00:02:23.000So that's the most important thing that I could talk about today, despite the fact that right now, ballots were stolen in the California election.
00:02:47.000If it turns out they did it on a Friday of all days, the stupidest day to do it, they probably put out the news about the Chicago Bears leaving Chicago on a Friday because I want to bury the story.
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00:02:57.000It's the weekend, and people have the weekend.
00:03:01.000I wouldn't be surprised if they riot over this.
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00:04:54.000And so, myself and my co host Dimes, we do a very good job at trying to cover all of the sort of political literature out there that, you know, people tell you to read.
00:05:31.000But at the same time, I'm forcing myself to kind of react because it's like, man, this is a really bad time to announce that I'm a Green Bay fan.
00:05:50.000But then if someone else threatens your brother, you're like, you turn immediately, like, no, So it's like with Green Bay, you know, we'll smack talk, but.
00:05:57.000But if the Vikings say something, you and I get mad.
00:06:33.000And don't get me wrong, you had those state senators that didn't want to redistrict, and, well, they got what was coming to them.
00:06:40.000Indiana just has generally been better for a lot of reasons in terms of freedom and gun rights and buying cigarettes, I guess, as long as I've been around.
00:08:01.000It's growing up and having this be a part of your life as something that was built to be shared and we have good memories of and we cheer for it.
00:08:08.000And I know you guys feel that way about your hometown teams as well, be it small or big.
00:08:13.000When I see this story, I ask myself how it is that a city gave up on securing one of its most iconic traditions?
00:08:22.000How is it that when it came to a vote, the mayor, the governor, the system in place said, we don't care?
00:08:32.000Now, again, let's remove sports team from the equation and talk about life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, the traditions, and the things that are all around us.
00:08:40.000When your governors, when your mayors, when your politicians come to a vote and they ask the people, hey, I want to get reelected.
00:08:48.000When the people say we don't care about our traditions, it's not just sports, it's jurisprudence, it's the Fifth Amendment, it's the First Amendment, it's the Second Amendment, all of these things eroding all around us now exemplified right in the Faces of your average person seeing an iconic sports team be stripped away from our hometown.
00:09:07.000And many of you may say, Tim, who cares?
00:09:11.000We have brought in people not from this country, many of them welcomed with open arms, and I respect that, but many of them illegally.
00:09:18.000And they were brought in under the cover of night by Biden and by many of these Democrats illicitly, flown on planes, dropped to the tune of millions of individuals.
00:09:30.000Some of these people are protected by the likes of Barack Obama.
00:09:33.000These people have kids, these people get citizenship, but they are not here following the moral and cultural traditions that were built by our families and our fathers and mothers for us.
00:09:45.000And with all due respect to these people, I understand why they vote for what they do.
00:09:49.000But when the question comes to a city, what shall we allocate for production in the budget?
00:09:55.000We have this much money from taxes and from income.
00:10:28.000You can tell I'm pissed off about it, but we've got a statement here from George H. McCaskey and President Kevin Warren saying Yesterday, the Chicago Bears Board of Directors met and voted to advance our stadium development project in Hammond, Indiana, with the exact site to be selected.
00:10:42.000We believe a world class stadium project in Hammond will transform the region, connecting northwest Indiana to the south side of Chicago through the loop.
00:10:49.000And across neighborhoods in the suburbs stretching north of the city, it will bring Chicago land together and deliver new opportunities to its residents and businesses.
00:11:06.000They drive the half an hour to Indiana to buy cheap cigarettes and then illegally bring them over to sell Lucy's at Keggers in warehouses.
00:11:15.000So when they're like, Indiana is, of course, part of the Chicago land area, that means nothing.
00:11:20.000To the people who grew up in this city.
00:11:22.000So let me just end my rant furiously just by saying this is exactly exemplifying, and I hope it reaches the ears of people, the eyes of people who aren't really paying attention to politics.
00:11:34.000You may live in New York, you may live in California, you may live in Texas, and you may have seen maybe you saw the Redskins get turned into the commanders when they vote to strip you of your traditions and iconography and what your culture is and was and what you grew up and what you love.
00:11:50.000And I hope people outside of Chicago can recognize what it means when you have decades of jokes, of media, of movies, of stories about your iconic team, and then one day they vote to take it away.
00:12:04.000Your history does not matter to these people.
00:12:06.000And that's what we are watching be stripped from us.
00:12:08.000For me, I care about the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, I care about baseball and apple pie.
00:12:13.000And now it's come to the faces of regular people when the city can't even maintain its own iconic traditions.
00:12:20.000I am going to smash something right now.
00:12:23.000Look, I mean, this kind of thing, the changing of American society is something that we've been seeing happen.
00:12:32.000It was slowly happening, I think, in the early aughts into the teens.
00:12:36.000And then with the George Floyd riots in 2020, with the whole BLM and stuff like that, all of the massive changes to the statues that had to be taken down, all of the phrases that became, you're not allowed to say them anymore.
00:12:54.000This kind of stuff is directly because the populations of the United States, the populations of different areas in the United States, have substantively changed, right?
00:13:04.000So, America is not populated with as many Americans, people that value America, that value our history, that value our culture.
00:13:14.000There are just fewer Americans, particularly in cities, particularly in areas.
00:13:19.000I literally warned of this when I was talking about Springfield, Ohio, and them eating the dogs and eating the cats.
00:13:25.000When I said, You have 100 people, and they have a baseball field that was built by granddad, and they go to their town hall meeting and say, Hey, what should we spend our town's budget on this year?
00:13:35.000And everyone agrees, We love our baseball field.
00:13:57.000I am blaming the government for jamming people who don't respect our culture and traditions into our communities and stripping us of what we value.
00:14:05.000You might be right that the illegal immigrants caused the.
00:15:39.000It may be that they did the math, and they're like, If we put $1.2 billion into a stadium, we're going to recoup it over 19 years with inflation.
00:15:57.000The issue for me, and what I am mad about, is that when we as a collective decide to pool our money towards government, which includes infrastructure projects, it should include things like iconic traditions that also generate revenue and are important for the morale of a people and a city.
00:16:14.000The issue is when it comes to the question of allocating funds for this, your voter base is no longer Chicagoan.
00:16:25.000Look, we're going to vote for you, but we don't care about this.
00:16:27.000So, Pritzker and Johnson and whoever else is running is taking into consideration if I decide to allocate a billion dollars or whatever, some ridiculous number, towards making sure the Chicago Bears stay the Chicago Bears, will I get votes?
00:16:40.000The answer is no, because you have young people who don't care about this country and our traditions, and you have people who aren't from this country who don't care about our country and our traditions.
00:17:06.000You might be right about some of them, but we've got to look at the books to know what the economic projections of this are before we make a decision.
00:17:12.000It's all about the economic productions.
00:17:31.000And I mean, on top of this, we've seen throughout all types of major companies and institutions in America.
00:17:36.000Let's go back maybe 10, 15 years ago when Amazon was trying to move to get another headquarters or another facility opened up.
00:17:43.000You had countless mayors doing advertisements, giving the sweetest deal humanly possible to have them go there.
00:17:49.000There were like a dozen mayors that were all doing the Alexa.
00:17:51.000Hey, where's the next, you know, headquarters two going to be?
00:17:54.000And it would say their respective city.
00:17:56.000A lot of this is going to have to do with the leverage that the team and the board are going to use to what kind of You know, pot that's sweet enough for them to stay in the town.
00:18:04.000And if Hammond is going to undercut the city of Chicago, yeah, it's a pretty bad sign for the city of Chicago because the Senate passed it right in the morning, the House said no, and now they're deciding to walk.
00:18:13.000Whether or not this is the end and all be all is a whole other story, but it really does go to show, to Ian's point, that this has a lot to do with what kind of deal they can get.
00:19:06.000See, this is the problem I see with what you're saying.
00:19:09.000This is the problem with the modern era.
00:19:12.000My response to this young fella would have been quite simply well, immigration.
00:19:17.000One of the most, in terms of metrics that Donald Trump has improved things, was on immigration, where the American people in 2024 saw immigration as the second most pressing issue and voted for Donald Trump with a mandate to enforce our immigration laws, which he reduced that number dramatically.
00:19:30.000So, in terms of what the people asked for now, if your argument is the structure of governance is good when graph go up.
00:19:38.000I'd say you are a child who fundamentally misunderstands what it means to be a nation and a people.
00:19:44.000And that is, when I look at the Bears, I look at our traditions and what unites a people and its culture.
00:19:51.000When people share cultural values, they hold hands, they hug, they get along.
00:19:56.000When people from Chicago say, This is our team, they get mad when someone insults their team.
00:19:59.000They say, Yeah, well, the Bears are like, You can't talk about my Bears that way.
00:20:02.000But in Chicago, everybody's like, Let's go, Bears.
00:20:13.000To the point of Parker, when he says, What about immigration, inflation, or otherwise?
00:20:18.000The issue of tariffs comes up, and I say the tariffs are a good thing, to which the response is, and I say this, but Parker said the tariffs are bad, they cause problems.
00:20:27.000I believe the tariffs, the universal tariffs, have been bad internally for the US economy and have been good for American culture, and it's something that must be done.
00:20:39.000This is a strange reality we live in, where the mentality among the liberals in this country is we should just have.
00:20:46.000Every, like, we don't got to spend money to improve things.
00:20:48.000Things should just generally improve magically by word.
00:20:52.000When we decide to fix a road, we look at the thousand dollars we have and say, Guys, we're going to lose a thousand dollars when we spend this money, but we'll have a nice road.
00:20:59.000They go, No, we don't spend money on those things.
00:21:02.000We should spend money on other things.
00:21:04.000The point is this it costs us money to keep the bears.
00:21:11.000It is culture, it is cultural cohesion, it is the tradition that keeps the city united, and they are losing it and they're giving it up.
00:21:19.000And if you make the argument that the bears should only subsist upon their own revenue, then Sure, libertarian, every road should have a toll on it.
00:21:28.000You can't drive on any busy road because you have to pay the money.
00:21:32.000If the road can't sustain itself through income, the road can't exist.
00:21:35.000Well, I think there are public projects that we should subsidize at a loss.
00:21:38.000There are, like roads, but not sports teams.
00:23:42.000This is we'd rather charge you more money and not give you.
00:23:46.000This is AOC and Amazon in New York City.
00:23:48.000This is we would rather you leave and in the long term we lose insane amounts of money than spend a little bit today.
00:23:56.000We brought up the Giants who have a stadium in New Jersey and they're still the New York Giants.
00:24:00.000People still go to New York to see the Giants and they take the train across the river to Jersey to see the Giants and New Jersey makes the money.
00:24:06.000And New York makes a lot of money too.
00:26:46.000There is a question posed to the people of Chicago Do you want to spend money to have the Chicago Bears?
00:26:52.000Unfortunately, most of the people in Chicago don't vote based on this anymore.
00:26:56.000If you went to the 90s and you said, We're going to move the Chicago Bears out of the city, Not even a joke, there would have been riots.
00:27:03.000They would have burned vehicles in the street.
00:27:05.000They would have crashed things into walls.
00:27:07.000Today, there's not enough core Chicagoans who care about their traditions to be bothered by it.
00:27:13.000So when someone says, listen, for $100 million, we keep this investment with the Bears, we're going to generate $200 million over the next three or four years.
00:27:23.000So if we spend this now, we're going to lose that money, but it's good because we'll make money in the future.
00:27:28.000Liberal policy has always been, well, I don't care about investing for the future.
00:27:31.000Just spend the money on comfort and luxury now.
00:27:34.000I do believe in this instance that they're still assuming there's going to be tons of traction because of the people are going to see the bears right across the border and then they're going to come to the city.
00:27:43.000They're going to take, like they even said, the L. They're going to take the L into the loop.
00:28:33.000If you're from out of town, but you're not.
00:28:36.000You're looking like maybe a couple hour drive, you're not going to stay in the city.
00:28:39.000You're going to be like, oh, I'll go see the game and I'll get a Hampton Inn down the street from the stadium.
00:28:46.000You're not going to go to the city because the city is going to be way more expensive.
00:28:49.000It's going to be cheaper to stay outside of the city.
00:28:52.000I bet part of their calculation is we're not losing all of the foot traffic from the games if it's right.
00:28:56.000People are going to go, people that are living in the suburbs of Chicago and living in Chicago, they're going to leave the city to go to Hammond.
00:31:56.000And for me, as a Chicagoan, as an ex Chicago taxpayer for God knows how many years, I think this is one of the most unacceptable things that they have ever done in this city.
00:32:06.000I think it is going to kill a lot of money, like Tim says, because they're generating money from parking.
00:32:12.000They're generating money from concessions.
00:32:14.000They're generating money from people who do come down for these games.
00:32:18.000You say, Have you ever seen somebody come down for a Bears game from another city?
00:32:22.000Everyone in the Midwest, the Vikings fans will come down to support the Vikings at Soldier Field, even if they're not there to see the Bears.
00:32:56.000People that are going there just to see the Super Bowl, they're going to stay around the stadium.
00:33:01.000They're going to stay where it's less expensive because if you're flying in, if you're talking about someone that's going to go and be like, well, we'll go make a weekend out of it, we'll go hang out in Chicago, that's one thing.
00:33:10.000But if you're like, I got tickets to the Super Bowl and I don't make a ton of money, I'm just going to go to the Super Bowl, you're going to find a holiday inn or you're going to find a Whatever, someplace close to the thing that's not in Chicago.
00:33:20.000And they're going to build, I'll give you this, but let me just say they're going to build the amenities around the stadium.
00:33:30.000But I'm not talking about the ancillary tourist revenue that Chicago may or may not get because they can get that for a regular Bears game whenever.
00:33:36.000Hosting big events at a big stadium at the Super Bowl level means that all the small businesses around that in Chicago are making money.
00:33:45.000The lives of Chicagoans who are in and around these neighborhoods and areas will see dramatic improvement, more money coming in.
00:35:27.000So now you've got all those people going to Indiana to go see the training camps, which people do.
00:35:31.000There are a lot of hardcore fans for this team.
00:35:33.000They're some of the best fans in football.
00:35:36.000And even though the team has been losing systematically every single year since the day I was born, they have now gotten to a competent level in the NFL after this last incredible season that they had.
00:35:52.000We've been dying to see that for a long time.
00:35:54.000If there's so much effect, Thunderpaw in the Discord chat said, according to AI, Super Bowls are estimated to generate $500 million to $1 billion in economic activity for the city that hosts it.
00:36:05.000And you're talking about five to 10 grand a ticket for the nosebleed.
00:36:08.000I mean, these guys, if you're coming in and spending that much money to go to a Super Bowl, nine times out of 10, you're not from that city.
00:36:13.000You're coming in, you're a celebrity, whatever.
00:36:14.000So, yeah, it doesn't matter if you stay in Chicago or in Indiana, you're going to shell out money to stay because you just paid 10 grand for a ticket.
00:36:20.000I just want to surface level all of this stuff, right?
00:36:23.000We've got like the story about California and bouts are being burned, which we'll pull up in a second.
00:36:27.000But this is the real world normy ramifications of everything we talk about on this show loss of culture, tradition, bad policies, overtaxation, open borders.
00:36:38.000One day, you're sitting in your lounge chair with your buddies, and you're the kind of guy who says, I don't really care about politics all that much.
00:36:46.000I just want to hang out with my friends.
00:37:36.000And it's the same exact team with the same players.
00:37:38.000And I realized, and it was a bitter pill to swallow the NFL and pretty much all these professional sports leagues are purely about capitalism.
00:38:24.000Pritzker wanted to put it on the back of the taxpayers.
00:38:25.000We're talking anywhere from just shy of $1 to $2 billion that the taxpayers would have had to have shelled out in Illinois in order to build a stadium.
00:38:33.000Now, there are a lot of people that would say, hell yeah, take my money.
00:39:30.000Maybe we could have spent that on one time, one time, a stadium for our iconic sports team, for the traditions and culture of the city, and for an academic benefit years down the road.
00:39:39.000Instead, they said, let's spend $2.5 billion on people who don't live here.
00:39:44.000Well, it's not like it's one or the other.
00:39:46.000And you can, I don't know what you're going to do with all those.
00:39:48.000Well, there is a budget, there's a finite amount of money.
00:39:50.000And my point is when it came time, this is exactly what I was saying about Springfield and Haitian migrants.
00:39:57.000When it came time to vote, and Pritzker was posed this question, and Johnson was posed this question, we've got $3 billion in the budget to spend on.
00:40:06.000The Bears want two, the migrants want 2.5.
00:40:09.000They say, give the migrants the money.
00:40:10.000They have more political influence now than the people of the city and their traditions.
00:40:16.000That's why I am mad when we lose these things.
00:40:18.000That's why I do not like it when they open the borders and bring people in who don't care.
00:40:23.000Listen, if you want to bring in a finite amount of people, immigrants, into a city in a controlled manner, and we welcome these newcomers, and it's good for economic activity, all of that, yes.
00:40:33.000But when you bring in more people than the culture can bear, you lose your history, your traditions.
00:40:40.000And I will stress this it's the bears today, it's the Fifth Amendment tomorrow.
00:40:44.000We're already seeing court cases where judges are letting criminal, illegal immigrants who beat their wives go.
00:40:49.000We are already seeing instances where judges are saying, screw your rights.
00:40:54.000We are already seeing the governor of New York shut churches down, stripping you of your rights.
00:41:00.000When there is not a moral and strong tradition of a people to defend what is good and pure and makes the country work, you lose it.
00:41:07.000And I highlight the bears not because I think sports are the most important thing.
00:41:11.000I think sports are the most visible thing to the average person to recognize our traditions.
00:41:15.000But after the bears go, the next thing that's going to go is your First Amendment right, your Second Amendment right.
00:41:20.000Sooner or later, they're going to put police in your house and your Third Amendment right is gone.
00:42:01.000Why should I give my money to people who don't live here?
00:42:06.000If you ask me, Tim, you've got some money, would you like to spend it on something?
00:42:09.000You have an option of a pizza restaurant, a Chicago Bears stadium, or a casino, right?
00:42:15.000I say, well, these are questions posed to me asking me to spend money in the city on things that might benefit me.
00:42:21.000Along comes Pritzker and everybody else, and they say, actually, the weight of electoral policy now gives more political power to people who aren't from here.
00:42:29.000And they say, we're going to take your money and give it to them instead.
00:42:32.000Now I'm not even getting to buy anything that I might like.
00:42:34.000They say, do you want to buy something with your money in the public coffer?
00:43:17.000We're talking about almost like New York, a city that was built by a lot of immigration.
00:43:23.000A lot of people that came here, became Americans, were working their asses off to put this all together, and they're rejecting these camps and these things that are being put in Chicago that they're paying for.
00:43:32.000I wonder if part of this is also like a lack of interest in sports.
00:43:36.000Over the last decade, people are getting insulated into video games and computers and stuff.
00:43:40.000Well, I mean, I don't know that they're getting insulated into video games and computers.
00:43:47.000Chicago has some of the most diehard fan bases for all of the people.
00:43:50.000The point that I was making is even still like 17,000 people.
00:43:53.000The point that I was making in the very beginning is because the people that are in Chicago are different, there's less interest in sports, right?
00:44:00.000Like people are not born, they're not American the way that they used to be.
00:44:05.000They're not born here, they don't value the same things.
00:44:08.000So, yes, there is less interest in sports, but it's not because of video games or anything.
00:44:15.000It's because the makeup of the population is different.
00:44:19.000We don't have magic soil in the U.S. You come to the U.S., you don't automatically start valuing the things that Americans value.
00:44:25.000Well, I think it could be both because I think, like, I'd rather watch esports than soccer.
00:44:30.000Well, Chicago has a history of dynasties.
00:44:49.000Like, we're talking about people that are die hard for these teams, die hard Chicago fans, that the last thing they want to see is something like this happen.
00:46:37.000When you love something like a sport, when you love athletics in any capacity, it doesn't matter how old you are, you wish you could still do it.
00:46:46.000If you don't love it, you're not going to keep that interest forever.
00:46:50.000It's going to be fleeting, and you're going to move on to something else that you are enjoying.
00:46:54.000Sports for Chicago is one of those things that we are not going to move on from.
00:46:58.000It doesn't matter if there's one sports fan left and we're surrounded in Illinois by immigrants, that one person is still going to be a diehard loyal Chicago fan.
00:47:04.000It's hard not to become obsessed with sports when you're in Chicago.
00:47:07.000I lived there for three years, 2013, 2010.
00:47:11.000No, no, 2003 to six when Moises Salou took catching Bartman, popped the ball, and didn't run.
00:47:18.000It was not the whole Bartman situation.
00:48:23.000I mean, for a Cleveland fan, that was like, oh, we actually have a hope and a dream now.
00:48:26.000Like, there's a chance we might actually win something because for 50 years, we get so close and then fail.
00:48:33.000I say we, you know, I really felt like I was part of it.
00:48:35.000I watched Ernest Beiner fumble on the one yard line in the AFC championship as a kid on my knees in the living room, like, the hope drained out of me.
00:48:46.000I watched my grandmother wait for 90 years for the Cubs to win, and she died before they were able to see it.
00:48:52.000I got to watch them win in 2016, and it was one of the most amazing things ever.
00:48:56.000I got to watch the entire Bulls dynasty, all six championships, even though I was too little to know what I had.
00:49:14.000It's heart wrenching, and you're watching that game knowing that they're there with you somewhere, you know, in some capacity.
00:49:19.000I wish you could be here to see this, but you can feel them there, and you know that that is a major, major special event in your life watching that go down.
00:49:26.000Here's my concern about sports and watching sports.
00:50:31.000Famously, he would watch videos and watch himself.
00:50:33.000Mike Tyson would watch endless hundreds of hours of boxing.
00:50:36.000And right now, with sports, you've got fantasy leagues where people are watching and they're tracking scores and they're playing games with each other.
00:50:42.000If you're going to be an athlete, you definitely watch sports.
00:50:45.000But if you're not going to be an athlete, it's sort of like it's absolutely not, dude.
00:50:48.000Listen, it's a part of like they were mentioning, it is part of a community identity.
00:51:05.000It's basically, yeah, it's something you've been socialized with.
00:51:08.000But I mean, everything that this discussion has been over, as entertaining as it has been to tie replacement migration with the Chicago Bears, your point originally, Ian, I think is still one of the more important things to look at here is that the Chicago Bears, the board, and that entity corporately took advantage of the leverage that they could use from the taxpayers from Hammond and Chicago.
00:51:28.000And the shitty of Chicago and the aldermen and the state house therein did not make the appropriate choice to keep it.
00:51:34.000I like how you frame it the shitty of Chicago.
00:51:55.000Yeah, it's one of those things where I thought they were going to put the fire there, but now the Chicago.
00:52:00.000Fire are apparently also looking for a stadium or something, from what I heard in the grapevine.
00:52:03.000So I don't even think they're doing that.
00:52:05.000The Chicago Fire were always in the suburbs, anyways.
00:52:07.000Well, they had, they built Toyota Park in our old neighborhood for them, and then they moved and they started playing at Soldier Field anyway.
00:52:12.000And now they're doing concerts and stuff at Toyota.
00:52:14.000I mean, that was like Burbank, though, wasn't it?
00:52:36.000Like, either they'll have a high school team or some of the larger school districts might use it, but I mean, Most of the time, even in smaller cities, the older stadium is usually demolished or it's repurposed into something completely divorced from what sports were in the first place.
00:52:48.000I mean, earlier in the 2010s, the city of El Paso decided to build a new baseball stadium.
00:52:55.000They finally have the El Paso Chihuahuas, which was a very fitting name for what they were going to name.
00:52:59.000But the old stadium that they had closer to the northeast side had been completely demolished.
00:53:03.000It has not been used for anything therein.
00:53:05.000And now the former parking lot that it's used for is now for a county fair or something like that, or whatever rolls into town every now and then.
00:53:13.000Yeah, it's a major loss of tax revenue.
00:53:15.000It's a huge blow to the identity of the city of Chicago.
00:53:18.000But your original point still does stand.
00:53:20.000They're using the leverage of what kind of benefits they can get off tax write offs and subsidies.
00:53:24.000And it's a failure, I think, on Chicago's part to maintain one of the most important things to the city's identity outside of the things that really matter with regards to its history, its architecture, the people that built that city.
00:53:35.000And so now that they're going to lose that one thing.
00:53:37.000And, you know, the NFL has appreciated and generated millions of eyes on it.
00:53:42.000The Super Bowl is basically the largest American.
00:53:45.000It's like the height of our liturgical calendar for the United States.
00:53:50.000So Hammond offered zero taxes for 40 years, $1 billion in funding from Indiana for the stadium, and $700 million towards Indiana infrastructure.
00:53:59.000Arlington offered $500 to $200 million annual tax bill, nothing for the stadium and nothing for infrastructure costs.
00:55:25.000And what I will say is the reason why it becomes corrupt, the reason why you get one party rule with no accountability, is that the community becomes fractured.
00:55:33.000And then you have a bunch of different neighborhoods that don't completely see eye to eye.
00:55:36.000And then you get someone who says, I will lie to as many people as possible to get institutional power and cater nothing to the people.
00:55:43.000Do you think if we could allocate our taxes individually, like all of us, like on an app, to whatever we wanted, that the localities, the cities would do better?
00:55:51.000Or is the centralization of tax purposes.
00:55:56.000I don't know that it would be correct, but I'm interested to try because I can guarantee you this a lot of people in Chicago would be like, I'll put all my tax dollars towards the Bears, and the Bears would have the money.
00:56:07.000And I guarantee you, the people of Chicago can outspend the people of Hammond, Indiana, and Indiana's a state.
00:56:11.000I don't even live there anymore, and I would pay money to keep them there.
00:56:16.000It feels like we're not far off from the ability of a piece of technology.
00:56:20.000They'll never let you do that, though, because they want to buy bombs and guns.
00:56:23.000And it's risky to give the people the power.
00:56:26.000They've kind of, since the Civil War, figured out how to centralize power in the United States.
00:56:31.000It's kind of like ask for forgiveness rather than permission.
00:58:08.000Indiana said, we'll roll out the red carpet for you.
00:58:10.000So they said, okay, I guess we're out.
00:58:11.000I don't necessarily blame the Bears a little bit, but I look at it like, bro, if you've got a room full of people screaming at you, get the F out.
00:58:18.000At a certain point, you're like, okay, I'm leaving, I guess.
00:58:20.000I just don't know if Virginia would have let this happen.
00:58:23.000I like George, but I don't know if he's making the right call here, if this is something Old Lady McCaskey would have wanted.
00:58:29.000But I can't speak to that because I never actually knew her.
00:58:31.000I just know that I think she was Chicago at heart, and I don't think she would have wanted to see this.
00:59:27.000This old man has a house and it's in a beautiful field.
00:59:29.000One by one, the land is being bought up by big corporations to build big skyscrapers and he refuses to sell until eventually the government forces him.
00:59:36.000So instead of handing over the deed, he launches a bunch of balloons and flies away, which still, he lost his land.
01:01:26.000But really, if you're a sports fan and you're at the game and you're screaming, the players can hear you and it changes their psychology and it changes the way they play.
01:01:34.000Which is why there is such a thing as home field advantage.
01:01:37.000I was at a baseball game once and the guy hit the ball and I went, yeah, like really loud.
01:01:42.000And the guy in the field like froze and the ball went by him.
01:01:44.000I was like, oh, I have power as a fan.
01:02:06.000And Lisa's like, yeah, they have nerves of steel.
01:02:08.000And then Daryl Strawberry starts crying and he wipes a tear away.
01:02:10.000So, in addition to screaming that they can hear, I believe that we have collective consciousness and that people can feel your thoughts, that there's a low frequency that's impacting reality.
01:02:19.000When I was watching the Cavs lose 3 to 1, game 3 to 1 against the Golden State Warriors in the championship, I made a video to LeBron James to wake up.
01:02:25.000It's on YouTube if you look at Ian Cross and LeBron James, where I yelled to wake up at him through the video.
01:02:33.000And it echoes in the room when I said Jesus.
01:03:21.000Everyone's got their tradition or talisman for making sure that their favorite team wins.
01:03:25.000But when you mentioned they've been trying to build for five years, I think people really don't realize how much power people have by working with various groups to stop things from happening.
01:03:34.000I mean, think about all the oil pipelines that have been protested for numerous years, or even things that you want to build in your local town.
01:03:40.000Environmental review or investigating for archaeology, these are the number one ways that you can stop the development for anything.
01:03:48.000For instance, if you want to build in the state of Oklahoma, you have to not only go through the usual process for environmental review per, I think it's like the National Environmental Policy Act of 67, but on top of that, you also have to go through the Oklahoma Archaeological Society.
01:04:02.000And if they find an archaeologist that has a tribal background, good luck getting that built because they're going to immediately assume that, okay, we have something here that's for the tribe, and then your project is going to move forward.
01:04:11.000The same thing happens with what's happening in Arlington Heights.
01:04:14.000It's the same thing that we see across the country that there are going to be leftist groups, NGOs, environmental activists that are either on the dole or get paid off.
01:04:21.000By somebody else, and they're going to stop any kind of construction for what you want as a citizen from happening.
01:04:25.000This is what happened to us in Martinsburg with the coffee shop, and why we were years just jammed up because they have a historical society which no matter what you do, they'll spin it around and make it impossible to do anything.
01:04:37.000And so, let's just say we worked out a solution.
01:04:41.000The shop should be opening very, very soon.
01:04:44.000But the remarkable thing is how long it's taken up to this point, even with a lot of the work being done.
01:04:48.000So, I'll give you an example first floor of the building.
01:04:53.000It's a building like any other building.
01:04:56.000There's a side entrance that goes upstairs.
01:04:57.000Right now, Mamba Collectibles is operating.
01:04:59.000I recommend you guys go there for all your sports collectible needs and trading card games, Pokemon, Magic, Yu Gi Oh, et cetera, on the third floor.
01:05:06.000You go in the side door, there's stairs.
01:05:09.000Second floor is collectibles, third floor is collectible trading card stuff.
01:05:16.000When we were trying to build the coffee shop, they said because there's a door on the first floor, an exit, That opens up to where the stairs are.
01:05:25.000First, second, and third floor count as one unit, and you have to build wheelchair access for the second and third floors.
01:05:33.000And we were like, hey, okay, we got an elevator in the building.
01:05:37.000And they said, okay, well, that's an historic elevator.
01:05:41.000In fact, it's one of the, in our building, we have one of the first elevators, if not the first elevator ever built in the country.
01:05:47.000It's not the craziest thing in the world to say because we're on the East Coast, so there's population density here.
01:05:51.000So it's an old elevator from the early, like, turn of the century, 18 to 1900s.
01:05:57.000So, they said it's got to be put up to code for modern elevator uses or whatever.
01:06:03.000Well, the Historical Society says, absolutely not.
01:06:15.000So, they forced us to connect a non business portion to the non open to the public simply by some fake metric they made up.
01:06:25.000Well, you know, because the door is there.
01:06:27.000And that was one of the things that jammed us up for like a year and a half.
01:06:30.000In order to get the approval, okay, so we're going to put in a wheelchair machine where it goes like, and brings up the stairs because you can't use the elevator, right?
01:06:38.000Then they said, oh, but the building itself.
01:06:40.000So you're going to have to meet with the Historical Society, and they only meet once a month.
01:06:44.000So you go, you meet them once a month, and you say, here's the plan.
01:07:11.000The government creates fake reasons why you can't rebuild your homes.
01:07:14.000They kick your can down the road as long as they possibly can.
01:07:16.000And I mean, imagine being the Bears in this situation.
01:07:19.000You've spent the last five years trying to buy another house in the city that you love, and you are being blocked from purchasing this house for five years between the state and the city because they don't want you there.
01:07:43.000Is it that they, like, from your opinion, I guess, Matt, is it like that the historical society in Oklahoma, you were saying the archaeological societies and things, that they truly just want people not to build, or is it that they're deeply concerned about?
01:07:55.000Well, there's, I mean, it's both, and it's really going to depend on who you meet.
01:07:57.000But I mean, when I, for some of the stuff that I've worked on in the past, you know, I was always told, like, if you're going to find an archaeologist for whatever project that this town, say, the town wants to build a community center, or they want to renovate their fireplace, it's like, oh, hey, according to like your town plans, you've got, you know, an old cemetery that's maybe like 200 feet from the location.
01:08:14.000You know, because of the regulations that are in place, you have to contact the archaeological society, in part because there's funding that's coming from state or federal sources.
01:08:22.000And from there, I was always told if you're going to get an archaeologist to go look at this, make sure they don't have tribal affiliation, because there's a good chance it might get clogged up because of either ulterior motives or interest.
01:08:32.000Because, I mean, this is a very state specific example, but I mean, you also have to work with the various tribes, and they have their own intergovernmental agencies.
01:08:39.000They also give out grants, they compete with the state and the federal government.
01:08:42.000But I mean, it's the same thing that's going to apply with almost any state or any federally funded project or anything that's going to use the taxpayer dollar.
01:08:49.000They're going to have to coordinate with their historical society.
01:08:52.000Is there a heritage foundation perhaps in Arlington Heights that wants to go against this specific thing?
01:08:57.000I mean, this is why there's a whole lot of tools that the whole not in my backyardism, NIMBYism takes place.
01:09:03.000But I mean, it's also a very effective tool if you are an activist trying to stop something getting built, whether it's a pipeline or a stadium.
01:09:13.000And I think that's the struggle is that throughout history, I think that one of the histories of the United States, if you watch everything, is how much was taken for granted by the incoming generations.
01:09:24.000The assumption that what was here was always going to be here and was just for us.
01:09:29.000And I think when you look at how things have gotten to this point, what with us giving away our manufacturing base is another really great example.
01:09:38.000It's because people just assumed that it will always be this way.
01:09:43.000And as things slowly eroded, they said, well, certainly it won't keep getting worse.
01:09:47.000And it just keeps getting worse until someone stands up and changes.
01:09:49.000You mentioned in 2019 when we were hanging out, when we were on the East Coast at that theater, we went to lunch one day and you're like, we should build a city.
01:09:55.000And I was like, it just seemed impossible in my mind.
01:10:09.000We tried, and I put a good amount of energy into it.
01:10:14.000I had been going to prominent individuals, asking them to invest in the Martinsburg Strip when we were building the coffee shop, saying, all of these businesses are going out of business.
01:10:27.000We could create an anti Times Square in Martinsburg, West Virginia, by having, you know, like Cousin T's Diner, Papa Jack's Pizza Shack.
01:10:37.000And I talked to Square about it and said you could probably put up a Square convenience store where you have a bunch of products from all the customers, like all of your companies that are listed on Square.
01:10:46.000And I was advocating this, asking people to get involved.
01:10:50.000Some people did move to the neighborhood and they mentioned, like, hey, we're moving here.
01:11:00.000And I know people might say, well, Tim, you have to be the leader.
01:11:01.000And maybe that's the case, but I'll say this.
01:11:03.000When I make the pitch, let us come together as a community and build something, that can't happen unless people choose to do it.
01:11:10.000And I remember, I have the story I talked about with Chicago when I was a teenager.
01:11:15.000There were these guys that had a small warehouse that was probably like a thousand square feet.
01:11:20.000And they built a mini ramp in it, skateboard ramp.
01:11:22.000They each spent a hundred bucks a month to pay the rent.
01:11:25.000And sometimes they would let us come and skate it, but it's like if someone has a key and they can open the door, you're allowed to come in and hang out.
01:11:39.000Let me know when you do, and then I'll think about it.
01:11:42.000And I'm like, yeah, well, we can't build something unless we come together to build something.
01:11:45.000So it never happened, but other people had their own.
01:11:48.000So, with this anti Times Square, I said, think about the businesses that exist on Square.
01:11:53.000You've got all of these pro America, pro family values, pro free speech, pro constitution, all of these things, all these businesses, and they all put their money where their mouth is.
01:12:03.000So I went to a bunch of prominent individuals who had either the means, the connections, or otherwise, and they all just said, well, you do it and let me know what happens.
01:12:11.000So, we've been working on setting up this coffee shop, and nobody would do it.
01:12:15.000Because, like, building a city, I guess historically, a lot of it sparks up around a business, like a company or an industry.
01:12:24.000So, you need something that was employing enough people that it would justify a thousand people moving to an area.
01:12:31.000That's the natural phenomenon of a city, right?
01:12:34.000So, there's a bunch of farms, and then a guy sets up a marketplace because he knows the farmers need spare parts and tools periodically.
01:12:41.000And he also knows that the farmers will actually drop off their goods at the market.
01:12:45.000And so, if you're a farmer that's handling grains or whatever, but you want milk, Instead of having to drive to the other farm and trade, the market guy right there in the middle.
01:12:53.000But then someone says, People keep coming by this market and buying stuff.
01:12:56.000I'm going to set up a blacksmith shop right next door because then they can pick up tools for me while they're at the market.
01:13:59.000The antidote to communism is community.
01:14:02.000And that's astute, Ian, because communism works when the community is fragmented and incapable of rising up to stop the tyranny.
01:14:10.000So communism thrives off of shattering local communities and decentralizing everybody, making sure they can't organize.
01:14:17.000Well, it goes back to what you said about taking things for granted.
01:14:19.000I mean, the average American has no idea who their city council rep is, let alone their county commissioner, which you should know, because if you want to know where the budget for your respective town or county gets allocated at, It's at those meetings.
01:14:31.000These all have names and addresses, and the average person really doesn't care.
01:14:34.000I mean, like where my father lives, you know, he was complaining that around the corner where he's on the corner of the street, and he's like, man, there's a lot of overhanging branches and trees.
01:14:42.000He's like, I don't know who to talk to about this.
01:14:43.000I'm like, do you even know who your county commissioner is to call?
01:14:46.000Because they're the ones that fund and take care of how the roads are.
01:14:51.000And I mean, it really just takes the basic forms of civic engagement.
01:14:54.000And the average American is so politically illiterate.
01:14:57.000I mean, yes, a lot of important things happen in Washington, whether it's the federal budget.
01:15:01.000National Defense Authorization Act, whatever you may have.
01:15:04.000But a lot of your problems do happen either in your respective state house or more importantly, at your city council and your county commissioners meeting.
01:15:11.000There's another phenomenon like the renter's lifestyle, how convenient it is, like Spotify, for instance.
01:15:16.000I can move anywhere and live in any house anywhere and still work on the internet.
01:15:19.000Like, I don't need to settle down and plant roots anywhere because it's so convenient to rent.
01:15:25.000I've been, even my business friends are like, don't buy rent right now, rent.
01:15:32.000You know, if I'm just looking out the door all the time at like where my next step of the journey is going to be, how can I ever settle down and build it?
01:15:40.000Or, why would I ever settle down and build a community?
01:15:41.000Except that I know it's the right thing to do, but like it's not the convenient thing to do.
01:15:45.000And that's, I think, a major factor in what's contributed to the death of small town America.
01:15:50.000To your point, like there's not enough of the right people involved in keeping these kinds of things going.
01:15:55.000To Phil's point, people don't care about, you know, what's the word I'm looking for?
01:16:00.000Extending or passing down, you know, that Americana to the next generation anymore.
01:16:04.000They just don't care, is what it's come to.
01:16:07.000So, the causality of this is that the small towns of America are dying.
01:16:13.000I jokingly said Trump should send to the military to stop this from happening, but I'm like half joking.
01:16:18.000If Donald Trump was like, we're going to be sending in federal authorities to oversee this and make sure the Bears stay out, and be like, well, okay, I guess.
01:16:24.000National Guard is at Soldier Field right now.
01:16:52.000So you don't just have the stupid gym class where the kids go outside and they're like, okay, we're going to play four square and dodgeball.
01:17:27.000I mean, that just goes back to what you're asking.
01:17:28.000We've been throwing the football here.
01:17:29.000It's fun about community because, again, you can have everyone in there, but if not everyone's going to speak the same language, not everyone's going to trust one another, you can't really have these.
01:18:13.000You can track back the human evolution to when our brain matter just skyrocketed in intelligence when we learned how to throw because we learned how to kill with rocks.
01:18:35.000Then we put a rock in a little sack with a string and flung it around and threw the rock.
01:18:40.000Then we sharpened the rock and put it on the end of a piece of wood and used stored energy from another piece of wood to fling that rock at high speeds.
01:18:47.000Today, we've taken core components of the densest piece of rock, loaded a bunch of other rocks behind it to fire it.
01:18:53.000At high velocities and cause your brain to explode.
01:18:55.000Also, you've got rocks that explode into a bunch of other rocks that explode on impact.
01:20:15.000We should force everyone in the world to change the name of soccer, of football, to something else, and around the world, football will be American football.
01:21:26.000Well, it's amazing that they want to stab people for saying the word soccer over there when Oxford and Cambridge were involved in inventing this word.
01:21:33.000I think it was to delineate between the two versions of soccer, like original football that they had, and one was association football, which is maybe like the pro version.
01:22:19.000I mean, they all have their own special allure.
01:22:21.000I think hockey has its own thing, too.
01:22:23.000If you go to a hockey game, it's a way different environment, but there's still that electricity around the arena, watching your team play, watching your team make a huge play, you know, scoring a goal.
01:23:06.000I have to say, I wasn't sure about the pitch clock thing at first, but that has actually turned out to help the game kind of flow better.
01:23:12.000Usually, pitchers used to be able to go for a sandwich in between pitches because they could literally stand there for 20 minutes and there was nothing stopping them, or they could step off the plate.
01:23:39.000You were saying, Brandon, when we were in Vegas at the games, at the enhanced games, you were saying that football, like the kickoffs are changing.
01:23:46.000Like it's kind of, they're kind of neutering football.
01:23:48.000They have, there's a lot of changes that have been implemented in the last like 10 years, specifically when it comes to a lot of these things, kickoff returns and whatever.
01:23:55.000And there's always the question of, you know, okay, are we making our players as safe as possible during all of these contact situations now?
01:24:02.000You've got a guy running 25 miles an hour, full speed across the field to a guy who's standing still looking upward at the ball.
01:24:09.000And the second he catches the ball, he's in play to be hit.
01:24:11.000So, that guy, if he times it right, can hit him at 25 miles an hour while he's not even paying attention and basically end his career.
01:24:19.000So, they started this thing where, okay, now you got to kick the ball from here.
01:24:23.000No one's allowed to move until the ball lands in the receiver's hands.
01:25:53.000And I do think that that's a very serious thing and it does need to be honored.
01:25:57.000And I do agree with a lot of these policies that are being put in place to keep these guys safe because I've watched Bears players, great players.
01:26:06.000Johnny Knox, career ending injury, getting hit too bad.
01:26:12.000He's one of the best wide receivers in the NFL that we had.
01:27:00.000They would have broken more world records if there were young people willing to juice up, but why would a young person juice up at their prime when they can actually win big records?
01:27:09.000Baseball was best when people were juicing and smashing.
01:28:14.000They're like in their late 20s, early 30s, where it's like, okay, your career is winding down in athletics.
01:28:19.000First, they're going to get a robot that's a bat boy, and then they're going to let him hit, and then they're going to let him pitch, and they're going to be like, we don't need human pitchers anymore.
01:28:26.000The robot can throw exactly what we're living in Futurama, basically.
01:28:29.000And then we're living in Futurama, basically.
01:28:30.000What happens when you've got a dude with one arm and he's got a cybernetic, like, full functioning arm, and they're like, whoa, that's cheating.
01:28:42.000Well, before he did that, he was running on those spring feet.
01:28:46.000And they argued it gave him an advantage because it was a mechanical enhancement.
01:28:50.000He argued he has to use substantially more power and specific muscles to move because runners have, with lower muscle groups, they disperse the energy in their leg more evenly.
01:29:01.000But there was a big dispute over whether or not those fake legs would give him spring and make him go faster.
01:29:37.000But if it's like a natural thing, like you can't shun the guy from sports just because he's got an extra finger.
01:29:42.000You know, this lays heavily into like the whole gender sports thing of should a man be able to.
01:29:48.000To go into a woman's sport and claim that he's a woman and win the entire thing, that's not a natural enhancement, in my opinion.
01:29:56.000So, I think there's a plain line to be drawn in between these two things.
01:30:00.000If a kid gets like growth hormone juiced up when he's 12 or 13, maybe just dietarily, and he becomes seven foot two, he's got to be a woman.
01:30:07.000I mean, that's why we have drug tests, but yeah.
01:30:08.000We're going to just grow 10 foot tall monsters that live for 30 years and they can just play basketball while they walk them and just place the ball in the hoop.
01:30:17.000I wonder if Yao Ming was a chimera, if a Chinese experiment.
01:30:38.000So some people with heterochromia, eyes are different colors because they have different DNA sets.
01:30:42.000There are people who, in the womb, twins are forming, but then stop.
01:30:47.000And then part of the body just becomes.
01:30:49.000So there are a lot of stories where a guy has, like, Different DNA in an organ or something because of some kind of weird, you know, deformity in the womb.
01:30:59.000So, a human animal hybrid could be a chimera, but not all chimeras are human animal hybrids.
01:32:15.000It would be funny if, like, we set up the World Cup and it's actually just a football, American football, and we're like, oh, you said football.
01:32:27.000No, I'm saying we make them play NFL football and then go, oh, we thought when you were saying it was football, like, oh, because we play American dumb.
01:32:36.000And we go, wait, wait, oh, that's what you meant?
01:32:43.000So, you'll have like, do you think any, what do you think would happen if you took these soccer guys from like these other countries and said, okay, play football?
01:32:49.000I feel like that South Park episode where the Red Wings played the kids in that game.
01:33:06.000The crazy thing about that, there is a thing happening right now where, They're realizing that some of the best kickers in the world are people that don't actually play sports.
01:33:17.000Like, there's like, they're hiring kickers that, yeah, ex soccer players, people that are doctors and stuff like that.
01:33:25.000But just this guy decided to go out and kick a football for 10 straight years and got better than anybody who went to college for it.
01:33:57.000Him and his wife got death threats within a week.
01:33:58.000Now, the causality of this was this was a kicker who practiced by kicking a football at a pole in the middle of the field and trying to hit the pole.
01:36:23.000There's an uptick in it because they're realizing these guys kick balls better than the guys that we've trained to kick footballs their whole lives.
01:39:08.000Get used to it, because if the governor and the mayor of Chicago have anything to do with it, this is going to be the only thing you're going to have to watch in Chicago.
01:43:09.000Is it something where a poor guy like me can walk up, become a fighter, and then slowly ascend to the rank of gladiator and take over, you know, overthrow a small community of.
01:43:17.000I mean, I met guys that literally would sniff their own.
01:45:28.000He says Tim, over the last few years, we've seen the slow shift of business demonstrating that wokeism DI policies just aren't a thing anymore.
01:45:35.000The Bears being the prime example today.
01:45:37.000But even earlier this week, with Victoria's Secret shares surging nearly 50% after moving back to sexy and hot models.
01:45:43.000Is it a true sign of positive change or is it a false signal simply due to Trump policy changes?
01:46:10.000Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't say lying dormant.
01:46:12.000I think that there are things that, That they will stop pushing, right?
01:46:15.000So, in this context, you're talking about the Victoria's Secret stuff.
01:46:18.000Like, I don't imagine that the body positivity movement or body positivity part of woke is going to be a thing anymore, particularly with things like Ozempic and Manjaro.
01:46:27.000You have the option to not be overweight anymore.
01:46:38.000They were trying to make all these arguments, it was untrue.
01:46:40.000But I think that the LGBT lobby lost a lot of power because of the trans part of the LGBT groups and stuff.
01:46:46.000But there are still going to be people that are going to be like, well, you know, there's still systemic racism and all those other types of things.
01:46:53.000I think those things are deeply ingrained in a lot of people.
01:47:33.000It will change some, but it's going to come back.
01:47:35.000Well, I mean, we live in a very much bifurcated kind of environment.
01:47:39.000We often describe things as like two realities or two Americas.
01:47:42.000But I mean, fundamentally, you still see those anti racist messagings at the end of every, you know, end zone at the NFL.
01:47:48.000You still have that the Oscars have their requirements to even be nominated to meet their various DEI and diversity goals.
01:47:55.000This is why Nolan's The Odyssey is the absolute.
01:47:58.000Fire show that it is in terms of representation of one of the most important myths and historical events to Western culture.
01:48:07.000And at the same time, like these battles are still going on.
01:48:09.000Even right now, we can take a look at the things that people like James Tallarico are saying, that is the Democratic candidate for the Senate right now.
01:48:16.000I mean, you know, he has said it multiple times, even abusing the pulpit, saying, you know, he thinks about trans kids while having a beard of a girlfriend, where all these things that are taking place.
01:48:25.000I mean, yeah, there's some cultural victories or mores where they're like, oh, they're reversing something.
01:48:29.000But When you have people on Twitter who are prominent progressive activists saying, well, woke 1.0 had some problems, that's not going away anytime soon because those institutions haven't been captured, they haven't been defunded, and there hasn't been a proper punishment.
01:48:44.000Yeah, the Bud Light thing is probably the first major success that we've seen against this sort of stuff.
01:48:50.000But when people like Benny Johnson and Orrin McIntyre can't even get Jimmy Kimmel canceled for openly lying about Charlie Kirk's assassination, then the right still has a long way to go.
01:48:59.000And I think woke has not gone away, it may be in hiding, but.
01:49:03.000We know that when people run as Democrats, like I'm John Normalson or whatever, like this Graham Platner guy that you guys were talking about yesterday, it doesn't matter how normal he tries to look on the outside, he's going to vote to the left of Mao every single time, no matter what problematic thing you may have with him.
01:49:17.000It seems like wokeism derives from classism, which is like the Marxist.
01:49:35.000Like India, the caste system is like a class, like a victory of a class war.
01:49:41.000What we consider like modern socialism, like the seeds were planted in the French Revolution, right?
01:49:46.000Like, so the Jacobins and Rousseau, all those ideas, or all the ideas that Marx kind of put into the Communist Manifesto, they were all very popular with the French left during the French Revolution.
01:49:59.000Like, people love to blame the Jews and say that communism came from the Jews.
01:50:03.000It didn't come from the Jews, it came from the French.
01:50:06.000Like, that's where all the seeds were planted.
01:50:08.000That's where the ideas really started to gain popular.
01:50:09.000And you've got a lot of other things to look at there.
01:50:11.000I mean, with the French Revolution, there's a great book by Jack Goldstone called Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern Era.
01:50:17.000The pressures for the French Revolution are heavily predicated on poor resources of mismanagement, the fact that the royalty is trying to create ways in which the titles of nobility for you to have access to land or wealth are increasingly diminished.
01:50:30.000You have an overproduction of areas for people that are trying to develop an understanding of, say, like, law degrees are a really good example of this.
01:50:37.000There were an over surplus of lawyers.
01:50:39.000Plus a famine, and also infant mortality was down, so people were living longer.
01:50:43.000You had a perfect demographic and an economic time bomb that was a large part due to revolution.
01:50:49.000And I mean, we can sort of look at this based on purchasing power, we can examine this based off the demographics, and eventually the management of that system, in this case, the royalty.
01:50:57.000We saw how it was from the beginning of the revolution towards the end.
01:51:00.000Like, class warfare does, yes, happen, but it's also heavily going to be predicated on the external pressures that a lot of materialist analysis works off of.
01:51:11.000We can even look at the Glorious Revolution in England in the 1600s.
01:51:15.000We can look throughout all of history that typically in periods of imperial rule, you're either bringing in other people to diminish the labor power that's there or otherwise.
01:51:24.000But it also comes not as exclusively, I don't think it's exclusively materialist because, again, usually when you're bringing in a new policy or a new identity to either replace scab labor or whatever, I mean, it also comes with religion, ethnicity, it comes with a sense of cultural values.
01:51:40.000And it's the same thing that we're seeing already now.
01:51:42.000Like, we saw this during what a lot of people call peak woke, but like, When Alison Bree is saying, like, this movie's not made for you, she's being very accurate.
01:52:04.000And we know that the left idolizes the ugly over the good and the true and the beautiful.
01:52:09.000But outside of that, they also have the means to enforce it because the right doesn't have control over the various means in which you enforce it.
01:52:18.000The diversity quotas happen all the time.
01:52:25.000If when you get married, your wife's parents become your mother in law and father in law, and her siblings become your brother in law and sister in law, does this mean that your wife is now your sister in law?
01:53:54.000Yeah, I don't think that they're comfortable giving up anything.
01:54:00.000I think that they're not comfortable giving up.
01:54:03.000There are things that they will stop pushing, the things that turn off the middle of America.
01:54:09.000Like I said, trans stuff is something that's really not popular.
01:54:14.000A lot of gays and lesbians are really upset with the trans lobby because there are people that have a negative view of gays and lesbians now because of the trans lobby, because of the activists.
01:54:26.000They'll stop pushing things that are obviously unpopular with the American people.
01:54:30.000But, I mean, your average white urban liberal woman is still all in on things like anti racism and all that stuff.
01:54:42.000They still believe, you know, there are people that still believe that, you know, black men are hunted in the streets by police, even though statistically you see that that is just never true.
01:54:50.000There was always just a line to get people to open their wallets.
01:55:01.000I mean, to imply bargaining implies that there's been some kind of victory.
01:55:05.000I mean, the president is in the White House, but the Republican Party that he's the avatar of won't even pass the most important piece of election integrity legislation that this country's ever seen that it desperately needs.
01:55:17.000Otherwise, we're going to keep seeing this mail in ballot crap like we're witnessing in Los Angeles.
01:55:21.000But it really does go to show that, like, yeah, an election is great, but you shouldn't be using this as a pressure release valve.
01:55:27.000And the average person obviously thinks that.
01:55:29.000I mean, considering what we're, it's 2026.
01:55:31.000So we're now 11 years since Oberfeld v. Hodges, the legalization of gay marriage in the country.
01:55:37.000And I mean, that really, I think for a lot of people, realize that the court has always been the supreme legislator over our congressmen, despite them having the power of the purse.
01:55:45.000And so all of our cultural war battles have been predicated on court victories.
01:55:49.000The left has especially been operating on legal battles for forever, at least since the 1960s.
01:55:54.000And so, yeah, there's nothing for us to bargain with because the left knows that they can either wait out this administration or wait out the demographic time bomb in this country and then they can implement their victory.
01:56:04.000I mean, until they are absolutely crushed and kept out of power forever, there is no bargaining on either side to happen because the war is still on.
01:56:12.000You talk about wanting to build a city, but what industry would you use to coalesce around?
01:56:16.000For example, Austin grew a huge amount of the tech industry, moved in, then an avalanche of new industries followed, including entertainment.
01:56:21.000What would your idea be for a high money industry?
01:56:24.000The Timcast Corporation brings a lot of economic activity to this area that probably wouldn't exist.
01:56:30.000We may be one of the highest grossing businesses in the town that we're in.
01:56:35.000Actually, probably, I think it's fair to say we are.
01:56:48.000Then I tell other people in similar positions to center their businesses here.
01:56:53.000You could probably negotiate with the state because Western Union is a smaller state population wise, and they'll cut you a tax deal if you say you want to bring your business here.
01:57:01.000Then you get a bunch of media businesses and you get their market products.
01:57:05.000The idea for the anti Times Square was a cultural center that is, tourism.
01:57:10.000People would come to Martinsburg to shop at the stores because they know they can see all of the great products from the people online they like.
01:57:17.000So a cultural center like Times Square.
01:58:15.000Okay, so I mean, I'm thinking about water and industry, things that we desperately need to be built in house.
01:58:22.000If I'm going to build a town, if I'm going to build around here, I would be coordinating with both the federal government and the HHS specifically, but not HHS, but Health and Human Services, but also with the state government.
01:58:32.000I would start thinking about building pharmaceuticals, especially antibiotics.
01:58:35.000We're almost heavily reliant exclusively on the Chinese to do it.
01:58:38.000And considering that all of their student visas that they come over either come in with agro terrorism and biological terrorism, probably be best for the most important thing of the modern medical industry, antibiotics, to be built by Americans here at home.
01:58:59.000Yeah, it'll be, it should be data centers, I think.
01:59:02.000Well, I mean, that's been such in the works for so many years.
01:59:04.000Like, I know that a lot of people are now getting upset, or there's been, you know, allegations of the Chinese also paying, you know, people to agitate against it.
01:59:12.000Which, I mean, hey, if Hassan Piker's going to jail, no complaints here.
01:59:15.000But at the same time, a lot of these things have been put in place in previous administrations.
01:59:19.000Like, a lot of projects that are happening to revitalize power plants or to make room for data centers, these things aren't going to be built until 2029 to 2033.
01:59:28.000And even then, there's still a lot of groundwork that needs to be done.
01:59:31.000So we're talking about, Steel, insulation, making sure that the construction companies have everything that they need.
01:59:38.000So there's a lot there that, of course, kind of hampers us because our industrial base has been so hollowed out.
01:59:43.000And it already makes it harder if you're getting any sort of tax subsidy or a grant to do so because there's like the BABA requirements buy American, build American.
01:59:51.000And like, unless you're actually a company or a factory or manufacturer that's producing steel or the various forms of widgets, whatever you need to build or insulation, wiring, et cetera, that does put a hamper on a lot of domestic building and manufacturing.
02:00:04.000And I mean, The thing is, though, on a national security level, you absolutely need that to come back.
02:00:08.000It's just now whether or not this administration or any government on a state level or local wants to provide either maybe the necessity or the subsidies or whatever to make it happen.
02:00:19.000But these things are just a question of national security needs for the United States, period.
02:00:25.000Thinker for Life says Do you think if the left did gain power again, they would use flot cams to track down conservatives who fight their manipulation?
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