On this week's show, we discuss the release of Julian Assange, CNN cutting off Trump's press secretary, and more. Plus, a new bag half off coffee blend from Ian & Alex. Thanks to our sponsor, Vevian.
00:00:24.000Now, we were originally going to lead with this story, but I believe it may be a bit too esoteric for the average person in that the nuances of the Donald Trump-Joe Biden issue surrounding Julian Assange Very complicated, so I'm not sure that the average person can see a simple headline pertaining to this and understand the gravity of it.
00:00:43.000As it pertains to domestic policy, however, CNN this morning cut off The Trump press secretary, Carolyn Leavitt, when she was pointing out that CNN's moderator for the debate, Jake Tapper, had repeatedly referred to Trump as Hitler.
00:00:56.000Now, many people are pointing out this is exactly what we expect from CNN on Thursday.
00:01:01.000And I have news to break for you tonight, right now, as we open this show.
00:01:07.000I received a message from YouTube last week asking to hop on a phone call to discuss the RNC and the presidential cycle.
00:01:20.000I briefly spoke with some individuals at YouTube earlier today who made it clear that CNN reached out and is expressing concern.
00:01:28.000I don't know the full extent, but making it known that YouTube better Contact their news programs over the CNN debate.
00:01:37.000Now, of course, like all presidential debates, which is the epitome of civic responsibility, of civic participation, we will provide live commentary and fact-checking on this presidential debate, as we have done for every other, so long as this show has been around.
00:01:58.000In a show of good faith, YouTube asked me to reach out to CNN to see if there was anything they would be looking for in this regard, because apparently they are asking other networks who are doing the exact same thing to abide by certain restrictions.
00:02:17.000To which the immediate response was something along the lines of, confirming we will not allow anyone on YouTube to use this outside of, you know, CNN granting certain platforms.
00:02:49.000We saw something similar that Fox News had done.
00:02:52.000Fox had filed several takedowns on various shows, including ours, but they abandoned their copyright claims because this is unquestionably fair use.
00:03:04.000We have two people running for the president of this country, one of them the current president, and we're going to fact check, and we're going to comment, and we are going to call them out in real time.
00:03:15.000If we can't do that, if no one else can, then that's severely limiting civic participation, and it's allowing a biased network that in the past has likened Trump to Hitler to control who can and cannot fact-check this man.
00:03:31.000And as we know with special rules for this debate, They are seeking to control that narrative, and I believe that is exactly why they reached out to YouTube and why YouTube reached out to me, because they don't want anyone to break their narrative.
00:03:43.000That's the dirty game they're playing.
00:04:51.000Because we need your support to keep the show going, and you'll get access to the Discord server, as well as the uncensored members call-in show coming up tonight at 10pm.
00:04:59.000But also, just, I just want to say this, this election season, this Thursday is, it's the tee-off, it is the kick-off, it is the beginning.
00:05:10.000We're already getting the veiled legal threats of, you know, don't defy our narrative.
00:05:18.000So I have to imagine, If you thought 2020 was crazy, we knew this was going to get crazy.
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00:05:39.000But I will say we did get on the presidential Republican debates, you know, a DMCA takedown, which we won that one.
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00:05:51.000Joining us tonight to talk about this and a whole lot more is Mary Margaret Olihan.
00:06:00.000I also just wrote a book on transgender issues, detransitioners, so people who tried to become another gender and then ultimately realized that's impossible and went back to living as their biological sex.
00:06:11.000So I spent a lot of time writing about culture issues, transgender issues, abortion, marriage, family.
00:07:48.000Carolyn Leavitt did not trash Jake Tapper at all.
00:07:52.000And she even tried to move on before her mic got cut off and she got kicked off the show by a flustered Cassie Hunt.
00:08:00.000It's not trashing Jake Tapper to point out, you can Google search this and see him referring to Donald Trump as Hitler.
00:08:07.000That's not an insult, that's a thing he did.
00:08:09.000For Newsweek to claim it's trashing, it sounds like she went on there and insulted him, which she did not do.
00:08:15.000I think they have the clip here, but there's probably a better clip.
00:08:18.000We'll play this for you guys, you can hear it for yourself.
00:08:20.000It would take someone five minutes to Google Jake Tapper, Donald Trump, to see that Jake Tapper has consistently... Ma'am, we're going to stop this interview if you're going to keep attacking my colleagues.
00:08:28.000Ma'am, I'm going to stop this interview if you continue to attack my colleagues.
00:08:32.000I would like to talk about Joe Biden and Donald Trump, who you work for.
00:08:36.000If you are here to speak on his behalf, I am willing to have this conversation.
00:08:41.000I am stating facts that your colleagues have stated in the past.
00:09:03.000It's the guy, producer in her ear, yelling at her because they don't want their audience to know That Jake Tapper has referred to Trump as Hitler and is not going to be moderating a debate.
00:09:13.000Patsy Hunt herself celebrated the attack on Senator Paul Rand Paul.
00:09:20.000She said that it was one of her favorite stories.
00:09:23.000I had the tweet up. She said that it was one of her favorite stories. The audacity of this woman
00:09:42.000The idea that this is something that's acceptable, considering Senator Paul was also attacked at the congressional baseball game when Steve Scalise was shot.
00:10:28.000She watched this woman get really flustered to kick her off air and say, you can't insult my colleagues over something that it's literally you saying.
00:10:34.000You could Google search this and find out.
00:10:35.000And I want to go back to the point of, like, which is it, leftists, right?
00:10:43.000Or is he not because now you can't say that and you're mad at someone referring to it?
00:10:48.000At which point, wouldn't the network need to address this employee who has said this in the past?
00:10:53.000It's really whatever is coming out of anyone who supports Trump's mouth is bad in any way that we think we can show that we have power over them.
00:10:59.000I understand what you're saying, but I think the fact that we can go back to, you know, prior to Trump, to the hands up, don't shoot stuff.
00:13:03.000And those producers call all the shots anyways, so it's not like she's the one that's coming up with her show.
00:13:08.000She's very much at their mercy for this.
00:13:10.000I agree with you that the producers do call the shots, but I think she walks in lockstep with them.
00:13:15.000So even if they weren't telling her what to say, she would be saying similar things.
00:13:20.000She doesn't have some kind of outsider opinion and she's only doing this because CNN says she is a swamp monster and the swamp flows through her veins.
00:13:30.000Let's stretch that a little bit further than from where you're at.
00:13:33.000So it's, you're right, but you don't go far enough, Phil.
00:13:37.000I believe they're actually holding her back.
00:13:40.000I believe that her producers, in this instance, were like, no, no, don't let them talk bad about our staff.
00:13:45.000I'm willing to bet that on her show, she's just like, you know that meme where the dude's in the classroom and he's like at the vein bulging in his forehead?
00:13:53.000That's her with trying to praise Joe Biden and the guy in her earpiece going, Cassie, don't do it.
00:14:29.000They're going to do the debate, we're going to assume it's live, Trump's going to assume it's live, and then they're going to wait an hour and then put it up with cuts.
00:14:37.000I don't mean that literally, I'm being facetious, but you get my point.
00:14:40.000And they can cut him off whenever they want, which is... I mean, we already knew they were going to do that.
00:14:45.000I saw Steve Bannon saying earlier today that Trump should not agree to do the debate now unless CNN apologizes, but Caroline was saying on Twitter they're going to do it anyways, or X.
00:14:54.000I think it's funny, too, because now it's like, are the CNN moderators going to be like, hey, you're not allowed to talk badly about things, so somebody cut the cameras!
00:15:44.000They're trying desperately to get away from that.
00:15:47.000And so I think they're trying to, like, the reason they booted her is because they're like, no, no, no, no, no, don't let her say that we did that because we did.
00:15:55.000And we're terrified of what people are going to think.
00:15:57.000You know what their key demo was last Friday?
00:17:01.000Okay, to put that into frame or whatever the word is, I'm going to go into my Instagram, and I'm going to look up a picture I posted of a cat.
00:18:41.000Look, CNN, you've had a good run, but if your moderators are throwing people off because they can't handle somebody pointing out something one of their colleagues said in the past, I'm sorry.
00:18:50.000You don't have a very tough, tough team here.
00:18:53.000I've been paying attention to Kaitlyn Collins' show because I find it fascinating.
00:18:56.000They brought her in to be the straight news nighttime show, and she has on a lot of these Culture Wars guests that I've written about.
00:19:03.000So I'm like, okay, she's got a good guest.
00:19:40.000I think part of it is just, like, the people who are that devoutly watching, like, looking at CNN, there's sort of a value in getting in front of them, even though everyone there hates you.
00:19:50.000Like, I remember when we had Marjorie Taylor Greene on, and we had people, you know, say afterwards, like, I never would have listened to you ever because I had just written you off, but, like, being exposed to you actually kind of— I gotta be fair.
00:20:01.000Vance and Marjorie are trying to reach older voters.
00:20:05.000And so if you're trying to reach the 65-plus age group, And I mean this seriously, CNN is one of the places you will go to do it, and so would MSNBC and Fox News.
00:20:14.000And that is a very powerful voting bloc, more so than younger people.
00:20:30.000And there's a value, especially with Project 2025, with this thing that the left-wing media is treating like the boogeyman, right?
00:20:35.000That was really interesting because when they were talking about an illegal alien who murdered a child, they got offended that one of the other guests referred to the murderer as an illegal alien.
00:21:04.000I was hoping someone else had written about it before, but I tweeted this.
00:21:07.000CNN is now threatening any social channels that provide commentary on the debate, stating they will not allow the use outside of CNN.
00:21:14.000I said, commentary on a presidential debate is the epitome of fair use, and we fully intend to provide insight and real-time fact-checking Thursday, live.
00:21:22.000So, I'll recap the story for you guys that missed it.
00:21:26.000Last week, I received a message from YouTube, from a YouTube representative, saying they would like to speak with me on the phone about upcoming election season, to which I said, of course, we set a meeting.
00:21:37.000Earlier today, I had the phone call in which they said, In a manner of speaking, I'll paraphrase that CNN had reached out to them because they know
00:21:47.000What, do you have tens of thousands of YouTube channels that do fact-checking and commentary on presidential debates?
00:21:54.000One of the issues, they said, is that this is not a commission on presidential debates debate.
00:21:59.000It is a CNN copyrighted event, or something to that effect, and they're requesting everybody reach out to them if they're going to, you know, like rebroadcast or something.
00:22:12.000And I was like, I can provide CNN that courtesy.
00:22:14.000I know Fox News will be simulcasting the debate.
00:22:18.000And however, I don't consider what we're doing going, it's not going to be a simulcast or a rebroadcast.
00:22:23.000It is going to be direct fact checking and commentary on the statements made by the President of the United States and the frontrunner for the 2024 election, which I believe is the epitome of fair use.
00:22:33.000So, but in a sign of good faith and goodwill, I reached out to the representative at CNN, to which YouTube connected me, and I said, hey, here's what we're going to be doing.
00:22:44.000And the response was something, you know, again, paraphrasing, but it was like, confirming we are not allowing YouTubers to rebroadcast only certain, you know, websites and our digital outlets will be allowed, blah, blah, blah.
00:22:56.000To which I responded, commentary and fact-checking on presidential debates is the epitome of fair use, and we will do this.
00:23:27.000He's very attentive to his customers, which are humans and not the advertisers, for the most part, which I respect.
00:23:33.000And I said, question for Elon Musk, will live commentary and fact-checking shows for the CNN debate be taken down if CNN files a DMCA or will X default to fair use and have the matter handled externally?
00:23:49.000On YouTube, if you, I'll put it this way, We commented live, and it's a bit of insult, but that's commentary too, the Republican presidential debates.
00:24:32.000You're not going to make the argument that you can have presidential candidates talking about how they will affect the lives of 330 plus million people.
00:24:40.000And I can't tell those people they're wrong.
00:24:54.000So I'm wondering how Axl will handle this, because we intend to simulcast for this reason, because this is fair use, but we will likely be attacked by these big networks.
00:25:03.000Now, to the bulk of the story, which is the reason why they're doing this, I don't believe this is a money play.
00:25:10.000Apparently, I don't know if this is true, CNN is not charging money to the other networks that are distributing, in whatever way they are, I don't know which ways, the debate with Trump and Biden.
00:25:21.000If that's the case, it's a marketing play, I suppose?
00:25:24.000But then why provide rules to other networks, and why deny YouTubers the right to comment?
00:25:32.000Or, they don't have the ability to deny that right, but why attempt to attack anybody who would?
00:25:37.000I think this is part of their CNN's pro-Democrat play.
00:25:43.000And of course, they're probably going to go after pro-Democrat personalities, don't get me wrong, but they want to instruct and control the narrative.
00:25:50.000They're going to shut off Trump's mic.
00:25:52.000They've already, we saw that this morning, Cassie cutting off the mic of Trump's press secretary.
00:25:57.000And the last thing they want is for other channels to watch the debate and say Biden is wrong.
00:26:05.000So this is why they're doing it outside of the Commission on Presidential Debates, because they're going to try and use every legal move they can to stop us from fact-checking this and calling out Joe Biden.
00:26:18.000I mean, I think I could understand where there has to be a question of copyright.
00:26:22.000I think it's fair that you reached out to CNN per the request, but it does seem like ultimately this is about trying to retain viewers.
00:26:30.000You know, typically all of these presidential debates are not – they are a chance to have a spike in viewership that they don't typically have, and fewer people are watching these events.
00:26:42.000And I think it's because of alternative platforms like YouTube, Rumble, X, where you can get better perspective than, you know, whoever MSNBC has on,
00:27:16.000I don't remember if there's a which network is hosting, but there is a level for Trump of like, let's just get the CNN one out of the way, right?
00:27:45.000Yeah. Well, and even more than competition, you know, I think some of the most popular YouTubers
00:27:52.000are going to be talking about this in ways that CNN wouldn't want.
00:27:56.000Yeah, I don't get the sense that this is about viewership so much as it's about controlling narrative.
00:28:02.000I really don't think that CNN has as much concern with viewership as they do with access.
00:28:09.000Because if they have access to the presidency, if they have access to the administration, if they have access to the bureaucracy, money doesn't matter.
00:28:18.000How much do you want to bet the Democrats reached out to CNN and said, we will do the CNN debate outside of the commission, but we expect you to control copyright?
00:28:30.000With the rules for how Biden would go about it and what would be allowed and what wouldn't.
00:28:37.000I really do want to focus on the access part.
00:28:40.000This isn't about whether or not CNN is going to have the viewership that alternative sources would have or their competition would.
00:28:51.000This is about making sure that the narrative that gets to the normies the independent voters, the people that are undecided.
00:29:00.000This is about making sure that the narrative that they hear is the one that CNN wants.
00:29:04.000We saw already, Snopes just came out recently talking about how the Verifying People hoax was actually a hoax.
00:29:10.000If you go to Snopes now, it says that it was a hoax. And they're listing it as false.
00:29:15.000Now, this is a big deal, and the administration knows it.
00:29:19.000The people that are in positions of power that do control the narrative, or have a strong desire to control the narrative that the average normie hears, they are extremely motivated, not monetarily, but definitely by power and access, to continue to support the narrative that is set forth by the administration.
00:29:37.000Right, and the administration, I mean we saw this from Axios last week, they consider this election to be on a viral battlefield, right?
00:29:43.000Because of all these videos of Biden having gaffes and somewhere around it looking old.
00:29:47.000I think ultimately the big fear of the Biden-Harris campaign and therefore the DNC is that alternative media will immediately clip any sort of gaffe and get it out faster.
00:29:56.000So if we're allowed to rebroadcast it, it means that it basically continues this idea that like It's actually Trump supporters who are able to make things go viral and not the Democrats.
00:30:08.000And so therefore, having it rebroadcast, it makes it that much more likely that any issue Biden had gets there faster.
00:30:14.000If you're not allowed to broadcast it, you have to wait for them to release it in some way, then probably they would not.
00:30:20.000They wouldn't release anything that was unflattering to Biden, or at least they would hold it for as long as possible.
00:30:25.000What Fox did last time was different, right?
00:30:28.000Because I remember, you know, in terms of sharing clips of the debate, we were having concerns about doing that from a media perspective.
00:30:37.000Well, Fox had said something like, you are not allowed to rebroadcast or whatever, but there's a big difference between—this is what they do, right?
00:30:47.000They're going to say, you better not rebroadcast, and it's like, don't worry, we won't.
00:30:51.000We're fact-checking and commenting, which is fair use.
00:31:32.000I guarantee you, they're not going to fact-check Biden on that stage.
00:31:37.000If Donald Trump says, Joe Biden cut a deal with the President of Ukraine to fire a prosecutor in exchange for a billion dollars in loan guarantees, it just so happened that that prosecutor was investigating a company where his son worked, they're going to say, cut his mic.
00:31:52.000We're going to say, here's the video proving it.
00:31:55.000I already have images of Trump literally just like us watching while he says things with no audio.
00:32:00.000I feel like that's going to be half of the debate.
00:32:02.000Yeah, I mean, they're going to be cutting him off.
00:32:04.000They're going to be doing, I mean, they're going to do the same thing that they did to, I believe they did it to Romney where they were saying that no, I forget who it was that made the remark, but it was during one of the debates and they were You know, counteracting what Romney said.
00:32:35.000The idea that this is something that's out of the ordinary anymore, that's a ridiculous idea.
00:32:40.000The idea that there is a legacy media outlet that has any interest in providing actual, factual information, that has gone out the window and went out the window over a decade ago.
00:32:53.000Let's jump to this article from Snopes.
00:33:14.000About something that happened in 2017.
00:33:16.000And the media matters, some of the media matters, some of the alumni from the media matters were out in force claiming that Donald Trump did.
00:33:25.000No, Snopes, you're wrong, that he was there, blah blah blah.
00:33:28.000If that's the case, you're on the side of commies and you're responsible for the hundred million dead.
00:33:34.000We gotta show this, we gotta show this.
00:33:35.000Okay, so it says on August 15th, 2017, Good seven years ago!
00:33:40.000There's some seven-year-old kid who's like, you know, let's be real, there's like a 14-year-old kid who is just now, like, starting to hear stuff on the news and he was like, I was playing with Play-Doh when this happened, like, and now it's being fact-checked, but let me read.
00:33:53.000Then-President Donald Trump called neo-Nazis and white supremacists who attended the Charlottesville rally very fine people false.
00:34:00.000In a news conference, After the rally protesting the planned removal of a Confederate statue, Trump did say they were very fine people on both sides, referring to the protesters and the counter-protesters.
00:34:09.000He said in the same statement that he wasn't talking about neo-Nazis and white nationalists, who he said should be condemned totally.
00:34:18.000Some readers have raised the objection that this fact check appears to assume Trump was correct in stating that there were very fine people on both sides of the Charlottesville incident.
00:34:35.000For the record, virtually every source that covered the Unite the Right debacle concluded That it was conceived of, led by, and attended by white supremacists, and that therefore Trump was wrong.
00:35:24.000Now, the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, of course they're not.
00:35:26.000They were there and they intended on violence just like, and not every single one, don't get me wrong, but many of them intended on violence and brought weapons for that matter.
00:35:34.000I think there's a video of one guy shooting at another guy.
00:35:36.000So, not a good thing in any respect, but it's like Trump gives opinion on people he saw.
00:36:06.000We had to say this thing, but we're still on your side, guys.
00:36:09.000That's the state of journalism now, where you can't even say, like, they report the facts and they're like, we're so sorry that we had to tell you this.
00:36:15.000We're sorry the truth doesn't align with your attempts to manipulate.
00:36:21.000But listen, the left doesn't use language in a way to communicate.
00:38:23.000The Soviet strategy in World War II was literally the Zap Brannigan strategy of sending wave
00:38:28.000after wave of your own men until you overload the kill counters on the kill bots.
00:38:31.000That was the same strategy the Chinese used in the Korean War.
00:38:34.000They just sent wave after wave after wave of Chinese people.
00:38:37.000And the guys, some of the guys that were going after the Americans, they were going into
00:38:42.000the field without weapons because they knew there were comrades that were dead and they
00:38:45.000were told to pick up a rifle when you get to the front line.
00:38:50.000There will be dead men, there will be ammo, there will be rifles.
00:38:53.000They just kept sending wave after wave.
00:38:55.000That's what communists do because they don't value life.
00:38:58.000Because they don't believe that human beings are valuable.
00:39:02.000They believe that human beings are cogs in a wheel.
00:39:04.000There's an idea that Hegel came up with that history uses people and casts them aside so the deaths don't matter just so long as you're forwarding the The March of History.
00:41:26.000They don't like our government system.
00:41:28.000You listen to the left, they want to get rid of the Supreme Court or expand it because they don't like the results they get.
00:41:33.000They want to get rid of the Senate because they don't like the results that they get.
00:41:36.000They want to get rid of the Electoral College because they don't like the results they get.
00:41:40.000The whole point, the whole agenda of the left places zero value on any of our founding principles and it is purely about acquiring and exercising power.
00:41:52.000When Roe was being overturned two years ago, actually, today is the anniversary that Roe was overturned, I was going to these protests at the justices' houses, which there's literally a law that says you cannot protest in front of the home of a justice with an intent to influence or intimidate that justice.
00:42:09.000And yet they let them do this even the day after They arrested that attempted assassination, or the guy that wanted to assassinate Kavanaugh, and it was still going on the same day.
00:42:21.000Well, and has, like, Jane's Revenge or any of those organizations that were involved in, like, doxing the locations of the justices, have they ever faced any kind of consequence for it?
00:42:38.000And they told me that DOJ had told them not to.
00:42:40.000Listen to the list of things that we have just come up with off the top of our heads that the media has endorsed that are illegal.
00:42:49.000Like, straight up, the media supporting illegal activity, up to and including, and granted, the VP is not in the media, but the VP was getting donations to bail out people that were violating property rights and that were destroying things, and arsonists.
00:43:06.000The idea of the rule of law has gone out the window.
00:43:11.000But they're the ones saying, I mean, I just wrote something about this today, but Maxine Water was like, Alluding to all the violence that would happen if Trump is reelected.
00:43:20.000They're saying, no, no, it's them, it's them, it's them, even though it's actually them.
00:43:23.000When Maxine Waters was straight up the one that said, don't let them alone, go after them.
00:43:57.000I believe the Biden administration has reached a deal with him, terrified that if Donald Trump becomes president and Julian Assange is still stuck at the behest of the U.S., Trump will get leverage through WikiLeaks information against U.S.
00:44:11.000intelligence and the Biden administration and other Democrats.
00:44:14.000That is to say, there's a long story here, but Julian Assange has access to information which is very damaging to the establishment political class in this country, which is Democrats and Republicans, and Donald Trump has been trying to get it.
00:44:28.000He tried to get it in his first term and he couldn't.
00:44:30.000I believe the Biden DOJ cut a deal with Assange so that Trump would not be able to in the event Democrats actually end up losing in November.
00:44:51.000Assange was charged by criminal information, which typically signifies a plea deal, with conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defense information, the documents say.
00:45:01.000A letter from DOJ official Matthew McKenzie to U.S.
00:45:07.000District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands said that Assange would appear in court at 9 a.m.
00:45:10.000local time on Wednesday to plead guilty and said that the DOJ expects Assange will return to Australia, his country of citizenship, after the proceedings.
00:45:20.000charges against Assange stem from one of the largest publications of classified information in American history, which took place during the term of Barack Obama starting in late 2009, according to the government.
00:45:30.000Assange conspired with Chelsea Manning, a military intelligence analyst, to disclose tens of thousands of activity reports about the war in Afghanistan, hundreds of thousands of reports about the war in Iraq, hundreds of thousands of State Department cables, and assessment briefs of Guantanamo Bay detainees using his WikiLeaks website.
00:45:48.000government, but let me go to the beginning of this, so for those that aren't familiar with what's going on, I can bring this into modern politics so you understand.
00:45:56.000Julian Assange is at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
00:46:00.000He was being threatened with arrest over some ridiculous bunk claim about assaulting some women, which never happened.
00:46:06.000And I don't even know if it was assault.
00:46:07.000It was like, I don't want to get too crass, but a condom broke.
00:46:10.000The women went to the police and said, can we get him tested?
00:46:13.000They said, aha, we're going to go get him now.
00:46:15.000They wanted to extradite him to Sweden, so he was in London.
00:46:19.000I believe he was sent on house arrest.
00:46:21.000He went to the Ecuadorian embassy seeking asylum, and they granted to him.
00:46:24.000He was trapped in the Ecuadorian embassy for I think it was, what was it, seven years?
00:46:49.000I don't have a lot of crazy information or anything, but I've talked with certain people.
00:46:53.000It would seem Julian Assange made a statement in an interview about Seth Rich.
00:47:02.000There were emails that were leaked to WikiLeaks from the DNC and the DCCC, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and these emails were pretty damning.
00:47:13.000Everybody on the right believed Seth Rich, who worked for the DNC, had leaked these emails by downloading them, handing them off to an associate of WikiLeaks, who then gave them to WikiLeaks.
00:47:24.000There's an individual who has claimed he received these emails via USB.
00:47:27.000The media reported the emails were hacked by the Russians.
00:47:31.000Well, Donald Trump wanted to know what happened, and there's only one person that can tell you, and it's going to be Julian Assange.
00:47:39.000So, the theory goes, and this is rumor and scuttlebutt, that Trump held a meeting, dispatched some of his confidants to meet with Julian Assange, and made him a deal.
00:47:51.000Come to the U.S., provide the evidence and testimony against the Democrats, and you're a free man.
00:47:56.000Julian Assange said no, because he will not compromise his values and the WikiLeaks organization, and sacrifice the source of the information, who will certainly die, or, assuming they didn't already, it'll cause serious harm to the individual's family.
00:48:13.000When Julian Assange refused this, rumor is, again just rumor, that Trump team said, then we're going to bring him to the U.S.
00:48:26.000I have spoken with some people about the issue, and it seems like it's possible, based on the things I've heard.
00:48:33.000Now, when I hear this, assuming that is the case, and I will stress again, maybe it's all garbage, Joe Biden is concerned, the DOJ, it's not even really Biden, it's the Deep State, that if Trump wins in November, he will be able to extradite Julian Assange to the US, who is currently facing charges, and he will get Julian Assange to give him the information he wants, which will implicate establishment party members.
00:49:09.000I just saw a thing that a muse was posting about Dana Bash's ex-husband, Jeremy Bash, who's one of the 51 intelligence officials who claimed the- Oh, wow.
00:49:30.000There is no light between CNN and the current administration, and there was no light between CNN and the Obama administration either.
00:49:39.000That was when it became an issue of access as opposed to an issue of money.
00:49:43.000You're not going to be able to pay people enough money to say the money's more important than being able to get an interview with the president or the president's chief of staff.
00:49:54.000Access is far more valuable than money.
00:49:57.000And until people start to realize that, they're gonna keep chasing BS stuff like, oh, lobbyists are spending too much money.
00:50:03.000It's like, yeah, lobbyists and stuff like that are bad, fine.
00:50:06.000But the real problem are the people that are looking for access to the president and to the administration so they can influence policy.
00:50:15.000Yeah, I mean, I'm going to say that this is – access is really key to a lot of stuff, and I'm going to sort of awkwardly segue back to Julian Assange for a second, which is to say that, you know, if Julian Assange is released, if he's returned to Australia, I want to see a statement from Anthony Albanese, the Prime Minister of Australia, who's been incredibly supportive of Julian Assange for the last couple – at least the last couple months.
00:50:46.000And, you know, under the Biden administration, as there's been Indo-Pacific tension, it seems to remain strong.
00:50:51.000So for me, all of this remains sort of uncertain until we know what the counterpart of this deal is saying, until we know what what how Australia is reacting to this and what they are saying.
00:51:55.000No, the thing is, I really think that it's sort of a signal that the Biden administration does not think that they will be there in 2025.
00:52:02.000And that's why they have to deal with this issue right now in the final month.
00:52:05.000Well, what could be the final months and probably will be the final months of his presidency, because they can't leave a loose end like Julian Assange around if there's any way that that Trump would benefit from it.
00:52:14.000But again, I feel like I can't say anything definitively until we know how the third party in this is reacting, which is actually Australia.
00:52:54.000And the implications of your gums, like if your gums are infected or whatever, it can have really serious long-term consequences for your health.
00:53:08.000It makes no sense that someone who is working so hard with so many lawyers and the resources behind him would do something as stupid We've all known the rules on working with sources, every journalist does, and Julian Assange not only is not an exception, he's the height of understanding how to deal with this legally because of what he does.
00:53:31.000The idea that he directly contacted, at the time, Bradley Manning, now Chelsea Manning, and was like, hey, let's commit a crime together!
00:53:39.000I just do not believe it for a second.
00:53:42.000Phil, are you going to name your new album Julian Assange is Free?
00:54:13.000However, Ian Miles Chong did say, it'll get DMCA'd regardless, and Axe has no good means to undo those immediately.
00:54:21.000So, I hope Elon sees that from Ian, and that is a good point to be made.
00:54:27.000They may have to make sure this is the case.
00:54:30.000Now, What I will say is, and this is tough because I don't know how much I should be talking about this considering these things are actively happening right now, but I believe there's a possibility that YouTube may take the same stance as Elon Musk, and these social media platforms may actually tell CNN, shove off.
00:54:53.000Now as for Rumble, a lot of people are asking, like, why don't I ask Rumble?
00:55:14.000So I'm fairly confident that Chris Pawlowski, CEO of Rumble, of all people, I believe he is the most forward-thinking when it comes to these things.
00:56:05.000We've got half a million on Rumble, and no disrespect to Rumble, but Axe is also a different kind of platform which allows for more virality, and I just have more followers there.
00:56:15.000But ideally, we will get the debate show simulcasted everywhere, and that's our plan for now.
00:56:21.000I suppose then, moving on, let's talk about the world ending.
00:56:25.000Hey, welcome to World War Three, everybody.
00:56:26.000Politico reports, Russia threatens consequences for U.S.
00:57:16.000Ukrainian forces targeted military radar station in Crimea, used to monitor deep space and handle satellite data.
00:57:22.000And reportedly, here we go, Russia's defense ministry claims to have intercepted four of the missiles.
00:57:28.000Fragments of a fifth detonated in midair after being struck by air defenses, killing four people and injuring 151 on the ground.
00:57:35.000According to the RIA Novosti report, the U.S.
00:57:39.000agreed to deliver long-distance ATACMS missiles with a 300-kilometer range to Ukraine early this year, with the White House also agreeing in May to allow Kiev to use detonated weaponry to hit targets inside Russia and on territory claimed by Moscow.
00:57:58.000Russia's state-owned media outlet TASS reported Monday that the Kremlin has summoned U.S.
00:58:01.000Ambassador to Moscow, Lynne Tracy, to the Foreign Ministry in response to the Crimea
00:59:12.000Yeah, I'm only saying what seems likely, not what I desire.
00:59:15.000But it's likely that the United States is going to continue to send money to Ukraine to kill Russians because Russians are dying and Russia's expending money and they're expending weapons and etc.
00:59:26.000I don't think that it's going to have a significant effect on Russia, but it does weaken Russia.
00:59:30.000And Russia, I don't care how many people out there are like, oh, America bad.
00:59:34.000The US is still the biggest, toughest guy on the block.
00:59:37.000And whether or not we could stomp a country into the Stone Age in a matter of two months
00:59:45.000or whether it would take more effort and stuff, that's neither here nor there.
00:59:49.000The outcome of most wars, actually, the outcome of any military conflict, say for one involving
00:59:55.000nuclear weapons, is already determined if the participants are the United States.
01:00:04.000They'll make bad decisions, they'll do Afghanistan, they'll do Iraq, whatever.
01:00:07.000But the engagements themselves, the United States military wins, and they are going to continue winning until there are significant changes on the conventional battlefield.
01:00:18.000I'm just confused by his phrasing and I'm no foreign policy buff in the extreme, but what exactly time will tell?
01:00:26.000Is that not the most vague and, and what did you say, impotent wording?
01:00:31.000Yeah, this is basically, look, it's like imagine two guys are at a bar and one guy hits the other guy in the face and then he falls down, gets up and looks him in squints his eyes and goes, Ooh, I'm going to get you.
01:01:13.000directly because that's just something that they're going to lose, especially when they're already engaged in a war with Ukraine, which they are winning, but it's costing.
01:01:22.000I think I'm happy to acknowledge my ignorance on this point, but I do think that ultimately the conversation that Russia—the conversation I'm most interested that Russia is having is with other countries it views as diplomatic allies.
01:01:38.000Vladimir Putin was just in North Korea.
01:01:41.000There are other countries that are trying to walk the balance of keeping America happy and keeping China happy and keeping Russia happy and I think there are a lot of people, a lot of countries that are beginning to view America as a supporter of aggressors and aggressive in some of the policies it enacts itself.
01:01:59.000You know, I'm sure Russia is upset at its own loss of civilians, but also being able to say like, yeah, America is the toughest guy in the block, but ultimately he is bullying you out of a way of life and he's putting your citizens in danger.
01:02:10.000That's a very challenging narrative for America to overcome, especially during an election year with a change in leadership at home.
01:02:17.000You know, I really do feel like if the U.S.
01:02:21.000blows up Russian civilians and Russia can't do anything, it shows weakness.
01:02:24.000But that being said, I wonder if the Putin position is, you got a guy who half the country thinks took a dump on stage in France.
01:02:43.000And we know this because Donald Trump, I believe he ordered an airstrike on Iran and called it off at the last minute, and then publicly stated that the death of the Iranians was not worth the attack.
01:03:01.000Trump ordered an airstrike on Iranian targets, was informed of how many people were expected to die in the attack, and then he says, don't do it, pull it back.
01:03:07.000He was like, the amount of people who would die for this is not appropriate retaliation.
01:03:12.000Do you remember during the CNN town hall debate, or not even debate, just town hall, the lady was trying to push him on when would you, you know, how would you end Ukraine or what would you do in Ukraine?
01:03:23.000He was like, I just want people to stop dying.
01:03:26.000And he's like, I just want the dying to stop.
01:03:28.000I'm not saying that I can predict this or that I have some kind of inside knowledge, but it seems to me that it would make sense for Putin to be trying to outlast Biden in the hopes that Donald Trump gets in.
01:03:43.000Because Donald Trump actually will want to tell them to stop the war, is my impression.
01:03:51.000I can't speak for the guys, you know, I can't read minds or anything, but it's my impression that he will actually want to stop the war.
01:03:57.000And that means that he'll put pressure on Zelensky, and that means that Putin will, what I think Putin is hoping for, is to be able to hold the land that he's already taken.
01:04:06.000I don't think that he is actually really that concerned with taking all of Ukraine.
01:04:11.000I think that the territory that he's taken will suffice for now.
01:04:16.000Maybe in the future, if he lives another 10, 20 years, maybe in another five years, he would make some more advances after Donald Trump were to get out of office.
01:04:25.000But I don't think that he would continue to try to push in Ukraine if Donald Trump was the president because I don't see that.
01:04:32.000I think that he would look for the way out because it's his escape route.
01:04:35.000And Putin has lost on another major issue, which is that he didn't want Ukraine to be admitted to NATO.
01:04:39.000Well, Finland got admitted to NATO, which doubled the border that Russia now has with a NATO country.
01:04:44.000I mean, this is something that it's not.
01:04:49.000Like there's a certain level of like we're not expecting a conflict there, although there is a certain level of like shifting back and forth of illegal immigrants over that border.
01:06:53.000But then also he's, like, he actually has a costume for this conflict, right?
01:06:57.000He's always in military fatigues or military-esque clothing to remind people that they're in conflict, even when he's, you know, obviously nowhere near any sort of fighting and he's in whatever country asking for money.
01:08:27.000This is what always happens, people overreact, they don't get the full context.
01:08:32.000So when I saw a video of Taylor Swift saying F the Patriarchy, I am not a Swifty, I was like, I googled searched F the Patriarchy Taylor Swift, saw the song, listened to it, and I was like, oh, she's saying, you threw me your car keys, and you had a keychain that said F the Patriarchy.
01:10:02.000You know, I am probably the opposite of everything that Taylor Swift stands for.
01:10:06.000That being said, I feel like conservatives, especially conservative men, embarrass themselves by their takes on Taylor Swift because what they're trying to do is say, look, she's teaching young women bad things.
01:11:49.000So this idea that she's like some hack and that you can dunk on her as being some kind of, you know, product of the Of a record company or something?
01:12:01.000That is a complete and total clown show, and you only make yourself unappealing to potential voters.
01:12:09.000Don't hate on popular things just because you're stupid and a loser.
01:12:13.000Especially if you're months late to this, right?
01:12:16.000If she had just added this song to the setlist, I would get where you're like, oh, she says this thing I had no idea about, but it's been there for a long time.
01:14:50.000You know, I would like to make one more point on this.
01:14:52.000I think the conservatives get it so wrong on on her music and other popular female musicians in that she's singing about love all the time.
01:15:04.000Why isn't this article about like WAP or like literally I could probably go on the Billboard Hot 100 right now and find 50 songs that are just degenerate garbage.
01:15:14.000Or where were all the conservative commenters?
01:15:16.000I mean, some of them did pick this up, but when Olivia Rodrigo, who's also a pop star, was giving out Plan B at her concert.
01:15:27.000There is actually something way more serious than Taylor Swift telling you she dated a guy who had an F the Patriarchy keychain on his keys.
01:15:35.000Let's hold these things in comparison here.
01:17:37.000One of the things that we talk about frequently here is we have to endorse family values, and we have to endorse basically normalcy.
01:17:48.000We don't want to center the things that are essentially on the outside and on the margins, because they tend to be on the margins for a reason.
01:18:23.000And I think this is the thing that people don't appreciate.
01:18:25.000Every conservative dad who is watching this clip being like, hold on, hold on.
01:18:30.000They should go to their daughters and be like, yeah, it sounds like that guy who was claiming to be against the patriarchy treated her really badly.
01:18:37.000Imagine what happens when Taylor's next album is all about being a mom.
01:18:41.000How she loves her kids and how she made Rice Krispie treats.
01:18:44.000And then she makes a music video with her kid and she's like stirring the marshmallow and smiling.
01:18:49.000And then what all of the Swifties who are going to be in their mid to late 20s are going to be wanting to do.
01:18:53.000Her latest album has this line because she's talking about whatever relationship because she just dated someone for like six years and they didn't get married or have kids.
01:19:00.000She has several references to the fact that like she wanted to have kids, she waited at the altar, she gave you all the stolen youth for free.
01:19:27.000All of the conservatives that are giving her crap and stuff, they're doing it entirely, what they're doing is totally counterproductive to what their stated messaging is.
01:19:39.000It's counterproductive and they're only doing it to raise their own celebrity level.
01:19:45.000So that way they can get the hot dunk on Taylor Swift so maybe it'll go viral.
01:19:50.000It's self-serving, it's counterproductive, it's bad for any type of conservative agenda at all.
01:20:24.000The news is, Vivek Ramaswamy and BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti recently met for more than an hour to discuss the former presidential candidate's activist campaign against the media company.
01:21:37.000Full disclosure, Red Seat Ventures also does our ad sales.
01:21:42.000And podcaster Patrick Bet-David Full disclosure, we know that guy.
01:21:46.000Ramaswamy's third director pick, OutKick founder Clay Travis, did not attend but was briefed.
01:21:52.000All three proposed directors, who hadn't been publicly identified until now, are veterans of conservative media.
01:21:57.000Ramaswamy claimed in the meeting that several former BuzzFeed employees and early investors reached out to him, saying the company needed change.
01:22:03.000He also got reminded that shareholders would likely need to vote on any major change.
01:22:07.000Now Ramaswamy's got 9% and he's asking for a 37.5% piece of the board.
01:22:13.000Ramaswamy tells Axios the meeting was constructive.
01:22:16.000A BuzzFeed spokesperson says we appreciate Vivek Ramaswamy's recommendations and they will be sent to governance as per the formal process that he is no doubt aware of.
01:22:24.000So I'm going to tell you my position because this is very, very... I'm personally involved.
01:22:28.000I normally don't like buying stocks at all.
01:22:33.000And that means if I report on something, it could directly impact a stock that I'm holding, so I don't like to do that.
01:22:38.000But I will give you that full disclosure.
01:22:40.000When I saw Vivek was making these moves, being somebody who works in media, understanding how media machines operate, hearing what Vivek has said, this to me was... I'm thinking to myself...
01:22:53.000I'm confident in Vivek, one of the smartest guys I've ever met.
01:22:57.000This seems like he could actually turn the company around.
01:23:00.000I would love to own BuzzFeed, so I bought as much as I did.
01:23:04.000This is going to be interesting because I do believe Vivek's going to win, and BuzzFeed may become normal.
01:23:10.000I think it's weird they called his letter incendiary.
01:23:12.000Like, if you read his letter, he's like, hey, I buy your stock because I believe that this company has value and here are some ways you can turn it around.
01:23:19.000And, you know, I mean, I guess it's really calling them out.
01:23:22.000At one point he points out that they have – they're basically operating – their operating expenses are something like 147 percent higher than their revenue.
01:24:39.000Their whole business model is losing money.
01:24:41.000Honest question, where does this money come from?
01:24:43.000Seriously, if they're operating at 147% above their revenue, and the whole of media is like, Viveca is trying to destroy this company, then who's funding it?
01:25:44.000The thing is, when they went public, right, since they've gone public, their shares have crashed.
01:25:49.000It's like 95% down or something like that.
01:25:51.000So even the fact that literally him being like, I am investing in BuzzFeed, and the fact that shares went up, he's already having a more net positive impact than their leadership has had over the last year or however many months it's been since they went public.
01:26:06.000Yeah, it said the stock climbed above $3 a share on his initial disclosure.
01:26:11.000After being in freefall for, I mean, I think it's over a year at this point, I could be slightly wrong on that, but he is adding value to the company simply by saying, like, I think this is something you should invest in.
01:26:27.000I find it fascinating in general since the only thing I know BuzzFeed for are those, like, quizzes, which Disney prints are you, which my friends and I used to take in high school.
01:27:36.000I was just reading about how, I believe it's the Washington Post, their newsroom is in shambles because they brought in someone new to help resurrect the newsroom because nothing they're writing anymore is getting any views.
01:27:49.000Um, and the fact of the matter is, I mean, I work for conservative news outlets.
01:27:53.000I've worked for conservative news outlets for the past, like, six or seven years.
01:27:56.000And we know at these outlets that we exist to fill the void that the other media outlets leave because they're not doing it.
01:28:03.000There's a huge hole, whether it's, you know, like COVID hypocrisy, the governor saying, do as I say, not as I do.
01:28:10.000So for conservative media, we have this huge plethora of stories that no one else will talk about.
01:28:15.000But for Buzzfeed, all they have to do is tell the truth and they will get Lots of readership.
01:28:21.000They will get lots of views because people want that.
01:28:24.000They don't want to read, for example, the Daily Caller if they're not conservative.
01:28:27.000They want a truthful source that's not going to push them the wrong way.
01:28:31.000And so I think there's a huge gap here for, you know, the so-called moderates that are looking for a news outlet that is truthful and honest, but we just don't have that anymore.
01:28:55.000And I think conservatives do this, too.
01:28:56.000I think there's some stuff where you, I mean, like, I'm never going to look at anything from, like, Salon.com and be like, I trust you for sure, guys.
01:29:04.000I read it for, like, the perspective, right?
01:29:06.000Like, there are definitely different, like, niche interest outlets that's kind of interesting, like, I think it's roots.
01:29:12.000I'll read their stuff, especially when they write about Candace Owens because they just hate her so much.
01:29:15.000So it's interesting to get another perspective.
01:29:17.000But it's, again, I would click on that knowing that there is a slant as opposed to, you know, NBC, ABC, any of these news outlets that are mainstream that are trying to pretend that they are neutral when actually they obviously also have a bias.
01:29:31.000They're more deceptive than something that is like, you know, we are conservative and that's our bent.
01:29:35.000Let me just pull up some of what BuzzFeed is currently working on.
01:30:45.000There was this when I was – because I've covered it a little – I've been covering Vivek's, you know, apparently hostile takeover of BuzzFeed, you know, since he kind of announced it.
01:30:54.000And I find it really interesting because at one point I was reading the statement from Peretti where he's effectively saying to the board like, you know, they've been losing money.
01:31:18.000I mean, that does lend credence to Tim's theory that there's someone that just doesn't really care that they're losing money and is willing to bankroll it.
01:36:33.000Because when you're broadcasting out, depending on how you do it, You'll be streaming larger and larger amounts of data, so something to consider that when we do the stream.
01:36:45.000But the plan for now is X Rumble and YouTube, but we will see, I don't know for sure.
01:36:51.000We just found this stuff out a couple hours ago, and then I was immediately like, okay, let's sort this out tomorrow when we have time or whatever, so we don't know what's going to happen, but that's the plan.
01:37:01.000Greg Dubier says, let's see, what the hell is this Timcast bring back?
01:37:21.000No, honestly, I am appreciative of all the support and I'm glad that Tim can, you know, deal with a root canal and you guys are cool with it and not gonna be too upset about their replacement.
01:37:29.000No, no, fortunately, the root canal was a long time ago.
01:37:34.000I didn't get a root canal on Thursday.
01:37:36.000Well, you had a root canal issue on Thursday.
01:37:38.000Yeah, it was from the root canal I already had.
01:37:41.000We had an idea for a new coffee blend, and we're trying to figure out, because we're going to do, we're planning on doing Focus with Mr. Bocas, which is our espresso roast.
01:37:50.000That will replace Mr. Bocas Pumpkin Spice Experience, which will be retiring.
01:37:53.000We accidentally ordered extra Mr. Bocas, so it still exists, but once it's gone, it's gone forever.
01:37:58.000But then we're going to do the espresso, which is focus with Mr. Bocas in memory of Mr. Bocas.
01:38:02.000But then I was like, we've got to do one for Seamus.
01:38:44.000They can do live editing with a delay.
01:38:46.000So if it's live and they give themselves like a three or five minute delay, they can edit things that are said and nobody would know it wasn't live.
01:38:57.000There's a lot of poker livestreams, and they're, like, two hours delayed.
01:39:01.000Like, that's how big they— delays can go forever, and it's run like it's a livestream.
01:39:06.000Now, granted, if they did a two-hour delay, the Trump team and everyone's gonna notice something's up, because they're like, hey, that was a while ago.
01:39:12.000But if it's a minute or two, you won't notice.
01:39:15.000Well, and they aren't— there's a lot of restrictions, and one of the restrictions is they're not allowed to talk to their aides during the commercial break.
01:39:21.000So if there were delays or if there was an issue, no one could, like, tell— be like, Trump, they're cutting you off.
01:39:30.000I thought initially, oh, it helps Trump.
01:39:31.000But if you're CNN and Trump's aides can't say, hey, they keep cutting you off or whatever else or they keep doing this with the camera to make you look stupid, like, then you can't prepare it.
01:40:29.000And then what happens is you get shows like Family Guy, that when they make their version of Trump, he's bright orange based off of the fake reality fed to them by the corporate press.
01:41:35.000I think it should be one moderator from different networks.
01:41:37.000The downside is that so many of the mainstream networks lean left, but theoretically it should be one Newsmax host and also the CNN.
01:41:45.000We shouldn't tolerate people that are openly against one of the candidates, right?
01:41:50.000So if you're going to go ahead and take a position, because it is totally possible for people to have an objective view of Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
01:42:00.000I personally cannot, but other people can.
01:42:03.000And the idea that it's acceptable to put people that have literally worked against one of the candidates, and people that are married to people that are currently in positions with the intel community, or have been in positions with the intel community, because you never leave the intel community, they don't take your clearance away for no reason, so you keep it after you leave, and you still know all the people.
01:42:50.000Could you imagine if Trump's up on stage and they're like, former President Trump, you've recently said that you'll engage in the largest mass deportation effort once you become president.
01:43:40.000If Biden is giving an answer and he pulls a Trina Nash out of pressure, Trump can say something like, I'm not sure I understood what the former, what President Biden actually said.
01:43:57.000Joe Biden doesn't like live audiences.
01:43:58.000Yeah, but I feel like the Trump campaign really should have said, no, we're going to do it because then there's witnesses, then there's reactions.
01:44:06.000And then I, for one, would love to have someone in the room that can tell me, yes, he said X, Y, Z, his mic wasn't on.
01:44:13.000I feel like that would be really helpful and also just more entertaining.
01:44:18.000So, Chafed BM, that's a great name, says, if Joe says something about Trump's fake convictions, Trump needs to call him out for showering with his 16-year-old daughter.
01:44:38.000Yeah, but I also think the important thing to understand is the strategy with it.
01:44:42.000I don't know that Trump going, Oh, yeah, Joe, well, your daughter says in a diary this, that or otherwise, and they get into a spitting match.
01:44:49.000I really do think that if Joe Biden is giving an answer and he goes, Oh, yeah, yeah, Pat Cadillac, Pat Cadillac, Pat Cadillac, then they say, Trump, you know, how would you like to respond?
01:44:58.000And he can say, I'm sorry, I could not understand what Joe had said.
01:45:03.000Could we could we get him to repeat that?
01:45:30.000I also think the biggest thing Trump needs to do in this debate is to not get distracted by any kind of personal jabs, you know, in terms of anything going on.
01:45:37.000He needs to say over and over again, why are Americans struggling to buy food?
01:47:53.000I was just looking up the rules for the debate because I was curious if there was something else we missed.
01:47:56.000They're not allowed to sit the whole time, which I'm so curious if Biden is going to that they've already replaced Joe Biden's skeleton with
01:48:02.000metal. So he'll just be stuck up. Right. And then Trump has to rely on his actual human body. So, you
01:48:11.000know, that's the trick. It is kind of weird, though, like, are they are they going to give Biden
01:48:16.000like some kind of exosuit or something under his regular suit to keep his body upright if they
01:48:21.000could. Biden's going to last minute change the rules so he can call in a second and like, beg Kendrick
01:50:18.000Tim Scott and Burgum would be boring, and we'd be groaning like, no, no, if it was— I'm not saying Vivek would be the best VP, but Vivek on stage with Kamala Harris, it would be like watching Mike Tyson box a toddler.
01:51:11.000Doesn't the left think the ACLU are very fine people?
01:51:14.000So when this happened, the backlash the ACLU received was so intense, they abandoned their entire organization's history and became woke leftists.
01:51:40.000And now, they sue to have—this is the funniest thing—they sue to protect pride flags in schools, but sue to keep the Ten Commandments out.
01:51:48.000And it's like, OK, you're just a woke organization at this point because there's no underlying principle of speech behind doing something like that.
01:51:59.000They're always down to sue any abortion laws that inhibit Planned Parenthood in any way.
01:52:04.000I mean, it's very clear there's a bias, which is too bad because, again, you know, it would be nice to have organizations that are like, we are here to uphold the principles of your rights, especially as we navigate more complicated technological times and as our culture changes.
01:52:50.000And that is a, for me, I landed that trick like in a couple tries and then we wanted to film it so I had to land it like four times again.
01:52:57.000But we're doing for the Boonies, we have a playlist we're calling the Tricktionary because there's a lot of people who don't understand trick names in skateboarding.
01:53:09.000So we are going to create a playlist of every single trick ever.
01:53:14.000And you will be able to search for any trick and see its name and its explanation on YouTube.
01:53:19.000And I filmed eight today in like 20 minutes.
01:53:25.000I did a fakie big spin, fakie 360 shove it, fakie 540 big spin, nollie hard flip, nollie 360 shove it, nollie backside 360 shove it, nollie self, and hang 10 shove it.
01:53:36.000Those last two are more of a gag, but we do want to have the tricks in the playlist, so I did them anyway.
01:53:40.000And then we're going to film a lot more.
01:53:43.000We're gonna film a lot more skateboard stuff.
01:55:23.000It is a podcast, but it's not a podcast.
01:55:24.000It's a primetime show, just like cable shows used to be.
01:55:29.000Most of our viewership is, well, the largest singular viewership, of course, is the primetime live, but then we get, like, all the different, what I mean is, like, on YouTube, we get more than all their platforms, but all their platforms combined, it's like nine times more than just YouTube.
01:55:47.000However, that's only in digital metrics.
01:55:49.000The problem we run into is that we know for a fact around half or more of our audience are watching on their televisions with family and friends.
01:56:00.000So whereas like most podcast numbers for most podcasts on standard iTunes and stuff, one view is one person.
01:56:08.000They put their headphones in, they press play.
01:56:10.000When it says in the metrics one, that's one person.
01:56:12.000For us, we've run into this, we don't know how to track it, Because when we've surveyed people they're like, I actually watch with two or three other people and so they turn the show on their TV while they're sitting there living and while they're playing games while they're working and five to ten people might be listening off of one device and we can't track that.
01:56:31.000But we can track, we figured this out accidentally when we assumed our numbers were the same as everybody else's and then our sales data came back for sponsorships Showing a significantly higher viewer rate.
01:56:44.000At first, it was just considered a high, like, sell to viewer ratio, and like, wow, your show's better than everyone else's.
01:56:50.000And then we realized, like, oh, actually, it's just that more people are watching than we can actually track in the traditional means.
01:57:19.000I'll also add that, you know, I was skating today, and I felt like a million bucks, and then this thing happened where after I was done skating and ate dinner, I was walking to get socks, and all of a sudden my neck went, and I was like, what just happened?
01:57:47.000There's a lot to be said for people, like, for being hydrated.
01:57:51.000Like, most people walk around a little bit on the dehydrated side, so it's a good idea.
01:57:54.000Well, especially today because we have the new mini ramp.
01:57:57.000And they still have to shore up with concrete footers, but it's like 85 and I was skating outside.
01:58:03.000And skating in that hot, my heart rate was at 185 for like 20 minutes while I was outside, because it's trying to regulate the heat in your body.
01:58:27.000Alright, Bill Hoekstra says the Taylor Swift thing is a major problem with social media and mainstream media doing out of context cheap fakes.
01:58:40.000I'll give a shout out to that show Evil, which is like weirdly okay.
01:58:44.000Like a C plus show, but it's kind of woke.
01:58:46.000Because they did an episode where everyone's going psychotic because of TikTok, and I actually really, really respected the episode.
01:58:53.000So they're investigating, this show is like they investigate possessions, and they find some woman who posts videos of her kids being haunted, and then one kid gets slashed in the back, and he's bleeding, and then they show up, because it was live-streamed, and they're like, how did you live-stream?
01:59:07.000She's like, I didn't do this, I don't know what's going on.
01:59:09.000And then, it's kind of obvious, she's lying, duh, and she's actually slicing her kids up on camera for views.
01:59:19.000And when they confront her about it, like, we have the raw video footage of you doing this, she turns the livestream on and then starts acting like she's possessed and then tries to attack them.
01:59:44.000They act like there's demons, but they always find out it's not demonic.
01:59:49.000It was a mom physically abusing her kids to get attention on social media and I was like and then it ends with them like shoving turning their phones off putting them away and being like and it was literally it was called it was called like vid pic or something I don't know but it was tik-tok it was like they're watching the videos and swiping and and then at the end they're like this is making people psychotic and they turn it off and I'm like thank you yeah yes yes yes yes oh my gosh oh my god yeah shout out also I've been watching the boys have you guys watched that?
02:00:18.000Okay, I like the show, but it's clearly written by a liberal, woke leftist who thinks they're being fair.
02:00:48.000So they have a character on the show now who's saying, like, F around and find out.
02:00:53.000In the background, in one of the episodes, they're like, Alex Jones' lookalike contest will be in three hours.
02:00:58.000I've heard that the writer of the show has been quoted as saying, didn't you know we were making fun of you all the time, conservatives, blah blah blah.
02:01:10.000Yes, but the character Firecracker, spoiler alert I guess, I'm going to say it anyway because the show is coming on, but the character Firecracker who's basically, she's like a conservative personality and she's spreading misinformation or whatever.
02:01:58.000So they make the conservatives seem like really dumb and bad guys, but the motivation for Firecracker is that the main character is supposed to be the nice liberal one.
02:02:09.000When they were little, she insulted the girl in public, like in front of a bunch of other people at a pageant, calling her a whore or something and claiming to all the other girls that she was in a gangbang and something like that.
02:02:20.000Like really awful bullying of some... And so that was the motivation for the right-wing character.
02:02:26.000And I'm like, It's clearly a liberal who thinks they're being fair.
02:02:30.000Like, well, Starlight was really awful to her and was bullying her when she was little, and she's going to retaliate, but they depict them in the wrong way.
02:02:35.000Anyway, we'll talk more about other really gross stuff, I guess, in the Members Only show.
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