interesting is so chariot teams like chariot racing were actually colors.
02:11:21.000They had reds, blues, greens, different colors.
02:11:24.000And people would gamble heavily on these races to the point that the way Roman society worked, it was what's known as a client system, meaning you owed somebody either your position or they owned your debt or whatever it might be.
02:11:37.000So you would do whatever that guy asked.
02:11:38.000You'd show up at his house every day, say, hey, what can I do for your boss?
02:11:41.000And gambling was very similar to the people owning the gambling rackets.
02:11:45.000If you owed him a whole bunch of money, he owned you.
02:11:47.000And I think that's where gambling was a really big deal because people were obsessed with it to the point that they would be willing to give up their own autonomy just to be gambling.
02:11:56.000Now, that's different than the patron system, right?
02:11:58.000Well, the patron system, the client system, are a similar word, but Romans are client.
02:12:04.000Like I was, you know, the client of this senator, and I owe my job to getting this job because of this senator.
02:12:10.000And gambling would be very similar where people that own gambling houses, if you got to the certain point where you had so much debt, they would say, well, I won't make you pay on the debt, but you have to go kill that guy for me.
02:12:21.000And that would be very similar, how you could own somebody through gambling.
02:12:25.000Did they literally take them as slaves?
02:12:30.000And slavery wasn't racial like we think of slavery.
02:12:32.000Slavery was, you know, you lost a war, we get you.
02:12:35.000Or we took over your territory, we get you.
02:12:39.000Very often, a lot of the early tutors were Greek tutors that were brought in when Rome conquered Greek states and they're very highly educated.
02:12:48.000So now these slaves are your new tutors.
02:12:50.000So they would just become permanent clients of a gambler that owed the gambling a lot of money.
02:12:55.000Yeah, you could become a permanent client at that point.
02:13:02.000But that's how it also in the United States, slavery started because I believe it was initially an indentured servant who could not pay back the debt accrued.
02:13:09.000So the court ruled, well, then he is indentured forever.
02:13:12.000There's a lot of early Irish that came over that way.
02:13:14.000And it was a black man who owned the first live.
02:13:33.000We know that you're the co-founder of Command Your Brand, and I was wondering what advice you would have to someone who's wanting to grow their audience on YouTube or just social media in general.
02:13:44.000Because I'm a small creator and it feels like the algorithm just only favors these larger creatives.
02:13:50.000Well, I'm definitely not as big of a YouTube expert as Tim, so I can't really say, you know, you guys have been on YouTube a lot longer than I have, a lot bigger than I have.
02:13:58.000But I would say, in terms of being a creator, the thing that I found for me when what I was doing changed is when I really came with my unique way to talk about something.
02:14:07.000So, for example, years ago, I would just talk about Rome, whatever people want to talk about.
02:14:11.000And now I have a real formulation of what I talk about, calling it the Roman pattern.
02:14:16.000And in that, the way it was shown and portrayed, I always made sure that the visuals were highly thematic.
02:14:23.000The music we're using is highly thematic.
02:14:24.000People know what the brand feels like.
02:14:26.000And I think that's what it comes down to is getting clear about what you're talking about, how you're talking about it, and how it looks on all of your social channels.
02:14:33.000I'm definitely not the biggest guy out there, but for me, that has worked really well to make sure it's a clear, coherent, concise message.
02:14:40.000And really having a framework of how I deliver it is really, really important too.
02:15:27.000I find that's really, really useful because I can have it look at my scripts that I write and see if maybe we need to reword some certain things.
02:15:32.000Scoring titles is really helpful, stuff like that.
02:15:35.000Yeah, I used to use it, but it was completely wrong.
02:15:51.000I think that's one key part of it because I think some people want it to just generate it for them whatsoever and there's kind of no creativity in it.
02:15:56.000Yeah, no, I would write a title out and then it would say low score.
02:16:52.000So people come with us if they want to go on other shows.
02:16:54.000So typically we're working with somebody if they have a new book coming out or they have, you know, we're typically working with a CEO and founder of a company that they're no longer required in the day-to-day productions.
02:17:05.000We're trying to help them get their message out and kind of become more of the cultural conversation.
02:17:09.000So typically somebody just books a call with us and then we have a conversation and see if it's a fit for both sides.
02:18:20.000Now, my question to you is, which branch of leftist extremism do you think is going to take over here in the near future if they win the next election?
02:18:34.000I think it's going to be very similar to what we already saw with woke stuff.
02:18:39.000But do you think the Islamists are going to take over or the communists or do you think we will see some kind of great purge in this country through it?
02:18:49.000Look, if the option is Islamists or progressive leftists, the progressive leftists lose to the Islamists because they don't have any means to defend themselves against the Islamists.
02:19:03.000The Islamists will use the arguments that the progressive left make, and then they'll go ahead and turn around and say, okay, we're not doing any of that anymore because we're in power now.
02:19:22.000I wrote a big long piece about the Red-Green Alliance on my Patreon.
02:19:26.000If you want to go ahead and read that, there's a bunch of information there.
02:19:28.000But like the progressive left always loses to the Islamists.
02:19:33.000The progressive left is the perfect useful idiot for the Islamists.
02:19:38.000The Islamists understand the left, the way the left works, and they have no problem with using them.
02:19:45.000The left has no ability to defend against the Islamists at all.
02:19:50.000The deep state's going to be in control.
02:19:53.000Like, there will be weirdo whack, like, woke stuff that's a component of the deep state neolib garbage.
02:20:01.000I mean, Islam will be something totally different, I guess.
02:20:04.000That'll be the Islamist in the U.S., Islamism will take longer because they have to actually get, they have to entrench themselves far deeper than they are.
02:20:12.000There's a very, very, on the, on the national scale, there's a very few of them.
02:20:16.000You see pockets beginning to actually get some influence, but still, overall, there are very few Muslims compared to Christians and stuff like that.
02:20:27.000But if you want to see what can happen, look at what's going on in the UK now.
02:21:01.000It brought in the new power and then they got rid of all the students.
02:21:04.000But if you want, that's the best example that I can recommend.
02:21:08.000What happened in Iran that'll happen basically anywhere the left allies with the Islamists?
02:21:14.000You see it happening in all the people that are pro-Gaza, all the progressives that are pro-Gaza, that are saying that the Israelis are committing a genocide, et cetera.
02:21:27.000The people in Gaza will use them, right?
02:21:29.000But then when you talk about gay people in Gaza, that ain't happening.
02:21:34.000They're just like, that shit doesn't fucking happen here.
02:21:38.000And just fucking toss you off a building or something.
02:21:42.000There is no defense that the left has against the Islamists.
02:21:48.000I think Mamdani is an interesting test case in that, too, to kind of observe New York, see the direction New York goes, and you're going to see how it's going to work here in the U.S.
02:21:55.000Yeah, I don't think that Momdani is going to, I don't think that New York is in danger of falling to Islamism right now because I don't think that there are enough, again, it's still compared to other religions and stuff, it's still very, very, it's still a very small minority.
02:22:17.000But they will do what they can to push their agenda.
02:22:22.000I mean, in the UK, there are MPs that are not Muslims that are saying things like, we need fewer dogs in the UK.
02:22:30.000And that's specifically to cater to the Muslims.
02:23:01.000There are all kinds of citations for all the stuff that I talk about.
02:23:04.000But yeah, the left has no ability to control Islamism because it fundamentally, the way that the left looks at the world, they see European influence.
02:23:36.000So what was my follow-up question with that?
02:23:39.000If at all, when do you think we will see a reconquista in America with regards to we are watching all this stuff happen in Europe and how devastating it is and life-changing, I would say?
02:23:52.000Well, I mean, I think that, look, as long as if the left gets into a position of authority, right, they get into the White House and they control the they control Congress, they're going to do the same things they were doing during the during the Bush administration, I'm sorry, during the Biden administration.
02:24:16.000That's just going to be the status quo.
02:24:18.000And that's going to be the status quo for the left moving forward.
02:24:21.000They may run someone like Gavin Newsome.
02:24:24.000They may run a white Christian man and say, look, this guy is acceptable to white America and you can vote for this guy, et cetera, et cetera.
02:24:34.000As soon as he gets into power, it's going to be all the woke stuff.
02:24:38.000They learned from the fact that Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris both lost.
02:24:46.000They're going to say we should not run a woman.
02:26:02.000Where I'm hoping we can do a Heritage Day where we can talk about the families and all the men who built this country and try to reconnect with our American room.
02:26:35.000So I'm glad there's no women on the panel tonight.
02:26:38.000I'm so nerd out about my favorite historical subject, which is ancient Rome.
02:26:42.000So this is going to be mostly for Mr. Slate, probably Ian, but anyone else, feel free to give your take.
02:26:51.000So Mr. Slate, what's your take on the Marian reforms for the military and then the Gracchi reforms for society?
02:26:58.000And then more importantly, in the nationwide efforts to form a mighty faggot, do you see any modern equivalents or parallels that need to be implemented today in these domains?
02:27:09.000As Simpson's reference over my head better.
02:27:12.000Martin says, alone, we are weak like a single twig, but together we form a mighty faggot.
02:27:23.000So the Marian reforms is the one I actually hit on a lot.
02:27:27.000So Marius, for people that aren't familiar, is the famous reformer of the Roman military.
02:27:33.000And the office of consul, Rome had two at a time because they didn't want to have one man that was holding an office that was kind of like president.
02:27:49.000So he obviously broke the rules of office in order to do that.
02:27:52.000He creates the gold standard eagle that's typically used as the symbol of the Roman legions after this.
02:27:58.000And I also see the reforms he made of the military.
02:28:01.000One of the biggest things he did is he changed Rome from being a citizen soldiery basically fighting for their own farms and land to a highly professionalized class of soldier.
02:28:11.000And I do see that as, in a way, one of the things that's going to drive the fall of the Republic much faster because now people don't have loyalty to their Roman Republic.
02:28:23.000They start to have loyalty to a commander.
02:28:25.000And that's going to be one of the things that not just drives the fall of the Republic, but later on, it's also going to be one of the things that drives the fall of the empire.
02:28:33.000So I see those reforms as actually extremely pivotal, in a lot of ways being a poison pill for not just the Roman Republic, but later the Roman Empire.
02:28:41.000In terms of the reforms of the Gracchi, the major one that I look at, because they were looking at landish redistribution, but they were also looking at the grain dole.
02:28:51.000And the grain dole was the idea that, I guess to back it up, Tiberius Gracchus is fighting in the Punic Wars.
02:28:58.000After they're over, he's on his way back and he sees that people are living on land that's public land.
02:29:05.000They're farming it for rich people that have decided they just own this public land and they're not able to feed their families.
02:29:10.000So he decides that they're going to form the grain dole, that basically every citizen would get a certain amount of grain to eat in order to feed their family.
02:29:18.000Now that thing is going to be something that, as you get closer to the third century, is one of the things that pushes the inflation even harder because Romans are dealing with climate change.
02:29:29.000From about 200 BC to 200 AD, it's something called the Roman climate optimum, meaning they had perfect weather and they could grow food in much higher quantities than they would have typically been able to.
02:29:39.000When that changes in 250, it's going to make grain prices double, triple, quadruple.
02:29:45.000So now Rome has this new price that they have to pay to feed all these people.
02:29:50.000So it's going to be a real issue, especially in the third century.
02:29:53.000So I think those are actually two really pivotal things that don't actually mean as much when they happen as they are going to for later Rome be part of kind of the structure falling apart.
02:30:04.000Question: Metaphorically, you know, they say history rhymes.
02:30:06.000So, like the Marian reforms, Gaius Marius improves the military, centralizes command authority.
02:30:12.000If we were to see something like that in the modern age, would that be, I'm wondering, giving over military command authority to the AI, autonomous AI, and we start to trust the AI as our new commander, which leads to the downfall, then hyper-accelerated downfall of our empire.
02:30:28.000I don't know if it would happen exactly like that, but I think looking at it in people having more of a personal relationship with the person that's leading them rather than looking at the good of the nation as a whole.
02:30:38.000And I think you could look at that more of even in political parties where people care more about their political party than how's the country doing.
02:30:44.000I think that is kind of a big part of it as well.
02:30:47.000Like, I could see soldiers in combat being like, yo, this AI has saved my life so many times.
02:31:08.000If you have a superior commander, even if it's a robot, everyone should love AI because remember, Iron Man had an AI helping him with everything.
02:31:36.000Learning from history, what are some of these reforms that you would, things from the past that you would recommend for today?
02:31:42.000That we're talking a lot about what our government should be doing.
02:31:46.000I'm curious what highlights from history you see would be beneficial today that people might think are outdated, but are actually quite wise.
02:31:56.000Well, I think one of the biggest ones, honestly, is looking at money and politics.
02:32:00.000One of the things I talk about a lot that doesn't often get talked about.
02:32:04.000Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor, he gets that position because there's actually a man behind him.
02:32:10.000His name is Jakob Fuga, and he's a cloth merchant that manages to make a lot of money because he realizes he can make more money trading money than actually just trading cloth.
02:32:19.000And he becomes, there's a book out there.
02:32:21.000I think it's called The Richest Man in the World, and it's about Jakob Fuga.
02:32:25.000And what Fuga does for Charles V is there's seven prince electors that decide who's going to be the next Holy Roman Emperor.
02:32:33.000So he bribes all seven of them and gets Charles V elected.
02:32:37.000And throughout his entire career, Charles V will make a lot of strange decisions which don't make sense to people.
02:32:42.000But if you understand those decisions he's making are to benefit Jakob Fuga, then history makes a whole lot more sense to you.
02:32:50.000So I think one of the biggest things we have to look at is money in politics.
02:32:54.000You know, super PACs are a big part of this.
02:32:56.000Political donations are a big part of this.
02:32:58.000And so I think if we look at money in politics, that's something we could learn a really big lesson from.
02:33:04.000This guy, by the way, Jakob Fuga, his name is spelled Jacob Fugger.
02:33:38.000Yeah, a job that people really don't want, but they're looking out for the best interests and they serve for a certain period of time and they go back to work.
02:34:15.000The other thing I would say is I think currency is a major problem.
02:34:18.000And we talked about that with the reforms of Constantine with currency.
02:34:22.000And I think that's one of the bigger lessons we could understand is when you look at banking, especially, a lot of the language is complicated.
02:34:30.000A lot of things are set up in a way that regular people can't understand.
02:34:34.000And I think if we can figure out how to handle our currency, we make our condition a lot better and we make our future a lot brighter.
02:34:41.000Elon Musk said that we're headed towards a post-money economy where it's going to be about how much electricity can you generate and how much of a payload can you move.
02:34:49.000And I feel like currency is electricity is current.
02:34:53.000Currency will evolve to have a new meaning.
02:34:55.000But I think the deep, the banking cartels.
02:34:58.000Phil's got a big old sound when I do these loose associations.
02:35:01.000Well, I guess it's not as crazy as it sounds, though, because it's also the idea of like value for value, right?
02:35:08.000You know, it's like it's kind of an Ayn Rand idea.
02:35:10.000You know, like if you're actually giving value for value that's being produced, then it has a, it, it actually is something rather than the idea of money just for existence, whatever it might be.
02:35:20.000I imagine when Elon said that, or when people say that out loud, that the people at the World Economic Forum that are trying to create the technocracy and their method of control is money, that they hear that and they're like, oh, fuck, because it's true.
02:35:32.000That is, we're about to lose control of the system if they don't have, if the money isn't enough and everyone's got their own power packs.
02:36:36.000We're in this stupid church and digital age where nobody goes outside.
02:36:39.000Michael Knowles said something once, like, you know, go to the place where you find the caliber of person you're looking for and like church, obviously.
02:36:46.000But most of the time, people are with their families.
02:38:43.000I'm not saying you should meet women at the gym, but I'm saying that you should go to the gym, you know, three, four times a week if you can.
02:38:49.000Like if it's something that you have, look, man, if you don't have a girlfriend, you can fucking go to the gym three, four times a week, right?
02:38:54.000What else the fuck are you going to do?
02:38:56.000But yeah, honestly, like, you know, go to the gym, get in the best shape that you can get in, and find something that you really like and learn to excel at it.
02:39:06.000How old are you, if you don't mind my asking?
02:40:19.000My advice is if you're using dating apps, which you probably are going to have to, try and talk as little as possible via text and chats and try and get the person to meet you in person.
02:41:56.000Like trying to do it alone, find someone alone is very challenging.
02:41:59.000But having someone to talk to about it when you're stressed out, even just once in a while, and then someone to be there with you, like they call it a wingman, you know, out in public so that the women can see that you're not crazy.
02:43:17.000You were doing it in a competent fashion.
02:43:21.000But seriously, you need to, it's like, sure, if you can, you know, if you can schmooze women and go and you've got the gift of gab and you're being funny is probably like fucking the most valuable thing.
02:43:36.000Like if you're actually a funny dude, that shit will fucking work.